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New South Wales

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977. . . 38-40, 43, 58, 90, 96



Victoria

Equal Opportunity Act 1977. . . 40

Equal Opportunity (Discrimination against Disabled Persons) Act 1982 . . . 40

Table of statutes 349



South Australia

Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 . . . 103-4

Death (Definition) Act 1983. . . 107

Handicapped Persons Equal Opportunity Act 1981 . . . 40, 58 Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act 1981 . . . 48

Prohibition of Discrimination Act 1966 . . . 34, 35, 36 Racial Discrimination Act 1976 . . . 34-5

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . . . 36-7, 38



A.C.T.

Mental Health Ordinance 1981 . . . 28, 53, 58



United Kingdom

Abortion Act 1967. . . 101, 103-4

European Communities Act 1972. . . 73

Offences Against the Person Act 1861 . . . 100-1 Race Relations Act 1968 . . . 35, 36, 37, 39

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 . . . 37

Canada

Bill of Rights 1960. . . 31, 32, 70



New Zealand

Race Relations Act 1971 . . . 35



U.S.A.

U.S. Constitution. . . 100-2, 107-8, 113 Bill of Rights 1791 . . . 18, 32, 107-8

Civil Rights Act 1964. . . 92, 93

Natural Death Act 1977 (California) . . . 108 Uniform Brain Death Act 1978 . . . 107

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Table of cases

Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc. v. The Commonwealth (1943) . . . 18n Advisory Opinion on Namiba (1971) . . . 13

Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd v. Wardley (1980) . . . 42 Attorney-General for the State of Queensland (ex. rd. Kerr) v. T. (1983) . . . 102 Attorney-General for the State of Victoria v. The Commonwealth (1981) . . . 18n Bakke, Regents of the University of California v., (1978) . . . 38,93

Bank of New South Wales v. The Commonwealth (1948) . . . 19n Bellotti v. Baird (1979) . . . 102

Carter v. Gallagher (1971) . . . 96

Church of the New Faith v. Commissioner for Payroll Tax (1983) . . . 18n Commonwealth v. Tasmania (1983) [Dams case] . . . 9,20-1,45

Dams Case see Commonwealth v. Tasmania (1983)

DeFunis v. Odegaard (1974) . . . 93

Doe v. BeIlin Memorial Hospital (1973) . . . 102

Doe v. Hale Hospital (1974) . . . 102

Dugan v. Mirror Newspapers Ltd (1979) . . . 32

Garland v. British Rail Engineering Ltd (1982) . . . 73n

Gove Land Rights Case see Milirrpum v. Nabalco Pty Ltd and Commonwealth (1971)

Goya Henry Aviation Case see R. v. Burgess; ex parte Henry Griggs v. Duke Power Company (1970) . . . 92

Harris v. McCrae (1980) . . . 102

James v. The Commonwealth (1936) . . . 19n

Johnson v. Director-General of Social Welfare (Victoria) (1976) . . . 103n K. v. Minister for Youth and Community Services (1982) . . . 102-3

K. v. T. (1983) . . . 101-2

Koowarta v. Bjelke-Petersen (1982) . . . 9,20-1,22

Milirrpum v. Nabalco Pty Ltd and Commonwealth (1971) . . . 46 O'Callaghan v. Loder (1983) . . . 39

Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees (1979) . . . 101n Planned Parenthood of Central Missouri v. Danforth (1976) . . . 101 Quinlan, In re (1976) . . . 107-8

R. v. Bourne., (1939) . . . 100-1

R. v. Burgess; ex p. Henry (1936) . . . 20

R. v. Davidson (1969) . . .101

R. v. McInnes (1980) . . . 32

R. v. Poole (1939) . . . 20n

R. v. Sex Discrimination Board; ex p. Cope (1980) . . . 42 R. v. Wald (1971) . . .101


Table of cases 351
Richmond Brain Case see Tucker's Administrator v. Lower Rios v. Enterprise Association Steamfitters (1971) . . . 96 Roe v. Wade (1973) . . . 100, 101, 103, 108

Sydney Williams, R. v., (1976) . . . 49

Taylor v. St Vincent's Hospital (1972) . . . 102

Tucker's Administrator v. Lower (1972) . . . 106-7 Viskauskas v. Niland (1983) . . . 43

Victoria Park Racing v. Taylor (1937) . . . 32

Wald, R. v., (1971) . . . 101

Index

Page references are to the Survey. References to entries in the Bibliography are given at the start of each section of the Survey. The subject headings under which the Bibliography is arranged are listed in the Contents, pp. vi-viii, and in the Synoptic Table of Human Rights, pp. 120-30.



