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The Case for Reform: Addressing Gaps in Australia’s Disability Discrimination Law
Over 5 million Australians live with a disability; however, many continue to experience discrimination and inequality in various areas of their lives. In 2019, the Australian Government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability in response to community concern about unequal and unjust treatment of people with disability. … Read More
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Embedding Gendered Violence Prevention into Work Health and Safety Laws
Australia is facing a national crisis of gender-based violence, and workplaces have a critical role to play. Despite decades of reform, millions of workers continue to experience harassment, bullying, and discrimination.
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BRQ urges clearer, faster decisions in Centrelink appeals
When Centrelink gets it wrong, the stakes are life-changing. For many Queenslanders, that can mean months without income, medication or stable housing while they wait for a decision to be reviewed. Basic Rights Queensland (BRQ) says the system designed to correct these mistakes is itself broken — and has called for urgent reform in a … Read More
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What needs to change: why non-compete clauses are unfair
Non-compete clauses are one of the most common types of restraint clauses (terms in employment contracts designed to restrict what a worker can do after leaving a job). While restraint clauses are often justified as protecting business interests, in practice they too often go further, limiting workers’ choices, mobility and bargaining power. Non-competes are particularly damaging because they can block people from finding new work altogether.
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AI surveillance at work: do working women pay a higher price
Words by Eloise Dalton, Director of Working Women Queensland. Artificial intelligence is on the agenda at this week’s economic reform roundtable, given its potential to boost productivity. The debate is already lively with calls for less regulation to unlock productivity gains, contrasted with unions pressing for stronger protections for workers. In these conversations and … Read More
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Supreme Court success: Kallangur homeless residents protected in human rights injunction
Basic Rights Queensland are the lawyers for 11 Kallangur residents experiencing homelessness in a Supreme Court application. Today the applicants secured an injunction that restricts Moreton Bay Regional Council from acting on previous notices, and moving the applicants on from their camp, until a full hearing in December. The Honourable Justice Smith found the applicants … Read More
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Newstart is not working.
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