Category: age discrimination

Civil Rights Losing Out to New Zealand’s War on Tobacco

Commentary Occasionally, one comes across a law that creates more problems than it tries to solve. The New Zealand Parliament adopted such a law on Dec. 13, the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act 2022. The law stipulates that a person “must not sell a smoked tobacco product to a person born…


‘M’-arginalisation of the Elderly

Commentary The most recent compilation of Australia’s Age Discrimination Act 2004 is dated Nov. 10. Its section three states that the main object of the law is “to eliminate, as far as possible, discrimination against persons on the ground of age,” including in areas of work, education, access to premises, and more. Although age discrimination…