Submission - Principles of the Australia Bill [1985-08-14]
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Title
Submission - Principles of the Australia Bill [1985-08-14]
Subject
Constitution
Foreign Affairs
Description
Baroness Young's formal advice to Queen Elizabeth II asking whether she would accept the principles of the Australia Bill.
Creator
Baroness Young (Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
Source
Anne Twomey, The Chameleon Crown: The Queen and Her Australian Governors (The Federation Press, 2006), 256.
Date
1985-08-14
Contributor
Jason Loch
Ministerial Submission Item Type Metadata
Transcript
The Baroness Young, with her humble duty to The Queen, begs to draw attention to the Advice of Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom that it is in agreement with the proposals contained in the Request and Consent legislation which the Federal Government of Australia intends to introduce in order to sever certain residual constitutional links between Britain and Australia. The Federal and State Governments of Australia are in agreement to remove the links and the Federal Opposition has endorsed the proposals. Would Her Majesty be pleased to accept this Advice?
Ornamentation
The text of this instrument was printed in a book and does not reflect the formatting of the original.
Special Features
The fact that this advice comes from a Minister of State rather than a Cabinet minister is unusual. Baroness Young was a Privy Counsellor, however.
Citation
Baroness Young (Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs), “Submission - Principles of the Australia Bill [1985-08-14],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/206.