National Consultation and Legislative Bill of Rights Essential to Best Serve Human Rights

What I would like to see is a new approach to making law and policy that doesn’t ignore the human rights picture. I would like to see the legislature focus on solving existing human rights problems and preventing human rights problems from happening in the future.

Read the full opinion piece by John von Doussa QC, former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, in the December 2008 Bulletin No 32 of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre (HRLRC) .