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Clause 7
MR COLLAERY (4.28): I am very proud to be supporting clause 7; I believe that all members would be. It is the latest drafted compendium of discrimination bases in Australia. It is, on its face, a simple list of categories; but I can assure members that in each of those categories a great deal of work and research has been undertaken by all who contributed to the Bill. I hasten to put on the record our great satisfaction in the Rally with the inclusion of status as a parent or carer, and no doubt others will wish to make comments about other categories such as impairment.
Knowing that the Hansard of the debate will be regarded very closely by students at law schools and scholars the length and breadth of this country, I want to put on the record the very innovative and modern definition of "impairment" at page 3 of the Bill. That is the provision that takes into account HIV-AIDS issues. This is an excellent way of doing it in a non-judgmental sense. I believe that ACT UP have finally got what they wanted. I am sure that there will be national media focus on this aspect of the Bill in due course, and they will see that we have put down in clause 7 the grounds of discrimination. We have referred to impairment in a non-judgmental sense. If you go back to the definition of "impairment" at page 3 you see it all there in considerable detail.
Consideration interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BILL 1991
Detail Stage
Clause 7
Consideration resumed.
MR COLLAERY: The definition of impairment at page 3 includes "an intellectual disability or developmental delay". I congratulate the drafters and the groups who contributed towards the definition. That concept of developmental delay is very important in terms of autistic
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