This article proffers an alternative system for handling complaints about the judiciary, tailored to fit within Australia's constitutional constraints whilst promoting the institutional integrity of the judiciary. Abstract Judges are human. It is their humanity that allows them to pass judgement on the complexities of fact and law in cases before them. However, their humanity...

This paper explains recent High Court decisions on the constitutional validity of a funding agreement under the Commonwealth's National School Chaplaincy Program. Introduction In July 2012 the NSW Parliamentary Research Service published an e-brief on the High Court’s decision in the first School Chaplains case – Williams v Commonwealth of Australia. That case concerned the...

This report documents the inputs, processes and outputs of the EmpowerNZ workshop held in August 2012. The workshop created a space for fifty young New Zealanders to explore the nation’s future constitution. They produced a draft constitution; see the resulting workshop booklet.

A major constitutional crisis was narrowly avoided in Victoria, but its cause hasn't gone away, write Alistair Harkness and Brian Costar.

This paper examines the varied issues raised by the Restoration of Oaths of Allegiance Bill 2011. On 11 November 2011 the Constitution Amendment (Restoration of Oaths of Allegiance) Bill 2011 [the Restoration of Oaths of Allegiance Bill] was introduced in the Legislative Council, sponsored by the Reverend the Hon Fred Nile. The Second Reading speech...