Australian Politics
This is the lower house of Australia's federal parliament.
What is the House of Representatives?
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in this year.
What is 2022?
This American political scientist coined the term 'soft power' in the late 1980s.
Who is Joseph Nye?
This ideology believes in free markets, individual liberty, and minimal government intervention in the economy.
What is liberalism?
This film franchise holds the record for the highest-grossing movie series of all time, surpassing $10 billion at the global box office.
What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Australia uses this voting system for the lower house, where voters rank candidates in order of preference.
What is preferential (or ranked choice) voting?
Russia annexed this Ukrainian peninsula in 2014, sparking the first major phase of the conflict.
What is Crimea?
Eurovision is organised and run by this body, which also banned Russia from competing in 2022.
What is the EBU (European Broadcasting Union)?
This ideology holds that all authority and hierarchy should be abolished, with society organised through voluntary cooperation rather than the state.
What is anarchism?
This food substance will never expire even after 1000s of years it is still edible.
What is Honey?
Australian senators serve this many years per term, making them less immediately accountable than House members.
What is six years?
This military alliance's potential expansion into Ukraine was cited by Russia as a key justification for the invasion.
What is NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
Soft power works through this mechanism
What is attraction
This ideology places the nation above all other loyalties, often combined with authoritarian leadership and hostility to minority groups
What is fascism?
What is the best bar of Chocolate
What is Boost?
Australia's independent statutory body responsible for conducting federal elections and managing the electoral roll.
What is the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)
Ukraine's president since 2019, he became a global symbol of resistance after refusing to flee Kyiv following the invasion.
Who is Volodymyr Zelensky?
Australia's soft power in the Pacific region relies heavily on this type of assistance funding infrastructure, health programs, and governance in neighbouring island nations.
What is foreign aid?
Both far-left communism and far-right fascism have been described as examples of this type of government, despite being ideological opposites
What is totalitarianism?
This ocean trench, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 11 km down, has been visited by fewer humans than have travelled to space.
What is the Mariana Trench (or Challenger Deep)?
This security alliance, formed in 2021, links Australia, the UK and the USA and includes sharing of nuclear-powered submarine technology.
What is AUKUS?
This UN body attempted to pass resolutions condemning Russia's invasion but was blocked each time by Russia's permanent membership privilege.
What is the UN Security Council?
What year did Australia first appear in Eurovision
2015
Populist politicians — on both left and right — share this core claim: that they alone represent 'the real people' against a corrupt what?
What is the elite (or establishment / corrupt establishment)?
This planet has a storm larger than Earth that has been raging for at least 350 years, visible as a distinctive red spot.
What is Jupiter?