Implied intergovernmental immunities Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd

the original high court tended employ jurisprudence governing intergovernmental immunity, expressing implied immunity of instrumentalities, neither commonwealth nor state governments affected laws of other. first expressed in d emden v pedder, deakin v webb, , railway servants case. griffith cj declared in first case:

in considering respective powers of commonwealth , of states essential bear in mind each is, within ambit of authority, sovereign state, subject restrictions imposed imperial connection , provisions of constitution, either expressed or implied... right of sovereignty subject extrinsic control contradiction in terms.