Anne Twomey

The issue of the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament consumed discussion across Australia for ten months and more leading to the referendum on Saturday 14 October 2023 at which the Yes case was lost overwhelmingly - going down 39 per cent to 61 per cent No. There was a week of mourning for [...]

Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney and Director of the Constitutional Reform Unit. Among her many publications are The Veiled Sceptre - Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems (2018) and Pitt Cobbett – A Portrait of Australia’s Constitution at 1919 (2019). On Wednesday 22 July 2020, [...]

Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, Constitutional Reform Unit at the University of Sydney. She worked for the High Court of Australia as a Senior Research Officer, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service as a researcher in the Law and Government Group, the Commonwealth Senate as Secretary to the Senate Legal and Constitutional [...]

Professor Anne Twomey is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. She is the author of (most recently) The Veiled Sceptre – Reserve Powers of Heads of State in Westminster Systems (CUP, 2018). In discussions of the Whitlam Government’s dismissal by Governor General Sir John Kerr in 1975, there is rarely any consideration [...]