Apparently Australia doesn't have a Bill Of Rights because:
>It relies on legislated rights and common law rights, and the fact that specifying rights does not always add to them or ensure their existence.
>Both the Commonwealth and State Constitutions are mainly concerned with the powers of law and government. Instead, Australians, like the British, have the right to do something unless the government says otherwise.
Does that sounds like bullshit or what?
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Anonymous2009-03-29 10:52
Bill of rights and checks and balances are based on head in the clouds ideology anyway, they have little effect on democracy.
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Anonymous2009-03-29 11:48
What part of British Empire don't you understand?
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Anonymous2009-03-29 13:00
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>A Bill Of Rights has little effect on democracy
I don't know much about politics but hasn't the US's Bill Of Rights had a fairly large amount of effect on it?
>Instead, Australians, like the British, have the right to do something unless the government says otherwise.
Don't you still have that right if you have a Bill Of Rights?
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Anonymous2009-03-29 15:13
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Good thing the US isn't a democracy, otherwise your argument would've been full of merit.
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Anonymous2009-03-30 21:23
Australians have never enjoyed that freedom. We don't even really have a written "right to free speech". We have a right to political free speech, but it ain't really the same as a Bill of Rights. Same as why the government was able to take most of our gun rights away. Because we never really had a "right" to own them like the Americans claim.
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There are mixed accounts on how captive dingoes are treated by Indigenous Australians. In 1828, Edmund Lockyer noted that the aboriginals he encountered treated dingo pups with greater affection than their own children, with some women even breastfeeding them[22]. The dogs were allowed to have the best meat and fruit, and could sleep in their master's huts. When misbehaving, the dingoes were merely chastised rather than beaten.
WHO NEEDS A BILL OF RIGHTS WHEN YOU HAVE DINGOES? DINGOES, FUCK YEAH!!
Australia has a better democracy index than the USA, so therefore you can conclude that a Bill Of Rights is an authoritarian and fascist creation designed to rape human rights and keep blacks uneducated