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Human Rights

LEG-HR is worth about 20 marks out of 100 in recent HSC Legal Studies papers. Practise 29 exam-style questions (multiple choice, short answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.

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What human rights are and how they developed, how they are promoted and enforced internationally and in Australia, and how to write short answers on a contemporary human rights issue (law as at 2026).

  1. 1What you need to know
  2. 2The nature of human rights
  3. 3The development of human rights
  4. 4Promoting and enforcing human rights internationally
  5. 5Human rights in Australian law
  6. 6The bill of rights debate
  7. 7The contemporary issue
  8. 8Common mistakes
  9. 9Exam tips
  10. 10Links to other topics
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Example questions

Example 1 · 1 mark · multiple choice

When human rights are described as _inalienable_, this means they

  1. Aare granted by governments as a reward for good behaviour
  2. Bapply only to citizens of a country
  3. Ccannot be taken away or given up
  4. Ddepend on each other, so one cannot be fully enjoyed without the others

Example 2 · 1 mark · multiple choice

The right to education is set out in which international treaty?

  1. AThe Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)
  2. BThe International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
  3. CThe Charter of the United Nations (1945) and its Article 55 on social progress
  4. DThe International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)

Example 3 · 1 mark · multiple choice

In Toonen v Australia (1994), the UN Human Rights Committee found that Tasmanian laws criminalising sex between consenting adult men breached the ICCPR. What happened next?

  1. AThe UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Australia
  2. BThe International Court of Justice ordered Tasmania to repeal the laws
  3. CTasmania repealed the laws immediately because the Committee's views bind Australian states
  4. DThe Commonwealth passed a law protecting sexual privacy, and Tasmania later repealed the laws

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