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The 2 rights which apply to all of Australia are free trade between the states, and protection against discrimination based on the state an individual lives in. [2] The yes case was that the existing protections were inadequate as the state and territory governments were not bound to observe the rights. [3]
Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...
Part 2 – History of Australian Referendums (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. 24 March 1997. ISBN 0644484101. Bennett, Scott (2003). "Research Paper no. 11 2002–03: The Politics of Constitutional Amendment". Canberra: Parliamentary Library of Australia.. Australian Electoral Commission (2007) Referendum Dates and Results 1906 – Present AEC ...
The Australian Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution of the Commonwealth of Australia, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and renamed in 2008. It is a statutory body funded by, but operating independently of, the Australian Government.
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 1986 (No. 126) Yes (as made) Human Rights Commission Act 1981 1981 (No. 24) No Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act (No. 1) 1999 1999 (No. 133) No Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 2011 (No. 186)
The Human Rights Committee was established under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Australia is a party. Rather than challenge the resulting Commonwealth Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act of 1994, the Tasmanian Parliament repealed the legislation in question. [41]
1988 Australian referendum (Fair Elections) 1988 Australian referendum (Parliamentary Terms) 1988 Australian referendum (Local Government) 1988 Australian referendum (Rights and Freedoms) Richardson v Forestry Commission of Tasmania
Anti-discrimination laws in Australia have been enacted at both federal and state/territory levels to outlaw discrimination and harassment in a range of areas of public life. [1] Federal law operate concurrently with state/territory laws, so both sets of laws must be followed.