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Australia has a federal government system where the central Commonwealth government in Canberra competes in the medical and health care fields with the six state governments -New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania -and two territory governments -the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. As a result there are state laws and legal structures and organizations dealing with biœthical issues which are sometimes a variance with each other and also at variance with Commonwealth laws and structures.
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Charlesworth, M. (1995). Bioethics in Australia: 1991–1993. In: Lustig, B.A. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0197-4_16
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