ian wrote on Jan 14
th, 2015 at 4:39pm:
longweekend58 wrote on Jan 14
th, 2015 at 4:28pm:
ian wrote on Jan 14
th, 2015 at 3:35pm:
[quote author=Baronvonrort link=1421097021/197#197 date=1421212525]
Australia doesn't have the death penalty for apostasy, there are 13 countries with the death penalty for apostasy.
Alexander Aan was only jailed in moderate Indonesia for apostasy after the police saved him from a mob that was bashing him.
Annie was a convert, muslims will say she was never really a muslim which is what they do with apostates they can't kill.
I could care less what leftard taxi drivers like you believe
impossible, Indonesia does not have these laws. Constitutionally Indos are guaranteed freedom of religion.
so does China and the former USSR. How'd that work out in practice???
and ironically Australia does not and yet we have it anyway.
Like i said, you may be an academic but not a very good one
Australian Constitution[edit]
The Australian Constitution took effect on 1 January 1901. It includes details on the composition, powers and processes of the Australian Parliament and how federal and state Parliaments share power within Australia. It contains several express and implied protections of human rights - though it does not contain a Bill of Right as contained in the United States Constitution. It can only be altered by referendum.[2] Civil and political rights and liberties expressly provided by the Constitution are: ss 41 (right to vote), 80 (right to jury trial for indictable offences), 116 (
freedom of religion
) and 117 (freedom from discrimination on the basis of State residence). Economic rights provisions are s 92, which protects freedom of interstate trade, commerce and intercourse; s 51(xxiiiA), which prohibits civil conscription in relation to medical and dental services; and s 51(xxxi), which empowers the Commonwealth government to acquire property "on just terms".[3]
Since 1992 decisions of the High Court of Australia have held that there are further "implied rights" within the Constitution to free speech and communication on matters concerning politics and government (known as the 'implied freedom of political communication').[4]
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I was actually thinking Bill of Rights. But I was right in stating that no constitutional protection is worth a damn without a judicial system that can and will defend it and and executive willing to submit to it. We are lucky here, but not everyone is so lucky eg Pakistan or virtually any country outside the WEst.