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R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union

Case [1973] HCA 53 9 November 1973

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AGLC: R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union [1973] HCA 53
Case: [1973] HCA 53
Decision Date: 9 November 1973

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R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union [1973] HCA 53

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Elf Farm Supplies Pty Ltd v Hawkesbury City Council [1999] NSWLEC 261

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Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union v Advanced Civil Group Pty Ltd and Australian Workers' Union, The [2024] FWCFB 246
Citation 1

…[16] R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, [1973] HCA 53 at 659; Re Australian Workers' Union; Ex parte Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (2002) 120 FCR 527, (2002) 120 FCR 527 at [44]…
General Manager of the Fair Work Commission v Smyth [2024] FCA 304
Citation 2 (Para 9)

…As to that approach, in R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at 659, in detailing the approach to the construction of a union eligibility rule, Barwick CJ stated: This is a legal question to be solved by legal considerations. But those considerations will, in relation to the present questi…
Enco Precast Pty Ltd v Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union & Ors [2022] QCA 94
Citation 3 (Para 1)

…; Queensland Public Service Union of Employees v Queensland Medical Laboratories (2001) 166 QGIG 64; R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654; Ramsay v Menso [2017] FCCA 1416; Ramsay v Menso (2018) 260 FCR 506; Rescrete Industries Pty Ltd v Jones (1998) 86 IR 269; Regional Express Holdings Limi…
Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union v Transport Workers' Union [2020] FWCFB 3200
Citation 4

…5 R v Aird, Ex Parte AWU (1973) 129 CLR 654, at 659, per Barwick CJ…
Council of the Law Society of the ACT v Legal Practitioner D3 [2018] ACTSC 45
Citation 5 (Para 1)

…require ACAT to exercise the jurisdiction it declined to exercise, the Council referred me to The Queen v Aird; Ex parte The Australian Workers Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 in which McTiernan J said at 655:…
Lifestyle Bakery Pty Ltd v National Union of Workers [2015] FWCFB 6324
Citation 6

…aining an organization's proper coverage and field of operation, they must be construed objectively (see Reg. v. Aird; Ex p Australian Workers' Union [1973] HCA 53; (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 659; Reg. v. Cohen; Ex p Motor Accidents Insurance Board [1979] HCA 46; (1979), 53 ALJR 719, at pp 720 and 723). In so cons…
Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia v Active Tree Services [2015] FWCFB 3044
Citation 7

…8 R v Aird; Ex Parte AWU (1973) 129 CLR 654, 659.…
Musicians' Union of Australia [2014] FWCD 8636
Citation 8

…a generous approach to the intervention of union rules include the following: Dixon J in R v Hickman (1945) 70 CLR 598 at 613; Barwick CJ in R v Aird (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659; Gibbs J in R v Holmes (1977) 140 CLR 63 at 73; Mason J in R v Cohen (1979) 53 ALJR 719 at 723; 27 ALR 263 at 270. [1]…
Health Services Union [2014] FWCD 3522
Citation 9

…40 See for instance R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659.…
ResMed Limited v The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) [2014] FWCFB 2418
Citation 10

…6 (1973) 129 CLR 654…
Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q) T/A Blue Care and Wesley Mission Brisbane v Queensland Nurses' Union of Employees [2014] FWCFB 1447
Citation 11

…scertaining an organisation's proper coverage and field of operation, they must be construed objectively ( R v Aird; Ex p Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at 659; R v Cohen; Ex p Motor Accidents Insurance Board (1979) 53 ALJR 719, at 720 and 723). In so construing them, however, it is permissible to pay…
Australian and International Pilots Association v Network Aviation Pty Limited [2013] FWCFB 5216
Citation 12

…14 R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659 per Barwick CJ.…
Brown v Health Services Union [2012] FCA 644
Citation 13

…orris Inc v Adam P Brown Male Fashions Pty Ltd (1981) 148 CLR 457, cited R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, cited R v Cohen; Ex parte Motor Accidents Insurance Board (1979) 141 CLR 577, cited R v Joske; Ex parte Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (1976) 135 CLR 194, app…
Keen v Health Corporation Ltd [2008] FMCA 1622
Citation 14 (Para 5)

