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• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 (Cth)
  This Act prevents discrimination to Aborigines or Islanders on reserves in Queensland, previously allowed under Qld laws about wages and employment conditions, property ownership, access to, and conduct, residency and legal proceedings on reserves(on AustLII)
• Anti-Discrimination (Racial Vilification) Act 1989 (NSW)
  Makes racially vilifying acts or words illegal (on AustLII)
• Anti-Discrimination Act (NT)
  (on AustLII)
• Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)
  Deals with racial discrimination in work, education, access to public places provision of goods and services and accommodation (on AustLII)
• Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld)
  (on AustLII)
• Australian Human Rights Commission [Search]
  Home page - previously known as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
• Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth Authorities) Act 1987 (Cth)
  (on AustLII)
• Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission [Search]
  Covers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice issues, disability rights, human rights, racial discrimination and sex discrimination (Commonwealth Government)
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth)
  Establishes the Commission (HREOC) to make determinations on complaints of discrimination, including the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) (on AustLII)
• Human Rights and Indigenous Issues Section
  (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade International Organisations Branch)
• Humanity Diminished: the Crime of Genocide - Inquiry into the Anti-Genocide Bill 1999 [Search]
  This bill was to incorporate into domestic legislation the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide which Australia ratified in 1949. Bill was introduced in response to Full Federal Court finding that genocide is not a crime recognised by Australian courts, in Nulyarimma v Thompson in 1999 (on Australian Parliament website)
• ILO Convention (No. 169) concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent
  (on AustLII)
• Indigenous Peoples and International Law [Search]
  Noel Pearson - Executive Director Cape York Land Council. Address to the Evatt Foundation Annual Dinner: Friday 28 July 1995
• International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995 - 2004)
  UN General Assembly further resolutions of 17 February 1995
• Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth)
  Gives effect to Australia’s obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and is administered by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC). Defines racial discrimination as less-favourable treatment based on race, which is unlawful, but allows for special measures, which are distinctions made for affirmative action (on AustLII)
• Racial Hatred Act 1995 (Cth)
  Amended the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) by making offensive behaviour based on race unlawful (on AustLII)
• Report of Inquiry into the Native Title Amendment Bill 1996 (Cth) and the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth): Seventh Report of the Joint Committee on Native Title (1996) [Search]
  This Inquiry considered amendments to the NTA proposed in 1996, asking specifically whether legislative extinguishment of native title rights contravened the RDA (on Parliament of Australia)