I call on all Australian governments to implement these recommendations in full, with all possible urgency, so that all Australians can
enjoy equality of opportunity and equal socioeconomic outcomes, and we can all reach our full potential.
Not exact matches
Hunt adds: «However, I should be clear that, whilst there may well be some within our party who see
equality as an end in and
of itself, I am not one
of them... The fundamental task
of progressive politics remains to ensure the
opportunities enjoyed by the powerful are spread to the powerless.»
That is, society needs to ensure «substantive
equality» (where all groups have equal
opportunity to
enjoy human rights) rather than just «formal
equality» (where equal treatment
of all can result in some groups having less
opportunity because
of relevant differences).
is not to be understood as a right to be healthy... [It is] the right to a system
of health protection which provides
equality of opportunity for people to
enjoy the highest attainable level
of health.12
The norm
of non-discrimination as a reverse side
of the notion
of equality before the law prohibits a State to exclude members
of a minority group from participating in rights, interests and
opportunities which a majority population group can
enjoy.