Without Precedent

For example, Waters v Public Transport Corporation (1992) 173 CLR 349(disability); IW v City of Perth (1997) 146 ALR 696 (disability); X v Commonwealth [1999] HCA 63 (2 December 1999)(disability); Viskauskas v Nil and (1983) 153 CLR 280 (race/ethnicity); on ‘age’ discrimination, see for example Qantas Airways Ltd v Christie (1997) 152 ALR 365.

The exemption granted by the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner to University of Tasmania Students Union for a ‘Women's Officer’ position on the Students Representative Council — AppEx 01/021 refers to much of the research and cites amongst other materials and matters comparative statistics for university academics and students (by faculty), male and female.

Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd v Wardley (1980) 142 CLR 237.

In Mabo and Anor v The State of Queensland and Anor (1989) 166 CLR 186 it is ‘Constitutional Law (Cth)’; in Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [2002] HCA 58 the ‘catchwords’ section is extensive, yet without any reference whatsoever to ‘human rights’ or ‘Indigenous Australians rights’ (or, better, ‘deprivation of human rights’ or ‘deprivation of Indigenous Australians rights’) which many, and particularly the Yorta Yorta, may find astonishing in light of the outcome.

Justice Murphy recognised the intersection of property rights and human rights: Dorman v Rodgers (1982) 148 CLR 365.