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Under model for Human Rights Act, complainants would get their day in court
Policy and Regulation 2023-03-08 11:30 pm By Christine Caulfield

A federal Human Rights Act would allow complainants to take their cases to federal court if conciliation failed to resolve their claims, under a proposed model of the law unveiled Wednesday.

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Facing journalist’s discrimination suit, Ten says sexist culture not unlawful
Employment 2023-03-03 6:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Network Ten has fired back at journalist Tegan George’s reworked sex discrimination case, claiming that its alleged failure to prevent a “sexually hostile, demeaning and oppressive” culture was not unlawful under the Fair Work Act.

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Gov’t mulls ‘equal access’ cost models for sex discrimination claims
Employment 2023-02-24 1:41 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Albanese government has started a public consultation after ditching provisions from sex harassment legislation which would have forced parties to bear their own costs in discrimination litigation, noting that lawyers favour an ‘equal access’ costs model.

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Protester’s challenge to COVID-19 lockdown fails on appeal
Appeals 2023-02-13 12:57 pm By Cindy Cameronne

An anti-lockdown protester has lost her appeal of a decision dismissing her legal challenge to Victoria’s stay-at-home orders, with an appeals court finding the reduction in risk to public health “outweighed” impacts on freedom of speech.

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WA government takes early swing at Banksia Hill class action
Class Actions 2023-02-08 4:45 pm By Sam Matthews

The Western Australia government has foreshadowed a strike-out application just one month after being hit with a class action on behalf of detainees in the state’s detention centres.

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Media protests new Federal Court rules limiting public’s access to documents
Media 2023-01-17 7:12 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Editors and journalists from Australia’s largest news organisations have protested recent changes to the Federal Court Rules that restrict the public’s access to documents filed with the court, calling it a “full-frontal assault” on open justice. 

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Class action against WA on behalf of fine defaulters trashed
Class Actions 2023-01-10 2:13 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Western Australian government has won its bid to strike out a class action that seeks damages for alleged discrimination against First Nations Australians detained for unpaid fines.

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Discrimination class action filed against NT public housing body
Class Actions 2022-12-19 2:25 pm By Sam Matthews

The Northern Territory public housing authority has been hit with a class action alleging it failed to maintain public housing to a habitable standard in remote Aboriginal communities.

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Clive Palmer’s mine would cause ‘life terminating harm’, court finds
Energy & Natural Resources 2022-11-28 3:50 pm By Sam Matthews

A court has rejected the plans of a Clive Palmer-owned mining company to dig a coalmine in central Queensland, finding the mine would infringe on the human rights of First Nations people and future generations of Queenslanders, and contribute to “foreseeable and preventable life terminating harm”.

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Silk’s COVID-19 diagnosis won’t delay students’ discrimination trial
Human Rights 2022-11-25 5:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

A group of Jewish and Israeli former students who have accused a Victorian high school of allowing racially-charged bullying have defeated a bid by the state government to adjourn evidence at trial after its silk was diagnosed with COVID-19. 

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