Delegating Legislative Power

Laws that have a significant impact on rights and liberties, and laws creating offences with high penalties, should usually be in primary, not delegated, legislation. More generally, wide and vague delegations of legislative power undermine the separation of powers doctrine by allowing those who enforce the law to also make the law.       Read More …

The Australian Immunisation Handbook ~ 10th Edition Complete with 2017/18 Update.

The 2015 update of the 10th edition of The Australian Immunisation Handbook contains updates to 24 chapters including changes to clinical recommendations as well as new factual information and clarifications (refer below). The chapters updated as part of the 2015 annual update supersede previous versions of these chapters published in the original 10th edition (in Read More …

Section 51(xx) CORPORATIONS POWER.

State or Federal? The high court has found that state entities may be corporations and fall under federal legislation   The High Court in the recent case of Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia v Queensland Rail has found that QR was a trading corporation for the purposes of section Read More …