Joshua Quinn-Watson

Research Assistant, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

A Constitution shaped by distance

Australia is a big country, and a continent remote from the rest of the world. But what role has this distance, both internal and external, played in Australia’s constitutional development?

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