Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT 1975 - SECT 15

  (1)   It is unlawful for an employer or a person acting or purporting to act on behalf of an employer:

  (a)   to refuse or fail to employ a second person on work of any description which is available and for which that second person is qualified;

  (b)   to refuse or fail to offer or afford a second person the same terms of employment, conditions of work and opportunities for training and promotion as are made available for other persons having the same qualifications and employed in the same circumstances on work of the same description; or

  (c)   to dismiss a second person from his or her employment;

by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of that second person or of any relative or associate of that second person.

  (2)   It is unlawful for a person concerned with procuring employment for other persons or procuring employees for any employer to treat any person seeking employment less favourably than other persons in the same circumstances by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the person so seeking employment or of any relative or associate of that person.

  (3)   It is unlawful for an organization of employers or employees, or a person acting or purporting to act on behalf of such an organization, to prevent, or to seek to prevent, another person from offering for employment or from continuing in employment by reason of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of that other person or of any relative or associate of that other person.

  (4)   This section does not apply in respect of the employment, or an application for the employment, of a person on a ship or aircraft (not being an Australian ship or aircraft) if that person was engaged, or applied, for that employment outside Australia.

  (5)   Nothing in this section renders unlawful an act in relation to employment, or an application for employment, in a dwelling - house or flat occupied by the person who did the act or a person on whose behalf the act was done or by a relative of either of those persons.