A reform agenda for federal discrimination laws 13 December 2021 Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces (2020), 22. 14 Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February 2019) 6. 15 Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February 2019) 52. 16 Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report, February 2019) 38–42. See especially Table 4.3. 17 Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces (2020) 81. 18 Yin Paradies et al, ‘Racism as a Determinant of Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis’ (2015) 10(9) PLoS ONE, 1; <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4580597/pdf/pone.0138511.pdf>. 19 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, opened for signature 7 March 1966, 660 UNTS 195 (entered into force 4 January 1969). Human Rights Commission, Annual Report, 1981– 82, vol 1, 7. The first law at state level was the Prohibition of Discrimination Act 1966 (SA), which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race. For historical background to anti-discrimination law, see eg, Gaze and Smith ch 2. 20 Other Commissioners were added in the fields of Children and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice through, respectively: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Legislation Amendment Act (No 2) 1992 (Cth); Australian Human Rights Commission Amendment (National Children’s Commissioner) Act 2012 (Cth). 21 Eg, Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) ss 24, 25. 22 It was also the basis of complaint handling under the Commission’s predecessor body, the Community Relations Commission established under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). See, eg, AJ Grassby, The Future of Community Relations (Community Relations Paper No 16, August 1981) 4–5. The Hon Al Grassby was the first Commissioner of Community Relations. 23 Belinda Smith, ‘What Kind of Equality Can We Expect from the Fair Work Act?’ (2011) 35(2) Melbourne University Law Review 542, 553. 24 Belinda Smith, ‘What Kind of Equality Can We Expect from the Fair Work Act?’ (2011) 35(2) Melbourne University Law Review 542, 560. 25 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention 1958 (No 111), opened for signature 25 June 1958, 362 UNTS 31 (entered into force 15 June 1960). 26 Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SA); Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW); Equal Opportunity Act 1977 (Vic); Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA); Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (QLD); Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT); Anti-Discrimination Act 1996 (NT); Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas). FREE AND EQUAL An Australian Conversation on Human Rights 47