Topic Research Guides: Constitutional Law

Constitutional Law texts are shelved at 342.2

Subject terms to search in the catalogue include: Australia - History; Australia - Politics and Government; Australia Constitutions; Democracy - Australia - History; Federal Government - Australia - History; Australia - Constitutional History

There are a number of "major texts" in this area with regular editions being released. Check the catalogue for details of the current edition.

• Australian politics and policy / Peter Chen, Nicholas Barry, John Butcher, David Clune, Ian Cook, Adele Garnier, Yvonne Haigh, Sara Motta, Marija Taflaga
• Blackshield and Williams Australian constitutional law and theory : commentary and materials / George Williams, Sean Brennan, Andrew Lynch
• Hanks Australian constitutional law : materials and commentary / Jennifer Clarke ... [et al.]
• Lumb, Moens & Trone, The constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia annotated

Indexes:

• Westlaw Australia - Content Type: Secondary Sources - Index to Australian Cases and Journals
• Lexis Advance - CaseBase - Index to Australian cases and journals
• Westlaw UK - Index to UK journals

Full text Journals:

Australian:

• Lexis Advance 
• Westlaw Australia
• Informit
• The Conversation

International:

• Westlaw UK
• Westlaw Classic
• HeinOnline
• Oxford Reports on International Law
• ProQuest
• Gale Academic Onefile

Articles

• Thornhill, Chris, 'The Sociology of Constitutions' (Pt Annual Reviews) (2017) 13(1) Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 493

Australian Law Reform Commission

From Constitutional Convention to Republic Referendum: A Guide to the Processes, the Issues and the Participants

Australian Constitutional Convention 1998

Australian Republican Movement

New South Wales Law Journal 4:2 - "The 1998 Constitutional Convention: an Experiment in Popular Reform?"

Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s

Australian Referendum Information

Lexis Advance

Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (Parliament of Australia)

Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (use AustLII version for [Noteup] fuctions for sections)

Documenting a Democracy (National Archives of Australia) - scanned imaged of significant constitutional legislation and documents

Constitution Act 1889 (WA) (Western Australian Legislation)

Lexis Advance - Legislation - Statutes Annotations Federal - Browse to Amended Sections and Annotations

Westlaw Australia

Australia's Constitutional Milestones (Parliament of Australia)

HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated

The original Australian Constitution was passed by the British Government via the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900

Australian Constitution s 44: Disqualification (FRoL link)

Candidates Handbook

Department of the Parliamentary Library, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Allegiance and s 44 of the Australian Constitution​, 1992.

eBrief: Section 44 of the Constitution, March 2004.

Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Aspects of section 44 of the Australian Constitution Subsections 44(i) and (iv), July 1997

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, 18 August 2017.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee, 14 October 2016.

Articles on ProQuest database: paste search string:  all(citizen OR 44) NEAR/30 all(constitution) AND loc.Exact("AUSTRALIA" OR "australia" OR "Australia")

Re Canavan; Re Ludlam; Re Waters; Re Roberts [No 2]; Re Joyce; Re Nash; Re Xenophon [2017] HCA 45

Blackshield, Tony, 'Seven Little Australians', Australian Public Law, 30 October 2017.

Blackshield, Tony, '"Exclusive Cognisance” and Cognitive Dissonance: Alley v Gillespie', Australian Public Law, 3 April 2018.

Commonwealth Law Reports (CLR) on Westlaw Australia

Australian Law Reports (ALR) on Lexis Advance 

Unreported decisions on AustLII and Jade Barnet

High Court of Australia - Note links to judges' speeches and other documents

Engineer's Case

Constitution Education Fund Australia - an independant, non-partisan and non-profit organisation committed to increasing public understanding and appreciation of the Constitution, its history and contemporary relevance

Laws of Australia (Westlaw Australia) - Select Encyclopaedia, Click on Laws of Australia, click on the + next to Government

Our Government (Australian Government) - leads to useful headings such as Australia's Federation, Commonwealth Government and State Governments.

Australia's System of Government - (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)

About Parliament: House of Representatives InfoSheets (Parliament of Australia)

Constitute Project - The World's Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare

World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary and Historical Documents and Resources