I apologise because I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand how the amendment affects the gathering of metadata in any way.
The explanatory memorandum seems to make it pretty clear that the Commonwealth isn't going to rely on the amendment to interfere with local bodies and I think reliance on a council worker's signature as authority to gather data for the Commonwealth would almost absolutely be a violation of the separation of powers doctrine anyway.
Our government can already arguably take what they want anyway under ss51(vi) or (xxix), so I don't really see why an ulterior motive for this is necessary anyway.
Also, I was under the impression that the funding would be grants, so I don't get why you're saying fiduciary relationships are involved here.
I haven't studied constitutional law for a couple of years now so I'm probably behind on bits and pieces, but I'm not getting any warning signs from this referendum at all. It just seems like it's an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy.
(IANAL by the way. Or an exceptionally good law student, so I'm sorry if I've misunderstood everything here)
The explanatory memorandum seems to make it pretty clear that the Commonwealth isn't going to rely on the amendment to interfere with local bodies and I think reliance on a council worker's signature as authority to gather data for the Commonwealth would almost absolutely be a violation of the separation of powers doctrine anyway.
Our government can already arguably take what they want anyway under ss51(vi) or (xxix), so I don't really see why an ulterior motive for this is necessary anyway.
Also, I was under the impression that the funding would be grants, so I don't get why you're saying fiduciary relationships are involved here.
I haven't studied constitutional law for a couple of years now so I'm probably behind on bits and pieces, but I'm not getting any warning signs from this referendum at all. It just seems like it's an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy.
(IANAL by the way. Or an exceptionally good law student, so I'm sorry if I've misunderstood everything here)