13,496 research outputs found
Let's Leave Hysteria to the Monarchists
No full textI argued that either of the methods of selecting a President for an Australian republic - choice by Parliament or direct election by the people - were satisfactory, that both methods had been proven to work in other countries, and that republicans should stop inventing hysterical arguments against their non-preferred method
Conservative voters surprisingly direct
No full textAn analysis of the Australian Referendum Study, 1999, conducted a few months after the republic referendum, shows that\ud
• the proposed republic was rejected because the majority of voters wanted a republic with a directly elected President; and that\ud
• this preference was particularly strong among those who self-identified as supporters of the more conservative parties. While these people contained many monarchists they contained even more ‘direct electionists’ and hardly any supporters of the republic proposed in 1999, where politicians would choose the President
Letter from John P. John to Joseph R. Goodman, 1942
No full textLetter from John P. John to Joseph R. Goodman: "Here are a couple of letters Caleb received concerning the Japanese situation. I have already sent him a condensed record of their general text. Probably more material will be coming in from time to time and we will forward it to you. I guess this is sufficient since Caleb has spoken with you in detail about the problem and where he is to be contacted in the east. Louise Thompson and I are holding things down while Caleb is away and can be contacted here by mail for anything."Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Too Much One-man Rule and Too Many Symbols Of It!
No full textThe article, published after the resignation of Governor-General Hollingworth, discussed the assumed power of the Prime Minister to decide, by himself, who the next Governor-General would be, and argued that \ud
(i) the convention of responsible government, as developed in the 19th century, dictated that major decisions such as this should be made by the Cabinet collectively, not by one man, and that \ud
(ii) the monarchical language of our Constitution ("executive power is vested in the Queen") encourages people to think in terms of one-man rule rather than in terms of a broader and more democratic distribution of power
Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee's Inquiry into an Australian Republic
No full textThis submission discussed most of the issues raised by the Committee in their Discussion Paper (see http://www.aph.gov.au/SEnate/committee/legcon_ctte/completed_inquiries/2002-04/republic03/discussion_paper.pdf ) with particular emphasis on the manner of choosing a President and the process of achieving constitutional change
Constitutional Law
No full text"This book systematically explores and clarifies the complexities of Austrealian Constitutional law and provides valuable critical analysis suitable for students, academics and government departments." -- book cover \ud
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"Constitutional Law examines the foundational principles and concepts of this area of law. Written by practicing lawyers and lecturers in the subject, this book aims to provide an accessible yet comprehensive introductory text for Australian students. In eight parts this book systematically explores and clarifies the complexities of Australian Constitutional law and provides valuable critical analysis suitable for students, academics and government departments. An excellent resource for law students, Constitutional Law provides visual summaries in the form of flow charts, and each chapter includes key concepts and end-of-chapter discussion questions, further reading and useful websites and links. It also introduces students to key examinable areas, legal style essays, problems and assessment." -- publisher websit
R Code and Output Supporting: Do Capture and Survey Methods Influence Whether Marked Animals are Representative of Unmarked Animals?
No full textThe archive consists of 9 files:
1. WA_elk.R = R code used to analyze elk resighting data.
2. WA_elk.html = html output resulting from running the R code in WA_elk.R.
3. Mtg_AK_WA.R = R code used to analyze mountain goat resighting data.
4. Mtg_AK_WA.html = html output resulting from running the R code in Mtg_AK_WA.R.
5. Moose_MN.R = R code used to analyze moose resighting data.
6. Moose_MN.html = html output resulting from running the R code in Moose_MN.R.
7. sightdat.csv = resighting data collected from moose in Minnesota between 2004 and 2007.
8. MTG_Sight_Alaska.csv = resighting data collected from mountain goats in Alaska.
9. NE_MN_Map.pdf = map of collection region for moose resighting data.These files contain R code (along with associated output from running the code) supporting all results reported in "Do Capture and Survey Methods Influence Whether Marked Animals are Representative of Unmarked Animals?" in Wildlife Society Bulletin. The lead author wrote this code to analyze multi-year re-sighting data collected from moose (Alces alces) in Minnesota, elk (Cervus elaphus) in Washington, and mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) in Washington and Alaska, to evaluate whether detection probabilities increased or decreased as a function of time since animals were captured.Fieberg, John R; White, Kevin S. (2015). R Code and Output Supporting: Do Capture and Survey Methods Influence Whether Marked Animals are Representative of Unmarked Animals?. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, http://dx.doi.org/10.13020/D6Z597
Globalisation - The Bane of Popular Sovereignty?
No full textIt is argued that the undeniable fact that 'globalisation' is affecting Australia's freedom of action in some respects does not mean that it is futile to strive for an increased level of direct popular involvment in our institutions of government. In particular, it is argued that we should not be deterred from considering the institution of Citizen-Initiated Referendums (CIR) by the threat of 'redneck populism' or local protectionist sentiments
Submission to Australian Law Reform Commission's Review of Sedition Laws (and brief response to their Discussion Paper 71 on that topic)
No full textIn this submission, I argued that the proposed new sections of the Criminal Code (Cth) were not wholly unreasonable, but that the existing section 80.1 as to treason, and the existing provisions of the Crimes Act 1914 Part IIA as to unlawful organisations were drawn so broadly as to be an infringement of the right of freedom of speech.\ud
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My brief response to the Commission's "Discussion Paper" (really a draft report) No 71 is appended to the original submission
Why Do We take So Much Upon Ourselves? The Case for a Prescriptive Pre-Law Year
No full textThe article argues that a lawyer needs to know something about politics, history, logic, ethics, sociology and economics, and that rather than law lecturers trying to teach these in 'contextual' units in a Law degree, law students should spend at least a year in an Arts faculty learning something about these disciplines
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