Federal Discrimination Law
Welcome to Federal Discrimination Law, a publication of the Australian Human Rights Commission that provides a comprehensive overview of case law decided under Australia's federal discrimination legislation.
Federal Discrimination Law is updated regularly to reflect the latest developments in the law.
The current version has been updated on 5 August 2009.
Federal Discrimination Law has been updated to take into account recent decisions and changes made by the Disability Discrimination and Other Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act 2009 (Cth). The new version is current to 5 August 2009 and is available here in Word and Pdf versions.
An html version is available on the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) website (www.austlii.edu.au).
We will be keeping the AustLII version updated and will retain an archived html version (pre-5 August 2009) on our website.
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- Web version of FDL at AustLII
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
also in Word 
- Chapter 2 - The Age Discrimination Act also in Word
- Chapter 3 - The Race Discrimination Act also in Word
- Chapter 4 - The Sex Discrimination Act also in Word
- Chapter 5 - The Disability Discrimination Act also in Word
- Chapter 6 - Practice and Procedure also in Word
- Chapter 7 - Damages and Remedies also in Word
- Chapter 8 - Costs Awards also in Word
Archive of older versions
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