CATCHWORDS
New South Wales v Commonwealth of Australia
Western Australia v Commonwealth of Australia
South Australia v Commonwealth of Australia
Queensland v Commonwealth of Australia
Australian Workers' Union v Commonwealth of Australia
Unions NSW v Commonwealth of Australia
Victoria v Commonwealth of Australia
Constitutional Law (Cth) – Powers of federal Parliament – Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) amended Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) – Amending Act altered primary constitutional basis of Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) so as to place reliance on s 51(xx) instead of s 51(xxxv) of the Constitution – Constitutional validity of Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) – Whether s 51(xx) of the Constitution confers power upon the federal Parliament to regulate the employment relationship between "foreign corporations, and trading or financial corporations formed within the limits of the Commonwealth" and their employees.
Constitutional Law (Cth) – Powers of federal Parliament – Section 51(xx) – Whether, to be supported by s 51(xx), the fact that a corporation is a foreign, trading or financial corporation must be significant in the way in which the law relates to it – Whether sufficient for law to be characterised as law with respect to constitutional corporations that it singles out constitutional corporations as the object of statutory command.
Constitutional Law (Cth) – Powers of federal Parliament – Relationship between s 51(xx) and s 51(xxxv) – Whether s 51(xx) confined in its operation by reference to terms of s 51(xxxv) – Whether s 51(xxxv) represents the totality of the federal Parliament's power to make laws with respect to industrial relations, except in relation to employees of the Commonwealth and other limited categories of employees – Whether s 51(xxxv) contains a "positive prohibition or restriction" to which s 51(xx) is subject – Whether s 51(xxxv) contains a "safeguard, restriction or qualification" to which s 51(xx) is subject.
Constitutional Law (Cth) – Powers of federal Parliament – Section 51(xxxv) – Constitutional validity of Sched 6 of Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) as amended by Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act 2005 (Cth) ("Amended Act") – Whether Sched 6 supported by s 51(xxxv) of the Constitution.
Constitutional Law (Cth) – Powers of federal Parliament – Section 122 – Amended Act applied to any body corporate incorporated in a Territory and any person or entity that carried on an activity in a Territory so far as the person or entity
