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

ACT Human Rights Act

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)

Australian Bill of Rights Bill 2001 (explanatory memorandum) introduced by Independent member Andrew Theophanous.

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)

Explanatory Memorandum

Second Reading Speech

1985

Commonwealth Attorney General Lionel Bowen 1985 Bill of Rights

Explanatory Memorandum

Second reading speech

1973

Lionel Murphy introduced the Human Rights Bill 1973

Second reading speech

Political party statements/platforms on Bill of Rights

The Australian Labor Party

The Greens

Constitutional Reform and Democracy

The Democrats

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

UK Human Rights Act 1998

United States Constitution

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

South African Bill of Rights 1996

 

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