'Caught between a rock and a hard place': Anti-discrimination legislation in the Liberal state and the fate of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act

Handley, Peter (2001) 'Caught between a rock and a hard place': Anti-discrimination legislation in the Liberal state and the fate of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act. Australian Journal of Political Science, 36 (3). pp. 515-528. ISSN 1363-030X

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Abstract

This article offers a critical analysis of some of the practical implications for disabled people of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992. Specifically, it raises questions about politics and the role of the law as an instrument of social change taking greater account of the interests of disabled people on the one hand, and of the reliance of the social model of disability on a strategy based upon legal rights on the other. The article also suggests that the constraining effects of Australia's constitutional protections of rights and its federal system of government hinder the mildly progressive elements of the Disability Discrimination Act. To illustrate this, the paper employs empirical evidence to suggest that these effects have been exacerbated by the passage of the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Act in 1999.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Depositing User:	Peter Handley
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2012 09:16
Last Modified:	21 Jul 2023 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/36838
DOI:	10.1080/10361140120100695

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