LAW1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Centrelink, Vicroads, Royal Fish
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The executive: queen/governor/gg, ministers, cabinet, public service depts, vicroads, centrelink, medicare, ato, statutory authorities and corporations, police, security, armed forces. Tampa case: the ancient prerogative to exclude (cid:494)aliens(cid:495) included the power to detain them, in order to exclude: eg. Power to declare war, make peace: eg. The crown is immune from prosecution: eg. Case study: the tampa case executive detention. The parliament will often use s. 61 to expand their influence and legislate in fields the usually wouldn(cid:495)t be able to. A boat carrying 100 asylum seekrs was intercepted in australian waters and told to turn around. The captain refused and hept sailing towards australia where he was intercepted again by the australian military, who boarded the boat and transferred the asylum seekers onto their oown boat, and sailed them back to. Held: executive does not have power to take people off theirship and put them onto a military ship __.
