Carol Nader: The Age | April 5, 2008
A STUDY of racial discrimination laws in several Western countries has prompted a call for the Government to toughen Australia’s 33-year-old laws.
Race Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma wants the burden of proof in cases of racial discrimination to fall on the alleged offender, instead of the person making the complaint.
Mr Calma said Australia’s laws made it difficult to prove there had been discrimination.
A Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission analysis of other countries, including the US, Britain and Canada, shows that in those countries the onus of proof shifts …