By Gerard Carney
This booklet outlines the constitutional structures of the six Australian states and ten Commonwealth territories. It starts with their heritage, easy positive factors, function and destiny in the Australian federation. Its fundamental concentration is at the binding constitutional regulations which impression on their parliaments and governments. those matters also are handled on the subject of the 3 self-governing territories of the ACT, the Northern Territory and Norfolk Island. it's the purely Australian felony reference paintings of its type which offers particularly with the constitutional platforms of the states and territories. This booklet is for all legislation scholars and constitutional legislations lecturers in addition to criminal advisors to commonwealth, nation and territory governments and parliaments. it is going to even be of curiosity to ideal, Federal, and excessive court docket judges, political scientists operating within the sector of federalism and someone with an curiosity in constitutional affairs.
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Consequently, there developed, in effect, two categories of Australian citizen depending on whether they resided in a State or a territory. 3 Before doing so, there are two key interrelated issues which need to be addressed in relation to the States. The first is the role of the States today and in the future. The second is their relationship with the Commonwealth. Both issues lie at the heart of Australian federalism. The role of the territories and their relationship with the Commonwealth are specifically considered in Chapters 11 and 12.
We resolve this ultimately by pursuing policies that spread power, freedom and opportunity to the suburbs, workplaces, towns and farms right across Australia.
Towards centralism or towards more regionalism? The reference to an ‘indissoluble’ Federal Commonwealth in the preamble to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp) suggests a permanent union of States was contemplated. On the other hand, a commentator in 1906 discounted that reference ‘as one of those preliminary flourishes addressed to the conscience, which are to be found in the 11 Commonwealth of Australia, Report of the Royal Commission on the Constitution (Canberra, 1929).