...contributors to this volume demonstrate, it can be achieved and it must be constantly sought after. ENDNOTES 'The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing...any office or public trust under the Commonwealth'. At the same time the Australian constitution of 1901 is framed in terms of Christianity, 'humbly relying...

...v Whitfield (\9&&) 165 CLR 360; Zines, 1997, pp. 136^t3. 88 Compare for example the text of s. 116 ('The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing...any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.') with the relevant parts of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution ('Congress shall make...

...provision limiting the power of the Commonwealth. Section 116 of the Australian Constitution provides: 'The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing...any office or public trust under the Commonwealth'. Although this provision has strong resemblances to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,...

...Section 116 freedom of religion 190 Section 116 imposes a restriction on Commonwealth legislative power: The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing...qualification for any office or public trust under the Constitution. The disjoinder view of s 122 in Rv Bernasconi 191 led to doubts whether s 116 protected...

...Section 116 of the Constitution of Australia declares that 'the Commonwealth shall not make any law establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free practice of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office...