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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 ...
Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...
The case was one of the earliest in a series of cases in which the High Court found implied rights in the Constitution. The trend reached a high point in Theophanous v Herald & Weekly Times Ltd, [7] which found that the implied right to freedom of political communication could be used as a defence in a defamation action. Although that is no ...
Stephen Jones, an opposition lawmaker, delivered an impassioned appeal for LGBTQ rights in Australia's parliament earlier this week that cited his fears as a parent and family tragedy.
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Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia precludes the Commonwealth of Australia (i.e., the federal parliament) from making laws for establishing any religion, imposing any religious observance, or prohibiting the free exercise of any religion. Section 116 also provides that no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any ...
An altercation erupts at a high-level meeting of a Russia ...
A man on Reddit says he was left out of a family photo given to his in-laws for their 30th anniversary — and now he's wondering why.. In an anonymous post, the man writes that his wife and all ...