70616: Australian Constitutional Law Notes Table of Contents 1 Characterisation and Interpretation ______________________________________________________ 8 1.1 Characterising a Law – What is it? ___________________________________________________________ 8 1.2 Summary Steps of Characterisation / Problem Solving ___________________________________________ 8 1.2.1 Subject Matter Power: ‘Sufficient Connection’ Test __________________________________________________ 9 1.2.2 Purposive Powers: Proportionality Test ___________________________________________________________ 10 1.3 Incidental Power _______________________________________________________________________ 11 1.3.1 Implied v Express Incidental Power ______________________________________________________________ 12 1.4 Characterisation under Specific Heads of Power _______________________________________________ 12 1.5 Principles of Constitutional Interpretation ___________________________________________________ 12 1.6 Remedies ____________________________________________________________________________ 13 1.6.1 Remedies under s. 75(v) _______________________________________________________________________ 13 1.7 Key Cases ____________________________________________________________________________ 14 1.7.1 Granall v Marrickville Margarine Pty Ltd (1954) ____________________________________________________ 14 1.7.2 Fairfax v Commissioner of Taxation (Cth) (1965) 114 CLR 1, __________________________________________ 14 1.7.3 In Herald & Weekly Times Ltd v Commonwealth (1966) 115 CLR 418, __________________________________ 14 1.7.4 Attorney-General for the Commonwealth v Colonial Sugar Refining Co Ltd (1913) ________________________ 14 1.7.5 In Murphyores Inc Pty Ltd v Commonwealth (1976) 136 CLR 1, ________________________________________ 15 1.7.6 Grain Pool of Western Australia v Commonwealth (2000) ____________________________________________ 15 1.7.7 Australian National Airways v Commonwealth (1945) _______________________________________________ 15 2 Judicial Power ______________________________________________________________________ 16 2.1 Constitution Chapter III The Judicature ______________________________________________________ 16 2.2 Definition of Judicial Power _______________________________________________________________ 17 2.2.1 Judicial Appointment _________________________________________________________________________ 17 2.2.2 Judicial Independence ________________________________________________________________________ 17 2.2.3 Judicial Accountability ________________________________________________________________________ 17 2.2.4 Precedent and Overruling _____________________________________________________________________ 18 2.2.5 Indicators of Judicial Power ____________________________________________________________________ 18 2.2.6 Judicial Review ______________________________________________________________________________ 19 2.2.7 Incidental Judicial Power ______________________________________________________________________ 19 2.2.8 Tribunals ___________________________________________________________________________________ 19 2.2.9 Acting Judges _______________________________________________________________________________ 20 2.3 Main Ideas Summary____________________________________________________________________ 20 2.3.1 Separation of Power __________________________________________________________________________ 20 2.3.2 Persona Designata ___________________________________________________________________________ 21 2.3.3 Usurpation and interference: __________________________________________________________________ 21 2.3.4 Kable Doctrine: Institutional Integrity and State courts operating under Chapter III ________________________ 22 2.4 Key Cases ____________________________________________________________________________ 22 2.4.1 NSW v Cth (Wheats Case) (1915) HCA ____________________________________________________________ 22 2.4.2 Boilermakers Case (1956) _____________________________________________________________________ 23 2.4.3 Waterside Workers‟ Federation of Australia v JW Alexander (1918) ____________________________________ 23 2.4.4 Chu Kheng Lim v Minister for immigration (1992) __________________________________________________ 24 2.4.5 Communist Party Case ________________________________________________________________________ 25 2.4.6 Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth ____________________________________________________________ 25 2.4.7 Kable v DPP (NSW) (1996) _____________________________________________________________________ 25 2.4.8 Brandy v Human Rights and Equal opportunity Commission (1996) ____________________________________ 27 1 | P a g e 2.4.9 Fardon v Attorney General (Qld) (2004) __________________________________________________________ 27 2.4.10 South Australia v Totani [2010] HCA 39 ___________________________________________________________ 27 2.4.11 Lane v Morrison (2009) _______________________________________________________________________ 27 2.4.12 International Finance Trust Company Ltd v NSW Crime Commission [2009] ______________________________ 28 2.4.13 Wainhou v NSW [2011] _______________________________________________________________________ 28 2.4.14 Liyanage v The Queen [1967] 1 AC 259 ___________________________________________________________ 28 2.4.15 Thomas v Mowbray (HCA) (2007) _______________________________________________________________ 28 2.4.16 Drake v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1979) 24 ALR 577 _________________________________ 29 2.4.17 WILSON V MINISTER ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER AFFAIRS (1996) ________________________ 29 2.4.18 Hilton v Wells (1985) _________________________________________________________________________ 29 2.4.19 Grollo v Palmer (1995) ________________________________________________________________________ 30 2.4.20 Momcilovic v The Queen & Ors. [2011] HCA 34 ____________________________________________________ 30 2 | P a g e 5.3.3.1 Examples of some more extreme Valid Transitional Uses ________________________________________ 18 5.3.3.2 Preparation for War ______________________________________________________________________ 18 5.3.3.3 Post War ______________________________________________________________________________ 18 5.3.4 Terrorism and internal Threats _________________________________________________________________ 19 5.3.4.1 Commentary on Thomas v Mowbray and Communist Party Case __________________________________ 19 5.4 Disciplining Defence Force Personnel _______________________________________________________ 19 5.5 Key Cases ____________________________________________________________________________ 20 5.5.1 Woman’s Employment Case (1943)______________________________________________________________ 20 5.5.2 Re Tracey; Ex parte Ryan (1989) ________________________________________________________________ 20 5.5.3 Thomas v Mowbray ___________________________________________________________________________ 21 5.5.4 Farey v Burvett (1916) 21 CLR 433 ______________________________________________________________ 22 5.5.5 Andrews v Howell ____________________________________________________________________________ 23 5.5.6 Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth [1951] (“Communist Party Case) __________________________ 23 6 External Affairs s 51 (xxix) : Both Subject Matter & Purposive __________________________________ 25 6.1 Summary Scope and Characterisation _______________________________________________________ 25 6.1.1 Geographic Externality ________________________________________________________________________ 25 6.1.2 International Comity _________________________________________________________________________ 26 6.1.3 International Concerns ________________________________________________________________________ 26 6.1.4 Implementation of international instruments ______________________________________________________ 26 6.1.4.1 Conformality Doctrine (Current Test) ________________________________________________________ 27 o 2 parts in the conformity doctrine: _________________________________________________________ 27 6.1.4.2 Implementation of treaty in Domestic Laws: __________________________________________________ 27 6.1.4.3 International law’s impact constitutional interpretation:_________________________________________ 28 6.2 Limitations ___________________________________________________________________________ 28 6.3 Key Cases ____________________________________________________________________________ 28 6.3.1 R v Sharkey 1949 ____________________________________________________________________________ 28 6.3.2 R v Burgess; Ex Parte Henry ____________________________________________________________________ 28 6.3.3 Richardson v Forestry Commission ______________________________________________________________ 29 6.3.4 Polyhukhovich v The Commonwealth (the War Crimes case) (1991) ____________________________________ 29 6.3.5 Horta v Cth (1994) ___________________________________________________________________________ 30 6.3.6 XYZ v Cth (2003) : (which affirmed the test in the Industrial Relations Act Case) __________________________ 30 6.3.7 Pape v Commissioner of Taxation _______________________________________________________________ 30 6.3.8 Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen (1982) ______________________________________________________________ 31 6.3.9 Teoh v Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (1995) ____________________________________________ 31 6.3.10 Commonwealth