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Abstract

This article examines the role played by referendums as a mechanism for constitutional reform in Queensland and New South Wales in the early twentieth century. The particular focus is on the reform (in New South Wales) and abolition (in Queensland) of the States’ respective Legislative Councils, the upper house of the State legislatures. The case studies are used to examine the moral legitimacy of referendums as a means to determine or contribute to the resolution of ‘constitutional’ controversies in polities which are similar in many important respects to that of the United Kingdom.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Publisher Keywords:	Queensland, New South Wales, referendums, constitutional reform, entrenchment
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Departments:	The City Law School > Academic Programmes
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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