The voters aren’t happy.
While there is no single antidote for this winter of discontent, the way government governs is a contributing factor.
The government tells us that belief in democracy is a shared Australian value and … Read the rest
Welcome to the July edition of the AUSPUBLAW Australian Public Law Events Roundup. We would like to draw your attention to the annual New South Wales Young Lawyers Public Law and Government Committee’s Sir Anthony Mason Constitutional Law Essay Prize, … Read the rest
In Australian Communist Party v The Commonwealth, Justice Dixon famously asserted that the rule of law ‘forms an assumption’ of the Australian Constitution. This has been cited and repeated with such frequency that it … Read the rest
On 30 May 2017, the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion announced 7.5 million dollars to help ‘finalise Aboriginal land claims over sea country’ in the Northern Territory (NT). These ‘land claims’, or rather negotiations, relate to the … Read the rest
BY DYLAN LINO
A momentous thing happened on 26 May 2017. Gathered together in the shadow of Uluru for an unprecedented National Constitutional Convention, over 200 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates ‘coming from all points of the southern sky’ … Read the rest
Welcome to the June edition of the AUSPUBLAW Australian Public Law Events Roundup. We’d like to thank the Gilbert + Tobin Centre Social Justice Intern, Nakul Bhagwat for again doing an excellent job assisting us in compiling this events post.… Read the rest
In Plaintiff M96A/2016 v Commonwealth, the High Court unanimously held that a mother and daughter, who were transferred from detention in Nauru to Australia to obtain medical treatment, were validly held in immigration detention during their … Read the rest
BY DAN WESTBURY
In Palmer v Ayers, the High Court considered the congruence of powers of examination given to the Federal Court in its supervision of bankruptcy with Chapter III of the Constitution. In modern constitutional law, the separation … Read the rest
Welcome to the May edition of the AUSPUBLAW Australian Public Law Events Roundup. We’d like to thank Nakul Bhagwat, the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law social justice intern, for his assistance in compiling this events roundup.
We would … Read the rest
BY ANNA OLIJNYK
We live in an age of tribunals. Although tribunals existed at the time of federation, the framers of the Australian Constitution could never have imagined the prominence of administrative tribunals in our justice system today. Small wonder, … Read the rest
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