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Does Australia Need a Bill of Rights?

Author: The Hon Mr Justice David Malcolm AC
Chief Justice of Western Australia
Subjects: Australia Constitution (Other articles)
Human rights (Other articles)
Human rights law and legislation (Other articles)
Issue: Volume 5, Number 3 (September 1998)
Category: Comment

Abstract

This is the text of an address by the Chief Justice of Western Australia to a meeting of Amnesty International held in Perth on July 26 1998. In it the Chief Justice examines the history of attempts to legislate a Bill of Rights in Australia and the arguments for and against such a step.

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