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  2. Australian legal system - Wikipedia

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    Its legal institutions and traditions are substantially derived from that of the English legal system, which superseded Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation. [1] Australia is a common-law jurisdiction, its court system having originated in the common law system of English law. The country's common law is the same across the ...

  3. Constitutional history of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Constitutional history of Australia is the history of Australia's foundational legal principles. Australia's legal origins as a nation state began in the colonial era, with the reception of English law and the lack of any regard to existing Indigenous legal structures.

  4. Australia Act 1986 - Wikipedia

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    The Australia Act 1986 is the short title of each of a pair of separate but related pieces of legislation: one an act of the Parliament of Australia, the other an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In Australia they are referred to, respectively, as the Australia Act 1986 (Cth) [n 1] and the Australia Act 1986 (UK).

  5. Australian constitutional law - Wikipedia

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    Australian constitutional law is the area of the law of Australia relating to the interpretation and application of the Constitution of Australia. Legal cases regarding Australian constitutional law are often handled by the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian judicial system. Several major doctrines of Australian ...

  6. Constitution of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia. It is a written constitution , which establishes the country as a federation under a constitutional monarchy governed with a parliamentary system .

  7. Australian administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Australian administrative law defines the extent of the powers and responsibilities held by administrative agencies of Australian governments. It is basically a common law system, with an increasing statutory overlay that has shifted its focus toward codified judicial review and to tribunals with extensive jurisdiction.

  8. History of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The history of Australia is the history of the land and peoples which comprise ... The aim was to extend the protection of British law to Aboriginal people, to ...

  9. Territorial evolution of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Most documents calling for the colony's foundation make no mention of a name, apart from its location at the "Port on the Western Coast of New Holland, at the Mouth of the River called 'Swan River', with the adjacent Territory", [9] and that a settlement should be formed "within the Territory of 'Western Australia'". [10] However, the law ...