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Does Australia Need a Bill Of Rights? The Australian Constitution does not include a specific section detailing the rights of the individual, although it has existed for over a century through many times when rights have been disregarded. Countries such as France and the United States of America have seen fit to implement a ‘Bill of Rights’ into their constitution, which guarantees the liberties and freedoms of the individual, and reinforces the basic rights of all human beings, where they are compromised. The writers of the Australian Constitution deliberately omitted a Bill Of Rights because they believed it would “undermine some of the discriminatory provisions in place at that time, including those laws which were enacted to the detriment of Aboriginals and Asian immigrants” (Malcolm, 1998). Since that time, values have changed significantly for much of the Australian population, as a result of such things as the 1967 Aboriginal rights referendum and the policy of multiculturalism developed in the 1970’s. A Bill of Rights is urgently needed to reinforce decisions made by the Australian court system. For the High Court, whose task it is to interpret the constitution, a Bill Of Rights would act as a basic set of r