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Please
note: papers will be posted as they become available |
| Thursday
1 October OLD
PARLIAMENT HOUSE |
| Video (Flash) |
Dramaturgical
Performance in the House of Representatives Chamber:
The SDA and its Rocky Rite of Passage
ANU College
of Law Staff
Script |
| Opening
Audio link
Opening
MP3 link |
Opening
of Conference & Reception in Kings Hall
Dr Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights &
Discrimination Commissioner Address
The Honourable Susan Ryan AO Address
Ms Chris Ronalds
AM SC Address |
| Friday
2 October
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA |
Video
Message link
Session
1 Audio link
Session
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SESSION
1: THEN & NOW
Video
message from
The Hon Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister
for Housing; Minister for the Status of Women
Women's Work is Never Done: The pursuit of equality and the Commonwealth
Sex Discrimination Act
Adjunct Professor Marian
Sawer AO, The Australian National University Abstract
Paper
‘To Demand Equality is to Lack Ambition’. Sex
discrimination legislation: Contexts & contradictions
Adjunct Professor Susan Magarey AM , University
of Adelaide Abstract
Paper
Life Lines: Sex discrimination over the lifecycle
Commisioner Liz Broderick, Australian Human
Rights Commission Abstract
Paper
Australian
Human Rights Commission Website
Her
Excellency, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth
of Australia, was in attendance for this session
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SESSION 2: CRITIQUE
Critically
Evaluating the Sex Discrimination Act: What is its role in redressing
gender inequality in Australia?
Associate
Professor Beth Gaze, University of Melbourne Abstract
Paper
The Sex Discrimination Act: Advancing gender equality and
decent work?
Dr Sara Charlesworth, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Abstract
Paper
Reproducing Discrimination: Promoting the equal sharing of
caring work in CEDAW, at the ILO and in the SDA
Dr Caroline Lambert, YWCA, Melbourne Abstract
Paper
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Session
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Session
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SESSION
3: AN EQUALITY ACT
Equality
Unmodified?
Professor
Reg Graycar, University of Sydney & Professor Jenny Morgan,
University of Melbourne Abstract
Is an Equality Act the Best Next Step?
Associate Professor Simon Rice OAM, The Australian
National University Abstract
Paper
Equality as a Basic Human Right: Choice & Responsibility
Associate Professor Archana Parashar, Macquarie University Abstract
Paper |
Session
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SESSION
4: WOMEN’S RIGHTS AS HUMAN RIGHTS
Mandating Equal Power: Form and substance in the Australian Constitution
Professor
Kim Rubenstein, The Australian National University Abstract
Paper
Raising Up: Celebrating Australian advocacy for women's rights
under international and domestic law
Dr Susan Harris Rimmer, The Australian National University Abstract
Sex, Race and Questions of Aboriginality
Associate Professor Irene Watson, University of South Australia
Abstract |
