I think there is a little miscommunication here, and it probably results from my legal background more than anything else. I sense that many people are debating these issues from the standpoint of fairness, which is fine, while I am arguing in terms of law, because that is the way I have been trained.

The scandal I am exposing is the fact that even though I had clearly not contravened the law, a complaint against me was accepted. Complaints should not be accepted when there is no legal basis behind them. I did not commit any form of discrimination under the Act, as I did not exclude this person from employment, access to facilities etc - the stuff outlawed in the Act.

In relation to fairness, I have said enough for you all to judge my conduct morally. In fairness to myself, I did not at the time know of the complainant's disability, however what I did know of her suggested that she was not of good character.

To repeat, standards of fairness are subjective and debatable. The scandal here is that ADCQ deliberately disregarded the law when choosing to accept my complaint. That's how ADCQ is at fault.

TRTL, yes its a bit like those RTA ads (if you've seen them), re references to small "equipment". Seems like some have taken offence to it, but really only those that speed are being targeted. Same with stickers about drugs and date rape. I have trouble seeing that its a feminist attack against men in general, particularly when the warnings that go out to women on the same topics stress being careful of your drink, not being careful of men in general. Got to put these things in perspective!

Again Country Gal, you totally miss the point.

The point is about ADCQ accepting an absurd complaint agsint me, not rejecting a complaint I made.

Please everyone, before you type again read the words in this post again, otherwise you will drift even further into non-comprehension.

AJFA. You have to remember that the Anti-Discrimination board isn't properly doing their job but they have to look like they are doing something! So they choose to run these types of complaints so that they can register them on their records and make out like they are actually doing something.

They ignore the real discrimination complaints!

It is all for show, they don't care who they discriminate against so long as it isn't one of THEM!

my main concern is that their very selective accepting of complaints could be politically motivated. Which of course is a breach of the Public Sector Code of Conduct.

As a “CONSTITUTIONALIST” I take the view that any “race” complaint is outside the powers of a State body to deal with as it falls within Subsection 51(xxvi) and the Constitution itself allows for race discrimination! (Personally, I oppose it)
As for the Commission acting outside its legislative powers, if it hasn’t got legislative powers then anything it does in that regard is ULTRA-VIRES and without legal force. Neither can I accept that any confidential provision then apply.
On television we have a woman hitting a man with a large fish. The Federal Government had an add, something to the effect “No means no!”, as to make clear that if a woman says No then it is No! Yet, we have Channel Ten showing a woman who says “Never take no as an answer, seriously”.
Obviously with the High Court of Australia (albeit I view wrongly) held that the WorkChoices legislation is within the powers of the Commonwealth then States hardly can legislate as to work environments and so discriminatory conduct cannot be with the States where it involves such employment under Commonwealth provisions.
We now have a Bond (underwear) girl lifting up her dress to see her underpants. Well that is only on television for millions to see, but if the same was done in a workplace environment by either sex then it would be regarded as sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct. Expose yourself on national television and you be paid for doing so, and they will replay it time and again for millions to see. Expose yourself on the street or in the workplace and you are likely to end up in prison!
“Bloody idiot” (Victoria) is all right to say on television but not for a child at school?
It seems that what we are doing is teaching people to expose themselves and then if they do it are made criminals. Teach them to do whatever else so they can be made criminals. As such our society is sick to accept this kind of conduct, television or not.
We-do-not-have-legislation-to-protect-the-community-but-rather-to-try-to-make-everyone-to-be-regarded-a-criminal!

Personally, I prefer women who are decently dressed!