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Good afternoon, everyone. I’ll now be with you until this evening.
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Parliament will adjourn until Monday shortly (short sitting week next week with just the three days so regional and rural members can make it back to their electorates for Good Friday sittings) so I will hand you over to Jordyn Beazley for the remainder of the afternoon.
Make sure you check back for more political news – but we’ll be back with politics live on Monday. You’ll still have a blog for company tomorrow though – the general news blog, Australia Live, will be with you from just after 7am.
Until Monday –take care of you. Ax
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Law reform commission recommends reform of sex discrimination and fair work acts
In line with that conclusion, the ALRC makes two major recommendations:
Reform the Sex Discrimination Act to “narrow the circumstances in which it would be lawful to discriminate against students or staff at religious educational institutions on SDA grounds”, and
Reform the Fair Work Act to “narrow the circumstances in which it would be lawful to treat staff (particularly existing employees) at religious educational institutions differently on the ground of religion”; secondly, “to ensure that differential treatment on the basis of religion does not allow for discrimination on SDA grounds”; and lastly “to allow religious educational institutions to give preference to persons of the same religion in selecting employees, in order to build and maintain a community of faith”.
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Government’s religious discrimination policy commitments comply with international obligations, ALRC report finds
What has the ALRC concluded?
Here is their summary of the conclusions:
The ALRC has concluded that the Australian Government’s policy commitments can be implemented…
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