51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution,
have power to make laws for
the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth
with respect to the 39 Subsections.
(i. ) Trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States:
(ii. ) Taxation; but so as not to discriminate
between States or
parts of States:
(iii. ) Bounties on the production or export
of goods, but so that such
bounties shall be uniform throughout the Commonwealth:
(iv. ) Borrowing money on the public credit of the Commonwealth:
(v. ) Postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services:
(vi. ) The naval and military defence of the
Commonwealth and of the
several States, and the control of the forces
to execute and maintain the laws
of the Commonwealth:
(vii. ) Lighthouses, lightships, beacons and buoys:
(viii. ) Astronomical and meteorological observations:
(ix. ) Quarantine:
(x. ) Fisheries in Australian waters beyond territorial limits:
(xi. ) Census and statistics:
(xii. ) Currency, coinage, and legal tender:
(xiii. ) Banking, other than State banking;
also State banking extending beyond the
limits of the State concerned, the incorporation
of banks, and the issue of paper money:
(xiv. ) Insurance, other than State insurance;
also State insurance extending beyond the
limits of the State concerned:
(xv. ) Weights and measures:
(xvi. ) Bills of exchanging and promissory notes:
(xvii. ) Bankruptcy and insolvency:
(xviii. ) Copyrights, patents of inventions and designs, and trade marks:
(xix. ) Naturalisation and aliens:
(xx. ) Foreign corporations, and trading or
financial corporations formed within the
limits of the Commonwealth:
(xxi. ) Marriage:
(xxii. ) Divorce and matrimonial causes; and
in relation thereto, parental rights, and the
custody and guardianship of infants:
(xxiii. ) Invalid and old-age pensions:
(xxiiiA. ) The provision of maternity allowances,
widows' pensions, child endowment,
unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital
benefits, medical and dental
services (but not so as to authorise any form
of civil conscription), benefits to students
and family allowances:
(xxiv. ) The service and execution throughout
the Commonwealth of the civil and
criminal process and the judgments of the courts
of the States:
(xxv. ) The recognition throughout the Commonwealth
of the laws, the public Acts
and records, and the judicial proceedings of the
States:
(xxvi. ) The people of any race, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws:
(xxvii. ) Immigration and emigration:
(xxviii. ) The influx of criminals:
(xxix. ) External Affairs:
(xxx. ) The relations of the Commonwealth with the islands of the Pacific:
(xxxi. ) The acquisition of property on just
terms from any State or person for any
purpose in respect of which the Parliament has
power to make laws:
(xxxii. ) The control of railways with respect
to transport for the naval and military
purposes of the Commonwealth:
(xxxiii. ) The acquisition, with the consent
of a State, of any railways of the State on
terms arranged between the Commonwealth and the
State:
(xxxiv. ) Railway construction and extension in any State with the consent of that State:
(xxxv. ) Conciliation and arbitration for the
prevention and settlement of industrial
disputes extending beyond the limits of any one
State:
(xxxvi. ) Matters in respect of which this Constitution
makes provision until the
Parliament otherwise provides:
(xxxvii. ) Matters referred to the Parliament
of the Commonwealth by the Parliament or
Parliaments of any State or States, but so that
the law shall extend only to States by
whose Parliaments the matter is referred, or which
afterwards adopt the law:
(xxxviii. ) The exercise within the Commonwealth,
at the request or with the
concurrence of the Parliaments of all the States
directly concerned, of any power
which can at the establishment of this Constitution
be exercised only by the
Parliament of the United Kingdom or by the Federal
Council of Australasia:
(xxxix. ) Matters incidental to the execution
of any power vested by this Constitution in
the Parliament or in either House thereof, or
in the Government of the Commonwealth,
or in the Federal Judicature, or in any department
or officer of the Commonwealth.
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