摘要：Can communities be granted rights not given to individuals? People who value the concept of individual liberty are generally inclined to assume that it is best protected by allowing decisions to be made at the most local level possible. Individual rights do come under constant threat from big centralised governments, but it is important to recognise that individual rights are also constantly being attacked at the local level.
In fact, in many cases in Australia, individual rights are actually better protected by Federal or State governments than by their local counterparts.
