Commonwealth Digest
| Published date | 01 March 1964 |
| Date | 01 March 1964 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/0067205X6400100106 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
COMMONWEALTH DIGEST
[Editors'
Note:
This first issue
of
the Common-
wealth Digest
is
intended
to
provide lawyers with a
key to those proceedings in the Commonwealth Parlia-
ment in which they are most likely to be interested.
It
is,
of
course, selective. The Digest
is
in the nature
of
an experiment, and the Editors would welcome com-
ment upon it.
It
does not attempt to duplicate the
excellent service
of
the 'Review
of
Legislation: Com-
monwealth' in the University
of
Western Australia
Law Review, and the two series should be regarded
as complementary.
The Editors hope that the scope
of
the Digest
might in due course be
extended-for
example, to note
the appearance
of
official Commonwealth Government
publications
of
particular interest to lawyers. That is
why the series is named 'Commonwealth Digest 'and
not 'Commonwealth Parliamentary Digest', although
in this first issue it
is
indeed no more than that.]
This digest covers the period
26
March
1963
to
30
October
1963,
and
is compiled from the published debates
of
the Parliament
of
the Com-
monwealth
of
Australia.
The page references to Parliamentary Debates ('8. Deb. 'and
'H.R.
Deb.') are to the published debates
of
the Senate and the House
of
Representatives, for the first Session
of
the Twenty-fourth Parliament,
third and fourth periods.
Citizenship
On 30 October, the Minister for Immigration supplied answers to
questions upon notice outlining which countries regard Australian
naturalization as conferring dual nationality, which countries regard
return
to
the homeland after Australian naturalization as areversion
to
the former nationality and which countries hold emigrants liable for
military service.
S.
Deb.
1577.
Capital Punishment
On
24
September, the Attorney-General, in answer to aquestion
upon notice, announced that
of
the
five
death sentences passed under
territorial laws since
1950,
only two had been carried into execution.1
No
death sentences have been passed under Commonwealth Acts in that
period. H.R. Deb.
1325-1326.
1On
11
March
1964,
the Supreme Court
of
the Australian Capital Territory passed
sentence
of
death on two youths convicted
of
rape. The death penalty
is
mandatory
under A.C.T. law in such cases. These sentences have since been commuted to terms
of
imprisonment.
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