Disability Rights
I would like to thank ACROD for inviting me to deliver the Kenneth Jenkins Oration; both because I regard it as a privilege and because it gives me the opportunity to address a gathering of the key people in the disability field at an important time in the work of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Sex Discrimination
And thank you for all the important work that you and your wonderful team are doing at Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. It is truly inspiring to see what you have achieved for women in what is really such a short space of time.
Sex Discrimination
It is a great pleasure to attend my first national PIR group conference here in Canberra. My predecessor always spoke highly of the conferences so when Heather offered me the opportunity, I was keen to participate. I have met with Heather and Stephen on a number of occasions now and there are areas where it makes sense to come together. I would like to talk about one of these areas – PML - in some detail today.
Sex Discrimination
Work and Family: Expanding the boundaries Speech delivered by Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner at Women’s Work, Ballarat VIC, 13 November 2003 Catherine King, Federal Member of Parliament for Ballarat, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for inviting me here this evening. It gives me...
Sex Discrimination
The submission by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) to the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Committee Inquiry regarding the Workplace Relations Legislation Amendment (More Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 1999 focuses on areas of specific concern to the Sex Discrimination Commissioner. The submission does not comment on the legislative scheme as a whole but rather on how the legislative framework proposed by the Government might operate to minimise potentially discriminatory impacts.
Rights and Freedoms
I'm very pleased to be speaking to you today. I'm especially encouraged that so many young people have put aside a weekend to think about, and talk about, human rights.
Rights and Freedoms
The Australian HR protection system is a direct result of the history and development of white settlement in this country. If you compare us with the United States, we Australians had no free settlement, no War of Independence and little or no nation building by private entrepreneurship; rather it was done by way of British government fiat.
Rights and Freedoms
Every suicide of a young person is not an isolated, individualised event. Certainly it robs the young person of his or her promised future. But it also traumatises the family, the friends, the school or workmates and, especially in a rural or remote community, the entire community. Every suicide of a young person speaks volumes of weeks, months, even years of confusion, alienation, hopelessness and despair leading up to the final and fatal event.
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