Why is Australia the only commonwealth country without a bill of rights

esayaf
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Is it because we started out as a prison and prisoners don't deserve rights
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Just look at America. The only thing the average person there remembers about their Bill o Rights, is that everyone has the right to carry arms. Times change, situations change and a Bill of Rights may only be a hindrance than an asset. What I thought 60 years ago to be right and what was wrong, all has changed dramatically and quickly over the last 50 years alone. . . . . Erica

 

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Re: Why is Australia the only commonwealth country without a bill of rights

esayaf
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You do realise that constitutional rights are different to a bill of rights
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aftanas
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Australia does not need a Bill of Rights.  The relevant rights already exist in the common law or in various acts.  And seriously, from a practical standpoint, who would you trust to draft up a bill of rights?

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Australia does not need a Bill of Rights.  The relevant rights already exist in the common law or in various acts.  And seriously, from a practical standpoint, who would you trust to draft up a bill of rights?

 

Yo thats debatable and you just answered your own question. I think the ideal way would be for trusted leaders from all parts of Australia, north south east and west, You put them in a room and they don't come out until that BoR is drafted. Then you call these people the founders or something equally as relivant, and they go down in Australia history. I think the whole world is lacking in what the US would call the 4th

 

You can say your relivant rights exist, I take that to mean they have not been violated. Maybe that's true, I would venture, in fact I'm sure of this, someone in your neighbrhood had their rights violated yesterday, just yesterday. This is true of all neighborhoods in Australia and in every part of the world. You gonna have that problem as long as you have cops with the power to do so.

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