Introduction: Australian States: cinderellas No Longer?
George Winterton
Justice Boothby: A Disaster that Happened
John M Williams
Plenary Within Limits: Powell v Apollo Candle
Keven Booker
Thomas McCawley v The King
Nicholas Aroney
Trethowan’s Case
Jeffrey Goldsworthy
The Dismissal of the Lang Government
Anne Twomey
Clayton v Heffron
Anne Twomey
Deadlocks in State Parliaments
John Waugh
Tonkin v Brand: Triumph for the Rule of Law
Peter Johnston
Armstrong v Budd and the Power of Expulsion
Gareth Griffith
The Making of the Australia Acts 1986
Anne Twomey
Egan v Willis and Egan v Chadwick: The Triumph of Responsible Government
Gerard Carney
Arena v Nader and the Waiver of Parliamentary Privilege
Gareth Griffith and David Clune
BLF v Minister for Industrial Relations: The Limits of State Legislative and Judicial Power
Fiona Wheeler
The Kable Case: A Guard-Dog that Barked But Once?
H P Lee
McGinty v Western Australia: Electoral Equality and the Demise of the “Implied Rights Venture”
Peter A Gerangelos
Index