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• Head of State
• Representative Democracy
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• Citizenship
• Federalism
• Courts
• Indigenous People and the Constitution
• Constitutional Review and Change
• Miscellaneous
• Database

General Resources

• University of Richmond's Constitution Finder
• Venice Commission's Codices Index
• National Parliaments of the World #1
• National Parliaments of the World #2
• Australian Electoral Commission
• Australian Governments' Information Sources
• Australian Parliament
• Australian Parliamentary Education Office
• National Parliaments of the World
• Charter 88
• International Association of Constitutional Law
• Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia Includes biographical entries for all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, details of election and referendum results, constitutional material and statistics and tables on matters associated with the Parliament.
• Stephen Souter's The Australian Federal Constitution: A Guide to Net Resources
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Library's Historical Parliamentary Information - includes lists of all Australian Prime Ministers and Governors-General since 1901
• Australasian Legal Information Institute
• OzEmail LawNet
• Western Australia Constitutional Centre
• Centenary Of Women's Suffrage in Western Australia (1999)
• Swinburne - On-line Democracy Site
• Discovering Democracy Home Page

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• Australian Constitution
• Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Research Paper on the Preamble/Bill of Rights
• Play the ABC's 'Simcon" game and write your own constitution
• State Constitutions
  • NSW
  • South Australia
  • Victoria - with notes on how it works
  • Western Australia (a)
  • Western Australian Constitutional Forums and People's Convention: Background to and Discussion Paper on the Western Australian Constitution
• Other Constitutions
  • Constitutions of the World
• Constitutional History
  • Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s
  • Stephen Souter's Australian Federal Constitution Site: History
• Preamble
  • ABC's Preamble site (included a 'create your own preamble' game)
  • Commonwealth Parliamentary Education Office, Constitutional Referenda in Australia

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Head of State 

• Australia
  • Former High Court Chief Justices discuss Con Con model
  • The Australian Republic Issue: A Guide
  • The Constitutional Convention
  • Australians for Constitutional Monarchy
  • Australian Republican Movement
  • Commonwealth Parliamentary Education Office: Role of the Governor-General and the current Governor-General
  • "Governors, Democracy and the Rule of Law" 1999 Sir Robert Menzies Oration by the Governor of Tasmania
• International
  • Governor-General of Canada
  • Governor-General of New Zealand
  • The British Monarchy
  • The Commonwealth
• Referendum
  • Interview and talk back on the republic with Cheryl on Triple J

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Representative Democracy 

• Australian Parliament
  • The Parliament: An Overview
  • Historical Parliamentary Information
  • Australian Parliamentary Education Office
  • Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia Includes biographical entries for all Senators and Members of the House of Representatives, details of election and referendum results, constitutional material and statistics and tables on matters associated with the Parliament.
• State & Territory Parliaments
  • Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
  • Legislative Assembly of the ACT
  • Parliament of New South Wales
  • Parliament of Queensland
  • South Australian Parliament
  • Parliament of Tasmania
  • Parliament of Victoria
  • Governor of Victoria
  • Parliament of Western Australia
• Australian Governments
  • Australian Governments' Entry Point
• Other materials
  • English Bill of Rights of 1689
  • Welcome To Discovering Democracy
• International
  • National Parliaments of the World
  • Women in National Parliaments around the World
  • Modernising Parliament: Reforming the House of Lords (UK Government Paper, December 1998)
  • The Report on the Independent Commission on the Voting System (UK) (The Jenkins Report)
  • Charter 88's response to the Jenkins Report
  • Inter-Parliamentary Union: Information on Parliamentary Democracies
  • International Association of Constitutional Law (papers from the 5th World Congress, "Constitutionalism, Universalism and Democracy (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1999)

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• Australia
  • High Court of Australia and Individual Rights (from Melbourne barrister Des Lane, with summaries and links to relevant High Court cases and articles)
  • Stephen Souter's The Australian Federal Constitution: A Guide to Net Resources: Rights
  • Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Research Paper on the Preamble/Bill of Rights
• International
  • New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
  • New Zealand Government information about the operation of the NZ Bill of Rights Act
  • Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights 50th Anniversary

