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Commonwealth Digest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2025

J.T. Bradshaw,
M.V. Meagher,
P. Buchanan and
J.T. Thynne
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Extract

This digest covers the period 26 March 1963 to 30 October 1963, and is compiled from the published debates of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The page references to Parliamentary Debates (‘S. Deb. ’ and ‘H.R. Deb.’) are to the published debates of the Senate and the House of Representatives, for the first Session of the Twenty-fourth Parliament, third and fourth periods.

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Research Article
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Federal Law Review , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 1964, pp. 127 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © 1964 The Australian National University

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Footnotes

[Editors’ Note: This first issue of the Commonwealth Digest is intended to provide lawyers with a key to those proceedings in the Commonwealth Parliament in which they are most likely to be interested. It is, of course, selective. The Digest is in the nature of an experiment, and the Editors would welcome comment upon it. It does not attempt to duplicate the excellent service of the ‘ Review of Legislation: Commonwealth’ in the University of Western Australia Law Review, and the two series should be regarded as complementary.

The Editors hope that the scope of the Digest might in due course be extended—for example, to note the appearance of official Commonwealth Government publications of particular interest to lawyers. That is why the series is named ‘ Commonwealth Digest ’ and not ‘ Commonwealth Parliamentary Digest’, although in this first issue it is indeed no more than that.]

References

1 On 11 March 1964, the Supreme Court ofthe Australian Capital Territory passed sentence of death on two youths convicted of rape. The death penalty is mandatory under A.C.T. law in such cases. These sentences have since been commuted to terms of imprisonment.

2 1955 was the year of the Fitzpatrick and Browne case.

3 Mr. Justice Ligertwood was the Chairman of the Commonwealth Committee on Taxation which was appointed on 3 December 1959. The Committee reported in June 1961. The Report is printed in Parliamentary Papers—General; 23rd Parliament, 3rd Session, 1961; Vol. III, p. 1547.

4 (1960) 105 C.L.R. 164, 171.