Publications

Age Discrimination

Issues paper: Employment discrimination against older Australians

This Paper is the one of two Issues Papers for the Willing to Work: National Inquiry into Employment Discrimination against Older Australians and Australians with Disability. This paper focuses on issues facing older Australians, while the other focuses on issues facing persons with disability. Each...

Age Discrimination

National prevalence survey of age discrimination in the workplace 2015

Foreword The longevity revolution is underway, inexorably. The number of Australians aged 65 and over is projected to more than double by 2055, when there will be around 40,000 people aged 100 and over. Life expectancy continues to increase. In 2055, men can expect to live on average to 95.1 and...

Age Discrimination

Increasing participation among older workers: The grey army advances

Increasing mature age participation and employment has a range of benefits for the economy, the Government and, of course, for individual Australians with a desire to continue working.

Age Discrimination

A human rights approach for ageing and health - care for older people

Explore a position paper that outlines a human rights approach for the implementation of the Australian Government's residential aged care reforms.

Age Discrimination

The Road So Far – the Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth)

This paper replaces the previous Commission paper - ‘Roadmap to the Age Discrimination Act’. It includes an update on subsequent changes made to the Act. The paper will also look at the ways in which the Act is used by members of the public in exercising their rights, specifically in relation to...

Age Discrimination

Age Discrimination: exposing the hidden barrier for mature age workers

Since the introduction of the Age Discrimination Act 2004 (Cth), experiences of age discrimination in employment among mature age workers have featured prominently in the complaints of age discrimination received by the Australian Human Rights Commission. In 2008-09, I undertook a series of...