Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE -- 1 Australian Exceptionalism: Rights Protection Without a Bill of Rights -- 2 The Performance of Australian Legislatures in Protecting Rights -- 3 Improving Legislative Scrutiny of Proposed Laws to Enhance Basic Rights, Parliamentary Democracy, and the Quality of Law-Making -- 4 The Performance of Administrative Law in Protecting Rights -- 5 Australia's Constitutional Rights and the Problem of Interpretive Disagreement -- PART II: PARTICULAR HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES -- 6 Rights and Citizenship in Law and Public Discourse -- 7 Chained to the Past: the Psychological Terra Nullius of Australia's Public Institutions -- 8 Constitutional Property Rights in Australia: Reconciling Individual Rights and the Common Good -- PART III: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES -- 9 American Judicial Review in Perspective -- 10 The Unfulfilled Promise of Dialogic Constitutionalism: Judicial-Legislative Relationships Under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- PART IV: STRATEGIES FOR INSTITUTIONAL REFORM -- 11 A Modest (but Robust) Defence of Statutory Bills of Rights -- 12 Australia's First Bill of Rights: the Australian Capital Territory's Human Rights Act -- 13 An Australian Rights Council -- 14 Human Rights Strategies: An Australian Alternative -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.