Page "Australia Act 1986" Paragraph 5

The Australia Act ended all power of the UK Parliament to legislate with effect in Australia-that is, " as part of the law of " the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory ( s 1 ).

Conversely, no future law of a State would be void for inconsistency with ( being " repugnant to ") any UK law applying with " paramount force " in Australia ; a State ( like the Commonwealth ) would have power to repeal or amend such an existing UK law so far as it applied to the State ( s 3 ).

State laws would no longer be subject to disallowance or suspension by the Queen ( s 8 )-a power that, anomalously, remains for Commonwealth legislation ( Constitution ss 59 and 60 ).