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Lead Balloon
The High Court ultimately decides these things? Who knew?
It’s as nearly as startling a revelation as viruses being virulent.
Yes, I know. I have this propensity to state facts, even going so far as stating what might be self-evident to some ... as terrible as it is I've got to say that I still find it preferable to the alternatives.
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Lead Balloon
Any second year law student analysis of the vertical fiscal imbalance and section 96 of the Constitution, and the implications for the Commonwealth’s powers?
Apologies but I don't know any second year law students.
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Lead Balloon
I’m not sure how a Schools Chaplaincy Programme has quite the national significance as an existential threat like a pandemic. But I suppose it depends on one’s religious views. Perhaps Chaplains can pray our way out of the pandemic.
If you do manage to find a second year law student get them to explain the doctrine of precedent and legal principles. You might also consider what former Chief Justice Spigelman noted on the topic of trying to do end runs on the Constitution:
It is not permissible to approach the Constitution on the basis that whatever is in the institutional interests of the Commonwealth must be the law.