{"id":1889,"date":"2010-07-01T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2023-08-30T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:21:43","slug":"add-rights-to-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"Add Rights to the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Larissa Behrendt of UTS Sydney says three&nbsp;rights should be&nbsp;added to the Constitution: due process before the law; equality; and&nbsp;freedom from racial discrimination.&nbsp; She&nbsp;also says&nbsp;that the current Constitution doesn&#8217;t protect basic human rights even though most people think that it does and contends&nbsp;that Indigenous people should be recognised in the Preamble if there&nbsp;really was a new relationship with the Australian State after the 1967 Referendum&nbsp; &#8211; which should have&nbsp;brought about a&nbsp;new era of non-discrimination against Indigenous people.&nbsp; Other speakers at the &#8220;A Constitution for all Australians&#8221; forum held&nbsp;at Parliament House in Canberra were Professor&nbsp;Carmen Lawrence,&nbsp;former&nbsp;High&nbsp;Court judge Michael Kirby&nbsp;and Professor Greg Craven.&nbsp; Michael Kirby said we shouldn&#8217;t be fixated on celebrating&nbsp;the 100th anniversary of Gallipoli in 2015, or engaging in faraway wars,&nbsp;but&nbsp;should&nbsp;concentrate&nbsp;instead on&nbsp;giving people rights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/constitutionday.wordpress.com\/\">More info &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Larissa Behrendt of UTS Sydney says three&nbsp;rights should be&nbsp;added to the Constitution: due process before the law; equality; and&nbsp;freedom from racial discrimination.&nbsp; She&nbsp;also says&nbsp;that the current Constitution doesn&#8217;t protect basic human rights even though most people think that it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","wpcat-22-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}