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Affirmative Action
Equal Employment Opportunities
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Affirmative Action was introduced by the government to try to ensure that all employment activities are conducted in a way which provides fair and equal treatment and equal opportunities for all people. The terms Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunities mean substantially the same thing in Australia. Contains letters; articles; discussion papers; newspaper clippings; information file from WEL NSW Affirmative Action Group
Creator WEL Cairns
Control Date order imposed by Archives
Date range 1979 - 1991
Inventory Identifier WELC00023
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Humanitarian law and human rights
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Contains copy of paper presented to the Australian Humanitarian Law Committee, May 1975; brochure on introducing humanitarian law; Human Rights Commission Bill 1981
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1975
Inventory Identifier WELC00524
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Anti-discrimination in superannuation and insurance
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Contains copy of WEL NSW comments to the "Draft Outline of Report of Inquiry into discrimination on the grounds of sex, marital status and pregnancy in Superannuation and Insurance", 1985; letter
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1985 - 1989
Inventory Identifier WELC00518
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Anti-discrimination legislation
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Contains letters; copy of "Australian Anti-discrimination Laws" from the Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia; copy of an information paper, "Outlining a proposal for the introduction of Anti-discrimination Legislation in Queensland" 1991; WEL Cairns comment on the Outline; "Proclamation of Anti-discrimination Legislation" for Queensland, June 1992
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 1992
Inventory Identifier WELC00164
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Equal opportunity
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Contains letters; copy of "Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement" from the Department of Social Security; copy of "Equal Employment Opportunities for Women : Guidelines for Employers" from the National Labour Consultative Council, November 1980; articles; newspaper clippings; transcript of ABC radio program on "Reply on equal opportunity" with Valerie Pratt, Director, Affirmative Action Agency, 19/2/1988; Equal opportunity in Public Employment Bill 1991, and explanatory note on bill
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1979 - 1991
Inventory Identifier WELC00519
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
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Contains letters; Vol 1 No. 3 March/April 1983 of Human Rights (The newsletter of the Human Rights Commission); Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Regulations, 1989; copy of speech by Irene Moss, Race Discrimination Coommissioner
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1983 - 1997
Inventory Identifier WELC00520
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Human Rights
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Contains letters; conference brochure on "Human rights; Women's rights?', 1980; "Teaching human rights", 1983; "National human rights congress" 1987
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1980 - 1989
Inventory Identifier WELC00521
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission
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Contains letters; hand written notes on visit of Susan Walpole, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, to Cairns 15/4/1993; kit from the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission; list of tribunal decisions, 1998
Creator WEL Cairns
Date range 1993 - 1998
Inventory Identifier WELC00241
Box Number 23
Series 33
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Kits from Human Rights Commission
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Contains 2 kits provided by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission containing information brochures on the Sex Discrimination Act; Sexual harassment "Shout Campaign"; kit from the Anti-Discrimination Commission in Tasmania titled "Celebrating difference Embracing equality" which contains newsletters and pamphlets on the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tasmania)
Creator WEL Cairns
Inventory Identifier WELC00522
Box Number 23
Series 33
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