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Sex Discrimination
Latest harassment allegations at workplaces, private colleges concerning
The Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, has spoken out on the crucial role employers and institutions hold to end the normalisation of harmful behaviour and improve women’s safety amid a surge in allegations of workplace sexual harassment.
Sex Discrimination
Sex Discrimination Commissioner welcomes final recommendation being implemented from Respect@Work report
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody has welcomed the Australian parliament’s passing of legislation that will prevent courts ordering applicants to pay respondent’s costs in Federal Court discrimination cases.
Sex Discrimination
Commissioners welcome ongoing investment to end gendered violence
Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and National Children’s Commissioner welcome the National Cabinet’s funding announcement to end gendered violence in Australia this morning.
Sex Discrimination
Ending gender-based violence: do not overlook older women and women with disability
Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin states that Australia needs to take threats of gendered violence as seriously as it takes terrorist threats.
Sex Discrimination
Sex Discrimination Commissioner comments on Federal Court judgment in Tickle v Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd
Federal Court handed down judgement that Roxanne Tickle was discriminated against when she was refused access to a social media app, ‘made for women by women’.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
AHRC commissioners call for action on findings of Senate report on murdered and missing First Nations women
Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Sex Discrimination Commissioner say the findings of a Senate inquiry into murdered and missing First Nations women provide more evidence of how to address violence against women and girls in First Nations communities.
Sex Discrimination
When it comes to domestic violence, the response cannot be one-size-fits-all
In the past weeks, we have seen tens of thousands of Australians united in a single message: no more violence against women. From the time emergency National Cabinet was called to the time they met; three more women had been killed.We have an epidemic of gendered violence in this country, and we...
Rights and Freedoms
60% student discount announced for landmark national human rights event
Organisers of a major national human rights conference have just announced a 60% discount for students who want to attend the historic gathering in June during the Vivid Sydney festival. Presented by the Australian Human Rights Commission, the Free + Equal Human Rights Conference is set to attract...
Sex Discrimination
Sex Discrimination Commissioner: Lehrmann ruling dispels rape myths
Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, has welcomed the Federal Court ruling in the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial against Network Ten, saying it dispelled damaging myths about rape and consent.“In his landmark finding, Justice Michael Lee quashed the false notion that a victim...
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