Humanities

• 1. What is the Australian Constitution and why is it important?

  The birth certificate of a nation, It provides the basic fundamental, set rules for governing Australia and can not be overruled unless there is a referendum.
• Federal Roles/ responsibilities:

   Medicare, Defence, Immigration, Foreign policy
• State roles/ responsibilities:

   Public transport, school, Hospitals, Roads, police and ambulance services,
• Local roles/responsibilities:

  
  

  sewage, town planning, rubbish collection.
• What's an independent:

  An independent doesn’t belong to a political party they make up their own mind and represent their own views.
• 2 minor political parties in Australia:

  Greens, One Nation.
• members are in the House of Representatives:

  151
• How is government formed in the House of Representatives?

  A government is formed after an election in which a party gets majority the party that gets the majority will become the government.
• roles of senate and Housre of reps

  D=Debate on proposed bills,

  R=Represents the views of the people in their electorates,

  E=examine important information,

  A=attend and decide policy,

  S=Scrutinise,

  D=discuss issues.
• How many members are in the Senate?

  76
• How many senators represent each state and territory:

  12 for each state and 2 senators for the territories.
• What is a republic:

  form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body.