NSW’s anti-discrimination law is confusing and outdated
An anti-discrimination law is, in effect, a code of conduct. An employer, an HR manager, a school principal, a shopkeeper, or hotelier needs to be able to pick up.
When discrimination law doesn’t cover it
At the Curly Maljam pro-surfing event on Sydney’s northern beaches, the women’s event victor, Lucy Small, won less than half the prizemoney that the male winner received. That’s discrimination,.
The legal ethics of sexually explicit conduct
Ordinarily, a barrister’s character and reputation would be at risk if, at a professional dinner, he greets a woman he doesn’t know by pushing her head and saying “suck.
A perverse approach to religious freedom
Submissions on the second version Christian Porter’s religious discrimination bill are closed, and we await the verdict. The first version of the bill was widely criticised for going too.
The truth behind ‘Harmony Day’
Who would have thought that Al Grassby would be back in fashion? Attorney-General Christian Porter, it appears. Grassby was Australia’s first community relations commissioner, appointed under the original Racial.
Generous limits on free racist speech
Early in 2014, federal Attorney-General George Brandis released a proposal to significantly amend our law against racial vilification, Sections 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act, on the.
The case against free racist speech
I have spent a professional lifetime trying to get people to know about (let alone respect) anti-discrimination law, and suddenly everyone knows about ‘section 18C’. For all the wrong.
Race hate law reform is free speech on steroids
Holocaust denier Fredrick Toben would never have breached federal racial vilification law under the Federal Government’s proposed changes – that’s how weak they are. Senator George Brandis cannot be.
Proposed reforms abandon racial vilification protection
Federal Attorney-General George Brandis is serious when he says that under his watch, ‘people do have a right to be bigots’. As drafted (and it is very poorly drafted),.
Racially based threats of violence merit little protection
In the Australian newspaper on 12 April 2013, the Institute of Public Affairs’ Simon Breheny described as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘a radical expansion of the law as it currently stands’.