Australian Parliaments and the Protection of Human Rights

参与人权辩论的人过多地注意法院在保护人权方面的作用，而对立法机关-国家中最重要的民主机构-注意太少（沃尔德龙，1993年，1999年）。这一项目将有助于纠正这种不平衡现象，对联邦和州一级议会进程的每一阶段如何考虑人权问题进行首次详细分析。 它将为在这一重要领域进行更知情的辩论提供基础，并将评估对现行制度进行改革的必要性。

Those involved in human rights debates have paid too much attention to the role of courts in protecting human rights and too little attention to legislatures - the most important democratic institutions in States (Waldron 1993, 1999). This project will help to redress this imbalance by providing the first detailed analysis of the way in which human rights are taken into account at each stage of the parliamentary process at both Commonwealth and State levels. It will provide the basis for a more informed debate in this important area and will assess the need for reform of the current system.