Fair Work Commission

Overview

National extraction includes distinctions made on the basis of a person’s place of birth, ancestry or foreign origin; for instance, national or linguistic minorities, nationals who have acquired their citizenship by naturalization, and/or descendants of foreign immigrants.^[1]

The meaning of ‘national extraction’ is a little wider than ‘nationality’ or ‘national origin’. Nationality is generally restricted to citizenship of a country but ‘national extraction’ refers to past history or previous circumstances as well as citizenship.^[2]

National extraction means both the nation and the nationality from which a person is derived, either by birth or by self and community identification.^[3]

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