Bad Oysters – A Government Responsibility?

dc.contributor.authorMcMillan, Johnen_US
dc.date.accessioned2003-06-20en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-19T14:22:57Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-01-05T08:45:28Z
dc.date.available2004-05-19T14:22:57Zen_US
dc.date.available2011-01-05T08:45:28Z
dc.date.created2003en_US
dc.description.abstractEach year in Australia many people suffer injury that government is in a position to prevent. By building better roads, imposing tougher safety standards, or carrying out tougher regulation and inspection, government could reduce many of the hazards of contemporary living. But the ideal world comes at a price. Not only would the budgetary outlay be infinite, the spectre of ever-increasing government control and regulation would be invidious to many. Yet those considerations alone cannot absolve government of all responsibility for removing obvious hazards and preventing known dangers. Where is the line to be drawn? Or, more to the point in an age of litigation, when should government be liable to compensate a person who has suffered injury arising from a government failure to act?en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/41123en_US
dc.language.isoen_AUen_US
dc.subjectgovernment liabilityen_US
dc.subjectcompensationen_US
dc.subjectduty of careen_US
dc.titleBad Oysters – A Government Responsibility?en_US
dc.typeNewspaper/magazine articleen_US
local.description.refereednoen_US
local.identifier.citationmonthfeben_US
local.identifier.citationpublicationThe Canberra Times - Public Sector Informant - February 2003en_US
local.identifier.citationyear2003en_US
local.identifier.eprintid1459en_US
local.rights.ispublishedyesen_US

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