They all stipulate that you must be under 35 years of age and be a foreign passport holder (i e non Australian).
I was planning to stay a few nights in Brissy but it looks like I might need to cough up the extra money for an Airbnb.
I have never had this issue backpacking anywhere else in Australia.
Do I have any rights under the Anti - Discrimination Act?
Thank you
Yes you do have rights.
Age discrimination is already against the law, unless the hostel is a registered charity.
QHRC even gives a relevent example:
It is also unlawful to discriminate against a person because of their association with or relation to a person identified on the basis of their age - such as a friend, family member or co-worker.
For example, a backpacker being refused entry to a hostel when travelling with her mum because she “wouldn’t fit in with the usual crowd”.
Race Discrimination which includes "nationality or national origin" is already against the law. The siutation you described does not seem to be allowed as an exemption.
You may wish to make your complaints (e.g. to the Qld Human Rights Commission or Australian Human Rights Commission) after June 2025 when Queensland's updated Anti-Discrimination Act comes into effect. Businesses will have a positive duty to prevent discrimination.
These changes to the Act will extend protection from discrimination to:
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People experiencing homelessness
Also
Extended protections from discrimination: where will coverage apply?
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accommodation – including holiday and long term rentals
And
Intersectional discrimination will be better recognised, and people will be able to make complaints on combined grounds.
Slater and Gordon?
In case reading or comprehension is difficult for you…
you may wish to make your complaints (e.g. to the Qld Human Rights Commission or Australian Human Rights Commission)
@tenpercent: Dutto will be getting his lap DOGE onto that rort as soon as he wins govt. Only "his pick" get rights.Most of them are anything but human.
"Do I have any rights under the Anti - Discrimination Act?"
OP should go ahead and good luck getting anywhere fast.
Why do you want to stay with a bunch of full-time partying backpackers anyway?
The criteria is probably for your own good
Do yourself a favour and don't use Airbnb. Have a look thought Booking.com or Expedia. You'll probably find hotel rooms around the same price, if not cheaper than an air Airbnb - and the hotels wont have ridiculous rules like bnb's often do.
i thought people just set up a tent in a park at south brisbane
Cheap camping holiday 🤣
I understand this after 28 i was over hostels. That and the housing crisis in QLD is real i have people in my street sleeping in their car. Otherwise all the hostels would be full of locals.
That sounds pretty grim. Hostels usually stipulate a maximum stay of say, 10 nights with a 12 month period, to prevent homeless people and vagrants using them.
Even if the homeless people are paying?
Why should they 'prevent' homeless ppl using them? And what's with the 'vagrant' term? Your definition is?
There are more rich tourists and backpackers overstaying and abusing these places than people down on their luck.
Not sure why you sound cranky. A business is allowed to specify what type of accommodation they run and set their own conditions.
Peak season maybe, but how do you think they fill beds in non-peak season? Homeless services use hostels to find beds regularly.
@GardenGnome: Big difference between banning the homeless, labelling somebody a vagrant, and encouraging the least fortunate to seek support and accommodation through a NFP service. It smacks of 'out of sight' It's an Apartheid attitude,period.
The few people I've known who've run backpacker hotels do so because they like backpacking and meeting travellers. And backpackers who use them like the cheap accommodation and randomly meeting up with other travellers.
Not sure why you think they should be forced to change to a totally different business model, and why a backpacker using a backpacker hostel is "abuse" of the business.
The answer is QLD
Don't you worry about that.
OMGoodness, yes, pumpkin scones.
i wish i was this poor
You are punctuation and capitalisation poor. So you are double poor. Congratulations, your wish has been granted.
Don't underestimate the savings on keyboard wear and electricity by skipping such luxuries as capitalisation and punctuation.
Not everyone is as privileged as you and I to afford such high falutin symbols of bourgeoisie decadence.
No you Do Not !
Buy a building and make your own Backpackers accommodation in Brisbane where anyone can stay for very cheap