the Equal Opportunity Act 1984; Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986., and the Commonwealth legislated Sex Discrimination Act 1984’'. In a 1994 dispute with the newly elected government led by Jeff Kennett regarding Rayner's stance against the closure of women's prisons in Victoria, the Act was amended and the office of Commissioner was abolished. Later in 1994 the Australian Federal government appointed her to the Institute of Family Studies to undertake a special project to fight child abuse. Rayner then joined the national law firm Dunhill Madden Butler where she practised industrial, workplace relations and discrimination law for seven years (1994-2001). Until 2000 Rayner chaired both the Financial Planning Association's independent Dispute Resolution Scheme, and the Board of Directors of the National Children's and Youth Law Centre Inc. In 2000, Rayner moved to London to work with the Lord Mayor of London Authority, as the founding Director of the independently funded Office of the Children's Rights Commissioner for London implementing provisions of United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (2003). Rayner resigned as Acting Commissioner of the Corruption and Crime Commission of Western Australia amid an accusation of corruption of which she was later acquitted. She had warned a dying friend that he should be careful what he said on the phone as authorities could be listening. The jury judged it to be a "slip of the tongue", made in a moment of distress without criminal intent. In reply to a question by ABC journalist Rachael Kohn, Rayner described the incident. I was (falsely) accused of acting with the corrupt intention of perverting the course of justice, by visiting a long-term friend of mine who was dying in a hospice. He had been found to have been stealing from the parliament and to have been using drugs, which were totally out of character. Other appointments have included University of Melbourne (Advisory Board Labour Law Centre; Senior Fellow), Deakin University (Adjunct Professor, Centre for Human Services), RMIT University (Adjunct Professor, School of Social Inquiry); Murdoch University (Visiting Scholar), University of Western Australia (Lecturer, Senior Fellow Law School, Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre) Curtin University (Lecturer) Australian Institute of Family Studies (Deputy Director, Research). For the last fifteen years Rayner has been a prolific commentator in the online current affairs periodical New Matilda. Articles include analyses of animal rights, indigenous policy,