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Hass test success criteria
Separation of powers
Legislative
: Is made up to two houses, the senate (Upper house) and the house of representatives (Lower house)
Roles
: Makes and amends the law and
Belongs to
: The legislative branch is made up of the King (represented by the Governor-General), the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Key features
: its law making authority. In order for a law to be created, a bill must pass one house the house of representative.
Values
: resilience
Executive
:
Roles
: The Executive puts the law into action
Belongs to
: The Executive is made up of the King (represented by the Governor-General), Prime Minister and ministers
Key features
: The Executive Branch conducts relationships with other nations and the President has the power to negotiate and sign treaties
Values
: self-discipline, resilience and persistence
Judicial
:
Roles
: The Judiciary makes judgements about the law on the constitution
Belongs to
: The Judiciary is made up of the High Court of Australia and other federal courts
Key features
: interpret the law, determine the constitutionality of the law, and apply it to individual cases
Values
: independence, impartiality, integrity, fairness, transparency
Australian Government
Key features
: Australia's government is an Representative democracy, Australians vote for members of parliament to make laws on their behalf. Constitutional monarchy, The King is Australia's head of state but does not have absolute power and is required to follow the Australian Constitution.
Values
:
freedom of election and being elected.
freedom of assembly and political participation.
freedom of speech, expression and religious belief.
rule of law.
other basic human rights.
Australia Vs Indonesia
Constitution
Australia
: establishes the composition of the Australian Parliament, describes how Parliament works and what powers it has. It also outlines how the federal and state Parliaments share power
Indonesia
: framework of a presidential representative democratic republic whereby the President of Indonesia is both head of state and head of government
Separation of powers
Australia
: Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Indonesia
: Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Head of state
Australia
: King of Australia, His Majesty King Charles III
Indonesia
: The president Joko Widodo
Two house system
Australia
: House of reps and senate
Indonesia
: DPR (People's Representative Council,) and DPD (Regional Representative Council.)
Democracy
Authoritarian VS Democratic
Authoritarian
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the use of strong central power to preserve the political status and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting.
Authoritarian VS Democratic
: In a democracy, a legislature is intended to represent the diversity of interests among citizens, whereas authoritarians use legislatures to signal their own restraint towards other elites as well as to monitor other elites who pose a challenge to the regime.
Democracy
is a a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.
Threats to a democracy
Media bias
(Newspapers, News Channels)
Reporting news in a way that conflicts with standards of professional journalism or promoting a political agenda through entertainment media and only seeing one side of the story
Social Media
Social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google are engagements through social media thus essentially hijacking democracy, by influencing individuals toward a particular way of thinking.
Vested Interests
A strong personal interest in another party because he or she could get a personal benefit from it.
Lawlessness
Bribing people for personal information and using violence to get the information.
Corruption
Corruption chips away at democracy to produce a vicious cycle, where corruption undermines democratic institutions and, in turn, weak institutions are less able to control corruption.
Example
Methods of corruption include bribery, networking and nepotism
Australia's constitutional and the high court
What the constitution
: the Australian Constitution is the set of rules by which Australia is governed. Australians voted for the Constitution in a series of referendums. The Constitution establishes the composition of the Australian Parliament, and describes how Parliament works and what powers it has.
Constitutional separation of powers
The separation of powers divides the institutions of government into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial: the legislature makes the laws; the executive puts the laws into operation; and the judiciary interprets the laws.
High court
1.Protecting the rights of the people
Resolving the disputes and can also hear appeals
4 Major Roles
Keeping the constitution relevant
The high court as an umpire