Australia Act 1986 https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2004A03181
See s2, 3 and 5.
Western Australian Constitution Act 1889 https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2019-08/Western%20Australian%20Constitution.pdf
See:
Part IIIB — Local government
[Heading inserted: No. 88 of 1979 s. 3.]
52. Elected local governing bodies
(1) The Legislature shall maintain a system of local governing bodies elected and constituted in such manner as the Legislature may from time to time provide.
(2) Each elected local governing body shall have such powers as the Legislature may from time to time provide being such powers as the Legislature considers necessary for the better government of the area in respect of which the body is constituted.
[Section 52 inserted: No. 88 of 1979 s. 3.]
53. Certain laws not affected
Section 52 does not affect the operation of any law —
(a) prescribing circumstances in which the offices of members of a local governing body shall become and remain vacant; or
(b) providing for the administration of any area of the State —
(i) to which the system maintained under that section does not for the time being extend; or
(ii) when the offices of all the members of the local governing body for that area are vacant;
or
(c) limiting or otherwise affecting the operation of a law relating to local government; or
(d) conferring any power relating to local government on a person other than a duly constituted local governing
body.
New South Wales Constitution Act 1902
s51 Local Government
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca1902188/s51.html
Rob the truckie files
A_G_F
Albury_City_ABN
Body_Corporate_Info
Council_Letter
Government Sector Employment Act 2013 No 40
Notice_of_Defence
Statement_of_Facts1
A Bill of Attainder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of attainder or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and punishing them, often without a trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted person’s civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself.
aka a statement of claim from a council or ATO re alleged debt.
Jurisdictions
Australia
Unlike the United States Constitution, the Constitution of Australia contains no specific provision prohibiting the Commonwealth Parliament from passing bills of attainder. However, the High Court of Australia has ruled that bills of attainder are unconstitutional, because it is a violation of the separation of powers doctrine for any body to wield judicial power other than a Chapter III court—that is, a body exercising power derived from Chapter III of the Constitution, the chapter providing for judicial power.[6][7][8] One of the core aspects of judicial power is the ability to make binding and authoritative decisions on questions of law, that is, issues relating to life, liberty or property.[9][10] The wielding of judicial power by the legislative or executive branch includes the direct wielding of power and the indirect wielding of judicial power.[11]
The state constitutions in Australia contain few limitations on government power. Bills of attainder are considered permissible because there is no entrenched separation of powers at the state level.[12][13] However, section 77 of the Constitution of Australia permits state courts to be invested with Commonwealth jurisdiction, and any state law that renders a state court unable to function as a Chapter III court is unconstitutional.[14] The states cannot structure their legal systems to prevent them from being subject to the Australian Constitution.[15]