Category: Oath of Allegiance
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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 …
Oath of Allegiance Restored in NSW.
In 2012 the Oath of Allegiance to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II (Roman numerals) was restored in New South Wales. Queen Elizabeth II is the Reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth the Second (In words) is the Australian Title enacted by the Australian Parliament beyond the power the Constitution provides within the Royal Read More …
ORDINANCES 1868 W.A.
2. If any person whatsoever, after the passing of this Ordinance shall, within the said Colony and its Dependencies, compass, imagine invent, devise or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen her heirs or successors, from the style, honour or royal name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom, or Read More …
Parliamentary Oaths.
Members of Parliament The Australian Constitution requires that those elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives swear or solemnly affirm their allegiance to the Crown. Senators and members are required to both ‘make and subscribe’ (sign) an oath or affirmation. The same oath and affirmation have been used since Federation and can only Read More …
Oaths and Affirmations of Public Office
Were Australia to become a republic, most of the changes that would need to be made to the existing forms of other oaths or affirmations required of members of parliament and of public officers could be effected by ordinary legislation. The one exception is the oath or affirmation of allegiance presently required of members of Read More …
The Loftus Rule, the Government Gazette and the NT judges who never were
Loftus Rule: A rebuttable presumption that where an NT government decision is questioned it is more likely to be a fuck-up rather than an innocent mistake. (Syn: snafu – situation normal, all fucked up) BOB GOSFORD Loftus Rule: A rebuttable presumption that where an NT government decision is questioned it is more likely to be Read More …
Tassie judges caught in swearing-in bungle
THE State Government has scrambled to conduct swearing-in ceremonies for magistrates after an oversight meant none has taken the oath of office properly for three decades. Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin, right, assured the public that tens of thousands of criminal convictions and jail sentences handed down during the period were still valid despite the error. The Read More …
Queensland magistrates took wrong oath
Queensland’s new first law officer has passed her first piece of legislation with the help of the Opposition. Parliament quickly passed the legislation to correct an administrative oversight which saw 24 magistrates use the wrong oath or affirmation during their swearing in from April 2013. A government bungle saw 25 magistrates not take the Read More …