The W.A. Attorney General Jim McGinty announced on 3 May 2007 a proposal to develop a WA Human Rights Act. Please visit their web page to view the Attorney General’s Draft Human Rights Bill, Media Release and other relevant documentation.
Opinion piece on WA draft Bill on ABC website by Fred Chaney
The ALP Conference in April 2007, approved a motion for public consultation of a Federal Charter of Human Rights. This discussion generated the following articles in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Former Premier of NSW Bob Carr said in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 30, 2007: “Democracy thrives in a free press and politics, not in the judiciary”
to which Susan Ryan replied in letters to the Editor on May 1, 2007: “Litany of voices tells of common law failures to protect human rights”
“Harmony Lost: Why Multicultural Australia Needs a Human Rights Act in the Era of Anti-Terror.”
Date and Time: 6:30-8:00 pm, Wednesday 16 May
Location: Level 1, 79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale, NSW
Speakers:
Robin Banks, Chief Executive Officer of PIAC and Director of PILCH
Dr Danielle Celemarjer, Director of Global Studies at the University of Sydney.
Professor George Williams, Director of Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law.
Suraya Turk, Deputy Chair of the Youth Advisory Council of New South Wales
Details and registration: nswaia@amnesty.org.au