General
Basic freedoms or standards that promote and uphold the dignity of all people, and are guaranteed by a moral sense of duty or by the law.
What are Human Rights?
The group that fought for the right to vote, finally receiving it in 1902.
What is Women's Suffrage?
The legal principle established by judges’ decisions in court cases that can be used to guide decisions in future cases.
What is Precedent?
The right that ensures that any person charged with an indictable offence has the right to have their guilt determined by their peers.
What is the Right to Trial by Jury?
The group advocating for lowering the voting age in Australia.
What is Make it 16?
The three main ways human rights are protected in Australia.
What is Statute law, Common Law, and the Australian Constitution?
One of the key documents that have helped develop rights in Australia, first published in 1948.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The two elements that need to be present in order to restrict human rights.
What is Reasonable and Justified?
The document that assists the Constitution in protecting the right to vote in Victoria.
What is the Victorian Human Rights Charter?
'Land belonging to no one'
What is Terra Nullius?
A legally binding agreement between countries in which they undertake to follow the obligations set out in the agreement and include them in their own local laws.
What is an International Treaty?
The rights directly enshrined in the Australian Consitution.
What are Express Rights?
The law ensuring that all Australians participate wholly in democracy.
What is Compulsory Voting?
The concept implied in the Constitution that allows Australian citizens the right to vote members into parliament.
What is a Representative Government?
The High Court case that has assisted in protecting the voting rights of prisoners across Australia.
What is Roach v Electoral Commissioner (2007)?
The right dictating that people who live lawfully in Victoria have the right to leave and return to the state whenever they desire, and can choose where they live.
What is the Right to Freedom of Movement?
The document typically outlining a country's human rights, that Australia does not possess.
What is a Bill of Rights?
The process by which parliament 'confirms' a common law decision by passing a new law.
What is Codification?
The High Court may declare this if it determines that Commonwealth legislation breaches a right protected by the Australian Constitution.
What is Unconstitutional and Invalid?
One reform that has potential to further protect a range of human rights in Australia.
What is a Bill of Rights?
Power is distributed between the three arms of government, that is between the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
What is the Separation of Powers?
The 2006 Act that outlines 20 basic human rights belonging to the Victorian people.
What is the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities?
A major weakness of common law in protecting human rights.
What is Abrogation?
The two sections of the Constitution that protect the right to freedom of political communication implies the right to vote.
What are Sections 7 and 24?
A Latin term meaning ‘beyond the powers', referring to when the High Court determines that the Government has unconstitutionally passed a law outside of their lawmaking boundaries.
What is Ultra Vires?