Constitutional change : select sources on constitutional change in Australia 1901-1997 / House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Published
Canberra : AGPS : Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives. Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, 1997
Part 1. Annotated Constitution -- Introduction -- The Constitution -- chapter 1. The Parliament -- ch. 1.1. General -- ch. 1.2. The Senate -- ch. 1.3. The House of Representatives -- ch. 1.4. Both Houses of Parliament -- ch. 1.5. Powers of the Parliament -- ch. 2. The Executive government -- ch. 3. The judicature -- ch. 4. Finance and trade -- ch. 5. The states -- ch. 6. New states -- ch. 7. Miscellaneous -- ch. 8. Alteration of the Constitution -- The schedule -- pt. 2. History of Australian referendums -- Introduction -- Overview -- Summary of arguments and results -- pt. 3. Select bibliography
Summary
This document provides an overview of efforts to change the Australian Constitution and a select bibliography on constitutional change. The committee has produced an annotated Constitution contaning references to the recommendations of several major constitutional reviews previously undertaken. There have been four comprehensive reviews of the Australian Constitution since 1901. They were undertaken by various bodies: a royal commission, a joint parliamentary committee, a constitutional convention comprising delegates from the three levels of government and a constitutional commission. These reviews recommended major changes to the Constitution. The annotated Constitution has been prepared by reference to the three most recent of these reviews
Analysis
Constitution s.128
Constitutional reform
History, 1901-1999
Interstate Comparisons
Interstate comparisons
Statistics
Notes
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