What is Constitution of Australia?
{{Infobox document |document_name=Constitution of Australia |image= |image_width=200px |image_caption= |date_created=1898-1900 |date_ratified=9 July 1900 |location_of_document=[[National Archives of Australia]], [[Canberra]], [[Australia]] |writer= [[Samuel Griffith|Sir Samuel Walker Griffith]], [[Andrew Inglis Clark]], and others. |signers=[[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] |purpose=To join the Australian colonies as a single nation, and make the law under which the Australian Commonwealth Government operates }} The '''Constitution of Australia''' is the law that set up the Australian [[Government of Australia|Commonwealth Government]] and says how it works. It is made up of several [[document]]s. The most important is the '''Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia'''. The people of Australia voted in [[referendum]]s from 1898–1900 to accept the Constitution. The Constitution was then passed as a part of the '''Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900''' (Imp), an [[Act of Parliament|Act]] of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] signed it on 9 July 1900. The Constitution became law on 1 January 1901. Even though the Constitution was an Act of the United Kingdom parliament, the [[#The_Statute_of_Westminster_and_the_Australia_Acts|Australia Acts]] took away the power of the United Kingdom parliament to change the Constitution. Now only the Australian people can change it by referendum. Two other laws support the Australian Constitution. The first is the [[Statute of Westminster 1931|Statute of Westminster]], as passed by the Commonwealth as the ''[[Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942]].'' The second is the ''[[Australia Act 1986]]'', which was passed by the Parliaments of every Australian state, the United Kingdom, and the Australian Federal Parliament. Together, these Acts had the effect of cutting all constitutional links between Australia and the United Kingdom. Even though the same person, [[Charles III|King Charles III]