Current exemptions

Applying for a review of an exemption decision

You may apply to the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal if you want the Commissioner's exemption decision reviewed. This must be done within 28 days of when the exemption notice was published in the Tasmanian Government Gazette.

The exemptions below are listed with the most recently Gazetted at the top.

Tasmanian Electoral Commission

Tasmanian Electoral Commission

Application no: 20/09/070

Date granted: 12/09/2023

Date of Expiry: 12/09/2026

Date advertised in the Tasmanian Government Gazette: 27/09/2023

Exempt from the operation of sections 16 (m) and (n) and 20 under the Act.

Description

This renewal of exemption was granted to enable the Tasmanian Electoral Commission (TEC) to request and consider information pertaining to the following criteria in determining whether or not a person should be: employed or appointed as a member of staff with the TEC; appointed as a returning officer or election official under section 24 or 26 of the Electoral Act 2004 (Tas); or engaged as a contractor:

  1. Current membership, or membership within the past 5 years, of any political party in any State or Territory or the Commonwealth.
  2. A course of conduct within the past 5 years directed to supporting the aims of a political party or an independent candidate in a State, Territory or Federal election.
  3. A person who has held the office of councillor for a Tasmanian local council within the past 5 years.
  4. A course of conduct within the past 5 years directed towards supporting the political aims of a local councillor.
  5. A person who has publicly engaged in conduct promoting a political position in respect of an issue currently before the electorate in the election for which that person is to be employed.
  6. A person who is a member of a lobby group (not being a union or professional association) which promotes a political position in respect of an issue currently before the electorate in the election for which that person is to be employed.

Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty Ltd t/a Veolia Australia and New Zealand

Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty ltd trading as Veolia Australia and New Zealand

Exemption no: 21/08/065

Date granted: 6/10/2021

Date of expiry: 06/10/2024

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 13/10/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Veolia Australia and New Zealand to advertise, recruit and employ female waste collection drivers through a targeted recruitment and driver training campaign at operational sites across Tasmania, on the basis that:

  • The targeted campaign aims to appoint 6 of the 12 current vacancies of waste collection driver positions to female applicants;
  • The remaining 6 positions will be open to all applicants;
  • Subject to vacancies, the targeted campaign will be run each year until 2024 with the aim of creating an improved gender-balanced workforce at its Tasmanian operational sites;
  • Participants will be offered ongoing roles upon successful completion of the training program, increasing the female participation and retention in its Tasmanian operational workforce; and
  • Veolia Australia and New Zealand continues to promote, encourage and support women in the industry to improve the recruitment and the retention of women in its workforce.

Jireh House Association Inc

Jireh House Association Inc

Exemption no: 21/08/038

Date granted: 01/09/2021

Date of expiry: 01/09/2024

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 1/09/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Jireh House Association Inc to recruit and employ women only in the identified positions within the organisation on the basis that:

  • Jireh House Association Inc operates a crisis accommodation and support service for women, and women with children, who have become homeless due to domestic violence and/or other life trauma/crises; and
  • Being a women is a genuine occupational requirement of working with women who require crisis accommodation and other support services provided by Jireh House Association Inc.  Staff members in these identified roles all have regular direct personal contact with women escaping domestic violence (where the perpetrator is usually male).

Nayri Niara

Nayri Niara

Exemption no: 21/06/055

Date granted: 24/08//2021

Date of expiry: 31/03/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 1/09/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Nayri Niara to advertise for and select an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artist to participate in the Cultivate monthly exhibitions @ LongHouse on the basis that:

(i)  the program aims to build connections between individuals and communities with a particular emphasis on strengthening sharing of stories and connections between the Tasmanian Aboriginal community and the broader lutruwita/Tasmanian community;

(ii) the program is responding to a gap in relationships and knowledge between communities in lutruwit/Tasmania;

(iii) the program is a celebration of diversity, creativity and cultural expression through connected stories of homelands, heritages and social challenges; and

(iv) the program is supported and funded through 'Creative Hobart' of City of Hobart.

