NSW Charter of Human Rights

Australian Democrats press release on 26 April comments on a worrying trend to to simplify and sensationalise the debate on a bill of rights by both major parties.

An article by Ross Fitzgerald in The Australian Opinion commenting on a Charter of Rights for NSW.

The NSW Charter Group of Human Rights was launched at Parliament House on Monday 16 April by Mr Bob Debus, former Attorney General of NSW with Prof. Larissa Behrendt and Prof. George Williams also speaking. Comments made at the launch will be posted soon.

Opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, 17 April 2007 “Rights shouldn’t rely on government whim” by Prof. Behrendt.

See also Opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, 16 April 2007 “A dead fish in a sea of red tape“ by Paul Sheehan.

Panel Discussion at gleebooks:

• Susan Ryan AO
• Richard Ackland
• George Williams
• Geoff Gallop (moderator)

Australia is the only democratic country without a national charter of rights. Rights are assumed in Australia; but as David Hicks, sedition laws, children in detention and the push for ID cards demonstrate, such assumptions are disposable. George Williams discusses his new book, A Charter of Rights for Australia, with SMH columnist and Justinian editor Richard Ackland and Susan Ryan AO, former Hawke government Minister, architect of the Sex Discrimination Act and head of the New Matilda Human Rights Act Campaign. Former Premier of WA and now Director of the Graduate School of Government at the University of Sydney, Geoff Gallop, will moderate.

Date: 24 May 2007
Time : 6.30pm for 7pm
Place : gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, 2037
Cost: $10 / $7 conc.

To book: (02) 9660 2333 or gleebooks.com.au/events