[3] Daredevil pilot Goya Henry was convicted of flying without a license, having flown around, over and under the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The Commonwealth relied upon 3 sources of constitutional power, interstate trade and commerce, foreign affairs and territories.

The High Court held in R v Burgess; Ex parte Henry that the parliament has no general control over the subject matter of civil aviation and that implementation of the convention did not require the Commonwealth to control civil aviation.

The Lyons Government plans to hand over air transport to the Imperial Airways Trust.

The present proposal is designed to make the Imperial Air Trust, with privately subscribed capital, a serious rival of the State railway services.

This same Imperial Air Trust has already begun a sinister influence in the political life of Australia.