("Migration Amendment," Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2006, p.1)
But while this may be a laudable effort, it shows that the creation of a perfect schema of justice will always be lacking, as by an accident of birth certain individuals will have access to better opportunities, housing, and a quality of life. Even legally, refugees are deemed to have fewer rights to trial, freedom of movement, and to the rights of citizens, than naturalized Australians, though the refugees are no less human than natives, and simply are bereft of a homeland by an accident of birth that caused them to be born in an oppressive or economically stifling land. ("Migration Amendment," Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2006, p.1) Treating non-citizens differently may be necessary, but it does not make it morally, perfectly just. The notion of citizenship is a necessary unjust legal fiction required for a society to prosper.
Still, Australians have a strong sense of intrinsic human rights, which the populace clearly wishes to be integrated into its schema of laws and societal values, however imperfectly. When polled, the nation endorsed such rights as freedom of speech about the process and functioning of government, trial by jury, freedom of religion, protection of ethnic and racial minorities, the right to vote, freedom from arbitrary arrest, the right to work, and protection of people with disabilities from discrimination as inherent human rights. ("National Dialogue Regarding Human Rights," Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2006, p.1) This suggests that although not ideal, for citizens a certain level playing ground, regardless of historical past should be the aspiration of society and government. But terms such as "protection" of minorities and disabilities conceals, beneath such evident agreement, if protection should extend to redress...
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