Common(wealth) Knowledge #36: What is a First Minister?
Cooperative federalism in post-COVID lockdown Australia.
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Common(wealth) Knowledge #35: A public healthcare debate 80 years in the making
Today, Australians take government-subsidised healthcare for granted - but that was not always the case.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #34: Why Edmund Barton shouldn't be forgettable
We take a look at why Edmund Barton was one of Australia’s most important Prime Ministers.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #33: Papua New Guinea and Australian federalism
A look at how Papua New Guinea has influenced the development of Australian law.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #32: A House divided
Kevin McCarthy has been elected Speaker after 15 different ballots.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #31: New year, new court
What we could see in the High Court in 2023.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #30: Constitutional issues in the New Year
The major issues we'll be seeing in 2023.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #29: Cases we missed
Wrapping up a big year in constitutional law.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #28: Immigration Detention in the 1990s
3 decades on from a major constitutional law case.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #27: Are political parties unconstitutional?
Fact-checking a claim that political parties are illegal under Australia's constitution.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #26: Child Privacy and Political Communication
The implied freedom of political communication revisited in the context of child privacy.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #25: Behind the scenes
A look at how this series is created every single week.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #24: Trade deals with China
Anthony Albanese this week met with Xi Jinping.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #23: Can the Governor-General dismiss Prime Ministers?
47 years on from the 1975 constitutional crisis, a look at what the Whitlam Dismissal can tell us about constitutional conventions.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #22: Brazil and the democratic transition of power
How different democracies handle a change in government after an election.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #21: The Constitution and corflutes
A look at how the Australian Constitution protects political advertising.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #20: National security vs natural justice
What national security can teach us about administrative law.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #19: A new era for the High Court
Australia will become the first common law country with a majority female bench.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #18: Australia and international law - a nuclear history
Why international law means Australia doesn’t have nukes, but other countries do.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #17: African court rules cannabis criminalisation for kids unconstitutional
The ruling from the Constitutional Court of South Africa was unanimous.
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