…In R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 the High Court considered a union’s eligibility rule. Chief Justice Barwick (with McTiernan, Menzies, Gibbs and Stephen JJ agreeing) stated at 659: In this respect it is proper, in my opinion, the present case to acknowledge that the eligibility clause…
Griffin Coal Mining Company Pty Limited (ACN 008 667 285) v The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union [2001] FCA 281
Citation 15 (Para 10)

…tatutory process which bears upon that relationship, must have due regard to that fact, cf The Queen v Aird; Ex parte The Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 per Barwick CJ at 659.…
Gilchrist v Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union [2000] FCA 1465
Citation 16 (Para 5)

…nform and are to be followed by persons unlikely to instruct legal practitioners to advise them. (See: R v Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 per Barwick CJ at 659.)…
MHG Plastic Industries Pty Limited v Australian Competition and Consumer Commission [2000] FCA 1069
Citation 17 (Para 9)

…ctices Commission v BMW Australia Ltd (1985) ATPR 40-620 at 47,004-5; see also The Queen v Aird; Ex parte the Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659.…
Tweed Valley Fruit Processors Pty Ltd v Australian Industrial Relations Commission [1996] IRCA 149
Citation 18

…advertence. The difference is, in part, illustrated, in a passage from the judgment of Barwick CJ in R v Aird; Ex parte The Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654. A Deputy President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission had considered whether a dispute existed as the result of the service…
Bogar v Campbell [1995] IRCA 109
Citation 19

…R v. Aird; Ex p. Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659…
Re Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria; Ex Parte State Public Services Federation [1992] HCA 53
Citation 20

…Workers' Union (1985) 159 CLR 323, per Gibbs C.J. at p 335 and Wilson J. at p 340. And see generally Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654.). However, the expression "State instrumentality" is one that carries much the same meaning in popular usage as in a legal context. That meaning dir…
R v Isaac; ex parte Transport Workers Union [1985] HCA 80
Citation 21

…ermined by the application of the ordinary rules which govern the construction of written documents: Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 659; McKenzie, at p 576.…
R v Williams; Ex parte Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders Labourers' Federation [1982] HCA 68
Citation 22

…428, at pp 432-433 ; Reg. v. Watson; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1972) 128 CLR 77, at p 93 ; Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 666 ; Reg. v. Mannequins and Models Guild of Australia; Ex parte Actors and Announcers Equity Association of Australia (1982) 148 CLR 573, at p…
R v McKenzie; Ex parte Actors and Announcers Equity Association of Australia [1982] HCA 6
Citation 23

…and the Commission will have no jurisdiction to hear the claims for the variation of the awards: see Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 666 , and cases there cited. (at p575)…
Egan v Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Federation of Australia (NSW) [1979] HCA 31
Citation 24

…hether in the form of an Act or a regulation. He brought in aid of this submission my own remarks in Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 659 . But I can see no relevance in the quotation. We are here dealing with the language of a legislature and with the exercise of statutory po…
Hope v Bathurst City Council [1977] HCA 72
Citation 25

…l people". Logs should not be the subject of any too strict or narrow construction. Barwick C.J., in Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 659 , reminded us, in speaking of the eligibility of a union's constitution that more likely than not, it had been drawn "by union officials mo…
R v Neil; Ex parte [1976] HCA 11
Citation 26

…CLR 428, at pp 432-433, 436 ; Reg. v. Watson; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1972) 128 CLR 77 ; Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 . This question depends upon the proper construction of the conditions of eligibility of the Association rather than upon the description of the indu…
In the matter of an Application by Smith, F.A. The Operative Painters & Decorators Union of Australia, West Australian Branch [1993] FCA 155
Citation 27

