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ItemBlocking supply in VictoriaWAUGH, JOHN ( 2002)In Australian parliaments, the power to block supply (where it survives) is the ultimate weapon of an upper house majority that wants to force the Government to call an election. Its effect is to cut off the Government authority to continue the part of its spending that Parliament must authorise afresh each year. This article comments on the distinctive law and history concerning supply deadlocks in Victoria, where the upper house has blocked supply more often than in any other Australian parliament.
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ItemThe Victorian government and the jurisdiction of the Supreme CourtWAUGH, JOHN ( 1996)In the mid-1990s, controversy erupted over the number of acts of parliament that were reducing the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Victoria. This article analyses the legislation that led to this controversy, the significance of Victoria distinctive constitutional entrenchment of Supreme Court jurisdiction, and other aspects of the constitutional position of the Supreme Court.