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The Naked Australian Constitution
Interpretations, Inadequacies, and Implications
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About this book
Despite the Australian Constitution having been one of the most stable since its commencement in 1901, it is becoming fatally flawed. The Naked Australian Constitution examines these flaws and the lack of public appreciation of those defects. This is due to several serious errors, including the racial basis of its origin, and the misleading nature of its text—with the High Court having interpreted it in a remarkably subjective manner, undermining the few express requirements and freedoms in the Constitution while also applying concepts that are not required by the constitutional text. As a result, the Constitution is now what the High Court says it is, instead of what it was expected to be by its drafters. Most Australians have no knowledge of the Constitution or its operation, but with the growing subjective application of the Constitution, this constitutional digression requires remedy by a Constitutional review. Ian Killey argues that without review, the Australian people will eventually see the Australian Constitution for what it is rapidly becoming—an Emperor with no clothes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Why Did Australia Federate?
- Chapter 1: Middle-Aged Constitution
- Chapter 2: Federation and Henry Parkes’s Boast
- Chapter 3: Federation and “Australia’s Magna Carta”
- Part II: Stable but Flawed Constitution
- Chapter 4: Constitutional Problem 1: A Very Misleading Constitution
- Chapter 5: Constitutional Problem 2: Constitutional Provisions Undermined by the High Court
- Chapter 6: Constitutional Problem 3: Constitutional Provisions That Are Badly and Misleadingly Designed
- Chapter 7: Constitutional Problem 4: Constitutional Requirements Based on Judicial Invention
- Chapter 8: Constitutional Problem 5: A Constitution That Does Not Deal with the Essential Nature of the Federation
- Chapter 9: Constitutional Problem 6: A Constitution with a Result Very Different from Its Design
- Chapter 10: The Need for an “Intelligible Theory”
- Chapter 11: What Do We Do Now?
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author