civics and citizenship
key concepts
Austrlia's government
safeguards to democracy
seperations of power
Austrlia and Indonesia
democratic values
justice
democracy
participation
westminster system
rights and responsibilities
levels of government
state
local
federal
local government controls locally owned issues
State government controls over state wide issue
federal is the highest level of government controlling Austrlias more wide issues
similarities
differences
Austrlia and Indonesia have a similar government, having similar levels of government and seperations of power
Indonesia have a few slight differences, like number of members in the lower house, having a president and our type of government
threats to democracy
There are many issues that could affect the way our democracy may function, many of these can hurt our government
media bias
corruption
organised crimes
commonwealth electoral act - reduce malapportionment or gerrymandering in distribution of eletorates in house of representitives
Austrlia's involvement in the UN
Austrlia is known as a middle power, we are founding parterns of the UN. Austrlia uses its involvement in the organisation to influence world affairs
social issue
our social issue was sweatshops, there are many occurences of sweatshops, majority being in bangledesh,china and india.
nike, nestle and many other companies we all use are involved with them and i strongly disagree with the issue
rights and responsibilities refer to all the entiltements we have in our society
participation is about helping out in the community
justice means allowing everyone to a fair trial and serving everyone justive
democratic values
a system of government where people vote for who they want representing them
is the system of which our government is based on