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The Northern Territory Statehood Steering Committee has just released a Discussion Paper, which includes a discussion of the inclusion of a bill of rights in a new constitution. The Committee website is http://www.dcm.nt.gov.au/dcm/statehood/index.shtml

Consultation Documents

Publications

Papers and audio from the Charles Darwin Symposium on Securing Territorians' Rights: Statehood and a Bill of Rights? are available here.

Media

UN 'flays' discriminatory NT intervention [pdf], The Canberra Times, 28 August 2009 [word]

Bill of rights a paper tiger (letter to the editor), Northern Territory News, 16 June 2007

State of confusion, Sunday Territorian, 13 May 2007

Academics urge Territory to consider Bill of Rights, Northern Territorian, 11 May 2007

Call to help shape future of territory, Northern Territorian, 10 May 2007