hm this thread got off track.
hey brendan quick question, seeings as i won't be seeing my teacher before tommorrow: I've been going through the assessment reports right, and one of the questions asked something about the effectiveness of parliament as law-makers compared to courts, and one of the 'example answers' that they give had something along the lines of -
'a weakness of parliament is that they may be too concerned with being voted out, and this may mean they will be reluctant to legislate in controversial areas for fear of an electoral backlash, and for this reason we have seen that parliament was not the primary law-maker in areas such as aboriginal land rights and abortion' (not exact words haha)
so with the aboriginal land rights, I assume they are talking about the mabo and wik cases, but do you know what the significant court case relating to abortion might be? I haven't heard of it, and I probably don't need to know, but I was just wondering