Civil rights
Media and commentary related to our work protecting and advancing civil rights. This includes police accountability, justice in youth detention, asylum seeker rights, discrimination, access to justice and Raise the Age.
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2SER interview: NSW Anti-Discrimination Act
Anti-Discrimination Law may not be as high-profile as Transport or Education, but it’s a critical way that we ensure our society functions harmoniously and that everyone is treated fairly. When the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act was considered ground-breaking. It prohibited racial discrimination and was the first State or Territory anti-discrimination law to cover sex and marital…
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Urgent law reform needed to prevent sexual harassment at work
We have joined over 60 organisations and individuals across legal, community, health, sexual assault services, academic and union sectors, calling for urgent reform to prevent sexual harassment at work. In April last year, the government announced it would adopt ‘wholly, in part, or in principle,’ the 55 recommendations set out in the landmark Human Right…
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2SER interview: medical care in immigration detention
Lucy Geddes, PIAC Senior Solicitor, discusses the onus on our Government to provide medical care to those in asylum detention.
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Labor amendments not enough to redeem flawed Religious Discrimination Bill
Labor’s proposed amendments to the Religious Discrimination Bill are welcome, but not enough to redeem a Religious Discrimination Bill that will still promote division and discrimination. ‘From reports we’ve seen about Labor’s amendments, they will not fix this flawed Bill. We will still have an Act that allows discrimination against LGBT teachers, while entrenching the…
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Religious Discrimination Bill: Government amendments don’t protect LGBT students from discrimination or fix major flaws
Proposed Government changes to the Sex Discrimination Act as part of the Government’s Religious Discrimination Bill package fall well short of protecting LGBT students from harmful discrimination at school and fail to address major legal flaws. PIAC re-iterates our call for the Bill to be rejected in its current form. Trans and gender diverse kids…
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Politicians debate the Religious Discrimination Bill
Interview with PIAC Policy Manager, Alastair Lawrie.
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Opinion: Morrison’s proposed amendments do next-to-nothing to protect LGBT students
Almost three and a half years since they were first promised, today Prime Minister Morrison might finally introduce amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act to protect students in religious schools against discrimination. While this might seem like progress, media reports suggest the changes are far short of a genuine attempt to prohibit discrimination against LGBT…
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Legal groups call for rejection of Religious Discrimination Bill in its entirety
Quotes PIAC CEO, Jonathon Hunyor.
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Extremely disappointing reports fail to address fundamental problems in Religious Discrimination Bill
PIAC has expressed its extreme disappointment that two Parliamentary Committees have failed to adequately address any of the fundamental problems in the Government’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill 2021. The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights released their reports on the Bill today. ‘Waving the Bill through’ not good…