THIS IS NOT ABOUT TELSTRA
Point to ponder:
Maybe the Government doesn’t want to change the law to grant homosexual people equal discrimination rights, because if we were able to make complaints under any discrimination category (rather than just employment), we could then complain to the Australian Human Rights Commision that our human rights have been [...]
Tanya Plibersek - the Minister for Housing and the Status of Women, also the Federal Member for Sydney, told me in person that the Rudd Government had eradicated all human rights violations surrounding the treatment of homosexual people in Australia. She was wrong, evidenced by the recent complaint rejection I received from www.humanrights.gov.au, the Australian Federal [...]
They are fast!
This is a response to a complaint I lodged with www.humanrights.gov.au -
You can view my initial complaint here
Karen from www.humanrights.gov.au responded, quickly I might add.
Sadly her response is a palm off. Not her fault, but still…
Here it is:
Dear Andrew
The laws we administer only allow us to deal with complaints on the basis of [...]
The Honourable Tanya Plibersek,
Member of Parliament.
She’s lovely, but she can’t help us… Yet.
Minister for Housing; Minister for the Status of Women.
Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting this extraordinary woman. It was the annual Glebe fair, and Tanya and our local member (both members of the Australian Labor Party) had set up a Labor stand on [...]