An equal and safe society

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We value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to removing discrimination from our society

  • Extend racial and religious vilification laws to vilification based on sexuality, gender and disability
  • Introduce new protections for women who are abused and harassed online
  • Incentivise the achievement of private sector gender parity in pay and company board representation
  • Strengthened powers for the Equal Opportunity Commissioner to conduct investigations, compel the production of information and issue compliance notices
  • Fair surrogacy laws that permit appropriate advertising and fair compensation for greater access to those needing assistance to conceive
  • Strengthen the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities by raising the threshold by which the Government can limit our human rights
  • Recurrent funding and support to prevent family violence before it occurs
  • Introduce a Victorian Future Well-being Act, to ensure that every new piece of Victorian legislation is ‘future proofed’ by assessing the compatibility of each Bill against a well-being criteria