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Full Act from Queensland legislation website https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-1899-009

or s45 from Austlii http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/qld/consol_act/cc189994/s45.html

SydneyLawReview33 (pdf)

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In 1920 a unanimous High Court held that ‘[w]here a thing is declared illegal, whatever may be the object of the prohibition, the thing declared illegal is of no force or validity, and everything dependent on that thing…shares the fate of the thing prohibited’.1 That holding invoked the ‘void ab initio’ doctrine in relation … Read article

SUPREME COURT ACT 1970 – SECT 70

http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sca1970183/s70.html
Ouster of office
70 Ouster of office
Where any person acts in an office in which the person is not entitled to act and an information in the nature of quo warranto would, but for section 12, lie against the person, the Court may grant an injunction restraining the person from so … Read article

Chicago Manual of Style
SEVENTEENTH EDITION
Page 665 and 666

11.128 Glosses in ASL. The written-language transcription of a sign is called a gloss. Glosses are words from the spoken language written in small capital letters: WOMAN, SCHOOL, CAT. (Alternatively, regular capital letters may be used.) When two or more written words are used to gloss a single sign, the … Read article

Fixed-Meaning Canon.
Words must be given the meaning they had when the text was adopted.

Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner

That is, at the time the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution was enacted, “Commonwealth” and “Commonwealth entity” or “Parliament of the Commonwealth” meant the non-corporate Commonwealth of the People under a Monarch, and a “Commonwealth” entity/Government/agent was one pursuant to … Read article

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00269

11  Types of Commonwealth entities

                   There are 2 types of Commonwealth entities:

                     (a)  a corporate Commonwealth entity, which is a Commonwealth entity that is a body corporate; and

                     (b)  a non‑corporate Commonwealth entity, which is a Commonwealth entity that is not a body corporate.

Note:          Corporate Commonwealth entities are legally

For any agency forcing you to perform in any way, not providing a choice.

Criminal Code Act 1995

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2023C00123/Html/Volume_2#_Toc119485467

Subdivision C—Slavery‑like offences

270.4  Definition of servitude

             (1)  For the purposes of this Division, servitude is the condition of a person (the victim) who provides labour or services, if, because of the use of coercion, threat or deception:

                     (a)  a … Read article

Australian Government Solicitors Fact Sheet 12, mysteriously GONE from their website. Thanks to web archiving tools, we found it again.

Fact_sheet_No_12 (pdf) Some of the relevant sections highlighted

From Fact Sheet 12:

Commonwealth government bodies are bound by the ACL as a law of the Commonwealth in the same way that they were  previously bound by the consumer protection provisions