Ninian Stephen

...complaining that "it's never very easy going" (to Australia) and revealing that governor-general Ninian Stephen's plan to pick him as his successor was vetoed by Bob Hawke. "So what are you supposed to think when you offer to do something to...

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...as President of the Australian Trade Practices Tribunal. In July 1982 he was appointed to the High Court of Australia, replacing Sir Ninian Stephen on his appointment as Governor-General. On the court he formed part of the majority that...

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...regard to its importance, it would probably be found to have failed to pass it. In Victoria v commonwealth, justice Ninian Stephen, before he became governor-general, said (at pages 170-171): "Assume that in relation to any bill coming before...

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...Casey as one of the few Australian Knights of the Garter. In 1983, he received the Legion d'Honneur. Stephen delivered the first Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture at the University of Newcastle 's Law School in 1993, giving his name to this...

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...were held in Australia on 11 July 1987, following the granting of a double dissolution on 5 June by the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen. Consequently, all 148 seats in the House of Representatives as well as all 76 seats in the...

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...to five Prime Ministers (including Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser) and six Governors General (including Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir Ninian Stephen, and The Hon. Bill Hayden). Faunce was Prime Minister Harold Holt's personal physician at the time...

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...to the Governor-General of Australia between 1973 and 1990, serving Sir Paul Hasluck , Sir John Kerr , Sir Zelman Cowen , Sir Ninian Stephen and Bill Hayden. David Smith was born in 1933, to Polish immigrant parents named Szmitkowski,...

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Queen of Australia - HM Queen Elizabeth II Governor General - Sir Zelman Cowen, then Sir Ninian Stephen. Premier of New South Wales - Neville Wran Premier of South Australia - David Tonkin, then John Bannon Premier of Tasmania -...

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...in the Senate and was repeatedly blocked by the opposition and minor parties. In response, Hawke asked the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen for a double dissolution , which was granted in June 1987, followed by an election on 11 July .

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...held by the Law School of the University of Newcastle , Australia. The first lecture was delivered by former Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen in 1993, to celebrate the establishment of the Bachelor of Laws program at the University. This...

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