Aboriginal Affairs, Commonwealth Department of, 44

Aboriginal Land Councils, 48

Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, 20n Aboriginal Land Rights Commission, 46 Aboriginal Lands Trust (N.S.W.), 48 Aboriginal Legal Service, 45

Aboriginal Treaty Committee, 47

Aborigines

assimilation of, 46, 49-50

children, 60

Commonwealth power and, 19-20 Commonwealth-State relations and, 22,

32-3, 35, 47

criminal justice and, 45, 49-50

customary law, 22, 45-6, 49-50 discrimination against, 6, 8, 20, 22, 28-9, 30, 33n, 34, 45, 46

economic, social conditions, 44-5, 47-8 financial compensation to, 47

generally, 44-50

historical, cultural heritage, 44, 45, 46, 47, 50

Human Rights Commission and, 28-9, 45 international law and, 45-6, 46-7, 48-9

land rights, 20n, 46-9, 49-50

Makarrata, 46-8

see also Discrimination; Group rights; Racial Discrimination

Abortion


legal, philosophical problems, 82, 98, 100-5 minors and, 102-3

poverty and, 101, 102

rape, incest and, 102

religious attitudes to, 100, 103, 104



see also Life, right to

Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 45,

110

Accused persons, rights of, see Arrest and detention



Activity Therapy Centres, 57-8

Administrative law

Administrative Appeals Tribunal, 23 administrative discretion and human rights,

32

Ombudsmen, 23



review of administrative action, 17,23

Affirmative action, xi, 16, 38, 39-40, 41, 51-2,

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9, 90-1, 92-7 Aborigines and, 45, 47

'hard' and 'soft', 92, 93, 94, 97

in New South Wales, 39-40, 95, 96-7 in private sector, 95

in public service, 94-5

legislation for, 42, 91, 94

targets, goals and quotas, 94-7

Aliens, see Immigrants and aliens

American Association on Mental Deficiency, 53 American Civil Liberties Union, 113

American Declaration of Independence, 1776, 77

Amnesty International, 11 Anti-Discrimination Bill, 1978 (Tasmania), 40 Anti-Discrimination Board (N.S.W.), 38-9,

40, 52, 53-4, 56, 57, 58-9

Apartheid, 13, 67

Aquinas, 104

'Arbitrary', meaning of, 99

Argentina, martial law in and international law, 15

Aroney, M., 25

Arrest and detention

arbitrary, right to freedom from, 4, 54 rights of arrested and detained persons, 4, 15, 17

Assembly, freedom of, 4, 14, 17, 26, 28, 31, 32, 73, 84, 85, 87

Association, freedom of, 4, 17, 26, 73



see also International Labour Organisation; Trade unions

Asylum, right to, 4

Australia

civil liberties in, 17-19, see also Civil liberties Commonwealth-State relations, 18-19,

19-20, 22, 32-3, 35, 47

Federal government

commitment to human rights, 7, 8-9, 22-4 Department of Employment and Youth Affairs, 56

Department of Social Security, 56 implementation of UN conventions,

19-21, 22, 35, 36, 41

legislative powers, see Table of Statutes,

Commonwealth Constitution
ratification of international instruments,

7-8,9, 14, 15, 66, 68

response to Aboriginal treaty proposals, 47 federal system, and human rights, 19-20


Index 353
Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs, 56

political parties, position on Aborigines, 45

Australia, Constitution and Bill of Rights, 33

and human rights guarantees, 8, 18-19 limited powers of Commonwealth in, 19-20 see also Table of statutes, Commonwealth

