Protecting rights without a bill of rights : institutional performance and reform in Australia / Edited by Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Adrienne Stone.

Aldershot, Hants. : Ashgate Publications, 2006.

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Human rights -- Australia.

Civil rights -- Australia.

Part I Institutional performance: 1. Australian exceptionalism: rights protection without a bill of rights

2. The performance of Australian legislatures in protecting rights

3. Improving legislative scrutiny of proposed laws to enhance basic rights, parliamentary democracy, and the quality of law-making

4. The performance of administrative law in protecting rights

5. Australia's constitutional rights and the problem of interpretive disagreement

Part II Particular human rights issues: 6. Rights and citizenship in law and public discourse

7. Chained to the past: the psychological Terra Nullius of Australia's public institutions

8. Constitutional property rights in Australia: reconciling individual rights and the common good

Part III International perspectives: 9. American judicial review in perspective

10. The unfulfilled promise of dialogic constitutionalism

Part IV Strategies for institutional reform: 11. A modest (but robust) defence of statutory Bills of Rights

12. Australia's first Bill of Rights: the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act

13. An Australian rights council

14. Human rights strategies: an Australian alternative.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

0754625583

x, 348 p.