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Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights [electronic resource] : institutional performance and reform in Australia / edited by Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Adrienne Stone.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Law, justice, and power.
- Law, justice, and power
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights--Australia.
- Civil rights.
- Human rights--Australia.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the protection of human rights in Australia, this volume includes international perspectives for the purpose of comparison and provides an examination of how well Australian institutions, governments, legislatures, courts and tribunals have performed in protecting human rights in the absence of a Bill of Rights.
- Contents:
- Australian exceptionalism : rights protection without a Bill of Rights / Brian Galligan, F.L. (Ted) Morton
- The performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights / John Uhr
- Improving legislative scrutiny of proposed laws to enhance basic rights, parliamentary democracy, and the quality of law-making / Bryan Horrigan
- The performance of administrative law in protecting rights / Robin Creyke
- Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement / Adrienne Stone
- Rights and citizenship in law and public discourse / Helen Irving
- Chained to the past : the psychological terra nullius of Australia's public institutions / Megan Davis
- Constitutional property rights in Australia : reconciling individual rights and the common good / Simon Evans
- American judicial review in perspective / Robert Nagel
- The unfulfilled promise of dialogic constitutionalism : judicial-legislative relationships under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Christopher Manfredi
- A modest (but robust) defence of statutory bills of rights / Jeremy Webber
- Australia's first Bill of Rights : the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act / Hilary Charlesworth
- An Australian rights council / George Winterton
- Human rights strategies : an Australian alternative / Tom Campbell.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-351-15122-3
- 1-281-09673-3
- 9786611096731
- 0-7546-8043-6
- OCLC:
- 437113520
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