• a referendum held in the 1911 referendums. The bill sought to alter the Australian Constitution to extend the Commonwealth power in respect of trade and...
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  • The 1911 Australian referendum was held on 26 April 1911. It contained two referendum questions. This section is an excerpt from 1911 Australian referendum...
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  • Constitution Alteration (Trade and Commerce) Bill 1912, was an unsuccessful referendum held in 1913 that sought to alter the Australian Constitution to extend...
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  • The 1913 Australian referendum was held on 31 May 1913. It contained six referendum questions and was held in conjunction with the 1913 federal election...
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  • non-constitutional 1916 Australian conscription referendum and the 2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum being examples. Voting in a referendum is compulsory...
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  • referendum the public decided not to vest power in the Commonwealth over these matters. 1911 referendum on trade and commerce Politics of Australia History...
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  • regulation and control : The 1911 referendum asked a single question that dealt with trade and commerce, corporations and industrial matters. This resolution...
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  • of industrial disputes. The 1911 referendum asked a single question that dealt with trade and commerce, corporations and industrial matters. This resolution...
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  • Commonwealth over these matters. 1911 referendum on trade and commerce, industrial relations and monopolies 1913 referendum on monopolies "Constitution Alteration...
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    SS Kalibia v Wilson (category Trade and commerce power in the Australian Constitution cases)
    provides that the Australian Parliament has the power to make laws with respect to: (i) trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States;...
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  • between 2 and 3 April 1911. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 4,455,005. 26 April – A federal referendum is held containing...
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    Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. This final draft was then approved by each state in a series of referendums from 1898 to 1900...
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  • 1913: Federal Referendum on Trade and Commerce: South Australia votes Yes (51.32%). 1914: South Australian troops join their Australian comrades in Europe...
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    Melbourne Steamship Co Ltd v Moorehead (category Trade and commerce power in the Australian Constitution cases)
    held a referendum in 1911 to amend section 51 of the Constitution to give the Australian Parliament power to make laws about "Combinations and monopolies...
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    Federated Amalgamated Government Railway & Tramway Service Association v NSW Rail Traffic Employees Association (category Trade and commerce power in the Australian Constitution cases)
    referendums. The first attempt, in 1911 was part of an omnibus of changes under the heading of trade and commerce. The 1911 referendum fell well short of the required...
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  • trade and commerce powers were defeated in 1911 and 1913. The Commonwealth took over responsibility for the Northern Territory from South Australia in...
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    trade and commerce powers were defeated in 1911 and 1913. The Commonwealth took over responsibility for the Northern Territory from South Australia in...
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  • under Australian law. The envisaged chief functions of the Inter-State Commission were to administer and adjudicate matters relating to interstate trade. The...
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    Andrew Fisher (category Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia)
    1928) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the fifth prime minister of Australia from 1908 to 1909, 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1915...
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    member-states than just Australia and New Zealand. A result of the rejected 1999 Australian republican referendum was that Australians retained a common head...
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  • recent state referendum in Western Australia was in 2009. John Forrest – first premier of Western Australia Edith Cowan – first Australian woman to serve...
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    continent, trade and interstate commerce would be unaffected by protectionism and measurement and transport would be standardised. The final (and successful)...
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    Arthur Carter (politician) (category Use Australian English from February 2015)
    and one of the few ardent Federationists in Brisbane commerce’. As a leader of the Federation League he visited Sydney for the June 1899 referendum and...
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    The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment...
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  • of a local council, and only after a referendum of voters in that local government area is carried. Trading hours in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)...
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    Huddart, Parker & Co Pty Ltd v Moorehead (category Use Australian English from November 2017)
    was to be construed narrowly because the trade and commerce power did not include intrastate trade and commerce. While the reserved powers doctrine was...
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  • Timeline of Sunderland (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    A History of the Town, Port, Trade and Commerce, B. Williams Published in the 20th century Antiquities of Sunderland and its Vicinity, vol. 2: 1901, Sunderland:...
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  • Politics of New South Wales (category Use Australian English from June 2020)
    ABC News, 2016 Handbook of the 44th Parliament (2014) "Part 5 – Referendums and Plebiscites – Referendum results". Parliamentary Library of Australia.....
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    Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation v Whybrow & Co, commonly known as Whybrow's case or the Boot Trades case, was the third of a series of decisions...
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  • Australian state of Victoria takes place in the context of a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliamentary system, and like other Australian...
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