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jcc:
Are you completely sure that you're required to do 10,000 words? That's the length of a short thesis... It's certainly something that couldn't be expected at VCE level - and I note that you go to Cranbourne Secondary... seems especially weird for such high demands there, considering the general academic ability of the students would mean that most wouldn't be able to do it.

Anyway, the legal studies it isn't really about human rights per se, but rather how human and democratic rights are protected (and if I remember correctly, it's really only to be done in the context of comparing with another country). The human rights that are enumerated within the constitution are of particular focus. So, I'd talk about the different rights which the constitution protects and also how those rights are limited:

s7 & 24 - Right to vote - Limited because it doesn't explicitly give people the right to vote, rather it says that the HoR & Senate will be made up of representatives of the people of Australia. In the past, dark colored people have been deemed not to be the people of Australia and thus they were unable to vote.
s80 - Trial By Jury for Indictable Offences - Limited because if the Commonwealth Parliament wished to bypass this requirement, they could simply deem an offence to be summary, rather than indictable.
s116 - Freedom of Religion - Isn't great protection because it only applies to the Commonwealth.
s51(xxxi) - Acquisition of Property - Provides that property may only be acquired on 'just terms' (in other words, just compensation must be paid)

There's a couple of other sections, such as s117 and s92 which could be used... but they're not really preferable. I'd probably also talk about the implied right to freedom of speech which is demonstrated in Australian Capital Television v Commonwealth. You could also refer to some case law, such as Dietrich v The Queen and even some statutory protection of human/democratic rights such as the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998.

Hope that's of some help!

Odette:
10,000 words like omg you poor thing >.<

AppleXY:
10,000 words....that's like a mini PhD thesis LOL.

You school must be kidding, I could never do 10,000 in vce. Never.

Good luck :)

/0:
10,000 word essay is against Human Rights. Write an essay about it.

misskaraleah:

--- Quote from: daniel99 on April 09, 2008, 04:13:34 pm ---lol we did nothing like that. 10,000 words??????????????

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Yes well he basically stated that their was no word limit and that high ranging students usually produced work between 6,000 and 10,000 words. Im aiming for that because i want to do the as best as i possibly can.

And yes its on the Human Rights within Australia, in comparison for another country, so im going to begin with the background with Human Rights within the world, and start from there :P


 
--- Quote from: jcc on April 09, 2008, 04:53:59 pm ---I note that you go to Cranbourne Secondary... seems especially weird for such high demands there, considering the general academic ability of the students would mean that most wouldn't be able to do it.

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As stated before, its between 6,000 and 10,000 to recieve a decent pass score, so im definatlet going to try and achieve it :)

Yeah i understand what you mean when you say that you dont think that many people at my school could produce work like that. Nothing against my school- or people who live in my suburb- but i agree with your point.  My teacher explained that to recieve a high mark on this SAC, you will need to be VERY organised, hence this is why im preparing earlier.

Im not too worried about it and i was originally setting my plan out similar to the help you provided, so thanks.

Lets see if i can do it :P

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