Explain The Three Major Political Parties

Rudd identified three pillars that his government would focus on in regards to Australian Foreign Policy: Alliance with United States, Membership of the United Nations and a stronger focus on Asia and the Pacific. Follow previous Labor governments, an interest was taken within Asia and Rudd was the first non-asian diplomatic, at the time of elections, who was able to speak with Asian leaders in their native language. Foreign policy in Australia has always been a changing landscape and the country’s relationships differ from government to government. From 1901-2010 Australia’s key relationship were Britain, USA, Asia (China, Japan, Indonesia and ASEAN) and the Pacific. Since 2010 new relationships have been key to Australia which include USA, China, Japan, ASEAN + NATO nations and Asia

The Australian Labor Party also shortly known as ALP. This party has been in resistant at federal level since the election in 2013. the party is a federal party with in each state and territory. Labor is currently in control of the government of Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and in the Australian Capital Territory. The labor party challenges against the Liberal for political office at the federal and state levels. The party's federal parliamentary leader is Bill Shorten since 13 October, 2013. The Australian Labor Party is a socialist party and has the intention/ purpose of the democratic socialization of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other unsocial features

The Australian Labor Party (ALP), was founded in 1890, by James Keir Hardie, who was a Scottish Georgist, socialist and Labor Party leader thus being the oldest political party. It competes with the Liberal/National Coalition and is one of the two major political parties in Australia.

The Australian Health Care System is regarded world class for its effectiveness and efficiency. It consists of the mix system of health providers in both the private and public sector. The funding mechanism is highly advantageous to its entire citizen, which consists of the 30% Rebate, Pharmaceutical Benefit and Medicare. In particular, Medicare has been ensuring all Australian nationals with access to free and low cost medical, optometric, hospital care with special option to private health services in special circumstances.

People in this country have many different ideas on how this country should be ran. There are many ways that the people can let America know about their ideas and this is through American third parties. This paper will discuss the views of the three largest third parties which are the Libertarian, Green and, Constitution parties. The views of these three parties will also be compared to the two dominant parties, Republican and Democratic.

Australia’s free universal health care system (Medicare) is one of the best in the world; however, it is also one of the most expensive (The Commonwealth Fund, 2012). The Abbott government is due to release the Australian federal budget in May, and with an expect deficit of $120 billion (Australian Government Productivity Commission, 2014), Prime Minster Abbott has warned of serious policy changes. While the federal government has been coy about the Commission of Audits report, and when they will release its findings, rumour has been rampart in the media about one suggestion, a proposed $5 - 6 co-payment when visiting a General Practitioner (GP). They have inferred this is the death of Medicare. There have been discussions all over the

The ALP has taken a back seat to accommodating new social movements as it seeks to take whatever measures necessary to achieving government. In response, the Greens have used social movements as a platform for the party’s campaigning. The dynamics of election campaigning has evolved in Australia and has seen the major parties produce less emphasis on traditional ideology (Katz and Mair 2009:762) in their attempts to winning elections by targeting swing electorates. Therefore, the Greens have emerged as a party of principle in the face of blurring distinctions between the two major parties who seek to freeze out the minor parties and maintain their electoral dominance. Minor parties have fallen victim to elements of Cartelization in Australian politics which aims to prevent any challenges to the dominance of the two major parties. Furthermore, the Greens have garnered support through the belief that the Liberals as well as the ALP have become “indifferent to the desires of ordinary citizens” as policies become part of ‘the state than they are policies of any particular party or coalition’ (Katz and Mair 2009:759). The Cartelization of Australian Politics justifies how divisions within the ALP have played a significant role in the origins of the Greens as voters seek to challenge the dominant two-party

The Australian Federal Election in 2013 was a colossal victory for the conservative Liberal-National Coalition. The two major competitors were the centre-left progressive Australian Labor Party, led by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and the right-wing conservative Liberal-National Coalition, led by Liberal MP Tony Abbott. The outcome of the election was dictated by many long and short-term factors, including multiple leadership changes, bad history with parties, broken election promises, new policies appealing to a larger viewpoint and voter confusion. Many of these issues went unresolved by the Labor Party and resulted in the Liberal-National Victory.

The federal government consists of the following parties: The CDU and the CSU (conservative) business-oriented parties, but with a long tradition of support for social welfare programs. The FDP is liberal and in favor of the free market and a minimum of government regulation. The SPD believes in combining political freedom with large social programs and government involvement in the economy. It is impossible for any of the three parties to be in a government with each other without giving way and government policy has therefore usually contained a mixture of sometimes conflicting objectives that then must be agreed upon within the

The prime minister has official responsibility for the day to day running of the country. The prime minister is the leader of the political party that has the most representatives in the House of Representatives. He or she is not directly elected by the Australian people, but is chosen by the representatives of the winning party. The House of Representatives are a part of the prime minister.

When looking at the history of US political parties, and classifying these parties into distinct party systems, five separate periods emerge leading up to the current party system. When classifying these party systems, it is important to look at characteristics such as the number of major parties, how these parties seek to gain support, and how the parties organize themselves. The earliest American parties were relatively centralized organizations that represented elite level concerns. They formed mainly at the national level, with low levels of grassroots connections. The first national party to come to prominence was the Federalist Party, who were opposed by the Democratic-Republican Party. The main cleavage that divided these parties was the degree to which the federal government should be centralize power. With the Federalist Party arguing for a stronger role and the Democratic-Republican Party supporting greater rights for the states. Both the modern day Democrats and Republicans are the result of a fracturing of the Democratic-Republican Party. Internal conflict caused by the expansion of the country and the issue of slavery caused the party to split and form the Democrats and with the remaining faction joining with the Whig Party to Oppose the Democrats. Further division on slavery caused the Whigs to also fracture, giving rise to the Republican Party, who arose as the anti-slavery faction of the party.

The reason that people believe that there are two Americas is because every has a different opinion about everything. People feel different about thing .This why we have two major political parties. People get these options because of their life experiences.

The Democratic Party today is facing many problems many of which, can be overcome. As the head of the Democratic Party I have solutions to the problems that we face as a party. The main obstacles that we face today include: increasing our voter turnout, attracting new millennial voters and securing the Latino vote in the upcoming election. If these issues are addressed we are on track to have a very successful election.

In New York State there are multiple political parties to choose from. The two main parties which are the Democrats and the Republicans but there are also six others. Those would be the Conservative party, Independence party, Women’s Rights party, Green party, Working Families party and the Reform party. Each party has similar topics or issues they want to address but, generally have a different viewpoint.

Australia, like most of the other developed countries, is experiencing a constant increase in the healthcare demand in conjunction with a rise in health care costs which is due both to the aging of the population and to the more sophisticated forms of treatments development (Bundey, 2015). According to AIHW (2014), Medicare is a universal healthcare system which provides free healthcare services for permanent residents, people on temporary visas and Australian citizen. Australia spent about 9% of GDP on Medicare healthcare services funded by taxation, which is less than developed countries’ OEDC standards. The issue lays in the healthcare budget deficit of 10 billion dollars and the predictions of constant increase (AIHW, 2014).