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	Constitutional history of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1890s, two constitutional conventions were called, which ultimately adopted a constitution based on a combination of British, American and other models (monarchy and parliamentary government from Britain, federalism from the United States, the use of the referendum from Switzerland).
		A fundamental change in the constitutional structures of the British Commonwealth (formerly the British Empire, and not to be confused with the Commonwealth of Australia) did occur, however, in the late 1920s.
		In April 1933, a referendum in Western Australia produced a 68% yes vote to leave the Commonwealth of Australia with the aim of returning to the British Empire as an autonomous territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitutional_history_of_Australia (1658 words)

	Encyclopedia: Constitutional history of Australia
		The prehistory of Australia is the term used to describe the period of approximately 50,000 years (possibly a lot more) between the arrival of humans on the Australian continent and the first definite sighting of Australia by Europeans in 1606, which may be taken as the beginning of the...
		The text of the Constitution was originally a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (in full, An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia), an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		But a number of references in the Constitution make it clear that the authors assumed that the Queen of the United Kingdom, as head of the British Empire, would stand at the head of Australia's constitutional system, although her powers are delegated by the Constitution to the Governor-General of Australia as her representative.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Constitutional-history-of-Australia (490 words)

	History - Australian history
		Australia was usually portrayed as a remote and unattractive land for European settlement, but for Great Britain it had strategic and, after the loss of the American colonies (1783), socio-economic value.
		Australia’s soils, low rainfall, and recurrent droughts were better suited, however, for large-scale grazing than for arable farming, and the most successful and dramatic transformation of the Australian continent occurred in the 1830s and 1840s, as squatters established huge sheep runs.
		Australia was challenged to address the land claims of the indigenous inhabitants, which had been disregarded for centuries.
	www.australianaustralia.com /page/History/238 (8154 words)

	History of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australia was uninhabited until stone-culture peoples arrived, perhaps by boat across the waters separating the island from the Indonesia archipelago about 40,000 years ago.
		Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia.
		Australia also sent troops to assist South Vietnamese and U.S. forces in Vietnam and joined coalition forces in the Persian Gulf conflict in 1991, and in Iraq in March 2003.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/australia.html (1131 words)

	Australian History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Australia also has an abundance of 'rock art' some of which is the oldest known engravings in the world, pre-dating the cave etchings of Europe.
		Australia goes to war again on the side of the British but for the first time since 1788, the threat of invasion is real.
		The most legendary horse is the history of Australian Horse Racing is without a doubt the New Zealand born and Melbourne Cup winner, Phar Lap who won 14 races in a row in 1930-31 during a time of great hardship in Australia.
	www.showroom.com.au /aushistory.htm (8042 words)

	Parliament of Australia: Senate: Papers on Parliament No 35 - Chapter 8
		The history of the federation movement in the second half of the nineteenth century has been a focus of research and has received detailed attention from bibliographers.
		Gavin Souter has written two histories which deal comprehensively with the early years of the federal parliament: Acts of Parliament: a Narrative History of the Senate and the House of Representatives (1988) and Lion and Kangaroo: the Initiation of Australia, 1901-1919 (1976).
		General histories of Australia deal with varying detail with the first years of the Commonwealth Parliament.
	www.aph.gov.au /Senate/pubs/pops/pop35/c08.htm (1583 words)

	Ancient heritage, modern society - Australia in Brief - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 through the federation of six states under a single constitution.
		They wanted Australia to be harmonious, united and egalitarian, and had progressive ideas about human rights, the observance of democratic procedures and the value of a secret ballot.
		In 1914 the male population of Australia was less than 3 million, yet almost 400 000 of them volunteered to fight in the war.
	www.dfat.gov.au /aib/history.html (1436 words)

	Constitutional history of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1 The Emergence of the Commonwealth of Australia
		(At the time women had the vote in only one of them, South Australia.) It was then passed (with an amendment allowing for some appeals to the Privy Council in London) as an Act of the British Parliament, the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900.
		In April 1933, a referendum in Western Australia produced a 68% yes vote to leave the Commonwealth of Australia - with the aim of returning to the British Empire as an autonomous territory.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /c/co/constitutional_history_of_australia.html (1572 words)

	Canadian Constitutional Documents
		(The longest surviving constitution is that of the United States of America.) Turbulent, because of the forces pulling on it from every direction: From the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, through provincial battles for power with the Federal Government to Patriation, and beyond.
		Constitution Act 1867, which excludes Quebec from the section relating to the organization of schools in the province (section 93).
		Amends the Constitution Act, 1867, to raise the number of senators to 105 from 104, to allow Nunavut to be represented by one Senator.
	www.solon.org /Constitutions/Canada/English (2858 words)

	Law and Justice Foundation - Resources - Justice Kirby's papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although he loved Australia (as witness his lifetime's devotion to recording, interpreting and sometimes romanticising its history) the conclusion is inescapable that Australia repeatedly disappointed him.
		Because, unlike Australia, voting is not compulsory in the United States, an inference would ordinarily arise that the overwhelming majority of the people who actually bothered to vote intended that their vote should be counted.
		And, in Australia, the umpire was the electors, not the judges.
	lawfoundation.net.au /resources/kirby/papers/20010326_ManningClark.html (7196 words)

	Politics, Foreign Relations and the Law Listings: "N - Z" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A history of the parliament of Victoria 1856-1990
		This lively piece of social history combines the only detailed account of the role of the Australian colonies in General Gordon's Sudan campaign in 1885 and a textured examination of political sentiment in Australia at the time.
		Australia's role as host to the important Pine Gap and Nurrungar installations is an important one, but the authors show that the Australian government is not always kept fully informed of intelligence findings.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/argo/lists/pollawlst3.html (4690 words)

	World History Compass, Australian and New Zealand History
		There are eight different sets of original constitutional instruments: a set for each Australian State, one for the Northern Territory, and the set for the Commonwealth of Australia, established by Federation in 1901.
		Situated in Sydney, the Parliament of New South Wales is the oldest Parliament in Australia.
		History of the industrial labour movement in New Zealand.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /austral.htm (579 words)

	Australia (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		History of the Army in WA, by Ted Harris (Digger History)
		Australia's Redcoat Regiments, by B and M Chapman.
		Australia's Involvement in the U.N., by Steve Dudley.
	www.regiments.org /nations/oceania/austral.htm (960 words)

	Colony and Empire: Australia's Subservient Relationship With Britain
		Actually, the Constitution in section 74 does give one such example of this, regarding the limiting of appeals to the Privy Council ("The Queen in Council"): "proposed laws containing any such limitation shall be reserved by the Governor-General for Her Majesty's pleasure".
		Reasons for Australia not immediately adopting the Statute of Westminster were varied; such as "the states were loath to accept an immense boost to the status of the federal authority", many politicians wanted to maintain "the London connection", and some politicians thought that "votes might be gained from an ultra-loyalist posture".
		Australia's status has changed from a collection of several actual colonies to the status of a self-governing dominion to the status of a basically independent country.
	www.alphalink.com.au /~eureka/ozcol.htm (14954 words)

	Democracy: Notes to chapter 1
		New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania had responsible government by 1856, Queensland in 1860 and Western Australian in 1890: W. McMinn, A Constitutional History of Australia, pp.
		The Commonwealth of Australia had responsible government from its commencement in 1901.
		Constitutional Commission, Final Report of the Constitutional Commission, pp.
	www.mup.unimelb.edu.au /democracy/notes01.html (368 words)

	History of Australia presented by the Eureka Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		History of Australia presented by the Eureka Council
		It is now believed that Chinese explorers had found Australia centuries before and there are suggestions that Cook may have been used them in 1770; but bhere we are picking up the stroy from the first European record in 1503.
		Australia to decorate its heroes from the Vietnam and Gulf Wars
	www.eurekatimes.net (2028 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97018824 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Publisher description for To constitute a nation : a cultural history of Australia's constitution / Helen Irving.
		Despite its paradoxical construction, there is something uniquely Australian about the constitution, and it marked a utopian moment as the old century gave way to the new.
		Irving analyses the background and outcomes of the recent Constitutional Convention and considers its significance for Australia's possible future as a republic.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam028/97018824.html (190 words)

	DD Units - Guide Govt & Law - Ch 5 - Further reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The nation’s twentieth-century history is examined in volumes 4 and 5 of the Oxford History of Australia: Stuart Macintyre, vol 4, 1901–1942: The Succeeding Age, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1986; and Geoffrey Bolton, vol 5, 1942–1988: The Middle Way, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1996.
		The history of migration and the ethnic composition of the population is comprehensively dealt with by James Jupp (ed), The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1988.
		The best thing to read on Australia is still the book of that name by WK Hancock, published by Ernest Benn, London 1930.
	www.curriculum.edu.au /democracy/ddunits/guide/g5d_further_read.htm (609 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Documenting a democracy : Australia's story
		Published by the National Archives of Australia in partnership with the country's eight governments, the site offers a comprehensive introduction to Australia's constitutional history, from 1768-1995.
		The site can be navigated in a number of ways, and probably the best of these is to follow the pathways section, where digitised documents are arranged according to four topics, foundation, building, freedom, and land.
		Alternatively users can follow links from the timeline, or click on the map of Australia to access documents specific to the individual states.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=10073 (202 words)

	Australian History - inetACU
		BOOKS - Relating to Aust History Education are found on the Third Level (Ask for a Curriculum Subject Guide).
		Below are just a few URLs of sites of interest to students of Australian History.
		History of Australian Science and Technology Bibliography http://macfarlane.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/
	inet.acu.edu.au /node.cfm/E9B05B65-BE55-4B9F-8B6167E07688B359 (281 words)

	Constitutional Rights Foundation--Social Studies, Civic Education, Service-Learning, Law-Related Education, Civic ...
		Constitutional Rights Foundation--Social Studies, Civic Education, Service-Learning, Law-Related Education, Civic Participation
		values expressed in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights and to educate young people to become active and responsible
		Constitutional Rights Foundation, 601 South Kingsley Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90005, (213) 487-5590 Fax (213) 386-0459
	www.crf-usa.org (74 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Constitutional history of Australia [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Encyclopedia article on Constitutional history of Australia [EncycloZine]
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	encyclozine.com /Australian_Constitutional_History (1623 words)

	The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Home
		The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Home
		Department of the Premier and Cabinet : The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia
		The Constitutional Centre was established to promote public awareness of our federal system of Government with particular emphasis on its Constitutional basis, and the relationship with our State system.
	www.ccentre.wa.gov.au (79 words)

	Australia History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Find in a Library: A constitutional history of Australia
		Find in a Library: A constitutional history of Australia
		Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/6b040e08d24e08cf.html (54 words)

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