Papua - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: papuaNestor
A genus of parrots with gray heads of New Zealand and Papua allied to the cockatoos See Kaka...
Papua
A Pacific island north of Australia governed by Australia and Indonesia...
Papuan
Of or pertaining to Papua...
Papuars
The native black race of Papua or New Guinea and the adjacent islands...
Australia, Commonwealth of.
Australia, Commonwealth of. The association of the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia in a federal Commonwealth comprising also Papua, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island in the Pacific (and see MANDATED TERRITORIES), with a Constitution enabling its Parliament, consisting of the Sovereign of the British Empire, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, to legislate for the whole of Australia. The legislative powers of the Parliament, which may be found under 39 heads in the 51st paragraph of the Constitution, extend to trade, taxation, defence, coinage, bankruptcy, copyright, marriage, 'the people of any race other than certain aborigines,' immigrants and emigration, 'external affairs,' railway construction, and other matters too numerous to particularize; see Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (Imperial, 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12); A.-G. for Commonwealth of Australia v. Colonial Sugar R...
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