Oceania

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Constitution of Australia

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Enacted by the British Parliament in July 1900 and effective January 1, 1901, the Australian Constitution federated six colonies i...

Treaty of Waitangi

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Signed in February 1840 between the British Crown and over 500 Maori rangatira, the Treaty of Waitangi promised Maori undisturbed ...

Constitution of Papua New Guinea

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Adopted August 15, 1975 at independence from Australia, the Papua New Guinea Constitution is notable for embedding Melanesian valu...

Constitution of Fiji (2013)

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Decreed in September 2013 after an earlier draft was scrapped, Fijis current constitution abolished communal electoral rolls, esta...

Constitution of New Zealand

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New Zealand has no single constitutional document. Its core framework is the Constitution Act 1986, which replaced the British sta...