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Representing Democracy or Reinforcing Inequality?: Electoral Distribution and 'McGinty v Western Australia' |
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Australian National University, Faculty of Law |
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'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. |
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Federal Law Review, 25(2), p. 351-383 |
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