Traditional Notions of the Attorney-General

Williams Daryl , ‘Who Speaks for the Courts?’ in Courts in a Representative Democracy, Collection of papers from the AIJA National Conference (1995), 192.

Sue v Hill [1999] 199 CLR 462, 497, 499 for the High Court's discussion of the various meanings that might be ascribed to the expression ‘the Crown’ in constitutional theory.

See Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, Report on Review of Independence of the Attorney-General (1993) para 3.21

See for example Hamer David , Can Responsible Government Survive in Australia?, Centre for Research in Public Sector Management (1994), 73; Hawke Robert , The Resolution of Conflict, Boyer Lectures, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1979), 23–4; Spry Max , ‘Executive and High Court Appointments’ in Lindell Geoffrey and Bennett Robert (eds), Parliament: The Vision in Hindsight (2001) 419, 419; Griffith Samuel Sir , Convention Debates, Sydney, 4 March 1891, 36; Wise Bernhard Convention Debates, Melbourne, 10 March 1898, 2198–9; Deakin Alfred , Convention Debates, Adelaide, 30 March 1897, 288; Playford Thomas , Convention Debates, Sydney, 5 March 1891, 60 and Isaacs Isaac Convention Debates, Adelaide, 26 March 1897, 169. See generally Spry, 423–424

Hancock Keith , The Battle of Black Mountain. An Episode of Canberra's Environmental History (1974), 54

Williams Daryl , ‘The Australian Parliament and High Court: Determination of Constitutional Questions’ in Sampford Charles and Preston Kim (eds), Interpreting Constitutions: Theories, Principles and Institutions (1996) 203, at 216–217