Publications

Books

Gender and the Constitution: Equity and Agency in Comparative Constitutional Design, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (January) – in press.

Five Things to Know about the Australian Constitution, Cambridge University
Press, 2004

To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution, Cambridge
University Press 1997; Updated edition 1999 Published in CD Rom, ‘Federation of a Nation’, Webster Publishing 2000

Editor (with Stuart Macintyre), No Ordinary Act: J. A. La Nauze on Federation and the Constitution, Melbourne University Press 2001

Editor, Unity and Diversity: A National Conversation, ABC Books, 2001

Editor, The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, Cambridge University Press, 1999

Editor, A Woman’s Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Hale & Iremonger, 1996

Reports

Gender Equity in Constitution-Making, United Nations Development Program (Iraq), February 2005 (with Vivien Hart, University of Sussex)

2001: Why Are We Celebrating? NSW Centenary of Federation Committee, 2000, (with Donald Horne)

Chapters/entries in books

‘Rights and Citizenship in Law and Public Discourse’, in Protecting Rights without a Bill of Rights: Institutional Performance and Reform in Australia, in Tom Campbell Adrienne Stone and Jeff Goldsworthy (eds), Ashgate, 2006, 161-174

‘What if Federation had failed in 1900?, in S. Macintyre and
S. Scalmer (eds) What If? Melbourne University Press, 2006, 44-66

‘Its First and Highest Function: The Framers’ Vision of the High Court as Interpreter of the Constitution" in P Cane (ed), Centenary Essays for the High Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths 2004, 17-35.

‘Citizenship and Subject-Hood in 20th Century Australia’, in P Boyer, L.Cardinal & D Headon (eds), From Subjects to Citizens: A Hundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada, University of Ottawa Press 2004, 9-18
‘A True Conservative?’ in R Manne (ed), The Howard Years, Black Inc, Melbourne 2004, 94-115
'Sister Colonies with Separate Constitutions: Why Australians chose not to follow Canada', in L. Cardinal (ed), Shaping Nations, University of Ottawa Press, 2002, 27-37
‘Introduction’, Helen Irving and Stuart Macintyre (eds), No Ordinary Act: J. A
La Nauze on Federation and the Constitution, Melbourne University Press, 2001, 1-23

'Framers of the Constitution', in T. Blackshield, M. Coper, and G. Williams (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, 2001, 284-286

'Garran, Robert Randolph', in T. Blackshield, M. Coper, and G. Williams (eds), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, 2001, 292-293

'Democratic Experiments with Constitution-Making', in M. Sawer (ed) Elections, Full, Free and Fair, Federation Press, 2001, 234-248

'Australia's Constitutional Identity: A Conundrum for the 21st Century', in Irving (ed), Unity and Diversity: A National Conversation, ABC Books 2001, 194-220

'They will choose wisely, they will choose well: Arguments for directly electing the Governor-General in the 1890s,' in Andrew Murray (ed), Trusting the People, Design by Design, 2001, 35-53

'The Republic Debate', in D. Woodward, A. Parkin, J. Summers (eds), Government, Politics, Power and Policy, Longman, 2001, 135-149

'A Nation in a Day', in K. T. Livingston, et al (eds), Becoming Australians, Wakefield Press, 2001, 1-18

'The Empire Strikes Back: The Constitution, Sovereignty and Nineteenth-Century Globalisation', in C. Sampford and T. Round (eds), Beyond the Republic: Meeting the Global Challenges to Constitutionalism, Federation Press, 2001

'Citizenship Before 1949', in K. Rubenstein (ed), Individual, Community, Nation: Fifty Years of Australian Citizenship, Federation Press, 2000, 9-20

'George Reid,' in M. Grattan (ed), Australian Prime Ministers, Landsdowne Press, 2000 (reissued 2001), 164-71

‘The Most Eccentric of Them All: J. W. R. Clarke’, in D. Headon and J. Williams (eds) Makers of Miracles: The Cast of the Federation Story, Melbourne University Press, 2000, 189-196

‘New South Wales’, in H. Irving (ed), The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 20-92

'Citizenship', in Barbara Caine, et al (eds), Australian Feminism: A Companion, Oxford University Press, 1998, 25-32

'Citizenship', G. Davison, et al (eds), Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, 1998, 126-127

