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Category Archive: Australia

Greg Weeks: Comment on Australia: A history of judicial disrespect and the current “crisis” in the Queensland judiciary

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It has never been a universal requirement that a candidate for senior judicial office is either well respected […]

Constitutional Law Group April 9, 2015 Australia, Judiciary

Murray Wesson: What is the (Australian) Constitution For?

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At some point in the next few years, Australians are likely to vote in a referendum to recognise […]

Constitutional Law Group March 27, 2015 Australia, Constitutional reform, Human rights

Greg Weeks: Comment on Australia: Protection of refugees who do not “live discreetly”

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At the political level, Australia’s lamentable record of mistreating refugees is well established and is catalogued and critiqued […]

Constitutional Law Group December 15, 2014 Australia

Luke Beck: Scottish Independence and Australia

What effect might Scottish independence might have on Australia’s constitutional arrangements? This might seem like an odd question […]

Constitutional Law Group September 12, 2014 Australia, Scotland

Greg Weeks: Comment on Australia: A Disappointing Backward Step in Information Policy

Australia’s Coalition government handed down its first Budget on 13 May 2014, which has since proved controversial in […]

Constitutional Law Group September 6, 2014 Australia

J. R. Nethercote: Forgotten centenary: Joseph Cook and the 1914 Double Dissolution of the Australian Parliament

The assassination and obsequies of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his Duchess did not occupy the front pages of […]

Constitutional Law Group July 28, 2014 Australia

Gabrielle Appleby and Joanna Howe: The High Court ends backdoor law making (for now)

Central to the Australia’s conservative Coalition Government’s successful 2013 electoral campaign was its promise to ‘stop the boats’. […]

Constitutional Law Group June 26, 2014 Australia

Greg Weeks – Comment on Australia: School Chaplains and Commonwealth Funding

Ron Williams, a father of four from Queensland, brought a case before the High Court in 2012 which […]

Constitutional Law Group June 19, 2014 Australia, Comparative law

Andrew Lynch: Judicial Appointments in Australia – Reform in Retreat

The creation of formal processes governing the appointment of judges has been a notable element in the broader […]

Constitutional Law Group May 26, 2014 Australia, Judiciary

Paul Kildea: Australia’s abandoned local government referendum

It is almost forgotten now, but Australians were recently set to vote in a referendum on the constitutional […]

Constitutional Law Group November 14, 2013 Australia, Comparative law

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