Documents Relating To The ‘quo Warranto – Inquiry Upon Senators For Constitutional Fidelity’.

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The Department released internal correspondence from July 2024 concerning a "quo warranto" inquiry document addressed to the Senate Clerk and all Senators regarding the Export Control Amendment (Ending Live Sheep Exports by Sea) Bill 2024. The inquiry challenges the constitutional authority of Parliament to pass this legislation, citing the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 and arguing about the proper source of law-making power. Internal departmental emails show the correspondence was received in hard copy and routed to the Minister's office (Senator Murray Watt, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) with instructions to register it and forward to the Parliamentary, Legal and Export Waters and Resources branch and Legal Division for information. The released material consists primarily of email routing and the opening sections of the quo warranto document itself, with much content redacted.