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Commonwealth Digest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

Extract

This Digest is intended to provide lawyers with a key to those questions and Ministerial Statements in the Commonwealth Parliament in which they are most likely to be interested, and it is, of course, selective. It covers the period 21 February to 8 November 1967, and is compiled from the published debates of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1968 The Australian National University

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References

1 In Apri1 1968 the Minister, in a letter to the Territory Advisory Council, stated in detail the Government's view on self-government for the Territory. See Canberra Times 23 April 1968.

2 The Bill to implement this proposal was debated in the Parliament in March-April 1968.

3 Section 24 of the Constitution.

4 Section 127 of the Constitution.

5 Section 51 (xxvi.) of the Constitution.

6 The referendum was held on 27 May 1967. The nexus proposal failed to obtain the necessary majority but both amendments relating to the Aboriginal racewere approved.

7 See (1964) 1 F. L. Rev. 1.

8 The report of the second inquiry was made available on 26 February 1968.