The Constitution of Australia

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• The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act is the supreme law of Australia. 
• Original enacted in 1900, the document created the union of the six self-governing British colonies in Australia under a single federal government, under a Constitutional Monarchy with a Westminster Parliament.
• The Australia Act 1986 formally separated Australia from all legal ties to the United Kingdom, effectively making Australia an independent nation state. 
• No longer would London be able to legislate, govern, or administer justice.
• These documents make up the legal foundation for the country we know as Australia. 
• They were heavily influence by the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy, and the Anglo-Saxon political traditions like the Magna Carta, and the Bill of Rights 1687.