Racial Equality In Australia

Equality:

Equality is the word that can be used to describe many positive and negative prospects of our society. When there is no equality than it gives the growth to discrimination. The laws that prevent discrimination:

Following are the laws that operate at federal level in Australia to prevent discrimination.

Age Discrimination Act 2004:

The Age Discrimination Act 2004 helps to ensure that people are not treated less favorably on the ground of age in various areas of public life including:

• employment

• provision of goods and services

• education

• administration of Commonwealth laws and programs Disability Discrimination Act 1992:

The Disability Discrimination Act 1992 has as its major objectives to

• eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities

• promote

Its major objectives are to

• promote equality before the law for all persons, regardless of their race, color or national or ethnic origin, and

• Make discrimination against people on the basis of their race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin unlawful.

To find out more about Anti-discrimination laws in Australia: https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/legal/legislation Privacy:

Its everyone’s right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret. It’s a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people. Privacy Act:

The privacy act was introduced in 1988 and till now there have been some regulations to improve how the government takes care of our privacy. Privacy act states

“…information or an opinion, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable.” Australian Privacy Principles:

This includes 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)

Some of them