LAWS1100 Lecture Notes - Adversarial System, Judiciary Of Australia, Constitution Of Australia
Document Summary
The legislature, the executive and the judiciary should remain functionally separate as much as possible. In australia, members of the executive (prime minister/premier/chief minister) are also members of the legislature (parliament) which means that the legislature and the executive and are not strictly separate. Legislative power is the power to make law, and in australia is exercised by the federal parliament and the various state and territory parliaments. The house of representatives is the lower house of the federal parliament. It is the peoples house" providing equal representation for the people of australia. 150 with roughly equal numbers of voters, each of which elects a representative. The political party with the majority of members in the house of representatives forms executive government. The senate is the upper house of the federal parliament. It is the states house"; it protects the rights of the states.
