Topics covered include:
- the amazing saga of Justice Boothby in the 1860s;
- Privy Council decisions establishing the plenary power of colonial legislatures;
- the dismissal of New South Wales (NSW) Premier Jack Lang in 1932;
- the resolution of deadlocks between State legislative Houses;
- the making of the Australia Acts 1986;
- debate on the separation of judicial power in the States;
- the survival of the NSW Legislative Council;
- the power to expel an MP in NSW; one-vote, one-value in Western Australia;
- affirmation of the rule of law in Western Australia;
- the Franca Arena saga in NSW; and
- the power to force ministers to produce documents in NSW.
Foreword by Hon. James Spigelman AC
Preface
Contributors
Tables of Cases
Tables of Statutes
Introduction: Australian States: Cinderellas No Longer? - George Winterton
CHAPTER 1: Justice Boothby: A Disaster that Happened - John M. Williams
CHAPTER 2: Plenary Within Limits: Powell v. Apollo Candle - Keven Booker
CHAPTER 3: Thomas McCawley v. The King - Nicholas Aroney
CHAPTER 4: Trethowan’s Case - Jeffrey Goldsworthy
CHAPTER 5: The Dismissal of the Lang Government - Anne Twomey
CHAPTER 6: Clayton v. Heffron - Anne Twomey
CHAPTER 7: Deadlocks in State Parliaments - John Waugh
CHAPTER 8: Tonkin v. Brand: Triumph for the Rule of Law - Peter Johnston
CHAPTER 9: Armstrong v. Budd and the Power of Expulsion - Gareth Griffith
CHAPTER 10: The Making of the Australia Acts 1986 - Anne Twomey
CHAPTER 11: Egan v. Willis and Egan v. Chadwick: The Triumph of Responsible Government - Gerard Carney
CHAPTER 12: Arena v. Nader and the Waiver of Parliamentary Privilege - Gareth Griffith and David Clune
CHAPTER 13: BLF v. Minister for Industrial Relations: The Limits of State Legislative and Judicial Power - Fiona Wheeler
CHAPTER 14: The Kable Case: A Guard-Dog that Barked But Once? - H.P. Lee
CHAPTER 15: McGinty v. Western Australia: Electoral Equality and the Demise of the "Implied Rights Venture" - Peter A. Gerangelos
Index