Australia's constitutional government / Professor Jack Richardson AO ; edited by Matthew Stubbs
- Bib ID:
- 7091631
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Richardson, J. E. (Jack Edwin), 1920-2011, author
- Description:
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- Chatswood : LexisNexis Butterworths
- Chatswood, NSW : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2016
- ©2016
- xliv, 616 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780409341126 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Part One: Colonisation to Federation
- 1. From Penal Settlement to Representative and Responsible Government
- 2. Towards Federation
- 3. The National Australasian Convention 1891 and the Path to Adelaide
- 4. The Convention Debates 1897-98
- 5. Final Steps to Federation
- 6. The First Decade of Federation
- 7. Reflecting on the Work of the Founders
- Part Two: The Commonwealth Parliament
- 8. Federal Parliament
- 9. Parliamentary Committees
- 10. Parliament in Action
- 11. Resolving Deadlocks Between the Two Houses: Section 57
- Part Three: The Growth of a Nation
- 12. Historical Factors in a Century of Federalism
- 13. Colony - Dominion - Nation
- 14. Interpreting the Constitution
- 15. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- Part Four: Commonwealth Legislative Powers
- 16. Trade and Commerce
- 17. The Taxation Power
- 18. Corporations
- 19. Defence Power
- 20. The External Affairs Power
- 21. The Conciliation and Arbitration Power
- 22. The Territories Power
- 23. Freedom of Interstate Trade, Commerce and Intercourse
- Part Five: Federalism
- 24. Commonwealth-State Relations
- 25. The Future of the Commonwealth-State Balance
- 26. The States
- 27. Inconsistency between Laws of the State and the Commonwealth
- 28. The Reference Power
- Part Six: Commonwealth Executive Power
- 29. The Executive Government
- 30. The Governor-General and the Double Dissolution of 1975
- 31. Exercise and Scrutiny of Executive Power
- Part Seven: Rights and the Future
- 32. Constitutional Rights
- 33. Constitutional Change
- Appendix A: The Constitution
- Appendix B: Sir John Kerr's Statement of Reasons.
- Notes:
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- LAW.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Stubbs, Matthew, editor
- Available From:
- 00690322
- Copyright:
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