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Editorial
Henrietta Zeffert


Rights - then and now
Julian Burnside

The state of human rights

George Williams


War crimes by leaders of the Australian Government? A possible implication of the continued detention of David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay

The Hon. Alastair Nicholson

The Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities: taking rights into the nooks and crannies of the lives of ordinary Victorians
John Tobin

What does the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities mean for people in Victoria?
Helen Szoke

Australia’s first bill of rights: The Australian Capital Territory’s Human Rights Act
Hilary Charlesworth

2007 – The dawn of a new era in disability rights
Frank Hall-Bentick and David Webb

Easy English
Amy McGowan

We need a bill of rights
Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser

Same sex, same rights
Jonathan Wilkinson

A mandate to legislate?
Jon Stanhope

Poverty – do Australians care?
Tim Costello

A world away from home
Kristen Hilton

The Nystrom case: what is one’s “own country”?
Brian Walters

Questions for a good citizen
Tony Birch

Case and Legislation updates

Human rights events around Australia

Featured art: Nadim Karam, The Travellers
Adelaide Rief

Human rights events around Australia

Australian Capital Territory
31 March
Forum to query whether refugees get a fair go
Various speakers
Manning Clark House, Canberra
manningclark@ozemail.com.au

South Australia
8 March
Human Rights and Non-Violence in a Culture of War and Injustice
Lecture by John Dear SJ
The Hawke Centre Focus on Rights lecture series
6.15pm University of South Australia, Mutual Community
Theatre, Basil Hetzel Building
www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/events/2007events/John-Dear.asp

Victoria
26 February – 10 March
Enough – A Human Rights Art Series
Artworks by Colin Vickery
Span Galleries
45 Flinders Lane Melbourne
www.colinvickery.com/enough.htm

8 March
Human Rights Challenges in Trying Grave Crimes
Howard Morrison QC OBE
6pm Monash University Law Chambers, 472 Bourke Street Melbourne
www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/

3 – 4 May
National Values Education Forum
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
www.valueseducation.edu.au/values

13 – 19 May
Law Week – Human Rights Focus
Victoria Law Foundation
www.victorialaw.org.au/LawWeek

Western Australia
8 March
International Women’s Day Breakfast
Keynote speaker Hilary Charlesworth, Professor of
International Law and Human Rights, Australian National University
7.30am Sheraton Hotel 207 Adelaide Terrace
www.equalopportunity.wa.gov.au/whatsnew.html#iwd

 

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