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Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (Imp) 63 & 64 Vict, c 12, s 9 ('Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia') Location: National Archives of Australia [1] Author(s) Constitutional Conventions, 1891 and 1897–98: Supersedes: Federal Council of Australasia Act 1885: Full text; Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act at Wikisource
It was created to limit the operation of Section 92 of the Constitution of Australia (which ensures free trade among the States) by granting States complete legislative power to regulate alcohol regardless of where the alcohol was originally produced. [2] It is similar in effect to the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. [3]
The modern Handbook contains full biographies of all Members and Senators, details of the Ministry and Shadow Ministry, membership of all Parliamentary committees, statistical information on the composition of the Parliament, summaries of recent election results, the text of the Australian Constitution, results of referendums to change the ...
Following a double dissolution election, Australia's constitution re-establishes the rotation of senators by allowing the senate to allocate half of the elected state senators a short term. The same method has been used to allocate long (six-year) and short (three-year) terms on every occasion, though the voting system has changed during that time.
Winning the support of George Reid, the new premier of NSW, the Quick scheme was approved by all premiers in 1895. (Quick and Robert Garran later published The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth in 1901, which is widely regarded as one of the most authoritative works on the Australian Constitution. [4])
The Australian Constitution (Public Record Copy) Act 1990 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed in 1990.The purpose of the Act was to allow the Commonwealth of Australia to retain the original copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp), which the British government had loaned for the celebration in 1988 of the bicentenary of British settlement in ...
The Constitution of Australia established the principle of federalism in Australia. Federalism was adopted, as a constitutional principle, in Australia on 1 January 1901 – the date upon which the six self-governing Australian Colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia federated, formally constituting the Commonwealth of Australia.
Section 24: Constitution of House of Representatives in Australia; Section 25: Provision as to races disqualified from voting; Section 26: Representatives in first Parliament; Section 27: Alteration of number of members; Section 28: Duration of House of Representatives; Section 29: Electoral divisions; Section 30: Qualification of electors