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Currently a federal Senate committee is receiving input on legislation arising from the National Human Rights Consultation. The Bills require proposed legislation to have a statement of human rights compatibility tabled with Parliamentary bills (based on the international human rights treaties to which Australia is a signatory). This is a very modest proposal. But it [...]

In what is described as a first, Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions has invoked Victoria’s Charter of Rights and Responsibilities to ensure that the right of two children to testify in court was not jeopardised by procedural rules. The case involves evidence that two children, aged 8 and 10, were to give against their molester. [...]