The Australian Constitution provides protection for the Australian environment

The Australian Constitution provides protection for the Australian environment Legal System of referencing. Please use the AGLC3 Australian Guide to Legal Citation Maximum Length: 1,000 words for the main text PLUS equivalent of 500 additional words for tables/flowcharts PLEASE use tables and flowcharts to help answer the question (for an example of a flowchart please see the example at the end of this document). Note that footnotes and references should only include case names and legislation, any block text in footnotes will be added to the word count! Weighting: 30% for GEPL335 (20% for GEPL535) Your task: GEPL335 and GEPL535 students must discuss the following statement: “The Australian Constitution provides protection for the Australian environment.” i) Please provide a word count. You are encouraged to use tables and flowcharts to answer the questions (for an example of a flowchart please see the example at the end of this document). Note that footnote references should mainly include case names and legislation ONLY, any block text in footnotes will be included in the word count! ii) Referencing – you must use the Legal System of referencing. Please use the AGLC3 Australian Guide to Legal Citation (3rd Ed) (instead of the APA Guide) from: http://www. une.edu.au/current - students/resources/academicskills/referencing (go to AGLC which links to the University of Melbourne Site which has a pdf available for free download, there is also a shorter version at http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/submissions/quic k - aglc Please consider that you may use the referencing style used in your recommended and prescribed texts as a guide. Please note: the Harvard (Author - Date) system of referencing MUST NOT BE FOLLOWED. WHY? Because this unit is intended as an introduction to the law and to legal study, so it is important to follow the conventions of legal writing. The Legal System of Referencing is not difficult but will take some patience: remember that you must reference all legislation through section numbers and full t itles in the text and in the footnotes and know how to reference the case law in the text and in the footnotes. Timesaving Tip: Please note that word processing software packages will generate footnote numbering and formatting for you automatically (in Mic rosoft Word this function is found under Insert – Reference – Footnote). iii) Please reference ALL of your sentences, anything really that goes beyond a statement of the obvious needs to be referenced!! ii) v) Please reference primary sources wherever possibl e, i.e. reference the precise sections of the Act or piece of legislation, or the case law (please use the online databases, such as austlii at http://www.austlii.edu.au/ and other sources listed there), rather than secondary sources (secondary sources inc lude the textbook, and websites such as government websites). Secondary sources are useful to give you an overview and some background but they should be used to direct you to the primary sources (i.e. legislation and case law) and it is these primary sour ces (i.e. legislation and case law) that should be referenced. PLEASE CONCENTRATE ON USING PRIMARY SOURCES! It is one of the main aims of this unit that you become familiar with the legislation and the case law and therefore it is important that you practi ce and develop this skill (and knowledge!) by referencing the primary sources directly. PLEASE DO NOT REFERENCE THE UNIT NOTES! The whole point of referencing is to inform the reader of how and where they may read what you have read – and to source the bes t possible supporting evidence for your essay - UNE unit notes are not generally publicly available and are not primary sources. v) Please structure your answers, with main headings including introduction, discussion and conclusion, as well as sub - headings . vi) Please provide a well - constructed, logically ordered and wellsupported (with references) argument in your answers. An assignment is not a collection of copied and pasted paragraphs from various sources – even if they are referenced! An assignment is an original piece of work in which you discuss and analyse your sources of information and provide your own reasoned conclusions. iii) vii) In ASSIGNMENT 1 discussion and analysis should be made of the following (with references!): 1) The Constitutional demarc ation of responsibilities between Commonwealth and State Governments as intended by the framers of the Constitution; 2) The degree to which State laws can cover the Commonwealth (you must cover both Sovereign immunity and the exclusive legislative powers); 3) The degree to which Commonwealth laws can cover the States (you must discuss s109 and the s 51 powers and the role of the High Court of Australia in interpreting the meaning of these concurrent powers); 4) The history and development of intergovernment al agreements and the degree to which these have affected coordination and cooperation, and effective environmental policy implementation; 5) The degree to which such implementation responsibilities are affected by other Constitutional issues and other pol itical and economic issues you may like to cover.