Points on discrimination

Speech given at the Older Women's Speakout, Adelaide, 28th October, 1987 by Adam Graycar, Commissioner for the Ageing. This speech is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Age discrimination is making a choice which disadvantages, unfairly or unreasonably, an elderly person because of their age. The Equal Opportunity Act 1984 makes it unlawful to make a choice between two people on the ground of sex, sexuality, marital status, pregnancy, race or physical impairment. Discrimination on account of age is not part of this legislation