Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Gewicht: 1061 g
Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Gewicht: 1061 g
ISBN: 978-1-86287-607-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
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. The amazing saga of Justice Boothby in the 1860s Privy Council decisions establishing the plenary power of colonial legislatures The dismissal of NSW Premier Jack Lang in 1932 The resolution of deadlocks between State legislative Houses The making of the Australia Acts 1986 Debate on the separation of judicial power in the States The survival of the NSW Legislative Council The power to expel an MP in NSW One-vote, one-value in WA Affirmation of the rule of law in WA The Franca Arena saga in NSW The power to force ministers to produce documents in NSW
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Contents 1 Introduction: Australian States: cinderellas No Longer? George Winterton 2 Justice Boothby: A Disaster that Happened, John M Williams 3 Plenary Within Limits: Powell v Apollo Candle, Keven Booker 4 Thomas McCawley v The King, Nicholas Aroney 5 Trethowan’s Case, Jeffrey Goldsworthy 6 The Dismissal of the Lang Government, Anne Twomey 7 Clayton v Heffron, Anne Twomey 8 Deadlocks in State Parliaments, John Waugh 9 Tonkin v Brand: Triumph for the Rule of Law, Peter Johnston 10 Armstrong v Budd and the Power of Expulsion, Gareth Griffith 11 The Making of the Australia Acts 1986, Anne Twomey 12 Egan v Willis and Egan v Chadwick: The Triumph of Responsible Government, Gerard Carney 13 Arena v Nader and the Waiver of Parliamentary Privilege, Gareth Griffith and David Clune 14 BLF v Minister for Industrial Relations: The Limits of State Legislative and Judicial Power, Fiona Wheeler 15 The Kable Case: A Guard-Dog that Barked But Once? H P Lee 16 McGinty v Western Australia: Electoral Equality and the Demise of the 'Implied Rights Venture', Peter A Gerangelos Index