Constitution

Australian Association for the Mentally Retarded, 56

Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled, 57

Australian Institute of Criminology, 18n Australian Law Reform Commission

purposes, objectives, 22

Reference on Aboriginal Customary Law,

22, 44, 45, 49-50

report on criminal investigation, 22

report on privacy, 29

report on transplants, 23, 107

reports with human rights aspects, 22-3

Bailey, K.H., 7

Bailey, Peter, 15, 23, 24, 33n

Barron, J., 110

Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832), 77, 79

Bill of Rights

Australia, ix, 9, 18, 22, 23, 29, 31-3, 38, 100 Canada, 31

federal-State relations and, 32-3

judicial support for, 31, 32

legal, philosophical aspects of, 31-3

New Zealand, 31

U.K., 8, 31, 73 U.S.A., 32, 107



see also Common law

Bolivia, and American Convention on Human

Rights, 75 Borne, W.D., 44 Boyce, P., 25

Brazil, and American Convention on Human

Rights, 75

Bright, C.H., 52, 53, 58

Bright Committee, see South Australia,

Committee on the Rights of Persons with

Handicaps

Britain, see United Kingdom

Bruce, S.M., 7

Bulgaria, ratification of 15


Bureaucracy, as threat to rights, 32, 86-7 Burke, E., 85

Calabresi, G., 99

Canada

Bill of Rights, 31



ratification of Optional Protocol to I.C.C.P.R., 66

Capital punishment, see Life, right to

Carter, President J., 5

Censorship, 18n, 85, 88, 109-11

Certiorari, writ of, 17

Chaney, F., 47

Chifley, J.B., 19

Children, rights of, 4, 26, 28, 60-1, 68, 86 and abortion, 102-3, 105

Australian Law Reform Commission report on Child Welfare, 22

Australian practice concerning, 61



see also Abortion; Parents; Rights, Will theories of

Children's courts, 61

Chile

and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 75



martial law in and international law, 15 'Chinese waiters' provision, 39

Civil and political rights, 83, 84

loss of on conviction of felony, 32

to legal representation, 32



see also Political rights

Civil disobedience, 112-14



see also Assembly, freedom of; Association, freedom of

Civil liberties, 17, 83, 84, 85-6



see also Australia, civil liberties in; Rights;

Human rights; Civil and political rights Civil Service Commission (U.S.), 94-5 Colonialism, see Peoples, rights of Commissioner for Community Relations

(Commonwealth), 20n, 23, 25, 26, 29-30,

35, 36,45

Commissioner for Equal Opportunity (South Australia), 37, 40

Commissioner for Equal Opportunity (Victoria), 29

Commission on Civil Rights (U.S.), 95-6 Commission on Human Rights (UN), 5-6, 63-4, 66

Commission on the Status of Women, ECOSOC, 64

Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, ILO, 69

Committee on Freedom of Association, ILO, 69-70

Committee on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, ILO, 69

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, UN, 64

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UN, 64-5

Common law

and Aboriginal customary law, 49-50 and Aboriginal land rights, 46

and abortion, 100-1, 102-3, 104, 105


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and Bill of Rights, 31-3

and freedom of expression, 110

and protection of human rights, 8, 17-18, 32-3

and rights of minorities, 8, 32, 33 Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, 57 Community Relations Council, Australia, 35,

36

Conciliation, role of in rights issues, 11, 35, 36,



37, 40, 41-2, 72, 113

Conflict of rights, 60-1, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 103- 4



see also Abortion; Affirmative action;

Euthanasia; Thought, Conscience, freedom of; Religion, freedom of

Conscience, see Thought, conscience, freedom

of

Conscience clauses, in rights legislation, 103-4 Conscientious objection, 18



Constitutional Conventions, Australian, 18 Contempt of court, 110-11

Australian Law Reform Commission reference on, 22

Coombs, H.C., 47

Council of Europe, 11, 71, 72, 107

Committee of Ministers, 72 Secretary-General, 72, 73

Counsellor for Equal Opportunity (N.S.W.), 40 Cranston, M., 82, 85

Crawford, J., 44,49

Criminals, see Prisoners

Cruel and inhuman punishment, right to freedom from, 4, 15, 26, 29

Cuba, and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 75

Customary law, rights, see Aborigines, customary law

Czechoslovakia, ratification of I.C.C.P.R., 15

Death, definitions of, 106-7

see also Abortion; Euthanasia; Life, right to Declaration of General and Special Rights of

the Mentally Retarded (1968), 54 Declaration of Rights, 1776 (Virginia), 77 Declarations of Rights, 1793, 1795 (France), 77 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the

Citizen, 1789, 1791 (France), 77

De facto relationships, legal aspects of, 39, 41 Denmark, ratification of Optional Protocol to I.C.C.P.R., 66

