Anti-party defection laws - the legal and constitutional pitfalls

This video discusses what conditions are included in anti-party defection laws, drawing on examples from other countries, such as New Zealand, Samoa and Fiji. It examines how such laws have been interpreted and applied by courts, and the difficulties that have arisen from their justiciability. It then discusses whether such laws would be constitutionally invalid at the federal and State level, and concludes that while Tasmania is the jurisdiction with the fewest constitutional constraints on its ability to make such a law, it could nonetheless, depending on the terms of the law, founder on the rocks of the implied freedom of political communication.