The Role of Parliament
The two houses in the Commonwealth Parliament
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This person represents the Crown at the federal level in Australia.
Who is the Governor-General?
Three types of law-making powers under the Constitution.
What are residual, concurrent, and exclusive powers?
This court is the only one that can interpret the meaning of the Australian Constitution.
What is the High Court?
This 1983 case expanded federal power via the external affairs power.
What is the Tasmanian Dam Case?
The number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 151?
These are two roles of the Crown in the law-making process.
What are granting royal assent and appointing times for Parliament to meet?
The section of the Constitution listing many concurrent powers.
What is Section 51?
This is the name for the division of power into legislative, executive, and judicial.
What is separation of powers?
This section resolves inconsistencies in law between Commonwealth and states.
What is Section 109?
The main role of the Senate in the law-making process
What is acting as a house of review?
This rarely used power allows the Governor-General to delay or deny royal
What is the power to withhold royal assent?
These two types of powers can apply to areas like marriage and taxation.
What are concurrent and exclusive powers?
This body can declare legislation unconstitutional and therefore invalid.
What is the High Court?
This section allows Commonwealth laws to prevail when inconsistent with state laws.
What is Section 109?
This house in the Victorian Parliament forms government.
What is the Legislative Assembly?
This is the reason why the Crown cannot introduce bills into Parliament.
What is a responsibility of a government minister?
These sections of the Constitution protect residual powers of the states.
What are Sections 106 to 108?
his house reviews legislation and provides checks on the government.
What is the Senate?
This constitutional power allows international treaties to influence federal law.
What is the external affairs power (Section 51(xxix))?
A type of voting used to elect the Legislative Council in Victoria.
What is proportional representation?
Representatives the Crown in each of the six Australian states.
Who are the Governors?
This is an example of an exclusive law-making power.
What are currency or defence?
These are two express rights protected by the Australian Constitution.
What are freedom of religion and trial by jury?
It acts as a check on the power of parliament and upholds the rule of law
What is Ultra Vires?