Bicameral Flashcards
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Bicameral system mean
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The Federal Parliament is bicameral, which means it has two houses: The House of Representatives, also called the ‘lower house’, is made up of 151 members elected from individual electorates all around Australia
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Why do we have a bicameral Parliament?
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The basic rationale for having two parliamentary chambers is the need to avoid a concentration of power in a single body and the risk of abuse which this entails.
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