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Select sources on constitutional change in Australia 1901-1997. Part 2 - History of Australian Referendums (PDF). Commonwealth of Australia. 24 March 1997. ISBN 0644484101. Bennett, Scott (2003). "Research Paper no. 11 2002–03: The Politics of Constitutional Amendment". Canberra: Parliamentary Library of Australia.
Queensland's system of government is influenced by the Westminster system and Australia's federal system of government. The powers of the state can be classified into three types : Legislature: the unicameral Parliament of Queensland , comprising the Legislative Assembly and the Monarch (represented by the Governor );
Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen, [1] was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 11 May 1982. It concerned the constitutional validity of parts of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, and the discriminatory acts of the Government of Queensland in blocking the purchase of land by Aboriginal people in northern Queensland.
Constitutional law in the Commonwealth of Australia consists mostly of that body of doctrine which interprets the Commonwealth Constitution. The Constitution itself is embodied in clause 9 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which was passed by the British Parliament in 1900 after its text had been negotiated in Australian Constitutional Conventions in the 1890s and approved by ...
The separation of powers in Australia is the division of the institutions of the Australian government into legislative, executive and judicial branches.This concept is where legislature makes the laws, the executive put the laws into operation, and the judiciary interprets the laws; all independently of each other.
Other names for regions are in popular usage, for example by different government agencies and in various regional maps of Queensland. The state also contains smaller regions within those discussed above which are not necessarily used for statistical purposes, but which are distinct in terms of their geography, economy or demographic ...
The Constitution was drafted between 1891 and 1898 at a series of conventions conducted by representatives of the six self-governing British colonies in Australia: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. [a] This final draft was then approved by each state in a series of referendums from 1898 to 1900.
Queensland (locally / ˈ k w iː n z l æ n d / KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as Qld) [note 1] is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.