Report of the Royal Commission on the Constitution : together with appendices and index
- Bib ID:
- 651903
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Royal Commission on the Constitution of the Commonwealth (Australia)
- Description:
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- Canberra : Govt. Printer, 1929
- 371, xxiii p. ; 25 cm.
- Summary:
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Reports on the powers of the Commonwealth under the Constitution and the working of the Constitution since Federation; Report on Aboriginesp. 219 mentions exclusion of Aborigines from section 51 (xxvi) - Commonwealth has no power to make laws affecting Aboriginal people; discussion of arguments for and against Commonwealth control of Aboriginal affairs; mention that Australia's reputation may be affected by its treatment of Aborigines; p. 220 desirable that the treatment of Aborigines should be in the states which control their lands; example given of protection system in state of Queensland as being the most satisfactory in the Commonwealth (refers to Bleakley Report of 1929); cattle theft reduced by cattle from Moola Bulla Station in Western Australia being killed daily to feed visiting Aborigines; Recommendations of majority p.270 propose that section 51 (xxvi) not be amended to empower the Commonwealth to make laws with respect to Aborigines; Minority report p. 303 recommendsCommonwealth control of Aboriginal affairs.
- Partial contents:
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- Appendix A : Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act
- Appendix B : Financial Agreement dated 12-12-27 between the Commonwealth and the states
- Appendix C : Report of the Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, 1926 (Extracts).
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- At head of title : Commonwealth of Australia.
- By J. B. Peden [et. al.]
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