Review of the Racial Discrimination Act (Australian) and It's Influences on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Definition: Direct Racial discrimination is the act of treating a person unfairly (compared to the rest of society) based on their race, color, descent, national origin or ethnic origin. Indirect racial discrimination is when a policy, legislation or rule has an unfair effect on certain groups of people, more than that of others, based on their race, color, descent or national or ethnic origin. However these policies, legislations and rules can be justified if proven …

…is enjoyed by persons of another race, color or national or ethnic origin, or enjoy a right to a more limited extent than persons of another race, color or national or ethnic origin, then, notwithstanding anything in that law, persons of the first-mentioned race, color or national or ethnic origin shall, by force of this section, enjoy that right to the same extent as persons of that other race, color or national or ethnic origin."