Take-Home Lessons for Gay,Lesbian,Transgender and Bisexual School Students

Morrison Brenda , ‘Bullying and Victimisation in Schools: A Restorative Justice Approach’ (Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice Paper No 219, Australian Institute of Criminology, 2002) 1.

Wilson Clare , ‘Bully boys’, New Scientist, 5 March 2005, 49.

Human Rights Watch, Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in US Schools (2001) ch VI <http://hrw.org/reports/2001/uslgbt/Final-11.htm#P982_176159> at 4 August 2005.

Hillier Lynne , ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Unsure: The Rural Eleven Percent’ in Smith Anthony (ed), Health in Difference: Proceedings of the First National Lesbian, Gay, Transgender and Bisexual Health Conference (1997) 90–4.

A 1993 province-wide survey in British Columbia found this uncertainty in 8% of teenage girls and 7% of teenage boys: McCreary Centre Society, Being Out: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered Youth in British Columbia: An Adolescent Health Survey (1993) as cited in North Vancouver School District No 44 v Jubran [2003] 3 WWR 288, [210].

Human Rights Watch, above n 3, ch VI.

McGarry Andrew , ‘Society Ignores Verbal Bullying’, The Australian, 22 April 2004, 3.

Papadakis Mary , ‘Beau's Bodyguard: “Bullied” Student to be Given Protection’, Sunday Mail (Adelaide), 18 April 2004, 24.

Croome Rodney , human rights activist, quoted in Callaghan Greg , ‘Worst Days of Their Lives’, The Australian, 10 April 2000.

Irwin Jude , The Pink Ceiling is Too Low: Workplace Experiences of Lesbians, Gay Men and Transgender People (2002).

526 US 629 (1999).

Richards v Victoria [1969] VR 136, 138–9 (‘Richards’).

(2003) 212 CLR 511, 565.

Watson Penelope , ‘The Supposed Safe Haven of Schools: Bullying and the Law’ (2003) 57 Plaintiff 17; Tame v New South Wales (2002) 211 CLR 317, 329 (Gleeson CJ).

Haines v Leves (1987) 8 NSWLR 442, 466 (Kirby P).

Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT) s 7; Anti-Discrimination Act 1992 (NT) s 19; Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) s 38B (transgender) and s 49ZG (homosexuality); Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) s 7(1); Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA) s 29(3); Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas) s 16; Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (Vic) s 6; Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA) s 35AB and s 35O. At the federal level, an aggrieved person can only make a complaint in the area of employment: see the definition of ‘discrimination’ in Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (Cth) s 3(1).

Daniels v Hunter Water Board (1994) EOC 92–626.

Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas) s 16(c) (‘a person must not discriminate against another person’) read with s 22(1)(b) (‘this Act applies to discrimination hellip; by or against a person engaged in, or undertaking any, activity in connection with hellip; education and training’).

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) s 38K(3) and s 49ZO(3).

Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA) s 160; Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT) s 108H.

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) ss 38R–T, 49ZS–TA; Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) s 124A and s 131A; AntiDiscrimination Act 1998 (Tas) s 19(c).

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) s 87A(1)(c); Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) s 134.

Wagga Wagga Aboriginal Action Group v Eldridge (1995) EOC 92–701, 78–266.

Burns v Dye [2002] NSWADT 32, [84].

[2002] NSWADT 32, [87].

Anti-Discrimination Act 1992 (NT) s 22.

Thornton Margaret , ‘Sexual Harassment Losing Sight of Sex Discrimination’ (2002) 26 Melbourne University Law Review 422, 433.

Hoseman v Crea's Glenara Motel (2000) EOC 93–062.

Hill v Water Resources Commission (1985) EOC 92–127.

North Vancouver School District No 44 v Jubran [2003] 3 WWR 288.

Black William , ‘Grading Human Rights in the Schoolyard: Jubran v Board of Trustees’ (2003) 36 University of British Columbia Law Review 45.

Irwin , above n 10, 67.

Patty Anna , ‘Home Truth on School Bullying Revealed’, The Courier-Mail (Brisbane), 15 March 2005, 11.