Karinya Young Women's Service

Karinya Young Women's Service

Exemption no: 21/07/067

Date granted: 23/08//2021

Date of expiry: 23/08/2024

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette:1/09/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(c), 27 (1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Karinya Young Women's Service to recruit and employ women only in the identified position of:

  • Chief Executive Officer;
  • Youth Crisis Accommodation Worker (Permanent full-time);
  • Youth Crisis Accommodation Worker (Permanent full-time);
  • Youth Crisis Accommodation Worker (Casual);
  • Program staff (Karinya Young Mums 'n' Bubs program);
  • Cleaner; and
  • Management committee (Membership).

on the basis that:

(i)  Karinya Young Women's Service Inc is a specialist homelessness service which is funded to provide immediate emergency accommodation to young women aged between 13 and and 20 years of age; and

(ii) The shelter operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with usually one staff member supervising up to seven young women at any one time.

Forico Pty Limited

Forico Pty Limited

Exemption no: 21/06/039

Date granted: 15/07/2021

Date of expiry: 15/07/2024

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 28/07/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Forico Pty Limited to recruit and employ an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander to the position of Cadet Forester (at a minimum, one of two Australian Based Apprenticeships being offered) in the North/North West regions operated by Forico Pty Limited, on the basis that:

  • the position of Cadet Forester aims to provide employment and career opportunities to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the North/North West regions of Tasmania;
  • the position aims to improve the representation and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Forico Pty Limited;
  • Forico Pty Limited will develop and maintain genuine partnerships with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that align with the deliverables in the Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP);
  • The recruitment, selection and sourcing activities for the position will include working with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations; and
  • The intended recruitment of the position aligns with the opportunities identified in the Reconciliation Action Plan, endorsed by Reconciliation Australia.

Women's Legal Service Tasmania

Women's Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc

Exemption no: 21/06/059

Date granted: 09/07/2021

Date of expiry: 09/07/2024

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 21/07/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Women's Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc to recruit and employ women only in the (paid and/or volunteer) identified positions within the organisation for the purposes of:

  • providing Tasmanian women with specialist legal assistance and advice across many areas of law;
  • providing a safe and un-threatening working environment to its clients in particular, women addressing family violence issues accessing these services on a daily basis; and
  • providing a genders, integrated response to its clients through a feminist framework, and building a collaborative relationships with other specialist services for women in the sector, including sexual assault support services, specialist counselling, health services and shelters.

Archdiocese of Hobart-CatholicCare Tasmania, Safe Choices Program

Archdiocese of Hobart - CatholicCare Tasmania, Safe Choices Program

Application no: 19/05/077(a) amended

Date granted: 15/4/2021

Date of expiry: 24/06/2021

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 28/4/2021

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This amended exemption was granted to permit the Archdiocese of Hobart to advertise, recruit and employ females only in the identified positions of Case Worker(s), Assessment Worker(s), Local Support Coordination Case Worker(s), Department of Social Services Local Support Training Coordinator(s), and Safe Choices Program Manager related to the Safe Choices program (the Program), on the basis that:

  • The program provides practical support, advice and referral services to people who are in violent relationships, including those who wish to leave those relationships; and
  • The program is an initiative of the Safe Homes, Safe Families, Tasmania’s Family Violence Action Plan 2015-2020; and
  • The majority of clients in the program are women who have been victims of family or sexual violence, and clients may feel safer to explore their issues with other women; and
  • In the majority of cases women escaping or living with family violence from male perpetrators do not feel comfortable seeing male workers and discussing intimate details of their relationship.

City of Hobart (Youth Arts Officer)

City of Hobart (Youth Arts Officer)

Application no: 20/12/022

Date granted: 11/12/2020

Date of expiry: 11/12/2023

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 23/12/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit the City of Hobart to advertise, recruit and employ a female only to the position of 'Youth Arts Officer', located at the City of Hobart's Youth Arts & Recreation Centre in Hobart, on the basis that:

  • The centre provides opportunities for young people 12 to 25 years of age to participate in creative, cultural, social and recreational programs within the Youth Arts & Recreational Centre and Youth Programs more generally; and
  • Currently, there are three permanent male staff members, with one casual female staff member covering one shift a week. It is vital that a female is recruited to bring gender equity to the team and to ensure a female presence at the centre every day; and
  • Gender balance ensures the team can provide assistance and support to a broad range of young people with diverse cultural and/or emotional needs.

