The right to discriminate? Religious schools and Australian human rights law

Big Ideas

Human rights are meant to be universal, but what happens when those rights conflict with one another? For example, a religious school's right to practice its faith, versus the right of others to be free from discrimination?

The 2024 Higinbotham Lecture was recorded at RMIT University on 21 October 2024.

Speaker

Justice Mordy Bromberg, President, Australian Law Reform Commission

Further information

Read the full report Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws from the Australian Law Reform Commission

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