Yo Han Chung v University of Sydney & Ors (includescorrigendum dated 26 March 2002) [2002] FCA 186 (21 February 2002).
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/FCA/2002/186.html
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Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth)
ON 1 AUGUST 1984, the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act 1984 commenced.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sda1984209/
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O’Callaghan v Loder [1983] 3 NSWLR 89
ON 30 SEPTEMBER 1983, the Supreme Court of NSW delivered O’Callaghan v Loder [1983] 3 NSWLR 89; [1984] EOC 92-023; (1983) 5 IR 320.
O’Callaghan was a junior lift attendant who sued the Commissioner for Main Roads for sex discrimination alleging sexual harassment.
O’Callaghan was unsuccessful in proving her allegations.
This was Australia’s first judicial decision on sex discrimination involving sexual harassment and is an authority that sexual harassment is a form sex discrimination.
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Racial Discrimination Act 1975
ON 11 JUNE 1975, the Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act 1975 was enacted.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/rda1975202/
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1973 | Human Rights Bill 1973
ON 21 NOVEMBER 1973, the Human Rights Bill 1973 was introduced into the Australian Parliament by Senator Murphy.
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South African apartheid begins
ON 26 MAY 1948, the policy of apartheid was introduced to South Africa.
Apartheid was developed through a series of Acts of parliament including the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 1949, Population Registration Act 1950, Group Areas Act 1950, Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act 1951, Suppression of Communism Act 1950, Bantu Education Act 1950, Bantu Authorities Act 1951, Reservation of Separate Amenities Act 1953, Natives Urban Areas Act 1952, Native Labour Act 1953 and Black Homeland Citizenship Act 1970.
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Electoral Act 1893 (NZ)
ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1893, New Zealand women were the first in the world to be granted the right to vote with the enactment of the Electoral Act 1893 (57 VICT 1893 No 18).
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Somerset v Stuart
ON 22 JUNE 1772, the English King’s Bench delivered Somerset v Stuart (1772) Lofft 1; (1772) 98 ER 499.
Even though African slavery was tolerated at the time in the colonies, the court ruled that a slave could not be taken by force and sold abroad as property as no such right existed under the law of England,
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