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Reflections on the Commission's Legacy in Legislated Minimum National Standards

Pittard, Marilyn - 2012

This article examines to what extent there is legacy of the Commission’s labour standards in the new legislated standards in the National Employment Standards and dismissal protection in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). The Commission’s ‘community standards’, mainly from ‘test cases’...

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The Quandary of Agricultural Biotechnology, Pure Economic Loss, and Non-Adopters : Comparing Australia, Canada, and the United States

Ludlow, Karinne; Smyth, Stuart - 2013

Innovations impact societies in a variety of ways. Successful innovations are utility enhancing, in that they create a higher degree of benefits that offset any of the potential disadvantages of the innovation. Unsuccessful innovations suffer from the reverse, in that they result in more...

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Davison, Mark - 2012

This article briefly describes the legal position in Australia prior to the Ice decision. It then explains the nature …

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Parallel Statutes : Another Look at the Origins of Australia's Not-for-Profit Associations Legislation

Taylor, Greg - 2012

In the middle third of the 19th century Upper Canada (now Ontario) followed by South Australia passed statutes for the … considers the background to the enactment of Upper Canada's statute and whether South Australia's might have been a copy of it … Australia was promoting its self-image as a 'Paradise of Dissident.' The two statutes, while somewhat similar on the surface …

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From Constitutions to Constitutionalism : An Opportunity for Arab States, Not a Paradox

Khalil, Asem - 2014

The paradox of modern constitutionalism resides in having two imperatives, apparently irreconcilable, i.e. a governmental power generated from the ‘consent of the people' and, in order to be sustained and effective, that power must be divided, constrained and exercised through distinctive...

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The Readiness of Australian Food Regulation for the Use of Nanotechnology in Food and Food Packaging

Ludlow, Karinne - 2014

This paper first briefly introduces the reader to nanotechnology and the potential health risks it raises. It then reviews how nanotechnology is or may be used by the food industry so that challenges that must be addressed by food regulations can be better understood. The application of current...

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The Future of Fair Dealing in Australia : Protecting Freedom of Communication

de Zwart, Melissa - 2009

This article considers the role of the concept of freedom of communication within the law of copyright in Australia. It … concludes that the judicially articulated implied Constitutional guarantee of freedom of political communication is too narrow … elements of freedom of communication and provides some scope for the recognition of such rights under Australian law …

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Is it Still 'In the Game,' or Has Amateurism Left the Building? NCAA Student-Athletes’ Perceptions of Commercial Activity and Sports Video Games

Kaburakis, Anastasios; Pierce, David; Cianfrone, Beth; … - 2012

The NCAA maintains a balance between amateurism and the increasing need for generating revenue. In this balancing act, there are various policy considerations and legal constraints. These legal and policy entanglements bore such class action suits as Keller v. Electronic Arts, National...

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L-Plates, Logbooks and Losing-Out : Regulating for Safety – Or Creating New Criminals?

Naylor, Bronwyn - 2011

In Victoria and New South Wales, young learner drivers have been required to have 120 hours supervised driving before taking their provisional license test since July 2007. Queenslanders under 25 have to show that they have completed 100 supervised hours. Most other states require at least 50...

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The Fels Effect : Responsive Regulation and the Impact of Business Opinions of the ACCC

Parker, Christine; Nielsen, Vibeke Lehmann - 2014

As chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Professor Allan Fels blasted his way into popular consciousness by aggressively using the media to promote noholds-barred enforcement against businesses that breached competition and consumer protection laws. Opinions were sharply...

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