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State constitutional landmarks

Fifteen landmark cases and controversies of parliamentary government in the Australian colonies and States are recounted in all their political and legal drama by some of Australia's leading constitutional scholars
Print Book, English, 2006
Federation Press, Annandale, N.S.W., 2006
xxii, 458 pages ; 25 cm
9781862876071, 186287607X
225308409
1: Justice Boothby: A disaster that happened
John M Williams
2: Plenary within limits: Powell v Apollo Candle
Keven Booker
3: Thomas McCawley v The King
Nicholas Aronry
4: Trethowan's Case
Jeffrey Goldsworthy
5: The dismissall of the Lang Government
Anne Twomey
6: Clayton v Heffron
Anne Twomey
7: Deadlocks in State Parliaments
John Waugh
8: Tonkin v Brand: Triumph for the rule of law
Peter Johnson
9: Armstrong v Budd and the Power of Expulsion
Gareth Griffith
10: The Making of the Australian Acts 1986
Anne Twomey
11: Egan v Willis and Egan v Chadwick: The triumph of responsible government
Gerard Carney
12: Arena v Nader and the Waiver of Parliament Privilege
Gareth Griffith and David Clune
13: BLF v Minister for Industrial Relations: The limits of State Legislative and judicial power
Fiona Wheeler
14: The Kable case: A guard-dog that barked but once?
H P Lee
15: McGinty v Western Australia: Electoral Equality and the Demise of the "Implied Rights Venture"
Peter A Gerangelos