The Cauldron of constitutional change

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The Cauldron of constitutional change

Date

1997

Publisher

Canberra : Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University

Abstract

The question posed was: should the challenge to the Industrial Relations Act (Cth) 1988 be the occasion to confirm or peg back the current scope of the external affairs power? From the Commonwealth perspective, the answer is, clearly, no.