... different hours and she does not have anyone else who can mind the kids. She has had no contact with the children's father for over 2 years. Under the Australian Constitution, the Federal Government has the power to make social security payments. This is done under the Social Security Act 1991 and the Veterans Entitlement Act 1986. The Commonwealth Department of Family and ... enough to provide for themselves. The legal system also recognises the SED in relation to health Care. Medicare, is the Australian public health care system; providing free treatment in public hospitals and paying...

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... supporters but also many skeptics, both of which have their own ideas on the strengths or weaknesses of it. The Australian Constitution has many strengths and weaknesses to it. A major strength of the constitution is that the three main institutions of government (legislature, executive and judiciary) were created following the principles of separation of powers. This means that no one institution ... kept pressure on the major parties while at the same time offering the public a wide variety of alternatives. A democratic government is essential to the constitution in Australia and is ...

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... consistent economic growth, low rates of inflation, a sound international trading situation and low unemployment. To meet these objectives the government must place policies such as fiscal, monetary, trade and income policies. Fiscal policy is the deliberate action of the government to change its levels of income and expenditure, through the annual budget. By budgeting for a deficit or surplus, the ... of interest rates. Lowering interest rates encourages people to spend and borrow while higher interest rates encourages people to save and not borrow. By lowering interest rates the governm...

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A constitution is a group of basic rules by which a country or state is governed. Amendments can only be made to the constitution by a strict process outlined in section 128 of the constitution allowing for amendments to be made orderly and lawfully. Altering the constitution requires a number of stages. The consultation stage could involve the gathering of high-ranking people or committee to study the proposals and recommend how it should be written in the constitution. It is a period of community debate. The commonwealth parliament must pass a bill to allow for a referendum and the questions...

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... therefore unable to pay any of it back. The federal government will also borrow if there are insufficient funds in Australia's savings account, if there is a large depreciation in the value of the Australian dollar, if the Australian interest rates are significantly higher than potential lenders. There are ... are also some drawbacks to borrowing the most obvious being the amount of interest that has to be paid back, when the Federal Government borrows externally it causes a rise in interest rates for domestic borrowers in Australia this is the interest of the foreign borrowing being ......

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... and reduction in productivity. This is one of the major reasons why industrial relations was set up. Australian Industrial Relations is dominated by three representatives. These are as given below: The government Employer associations Trade unions The Federal government and the industrial relations commission of Australia regulates everything from the pay rates and working conditions through to ... legislation and industrial awards. What the Australian industrial relations commission aims to achive is a fair platform for both employers ... and reduction in productivity. This is one of th...

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... discriminated against them. One alternate family arrangement that many believe has been discriminated against is same sex couples, which were not recognised by the law until 1999 when the Labor Government introduced the Property (Relationships) Legislation Amendment Act 1999. This amendment inserted a non-gendered definition of "de facto partner" into legislation relating to wills and estates, compensation, duties, and property ... , including customary marriages, are being preserved by many native Australians. An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander customary marriage is one entered in...

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... the old, Many older aborigines had been discouraged from university due to Federal Government cuts to the Abstudy allowance in January Last year. Racism would continue in Australia until mandatory sentencing laws are abolished and a formal report apology is given to the stolen generations. Australian's are reluctant to take the next step in the reconciliation process and deliver equality ... needs to be done to combat racism in Australia but the government refuses to appologise to indigenous Australians for past injustices. If the reconciliation process in any country is to have any tru...

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... by fighter jets, and the second in the afternoon by 21 bombers. The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 people were wounded. However, the Australian government released to the public that only 17 people had been killed in the attacks to keep up the nation's morale. Darwin's population, believing that a Japanese invasion was imminent, evacuated the ... city and began to move south to the Adelaide River. The attacks on Darwin were not part of a direct plan for Japan to invade the Australian mainland, but rather the Japanese were preparing to invade Timor and thoug...

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... community. One of the first ever attempts to address some of the problems indigenous people faced was in the form of policy, which nowadays is known as the Stolen Generation. Australian governments, as a practice and as a policy, removed part-Aboriginal children from their mothers, parents, families and communities, often by force. In around 60 years, over 100,000 ... from their families faced physical mistreatment, sexual exploitation and more extreme forms of humiliation. Therefore this attempt by the Australian society to address indigenous problems, was unsuccessful, and in some as...

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... as strikes, walkouts and reduction in productivity. This is one of the major reasons why industrial relations was set up. Australian Industrial Relations is dominated by three representatives. These are as given below: The government Employer associations Trade unions The Federal government and the industrial relations commission of Australia regulates everything from the pay rates and working conditions through to legislation and industrial ... awards. What the Australian industrial relations commission aims to achive is a fair platform for both employers and employees alike. The comis...

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... commonwealth inevitable? Conflict between the states and the commonwealth is in practice expected and anticipated, causing it to be an inevitable factor of Australian federalism. However, a degree of conflict between state governments and federal government is not only unavoidable, but also healthy. Quite often the two will have differing opinions on how policy should be formatted or implemented ... case. On occasions, State and federal governments cooperate in several ways in forming and implementing policies of mutual interest. The example of the Gun laws case exemplifies the governm...

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... . They were thought of to be a race that served no useful purpose, the government had decided to eliminate all traces of Aborigines and their culture. Aboriginal children who were "half-caste" (half-aboriginal and half Australian) would be removed from their families and placed in mission or welfare homes, to ... of the Scullin was the treasurer, Edward Granville Theodore. Before he had been the labor premier for Brisbane after that he entered the federal government in 1927. Edward Theodore had a his own solution to the catastrophe. The Theodore plan is when Edward Granville Theodore bel...

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... scandals of significant ministers; and the blockage of supply. Consequently, that led to their dismissal by the Governor-General, which was also the first sacking of the government in Australian history. The factors which enabled Whitlam and the Labor Party to receive such tremendous support from Australians were myriads of attractive promises such as an end to conscription; an ... introduction of equality and opportunity for women within areas of the Federal government; a more democratic approach to decision makings; abolition to university fees and increased expenditure on education; ...

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... weigh one another, but it is necessary to have both due to the varying definitions. In the dictionary definition, democracy "is government by the people in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents ... as the highest judicial authority. Within each state there are many other governmental units. Each local government, from the smallest village to the largest city, has its necessary powers. 2- The Australian government is led by a specific chain of command. On the bottom of the system is the ... Prime Minister, usually the l...

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... that the personal and medical use of marijuana be decriminalized. Since that time, the NAS (National Academy of Sciences) Institute of Medicine, the Federation of American Sciences, the Australian Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, the American Public Health Association, the British Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine have produced studies showing that marijuana use ... representing a group of plaintiffs including eleven prominent cancer and AIDS physicians in San Francisco presented to a federal judge on Friday, April 11, 1997 the following st...

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