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Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...
The case was one of the earliest in a series of cases in which the High Court found implied rights in the Constitution. The trend reached a high point in Theophanous v Herald & Weekly Times Ltd, [7] which found that the implied right to freedom of political communication could be used as a defence in a defamation action. Although that is no ...
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Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion. Section 116 also provides that no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any ...
Unenumerated rights are legal rights inferred from other rights that are implied by existing laws, such as in written constitutions, but are not themselves expressly stated or "enumerated" in law. Alternative terms are implied rights , natural rights , background rights , and fundamental rights .
The Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia had been open for four years when, following a visitor complaint, a local tribunal ordered it to stop refusing ...
A pair of Saturday NFL games drew a larger viewing audience than college football for the rollout of the sport's 12-team playoff. The playoff game between SMU and Penn State averaged 6.4 million ...
Credit - Photograph by Platon for TIME. P resident-elect Donald Trump, TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year, sat down for a wide-ranging interview at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov ...