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Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Adelaide law school staff Professor Alexander Reilly and Associate Professor Matthew Stubbs and Associate Professor Peter Burdon made submissions to the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition Relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Their submissions can be found here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Constitutional_Recognition_2018/ConstRecognition/Submissions Alex, Matthew and Peter have been invited to present evidence to the committee when […]
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Public Law in the Classroom Teaching Workshop
On Thursday 12 February 2015, the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW and the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, University of Adelaide, hosted the ‘Public Law in the Classroom’ workshop. This was the first in what will become an annual event on public law teaching research and practice. Seventy-five public law teachers […]
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Public Law in the Classroom Workshop
This workshop for Australian tertiary teachers of public law will be co-hosted in Sydney by the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW and Public Law and Policy Research Unit, University of Adelaide. The first in an annual series of events on public law teaching research and practice, the workshop will feature an excellent […]
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Public Law and Policy Research Unit scholars make submission to National Commission of Audit
Last week, the Abbott Government released the Terms of Reference for a White Paper on Reform of the Australian Federation. The White Paper follows consideration of Australia’s federal relations by the National Commission of Audit earlier this year. A team of scholars from the University of Adelaide’s Public Law and Policy Research Unit – Dr […]
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Commonwealth left scrambling by school chaplaincy decision
In this post Adelaide Law School’s Gabrielle Appleby explains the High Court’s decision in Williams v Commonwealth [2014] HCA 23 (19 June 2014) and the need for an immediate response from the Commonwealth. This article was originally published on The Conversation. The High Court has again put the future of the federal government’s school chaplaincy […]
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The referendum that Australia had to have … but didn’t
Stephen McDonald is a barrister at Hanson Chambers and a member of the Australia Association of Constitutional Law (AACL). This blog post is an edited version of the speech Stephen gave at the AACL seminar – ‘Election Bonanza’ – hosted by the Adelaide Law School. As a guest-blogger for the Public Law & Policy Research […]
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Entrenching the Regional Processing Regime
Last week, Associate Professor Alexander Reilly gave evidence at a hearing of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the latest amendments to the Migration Act. In this blog, he explains his impression of the Committee’s focus and concerns based on that hearing. Last year, Gabrielle Appleby and Matthew Stubbs and I wrote a […]
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Submission on Government’s amendments to Migration Act
In August 2012, the Government commissioned expert panel reported on the politically plagued question of how Australia ought to address the question of asylum seekers who arrive on our shore by boat. (The full report can be accessed here). One of the panel’s recommendations was that Australia adopt a ‘no advantage’ principle – that is, […]
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Section 117 of the Constitution and Discounted Public Transport for Students
One complaint that students studying Australian Constitutional Law will make from time to time is that the subject matter that they are studying rarely has a directly affect on their day-to-day lives (unless they are selling crayfish, constructing dams or committing war crimes). I, of course, reject that proposition and a recent trip to Sydney […]
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Ritualistic masochism or necessary evil? COAG and Australian federalism
Is COAG suited to cooperative federalism? How would we measure that? Adelaide Law School PhD candidate Mark Bruerton considers these questions. The 24th of July bore witness once again to a governance ritual as old as the Australian nation itself. State and territory leaders met with the Prime Minister for a Council of Australian Government (COAG) meeting […]
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