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ItemNo Preview AvailableFraming the First Victorian Constitution, 1853–5(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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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Victorian Government and the Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court(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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ItemLateral Response of Domestic Cold-Formed Steel Framed Structures(Structural Engineering Society of New Zealand, 1998)
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ItemModelling of plasterboard lined domestic steel frames when subjected to lateral loads(A A BALKEMA PUBLISHERS, 1997)
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ItemInteraction between brick veneer walls and domestic framed structures when subjected to earthquakes(A A BALKEMA PUBLISHERS, 1997)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Life of the Composer: Gerald Finzi's Biography and the Reception of his Works(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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ItemStephen Banfield, Gerald Finzi: An English Composer(The University of Melbourne, 1998)Review of Stephen Banfield's monograph of Gerald Finzi
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ItemNo Preview AvailableTo Catch the World: Percy Scholes and the English Musical Appreciation Movement 1918-1939(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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Item[Review of the book A fool for a client](The Victorian Bar, 1997)
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ItemA question of capacity: the case of Justice Bruce( 1998)In 1998, complaints against Justice Vince Bruce of the New South Wales Supreme Court led to an investigation by the state's Judicial Commission and a parliamentary debate on the judge's removal. This comment notes the history of removal of judges in Australia, the framework for investigation of judicial complaints in New South Wales, and the outcome of the inquiry into Justice Bruce.