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- Title
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DEMOCRACIES: A PROVISIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS (PARLIAMENTARY SCRUTINY) ACT 2011.
- Authors
CAMPBELL, TOM; MORRIS, STEPHEN
- Abstract
Australia's Human Rights Framework, adopted by the Commonwealth Government in 2010, together with the subsequent enactment of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 (HR(PS)A), constitutes a development of considerable significance with respect to the realisation of human rights objectives in Australia. It is also something of an outlier in terms of human rights acts against which we can compare and assess the human rights institutions in other jurisdictions. In this article we suggest that the first few years of the HR(PS)A's operation indicate that there arc grounds for optimism concerning its contribution as a human rights mechanism of a type which is suited to articulating and implementing human rights in democratic polities.
- Subjects
COMMONWEALTH countries; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN rights; DEMOCRACY; POLICY sciences; INTERNATIONAL cooperation on human rights; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
University of Queensland Law Journal, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0083-4041
- Publication type
Article