What is happening in Gladstone is terrible, I am from North Queensland, and I am horrified by what is being done to our great barrier reef. I wonder if that is part of why QLD Labor did loose the last election, total lack of respect and safeguard for our world heritage site.
There have been moves to have a Human rights charter officially recognised within Australia, as currently we don't have one everywhere. Shocking really.
So gobbledock is right unfortunately. I think of it as a given right, when its really an assumed right.
Politicians can be awful. But we do need to engage in the process unfortunately to try to change it. At the risk of offending everyone again I do think the greens policies are the most progressive as far as offering protections to people versus protections to big business.
In American corporations are people . Yes, corporations are considered people and have additional rights because of that. Sadly they seem to have all the rights of people, but none of the responsibilities of people. That is not the direction we want Australia to take .