Lenny Roth surveys the main legal restrictions on children and forms of discrimination against children. He discusses the rights of children at school and in consenting to medical treatment, looks at parents' powers and the exclusion of children from shopping centres, and concludes by examining the human rights of children in NSW.

In June 2004, the NSW government released an exposure draft Workplace Surveillance Bill 2004 for public consultation. This Bill would extend the regulatory scheme in the Workplace Video Surveillance Act to two other forms of surveillance: tracking surveillance, and (2) computer surveillance, including monitoring of employees' emails and internet browsing. Employers would be required to...

Prison privatisation emerged in the United States in the mid 1980s and quickly spread to Australia and the United Kingdom. In the US, there are now over 100 private prisons in 31 states and the federal system, in the UK there are 11 private prisons, and in Australia there are seven. Queensland and Victoria each...