Protecting Australian democracy: From attempting to ban the Communist Party to resisting foreign interference
Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
Year: 2023

The article analyses the shift of the limits of democratic tolerance in Australia. In 1950, the Australian Parliament passed an Act under which the activities of the Australian Communist Party were outlawed, and the party had to be dissolved. One year later, the High Court of Australia struck down the Dissolution Act and indicated that the "militant democracy" concept had never been a part of the Commonwealth Constitutional architecture. Thus, the interpretation of the judicial system of Austral