australia anti-discrimination law
Australian Anti-Discrimination Legislation
Australia is a muti-culture country, there are a lot of immigration came from the world everyday. Thus, avoid the conflict among individuals with different background is significant in Australia.Discrimination is one of the conflicts occurs frequently. In General, Australian anti-discrimination legislation is very effective in some ways as it addresses the different areas of discrimination- race, religion, ethnicity, gender, disability- with specific laws such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992，which specifically makes discrimination against disability unlawful(Kinley ,1998). It aims to promote equal rights and opportunities for all individuals, and to protect the human rights of different minorities in society by lessening the prevalence of discrimination and by discouraging discrimination through having penalties and punishment associated with it. Individuals can lodge complaints about discrimination based on many different grounds at either the State/Territory level or the Commonwealth level (Kinley ,1998).
Anti-discrimination legislation is enforced through anti-discrimination boards, tribunals and other independent commissions that each state has to separately address problems with discrimination in various areas. For example, NSW Anti-Discrimination Board investigates cases of discrimination, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission administer state and federal anti-discrimination laws.These institutes aim to promote and protect individual’s human rights according to administering federal laws such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, the Age Discrimination Act 2004, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975(Rees & Rice 2008).This report subjects on the disability discrimination legislation in Australia.It will compare various aspects of anti-discrimination law based on New South Wales state
Australia is a muti-culture country, there are a lot of immigration came from the world everyday. Thus, avoid the conflict among individuals with different background is significant in Australia.Discrimination is one of the conflicts occurs frequently. In General, Australian anti-discrimination legislation is very effective in some ways as it addresses the different areas of discrimination- race, religion, ethnicity, gender, disability- with specific laws such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992，which specifically makes discrimination against disability unlawful(Kinley ,1998). It aims to promote equal rights and opportunities for all individuals, and to protect the human rights of different minorities in society by lessening the prevalence of discrimination and by discouraging discrimination through having penalties and punishment associated with it. Individuals can lodge complaints about discrimination based on many different grounds at either the State/Territory level or the Commonwealth level (Kinley ,1998).
Anti-discrimination legislation is enforced through anti-discrimination boards, tribunals and other independent commissions that each state has to separately address problems with discrimination in various areas. For example, NSW Anti-Discrimination Board investigates cases of discrimination, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission administer state and federal anti-discrimination laws.These institutes aim to promote and protect individual’s human rights according to administering federal laws such as the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, the Age Discrimination Act 2004, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975(Rees & Rice 2008).This report subjects on the disability discrimination legislation in Australia.It will compare various aspects of anti-discrimination law based on New South Wales state