Your Rights and Responsibilities

Question 1

Define Rights

Answer 1

What you are entitled to under laws

Question 2

What Are Australia’s Rights Based Off?

Answer 2

Australia’s rights are based off an international instrument the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 3

Define Responsibility

Answer 3

Legal or moral obligations that you have to other people, groups, organisations, etc

Question 4

What Laws Protect The Legal Grounds To A Right?

Answer 4

o Australian Constitution
- Express rights –> specified in the Constitution
- Implied rights –> inferred from Constitution
o Common Law
- Decisions made by judges & courts
- R v Dietrich 1992 in High Court set 1 of the principles of procedural fairness – right to a fair trial
o Statute Law
- Rights under specified acts