Plaintiff M70/2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship; Plaintiff M106 of 2011 v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship [2011] HCA 32 (31 August 2011).
2.
Momcilovic v The Queen [2011] HCA 34 (8 September 2011).
3.
Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, Parliament of Victoria, Final Report of the Review of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (2011) http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/sarc/article/1446 at 5 November 2011.
4.
Typical is the response of the former government in A v Australia in which the Human Rights Committee found that the detention of an asylum seeker for four years, and the lack of adequate process for challenging mandatory detention, violated the ICCPR. Why should Third World countries feel constrained to respect these committees if Australia will not?
5.
(1970) 17 FLR 141.
6.
Resolution 10/4, paragraph 2.
7.
(iii) secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development.
8.
Article 20a [Protection of the natural foundations of life and animals] Mindful also of its responsibility toward future generations, the state shall protect the natural foundations of life and animals by legislation and, in accordance with law and justice, by executive and judicial action, all within the framework of the constitutional order. [The amendment was to insert the words in italics].
