Sex Discrimination
Tomorrow today - 21st Century Solutions Speech delivered by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner 4 September 2002 National Work and Family Conference 2002 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour, Sydney Thank you for inviting me to address the Department of Employment...
Sex Discrimination
Last week a woman told her boss that she was pregnant. She worked as a senior sales representative. Partly paid by salary and partly by commission on her sales, over the past year she reached the highest level of sales - a result from which her employer reaped much benefit. After mentally processing the news of her pregnancy, her boss stated that, due to the fact she would be leaving soon, he would be unable to pay her any commission on sales she made before she left the company. This is a true story.
Rights and Freedoms
Acknowledgments I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I'd also like to thank the Aged and Community Services Association for inviting me to speak about police checks today. Introduction I suspect the average person in the street associates police checks with high-security jobs, such as airport security, or, on the other hand, with jobs working closely with children. However, police checks are required for an increasing number and variety of occupations and industries in Australia, including those providing aged and community services.
Rights and Freedoms
In the contemporary world, and particularly amongst developed economies, many of us believed that the culture of civil liberties, freedoms and non-discrimination are reasonably well established and these precepts have clear links to innovation, creativity and the broader concepts of economic productivity and a well functioning civil society. Indeed, I believe that many of us had come to accept and expect this to be the situation, and that conferences like the one we attend here today could be built on this very premise.
Commission – General
Many years ago, when I was a very young solicitor anxious to be taken seriously by my employers, I needed to do some banking in my lunch hour. When I arrived at my bank, I was confronted by a long queue. I assessed the pace at which it was moving and decided that I could get served and still make it back to the office on time. You can imagine my astonishment when, arriving at the front of the queue, the teller asked if I would mind stepping aside so that she could serve the men behind me who would need to get back to work!
Commission – General
I would like to begin by acknowledging the Kaurna peoples on whose land we meet this evening. I also thank Katrina Power for her warm welcome to country.
Commission – General
Let me preface my remarks today with the assertion that, generally speaking, Australia has a strong and proud record on human rights. The Australian Government is formally committed to supporting the universal observance of human rights both at home and abroad saying that this policy helps to achieve a more stable and just international order, which benefits the security and prosperity of everyone. In this statement, the Government links peace to the observance of human rights, a topic to which I shall return.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Opening address to the 'Indigenous peoples and racism' Conference A Regional Meeting for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance by Dr William Jonas AM , Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner , Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 20 February 2001
Disability Rights
Allow me to commence by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today, and by so doing remind ourselves that Australia's cultural traditions stretch back many thousands of years. I acknowledge also people with disabilities here together with advocates and other conference participants.
Commission – General
This paper addresses one of the Forum themes: ‘Security and Human Rights’. Since 11 September 2001 governments around the world have responded to the threat of terrorism with tough measures to protect the lives and security of their communities – to protect their fundamental human rights. New security measures give government authorities unprecedented powers, which can seriously infringe the basic human rights of those against whom the powers are exercised.
Sex Discrimination
Before I commence, let me acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation on whose land we stand today. I pay my respects to their elders past and present.
Sex Discrimination
We are gathered here today on the land of Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and I want to begin by acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of the land and pay particular respect to their elders, past and present.
Sex Discrimination
I am a great admirer of economists, having done my undergraduate degree majoring in economics, my Honours in economics and the beginning of a Masters degree in economics. For good measure I married my economics tutor in the days when that wasn’t unlawful.
Sex Discrimination
Why HILDA’s Life could do with a Little Balance. (The significance of the Survey of Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia for women, men and family happiness.) Pru Goward Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner 14 November 2003 Pursuing Opportunity and Prosperity Conference University of...
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