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How Australia's highest court became its last word

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High Court of Australia (Wikipedia)
WikipediaWikipedia, High Court of Australia, sections on the Knox court and on the Australia Acts 1986; text re-read through a page fetch, not paginated
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In 1986, with the passage of the Australia Acts by both the British and Commonwealth parliaments, appeals to the Privy Council from state supreme courts were closed off, leaving the High Court as the only avenue of appeal.
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