The World - News from March 3, 1986
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Queen Elizabeth II abolished the last vestiges of Australia’s constitutional links with Britain, its onetime colonial ruler. Arriving from New Zealand, the British monarch--who is also titular head of state of many Commonwealth countries--signed the proclamation of the Australia Act 1986. It abolishes Australians’ judicial appeal to Britain’s Privy Council and ends a number of anachronistic controls of the British Parliament over Australian state law. Australia remains in the Commonwealth.
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