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    Framing the First Victorian Constitution, 1853–5
    Waugh, J (Faculty of Law, Monash University, 1997)
    As the approaching centenary of federation renews interest in Australian constitutional history, it is timely to examine the colonial constitutions that were current law for the framers of the Commonwealth Constitution. They were the result of the first Australian exercises in constitution-making. Many of their provisions are still in force. This article describes the framing of one of the new constitutions of the 1850s, the Victorian Constitution Act of 1855. The work of the politicians who dominated Victoria at the start of the gold rush, it created the framework for the constitutional crises of the 1860s and 1870s and remains the source of many provisions of the Constitution Act 1975 (Vic).
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    The Victorian Government and the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
    Waugh, J (Law School, University of New South Wales, 1996)
    Recent events have directed attention to the place of the Supreme Court of Victoria in the State constitutional structure, as argument has emerged in the press and elsewhere about legislation reducing the Court's jurisdiction. This article considers the legislation which has led to this controversy, the significance of Victoria's distinctive constitutional entrenchment of Supreme Court jurisdiction, and other aspects of the constitutional position of the Supreme Court.
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    The poems of Thomas Hardy as song
    Prictor, M (University of Melbourne, 1994)
    An analysis of Gerald Finzi and others' musical settings of poems by Thomas Hardy.
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    The Life of the Composer: Gerald Finzi's Biography and the Reception of his Works
    Prictor, M (University of Melbourne, 1997)
    This issue of Context opens with Megan Prictor's article on English composer, Gerald Finzi, and the relationship between his pastoral style and his critical reception in his own lifetime.
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    Stephen Banfield, Gerald Finzi: An English Composer
    Prictor, M (The University of Melbourne, 1998)
    Review of Stephen Banfield's monograph of Gerald Finzi
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    To Catch the World: Percy Scholes and the English Musical Appreciation Movement 1918-1939
    Prictor, M (University of Melbourne, 1998)
    Prictor continues the theme of English musical life into the first half of the twentieth century in her discussion of the relationship between classical music populariser, Percy Scholes, and the growing music appreciation movement in England between the world wars.
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    Thurgood Marshall
    Park, M. M. ( 1993)
    Biographical note on the career of Thurgood Marshall who died aged 84 in January, 1993.
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    Royal road test update
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1995)
    An even further collection of anecdotes regarding falsified, exaggerated, self invented, or self conferred qualifications.
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    Royal road test
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1994)
    A collection of anecdotes regarding falsified, exaggerated, self invented, or self conferred qualifications.
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    More helpful advice III
    Park, Malcolm McKenzie (The Victorian Bar, 1995)
    Yet another collection of legal anecdotes involving bold, insouciant, or impudent behaviour by counsel directed towards the court, the judicial officer, or the practice of law.