Robert McCloskey writes on the Marshall Supreme Court: "It is hardly surprising that the Supreme Court, an intrinsically national institution, should be drawn to the doctrine of nationalism."
Andrew Ingliss-Clark used the American experience of federalism by mixing the national and federal character together in the Australian Constitution to place checks and balances such that pure nationalism and absolutist state rights could not dominate the other. However, like the US system, the High Court in Australia is a purely national institution. It has no federal character.
Could that be why it is so centralist?
The federal character of Parliament is predominantly the Senate, yet government has continued to centralise and the Senate has not inhibited that growth away from federalism.
