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CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION REPORTS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION.

Below we present for your scrutiny a Freedom of Information Response from the Attorney Generals Office of the Australian Government (Not of the Commonwealth?). The author wrote to confirm if there had been changes as recommended by the Constitutional Commission, Commissioned by the very same Attorney Generals Office, specifically Bill No 1, and Bill No. Read More …

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: MAKING SENSE OF MULTIPLE INTENTIONS

The delegates to the 1890s Constitutional Conventions were well aware that the amendment mechanism is the ‘most important part of a Cons­ titution’, for on it ‘depends the question as to whether the state shall develop with peaceful continuity or shall suffer alternations of stagnation, retrogression, and revolution’.1 However, with only 8 of 44 proposed Read More …

Does the Constitution Empower the Parliament to create Australian Citizens? FOI19-074

The Framers of the Constitution made it quite clear that the Commonwealth could naturalize a person for, and on behalf of the British Crown to be British subjects. (Subjects of the British Crown). Citizenship is relating to where you reside regardless of nationality. The author, after discovering a proposed Bill within the Constitutional Commission Reports 1988 Read More …