What was the primary result of this legislation?

What was the primary result of this legislation?

There are Federal laws to protect people from discrimination and from breaches of their human rights. We have responsibilities under these laws to investigate and conciliate complaints of discrimination and human rights breaches.

The following links provide information about the laws that protect people from discrimination in employment, education, the provision of goods, services and facilities, accommodation, sport and the administration of Commonwealth laws and services.
 

Age Discrimination Act 2004

The Age Discrimination Act 2004 protects people from age discrimination in employment, the provision of goods and services, education and the administration of Commonwealth laws and programs.
Read more about age discrimination.

Disability Discrimination Act 1992

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 seeks to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities.
Read more about disability discrimination.

Racial Discrimination Act 1975

The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 promotes equality before the law for all people regardless of race, colour or national or ethnic origin. It is unlawful to discrimination against people on the basis of race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin.
Read more about racial discrimination.

Sex Discrimination Act 1984

The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 protects people from unfair treatment on the basis of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, marital or relationship status, pregnancy and breastfeeding. It also protects workers with family responsibilities and makes sexual harassment against the law.
Read more about sex discrimination.

Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986

The Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 articulates the Australian Human Rights Commission role and responsibilities. It gives effect to Australia’s obligations under the following:

Read summaries about the Australian Human Rights Commission's work

Note–as a result of ongoing technical development issues and the pressure of other project work on staff in our small office, we have reluctantly decided to pause our standalone gazette website project for now.

We are certainly not abandoning this important project and expect to be able to resume work later in the year. In the meantime, the gazette website project team will be focusing on other important project work.

We’d like to thank those stakeholders who’ve given us such encouraging and positive feedback about the project, especially those who so enthusiastically agreed to be our external testers—we hope you’ll still be available to help when we resume the work.

In August 2020, we launched the gazette portal and notice lodgement form as phase 1 of our gazette streamlining process. In late 2022, we expect to roll out the final phase of the project, a NSW Government Gazette standalone website that holds all gazette data currently on the NSW legislation website.

The new gazette website gives users control over when notices are lodged and published—a notice can be published any day, any time straight after it’s been lodged and confirmed. If you’re an existing gazette client, you’ll log in with your existing credentials.

 Features of the gazette website include:

  • a layout specially developed to meet the needs of gazette clients and users
  • self-publishing of notices (via the lodgement form users are already used to)
  • a live feed on the Home page to easily confirm a notice has successfully published
  • granular options for browsing to notices, including subject category pages
  • enhanced display of notices in web pages (with PDF download also available)
  • improved and expanded search functionality with multiple filtering options
  • multiple user-help options
  • no restriction on the size of PDF notices (though they must still be searchable).

The NSW Government Gazette website will still be managed by the Parliamentary Counsel’s Office and there will be quick links between the legislation website and the gazette website.

As we approach our launch date, we’ll be in touch directly with our existing gazette clients.

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