Parliment

Question 1

What are the 3 levels of government?

Answer 1

In government there is the federal, state and local government. federal provides protection, immigration and currency. State is in charge of road rules, schools, hospitals and police. Local is important for sporting grounds, rubbish and planning permits

Question 2

What is an electorate?

Answer 2

An electorate are the 150 areas across Australia that make up the parliament. The person voted to be in charge of each electorate is now a member of the house of representatives.

Question 3

What are the two houses in federal and state?

Answer 3

The federal government’s lower house is the house of representatives and upper house is the senate. The state’s lower house is the legastive assmebly and upper house is legastive council.

Question 4

What is the house of representatives?

Answer 4

The h.o.r is the lower house of Federal government and they determine the goverment and pass laws. There are 150 seats in the house of representatives that are made up of each member of an electorate. The colour of h.o r is green

Question 5

What is the senate

Answer 5

The senate is the upper house of federal government and they discuss matters of national and international importance. 12 senators represent each state and there are 76 seats . Their colour is red.

Question 6

What is democracy

Answer 6

Democracy is a form of government where the people have a say in what laws are passed. Australia have a representative democracy which means voters elect representatives to government.

Question 7

What is an election

Answer 7

An election is a process that takes place every 3 years where voters can elect people to represent thier electorate in parliament, specifically the h o r. Senators are elected every 6 years

Question 8

How does our voting system work?

Answer 8

Australia makes voting compulsory for everyone and we use a preferential voting system. This means that we vote in order of preference.

Question 9

Who can vote

Answer 9

Since Australia makes voting compulsory, everyone has to vote. Once you turn 18 and are an Australian citizen you have to vote. People cant vote if you are in prison for over 3 years or living in a current address for under a month

Question 10

Who is the prime minister

Answer 10

The prime minister is the leader of the political party with a majority in the h. O . R. They are summoned by the governal general to form a government. Our current prime minister is malcom turnboll

Question 11

What is the opposition leader

Answer 11

The opposition leader is the leader of the party with the minority in the house of representatives. The role of the opposition includes commenting on decisions made by the government

Question 12

What are the ministers?

Answer 12

The ministers are members of the party with a majoirty in the h or r. Each minister has a area of responsibility eg. Minister of immigration or health. These are known as a portfolio

Question 13

Role of independant

Answer 13

A person who is not a member endorsed by a political party. They can be elected but cannot form a
Government

Question 14

What the difference between the front beach and back benchers

Answer 14

Front benchers tend to be ministers with portfolios and have a more important role in parliment where as back benchers are very important and don’t have much responsibility.

Question 15

What is the national party?

Answer 15

The nationals are a smaller party that is a coalition with the liberal party. They were formed in 1918 by farmers to look out for the interests of people in rural australia. The leader of the nationals is currently barnaby joyce

Question 16

What is the role of the governor general

Answer 16

Our current governor general, peter cosgrove is the queens representative. He also summons the prime minister to form the government. The g g sits at the top of the parliamentary triangle

Question 17

What is a constituion

Answer 17

The constitution is a written statement outlining the structure of our laws. It provides a framework for the operation of government. The formal title of our constituion is the common wealth of australia constitution act.

Question 18

What is a representative democracy?

Answer 18

A representative democracy is when voters elects representatives to government to represent thier views in parliment. Since we have 14 million people that have to vote, having a representative democracy makes it much easier to make a descisoon

Question 19

What is a referendum

Answer 19

A referendum is are changes to the constitution and must be put to vote for all australian voters. To pass a referendum the bill must ordinarily achieve a double majoirty. This means 4 out of the 6 states must agree

Question 20

What is government

Answer 20

A government is a political system where groups of people have the authority to govern our states and country. The role of government is to provide the country with protection, order , justice and public work

Question 21

What are the main political parites

Answer 21

In parliment the main parties are the liberals, labour, greens and nationals. Liberal is currently the party with majority of votes

Question 22

What preferential voting means

Answer 22

Preferential voting is when the voters select the party they want to win by a prefence system

Question 23

Concept of simple majority voting

Answer 23

a majority in which the highest number of votes for one candidate

Question 24

Leader of the government at state level

Answer 24

The premier of victoria is daniel andrews.

Question 25

Who is the leader at federal level

Answer 25

the prime minister is malcom turnbull

Question 26

Federation

Answer 26

Federation began in 1901 and was the form of all 6 states to create the commonwealth of australia and system of government.

Question 27

Head of state at federal level

Answer 27

Our prime minister malcom turnbull

Question 28

Head of state at state level

Answer 28

Our victorian state governor ( Linda dessau)