Senate debates

Thursday, 30 October 2025

Questions without Notice

Racial Discrimination Act 1975: 50th Anniversary

2:08 pm

Photo of Lisa DarmaninLisa Darmanin (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the minister representing the Attorney-General, Senator Farrell. In February 1975, the then Labor attorney-general, Kep Enderby, introduced the Racial Discrimination Act. The act passed in June 1975, and tomorrow, Friday 31 October 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the commencement of the act. As it's Australia's first piece of Commonwealth antidiscrimination legislation and the first to prohibit racial discrimination, how significant is this anniversary?

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