Footnotes
[1]
Absolute rights are: the right not to be
subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment; the right not to
be subjected to slavery; the right not to be imprisoned for inability to fulfil
a contract; the right not to be subject to retrospective criminal laws; the
right to recognition as a person before the law.
Chapter 1 - New and continuing matters
[1]
See Parliament of Australia website, 'Journals of the Senate', http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Chamber_documents/Senate_chamber_documents/Journals_of_the_Senate.
[2] See
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Twenty-first Report of the
44th Parliament (24 March 2015); and Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human
Rights, Twenty‑third Report of the 44th Parliament (18 June 2015).
[3] See
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Twenty-second Report of the
44th Parliament (13 May 2015).
Chapter 2 - Concluded matters
[1]
Namely the Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry) Act
1993. See also the Occupational Health and Safety (Maritime Industry)
(Prescribed Ship or Unit—Intra-State Trade) Declaration 2015 [F2015L00335]
which prescribed ships or vessels only engaged in intra-state trade as
non-prescribed ships or units for the purposes of that Act.
[2] Samson
Maritime Pty Ltd v Aucote [2014] FCAFC 182.
[3]
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Twentieth Report of
the 44th Parliament (18 March 2015) 36 and Parliamentary Joint
Committee on Human Rights, Twenty-fifth Report of the 44th Parliament
(11 August 2015) 157.
[4]
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights, Twenty-second Report
of the 44th Parliament (13 May 2015) 125-127.
[5]
Explanatory Statement 4.
[6]
See Appendix 2, Letter from Senator the Hon Eric Abetz, Minister for
Employment, to the Hon Philip Ruddock MP (dated 30 June 2015) 1-2.