Human rights?

Good news, everyone! We're not getting a Charter of Human Rights.

Why is this good news? Well, from the research I've done, the reasons to have one are:
1) There may be some areas of human rights in Australia that aren't completely, explicitly covered in detail by the various laws, commissions, panels and conventions.
2) Other countries have them, so we should too.

The reasons against?
1) There would be a significant shift in power away from elected representatives and towards the judiciary.
2) The main beneficiaries of a human rights charter? Lawyers. Specifically, human rights lawyers.
3) A Charter takes away the Parliament's ability to make policy reflective of the will of the people.

I think it's interesting that the people campaigning hardest for a Human Rights Charter in Australia are... human rights lawyers. They've been pushing for something that will give them more work for years. I wish I could get the Government to do an inquiry into possibly creating more jobs for reporters! We should have a Charter of Better Writing that makes it illegal to write a document without getting it checked and edited by a trained journalist. More work for me! Yay! Uh, I mean... this is a completely unbiased and impartial opinion.

Anyway here are the arguments for and against the cases:
For the Charter, by Professor Sarah Joseph, director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University.
Against the Charter, by former NSW Premier Bob Carr.

Can you imagine if we enshrined stuff in the Charter that we couldn't change later?? Like in America how they let everyone carry weapons. Now the culture is irrevocably broken. What kind of dumb things would we put in a charter today that would be ridiculous in 200 years?