Australian highly regards their human rights and the government encourages against the Discrimination by imposing strict rules and legislations. Australia's federal anti-discrimination laws are contained in the following legislation: Age Discrimination Act 2004 Disability Discrimination Act 1992 Racial Discrimination Act 1975 Sex Discrimination Act 1984 . People should stand up if they feel they have been faced to discriminatory situation and let the certain authorities know of that to prevent from it.
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Recent Discriminatory incident in Australia: An Aboriginal woman alleged that she would not be offered a house because an Aboriginal housing corporation board member had told the real estate agent managing the property that she didn’t associate with other Aboriginal people, her children went to a non-Aboriginal pre-school and her husband was not Aboriginal. She made a complaint of race discrimination by association and marital status discrimination against the corporation’s board. The corporation said that the process of selection had not actually been completed and that the board member had spoken to the real estate agent without their authority. The complaint was resolved when the corporation agreed to provide the woman with a letter of apology and a payment of $2,000. The house had already been allocated to another applicant whom the corporation considered to be in greater need.
In Australia, it is unlawful to discriminate on the basis of a number of protected attributes including age, disability, race, sex, intersex status, gender identity and sexual orientation in certain areas of public life, including education and employment. Following are the common types of Discrimination people face at Work Place; Age Discrimination Gender Discrimination Disability Sexual Harassment Religious Belief