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UNESCO-ILO Side Event: Quality Education for Girls – Decent Work for Women

With a couple of notable exceptions, such as being Indigenous and migrant and refugee women, Australia ranks among the leading countries in terms of women’s access and participation to education. I note however that education is still highly segregated in Australia, with comparatively fewer women completing degrees in sectors such as science, technology, engineering and maths.

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Sex Discrimination

Violence Against Women: A Men's Issue

Thank you for the invitation to speak today. How wonderful it is to see so many men here to support something that has for too long been placed in the "women"s issues" basket, as if violence against women is our problem.

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Sex Discrimination

Professional women: Choice and challenge

John Baistow, Chairman of Member Australia Credit Union, thank you for your sponsorship of the Malcolm MacIntosh Memorial Lectures and thank you for inviting me here today.

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Legal

Law Seminar 2008: The Importance of Australia’s engagement with International Human Rights Law: coming in from the cold? by Gillian Triggs

While Australia may have come in from the cold, the wind has been taken from my sails. The typical role of an international lawyer over the last few years, whether in Australia or in the UK, Europe and North America has been to berate their respective government ministers with numerous failings and to list the necessary reforms to policy. In Australia’s case these have been to persuade the Commonwealth government to:

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