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Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory - Petition
Submitted by admin on 22 July, 2008 - 11:29.
Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory - Petition
Published by michele on Jul 02, 2008
Category: Human Rights
Region: Australia
Target: Supporters of Human Rights
Description/History: The Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory that pertains to the Emergency Intervention was suspended last year. Its suspension is an issue for all Australians, Indigenous and Non-Indigenous. It is a human rights issue.
The Law Council of Australia states that, "the suspension of the RDA (Racial Discrimination Act 1975) under the Northern Territury Response legislation has been condemned by the Law Council as "utterly unacceptable".
The Northern Territory's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Tony Fitzgerald, has been quoted as saying that, "the suspension of the Northern Territory and Federal race discrimination legislation can never be justified".
In Australia, all Australians have the right to services – health, education, housing etc. Recently Professor Jon Altman from ANU stated that "the Rudd government must look at the key issue of human rights and the Intervention's initial premise that Indigenous Australians must give up those rights just to be entitled to the basic infrastructure and services that are provided to all other Australians".
Tom Calma, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (HREOC) has provided to Government a ten-point plan to improve the Intervention and this includes the reinstatement of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory.
This petition is sponsored by Senator Rachel Siewert and she will present it to the Senate in late August 2008.
Petition:
To the Honourable President, Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled.
The petition of the undersigned shows concern for the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory.
Your petitioners request that the Senate support the Reinstatement of the full Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory in line with the recommendations made to government by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commissioner, Tom Calma, in his Social Justice Report of 2007.
The Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory petition to Supporters of Human Rights was written by micheleand is hosted free of charge at GoPetition.
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