Don't leave us with the bill : the case against an Australian Bill of Rights / edited by Julian Leeser and Ryan Haddrick.

Barton, A.C.T. : The Menzies Research Centre, 2009.

1st edition

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Civil rights -- Australia.

Constitutional law -- Australia.

Human rights -- Australia.

Part I: An overview

1. A reflection on a Bill of Rights

2. The debate we didn't have to have: the proposal for an Australian Bill of Rights

3. Responding to some arguments in favour of Bill of Rights

Part II: Separation of powers

4. Don't risk what we have

5. In whom should we trust

6. What's wrong about a Statutory Bill of Rights

7. Solomon's heirs? dissecting the campaign for judicial rule in Australia

8. Human rights: the question is - who is the master?

Part III: Specific challenges

9. Principles and exceptions: problems for Bill of Rights

10. Pluralism, parliamentary democracy and Bill of Rights

11. The judicature, Bill of Rights and Chapter III

12. A legal perspective on Bill of Rights

13. A charter of rights will harm Aboriginal prospects

14. Trust me - it will not be as bad as you think

Part IV: Historical and cultural perspectives

15. A chaos of rights

16. From British rights to human rights

17. There is more to it than meets the eye!

18. Four fictions: an argument against a charter of rights

19. Slaves cannot be free - the biblical roots of our rights

20. Why should Christians be concerned about a Bill of Rights --21. Ethics and limits of a Bill of Rights

Part V: Bills of Rights in operation

22. The Human Rights Act 1998 (UK): an impossible compromise

23. The devil in the details: lessons from the ACT Human Rights Act 2004

24. A reflection of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004

25. Look but don't leap: lessons from the Victorian Statutory Bill of Rights.

Item donated to library by Paul de Jersey on his retirement as Chief Justice.

Includes bibliographical references.

9780980638301

xx, 330 pages ; 24 cm