Human rights and public decision-making across Australia
Understand how Commonwealth, State and Territory human-rights and administrative-law protections may apply to public decision-making.
Learn
Human-rights protections in Australia come from different Commonwealth, State and Territory sources. Some jurisdictions have specific human-rights Acts or Charters while others rely on different statutory, constitutional, common-law and administrative-law protections. Any rights argument should identify the actual protected right, the decision-maker, the conduct and the source that applies in that jurisdiction.
See it
A stronger rights analysis asks: which protected right is engaged, what did the public entity do, was the limitation lawful and reasonable, and what complaint or review pathway is available?
Try it
Take a fictional public decision and identify whether a protected right might be engaged and what further legal source must be checked.
Complete the mission
Prepare a human-rights issue checklist for a public-entity decision.