Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- An overview of the Australian Constitution
- Path to Federation
- Australia as a Sovereign Nation State
- States and Territories
- Federal Balance
- Parliament
- Executive Government
- High Court and Judiciary
- Constitutional Rights and Freedoms
- Australia’s Indigenous Peoples
- Changing the Constitution
- The Constitution
- Proclamation Declaring Establishment of the Commonwealth
- Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942
- Australia Act 1986
- Index
First edition: The Australian Constitution by Geoffrey Sawer (AGPS, 1975)
Second edition: The Australian Constitution by Geoffrey Sawer (AGPS, 1988)
Third edition: Sawer’s The Australian Constitution by Guy Aitken and Robert Orr (AGS, 2002)
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Aitken, Guy
Sawer’s: The Australian Constitution.
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1. Australia. Constitution. 2. Constitutional Law – Australia. 3. Australia – Constitutional history.
I Orr, Robert. II Title. III Title: Australian Constitution.
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