Should Australia Become A Republic

Becoming a republic is the vision of future in Australia, it is the last stepping stone for Australia to become truly independent.

Australia 's Federal System is dynamic and the division of lawmaking power between the Commonwealth and State since 1901 has changed dramatically; Critically discuss, focussing on the major reasons for those changes.

The checks and balances that the founders of our country put into place to limit the power of the executive branch have failed and allowed the Prime Minister to gather unprecedented and unchecked power. There is a need to establish or re-establish effective checks for the prime minister, at different steps along the policy making process. The traditional checks and balances on the executive branch have come from the house of commons, the senate, and the Governor General. These institutions are meant to work together to ensure that the country is being governed fairly and in the name of the people. However, over the last thirty years the power has been moving away from the legislative branch towards the executive. In a system where majority

Mr. Chairman, the public mind, as well as my own, is extremely uneasy at the proposed change of government. Give me leave to form one of the number of those who wish to be thoroughly acquainted with the reasons of this perilous and uneasy situation, and why we are brought hither to decide on this great national question. I consider myself as the servant of the people of this commonwealth, as a sentinel over their rights,

Laws need to be addressed in section of the Constitution with updated ideas put in place in today’s day and age. Some laws based on race need to be updated, to ensure people are protected by the law. Making sure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are also recognised in the Commonwealth Government is important, as they are also part of the Commonwealth and they must not be neglected by the government. Making it clear and properly acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first people of Australia is important for Australia as a nation. Ensuring Parliament gets and listens to what the Indigenous people have to say and what they put forward is crucial, more needs to be done with this and ensuring that they are recognised with the Australian Government. Ideas and concepts in relation to the section 51 in the Australian Constitution, could be to create a new head of power to make laws in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and/or putting in place, a new guarantee of racial non-discrimination and equality for everyone in the country. At present Australian constitution is giving the Government power to potentially pass laws that only apply to people base on their race. This needs to be fixed or removed such that it will make it fairer and that people of race including those who are Indigenous would not be worried or intimidated that based on constitution

     Australia’s form of government has been described as a constitutional monarchy, in which the queen of England is the nominal head of state. In the federal government, power rests with the elected political party that holds the majority in the House of Representatives. The leader is the prime minister. The Senate consists of 76 members who are elected every six years. The House of Representatives has 147 members and they face elections every three years. Any laws that involve changes to the Constitution must be decided by a referendum in which the country’s citizens are called to vote on whether or not they want such changes to take place.

The piece Advance Australia … within reason, was conveyed on the 5th of January by Amy Mackintosh, at the annual “University of Students for Youth Political Activism’ meeting held at The University of Melbourne. Mackintosh steadily argues the reasons why Australia should not have become a republic, and how the country should stay as a monarchy. The tone of the speech is very colloquial and even sarcastic, with the middle part being more analytical and serious. The speaker gives the impression that the argument for Australia to stay as a Monarchy is unbiased and logical.

Australia's way of democracy is built on the foundation of the freedom of all the citizens in their elections, speech,

In order to have a strong society that is able to meet challenges, Australias system of government is based upon core beliefes and attitudes that are respected by most members of the community in Australias democratic society. For example, our society is based on prevailing beliefes that the people, in free and fair elections, will elect a government that premotes freedom, tolerance and cooperation of the people by upholding basic human rights. Australia’s institutions and practices reflect British and North American traditions combined in a way that is unique to Australia and its people. We are lucky in Australia to have so many rights and freedoms that a lot of other countries around the world do not get to experience. An example of this

In relations to the topic above, I would like to examine some of the themes that likely related to any discussion of the Australia federal constitution. A Conducted surveys of the Australians public demonstrated a disturbing lack of knowledge about both the constitution and the government. The problem has been demonstrated over many years as the evident to support this claimed.

The core purpose of the argument is to refute the claim that adopting a bill of rights will interfere and be in opposition with the ethos of the Australian democracy, asserting that it would actually enrich the country’s democracy.

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights embodies the right to an adequate standard of living. Although this doctrine was adopted in 1948, there is a significant amount of work to be done worldwide. Moreover, the absence of a right to housing would compromise many other basic rights including the right to family life and privacy, freedom of movement, assembly and association, and the right to health.

(confidently) Well, the first thing we to do is this. Australians need to be beyond the two-party dominated political system and instead, consider smaller parties such as The Greens, who have a genuine interest in doing what we want in a “grassroots democracy” system. The political system right now is a constant battle between the Labor and the Liberals, fighting out to see who can reveal more flaws within each other instead of focusing on the real issues. A recent example is the $60,000 spent by the Labor party on an “election image makeover” for Bill Shorten and his wife for last years election campaign. Their defence? Their glossy advertisements turned out "a hundred times" better than the Liberal party’s and mirrored their "high-quality campaign”. We’re in a $500 billion dollar debt dump, increasing at a rate of over $500 dollars per second, and they go and spend $60,00 on advertising themselves…

Australia’s government design was taken from the British Westminster system after those who originally colonized Australia. A functional, western style democracy, there are a number of minor political parties operating in Australia but the country’s federal politics is an essential 2-party system at present, much like the United States (Our Country, 2015).

One of the most critical ways that individuals can affect governmental decision-making is voting. Voting is a formal expression of preference for a candidate for office or for a resolution of an issue. Voting takes place in the context of a large-scale national or regional election, however, local and community elections can be just as poignant to individual participation in government. Every Australian citizen who is aged 18 years or more can vote in a federal election if validly enrolled and not disqualified from voting. Political participation is the basis of democracy and a vital part of the ‘right to vote’. Australia’s constitution has framed the progressive democracy Australia has become, however there is debate on the derivation of this right to vote and on the extent of the protection of that right. The right is not constitutional at all, instead being governed by international treaty obligations and commonwealth legislation. The right to vote has been defined as the right to cast a ballot in an election. However, in order to fulfil the democratic objective of representative government, modern definitions require that the vote cast is effective, that each individual may only vote a single time and that franchise is equal. Further, the right must have legal prevalence in order to prevent its erosion through legislation.