Human Rights
Australia in an International Context
Description:... This book discusses a range of real life issues, including the rights of families, the rights of women, the emerging rights of children, the rights of migrants and the rights of Aborigines. It outlines and provides content for the controversies that developed over the Australian Human Rights Commission and the Australian Bill of Rights. It also reviews the legal concepts associated with rights, gives an account of Australian case law, and provides a guide to Australian legislation and the rights provisions in the Australian Constitution. The book covers the whole field of human rights - civil, political, economic, social and cultural. It approaches the task from an international angle, but with the focus on the situation in Australia.
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