This page is part of the Australian Constitutional Information Site

The Menu of Files - which is also the Table of Chapters and Parts of the Constitution

The "Working Parts" and the comments on sections which are no longer working are presented in short files (7-20k), for easy reading on less-than-fast data links, with "chunks" of the Constitution and the relevant comments on the same file:

• Introduction: What have I done to the Constitution?
• The "Covering Clauses" [The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act]
• Chapter 1 - The Parliament
  • Part 1 - General (sections 1-6)
  • Part 2 - The Senate (sections 7-23)
  • Part 3 - The House of Representatives (section 24-40)
  • Part 4 - Both Houses of the Parliament (sections 41-50 - also including the Schedule)
  • Part 5 - Powers of the Parliament (section 51-60)
• Chapter 2 - The Executive Government (sections 61-70)
• Chapter 3 - The Judicature (sections 71-80)
• Chapter 4 - Finance and Trade
  • first file (sections 81-85)
  • second file (sections 86-96)
  • third file (sections 97-105A)
• Chapter 5 - The States (sections 106-120)
• Chapters 6 - New States, 7 - Miscellaneous, and 8 - Alteration of the Constitution (sections 121-128)

[Other versions should soon be available:-

• a two-bigger-files version, with the whole edited text in one file, and the comments in another, for more convenient printing out, or for downloading for reading direct off your hard drive:
• a frames version, with edited text in the top of the screen and comments in the bottom.]