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 | | The Australian constitutions are supplemented by ‘constitutional conventions’, a sort of political customary law, which provide in particular the ‘reserve powers’ of the Governor-General and Governors, and the conventions of parliamentary procedure. |
 | | In these terms, administrative law has two components: a structural component, consisting of the laws that establish the organs of administration, and a supervisory component, consisting mainly of the laws through which the judiciary can be called upon to declare that administrative action has exceeded the administrator’s authority, almost always an authority conferred by legislation. |
 | | The remedies available at common law and equity are the usual equitable remedies of declaration and injunction, as well as types of writ through which a court can quash an administrative decision as invalid, compel an administrator to carry out a duty or stop an administrator from taking action outside their authority. |
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