Cancer Council Tasmania

Application no: 20/10/020

Date granted: 9/11/2020

Date of expiry: 11/11/2021

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 18/11/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Cancer Council Tasmania to recruit and employ an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander to the position of Aboriginal Quitline Counsellor and Liaison Officer on the basis that:

  • The position assists in the development and implementation of culturally safe and appropriate
    tobacco smoking cessation advice and counselling to Aboriginal people and Tasmania's Aboriginal
    community;
  • The Council's employment strategy is reviewed regularly to ensure it promotes equal
    opportunity in employment through an increase of representation and retention of Aboriginal and/or
    Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout the organisation; and
  • The position aligns with the Australian Government's  Closing the Gap Tackling Indigenous
    Smoking initiative and strategic framework to ensure Quitline services provides culturally safe
    services for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia (Tasmania).

City of Hobart (By and About Women - Urban Art Wall 2021)

City of Hobart (By and About Women - Urban Art Wall 2021)

Application no: 20/10/053

Date granted: 11/11/2020

Date of expiry: 11/11/2021

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 18/11/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit the City of Hobart to advertise for and engage an artist who has lived experience as a woman (or a team of people with this experience), to paint a new mural celebrating the stories, contributions and/or spirit of women in Hobart, now or into the future, on the basis that:

  • The mural will be painted on the south wall of 91-97 Bathurst Street, Hobart during the 2021 Vibrance Festival; and
  • This particular project will be called 'By and About Women - Urban Art Wall 2021'; and
  • The project will provide opportunities for female artists who are generally underrepresented in the arts, including street art commissions; and
  • The mural will be launched on International Women's Day 2021; and
  • The Vibrance Festival event includes opportunities for a diverse range of artists to participate, with approximately 25 murals expected to be completed. Any artist who does not fit the above description will be able to apply as part of the open call for artists.

Nyrstar Hobart Pty Ltd

Nyrstar Hobart Pty Ltd

Application no: 20/10/032

Date granted: 09/11/2020

Date of expiry: 09/11/2023

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 18/11/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Nyrstar Hobart Pty Ltd to advertise, recruit and employ five (5) female trainee Operators to participate in a traineeship with Nyrstar Hobart on the basis that:

  • Employing females in these positions will assist in building a more gender balanced workforce, as females are significantly under-represented at Nyrstar Hobart; and
  • Currently females represent approximately 6.5% of the total workforce at Nyrstar Hobart. The trainee Operator positions will be employed in the Production department, of which less than 1% of the current Operators are female; and
  • When Operator positions were advertised earlier in the year, only 3% of applications were from females; and
  • A total of eight trainee Operator positions are currently vacant. While five of these positions will be available only to females, the remaining three positions will be open to all applicants.

Women's Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc

Women's Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc

Exemption no: 20/07/064

Date granted: 07/10/2020

Date of expiry: 04/07/2021

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 14/10/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Women's Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc to recruit and employ women only in the identified positions of Financial Counsellor, Trainee Financial Counsellor and Social Worker on the basis that:

    (i)    Womens Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc provides Tasmanian women with legal assistance and advice across many areas of law;

    (ii)  Women accessing the service generally expect other women to assist them;

    (iii) Womens Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc provides gendered assistance both in recognition of the barriers that women face within the legal system, and the gendered nature of family violence; and

    (iv) Those appointed to the identified positions will be working directly with women accessing Womens Legal Service (Tasmania) Inc through the Domestic Violence Units.

City of Hobart (Crowther Reinterpretation Project)

City of Hobart (Crowther Reinterpretation Project)

Application no: 20/09/001

Date granted: 18/09/2020

Date of expiry: 18/09/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 30/09/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit City of Hobart to select at least two (50%) of the four temporary public arts commissions (Crowther Reinterpretation Project) to be Tasmanian Aboriginal people on the basis that:

  • The Crowther Reinterpretation Project is a commitment set out in the City of Hobart’s Aboriginal Commitment and Action Plan to truth telling across the city: Undertake an interpretation project to tell the layered story of Crowther in Franklin Square;
  • The aim of the Crowther Reinterpretation Project is to raise awareness of the complex and layered story of William Crowther and William Lanne and to act as a stimulus for discussion, ahead of the Council commissioning a permanent response to the monument within the next two years;
  • The Crowther Reinterpretation Project team will work with the Project Advisory panel, which includes Tasmanian Aboriginal members Project Advisory to advise on selection; and
  • The Crowther Reinterpretation Project team will ensure that at least two of the four selected commissions are done by Tasmanian Aboriginal people providing equal opportunities to artists, craft practitioners and/or designers in the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.

