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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    Its legal institutions and traditions are substantially derived from that of the English legal system, which superseded Indigenous Australian customary law during colonisation.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. 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 , that establishes the country as a federation under a constitutional monarchy governed with a parliamentary system .

  5. Australian constitutional law - Wikipedia

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    Constitutional law in the Commonwealth of Australia consists mostly of that body of doctrine which interprets the Commonwealth Constitution. The Constitution itself is embodied in clause 9 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which was passed by the British Parliament in 1900 after its text had been negotiated in Australian Constitutional Conventions in the 1890s and approved by ...

  6. The Laws of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The Laws of Australia is an encyclopaedia of the laws of Australia. Published by Lawbook Co. , it is one of the two foremost legal encyclopaedias in Australia, the other being Halsbury's Laws of Australia by LexisNexis. [1] The Laws of Australia, like other legal encyclopaedias, provides a summary on the current state of laws of Australia ...

  7. Criminal law of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The criminal law of Australia is the body of law in Australia that relates to crime. Responsibility for criminal law in Australia is divided between the state and territory parliaments and the Commonwealth Parliament. This division is due to the Commonwealth Parliament's limited legislative powers under Australian constitutional law. [Note 1]

  8. Category:Law of Australia - Wikipedia

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    Legal history of Australia (7 C, 17 P) Human rights in Australia (10 C, 15 P) I. Indigenous Australian law (2 C, 12 P) J. ... Pages in category "Law of Australia"

  9. Taxation in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australian GST revenue is collected by the Federal government, and then paid to the states under a distribution formula determined by the Commonwealth Grants Commission. Australians pay tax for the provision of healthcare , education , defense, roads and railways and for payments to welfare, disaster relief and pensions . [ 1 ]