INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR AUSTRALIA
Writings on Indigenous peoples and the need for a Bill of Rights
'Indigenous Rights and the Australian Constitution - A Litmus Test for Democracy' by Professor Larissa Behrendt
'From the Periphery to the Centre: A New Role for Indigenous Rights', Professor Larissa Behrendt 2003 Law and Justice Address
'Treaty and the Reform of Race Discrimination Law' University of Melbourne seminar 'Negotiating Settlements: Indigenous peoples, settler states and the significance of treaties and agreements' April 2002-04-16
'National salvation lies in bill of rights, says law expert' by Debra Jopson
(June 21 2002)
'Bread verses Freedom: Treaty and stabilising Indigenous Languages', Lester-Irabinna Rigney, National Treaty Conference, National Convention Centre (Canberra, 29th August 2002)
'A Bill of Rights for all Australians' by Richard Frankland European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights
'Indigenous people and Citizenship' by Colin Dillon
'Maybe human rights are not so well protected', Hilary Charlesworth (Canberra Times 29/4/02)
'The Australian Bill of Rights Debate: Putting the Cart Before the Horse?', Louis Chappell Australian Review of Public Affairs
'The Need for a New Preamble to the Australian Constitution and/or a Billl of Rights' by Mark McKenna
'Reconciliation must be practical and symbolic - but it needs federal support' by Sean Brennan and Professor Gorge Williams Online Opinion
'A federal or state-based Bill of Rights for Australia?' By Professor George Williams
Online Opinion
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation,
Agreeing on a Document - Creating Bill of Rights 'The Treaty Debate, Bills of Rights and the Republic: Strategies and Lessons for Reform' by Professor George Williams
HREOC 2000 Social Justice Report (mentions options for improving human rights protection in Australia from the perspective of indigenous rights)
Document from Constitutional Convention on Indigenous Australians
Bill of Rights in Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Local government
Hume City Council Social Justice Charter
Bill of Rights inquiries
Information on Victorian Bill of Rights Inquiry
Information on NSW Bill of Rights inquiry
ACT Bill of Rights Consultative Committee
Commonwealth attempts at Bill of Rights
2001
Parliamentary Charter of Rights and Freedoms Bill 2001 (Australian Democrats)
First reading speech of Dr Theophanous Australian Bill of Rights Bill 2001
1998
Prime Minister Hawke commissioned a review of the Australian Constitution that resulted in recommendations for the right to vote and a speedy trial be inserted into the Australian constitution. The bill was passed by Parliament but rejected at a referendum on 3 September 1988.
1988 Constitution Alteration (Rights and Freedoms) Bill. (Passed by Parliament but rejected at referendum on 3 September 1988)
1985
Commonwealth Attorney General Lionel Bowen 1985 Bill of Rights
1973
Lionel Murphy introduced the Human Rights Bill 1973
Political party statements/platforms on Bill of Rights
The Greens
Constitutional Reform and Democracy
General writings on a Bill of Rights
Haigh Patapan 'The Dead Hands of The Founders? Original Intent and the Constitutional Protection of Rights and Freedoms in Australia' Federal Law Review
Legislating for a Bill of Rights now George Williams
Sarah Pritchard, An Australian Bill of Rights
Comparative Bill of Rights
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
South African Bill of Rights 1996
