Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law

3. New Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-76002-155-9
Verlag: Federation Press

Buch, Englisch, 992 Seiten, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 177 mm, Gewicht: 1696 g

This new edition of Australia’s most comprehensive book on anti-discrimination law has been fully revised and updated, re-written and reformatted to enhance its accessibility. It continues to offer both a substantial text for a specialist audience, and a powerful critique of anti-discrimination law in Australia. The authors support their analysis and explanation of legislation and case law with carefully selected extracts from a broad range of decisions, law reform reports, and academic writers and commentators.
Key Features of the New Edition

Revised introduction to and overview of Australian anti-discrimination law.
New standalone chapters for Protected Attributes: Race Discrimination, Sex Discrimination, Disability Discrimination, Age Discrimination, Carers’ Responsibilities and Other Protected Attributes.
Detailed account of legislative reform and developments in case law, in all nine jurisdictions, up to late 2017.
An account of changed complaints procedures under the Australian Human Rights Commission Act, and of the case law and public debate that triggered the changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rees, Neil

Rice, Simon

Allen, Dominique

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Antidiskriminierung (AGG), Gleichbehandlung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Background to Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law
2. Overview of Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law
3. Direct and Indirect Discrimination
4. Positive Approaches to Non-Discrimination
5. Race Discrimination
6. Sex Discrimination
7. Disability Discrimination
8. Age Discrimination
9. Carers Discrimination
10. Other Protected Attributes
11. Areas of Unlawful Discrimination
12. Harassment
13. Vilification
14. Victimisation
15. Procedure
16. Remedies
17. Discrimination in the Fair Work Act

Über Autor(innen)

Emeritus Professor Neil Rees is an Australian jurist and legal academic.
Simon Rice is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney.
Dr Dominique Allen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law & Taxation at Monash University, where she teaches Employment Law.