29th Presidents of Law Associations of Asia (POLA) Conference: Remarks on Equity and Diversity

Speech delivered by Morry Bailes, President, Law Council of Australia at the POLA Conference, Canberra, 3 August 2018.

"As I prepared for these remarks on this most important topic to our profession, I reflected on some fundamental principles:

• Full equity and diversity means that we have representative numbers of people working in the law that reflect our communities’ diverse views and experiences - women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from other ethnically diverse backgrounds, people from rural, regional and remote areas, people with disability, LGBTI+ people, for example.
• To achieve this, our law associations, our legal practices and our law schools must take a leadership role to drive change, because as a matter of law nowhere is it more essential to demonstrate these principles than in the legal profession.
• If we are to properly represent the rights of all our fellow citizens, then the makeup of our profession must reflect the diversity of our societies."

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Last Updated on 27/09/2018

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