Deportation

investigation by Human Rights Commission, 28

Detention, see Arrest and detention

Devlin, Patrick, 84-5

Diefenbaker, J.G., 32

Dinstein, Y., 98-9

Director of Equal Opportunity in Public Employment (N.S.W.), 39

Disabled persons

children, 60

definitions and terminology, 52-4, 55, 56-7 discrimination against, 55-6

employment, 55-6, 56-7

Human Rights Commission investigation, 28 medical treatment, 55

National Committee of Non-Government

Organisations (Australia), 56


normalisation or segregation, 51-2, 54-5,

56-8


prohibition of discrimination against, 38-9,

40, 54, 54-5, 59

rights of, 24, 27, 51-2, 54-9, 68

Discrimination, 89-91

and affirmative action, 92-7

Australian legislation, 23, 34-43, 91

freedom of expression and, 110

'formal' and 'informal', 42

indirect, 40, 89-90

individual acts, systemic, 34, 35, 42, 90 legislation, Federal, State, conflict of, 42-3 legislative definitions of, 34-5, 37

on ground of nationality, 73

role of civil, criminal sanctions, 35, 36, 37,

90

see also Racial discrimination; Sex

discrimination Dixon, Sir Owen, 8

'Double effect', doctrine of, 104

Downing, A.B., 108

Dualist theory of international law, see

International law

Due process of law, 4, 17, 18, 23, 31, 88, 99 Durack, P., 26

Duties, obligations, 77 to the community, 5 see also Children, rights of; Rights

Dworkin, R., 82

Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) see United Nations

Economic, social and cultural rights

Australian support for in United Nations, 7 generally, 4-5, 15-16, 26-7, 78-9, 83

to an adequate standard of living, 4

to education, 15-16

to language and culture, 26, 46 see also Aborigines

to paid maternity leave, 15

to participate in cultural life, 4-5

to public health, 15 to rest and leisure, 4 to social security, 4 see also Religion, freedom of

Education

and affirmative action, 92-3, 97

as indoctrination, 88, 109

right to, 4, 15-16, 60-1, 86


Index 355
Emerson, A., 57

Employment, rights concerning, 4 Encyclopaedists, 77

Enderby, K., 35

England, see United Kingdom

Enlightenment theories of rights, 77-8 Epicurus, 98

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (U.S.), 95

Equal Employment Opportunity Management Plans (N.S.W.), 39

Equality


formal and substantive, xi-xii, 86-7, 89-91 legal, right to, 3, 4, 26

of opportunity, outcome, xi, 8,45, 89-91, 93-4

principle of, and equal treatment, 89-91 statistical evidence and, 89-90

see also Discrimination; Affirmative action Equality of Employment Opportunity programme (U.S.), 94-5, 95-6

Equal Opportunity Bill, 1983 (Victoria), 40 Equal Opportunity Tribunal (New South Wales), 39, 40, 43n

Ethics, see Moral philosophy

European Commission on Human Rights, 71-3 European Communities, 73

European Court of Human Rights, 32, 71-3 European Court of Justice (Court of Justice of the European Communities), 73

European Economic Community (EEC), see European Communities

Euthanasia

of the unfit, 98

philosophical, legal aspects of, 82, 98, 99, 106-8

religious aspects of, 99, 106, 108

technology and, 99

voluntary, involuntary, 106, 107-8



see also Life, right to; Abortion; Substituted judgment

Evans, G., 26, 31, 32, 35

Evatt, H.V., 7, 8

Expression, freedom of, 3,4, 26, 28, 31, 32, 60,

68, 83, 85, 88, 109-11

see also Censorship; Education

External affairs power (Commonwealth), see Table of statutes, Commonwealth Constitution, s. 51 (xxix)

Fact-finding and Conciliation Commission on Freedom of Association, ILO, 69-70 Family

rights of, 26

right to, 4

see also Children, rights of; Marriage, right of; Parents, rights of

Federalism, problems of in rights issues, see Australia, Commonwealth-State relations;

tralia, federal system

Feinberg, J., 82

Fiji, affirmative action in, 93

Fletcher, J., 108

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), 67-8, 70

Forced labour, 4, 14-15



see also Slavery Ford, N., 25, 26 'Four Freedoms', 1941, 3

Franklin Valley, 21 Fraser, J.M., 9,47 Freedom from Hunger Campaign, 70

Geia, E., 25,26 Genocide, 15

German Democratic Republic, ratification of

I.C.C.P.R., 15

Ghana, complaint to ILO against Portugal, 69 Gilbert, C., 25,26

Glover, J., 98, 104 Grassby, Al, 23

Grotius, H. (1583-1645), 10, 77

Group rights, 8, 78-79, 84

see also Affirmative action; Economic, social and cultural rights; Human rights, individual, collective; Peoples, rights of

