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The Kable principle holds that a state legislature cannot enact laws that undermine or erode the integrity or independence of the judiciary. This principle stems from the Australian Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine, which requires that the powers of the legislature, executive, and judiciary remain distinct to ensure a fair and balanced system Read More …
The chief of Australia’s domestic spy agency, Asio, defied a direct order from then Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1974 to sever all ties with America’s Central Intelligence Agency. Whitlam – hostile to US spy bases in Australia and angy with the CIA’s undermining of leftwing administrations, including Chile’s Allende government in 1973 – Read More …
MEDIA RELEASE 26/10/24 Aged & disability advocates are again calling on Kiara’s Law to get all family guardianship matters taken out of the South Australian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) & sent directly into the Supreme Court or to commence in a lower court with access to justice through a higher court, after the death Read More …
Introduction The Federal Court of Australia (the “Federal Court”) was created by the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) under the authority granted to Parliament by s 71 of Ch III of the Australian Constitution (the “Constitution”) to create federal courts other than the High Court of Australia. The Federal Court was once a Read More …
The transcript below is the Royal Commission of Assent to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. It was signed by Queen Victoria on 9 July 1900 (her signature appears at the top left of the document, above her name). The Queen’s assent enacted the Australian Constitution, founding the Commonwealth of Australia. Queen Victoria signed the commission Read More …
Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: [The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; . . . The Supreme Court has interpreted the phrase among the several states to exclude transactions that occur wholly within a state. In Read More …
Important Extracts from REPORT OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE CONSTITUTION Alteration of the Constitution. ‘ A distinction is to be drawn for some purposes, including that of alteration, between covering clauses 1-8, under which the Commonwealth was established and effect given, to the Constitution, and covering clause 9, which embodies in the Act the provisions of the Constitution. The Read More …
Members of the public are being intruded upon in their everyday travels around the Commonwealth. Below are the laws surrounding airport screening and what is and is not required of a traveller. AVIATION TRANSPORT SECURITY REGULATIONS
One of the major works of English political philosophy, Hobbes’ Leviathan was written during the English Revolution. It deals with the nature of sovereignty, how stable political power might be created, how wars might be avoided, and what is the proper relationship between a sovereign authority and the individual. 728 pages.
