FEDERAL AUTHORITY
Defects in Australia’s Constitution
UNFORESEEN PROBLEMS
London, November 15.
“The Times,” in an editorial, lengthily reviews the difficulties of the situation arising from the Australian High Court’s invalidation of the Air Navigation Act following the marketing case. It expresses the opinion that there is little doubt that the electors will grant power to control aviation, but while the Government is confining the powers sought in the forthcoming referendums to the minimum necessary to carry out its functions, even the modest request regarding marketing is meeting with strong opposition and may not be carried.
“It is unfortunate,” says “The Times,’’ “that the Federal Government in the midst of the controversy regarding one amendment, is compelled to seek another, but the authors of the Constitution did not contemplate a world in which aviation, labour conditions, and marketing would become matters of international agreement, and consequently did not provide for possible difficulties which would give fresh fuel to the controversy regarding extensions of Federal authority.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 45, 17 November 1936, Page 9
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