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February 09, 2004

Bad sports

While on paper Australia is a champion of the international human rights framework, in practice Australia is increasingly defiant of the umpire's decision on current human rights practices. The Gilbert +Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW has produced a paper on the topic, The sovereignty stratagem: Australia’s response to UN human rights treaty bodies, written by Devika Hovell. The piece includes a potted summary of Australian responses to human rights treaty bodies - which makes for depressing reading since much of it is along the lines of 'we'll take our bat and ball and go home because you're picking on us'. So mature. The research is at http://www.gtcentre.unsw.edu.au/Hovell-no-cartoon.pdf. Posted by belinda at February 9, 2004 04:07 PM
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