'Women, the Constitution and the People's Convention', in J. Gardner (ed), Here We Come: Ready or Not, WIP, Sydney, 1998, 78-81

'Republicanism and Citizenship', in B. Galligan, et al, (eds), New Developments in Australian Politics, Macmillan, 1997, 127-147

'The People and their Conventions', in M. Coper and G. Williams (eds), Power, Parliament and the People, Federation Press, Sydney, 1997, 113-125

'The Making of the Australian Constitution', in K. Laster (ed), Law as Culture, Sydney, Federation Press, 1997

‘Fair Federalists and Founding Mothers,’ in Irving (ed), A Woman’s
Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Hale
& Iremonger, Sydney, 1996, pp. 1-20

'A Gendered Constitution? Women, Federation and Heads of Power,’ in
Irving (ed), ibid, pp. 98-107

Helen Irving and David Headon, ‘A Week in the Future: Homage to
Catherine Helen Spence’, in Irving (ed) ibid, pp. 161-171.

‘Thinking of England: Women, Politics and the Queen,’ in D. Goodman and
J. Hoorn (eds), Vox Republicae: Feminism and the Republic, La Trobe University Press, 1995, 33-41

‘Who were the Republicans?’ in D. Headon and J. Warden (eds), Crown Or
Country?, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1994, 69-79

‘History and the Insider’, in S. Magarey (ed), Writing Lives, Australian Feminist
Studies Publications, 1992, 104-114

Refereed Journal Articles

‘Advisory Opinions, the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers,’ Macquarie
Law Journal, vol. 4 ,2004, 105-134

‘How Well Does the Compact Fit?: A Critique of the New Constitutional Grundnorm
in the Light of History and Theory’, Griffith Law Review, vol. 11 (2), 2002, 408-
435

‘How the Nibble Became a Bite: What was the Cause of Federation?’ Tasmanian
Historical Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, 2002, 18-24

‘Original Intent? The Founding Fathers at the 1927 Royal Commission on the
Constitution’, The New Federalist, no. 8, 2002, 84-88

‘The Commonwealth Constitution 1900 – 2000’, The New Federalist, no. 7, 2002,
3-7

TRS Allen, Constitutional Justice: A Liberal Theory of the Rule of Law (book review) reviewed in Sydney Law Review, vol. 24, no. 3, 2002

‘Women of the West and How they Won’, The New Federalist, no. 6, 2001, 3-7

‘The Republic Referendum of 6 November, 1999’, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 35, no. 1, 2000, 111-115

(With John Williams) ' The Best Fitted, with the Greatest Right: Sydney as the
Federal Capital', The New Federalist, no. 3, 1999. 14-20

'Referendums in the Air: NSW in June, 1898', The New Federalist, no. 2, 1998, 9-16

'Old Familiar Hacks, Just When They're Needed: The New South Wales Delegation', The New Federalist, no. 1, 1998, 39-43

‘A Conventional Convention’, Arena Magazine, no. 34, Apr/ May 1998, 4-7

'The Republic is a Feminist Issue', Feminist Review, no. 52, Spring, 1996, 87-103

'Equal Opportunity, Equal Representation and Equal Rights? What Republicanism offers to Australian Women’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 31, no. 1, March, 1996. (Winner of the Australian Political Science Association, Women and Politics essay prize, 1995), 37-50

‘A Gendered Constitution? Women, Federation and Heads of Power,’ University of Western Australia Law Review, vol. 24, no. 2, 1994, 186-196

‘The Boy’s Own Republic’, Arena Magazine, no. 8, Dec/January, 93/94, 24-26

‘Little Elves and Mind-Control: Advertising and its Critics’, Continuum, vol. 4, no. 2, 1991, 98-111

‘The Romance of Nature’, Arena, no. 84, 1988, 64-76

‘Guilds, Corporations and Socialist Theory’, Economy and Society, vol. 15, no. 1, 1986, 123-144

‘Inside the Cuckoo Clock’, Melbourne Journal of Politics, no. 11, 1979, 12-19

Other articles

‘Péril en la demeure: quel droit à la citoyenneté pour ceux qui soutiennent
le terrorisme?’ Revue gouvernance, 2006, vol. 3, no 1

