Flogging A Moribund Horse While The Emperor Is Naked: Issues In Proving Institutional Racial Discrimination In State Housing In Western Australia
AbstractThis paper is a comment on some socio-economic aspects of the public housing problem in Western Australia. The author outlines the barriers that Aboriginal complainants and their advocates must overcome to prove unlawful discrimination. He examines three cases Martin v State Housing Commission, Walley v State Housing Commission and Penny v State Housing Commission that were considered in the Equal Opportunity Commission of Western Australia. He concludes that the anti-discrimination system is not adequate to address the causative factors that trigger complaints by Aboriginal people against the public housing authority. |