Attitudes

Attitudes are what you:

• think
• feel
• believe.

Complaint

When you make a complaint, you say that someone hasn’t treated you:

• fairly
• the same as other people.

Discrimination

Discrimination is when someone treats you unfairly because of a part of who you are.

Exemption

The Commissioner can decide if organisations don’t need to follow parts of the Act.

But they must have the right reasons.

We call this an exemption.

Gender

Your gender is what you feel and understand about who you are as a person.

You might think of yourself as a man or a woman or something different.

You can choose the words that are right for you.

Harassment

Harassment is when someone treats you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Inciting hatred

Inciting hatred is when someone shows how much they hate someone in a public area because of someone’s:

• disability
• race
• religion
• sexuality
• gender.

Offensive conduct

Offensive conduct is when someone says or done something that hurts your feelings.

They do these things because of something about you that you can’t change.

Policy

A policy is a plan for how we should do things.

Our policies are where our rules come from.

Rights

Rights are rules about how everyone should be treated fairly.

Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is when someone:

• makes you do sexual things you don’t want to do
• does something sexual to you that you don’t want them to do
• asks you to do sexual things you don’t want to do
• says sexual things you don’t want to hear.

Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

The Tribunal is like a court.

The Tribunal:

• holds hearings – formal meetings
• makes decisions about complaints.

Victimisation

Victimisation is when someone treats you badly because you:

• made a complaint
• helped someone else make a complaint about discrimination.