Common(wealth) Knowledge #50: Succession antics
The succession to the British throne hasn’t always been so straightforward.
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Common(wealth) Knowledge #49: Practical independence - The ANZUS Pact
AUKUS isn’t the first security alliance Australia has signed with the United States.
Missouri to implement statewide limitations on transgender healthcare
New regulations will require doctors to inform patients of the risks of transgender treatments.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #47: The Statute of Westminster
The history of how Australia achieved true independence from the U.K.
Ex-Liberal MP Tim Smith appears on UK TV, says monarchy is 'increasing in popularity' in Australia
Smith did not contest the 2022 Victorian state election.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #45: Referendum, plebiscite or postal survey?
The latest on the upcoming Voice to Parliament vote.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #40: An independent Prime Minister - once in a teal moon
A look at whether it is possible for an independent to become the Prime Minister of Australia.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #39: Overriding the Human Rights Act and supremacy of Parliament
A look at human rights protections in Australia and the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty.
Common(wealth) Knowledge #36: What is a First Minister?
Cooperative federalism in post-COVID lockdown Australia.
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 #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.
LIVE: Everything we know so far about the Gold Coast helicopter crash
At least 4 people were killed when 2 choppers collided near Sea World.
Will the Voice to Parliament be a 'racial divide' in Australia?
A look at claims about the Voice ahead of the upcoming referendum.
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 #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 #18: Australia and international law - a nuclear history
Why international law means Australia doesn’t have nukes, but other countries do.
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