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The real problem is enshrining so many explicit rights in the constitution to begin with. The American constitutional framers couldn't have known better because they were so early to do it they didn't really have a model to follow, but I think history has shown that it was an error.
When Australia came to framing its constitution over the last decade of the 19th century, they had the benefit of looking at all the countries that came before, and considered putting a bill of rights into the Australian constitution and made a deliberate decision not to. It's better for the legislature to decide what's right for the current conditions than to be stuck with trying to interpret some text from a century ago in a completely different context. We have the benefit of a much, much less politicised judiciary as a result.