As is often the case in Australia,the person who calls out racism faces far more scrutiny than the racism itself.
Eighteen months ago,I was almost left stuck on the kerb in a wheelchair at Sydney Airport. Finally,the airport and airline are making changes.
A nation that has done an appalling job of protecting women at work – or of paying them fairly – is about to hear what’s real and what’s not.
Alicio has cerebral palsy. While his condition hasn’t held him back from swimming lessons,nor from playing with his friends in the school playground,it means Australia’s migration system won’t let him stay.
Almost two-thirds of ASX300 company directors do not believe their boards are prepared to meet new laws that will be enforced from next week to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace.
Oncologist Georgina Long and pathologist Richard Scolyer have improved outcomes for people with melanoma. They’re now working to save Scolyer from brain cancer.
The Australian Human Rights Commission rejected the bid on the basis that sex is neither fixed nor binary and transgender women can be lesbians too.
The ACT independent senator said he could not support Labor’s proposed misinformation laws in their current form,and urged government to address the free speech concerns raised by legal experts.
Lawyers who have spent years trying to overturn unlawful fines issued during the pandemic also said the federal government had taken a “nothing to see here” approach.
North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer,one of the league’s most exciting players in the 1980s,is among a group of seven Indigenous players who have launched a class action against the AFL for historical racist abuse.
Equality and gender inclusion advocates are squaring off against women’s rights groups in submissions to the Australian Human Rights Commission.