The article 'Barnett welcomes Labor's humiliating backdown on Bill of Rights' is quite interesting to my honors topic where I focus the general public's opinion regarding whether or not Australia needs one.
The article can be found here:
Some of the comments made in this article is that a Bill of Rights would take the power away from the Parliament and that “the best way to protect rights is through specific legislation tailored to address areas of concern and overseen by our Parliament.” I would have to disagree as a legislation can quite easily be amended or repealed, for example.
Australia is quite behind other countries such as the UK, USA and NZ that all have some sort of Bill of Rights. Therefore, it does raise the question, if it is such a bad idea why have other countries adopted this idea and kept the Bill of Rights for quite some time.
Further in the article is states that the proposed Bill of Rights never had the support of the Australian community to begin with. My research so far has indicated that most Australian believe their rights are already protected, and that we already have some form of Bill of Rights. I am therefore not surprised to read this, why would we need one if we already had one?
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Proposed Bill of Rights abandoned
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I agree with you, Bec. I attended a social justice forum on whether Australia should adopt a Bill of Rights, and it's true that a lot of people do think we already have one. When they find out we don't, they are keen to see one implemented. So where is this general consensus coming from that the Australian community is not interested in it? Surely the Government needs to look into the wishes of Australia a little more deeply?
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