Constitutional change in the 1900s: Proceedings of the 1992 constitutional conference held in Darwin

Abstract

These papers were delivered at the conference, Constitutional Change in the 1990s organised by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly's Sessional Committee on Constitutional Development from 4-6 October 1992 in Darwin. The editors have made only minor alterations, not affecting - we believe - the substance of the original papers. We have corrected typographical errors, deleted repetitions and rhetorical excursions appropriate to a conference paper but not to a proceedings, and attempted to obtain as much consistency of style and styling as possible. Most papers were written by the speakers and distributed at the conference. A few have been edited from typescripts. All papers have been shown to contributors before and after the final editing and final versions approved by them. Obviously these papers reflect a wide range of opinions and positions. Content and conclusions are not those of either the Sessional Committee, the North Australia Research Unit or the editors. Naturally, however, we are grateful to the authors for writing these papers, for the Sessional Committee for initiating the conference, the sponsors and supporters of the conference I and the Working Committee who planned the conference and the Conference Secretariat who ran the conference. In particular we would like to thank Graham Nicholson, Peter Jull, Yoga Harichandran, Nicole White and the staff of the Legislative Assembly who provided logistical support to the conference. Thanks are also due to Janet Sincock for the final wordprocessing and to Ann Webb for coordinating production.