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Title The Australian constitution and national identity / edited by Anna Olijnyk and Alexander Reilly
Published Canberra, ACT, Australia : ANU Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements 1. The Australian Constitution and National Identity / Alexander Reilly and Anna Olijnyk -- Part One 2. The Australian Constitution and Australian National Identity - the Past, the Present and the Possibilities / Elisa Arcioni -- 3. Constitutional Interpretation and the Australian People / Anna Olijnyk -- 4. Building National Identity through the Constitution : The Canadian Charter Experience / Lorne Neudorf -- 5. Eco-Constitutionalism / Peter D Burdon -- 6. Activating Australian Citizenship through Constitutional Change : Towards an Inclusive Australian National Identity / Kim Rubenstein -- Part Two 7. Character and Exclusion from the Nation / Alexander Reilly -- 8. Alienage and Identity in Australia's Constitutional Legal History / Joe McIntyre -- 9. The Failure of Cosmopolitanism? National Identity, Citizenship and Migration in an Age of Populism / Tiziana Torresi -- 10. National Identity and Australian Federalism / Robyn Hollander -- Part Three 11. Indigenous Sovereignty and Constitutional Reform / Lydia McGrady -- 12. The Potential Moral Power of a New Australian Constitutional Preamble / Benjamin T Jones -- 13. Can Citizen Assemblies Make a Difference to Constitutional Reform? Some Lessons from Ireland / Sarah Sorial -- Author Biographies
Summary What does Australia's Constitution say about national identity? A conventional answer might be 'not much'. Yet recent constitutional controversies raise issues about the recognition of First Peoples, the place of migrants and dual citizens, the right to free speech, the nature of our democracy, and our continuing connection to the British monarchy. These are constitutional questions, but they are also questions about who we are as a nation. This edited collection brings together legal, historical, and political science scholarship. These diverse perspectives reveal a wealth of connections between the Australian Constitution and Australia's national identity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Constitutional law -- Australia
Nationalism -- Australia
LAW / Constitutional
Constitutional law
Nationalism
Australia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Olijnyk, Anna, editor.
Reilly, Alexander, editor.
Australian National University Press, publisher.
ISBN 176046564X
9781760465643