The Australian Constitution has properly been described as ‗the birth certificate of a nation‘. It also provides the basic rules for the government of Australia. Indeed, the Constitution is the fundamental law of Australia binding everybody including the Commonwealth Parliament and the Parliament of each State. Accordingly, even an Act passed by a Parliament is invalid if it is contrary to the Constitution.

Revised and updated edition for schools as well as for general usethe Commonsense Cookery Book is a kitchen classic which has been teaching people kitchen basics for nearly a century. First published in 1914, and with one million copies sold, this is the book every home leaver takes with them when they fly the nest; the book you give to those who are just learning about food, and the book you can give to experts who want to go 'back to basics'. It gives you recipes for everything fr...

This Act may be cited as the Criminal Code Act 1995. Subject to subsection, this Act commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation. If this Act does not commence under within the period of 5 years beginning on the day on which this. Act receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period. The Criminal Code extends to every external Territory. Unless the contrary intention appears, an installation (within the meaning of the Customs Act 1901) that is deemed...

Unspoken is a collection of memories from intersex people in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. These stories and drawings reflect on singular moments held across numerous lifetimes.Intersex people, or people born with variations in sex characteristics, grow up with bodies and experiences beyond the norms, often unknown or misunderstood. Shame and stigma about intersex variations have kept many intersex people from speaking out, reinforced by doctors and families who have...

Jade is so many different things to so many people and cultures. It can be the colour of a lover’s eyes or the ocean on a calm day, a relic that holds the memories of a lifetime or a fake name given to the cute barista at your mother’s local coffee shop.Join these Australian authors as they bring you short love stories from the streets of post-war Shanghai, to the beaches of New Zealand all the way back home to the classic bake sale in outback Australia as love is fought for, won, ...

The Aboriginal people of Australia's Western Desert lived in their homelands for thousands of years. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the expansion of the Western Australian mining and pastoral industries led to the surveying of a track along which cattle could be driven from Kimberley stations to markets in the south. This track became known as the 'Canning Stock Route'.In July and August 2007 nearly 70 artists, facilitated by Western Australian cultural organisation FOR...

The Civil Aviation Act is controle for providing safe, secure, efficient and environmentally responsible services to the aviation industry (e.g. air traffic control, airways navigation and communication facilities, aeronautical data and airport rescue and fire-fighting services) within the Australian Flight Information Region (FIR).

CSI Told You Lies is a gripping account of the work of the forensic scientists on the frontline of Australia’s major crime and disaster investigations. They are part of the team at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine (VIFM), a state-of-the-art facility in Melbourne. VIFM is a world-renowned centre of forensic science, and its team members have led major recovery operations over the years, from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires to the shootin...

This article is about the legal concept. Family law (also called matrimonial law) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.

'That's how at six at night on 11 May 1928 I stopped being a Yanyuwa child and became a nowhere person... Motherless, cultureless and stuck in a government institution because my mother was Aboriginal and my father was not. I ceased to be an Aboriginal but I would never be white. I was not something bad, shameful, called a half-caste.' - Hilda Jarman MuirIn the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, people of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry - half-castes - were commonly...

Vintage Crochet builds on the success of Vintage Knits (2022) and features vintage patterns from Australian publications such as the Australian Women’s Weekly and the Australian Woman’s Mirror. The book presents a curated selection of patterns from these publications from as early as 1888, tried and tested to suit the needs of the modern day crocheter. The book contains instructions for a variety of vintage garments, accessories, toys and homewares, incl...

The National Library of Australia holds millions of letters in its collections: love letters, reports on scientific discoveries, impassioned pleas, newsy notes about the week that’s just been, responses from politicians to members of the electorate, letters to the editor and so many more.We’ve made a selection of remarkable letters from those millions, and passed them on to modern Australians to write new letters, inspired by those from our collection.The original letters m...