Submission to NSW Anti-Discrimination Review

The UNSW Allens Hub for Law, Technology and Innovation has made a preliminary submission on the terms of reference for the Anti-Discrimination Act review. 

The focus of the Submission is on the first proposed term, “whether the Act could be modernised and simplified to better promote the equal enjoyment of rights and reflect contemporary community standards” and the related fourth proposed term “whether the existing tests for discrimination are clear, inclusive and reflect modern understandings of discrimination”. In relation to both, we urge the review to focus inter alia on the question of the impact of socio-technical systems for decision-making in general and the impact of machine learning approaches in particular.

A copy of the Submission is here.