Legal Protection of Rights in Australia

Matthew Groves is Alfred Deakin Professor in the Law School of Deakin University, Australia.Janina Boughey is a Senior Lecturer in the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, Australia.Dan Meagher is Professor and Chair in Constitutional Law in the Law School of Deakin University, Australia.

• 1. Rights, Rhetoric and Reality: An Overview of Rights Protection in Australia Matthew Groves, Janina Boughey and Dan Meagher2. Australia’s Constitutional Design and the Protection of Human Rights George Williams3. Chapter III of the Constitution and the Protection of Due Process Rights Anthony Gray4. The High Court’s Implied Rights Experiment Tony Blackshield5. The Reception of International Law in Constitutional Litigation – The Al-Kateb Battle and its Aftermath Adam Fletcher6. International Law, Administrative Powers and Human Rights: The Legacy of Teoh Matthew Groves7. The Australian Human Rights Commission Edward Santow8. The Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 (Cth): A Failed Human Rights Experiment? Lisa Burton Crawford9. The Nature and Limitations of Commonwealth Anti-Discrimination Law Colin Campbell10. ‘Culture, What Culture?’ Why We Don’t Know if the ACT Human Rights Act is Working Simon Rice11. The Victorian Charter: A Slow Start or Fundamentally Flawed? Janina Boughey12. International Human Rights Treaties and Institutions in the Protection of Human Rights in AustraliaMadelaine Chiam13. The Recognition and Protection of Indigenous Rights Edward Synot and Dylan Lino14. Federalism, Public Interest Advocacy and Marriage Equality in Australia Gabrielle Appleby and Adam Webster15. Freedom of Religion Nicholas Aroney and Benjamin B Saunders16. A Fair Trial for Accused Terrorists Rebecca Ananian-Welsh17. A Search for Rights: Judicial and Administrative Responses to Migration and Refugee Cases Emma Dunlop, Jane McAdam and Greg Weeks18. Proportionality and the New Postwar Juridical Paradigm: A Challenge to Australian Exceptionalism? Shipra Chordia19. A Common Law Bill of Rights Dan Meagher20. Against a Constitutional Bill of Rights in Australia Jeffrey Goldsworthy21. Designing an Australian Bill of Rights: The Normative Trade-offs Scott Stephenson