Just Do It: Leadership and a National Human Rights Charter

While national leadership fails, the states and territories are forging ahead, leading us to a situation where various governments of the federated provinces recognise and guarantee the human rights of their citizens, but the government of the federated nation does not.

Simon Rice, Director of Law Reform and Social Justice at the ANU College of Law, takes federal governments to task for faiiling to act decisely on human rights protection.

Read his full opinion piece in the December 2008 Bulletin No 32 of the HRLRC.