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The Commonwealth raised a foreign loan of a million pounds to build Australia House in London. 1914 Levy on estate duties 1915 Federal Income Tax Federal income tax was first introduced in 1915, as a wartime measure to help fund Australia's war effort in the First World War. Between 1915 and 1942, income taxes were levied by both State ...
The Constitution Alteration (Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights) Bill 1944 [1] was an unsuccessful proposal to alter the Australian Constitution to give the Commonwealth an additional 14 powers for a period of five years, with Prime Minister John Curtin saying that maintaining wartime controls was necessary for Australia to re-adjust to peacetime conditions.
The Statute took effect in Australia in 1942 with the passing of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942, with retroactive effect to 3 September 1939, the start of World War II. The adoption of the Statute repealed the application of the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 in relation to federal legislation.
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 ...
The immediate prompt for the adoption of the Statute of Westminster was the death sentence imposed on two homosexual Australian sailors for the murder of their crewmate committed on HMAS Australia in 1942. Since 7 November 1939, the Royal Australian Navy had operated subject to British imperial law, under which the two men were sentenced to death.
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 states and territories. [2] The Australian Constitution sets out a federal system of government.
The Constitution of Australia established the principle of federalism in Australia. Federalism was adopted, as a constitutional principle, in Australia on 1 January 1901 – the date upon which the six self-governing Australian Colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia federated, formally constituting the Commonwealth of Australia.
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