What is racial discrimination?
Racial discrimination happens when someone is treated less fairly than someone else in a similar situation because of their race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin. Racial discrimination can also happen when a policy or rule appears to treat everyone in the same way but actually has an unfair effect on more people of a particular race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin than others. It is against the law to discriminate in areas such as: • Employment (for example, when seeking employment, training, promotion, equal pay or conditions of employment.); • Land, housing or accommodation (for example, when buying a house or land or when renting a unit); • Provision of goods and services (for example, when buying something, applying for credit, using banks, seeking assistance from government departments, lawyers, doctors and hospitals, or attending restaurants, pubs, entertainment venues and so on.); • Access to places and facilities for use by the public (for example, wh
