Today the Federal Government has announced that it will not proceed with the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill, despite recommendations from the Senate enquiry held in January this year.
This International Women's Day 2013, Redfern Legal Centre calls for the inclusion of domestic violence as a ground for discrimination under the proposed Anti-Discrimination and Human Rights legislation.
Today in Sydney public hearings are being held to discuss the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill. RLC is providing evidence at today's public hearings alongside representatives from the National Association of Community Legal Centres.
Redfern Legal Centre welcomes the new domestic violence justice strategy announced yesterday by Attorney General Greg Smith, Police Minister Mike Gallacher and Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward.
A recent report by Redfern Legal Centre and several other organisations, Disability Rights Now was recently submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
On 13 February 2008, the Federal Government apologised 'for the laws and policies... that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.'