Australian constitutional law is the area of the law of Australia relating to the interpretation and application of the Constitution of Australia. Legal...
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Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation. Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system...
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Australian constitutional law Constitutional law Constitutional convention Buchan, Bruce (28 April 2020). "Botany and the colonisation of Australia in...
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Constitutional conventions in Australia are significant meetings that have debated the Australian Constitution. The first two gatherings debated Federation...
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Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament...
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premiers. These are the only mandatory constitutional functions of the monarch of Australia. Australian constitutional law provides that the person who is monarch...
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Commonwealth of Australia. The Constitution is the primary, but not exclusive, source of Australian constitutional law; it operates alongside constitutional conventions...
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the Constitution of Australia. In the past, however the terms were used interchangeably, with the non-constitutional 1916 Australian conscription referendum...
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The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime...
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affected UK laws that were to apply as part of Australian Commonwealth law, not UK laws that were to apply as part of the law of any Australian state. Thus...
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state. Constitutional Law may also refer to: International constitutional law Constitutional theory Federal Constitutional Law (Austria) Australian constitutional...
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jurisdictions, such as Ireland, Estonia, and Australia, constitutional amendments originate as bills and become laws in the form of acts of parliament. This...
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The 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention, also known as the Con Con, was a constitutional convention which gathered at Old Parliament House, Canberra...
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Commonwealth v Tasmania (category Australian constitutional law)
significant Australian court case, decided in the High Court of Australia on 1 July 1983. The case was a landmark decision in Australian constitutional law, and...
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lawyer. Film portal Australian constitutional law Cinema of Australia Mabo v Queensland (No 2) "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Film...
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Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (category Australian constitutional law)
DPP, is a decision of the High Court of Australia. It is a significant case in Australian constitutional law. The case is notable for having established...
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Court is now well established; the Australian Law Reform Commission has described the inclusion of constitutional matters in section 76 rather than section...
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The politics of Australia operates under the written Australian Constitution, which sets out Australia as a constitutional monarchy, governed via a parliamentary...
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Parliament's limited legislative powers under Australian constitutional law. The criminal law system differs across Australian states, with distinctions readily found...
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constitutional law in Australia (2nd ed.). Pyrmont, NSW: Lawbook Co. pp. 607–9. ISBN 978-0-455-24415-0. Beck, Luke (2020). Australian constitutional law:...
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Blackshield and Williams Australian Constitutional Law and Theory (6 ed.). Leichhardt, NSW: Federation Press. ISBN 978-1-86287-918-8. Australia's Head of State at...
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The constitutional basis of taxation in Australia is predominantly found in sections 51(ii), 90, 53, 55, and 96, of the Constitution of Australia. Their...
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Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd (category Australian constitutional law)
quoted in Winterton, Lee, Glass and Thomson, Australian Federal Constitutional Law: Commentary and Materials (Law Book Co. 1999) at 757 Engineers case (1920)...
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Melbourne Corporation v Commonwealth (category Australian constitutional law)
Corporation case or the State banking case, is an important case in Australian constitutional law. It stands for the proposition that there are limits on the...
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Statute of Westminster 1931 (category Australian constitutional law)
Australian secession referendum, as it did not have the support of the Australian government. All British power to legislate with effect in Australia...
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The United Kingdom constitutional law concerns the governance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. With the oldest continuous political...
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Adelaide Co of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth (category Australian constitutional law)
protections afforded by section 116 had been defined very narrowly. Australian constitutional law Adelaide Co of Jehovah's Witnesses Inc v Commonwealth [1943]...
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Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...
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a referendum proposed by the Australian Labor Party in December 1973 which sought to alter section 51 of the Australian Constitution to give the Commonwealth...
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special laws for Indigenous Australians, and whether Indigenous Australians should be included in official population counts for constitutional purposes...
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