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The case studies of “Guantanamo Bay” and “Indigenous Australians” will be used to explore the importance of having Bill of Rights in Australia. In addition, I will also use some examples such as not having sufficient human rights in Australia to prove the need to have Bill of Rights in Australia. In Ozdowski’s journal article “Why We Need an Australian Bill of Rights Now”, Ozdowski argued that Australia needs a Bill of Rights. He believed that the Bill of Rights should be statutory but not constitutional. In Australia for example, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) have adopted a statutory Bill of Rights.
Sociologists greatly clash in their respective perspectives on the view of social policies which ultimately makes it hard to understand the true extent of what they do to our society. Therefore, I will be examining just how worthy these views about social policies and their effects of the family are. As item 2B states, feminists argue that social policies assume that the ideal family is a patriarchal one, where they are created in order to continue the trend of a man in control of the family, in a nuclear family which involves a married heterosexual couple as well as children, own or adopted. This is shown in ways such as; giving women custody over children in courts by assuming that they are caregivers and making it harder for women to claim social benefits as they are seen to be dependent on men. One main example of the way in which feminists argue that social policies continue this trend of patriarchy was presented by Lamb.
Australia stands alone internationally in perpetrating this injustice. The Migration Litigation Reform Act 2005 (Cth) excludes asylum seekers from their legal rights. It grants the Court the ability to deliver judgment on any issue, including the case as a whole, if they believe it has no reasonable grounds for success. This may seem reasonable, however the definition of ‘no reasonable grounds for success’ is as follows: For the purposes of [these sections], a defence or a proceeding or part of a proceeding need not be: (a) hopeless; or (b) bound to fail; for it to have no reasonable prospect of
1972–75 Whitlam Labor Government, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) came to power. Aboriginal land rights was an issue high on its agenda, and it was quick to set up an Inquiry, and subsequently draft legislation, to this end. The Labor Government called a halt to development leases granted by the Northern Territory Land Board that might damage Indigenous rights, suspended mining exploration licenses, and gave a small grant of land at Daguragu/Wattie Creek, as an initial step towards the final land hand back. 1972 Woodward Royal Commission, The Whitlam government established the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern
Selective nature of Australian's immigration policies under federation was centrally try to select Anglo types and that was the policy no longer hold 1950-1960, as rather colonies been shifted towards southern Europe. After 1970, Australia began undergoing a very interesting transition. Political: International events Immigration to Australia was influenced by International events. One great aspect of modern history is the movement of peoples. The19th century was a golden age.
As time progresses, society began to change its view on marriage and force the legal system to adapt to the change. The introduction of Matrimonial clauses Act 1959 (cth) reflects the contextual society’s expectations by allowing divorce on the concept of fault including, insanity, violence, desertion, and death of the other partner. This can be seen in the case of Evans V Evans 1790 where the court recognised that people could be living in unhappy marriages; however there was no divorce for the sake of institution of marriage. Although this piece of legislation is reflective of the standard, this law is also seen as problematic as the effectiveness of addressing the issues raised by Divorce such as: harsh criteria to find grounds of fault, financial and Psychological impact of members of family and
English 1302 WS7 05 April 2010 Individuality and the Law Today there are many laws that are written for the people of the United States. Within these laws are issues that some may find morally unjust, and not want to follow. In Sophocles’ play Antigone, written in 441 B.C.E., these same issues existed. Antigone felt that even though she was breaking the law to bury her brother she had a religious right to uphold. To her, the religious laws were more important than the governmental laws she was being asked to follow.
At a time when as a nation we are taking positive steps to address domestic violence through the family violence amendments in the Family Law Act and through engaging all in the community to address violence against women through the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children, the NSW Government is making a shameful retreat in the battle against domestic violence. Now Australia is in the process of abolishing the victim’s compensation scheme and replacing it with a scheme that will reduce compensation to a fraction of current levels, while ignoring the realities of domestic violence. What kind of people do we have running our government? Spineless cowards, by the looks of it. They focus so much on all the problems happening