In this paper Megan Davis draws on the objectives of one of the four National Strategies in the Roadmap for Reconciliation, 'Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights'. She provides an overview of the framework of human rights, relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders rights: universal human rights, Indigenous-specific rights and domestic legal protections.

In June 2004 the Liberal Party's Bill Stefaniak introduced the Charter of Responsibilities Bill into the ACT Legislative Assembly. With its Bill of Rights, the ACT set an Australian first, and with the Bill of Responsibilities it sets another: this is the first such bill debated in an Australian parliament, if not in any parliament...

In this submission to the inquiry into the 2004 federal election by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, George Williams and Bryan Mercurio argue for reforms to the rules governing voting technology, political advertising, political funding and overseas voting. Other submissions to the inquiry are available at the committee's website.

Papers and audio from the 2005 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner, held on 18 February, are now available online. Speakers include Anne Twomey, John Uhr, Senator George Brandis, Andrew Lynch, Arthur Glass and George Williams.

Andrew Lynch and George Williams present basic information about the High Court's decision-making for 2004 at both an institutional and individual level, with an emphasis on constitutional cases as a subset of the total.