Governor-General of Australia

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    may include the terms “multicultural” and “equal rights” are all expressions associated with Australia; but is this true? Australia’s Senate and House of Representatives recently rejected bills to accept homosexual marriage in Australia. Labor MP Stephen Jones and Labor Senator Trish Crossin have both put forward a bill to gain marriage equality with both bills failing to pass through to the governor general (House of Representatives – 98-42, and Senate House

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    Introduction The Australian legal system was started to develop from the year of 1901. It is mainly based on the British legal system. The foundation of the legal system is the Australian Constitution. The Constitution was developed by the people of Australia who voted for its implementation. This document sets out the original laws of the nation. The Australian legal system is mainly depend on statute and common law. Statutory Law is law made by parliament. This may be the Federal parliament or the

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    The major issues in the high court review 2006: Australian Federalism – implications of the work choices decision is that it seems unlikely that voters would have supported the characterisation of the corporation power that was adopted by the court. This might be viewed as a problem. This is argued that the majority’s disregard of failed referendums constitutes usurpation of the people’s privilege to change constitution as certain. Callinan J stated that the view of the people was appropriate arbiters

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    Geography Australia is both the smallest and oldest continent in the world, and it is the only country that is also a continent. [1] It is an island located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific, just south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. At 2,941,299 square miles, Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and only about 150,000 square miles (about the size of Montana) smaller than the continental United States. Its interior land is a flat and sparsely populated desert

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    19). If a judge is not compromised by bribes then he or she is likely to make decisions that are not biased. Remunerating judges lowly can cause them to receive payments and patronages from private individuals and end up ruling in their favor. In Australia, the remuneration of judges is fixed by the law and cannot be altered anytime during the time the judge is holding office. Section 72 of the constitution protects the notion for federal judges while salaries for state court judges are protected by

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    defects when answering an Opposition question. Before discussing whether it is too late for Anne to fix this problem, I will first give a brief introduction of the law making in Australia, specifically, the bills. Main concepts of bills According to Davenport and Parker (2012), there are two basic sources of law in Australia, statute law (Acts of Parliament) and judge-made law (decisions of judges). Statute law is the Acts or legislation passed by parliaments. In Parliament, a bill is a proposal

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    acknowledge the collaborative necessity and basis of this project. When you post or provide information for the first time, please also mention if your name / initials can be acknowledged in this listing. 100 objects that define modern Australia Modern Australia has a million stories that belong to the Aboriginal people who discovered and settled it, the explorers, sailors and navigators who mapped it and the waves of 19th and 20th century migrants who built it. All these people have

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    The executive of Australia appoints the judiciary members so we can say it is not completely independent as it is itself is appointed by the ministry. The executive bodies may have some influence in the judicial power that can be underlined in the Boilmakers case was re judiciary and navigation acts. The court declared invalid provision if judiciary act 1903 which purported to empower the governor general to refer to the high court. It is stated that in the boil

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    Why choose Australia? Many people around the world like Australia many years ago and which is in today as well. They like to study, migrate and live in Australia because of a problem in their countries. Most of the problems are hard getting into higher studies, hard to get education, war, racism, climate, politics and to have a better standard of life Ages ago many people came to Australia due to many reasons. They came as convicts, as

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    Australia is a democratic country. It consists of three main authorities: the Queen of Australia (The Queen of UK), the Senate and the House of Representatives. The representative government is the people elected members of the parliament to represent them. The lower house (the House of Representatives) consists 150 members, each is elected from single member constituencies which are also known as electoral divisions. The upper house (the Senate), consists of 76 members (12 for each state, and 2

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