Power, parliament and the people / edited by Michael Coper and George Williams.

Annandale, N.S.W. : The Federation Press, 1997

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Australia. -- Constitution Act.

Constitutional history -- Australia.

Democracy -- Australia.

Constitutional law.

Australia -- Politics and government.

Chapter 1: Constitutional change - law, politics and psychology

Constitutional change and implied freedoms - Maurice Byers

The politics of constitutional change - Brian Galligan

Managing constitutional change from a psychological perspective - Valerie Braithwaite

Chapter 2: Hail to the chief - leadership and the head of state

The president: adapting to popular election - George Winterton

Leading change - Graham Little

Elect the government! - David Solomon

Chapter 3: The judicial branch

Non-justiciability and the Australian Constitution - James A Thomson

In defence of parliamentary sovereignty - Graham Maddox and Tod Moore

The role of the Chief Justice as adviser to the Head of State - Elizabeth Handsley

Chapter 4: We the people

The sovereignty of the people - Leslie Zines

The people in the republican tradition - Philip Pettit

The people and their conventions - Helen Irving

Chapter 5: Reflections on 1975

The dismissal and Australian democracy - Paul Kelly

The Coup 20 years after - Gough Whitlam

The dismissal and the Constitution - Harry Gibbs

Chapter 6: 1975 revisited

Lost causes and lost remedies - Harry Evans

The loans affair: an insider's view - Clarrie Harders

Lessons from 1975 - Malcolm Frase

The Senate and supply - Cheryl Kernot

Setting the record straight - David Smith

Discussion

Chapter 7: Australian democracy: the way ahead

Dismissal to republic - Neville Wran

Law, politics and morality - Tony Blackshield

The constitutional issues: an overview - Geoffrey Lindell

Democracy and bicameralism - John Nethercote

Past, present and future - Cheryl Saunders.

The dismissal and the Constitution - Harry Gibbs, author.

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