‘An Australian Republic: This year, next year, sometime, never?’ Inroads: The
Canadian Journal of Opinion, issue 12, 2003, 106-117

‘The Census, the Constitution and Democracy’, Yearbook of Australia 2002, Australian Bureau of Statistics, AGPS, Canberra 2002

‘An Historical Reflection on Refugees in Australia’, Immigration Review, no. 3,
2002

‘One Hundred Years of (Almost) Solitude: The Evolution of Australian
Citizenship’, Papers on Parliament, no. 37, Department of the Senate, Canberra, 2001, 41-54

‘Federation and the Media’ Walkley Magazine, December 2001

‘Question of values’, The Bulletin with Newsweek Nov 16, 1999 v117, 36

‘The past is not a foreign country’, The Bulletin with Newsweek Oct 12, 1999
v117, 108

‘When Quick met Garran : the Corowa Plan’, Papers on Parliament, vol. 32,
December, 1998, 13-19

'Celebrating Federation', The Sydney Papers, vol. 10, no. 2, 1998, 32-45

‘Why I am not a Maximalist’, Crossings , vol. 2, no. 2, 1998, 27-30

‘The People and their Convention: Bathurst in November 1896’, Canberra Historical Journal, no. 39, March, 1997, 2-10

‘The Way Forward? The Prime Minister’s 1995 Republicanism Speech and Other
National Moments,’ Crossings, vol. 1, no. 1, 1996, 31-34

‘Who are the Founding Mothers?’, Papers on Parliament, no. 25, June, 1995, 65-79

‘Republicanism, Royalty and Tales of Australian Manhood,’ Communal/Plural 2, 1994, 139-151

‘With Other Men and Other Means: Women and the Constitution’, Constitutional Centenary, vol. 3, no. 2, 1994, 11-12

‘Australian Studies and Political Culture’, Crossings: International Bulletin of Australian Studies, no. 20, June, 1994, 3-7

'Citizens and Not-Quite Citizens (Sykes v Cleary (1992) 176 CLR 77)’,Constitutional Centenary, vol 2. no. 4. 1993, 8-11

‘New Life for an Old Parliament’, Modern Times, vol. 1, no. 2, 1992, 14-16

‘William Morris and the Contemporary Socialist Press’, Journal of the William Morris Society, Winter, 1984, pp. 15-20

In press

‘The Constitution’, in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds), The Oxford
Companion to Australian Politics, OUP 2007

‘Federalism is a Feminist Issue: What Australia can Learn from the United
States’, Adelaide Law Review 2007.

‘Autonomies of Scale: precarious self-government on Norfolk Island’, in
Yash Ghai (ed) Autonomy, CUP, 2007

‘Citizenship, Statehood and Allegiance’, in L. Cardinal and D. Headon (eds),
Managing Diversity, Ottawa University Press, 2007

Papers and Presentations (last 5 years)

‘Heartless in a Havenless World?: Citizenship, Law, and the Quest for Values’ Centre for Public Culture & Ideas/ Centre for Public Legal Studies, Griffith University, November 2006

‘Federalism is a Feminist Issue: A Comparative Examination of U.S. and
Australian Constitutional Law’, Australian Association of Constitutional Law, Annual Conference, Adelaide, August, 2006

‘A Profound Truth or a Simple Irony?: Values, Identity and Law in 21st Century Australia’, Keynote Address, ANZSANA Conference, Montreal, April2006

‘One Indissoluble Federal Commonwealth: the influence of the American Civil War on the Australian Constitution’ Colby College, Waterville, Maine,March 2006.

‘Counterfactual Constitutionalism: the American Civil War and the Framing of
Australia’s Constitution’, Harvard Law School, Legal History Colloquium, February 2006.

‘Péril en la demeure: quel droit à la citoyenneté pour ceux qui soutiennent
le terrorisme?’ University of Ottawa, Faculty seminar, October 2005.

‘Norfolk Island’, International Conference on Autonomy, Hong Kong
University, April 2005.

‘Unravelling the Tie between Citizenship and Rights’, Law Seminar, Open University, Milton Keynes, January 2005

‘A Victorian Constitution in the 21st Century’, Public Lecture, Centre for
Comparative and Public Law, Hong Kong University, December 2004.

