LAW1112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Australian Communist Party V Commonwealth, Wilfred Fullagar, Constitution Of Australia
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Federal parliament, which shall consist of the queen, a senate, and a house of. Representatives, and which is hereinafter called the parliament , or the. Commonwealth(cid:495) a matter within the legislative power of the power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the. Commonwealth with respect to ": the communist party dissolution act contained a preamble that asserted it make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the commonwealth. Commonwealth (s 51(vi): the high court confirmed that it was its job to independently scrutinise the legislation, and ascertain whether it really was for the defence of the. A power to make laws with respect to lighthouses does not authorize the making of a law with respect to anything which is, in. If the language of an act of parliament is clear, its merits and demerits are alike beside the point. It is the law, and that is all.
