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The Development of Australia’s International Legal Personality

The Development of Australia’s International Legal Personality The Development of Australia’s International Legal Personality Alison Pert I. Introduction In the course of researching and writing a doctoral thesis on Australia’s record as a ‘good international citizen’, it became necessary for this author to determine at what point Australia acquired the power and political will to act independently of the mother country (Great Britain) in matters of foreign relations. This was because in order to measure good international citizenship (however it might be precisely defined) for any state, there needs to be evidence of how that state has acted in international affairs, and why. In the formative years of the Commonwealth of Australia this could not be properly assessed because all matters of high foreign policy were decided by the United Kingdom, with little (if any) freedom of action accorded to the colonies. Answering this question became an exercise in trying to determine when, exactly, Australia acquired this power to act independently. That in turn involved questions of sovereignty, independence and international legal personality. It transpired that there had been (and still is) no agreement on when these—particularly international legal personality—were acquired by Australia, and this author set out to survey the evidence and draw some conclusions http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Australian Year Book of International Law Online Brill

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0084-7658
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10.1163/26660229-034-01-900000010
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The Development of Australia’s International Legal Personality Alison Pert I. Introduction In the course of researching and writing a doctoral thesis on Australia’s record as a ‘good international citizen’, it became necessary for this author to determine at what point Australia acquired the power and political will to act independently of the mother country (Great Britain) in matters of foreign relations. This was because in order to measure good international citizenship (however it might be precisely defined) for any state, there needs to be evidence of how that state has acted in international affairs, and why. In the formative years of the Commonwealth of Australia this could not be properly assessed because all matters of high foreign policy were decided by the United Kingdom, with little (if any) freedom of action accorded to the colonies. Answering this question became an exercise in trying to determine when, exactly, Australia acquired this power to act independently. That in turn involved questions of sovereignty, independence and international legal personality. It transpired that there had been (and still is) no agreement on when these—particularly international legal personality—were acquired by Australia, and this author set out to survey the evidence and draw some conclusions

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The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2017

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