Each individual has the right to be protected from violations of human rights.

In Australia, as we lack a Bill of Rights, only a handful of our rights are protected by the Constitution. For example: s 51(xxxi) expressly sets out that property may only be acquired on “just terms;” s 80 affords a trial by jury; s 116 provides the right to free exercise of religion and ensures that the Commonwealth cannot pass a law to establish a religion of its own; s 117 ensures non-discrimination of subjects belonging to one state in another; and there is also a right to free political discussion implied from the structure of the constitution.

Nevertheless, in this current age heightened by the threat of terrorism, there is concern that the Parliament may pass legislation that draconically encroaches our civil liberties.

I believe that it is time for the debate about an Australian Bill of Rights to be revived. We request that the government devise a model, via community consultation, of a Bill of Rights that, to a fair extent, conforms to the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR): http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/ccpr.htm. This Bill of Rights should be in the form of a legislative Act.

Australia ratified the ICCPR in 1980 and yet only one provision has been partially implemented (Art 17 in the Toonen Case). It's time for Australia to present itself as a responsible international citizen and afford its subjects the protection of those rights recognised by all of mankind.

Democracy demands it!

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