Attributes

Discrimination on the basis of sex is unlawful.

Includes whether you are single, married, in a de facto, or civil partnership, divorced, or widowed.

Includes someone who is or has been pregnant and includes characteristics associated with pregnancy.

Includes birth parents, step-parents, adoptive parents, foster parents and guardians.

Includes expressing milk.

Includes all ages.

Includes descent or ancestry, ethnicity or ethnic origin, nationality or national origin.

Impairment (disability) includes many types of disabilities, illness and reliance on an assistance animal or remedial device.

Means having or not having religious belief and engaging in or not engaging in religious activity.

Includes beliefs and activities in relation to the policies and activities of government.

Includes being a union delegate, attending meetings, and participating in Labour Day marches.

Includes providing sexual services for payment in person, in film, online or at a venue.

Means a person’s internal experience of gender whether or not it corresponds with their sex assigned at birth.

Includes whether a person is heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.

Means responsibility to care for or support a dependent child or other immediate family member.

Means a person’s physical features related to their sex, including reproductive parts, chromosomes, genes, hormones, and secondary sex characteristics.

It is unlawful to treat someone unfairly because of their association with or relation to a person who has a protected attribute.