Product Description: Human Rights under the Australian Constitution is the leading text on how the Australian Constitution protects human rights. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the key public law principles, including the full range of express and implied rights in the Australian Constitution...read more

Product Description: This book critically examines Australia s counter terrorism measures by looking at the country s legislative framework within the context of an international law framework and norms relating to human rights. It discusses the Australian governments justifications for the war on terrorism and sociological theories relating to risk society as a way to explain Australia s counter terrorism policies and the impact of the war on terror on social cohesion in Australia...read more

Product Description: The Howard government's term in office in Australia from 1996 to 2007 is often portrayed as one where Australia retreated from its international human rights obligations. Throughout this era a range of government policies attracted much criticism for downplaying or ignoring human rights...read more

Product Description: On many criteria, Australia has been a pioneering democracy. As one of the oldest continuing democracies, however, a health check has long been overdue. Since 2002 the Democratic Audit of Australia, a major democracy assessment project, has been applying an internationally tested set of indicators to Australian political institutions and practices...read more

Product Description: Australia has traditionally lacked a strong 'rights' culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The Politics of Human Rights in Australia argue that these same characteristics may equate to a form of cultural complacency...read more

Product Description: Articulating a sensitive and intelligent defense of asylum seekers and refugees, this survey depicts the importance of protecting human rights and maintaining the rule of law. Exploring the foundations of many key tenets of civil society, this study recaps some of the world’s most famous trials, where the outcomes often turned on prejudice, complacency, chance, the tenacity of supporters, or the skill of advocates...read more

Product Description: We accept the universal right to live in freedom and without oppression, but are our human rights adequately protected by Australian law? Arguments about the need for a bill of rights in Australia have simmered for fifty years. While attempts to introduce a national bill of rights have failed, recently the states and territories have taken on a pioneering role with statutory bills...read more

Product Description: This important book recovers the long tradition of indigenous transnationalism – contact with external people, institutions, ideas – throughout Australia’s history from before white settlement to the present.

Product Description: This volume includes chapters on Australian exceptionalism - rights protection without a bill of rights, the performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights, Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement and Australia's first bill of rights, amongst others...read more

Product Description: Considers the Federation debate about rights, and how Australian law since has responded to the meager constitutional directions; it examines the international legal system and various objections to human rights principles; and it analyses the lessons of three modern constitutional experiments with rights protection: those of Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom...read more

This book is a thorough and accessible work that explores the decisions of the High Court on express and implied constitutional rights, as well as underlying themes of constitutional interpretation. (view table of contents)