Equality

Australia is supposedly a fair place, but is that true? Personally I don’t think everybody has the same rights as everybody else. Our society is living with the mass delusion that Australia is a country where everyone is an equal. The Australian law says, every single person in this country has the right to fair treatment regardless of their race, sexuality, gender, religion or age.

If the Australian law is saying we all have the right to fair treatment, then why can’t same sex couples that love each other marry each other. That is something that a lot of politicians avoid but we need to be more open about this topic. I truly believe that people who love each other should be able to express their feelings in public without people staring at them or judging them.

 Feminism is another big topic of equality. Woman have so many more rights than the past have but woman are still not quite treated equally to men. Whether it’s a job opportunity or how much they are paid, there is still a difference. There is often a pay gap between woman and men when woman are doing the exact same job and just the same as the men are doing it. In 2015, female full-time workers got paid 80 cents each dollar a man earned.
  
Racial discrimination is still a big problem in our society. I find it hard to believe that people are still judging people on their skin colour. Our community has grown so much from the past but we aren’t quite to the stage where everyone is an equal and it needs to start now! We are now in 2017 and we still aren’t a fair place. Our society is still not a place where people can do things without having the thought in their head that they’re going to be judged.

People are not equal here, even if the government says we are. If the government won’t, we need to start acting now and changing what we have. We need to make it a place where people feel they can walk the streets of Australia, being who they really are.