This reflection considers the slow progress towards domestic recognition of social and
economic rights in Australian law and the notable gaps that remain. It focuses on the lack of …

This chapter explores the place of human rights within policy and legislative debates on
social security in Australia 40 years after the Sackville Report recommended that the …

In this chapter I use sole parents in Australia as a focus to examine what it would mean to
take a gendered, human rights approach to interpreting the international law right to social …

Over the last three decades, social security reform in Australia has increasingly moved to a
model of welfare conditionality. A neoliberal agenda has led to Australian social security …

Enhancing access to legal and advice services is a central pillar of the Access to Justice Act
1999. Within the new welfare framework, employment rights come increasingly into focus as …

In this lecture I use an international human rights law lens through which to look at some of
the key trends in current Australian welfare law and policy. In contrast to the focus in the mid …

Extracted from text... 2 Taking stock The jurisprudence on children's socioeconomic rights
and its implications for government policy Sandra Liebenberg The majority of children in …

For an academic such as myself who has been researching access to social rights in the
United Kingdom (UK) social security system for ten years now, and who has been …

New Zealand has a well developed social security system, but to what extent can it be said
to realise the international right to social security? This chapter traces the evolution of New …

What is it like to be a child in Australia? About 4.8 million children live on an enormous
island continent, mostly in coastal settlements and within striking distance of a beach or a …