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