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Closed Covid borders

Why won’t the Coalition fight for the Constitution?

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

8 August 2020

9:00 AM

Conservatives will be disappointed that the Commonwealth has withdrawn its challenge to the closure of the WA border by the McGowan government. It has been a challenging year for those who prefer an originalist, or black letter, approach to interpretation of the Constitution. The judicial activism underpinning the troubling decisions in the Love and Thom cases preceded the pandemic.

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