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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Frank O'Connor wrote:
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> 'States rights' and federal government rights are enshrined in our 
> Constitution - and very little else. Read it and weep.
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> Commonwealth Of Australia Constitution Act
> (Preamble)
> 
> An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia. [9th July 1900]
> 
> (The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster)
> 
> Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established:
> 
> And whereas it is expedient to provide for the admission into the Commonwealth of other Australasian Colonies and possessions of the Queen:
> 
> Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:--
> 
> 1. This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act.
> 
> 2. The provisions of this Act referring to the Queen shall extend to Her Majesty's heirs and successors in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom. 
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http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/general/constitution/preamble.htm
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Marghanita da Cruz
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