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Publisher
Melbourne University Press in association with Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1935
Language
English
Description
"When, over thirty years ago, the Convention which framed a Federal Constitution for Australia was nearing the end of its labours, it yielded to the arguments of Mr. H.B. Higgins, the junior representative from the state of Victoria, and allowed to be inserted under the "Powers of the Parliament" the indefinite and far-reaching subsection (xxxv) dealing with industrial disputes. Every draftsman knows the dangers of inserting new provisions into the...