| Synopsis | The purpose of this Bill is to amend Part III of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984, which deals with discrimination on the ground of race. The Bill inserts a new division into part III entitled 'Racially Offensive Behaviour.' It will be unlawful for a person to do any act, otherwise in private, that is reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person on the ground of race, or on the ground of a characteristic appertaining or imputed to persons of that race. |