Gury, J.P., 104

Habeas corpus, writ of, 17

Handicapped Persons Discrimination Tribunal

(South Australia), 40 'Harm principle', 84-5 Hart, H.L.A., 84-5, 98 Hassan, P., 99

Hastings, E., 25,26

Hawke, R. J.L., 9

Hayes, R., 57,58

Hayes, S., 57,58

'Heckler's veto', 113

Helsinki Accords, 5

Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679), 77, 98

Hohfeld, W.N., 81n

Homosexuality, 8

Human Rights Commission investigation of

discrimination, 28

New South Wales legislation prohibiting

discrimination on grounds of, 39

Hope, R.M., 6-7, 32

Howe, S.G., 51

Human rights

Australian legal system and, 6-7, 8, 17-21 conflict of, 82, 83

educational programs, ix, 3, 27, 29

'ideology' of, 6

individual, collective, 14

international law and, 10-12, 13, 62-76 juridical basis of, 10-12

limitations on, 5, 14-15

356 Index

literature, development of, xi-xii

philosophical basis of, 10, 77-87

protection by Bill of Rights, 8



see also Bills of Rights

reporting, monitoring procedures in


international law, 11, 16

welfare state and, 23



see also Rights

Human Rights Bill, 1972 (South Australia), 22 Human Rights Bill, 1973 (Commonwealth), 22, 35

Human Rights Bureau (Australia), 23-4, 25 Human Rights Commission (Australia), ix, 20n, 33n, 91

administrative structure, 26

and Aborigines, 29, 45

and Bill of Rights, 31

and international human rights instruments, xii, 24, 26-7

Commonwealth-State relations and, 26, 27, 28, 29

establishment, 24, 25, 54

functions, 27, 54

membership, 25-6

role of Attorney-General, 26, 27

work of, xi-xii, 25-6

Human Rights Committee, UN, 63, 65-6 Hume, David (1711-76), 77,80

'Hyde Amendment', U.S. Budget, 102

Immigrants and aliens

rights of, 8, 68

right to immigrate, 28



see also Deportation; Racial discrimination Incitement

to discrimination, violence, 14-16, 28-9, 36, 85

to racial hatred, 14, 16, 28-9, 36, 84, 88, 111

see also Expression, freedom of Indoctrination, see Education

Information, freedom of, 3, 4, 23, 63

Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 45

Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, 18n

Intellectual impairment, see Mentally retarded persons

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 74-6

Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 74, 75 International Bill of Human Rights, 64 International Commission of Jurists, 11, 18n International Congress on Anthropological and

Ethnological Sciences XI (Vancouver

1983), 44

International Court of Justice, 7, 13, 67, 69 International instruments

legal effect of, 5

implementation of, in Australia, 19-21, 22,



35, 36,41

ratification of, by Australia, 7-8, 9, 14, 15, 66, 68

International Labour Conference, 69

International Labour Organisation (ILO), 67-70

Australian ratification of Conventions, 48, 68 International law

changing nature of, 5n, 10-12

codification of, 67

criminal, 67

customary, 99

dualist theory of, 10-11

enforcement of, 11, 13-14, 68-9, 71-3, 74-6 human rights and, 10-12, 62-76, 83-4 impact in Australia, 9, 23-4

invoked by Aborigines, 46-7, 49

legal effect of UN General Assembly

resolutions, 5n, 13

relation to domestic law, 10-11, 13, 73 reporting procedures in, 11, 64-5, 66, 68-9, 73, 74

'reserved jurisdiction', 10-11

settlement of Australia, and doctrine of terra nullius, 46-7

standing of individuals under, 10, 65, 67, 71-2, 74,75

International Law Commission, 67

International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped, 54

International Refugee Organisation, 7

International Trusteeship System, UN, 67 International Women's Year, 1975, 6, 36 International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981,

6,40, 53, 54, 56

Iran, ratification of I.C.C.P.R., 15

Italy, ratification of Optional Protocol to I.C.C.P.R., 66

Justice, formal and substantive, 86-7, 89-91 Kirby, M.D., 22

Labour, forced, right to freedom from, 4, 14, 15,69

Lane Committee Report (U.K.), 101 Laskin, B., 31

Law, international, see International law League of Nations, 7

Liberty, right to, see Security of person Libya, ratification of I.C.C.P.R., 15 Life

'arbitrary' deprivation of, 99

quality, sanctity of, 98, 103, 106, 107-8 right to, 4, 26, 98-9

and capital punishment, 15, 82, 98 and euthanasia, 106-8

Human Rights Commission investigation, 28




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