Raising expectations of democratic participation: an analysis of the National Human Rights Consultation

Lyn Carson; Ron Lubensky

Raising expectations of democratic participation: an analysis of the National Human Rights Consultation

Lyn Carson, Ron Lubensky

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The National Human Rights Consultation (ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“NHRCÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢), a public inquiry initiated by the Australian government in December 2008 to examine the protection and promotion of human rights, claimed that it had ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“by far the largest responseÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢ ever achieved in such a national inquiry.1 Commentators in the mainstream media congratulated the National Human Rights Consultation Committee (ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã‹Å“NHRCCÃƒÂ¢Ã¢"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢) for running an exercise of exemplary participatory democracy. The purpose of this article is to take a closer look at these claims about democratic participation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	34-59
Number of pages	27
Journal	The UNSW Law Journal
Volume	33
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

human rights
political participation

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Raising expectations of democratic participation: an analysis of the National Human Rights Consultation

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