This model grants to legislatures ultimate responsibility for the resolution of controversial rights issues while at the same time seeking to improve the rights sensitivity of the legislative process and increasing the rights protective powers of courts as compared with the traditional institutional form of parliamentary supremacy.

A charge of drug trafficking becomes the first test of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights in the High Court. Fiona Chong looks at the results in this article for APO.

Fears that a rights charter would infringe our liberties ignore the voices of the vulnerable and dispossessed, writes Caroline Fleay.

A human rights act should remain a priority for the federal government, argues Susan Ryan.

The twenty-third day of May marked the sixtieth anniversary of the coming into effect of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany, the so-called Grundgesetz (“basic law”). The groundwork for the new constitution had been prepared about a year earlier by a group of experts meeting at a resplendent nineteenth-century castle on an island...