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Sex Discrimination

Thinking outside the (family home) box: domestic violence as a workplace issue

It is always a pleasure to speak with NEEOPA practitioners. And I am especially grateful for the opportunity to speak with you about domestic and family violence and the steps that businesses can take to address this important workplace issue.

Sex Discrimination

The State of Gender Equality in Australia

I also acknowledge the Larrakia people and pay my respects to their elders past, present and future. I honour them for their custodianship of the land on which we gather tonight. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have long spoken out for equality on both the national and international stage. And in terms of gender equality, they are leading the way with the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples which has both a male and female co-chair and mandated gender equality at all levels.

Sex Discrimination

Towards Prosperity Conference

Thank you for inviting me to be part of your Towards Prosperity conference. Let me first congratulate the Government and the community for engaging in such a democratic, but time consuming process. And maybe even a risky one. Who knows where participatory democracy might eventually end?

Sex Discrimination

Eliminating Discrimination and Harassment from your workplace: Pru Goward (2005)

Employee Assistance Professionals Association of Australia (EAPA), Wesley Conference Centre, Green Room, 200 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000, Tuesday 3 May 2005

Sex Discrimination

We’ve Come a Long Way… Maybe

Learn about a speech by former Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pru Goward on the choices and challenges facing 21st-century women.

Sex Discrimination

Valuing Parenthood: Paid Maternity Leave - Interim Options Paper Launch

Paid maternity leave: Opting for a future Valuing Parenthood: Paid Maternity Leave - Interim Options Paper Launch. Speech by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, 18 April 2002. Thank you for being here today in what I trust will be the beginning of an informed and fair-minded public...

Legal

Law Seminar 2008: Housing and Homelessness – What’s Human Rights got to do with It? by Cassandra Goldie

Paper presented at the Homelessness and Human Rights Seminar Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 12.30 – 2pm, Monday 7 April 2008 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, NSW

Rights and Freedoms

11th Anniversary of Rwandan Genocide Memorial: Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM (2005)

I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we stand, the Eora People, and pay my respects to their elders both past and present.

Rights and Freedoms

"The Content of an Australian Bill of Rights": DR SEV OZDOWSKI OAM (2002)

It is a pleasure to be able to address you today and I would first like to acknowledge the Gadigal people, the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand.

Commission – General

President Speech: In the national interest: the promotion and protection of human rights

Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. I would like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Ngunnawal peoples, and pay my respects to their elders past and present.

Commission – General

Strategies to address discrimination to build a more inclusive country

I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora people, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet today, and pay my respects to their elders.

Commission – General

Issues Affecting Behaviour in the Workplace

I would like to begin by thanking the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) for inviting me to address you today, and thank Margaret Boylan (Regional Director, APS Commission, SA/NT) for her warm welcome.