Abstract
Those of us researching and practising in antidiscrimination law in Victoria greatly anticipated the commencement of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic) on 1 August 2011. The new Act is the result of two simultaneous public consultations and introduces innovative methods for addressing discrimination into the Australian legal system. Anticipation deflated somewhat in June 2011, when the newly elected Baillieu government amended the Act before Victorians had the chance to see it in action. The amendments wound back the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission's ('VEOHRC') powers and reinstated a controversial exception which allows religious organisations to discriminate. This brief covers the primary changes introduced by the 2010 Act and the recent amendments.
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