Protecting rights without a Bill of Rights : institutional performance and reform in Australia
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
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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