‘Interpreting a Constitution without a Bill of Rights’, Faculty of Law Hong
Kong University, December 2004

‘Global Citizenship: Post-National Necessity or Liberal Fantasy?” Managing
Diversity Conference, University College, Dublin, April 2004

‘Dead Hands or Long Shadows? The role of History in Constitutional
Interpretation’, Law School seminar, Adelaide University, April 2004

‘The Vision and the Reality: The Court’s First Century’, Centenary Conference for the High Court of Australia, Canberra, October 2003

‘Citizenship and Rights’, Human Rights workshop, Monash University/ANU,
Melbourne, December 2003

‘One Indissoluble Federal Commonwealth: How the American Civil War Shaped Australia’s Constitution’, Warren Clark Center for the Study of American History, Harvard University, February 2003

‘Living History or Dead Hands?: The use and misuse of history in
interpreting the Australian Constitution,’ Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Sixth Annual Conference, Cardozo School of Law, New York 2003

‘The High Court and its History’, Constitutional Law Conference, UNSW,
February 2003

‘Nonsense on Stilts or Rights in the Grundnorm?: The Role of History in
Implying Rights and Freedoms in the Australian Constitution’, conference: Converging Futures: Australia and Canada, Canberra, September 2002

‘A Reluctant Member of the International Community: Representative
Democracy in Australia since 1901’, Société Québécoise de Science Politique, Quebec City, 2002

‘Subject to Citizen’, Institute for Public Policy Research, Montreal, May 2002

‘Where to now, Australia?’ National Archives of Australia, Canberra, November 2001

‘Federation: How the Nibble became the Bite’, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies conference, Hobart, August, 2001

'One Hundred Years of (almost) Solitude: the Evolution of Australia Citizenship in the twentieth century', Senate, Canberra, June 2001

'Educating the Citizens: Making the Commonwealth', Australian Education Assembly, Melbourne, April 2001

'Australia's constitutional identity: A conundrum for the 21st century', tenth and final Barton Lecture, Sydney, April 2001 (broadcast on ABC Radio National; published in The Australian, and reported/extracted in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald.)

'Subjects, citizens and apron-strings: the political culture of citizenship in 20th century Australia', A Century of Citizenship in Canada and Australia, University of Ottawa, Canada, February 2001

'The Australian Constitution 1900 - 2000', Australia and Britain 1900-2000: A Unique Partnership, Australia House, London, July 2000

Opinion pieces (recent)

‘Defining Citizenship’, Australian Financial Review, 15 December, 2006.

‘Flames of Protest Should be Seen from more than one Viewpoint’, Sydney
Morning Herald, 24 August 2006

‘Judging the Judges’, Sydney Morning Herald 24 September 2005: 37.
‘Hold Your Breath and Hope as the Nation [Iraq] Decides How it Will Live’,
Sydney Morning Herald 18 August 2005: 15.

‘Bali Bombing Convictions Showed Lack of Constitutional Fortitude’, Sydney Morning Herald 27 August 2004: 11.
‘Trespassers in the Name of Heritage’, Sydney Morning Herald 3 June 2004: 13.

‘Transitional Rule Assembly is a Necessary Compromise in
Iraq’, Sydney Morning Herald 24 November 2003: 13 (with Jolyon Ford)

‘Howard’s Constitutional Reforms Need to be Thorough, Not Piecemeal’,
Sydney Morning Herald 9 June 2003: 17.

‘Give Peace a Chance’, Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] 24 May 2003: 6.

‘Governor General Needs Clear Job Description’, Australian Financial Review 12
May 2003: 55.

‘Cites Are Spiritual Too’, Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] 1 February 2003: 8.

‘No Room for Secrecy in Judicial Appointment Process’, Australian Financial
Review 14 December 2002: 50.

‘The Buck Stops Elsewhere’, Sydney Morning Herald [Spectrum] 23 November
2002: 8.

‘The President is the Last Piece in the Puzzle’, Sydney Morning Herald 31
October 2002: 15.

‘Minutiae of Life Reflected in the Prime Minister’s Bag’, Sydney Morning Herald
19 October 2002: 25.

‘Build Upon a Flawed Past’, The Australian 12 June 2002: 11.

‘Bill of Rights Could Accelerate Culture of Litigation’, The Australian 19 April
2002: 11.

‘Between a Flock and a Hard Place’, Australian Financial Review 19 February