Critical Review of Racial and Religious Tolerance Act in Australia

CRITICAL REVIEW

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Critically understanding of the racial and religious tolerance act...............................................3
The implementation of the racial and religious tolerance act ....................................................4
Importance of the racial and religious tolerance act...................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The laws and policies plays an important role in order to maintain the legal environment of the
country. This report will provide a critical review on the racial and religious tolerance act. This
act was implemented in Australia. The report will describe the main reason of implementing this
act. ABORIGINAL OR TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE are one of the community in
Australia. This community has faced many racial and religious challenges. A group of
ABORIGINAL OR STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE have been ejected from the night club due to
false allegation by a female in terms of groped her. Without any enquiry they were beaten by the
security guards. The racial and religious tolerance act enables the public to fight against the
discrimination they are facing. The report will highlight all the key aspects in relation of this act.
MAIN BODY
Critically understanding of the racial and religious tolerance act
This act was introduced in the year 2001. The aim of this act is to promote the racial and
religious tolerance in the Australia. This act puts a focus on expressing the freedom and treating
everyone equal in the country. This act enables the people to file a complaint against any kind of
discrimination they are facing. It ensures them a justice. This law was taken into account in the
year 2002. The Victoria & Southern Australia, these were the two states that focuses on
establishing the racial & religious act. In Australia this law was needed to implement because
ABORIGINAL & STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE were facing large ratio of discrimination. It
was the mentality of the public, that this community was the main reason behind happening of
any wrong event.
The community is facing number of discrimination and those are lack of medical
disability services, no home & no care services, lack of education, lack of employment, broken
families, high crime rates. ABORIGINAL OR STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE have no job
opportunities. (den Heijer, 2018) As a result, they do not have even enough money in order to
full-fill their basic needs. Therefore, it has been believed by many people in Australia that, this
community is going towards the path of crime such as, theft, murder in order to have some
money. So, they can full-fill their basic needs. They have faced discrimination in every aspect.
Due to these issues ABORIGINAL AND STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE have committed