Implementing racial anti-vilification laws in new south wales 1989-1998 : a study
By: GELBER, Katharine
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, March 2000Australian Journal of Public Administration 59, 1, p. 12-23Abstract: Anti-vilification laws in Australia now have a decade-long history, yet remarkably little research has been conducted into their operation, nmor has there been any sistematic collation of outcomes. This paper seeks to fill this gape in the available research and also to make some proposals and to how to improve the legislation in practice. The paper reports on 10 years of complaints lodget under the NSW racial anti-vilification legislation, the oldest in Australia enacted in 1989. Other similar legislation followed inWA. SA, Tasmania. The results of all finalised case files from NSW since its inception in 1989 to the end of 1998 (568 cases) are examined. The research combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Some statistical data are provided, which are not relative; that is, there is no meaning available or implied between the different categories of outcome and each case has been interpreted separately. The qualitative method used provides an in-depth examination of specific case study outcomes in order to provide an accurate and sensitive picture of the legislation in practice. The study may also be of use to researcheres in other complaints-driven systems of regulation designed to ssuport beneficial legislation
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Anti-vilification laws in Australia now have a decade-long history, yet remarkably little research has been conducted into their operation, nmor has there been any sistematic collation of outcomes. This paper seeks to fill this gape in the available research and also to make some proposals and to how to improve the legislation in practice. The paper reports on 10 years of complaints lodget under the NSW racial anti-vilification legislation, the oldest in Australia enacted in 1989. Other similar legislation followed inWA. SA, Tasmania. The results of all finalised case files from NSW since its inception in 1989 to the end of 1998 (568 cases) are examined. The research combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Some statistical data are provided, which are not relative; that is, there is no meaning available or implied between the different categories of outcome and each case has been interpreted separately. The qualitative method used provides an in-depth examination of specific case study outcomes in order to provide an accurate and sensitive picture of the legislation in practice. The study may also be of use to researcheres in other complaints-driven systems of regulation designed to ssuport beneficial legislation
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