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The years immediately after Federation threw up a number of questions that reflected the legal, social and economic issues of the day and fell to be resolved within the new constitutional framework that came into play upon Federation. One hundred years later, with a larger population and a more diverse society many of those same issues remain before the High Court of Australia. This short dissertation examines the similarities and the differences in legal thinking on the same issues in the years after Federation and in the first two decades of the 21st Century.