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Title : What will the Anti-Discrimination Board do?
Description : At the Anti-Discrimination Board, we have the legal power to investigate your complaint and, if it's against the law, to conciliate it. This means that we will try to help you and the person or employer you're complaining about reach a private settlement that you both agree on. What happens depends on the circumstances of your case.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Aged, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Employment, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_what_we_do

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Title : How to deal with discrimination unfair treatment or harassment
Description : While it may not seem like it, you do have options. There is always something that you can do. Doing something means that you may solve the problem. This will make things better for you and also for other people in the future. Doing nothing means that the situation will stay the same or get worse.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Aged, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Employment, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_how_to_deal

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Title : Harassment and sexual harassment
Description : Harassment is any form of behaviour that you do not want that offends, humiliates or intimidates you, or that targets you because of your sex, pregnancy, race, marital status, disability, age, carers' responsibilities, homosexuality or transgender. This information explains what kind of behaviour this includes and what the Anti-Discrimination Board can do.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Aged, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Employment, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
Date Modified : 2001-06-07
Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_harassment

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Title : Discrimination & the Anti-Discrimination Board of NSW
Description : Discrimination occurs when someone is treated unfairly because they happen to belong to a particular group of people or have a particular characteristic.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Aged, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Employment, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_general

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Title : Making a complaint about discrimination
Description : This covers who can make a complaint, time limits on making a complaint and how to make a complaint to the Anti-Discrimination Board.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Aged, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Employment, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_complaint

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Title : Your Right to a Fair Go at School
Description : Discrimination is when someone is unfair to you because they think you're different from them. In New South Wales it is generally against the law for someone to discriminate against you because you are a boy or a girl, you speak another language, you use a wheelchair or have a disability, you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, you or your parents came from another country or you have a particular skin colour.
Subject : Childrens rights, Discrimination, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_how_to_deal#schools

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Title : Disability discrimination: Your rights
Description : It is generally against the law to treat you unfairly, or harass you, because of a disability. This information describes when disability discrimination is illegal. It also explains your rights in a number of different situations, including at work, when buying things and when renting. There are also examples of complaints that the Anti- Discrimination Board has handled.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Disability
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_disability

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Title : Victimisation and the Anti-Discrimination Board
Description : Information about what you can do if the other side has tried to punish you for making a discrimination complaint. It is against the law to victimise you (treat you unfairly) because you have said you shouldn't be discriminated against or made a complaint about discrimination at work, or to the person or organisation who has treated you unfairly.
Subject : Discrimination, Discrimination - Aged, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Employment, Discrimination - racial, Discrimination - Sex
Author : Anti-Discrimination Board of New South Wales
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Web Page : http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/adb/ll_adb.nsf/pages/ adb_victimisation

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Title : Online Complaint Form
Description : Please complete the form below to submit your complaint. You must provide the Commission with your contact details for correspondence and a telephone number where possible. The Commission can not accept the complaint if you do not provide an address for correspondence.
Subject : Australian Human Rights Commission, Discrimination, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Sex, Human rights
Author : Australian Human Rights Commission
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Web Page : http://www.hreoc.gov.au/complaints_information/online_form/ index.html

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Title : The complaint handling process
Description : The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission is a national independent statutory government body. Matters which can be investigated by the Commission include discrimination on the grounds of race, colour or ethnic origin , racial vilification , sex, sexual harassment, marital status, pregnancy, or disability.
Subject : Australian Human Rights Commission, Discrimination, Discrimination - Disability, Discrimination - Sex, Human rights
Author : Australian Human Rights Commission
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Web Page : http://www.hreoc.gov.au/complaints_information/lodge/index. html

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