Democracy Flashcards
(41 cards)
Who is the current Prime minister?
Scott Morrison
What is the current day party?
The liberal party of Australia
Who is the opposition of the current day party and their leader?
Party: The Australian Labour Party
Leader: Bill Shorten
Name 5 parties and their wing sides
Left :
The Australian Liberal Party
Australian Greens
Right:
The liberal party of Australia
One nation (Pauline Hansen)
The Nationalist Party of Australia.
What is Democracy?
Democracy is a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting to achieve the values of the citizens of the country, such as equality and freedom.
Explain the 2 types of Democracy
- Direct Democracy: The citizens as a whole form a governing body and vote directly on each issue.
- Representative Democracy: The representative democracy the citizens elect representatives from among themselves.
Name The Different Types of Government
- Absolute Monarchy
- Communist
- Dictatorship
- Democracy ; direct or indirect
What is the Role of the Government?
- ensure all members of society can live together in unison, safe and peaceful manner
- make laws that reflect prevailing laws views, moral standards of the citizens
- Citizens have access to basic services Eg. Water, Internet, electricity, health care, roads, education
- support citizens in maintainable a reasonable standard of living
What is a Parliament?
Group or Assembly of Representatives who have been elected by the People to make laws on their behalf.
- is a law making body
What is Parliamentary Democracy?
A system of government where people elect representatives to parliament in order to make laws that reflect the majority of voters’ views.
What is the Parliaments Role?
- make new laws and altering existing laws so they reflect the views and values of the majority of the people and benefit society.
- discussing and debating matters that affect the voters
- examining problems that exist within society
- reviewing perceived injustices in the law
What is a federal system of government
A federal system of government means a nation is divided into states, each of which has its own parliament that is responsible for making laws for the residents of that state.
What are the 3 levels of Government and their Areas of Responsibility
Federal; Marriage, Defence, Trade, Customs, Citizenship, Money
State; Education, Food, Health, Electricity, public Transport, water
Local; Roads, Footpaths, Drainage, Waste Collection, Recreational Facilities, Age Care, Child Care
Why does Australia have 3 levels of government?
Each level of government is responsible for providing services and they each raise money through taxes or charges to pay for those services.
What are the Principles of Government?
- gov must protect rights and freedoms of individuals
- gov must make laws that reflect the views and values of the people
- gov must be accountable for the actions to the people
- there must be separation of powers
Why are the principles of government important?
These principles aim to manage the nation in a fair and just manner to all citizens in the country.
Explain: Governments must protect the rights and freedoms of the individual.
Ensures the parliament does not make laws that are excessive or unnecessarily limit the activities of individuals
- protect broad right to freedom of speech
- protect basic right of freedom to assembly and expression
- limit individuals from behaving in an offensively indecent manner in public
What does liberal democracy mean?
Means it is a system that aims to protect individuals rights and freedoms, places limits to gov interference
Explain: Government must make laws that reflect the views and values of the people
- by holding free, fair and regular elections for people to represent them in parliament
- these representatives will debate and create laws to benefit the views of citizens
Pros and Cons of Compulsory voting
Pros;
- ensure parliaments have the support of the majority of people, and not just those who votes
- forces candidates and parties to consider the needs of all society when making laws
Cons
- forces those uninterested to make ill-informed votes
- is a violation of individual rights
Explain: Governments must be accountable to the people
The current government must be able to justify the needs of their done or is to be done actions and decisions to the voters.
*also dishonourable leaders has duty to resign from position
Explain; There must be separation of powers
So that our government system does not abuse its power the authority levels are separated. Which means no one single group or body within the parliamentary system has power over both political and legal systems
- Executive power: administer and implement laws; Governor General, Prime Minister, Senior Ministers
- Legislative Power: power to make laws, held by parliament
- Judicial Power: Power to apply, interpret the law, held by courts to enforce law and settle disputes
What is the Constitution?
statement of the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or group
*rules for parliament/government
Describe the Parliament of Australia (high authority - low authority)
Queen (head of state in Australia)
Governor General (@ commonwealth parliament)
Senate
House of Representatives
