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5 unusual facts about Constitution of Australia


Australian Classification Board

Importing X18+ material from these territories to any of the Australian states is legal (as the Australian Constitution forbids any restrictions on trade between the states and territories).

Betfair

A ban on the use of betting exchanges took effect in Western Australia on 29 January 2007, with Betfair successfully claiming this new law violated the Constitution of Australia.

Cabinet of Australia

The Constitution of Australia does not recognise the Cabinet as a legal entity, and its decisions have no legal force.

Entrenched clause

The Commonwealth (i.e. federal) Constitution is entrenched by virtue of being an act of Imperial Parliament which the Commonwealth Parliament only has the power to amend according to its terms.

Right to vote in Singapore law

However, an analogy may be drawn from the approach taken by the High Court of Australia to the Australian Constitution.


Australian federal election, 1974

After a great deal of legalistic argumentation in both houses about the Gair matter, and justified by the failure of six (non-supply) bills to pass the Senate, Whitlam requested and was granted by Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck a double dissolution under section 57 of the Constitution.

Machinery of government

AAOs establish Departments of State under the Constitution, including the principal matters and legislation dealt with by each Department and its Minister(s).

Phil Cleary

However, his election was successfully challenged in the High Court and declared void on 25 November, as Cleary was on unpaid leave from the Victorian Education Department, and the Constitution of Australia forbids people employed by the Crown from standing for election.

Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia

In former times, church law required members to believe that the Solemn League and Covenant were still binding and forbade them from participating in government because the Constitution does not explicitly make the Australia an officially Christian country; these provisions have been repealed.

Same-sex marriage in the Australian Capital Territory

The High Court issued its ruling on 12 December 2013, striking down the ACT's law as inconsistent with the federal Marriage Act and proclaiming that the Constitution permitted only the federal parliament to make laws with respect to marriage in Australia.


see also

Symonston, Australian Capital Territory

Symonston is named after Sir Josiah Symon a Legislator, Federalist and one of the Founders of the Constitution of Australia.

Third Amendment

Constitution Alteration (State Debts) Act, 1928, the third amendment to the Constitution of Australia