Professor Beth Gaze
Co-Director of Studies, Employment and Labour Relations Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
See research profilePolitics & Society
Protecting staff at parliament house
We should expect Australia’s Parliament to comply with their own workplace health, safety and anti-discrimination laws when it comes to protecting the people who work there
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COVID-19, age discrimination and aged care
From hospitals refusing to admit aged care COVID-19 patients, to government recommendations that care homes provide coronavirus treatment – it goes against age discrimination laws
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Keeping sexual harassment complaints confidential
The Geoffrey Rush defamation trial failed to place scrutiny on the Sydney Theatre Company’s role in leaking the sexual harassment complaint and their inability to handle it in sensitive and confidential way
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White supremacist terrorism, technology and the law
The Christchurch attacks show us that technology, the social environment and the law must work together to protect community harmony and freedom of expression
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Blurred lines: Your employer, Twitter and the law
Angela Williamson’s sacking from Cricket Australia, over alleged political opinions shared on social media, demonstrates the need for clearer laws
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Coalface tactics
Conservation and environmental groups are using the courts to fight and frustrate the mining industry in an act the Government calls ‘lawfare’