Direct Questions

Question 1

Constitutional Monarchy

Answer 1

System of government in which a monarch shares power with a constitutionally organized government.

Question 2

Structure of Australian Parliament

Answer 2

Queen, senate, house of representatives

Question 3

What does the queen do?

Answer 3

The queen opens and dissolves Parliament and approves Bills before they become law.

Question 4

What does the Senate do?

Answer 4

It shares the power to make laws with the House of Representatives.

Question 5

What does the house of representatives do

Answer 5

Central function and the one which takes up most of its time is the consideration and passing of new laws and amendments or changes to existing laws.

Question 6

What is the Separation of Powers?

Answer 6

• The separation of powers divides the government into separate branches, each of which has separate and independent powers.
• This system helps to ensure that no one branch is more powerful than another.

Question 7

What is legislative

Answer 7

Power to make and change the law

Question 8

What is executive

Answer 8

Power to put law into action

Question 9

What is judicial

Answer 9

Power to make judgements on law

Question 10

What is federalism

Answer 10

The idea that government and governments powers should be divided between a central government and smaller state governments.

Question 11

Australia’s Federation

Answer 11

• Before 1901 was not a nation but 6 separate British colonies
• Greater nation, coordination and consistency instead of 6 different ways of doing things e.g the railway lines could be uniformed
• Could economically develop more as a nation

Question 12

What is the Executive made of

Answer 12

Made up of the Queen, Prime Ministers and ministers

Question 13

What is the Legislative made of

Answer 13

Parliament is made up of the Queen (represented by the Governor-General), the Senate and the House of Representatives

Question 14

What is the Judicial made of

Answer 14

Made up of the High Courts of Australia and other federal courts

Question 15

What is constitutionalism

Answer 15

Doctrine that a government’s authority is determined by a body of laws or constitution.

Question 16

Changing constitution

Answer 16

Referendum - In which all Australians of voting age vote for the proposed changes. To succeed, a majority of voters nationwide and a majority of States (four out of six) must approve the changes.

Question 17

What is representative democracy

Answer 17

Representative democracy is a form of government in which citizens have the same right of participation in political decisions. This is not done in person, but using a representative.

Question 18

Four frameworks of democracy

Answer 18

Freedom, justice, legitimacy and power

Question 19

Freedom

Answer 19

Citizens can freely make decisions.
Upheld - Australia has democracy.
Not upheld - The Australian Constitution does not clearly protect freedom of expression

Question 20

Justice

Answer 20

All citizens are treated equally with dignity and respect
Upheld - Through the rule of law
Not upheld - lack of accessability

Question 21

Legitimacy

Answer 21

A legitimate government has the appropriate mandate and authority to rule.
Upheld - Federal election every 3 years and State every 4 years
Not upheld -

Question 22

Power

Answer 22

Checks and balances to limit power. Make sure no group has too much power.
Upheld - Separation of powers
Not upheld - Some roles of the Parliament, Executive and Judiciary overlap