NONSENSE ON STILTS - RESCUING HUMAN RIGHTS IN AUSTRALIA

The end of human rights?
In the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham famously described natural rights as nothing more than nonsense on stilts. Almost two centuries later, Bentham's natural rights provided the foundation for human rights. Today, it is less common for human rights to be based on natural rights, but the concern that human rights is at risk of becoming nothing more than nonsense on stilts remains as live as ever.

In Nonsense on Stilts, six essayists including the Liberal Party's Tim Wilson and the Labor Party's Terri Butler, respond to Damien Freeman and Catherine Renshaw's proposals for rescuing human rights in Australia. The collection offers a number of perspectives on what it means to recognise and protect human rights in Australian law and politics today.

About the author

Damien Freeman is principal policy adviser at the PM Glynn Institute, a public policy think-tank at Australian Catholic University. Along with Julian Leeser, Freeman co-founded Uphold & Recognise. He is the author of several books and the co-editor (with Shireen Morris) of Statements from the Soul: Making the Moral Case for the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Product details

• Authors: Damien Freeman, Catherine Renshaw
• Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781925826685
• ISBN: 978-1-925826-68-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 242 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law