Constitutions

***** Covering Clauses 1 to 8 and the Constitution *****

Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (current, includes s51 (xxiiiA)
Commonwealth-of-Australia-Constitution-Act (pdf)
“This compilation was prepared on 4 September 2013 taking into account alterations up to Act No. 84 of 1977
[Note: This compilation contains all amendments to the Constitution made by the Constitution Alterations specified in Note 1
Additions to the text are shown in bold type Omitted text is shown as ruled through] Prepared by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Canberra”

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Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK)
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/63-64/12/contents/enacted (UK Government legislation website)
ConstitutionUKEnactedpga_19000012_en (pdf as enacted)

~~The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth – Quick and Garran~~
~~(3.7Mb pdf, digital text from the University of Sydney Library)~~ Removed because it was incomplete, no Covering Clauses 1 to 8!

Quick and Garran Annotated Constitution full scanned document 94Mb pdf (very large pdf, will take a while to load)
https://ia800909.us.archive.org/35/items/annotatedconstit00quicuoft/annotatedconstit00quicuoft.pdf
Chapter 12, the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act starts on page 262 of that pdf.
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If you are using these State Constitutions as references please check you are using the latest (current) version.

New South Wales Constitution Act 1902
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca1902188/ (URL)

Queensland Constitution Act 1867
https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1867-038# (URL)

South Australian Constitution Act 1934
https://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/lz?path=/c/a/constitution%20act%201934 (URL)

Tasmania Constitution Act 1934
https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/pdf/authorised/2022-03-18%202022-04-06/act-1934-094 (URL pdf)

Victorian Constitution Act 1975
https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/constitution-act-1975/221 (URL)
VictorianConstitutionAct75-8750a223 (docx)

Western Australia Constitution Act 1889
https://www.legislation.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/law_a172_currencies.html (URL)
Constitution Act 1889 – [06-g0-00] (pdf)