Footnotes

1 F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1944, p.52

2 ibid. p.53

3 See, for example, Graham Maddox, Australian Democracy in Theory and Practice, Longman Cheshire, 1985, p.60

4 H. Evans, 'Constitutionalism and Party Government', Australasian Study of Parliament Group, Occasional Paper No. 1, August 1988

5 Henry Burmester, 'The presumption of constitutionality', Federal Law Review, Vol. 13, 1982-83, pp.277-298, at p.294

6 J.S. Mill, On Liberty in Utilitarianism; Liberty; Representative Government, J.M. Dent, 1954, p.165

7 ibid., pp.30-31,59

8 Immigration A Commitment to Australia: The Report of the Committee to Advise on Australia's Immigration Policies, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1988.

9 Chandran Kukathas, David Lovell, William Maley, The Theory of Politics: An Australian Perspective, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1990

10 K.R.Popper, The Open Society and its Enemies, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966, Vol II, p.151

11Yes or No? Referendums. The Cases for and Against, Australian Electoral Commission, Canberra, 1988