Women's Health Tasmania Inc

Women's Health Tasmania Inc.

Application no: 20/07/088

Date granted: 28/08/2020

Date of expiry: 28/08/2023

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 9/09/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Women's Health Tasmania Inc. to provide services to women only and for the benefit of women; recruit and employ women to work for the organisation; recruit women to the Board of Governance; and provide facilities to women and women's groups on the basis that:

  • Women's Health Tasmania Inc. has been offering women only services since the 1980s and is considered a safe place for women especially those vulnerable to health inequity; and
  • For some women a women's only service is important because they may have experienced violence and/or abuse by men, and for other women they may have a preference to see female health workers.

Relationships Australia Tasmania

Relationships Australia Tasmania

Application no: 20/07/051

Date granted: 29/07/2020

Date of expiry: 29/07/2023

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 5/08/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Relationships Australia Tasmania to recruit and employ a female practitioner to work in the Men Engaging in New Strategies (‘MENS’) Program. This is to enable the program to be facilitated by a team of one man and one woman (state-wide) on the basis that:

  1. the aim of the MENS Program is to change the behaviours of male family violence perpetrators through providing intervention to improve the safety of family violence victims and their children;
  2. the recruitment of a female practitioner for the MENS program will ensure it can be co-facilitated by a man and a women according to best practice models; and
  3. The MENS Program is an action in the Safe Homes, Families, Communities: Tasmania’s action plan for family and sexual violence 2019-2022.

Archdiocese of Hobart-Catholic Care Tasmania, Family and Relationship Counselling Program and Specialised Family Violence Program

Archdiocese of Hobart-CatholicCare Tasmania, Family and Relationship Counselling Program and Specialised Family Violence Program

Application no: 20/06/047

Date granted: 3/07/2020

Date of expiry: 3/07/2023

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 15/07/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 27(1)(d)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit the Roman Catholic Church Trust Corporation of The Archdiocese of Hobart trading as the Archdiocese of Hobart to advertise, recruit and employ one male only in the identified position of Family Counsellor / Family & Relationship Counsellor to be based in the south of the State, related to CatholicCare Tasmania's Family and Relationship Counselling Program and Specialised Family Violence Program (the Programs), on the basis that:

  • The Programs provide therapeutic services to individuals, couples, families and children. In the case of working with children in particular, the gender of the counsellor can be an important consideration given the issues and needs of the child; and
  • The targeted family violence service delivers interventions using a whole-of-family approach to provide clients with a comprehensive and integrated service, and it is important to have male children’s counsellors to gender allocate where appropriate; and
  • CatholicCare Tasmania currently employs 14 counsellors, of which two are male. Demand for male-specific counselling in increasing State-wide, but in particular in the south; and
  • There is increasing demand for both children and adults to see male counsellors as a result of COVID-19 and generally in relation to family violence, which CatholicCare is currently unable to meet.

TasTAFE

Application no: 20/01/007

Date granted: 13/03/2020

Date of expiry: 13/03/2023

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 25/03/2020

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26

Description

This exemption was granted to permit TasTAFE to advertise for and enrol female students in the Women in ICT Pathways Program (The Program) on the basis that:

    (i) The Program has another 12 months remaining concluding in February 2021 with the possibility of delivery as a state-wide program in 2021;

    (ii) The Program aims to address the diversity in the ICT sector by providing greater opportunities for female students to study ICT and develop a career in the ICT industry;

    (iii) The Program has enabled a partnership between the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and TasTAFE.  ACS have recognised the Program as a key objective in their 2019-20 Annual Plan;

    (iv) The Program is a key action in the Tasmanian Government’s Tasmanian ICT Workforce Action Plan 2020-2023; and

    (v) The Program significantly increased female enrolments in the ICT Certificate III course in 2019 with a number of those graduates securing employment in the ICT industry. The Program is proving to provide greater employment opportunities for women seeking careers in the ICT industry.

Launceston City Council

Launceston City Council trading as Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Application no: 19/08/063

Date granted: 20/09/2019

Date of expiry: 20/09/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 25/09/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery to advertise for, recruit and employ an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person in the position of Aboriginal Learning Facilitator based at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in the Creative Arts and Cultural Services Directorate on the basis that:

  1. The purpose of the position is to collaboratively develop and deliver public and educational programs to support the Australian Curriculum for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures; and
  2. The position will support school, local community and museum activities to close the gap in Aboriginal education and/or awareness outcomes and related initiatives; and
  3. The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery is the leading cultural organisation within the Launceston region and seeks to define its relationship with the Aboriginal communities within the region through this identified position.

