Are property rights a human right?

The for the Study of Competition and Regulation at Victoria University has published this paper on property rights as human rights.

They find that in the , we are one of the very few countries that don't have some sort of constitutional protection of our property rights. In only Australia and NZ do not.

certainly support that at a minimum property rights should be included in the Bill of Rights 1990. Ideally I want to see a constitution one day where a number of basic rights are enshrined, and this would be one of them. The right is not absolute – sometimes property has to be taken to allow SH1 to be built for example – but there should always be fair compensation.

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