Senate debates

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Bills

Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (Costs Protection) Bill 2023; In Committee

10:49 am

Photo of Murray WattMurray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

It covers all discrimination acts—federal antidiscrimination laws. It's worth noting that a significant proportion of complaints made to the Australian Human Rights Commission are intersectional in nature. That means that they raise issues across a number of protected grounds or prohibitions under various pieces of federal antidiscrimination law.

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