Australian Constitutional Law

  Description:   OPTION ONE In late 2016, academic and jou'nalist, Wendy Bacon, was arrested at a protest over the Westconnex project in Sydney’s Inner West- The arrest was facilitated by an amendment to the Law Enforcement (Powers and responsibilities) Act 2002 (NSW), s- 200 in early 2016- Discuss the possible constitutional ramifications of this provision- OPTION TWO In Buns v Corbett; Gaynorv Buns [2017] NSWCA3 (3 February 2017) the New South Wales Coat of Appeal heard an appeal from the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) relating to matters of homosexual vilification- Leeming JA (with whom the other judges of the Coat agreed) quashed NCAT’s finding of discrimination by deciding the case on constitutional grounds- Explain the Cout’s reasoning in this case and critically evaluate the Cout’s findings- How would you have decided this matter and on what grounds?