On 23 Aug 2000, at 16:08, Trudy & Rod Bray wrote: > MEDIA RELEASE > > THE HON. JOHN MOORE, MP > Minister for Defence > > Phone: 61 (02) 62777800 Fax: 62734118 Media Inquiries: 0419 982482 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.defence.gov.au > > > JOINT NEWS RELEASE > > ATTORNEY-GENERAL > MINISTER FOR DEFENCE > > THE HON. DARYL WILLIAMS AM QC MP > > THE HON. JOHN MOORE MP > 23 August 2000 MIN229/00 > > FURTHER SAFEGUARDS FOR DEFENCE BILL > > Cabinet yesterday considered the report of the Senate Foreign Affairs, > Defence and Trade Legislation Reference Committee into the Defence > Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill. The Committee > reported last Wednesday. > > waffle...waffle...waffle... now the gutz... > > Finally, the Government will move an amendment that the authorisation > for a deliberate assault must be made by the Prime Minister, the Minister for > Defence or the Attorney-General, and not delegated to another Minister. The > Government considers that this accords with the key role of these Ministers > in the original decision to call out the Defence Force. > How can the GG sign any document, signing away his explicit constitutional powers? Its just not possible? 68. The command in chief of the naval and military forces of the Commonwealth is vested in the Governor-General as the Queen's representative. Surely, the only signature that can delegate this GG power, this explicit constitutional power, to a subordinate authority (politicians in this case) must be the granter of the authority in the first place - HM QEII? However the pollies want it, it occurs to me that their grab of GG constitutional command authority is as illegitimate as if the GG were to attempt to delegate it? I was commissioned by the GG not a pollie. ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