…352 and R v. Aird ex parte AWU (1973) 129 CLR 654 per Bariwck CJ. at 659. I upheld the submission of the organisation's counsel that that evidence was not relevant to the question of construction before the Court.…
F.J. Walker Ltd v Casey, T.F [1989] FCA 595
Citation 28

…estion, some generosity in approach to that question may be appropriate. As Barwick C.J. said in Reg. v. Aird; Ex parte The Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at p 659:…
Australian Bank Employees Union v Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [1989] FCA 544
Citation 29

…Geo. A. Bond & Co Limited (In Liquidation) v. McKenzie (1929) AR (NSW) 498 at 503-504; and The Queen v. Aird; Ex Parte The Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659. The Court was informed by the parties that clause 38 was drafted by the parties themselves, and inserted in the Award without modification an…
Federated Tobacco Workers Union of Australia v Amalgamated Metal Workers Union [1988] FCA 120
Citation 30

…n organization's proper coverage and field of operation, they must be construed objectively (see Reg. v. Aird; Ex p Australian Workers' Union (1973), 129 CLR 654, at p 659; Reg. v. Cohen; Ex p Motor Accidents Insurance Board (1979), 53 ALJR 719, at pp 720 and 723). In so construing them, however, it is permiss…
Food Preservers Union of Australia v The Manufacturing Grocers Employees Federation of Australia [1986] FCA 67
Citation 31

…R v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654…
Vangedal-Nielsen v Commissioner of Patents [1980] FCA 163
Citation 32

…R. v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973), 129 CLR 654; R. v. Cohen; Ex parte Motor Accidents Insurance Board (1979), 141 CLR 577, applied.…
Burgess v Connell-Mott [1979] FCA 161
Citation 33

…The Queen v. Aird; Ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973), 129 CLR 654, applied.…
Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union [2025] FWC 738
Citation 34

…[46] R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654, [1973] HCA 53 at 659; Re Australian Workers' Union.…
Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union v J. Blackwood & Son Pty Ltd T/A Blackwoods [2021] FWC 3029
Citation 35

…32 R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers’ Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659; Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd v Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia (1980) 49 FLR 355 at 361…
Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union v Qube Logistics (SB) Pty Ltd [2021] FWC 929
Citation 36

…47 See R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659; Re Australian Workers' Union; Ex parte Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (2002) 120 FCR 527 at [44].…
National Union of Workers v Bervar Pty Ltd T/A Della Rosa Fresh Foods [2018] FWC 1265
Citation 37

…aining an organization's proper coverage and field of operation, they must be construed objectively (see Reg. v. Aird; Ex p Australian Workers' Union [1973] HCA 53; (1973) 129 CLR 654, at p 659; Reg. v. Cohen; Ex p Motor Accidents Insurance Board [1979] HCA 46; (1979), 53 ALJR 719, at pp 720 and 723). In so cons…
Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) [2015] FWC 4007
Citation 38

…17 R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 at 659 per Barwick CJ; see also Re Australian Workers' Union; Ex parte Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (2002) 120 FCR 527 at [44] per Gray and Moore JJ.…
Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia v Active Tree Services [2014] FWC 7784
Citation 39

…7 R v Aird Ex parte Australian Workers Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 and R v Cohen; Ex parte Motor Accidents Insurance Board (1979) 141 CLR 577…
Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia v Jeanswest Corporation Pty Ltd [2014] FWC 1024
Citation 40

…83 (1973) 129 CLR 654…
St John Western Australia Ltd [2025] FWCA 2035
Citation 41

…[35] R v Aird; ex parte Australian Workers' Union (1973) 129 CLR 654 659 (Barwick CJ); Re Australian Workers' Union; Ex parte Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union [2002] FCAFC 150; (2002) 120 FCR 527 [44] (Gray and Moore JJ).…
Elf Farm Supplies Pty Ltd v Hawkesbury City Council [1999] NSWLEC 261
Citation 42

…of that term as defined in that Act. It relies on the judgment of the High Court in R v Aird; Ex parte The Australian Workers’ Union [1973] 129 CLR 654 wherein the court held that ready-mixed concrete was not an ‘article’.…

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