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Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a Charter of Rights

Elise Parham · February 1, 2010 · PM106

In September 2009, the National Human Rights Consultation recommended that the federal government draft and enact a charter of rights. …

Rights charter would empower only lobbyists

Elise Parham · February 4, 2010

Australia’s charter of rights story ended last year as a cliffhanger. The National Human Rights Consultation recommended Australia adopt a …
Charter of rights no protection for the vulnerable

Elise Parham · February 2, 2010

The peculiarly moral nature of human rights can make it difficult to analyse the way a law enumerating those rights, …
Our enigmatic charter

Elise Parham · January 29, 2010

Elise Parham is a Policy Analyst at the Centre for Independent Studies. Behind the Moral Curtain: The Politics of a …
That’s discrimination!

Elise Parham · November 20, 2009

Many a bemused journalistic eye has this week turned to the human rights commissions, who have been busily cracking down …
Desegregation misfires

Elise Parham · August 14, 2009

Top down approaches by western governments to end race segregation are dislocating well-functioning communities. The United States is pursuing a …