John Pyke's
Australian Constitutional Information [OzConstInfo] Site


A site dedicated to the provision of


Whose Oz Const Info Site?
New, August 2010: My 2010 Senate campaign site for the Limit the Pokies Group, Queensland

Facts: The Commonwealth and State Constitutions as They Are at Present

What They Say - the Texts

The Commonwealth Constitution

A page of links to sites with the full text, or to my two edited versions - the Working Constitution, in which I have removed all expired and obsolete provisions and left all of the currently-relevant provisions, or the even shorter Essential Constitution, showing only the fundamental features of our national system of government.

The States' and Territories' Constitutions

[Gee - do the States have Constitutions too? Well, they have Constitution Acts, which are only kind-of-Constitutions, but they do have some significance. And the 2 self-governing Territories have Self-Government Acts which function like their constitutions.] There are links to all of them on this page.


How They Work

Government Under a Book of Rules; A Citizens' and Politicians' Manual of the Constitutional Basis of Government in Australia

[A constitution has two main functions - it sets up the institutions of government (which includes granting them power to exercise), and it places limits on their powers. This is a "Web text" of Constitutional law in Australia, emphasising the role of constitutions as placing limits on the power of government. It is still under development - only the first five Chapters have been posted so far.]


Sources for Comparision - Other Constitutions


Opinions - Debates on Some Current Issues


Links to other constitution or politics sites
To send feedback, on either please mail me.
Written by John Pyke, with a little help from DiDa!. First posted on another host (now defunct) September 1999; reposted on freehomepage.com September 2000; last edited 7th August 2010.