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Citizenship

• High Court's decision in the Heather Hill case (23 June 1999)
• The 50th Anniversary of Australian Citizenship Conference - Papers
• The Australian Citizenship Database
• Australian Electoral Commission Electoral Backgrounder Number 2: Parliamentary Report on Section 44 of the Constitution
• Australian Electoral Commission Electoral Backgrounder Number 4: Candidate Disqualifications Section 44 of the Constitution
• "The Good Citizen: Australian Democracy and Citizenship": An ABC Radio Open Learning Series
• Senator Bob Brown's Second Reading Speech for the Greens' Constitution Alteration (Right to Stand for Parliament--Qualification of Members and Candidates) Bill (to amend section 44 of the Constitution)
• Department of Immigration & Multicultural Affairs Citizenship Education Project
• Papers from the 50th Anniversary of Australian Citizenship Conference (July 1999)
• Department of Immigration and Multicutural Affairs Fact Sheets
  • Citizenship of Australia
  • New Zealanders in Australia
• Australian Citizenship for a New Century - Australian Citizenship Council report, February 2000

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• Australia
  • Australian Local Governments
  • Australian Treaties Library
  • Stephen Souter's The Australian Federal Constitution: A Guide to Net Resources: Federalism & section on the external affairs power (s.51(29))
  • Final Report of the Northern Territory Statehood Working Group (May 1996)
• Northern Territory
  • Report of the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
  • Response by the Chief Minister (Eighth Assembly, First Session, 10/8/99, Parliamentary Record No 18, 12/8/99, Tabled Paper continued from 27 April 1999)
• International
  • Forum of Federations: An International Network on Federalism
  • International Conference on Federalism (Canada, 6-8 October 1999)
  • Opinion by the Supreme Court of Canada on Questions relating to the Secession of Quebec from Canada (20 August 1998)

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• Federal Court of Australia
• Supreme Court of NSW
• Supreme Court of Victoria
• Database of Commonwealth, State and Territory court decisions
• High Court of Australia
• Stephen Souter's The Australian Federal Constitution: A Guide to Net Resources: High Court
• ABC Radio National's "The Law Report": Transcripts of two programs on the High Court - 1 & 2
• Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia Project
• Washington University Conference on Constitutional Courts (2001)

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• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation's Documents of Reconciliation, including its Draft Document for Reconciliation
• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
• "The Position of Indigenous Peoples in National Constitutions"Report and papers from 1993 conference convened by Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation & the CCF
• Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Commission

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• Australia
  • Commonwealth Parliamentary Library Research Paper on Constitutional Referenda in Australia
  • Former High Court Chief Justices discuss constitutional review
  • Australian Electoral Commission - Referendum 1999
  • Referendum on the Republic
  • Commonwealth Parliamentary Library's list of all constitutional referendums since 1901, including all questions and results.
  • The Constitutional Convention
  • Western Australian Constitutional Forums and People's Convention
  • "Millenium Dilemma": a resource for teachers and students, about engaging in the processes of constitutional change.

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• Queensland
  • Queensland Constitutional Review Commission
  • Draft Consolidation of the Queensland Constitution: Discussion Drafts
  • Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee: Final Report
    
    
• Victoria
  • Constitution (Reform) Bill - Second Reading Speech (25 November 1999)
    
    
• International
  • The Report on the Independent Commission on the Voting System (UK) (The Jenkins Report)
  • Charter 88's response to the Jenkins Report
  • Charter 88: Constitutional Reform for the UK
  • The Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament (includes run-down of the Blair Government's constitutional refom plans)

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• France
  • Portal to sites on French, francophone and comparative constitutional law (see also http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.cottin/rfdc99.htm)
    
    
• Nepal
  • Laws of Nepal - an exclusive site on Nepalese Constitutional Law, Sectoral Legal Regimes and Human Rights
    
    
• Constitutional Justice
  • Venice Commission (Centre on Constitutional Justice)

   

Database

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