Rights not enforced

I hope that Dr Serventy and others succeed in their ambition for an UN Environmental Bill of Rights.

I wish however to correct him on his implication that the 1948 UN Bill of Rights is a binding document.

It isn't.

The subsequent covenants ratified by Australia are supposedly binding.

However they are not fully legislated, enforced or complied with by Australia.

Look no further than abuses to: East Timor, the world through the AWB scandal, deported citizens, the homeless, the disabled, the hospital clients and yourself if you are not a politician, large company or employer.

Australia is the only recalcitrant country not to have granted its citizens legal equality, a point well known to the High Court, the Australian Parliament and its Prime Minister.

Richard Newby Woy Woy