We contextualise the potential role for PADs within the Australian legal framework and note their varying introduction across jurisdictions, with a focus on progressive legislation in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).The formal recognition of PADs effectively shifts the trajectory of mental-health ...
Healthcare for All: While Australia’s Medicare system provides universal healthcare, out-of-pocket costs for treatments and specialist services are still a barrier for many. Expanding Medicare to cover all essential health services, including dental and mental health, would help to reduce these dis...
Australian health policy for refugees and asylum seekers: Humanitarian program, health screening and health care access In order to understand health policies for refugees and asylum seekers, it is important to briefly describe Australia's humanitarian program and the current legislation on visa status ...
Since 1976 the Australian government has enacted land-rights and native-title legislation that has returned to the aborigines a degree of autonomy, and court decisions in 1992, 1996, and 2006 have recognized aboriginal property and native title rights. By 2016, roughly the title to roughly a thi...
The warning signs of the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission’s ineffectiveness were there from the start. The enacting legislation that brought… Read more Environment COP31: Australia has a chance to lead on climate, we… The AIM Network ...
the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), was twice voted down in 2009 by the Senate, where the ALP lacked a majority and had to rely on the support of Liberal Party leaderMalcolm Turnbullif it were to secure a victory. When Rudd withdrew the legislation, some criticized his response as...
can arise from a lot of things. However, the main categories are disability, gender, race, and religion. That does not mean that these are the only things people may discriminate against you for, but they are the big four that most companies have policies about in addition to legislation....
One Texas homebuilder told a recent governor of the state he would continue to support him even if he campaigned against immigrant labor but he would pull his money and vocal backing if the governor tried to pass any meaningful legislation. A deal was cut. If conservatives were truly serious...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities promotes equal rights of people with a disability in all aspects of their life including their education. In Australia, Disability Discrimination legislation underpins this Conventio
withdrawn from the Australian economy. With the Covid-19 outbreak in Victoria looking in every practical sense like a page from Albert Camus’s novelThe Plague,the LNP has no credible replacement for Cormann to either run the nation’s finances or negotiate tricky legislation through the Senate...