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The Constitution Alteration (Rights and Freedoms) Bill 1988, [1] was an unsuccessful proposal to alter the Australian Constitution to enshrine various civil rights, namely freedom of religion, rights in relation to trials, and rights regarding the compulsory acquisition of property.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 Rather than challenge the resulting Commonwealth Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act of 1994, the Tasmanian Parliament repealed the legislation in question.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]
The Extradition Act 1988 [4] sets out the requirements that must be met before Australia can make or accept an extradition request, which may be supplemented or varied by requirements contained in a multilateral or bilateral treaty. [5] One of the requirements is that the offence in the other country is not minor.
Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion. Section 116 also provides that no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any ...