The Misunderstanding of the Reservation of Bills.

Constitution Watch has received many enquiries about the reservation of Bills. This little known process is often misunderstood, leading to guesswork. Below, we examine the reservation process in sections 58 and 60 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900.     Section 58 above provides the mechanism of Royal Assent, the Governor General when Read More …

The Dormant Office of the Australian King.

Prior to 1953 the Monarch’s role in the British Empire was ‘indivisible’ meaning there was but one Monarch over all of the British realms (Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc). Since that time in 1952, the British realms at an economical conference in London decided to divide the Monarch’s Crown into localised Crowns, (Queen of Australia, Read More …