Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws
21.03.2024
ALRC Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws Report tabled in Parliament
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has recommended legislative reforms to ensure the Australian Government’s policy regarding anti-discrimination laws and religious educational institutions is given legal effect in accordance with Australia’s international legal obligations. The ALRC’s Report – ‘Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws’, was today tabled in Parliament …
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Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws (ALRC Report 142)
The Australian Law Reform Commission report, Maximising the Realisation of Human Rights: Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws (ALRC Report 142), was tabled in Parliament by the Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC on 21 March 2024.
Read more14.12.2023
What We Heard (ADL2)
This Background Paper aims to reflect what the Australian Law Reform Commission heard from a wide range of stakeholders during its Inquiry into Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws.
Read more14.12.2023
International Comparisons (ADL1)
This Background Paper discusses the application of anti-discrimination law to religious educational institutions from a comparative law perspective.
Read more04.09.2023
RECORDING Maximising rights in religious education institutions: International perspectives
Human rights practitioners and policymakers have long considered how to ‘balance’ human rights when they intersect or overlap. But what if we have been using the wrong metaphor to guide this important work? As part of the ALRC’s Inquiry into Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws, the ALRC and Wolters Kluwer hosted a webinar to hear …
Read more02.08.2023
WEBINAR Maximising rights in religious educational institutions: International perspectives
Register now Like Australia, countries around the world have grappled with the question of how anti-discrimination laws should apply to religious educational institutions. This engages a range of overlapping rights including the right to freedom of religion or belief, right to non-discrimination, right to education, children’s rights, and right to privacy. Different jurisdictions have – …
Read more20.04.2023
Deadline for reporting on Religious Educational Institutions Inquiry Extended
The Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP, has today announced an extension to the reporting deadline for the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC’s) Inquiry on Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws. The report, which was initially due on 21 April 2023, will now be delivered to the Attorney General by 31 December …
Read more27.01.2023
ALRC Religious Educational Institutions Inquiry: Consultation Paper Released
The ALRC today released a Consultation Paper with proposals for changing the way Commonwealth anti-discrimination law applies to religious schools and other educational institutions.
Read more27.01.2023
Anti-Discrimination Laws eNews | January 2023
Today the Australian Law Reform Commission released a Consultation Paper with proposals for changing the way Commonwealth anti-discrimination law applies to religious schools and other educational institutions.
Stakeholder submissions are now invited.
27.01.2023
Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws: Consultation Paper (2023)
The Australian Law Reform Commission seeks stakeholder submissions on proposals to change the way Commonwealth anti-discrimination law applies to religious schools and other educational institutions.
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