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In this fully revised fourth edition of A Charter of Rights for Australia, George Williams and Daniel Reynolds show that human rights are not adequately protected in Australia, contrary to what most people think. Using some pressing examples, they demonstrate how the rights of people at the margins of society are violated in often shocking ways.

A timely examination of the impact of Australia's antiterror laws after September 11, and the new 2014 terror laws. Timely and piercing, this book asks whether Australia really needed to enact anti-terrorism laws in the first place, let alone add to them. Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.

The definitive, clear-cut guide to the vote on recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Constitution. This book explains everything Australians need to know about the proposal to recognise Indigenous peoples in the Constitution. With clarity and authority, it shows the symbolic and legal power of such a change.

From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful republican referendum of 1999, Australians have been cautious about constitutional change, approving only eight out of 44 referendum proposals in just over 100 years a success rate of about 18%. People Power is the only full history of constitutional change in Australia.

This detailed and well-illustrated 1845 study of Jerusalem's topography and antiquities formed part of the contemporary debate around the location of Calvary, supporting the traditionalist argument against some Protestant calls for relocation. For this work, George Williams (1814-78) received a medal for literary merit from Prussia's Frederick William IV.

Deregulation has radically altered the way in which airlines are operated and managed. This book aims to examine the response of carriers to liberalization in a number of representative air transport markets and to provide an explanation for the wide variation in levels of competition.

This work on the impact of deregulation on airlines covers: the aims of deregulation; the response of US carriers; competition factors; the European approach to liberalization; deregulation in Canada and Australia; regulatory strategies; deregulation in UK industries; and other material.