Anglicare Tasmania Inc

Anglicare Tasmania Inc

Application no: 19/07/012

Date granted: 24/07/2019

Date of expiry: 24/07/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 7/08/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit the Anglicare Tasmania Inc to recruit and employ Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people in spefically-designated Community Service Worker positions (approx. six (6) positions state-wide) on the basis that:

  1. The occupants of these positions provide support service to clients across the state who identify themselves as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and request a case manager who is Aboriginal;
  2. Anglicare continues to improve the delivery of services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders by allocating Aboriginal-designated Community Service Workers by request to its clients; and
  3. There is a growing need from Anglicare Support Services data for Aboriginal-designated staff.

Australian Red Cross Society

Australian Red Cross Society

Exemption no: 19/05/076

Date granted: 13/06/2019

Date of expiry: 13/06/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 26/06/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Australian Red Cross Society to recruit and employ an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander to the position of Customer Service Officer in its Head Office in Hobart on the basis that:

  • the position is consistent with the Australian Red Cross Society’s Indigenous Employment Programme, a continuing joint initiative between the Australian Red Cross Society and the Commonwealth Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet;
  • the position is consistent with the Australian Red Cross Society’s aims developed in the Stronger Together – Reconciliation Action Plan 2018-2020 to guide the organisation’s policies and practices with recruiting, retaining and supporting Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander staff, volunteers and members;
  • the position is consistent with the Australian Red Cross Society’s goal of continuing to increase its current Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander workforce and ensuring its decisions are influenced, shaped and led by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander staff, volunteers and members; and
  • Australian Red Cross Society’s aims to support and provide continuing career opportunities for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people so they can be represented at all levels of the organisation.

Hobart City Council (Elizabeth Street Mall Information Centre development)

Hobart City Council (Elizabeth Street Mall Information Centre development)

Exemption no: 19/05/022

Date granted: 10/05/2019

Date of expiry: 10/05/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 12/06/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Hobart City Council to advertise for and engage an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artist, craft practitioner or designer (or a collaboration of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artists, craft practitioners or designers) to create a new artwork or install an existing artwork within the Elizabeth Street Mall Information Center development on the basis that:

  • The aim of the project is to acknowledge, pay recognition and respect to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and culture in Tasmania through a creative re-imagining of place and space; and
  • The work will honour, celebrate and respect the 60,000 years of continuing Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander culture and spirituality within Tasmania; and
  • One of the aims of the project is to inspire curiosity and connection with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander culture; and
  • The successful artist(s) will identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, and either currently reside or have been born in Tasmania.

Cooper Screen Academy

Cooper Screen Academy

Exemption no: 19/04/051

Date granted: 29/04/2019

Date of expiry: 29/04/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 15/05/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(f)

Description

This exemption was granted to permit Cooper Screen Academy to advertise for and enrol women only in the screen acting course called 'TV MUMS' on the basis that:

  • Participants of the course do not have to be a Mum themselves, but instead could play a Mum on screen; and
  • The course will encourage and support women to participate and explore screen acting in an environment they may feel more comfortable in; and
  • The course aims to address the under-representation of women on screen by motivating and empowering participants to explore a career in acting.

Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

Exemption no: 18/01/017(a)

Date granted: 30/04/2019

Date of expiry: 30/04/2022

Date advertised in Tasmanian Government Gazette: 08/05/2019

Relevant exceptions under the Act: Sections 25, 26, 27(1)(d), 41

Description

This exemption was granted to permit the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment trading as Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service to recruit and appoint a female and/or a male Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, whichever is required to maintain the gender and cultural representation of the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community, to the identified position(s) of member of the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council (NPWAC) on the basis that:

  • NPWAC is a statutory body created to provide independent advice to the Minister on a range of matters associated with the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002.
  • NPWAC is represented by 10 members of equal gender representation on Council who have the skills and knowledge across a diverse range of activities important to the management of national parks and reserves across Tasmania. The 10 members include one male and one female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander member position.
  • For gender equity and cultural reasons it is believed to be important to have both sexes represented from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community on the NPWAC.