Review of Commonwealth Laws for Consistency with Traditional Rights, Freedoms and Privileges
19.06.2015
Justice and Freedoms in Times of Terror Panel Session
ALRC Freedoms Inquiry, Justice and Freedoms in Times of Terror Panel Session, 19 June 2015, Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, President, Australian law Reform Commission[1]IntroductionThank you for the opportunity to join such an eminent panel today (with David Irvine AO, Professor George Williams AO and Graham Turnbull SC). Coming last made me wonder about contrasts—perhaps ‘specific’ to ‘general’, may be …
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Forgotten Freedoms Panel Session
ALRC Freedoms Inquiry, Forgotten Freedoms Panel Session, 19 June 2015, Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, President, Australian law Reform Commission[1]Why ‘forgotten’?This is a nicely alliterative title for our panel, but one is tempted to say that the very fact of having it suggests that nothing is forgotten ….What does the idea of ‘forgotten freedoms’ mean in this year of Magna …
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Advisory Committee
Committee membersProfessor Margaret Allars SC, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, and Wentworth Chambers, SydneyThe Hon Robert Austin, Barrister, Level 22 Chambers, SydneyProfessor Carolyn Evans, Dean, Melbourne Law School, University of MelbourneAssociate Professor Miriam Gani, ANU College of Law, Australian National University, CanberraProfessor the Hon William M Gummow AC, Sydney Law School, University of SydneyProfessor Barbara …
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Submissions
It is ALRC policy to publish public submissions on this website. Publication will not be immediate as submissions need to be read and processed prior to publication. This page will be updated in stages.Submissions to Interim Report (IR 127)76. G Williams (Word)77. J Gans (Word)78. S Newman (Word)79. G Orr (Word)80. B Pattenden (Word)82. South Australian Ornithological Association Inc (PDF)83. S Pasfield (Word)84. A Deagon (Word)85. B …
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Freedoms Inquiry enews | Issue 4 | Issues Paper
Issues Paper availableThe Issues Paper for this Inquiry, Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (IP46), is now available.IP46 provides a brief explanation of each of the rights, freedoms and privileges listed in the Terms of Reference, their origin and rationale, and how they are protected from statutory encroachment. For each one the ALRC asks the question: What …
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Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (IP 46)
The first consultation document in the ALRC’s ‘Freedoms Inquiry’, a review of Commonwealth laws for consistency with traditional rights, freedoms and privileges.
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Rights and freedoms in Commonwealth laws – Issues Paper
The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) today released an Issues Paper, Traditional Rights and Freedoms—Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws (IP 46), and has called for submissions from the public.The Freedoms Inquiry is a review of Commonwealth legislation for consistency with traditional rights, freedoms and privileges. These may be seen as fundamental freedoms in modern society, such …
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Freedoms enews | Issue 3 | Crowdsourcing law reform
Freedoms WikiIn the last enews we talked about the tasks that lie ahead for the ALRC Freedoms Inquiry. The first task is to identify Commonwealth laws that encroach—justifiably or not—on traditional rights, freedoms and privileges.To assist in creating this catalogue, the ALRC has set up a public wiki—a set of collaborative online documents that ALRC staff and …
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Freedoms Inquiry Wiki – Catalogue of Australian Commonwealth laws that limit or encroach upon traditional rights, freedoms and privileges
For its Freedoms Inquiry, the ALRC is creating a catalogue of Australian Commonwealth laws that limit or encroach upon—whether justifiably or not—traditional rights, freedoms and privileges. We invite you to contribute to the catalogue using our online wiki.InstructionsTo contribute, please add relevant laws to the tables we have created. There is a separate page for …
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Freedoms enews | Issue 2
Issue 2 | 21 August 2014 View original formatReview of Commonwealth Laws for Consistency with Traditional Rights, Freedoms and PrivilegesWith the start of this Inquiry—‘the Freedoms Inquiry’—the ALRC has two substantial tasks ahead of it. The first is to identify Commonwealth laws that encroach on traditional rights, freedoms and privileges. The second is to determine whether these …
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