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Australian Law Reform Commission Act 1996 1996 (No. 37) Yes (as amended) Australian Law Reform Commission (Repeal, Transitional and Miscellaneous) Act 1996 1996 (No. 38) No Australian Maritime Safety Authority Act 1990 1990 (No. 78) Yes (as amended) Australian Meat and Live-stock Corporation Act 1977 1977 (No. 67) No
Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Act 2021; Family Law Act 1975; Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Act 2011; Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997; Flags Act 1953; Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018; Freedom of Information Act 1982
New doctrines of English common law continued to be treated as representing the common law of Australia. For example, the doctrine of the famous case of Donoghue v Stevenson from which the modern negligence law derived, was treated as being latent already within the common law at the time of reception. [17]
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 ...
A range of laws applying to or of specific relevance to Indigenous Australians.A number of laws have been passed since the European settlement of Australia, initially by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, then by the Governors or legislature of each of the Australian colonies and more recently by the Parliament of Australia and that of each of its States and Territories, these laws ...
The Parliament of Australia (officially the Parliament of the Commonwealth [4] and also known as the Federal Parliament) is the federal legislature of Australia.It consists of three elements: the monarch of Australia (represented by the governor-general), the Senate (the upper house), and the House of Representatives (the lower house). [4]
This is a list of currently active treaties that the Government of Australia has entered into since the federation of Australia in 1901. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in conjunction with the Australasian Legal Information Institute, has published an online Australian Treaties Database from where this list is obtained and updated.
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 .