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A retrospective portrait of Musquito, completed in the 1860s. Musquito (c. 1780 – 25 February 1825) (also rendered Mosquito, Musquetta, Bush Muschetta or Muskito) was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader, convict hunter and outlaw based firstly in the Sydney region of the British colony of New South Wales and, after a period in exile on Norfolk Island, in Van Diemen's Land.
New South Wales v Commonwealth, [1] commonly known as the Wheat case, [2] or more recently as the Inter-State Commission case, [3] is a landmark Australian judgment of the High Court made in 1915 regarding judicial separation of power.
New South Wales v Commonwealth may refer to a number of High Court of Australia cases: New South Wales v Commonwealth (1908) 7 CLR 179; New South Wales v Commonwealth (1915) 20 CLR 54, Wheat Case; New South Wales v Commonwealth (1932) 46 CLR 155, Garnishee Case No 1; New South Wales v Commonwealth (1975) 135 CLR 337, Seas and Submerged Lands Case
Federated Amalgamated Government Railway & Tramway Service Association v NSW Rail Traffic Employees Association, known as the Railway Servants Case, [1] is an early High Court of Australia case that held that employees of State railways could not be part of an interstate industrial dispute under the conciliation and arbitration power, [2] applying the doctrine of "implied inter-governmental ...
New South Wales v Commonwealth (also called the WorkChoices case) [1] is a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia, which held that the federal government's WorkChoices legislation [2] was a valid exercise of federal legislative power under the Constitution of Australia.
The Bank Nationalisation Case, also called Bank of New South Wales v Commonwealth (1948) 76 CLR 1, is a 1948 decision of the High Court of Australia (upheld on appeal to the Privy Council) that invalidated Chiefley government legislation that attempted to nationalise the private banking sector.
The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1794–1816) were a series of conflicts where British forces, including armed settlers and detachments of the British Army in Australia, fought against Indigenous clans inhabiting the Hawkesbury River region and the surrounding areas to the west of Sydney.
The border between Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, as marked on an 1883 map showing Victoria's western border is further to the west than that of New South Wales. Doubts as to the accuracy of the Wade-White line grew with the availability of better astronomical equipment and the advent of the telegraph .