Chapter 12 - Participation Flashcards
Individuals
give example
persons acting of their own accord, in their own interests or in the public interest.
e.g. kate chaney
pressure groups
give example
organised groups who don’t want to form government, they aim to influence law making and policy decisions. they do not intend to be elected but they influence on the sidelines.
e.g. get up, AMA
Political parties
give examples
organised groups that form government and make laws
e.g. labor, liberal
give example
individuals participating in electoral process
give types of individual examples
- vote
- donate
- run as candidate
- protest
- sign pettitions
e.g. david pocock, monique ryan, clive palmer
monique ryan
individual
individual participation case study
good to use when talking about individual participation
roach Vs electoral commission 2007
- in 2006 howard gov passed legislation to amment the cth electoral act 1918, he changed it so people in prision do not vote at all
- before this ammendment, people who were serving time 3 years or longer could not vote
- this was a ‘voter suppression’ attempt
- roach claimed it infinged constitution
- the case went to the high court to interpret and give meaning, they had to interpret section 7 and 24
- S7 - senate chosen directly by the people
- S24 - HOR chosen directly by the people
- the prisioners are still people and were disenfranchised
- high court decided if prisioners were people
- HC found that the blanket voting ban for all prisoners was unconstitutional and the right to vote can only be limited for substantial reasoning
- the ban was disproportonite
- and the high court invalidated the law - quashed
- parliament can only take away peoples right to vote if it is strengthening the democracy - such as giving 0-16 no right to vote
interest/sectional pressure groups
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- acting on self interest
- such as AMA and minerals council, they want less rules for infrasturcture
cause based pressure groups
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- advocates for causes and acts altruistically
- more for the greater good
- doesn’t lead to their specific benefit
- environmental groups
e.g. RSPCA, animal welfare
hybrid pressure groups
add example
e.g. AMA - aus medical association
- wants good hospitals
- helps people
- wants better pay and working conditions
- both parties, interests
stratergies of pressure groups
example
- petitions
- strikes
- letters to the MP
- litigate
- compaign for candidates
e.g. GET UP - helped unseat andrew —-, targeted tony abott, getting gov to ban live exports, advocating
case study of pressure groups
Rowe Vs electoral commissioner 2010
- ## plaintiffs -> shannen rowe and douglas tompson
stratergies of political parties
- leadership
- stand candidates for election
- create ‘how to vote’ cards - encourage people to vote for a particular party first, makes people vote in a particular way
- create coalitions
- campaign - advertisements and brochures
case study of political parties
example
campaign funding and donations
- Aus has poor disclosure laws meaning it is not required to show who donated
- no truth in advertising -> parties can ‘lie’ when campaigning
- such as name call people, the AEC can’t do anything
donor examples
- CFMEU –> gave 3m to labor
- SDA –> gave 2m to labor
- pratt holdings –> gave 2m to coalition
- there is 300m undisclosed for all parties combined
- question is -> should there be a limit for election campaign spending –> clive palmer ‘bought himself’
examples
- in 2022 federal election, teals spent 21m, climate 200 donated 6m across 19 candidates
- monique ryan raised 1.8m from 3762 donors
*labor want to cut amount of campaigb money to reduce independants from gaining seats
