Representing Democracy or Reinforcing Inequality?: Electoral Distribution and 'McGinty v Western Australia'

Title
Representing Democracy or Reinforcing Inequality?: Electoral Distribution and 'McGinty v Western Australia'
Publication Date
1997
Author(s)
Carne, Greg
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4516-2946
Email: gcarne@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:gcarne
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian National University, Faculty of Law
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:19610
Abstract
'McGinty v Western Australia' is a significant indicator of present and prospective attitudes of the High Court to major issues of representative democracy, such as electoral representation and equality. In affirming by a majority that substantial numerical voter inequality in Western Australian state electorates did not infringe a concept of representative democracy in either the Commonwealth or the Western Australian constitutions, the court went beyond a refusal to overturn AG (Cth); 'Ex Rel McKinlay v Commonwealth' of more than twenty years earlier.
Link
Citation
Federal Law Review, 25(2), p. 351-383
ISSN
1444-6928
0067-205X
Start page
351
End page
383

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