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This was when the procedure was used to pass the Australia Act 1986. The Australia Act effectively terminated the ability of the British Parliament or Government to make laws for Australia or its States, even at their request; and provided that any law which was previously required to be passed by the British Parliament on behalf of Australia ...
The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined Britain in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second World War against Nazi Germany in 1939.
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).
Australian War Memorial Act 1925 1925 (No. 18) No Australian War Memorial Act 1962 1962 (No. 85) No Australian War Memorial Act 1980 1980 (No. 104) Yes (as amended) Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation Act 1980 1980 (No. 161) Yes (as amended) Australian Wool Commission Act 1970 1970 (No. 103) No
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (Imp) 63 & 64 Vict, c 12, s 9 ('Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia') Location: National Archives of Australia [1] Author(s) Constitutional Conventions, 1891 and 1897–98: Supersedes: Federal Council of Australasia Act 1885: Full text; Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act at Wikisource
This centrepiece of the White Australia policy, the act used a dictation test in a European language to exclude Asian migrants, who were considered a threat to Australia's living standards and majority British culture. [249] [250] With federation, the Commonwealth inherited the small defence forces of the six former Australian colonies.
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 ...
Australian Indigenous sovereignty, also recently termed Blak sovereignty, encompasses the various rights claimed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within Australia. Such rights are said to derive from Indigenous peoples' occupation and ownership of Australia prior to colonisation and through their continuing spiritual connection ...