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Endnotes
1
Australian Human Rights Commission, Wiyi Yani U Thangani: Women’s Voices. Securing Our Rights. Securing
Our Future (2020).
2
Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic) s 15(2).
3
Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian
Workplaces (2020) 471.
4
Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian
Workplaces (2020) 471.
5
Dominique Allen, ‘An Evaluation of the Mechanisms designed to promote substantive equality in the
Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic)’ (2020) 44(2) Melbourne University Law Review 459, 470.
6
Beth Gaze and Belinda Smith, Equality and Discrimination Law in Australia: An Introduction (Cambridge
University Press, 2017) 266, referring to Sandra Fredman, ‘Equality as a Proactive Duty’ (2012) 60
American Journal of Comparative Law 265.
7
United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Council Res 17/4 (16 June
2011) UN Doc A/HRC/17/31.
8
Deloitte Access Economics, The Economic Costs of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Final Report,
February 2019) 5. Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual
Harassment in Australian Workplaces (2020) 81, 295. See also Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human
Rights Commission submission to Australian Human Rights Commission, National inquiry into sexual
harassment in Australian workplaces (February 2019), 51–2 discussing Chelsea R Willness et al, ‘A MetaAnalysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Workplace Sexual Harassment’ (2007) 60 Personnel
Psychology 127, 151 and Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone, ‘The Economic
and Career Effects of Sexual Harassment on Working Women’ (2017) 31(3) Gender and Society 333.
9
UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, General Comment No.20, Non-discrimination in
economic, social, and cultural rights, Identifying and Preventing Systemic Discrimination at the Local Level UN
Doc E/C.12/GC/20, 2009.
10 Council of Europe, Manual for Human Rights Education with Young People, ‘Discrimination and Intolerance’
(2015) <https://www.coe.int/en/web/compass/discrimination-and-intolerance>.
11 ‘Racism and racial discrimination: Systemic discrimination’ Ontario Human Rights Commission (Web Page)
<http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/racism-and-racial-discrimination-systemic-discrimination-fact-sheet>.
12 Australian Human Rights Commission, Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian
Workplaces (2020) 484
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