Volume 53 - September 2010
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This edition of the Bulletin, which is proudly sponsored by Mallesons Stephen Jaques, includes:
- An opinion piece on ‘Strengthening Democracy’ and the importance of the right to vote case run jointly by the HRLRC, Mallesons and GetUp!
- Human rights news, including in relation to periodic reviews of Australian by the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination and the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Updates on the National Human Rights Framework, including Tasmania’s commitment to enact a Charter of Rights by 2011, and the positions of both the ALP and the Coalition on reform of Commonwealth anti-discrimination laws
- Updates on the Victorian Charter of Rights, including a summary of the Statement of Compatibility for the Equal Opportunity Act 2010
- Victorian Charter case notes, including from the Supreme Court (construction of rights and significance of international human rights jurisprudence), the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (human rights jurisdiction of the Tribunal; retrospectivity of the Charter) and the Federal Court (significance of the Charter to public sector employment practices)
- Comparative law case notes on significant recent human rights decisions from Canada (reasonableness of police search and intrusion on privacy; appropriateness of damages as a remedy for breach of human rights), the UK (prohibited grounds of discrimination; control orders and the deprivation of liberty; limitations on the right to peaceful assembly and protest) and the US (same-sex marriage equality)
- Information about the Centre’s policy work, including in relation to human rights compliance and the Australian Public Sector, NGO engagement with the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and priority issues for the review of Australia by the UN Committee against Torture
- Updates on the Centre’s casework and litigation, including in relation to the right to vote in the High Court, and the torture and ill-treatment of a Ugandan refugee
- Details of forthcoming human rights seminars and events, including an HRLRC seminar on same-sex marriage on 20 September with Justice Albie Sachs of the South African Constitutional Court, together with conferences and seminars on human rights education, Indigenous rights, the death penalty, and the human rights issues for the forthcoming Victorian state election
- Information about useful human rights resources, including HRLRC in the news, and a new commentary on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Information about human rights jobs
- Updates on major international human rights developments from our foreign correspondent in Geneva, Emily Howie (HRLRC Director of Advocacy and Strategic Litigation)
- ‘If I were Attorney-General’ by Ed Santow, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of NSW, and Director of the Charter of Human Rights Project at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law
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