His Honour Dixon J observed in Ex parte McLean (1930) 43 CLR 472 at 483:
A) The mere fact of the coexistence of a Federal and State law concerning the same matter is enough to constitute inconsistency.
B) The intention of the legislature is irrelevant when resolving a dispute between coexistent laws of Federal and State parliaments.
C) Even if a federal law is intended to be supplementary to a state law, there will still be inconsistency where the laws govern the same matter.
D) When a federal law declares its intention to exclusively govern a particular matter it is inconsistent for a law of a State to govern the same matter.
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