6th February, 2018 In November last year, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the appointment of an Expert Panel to examine whether Australian law adequately protects the human right to freedom of religion.
Peter Wertheim, Executive Director at the ECAJ, appeared before the Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism on 29th June, 2017.
Federal, State and Territory governments should agree upon a definition of ‘bias-motivated crime’ that is officially recognised throughout Australia and establish an official, centralised, system for the nation-wide recording of such crimes and their classification according to agreed categories, including race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, gender, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or any other similar factor.
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Below is the ECAJ Submmission to Parliamentary Inquiry into Freedom of Speech – Part IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The ECAJ were invited to comment and to forward a comment on the proposed Selection Criteria, which SBS proposes to determine the language programs to be included in its new analogue (AM/FM) radio schedule.
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