Some of the major issues
tackled by the Commission
in recent years include
workplace sexual
harassment, pregnancy discrimination and maternity leave; disability rights
in areas such as access to transport, captioning, access to electronic commerce for older Australians and people with a disability; race discrimination; Indigenous social justice issues such as mandatory sentencing, community capacity - building and native title; and human rights issues such as children
in detention, education for rural and remote communities and age discrimination.
This includes closing the gender pay gap, increasing access to affordable child care and
tackling the poverty facing disadvantaged women including single mothers, Indigenous women, older women, women and girls with disabilities, and women facing domestic violence and sexual
harassment in the
workplace and community.