The Australia Acts 1986

If Associate Professor Anne Twomey’s The Australia Acts 1986 Australia’s Statutes of Independence had been available at the time of Marquet, their Honour’s might have gone directly to Chapter Three (The Negotiation of the Australia Acts 1986) of this scholarly work to have had regard to such a proper account. This proposition demonstrates the importance and utility of Dr Twomey’s book. … Associate Professor Anne Twomey has made another important legal and historical contribution that further enhances her reputation as a leading constitutional law scholar. I highly recommended The Australia Acts 1986 Australia’s Statutes of Independence - Chris Tam, Hearsay, the electronic journal of Bar Association of Qld, Issue 51, August 2011 Herein lies a considerable virtue of this book. Too much of the teaching of ‘constitutional law’ looks only to the decisions of the judicial branch and fails to give students an understanding of the operation of the federal system as a method of government. The attention given by the author to the source materials lying behind the enactment of the Australia Acts has yielded a book which will be a valuable teaching resource and the author is to be congratulated on her work. - William M C Gummow AC, Sydney Law Review, 2011, Vol 33: 319-323

Anne Twomey is a constitutional lawyer and an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Federal Constitutional Law and Public Law. She has had extensive practical experience in the application of constitutional law, having worked for the High Court of Australia, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee and The Cabinet Office of New South Wales. She has published widely in the area of constitutional law and public law generally. Her previous works include: The Constitution of NSW (2004); The Chameleon Crown (2006); and The Australia Acts 1986 (2010).