Re: [luv-talk] What rights do refugees have under the 1951 Convention?

Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:

So Australia has guarantees more rights to refugees than its citizenry? ;-)

No, the rights accorded to the refugees are operationalized in legislation. It's the same, for the most part, of the rights of citizens. A Constitutional right acts as a constraint on the parliament and the executive government and is required to be upheld by courts. This creates a stronger guarantee than merely relying on the parliament not to enact legislation that infringes human rights, as the Australian system does in the absence of a charter or bill of rights in the Constitution.