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AUSPUBLAW is a collaborative blogging project bringing readers expert commentary and analysis in Australian public law. The Centre hosts the Blog as a public platform for academics and practitioners to engage with the community and each other on important and current public law issues. The views posted on the Blog are those of the contributors and do not reflect the views of the Centre or..
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
BY PAUL KILDEA On 20 December 2021, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs completed its inquiry into constitutional reform and referendums and published an anticipated Report. The Report makes 10 recommendations aimed at enhancing public awareness and understanding of the Australian Constitution, strengthening mechanisms for constitutional review, and improving ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
BY GUY BALDWIN Since the shift in focus for supporting Commonwealth migration legislation from the ‘immigration’ power under s 51(xxvii) of the Constitution to the ‘aliens’ power under s 51(xix) in the 1980s, there has been a great deal of litigation before the High Court about the scope of s 51(xix). Perhaps the most influential ..read more
Can Clive Palmer use Investor-State Dispute Settlement to get what the High Court wouldn’t give him?
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
BY JONATHAN BONNITCHA This is the second of two posts AUSPUBLAW is featuring on the High Court’s Decision in Mineralogy v WA. Anne Twomey’s accompanying post is here. The High Court’s decisions in Mineralogy v WA and Palmer v WA end the dispute between Mineralogy/Clive Palmer and the Western Australian government as a matter of Australian law. It is ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
BY ANNE TWOMEY This is the first of two posts AUSPUBLAW is featuring on the High Court’s Decision in Mineralogy v WA. Jonathan Bonnitcha’s accompanying post is here. One of the difficulties in understanding and applying manner and form constraints on state legislative power is that there is little jurisprudence on the subject and what exists ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
AUSPUBLAW is pleased to publish this book forum as a companion to the launch of Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olinjyk, James Stellios and John Williams, Judicial Federalism in Australia: History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice (Federation Press, 2021), which was hosted online by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at UNSW Law & Justice on ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
Professor Gummow provides the first set of remarks in this special forum which accompanies the launch of: Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olijnyk, James Stellios and John Williams, Judicial Federalism in Australia: History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice. To see all posts, click here. Click through for posts by Dr Brendan Lim, Professor Sarah Murray, and Professor Erin Delaney ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
Dr Brendan Lim provides the second set of remarks in this special forum which accompanies the launch of: Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olijnyk, James Stellios and John Williams, Judicial Federalism in Australia: History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice. To see all posts, click here. Click through for posts by the Hon William Gummow AC, Professor Sarah Murray, and ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
Professor Sarah Murray provides the third set of remarks in this special forum which accompanies the launch of: Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olijnyk, James Stellios and John Williams, Judicial Federalism in Australia: History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice. To see all posts, click here. Click through for posts by the Hon William Gummow AC, Dr Brendan Lim and ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
Professor Erin Delaney provides the final set of remarks in this special forum which accompanies the launch of: Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olijnyk, James Stellios and John Williams, Judicial Federalism in Australia: History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice. To see all posts, click here. Click through for posts by the Hon William Gummow AC, Dr Brendan Lim, and ..read more
AUS PUB LAW | Constitutional Law Blog
2y ago
Gabrielle Appleby, Anna Olijnyk, James Stellios and John Williams, respond to reflections by the Hon William Gummow AC, Dr Brendan Lim, Professor Sarah Murray and Professor Erin Delaney, on their book Judicial Federalism in Australia: History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice. To see all posts, click here. BY GABRIELLE APPLEBY, ANNA OLIJNYK, JAMES STELLIOS AND JOHN ..read more