Seat of power Thousands of pages of the Queen’s secret letters to governors-general from Lord Casey to Sir William Deane, from 1965-2001, will soon be open to the public in the most significant release of royal documents since Sir J
I cited Timothy Jones who wrote:
Australia and Britain have remarkably few constitutional guarantees of fundamental rights. This is not to say, of course, that the two countries are without any such protections. The
Magna Carta of 1215 (“that great confirmatory instrument … which is the ground work of all our Constitutions”) and the Bill of Rights of 1689 (“the product of an alliance between parliamentarians and common lawyers”) remain, but they have a limited field of operation and are inadequate as modern statements of fundamental rights.
13 And as subsequent discussion will demonstrate, the Australian Constitution does have something to say on the subject. It is nevertheless the case that the Anglo-Australian tradition has been to place faith in the common law, supplemented by legislation in specific areas, together with responsible and representative Parliamentary government, as the best means by which fundamental rights can be protected. As Sir Ninian Stephen has n
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The walls of the Melbourne headquarters of
Equity Trustees (EQT) are adorned with the portraits of former
prime ministers, premiers and governors-general who have served on the board of
the stately 133 year old institution.
The roll call of dignitaries includes 19
th century
premier Sir Charles Sladen, prime ministers Stanley Bruce and Robert Menzies
and former governor general Ninian Stephen.
In Marc,h former Abbott/Turnbull era Cabinet minister Kelly
O’Dwyer joined the board, filling a seat vacated by former Victorian premier
and Hawthorn Football Club president Jeff Kennett. (Kennett’s great
grandfather, Edward Fanning was a director for 30 years from 1888 to 1917).
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