NSW Charter of Human Rights

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

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

Read Justice Kirby’s comments on the Constitution
“but the rigidity helps produce a national constitutional lethargy that despairs of needed alterations and of fresh thinking about our basic governance”.