House of Representatives Committees

House Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Committee inquiries and reports

Inquiry into Constitutional Reform

Report

On Monday 23 June 2008, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs tabled its report on the inquiry into Constitutional reform entitled Reforming our Constitution.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 6 chapters, 1 additional comment and 1 appendix.

Reforming our Constitution

Preliminary pages (PDF 97KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Recommendation

Chapter 1 (PDF 90KB)
Introduction

Chapter 2 (PDF 122KB)
Altering the Constitution

Chapter 3 (PDF 148KB)
Parliamentary terms and members’ qualifications

Chapter 4 (PDF 159KB)
Federal – State relations

Chapter 5 (PDF 134KB)
Indigenous recognition and nation building through a new preamble

Chapter 6 (PDF 126KB)
Citizenship and the protection of rights in Australia

Appendix A (PDF 33KB)
Roundtable participants

Additional comment (PDF 29KB)
The Hon Peter Slipper, MP