Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission

JurisdictionAustralia Federal only
JudgeGleeson CJ,McHugh J,Gummow,Hayne JJ.,Kirby J,Callinan J,Heydon J
Judgment Date08 September 2004
Neutral Citation2004-0520 HCA B,[2004] HCA 41
CourtHigh Court
Docket NumberM272/2003
Date08 September 2004
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49 cases
  • Thomas v Mowbray and Ors
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 2 August 2007
    ...has been understood to mean ‘clearly appropriate or adapted for’, not ‘unavoidably’. As Gleeson CJ pointed out in Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission621, there is, in Australia, ‘a long history of judicial and legislative use of the term “necessary”, not as meaning essential or ind......
  • Wainohu v New South Wales
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 23 June 2011
    ...[71]–[82], 350–351 [88]–[92], 507–508 [596]; [2007] HCA 33. 188 (2010) 242 CLR 1 . 189 Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission (2004) 220 CLR 181 at 234 [148]; [2004] HCA 41. 191Serious and Organised Crime (Control) Act 2008 (SA). 190 (2010) 242 CLR 1; [2010] HCA 39. 192 K-Generation ......
  • Aid/watch Incorporated v Commissioner of Taxation
    • Australia
    • High Court
    • 1 December 2010
    ...Corporation v Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd (2001) 208 CLR 199 at 220 [20]; [2001] HCA 63; Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission (2004) 220 CLR 181 at 245 [180]–[181]; [2004] HCA 41. 75 Coleman v Power (2004) 220 CLR 1 at 50 [92], 77–78 [196], 82 [211]; [2004] HCA 39. 76 [1982] Ch 321 at......
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Kane (No 2)
    • Australia
    • Federal Court
    • 17 February 2020
    ...611 Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v SZVFW [2018] HCA 30; (2018) 92 ALJR 713 Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission [2004] HCA 41; (2004) 220 CLR 181 Muggeridge v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2017] FCAFC 200; (2017) 255 FCR 81 National Justice Compan......
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34 books & journal articles
  • The Constitutional (In)Validity of Religious Vilification Laws: Implications for their Interpretation
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 34-2, June 2006
    • 1 June 2006
    ...JJ); Levy (1997) 189 CLR 579, 647 (Kirby J); Coleman (2004) 220 CLR 1, 122–4 (Heydon J); Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission (2004) 220 CLR 181, 200–1 (Gleeson CJ) ('Mulholland'). 25 See, eg, Levy (1997) 189 CLR 579, 596–9 (Brennan CJ); cf 608 (Dawson J), 624 (McHugh J). See also C......
  • Grounding the High Court's Modern Section 92 Jurisprudence: The case for Improper Purpose as the Touchstone
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 33-3, September 2005
    • 1 September 2005
    ...160 Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997) 189 CLR 520, 561–2, 567. See also Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission (2004) 209 ALR 582. 161 My argument would be strengthened if I were able to claim that this preference did not manifest only in the realm of federal structur......
  • Involuntary Detention and the Separation of Judicial Power
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 35-1, March 2007
    • 1 March 2007
    ...and the Concept of Proportionality' (1997) 21 Melbourne University Law Review 1. See also Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission (2004) 220 CLR 181, 266–7 [247]–[251] (Kirby J) ('Mulholland'). 88 See the critique in Kirk, above n 87, 24–7, 29, 34–5. 89 Selway, above n 87, 213–14. See ......
  • Alexander Meiklejohn, American Constitutional Law, and Australia's Implied Freedom of Political Communication
    • United Kingdom
    • Federal Law Review No. 34-3, September 2006
    • 1 September 2006
    ...APLA Ltd v Legal Services Commissioner (NSW) (2005) 79 ALJR 1620, 219 ALR 403 ('APLA'); Mulholland v Australian Electoral Commission (2004) 220 CLR 181; Roberts v Bass (2002) 212 CLR 1; Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Lenah Game Meats Pty Ltd (2001) 208 CLR 199 ('Lenah Game Meats'); M......
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