For centuries, the Chinese-Indonesians had been labeled as a community that had economic power but had made no contributions to Indonesia's history. ... They were middlemen between Dutch and Indonesians under Dutch colonial rule of Indonesia, which started from the mid seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. ...
Australia would not be a better place if we had a Bill of Rights. Challenging state power can be done both informally, fluctuating methods of challenging government decisions by persons affected by the decisions and processes, and formally, methods that are more permanent than the informal methods of challenging government decisions. In both the Mabo and Wik cases state power was challenged formally through the High Court of Australia. There are a variety of advantages and disadvantages both statutory and constitutional for Australia to enact an Australian Bill of Rights but the disadvantages ...
