... great powers in any democratic form of government and in particular a major informal way of challenging state power. The power of the media is based on their ability to provide wide access to information in an extremely fast time. The media, who are less accountable to society and therefore less concerned with standards than the government, are able to use their ... state. It does this by investigating the myriad complaints made by citizens, who have appropriate standing against the government. The office of the Ombudsman can only make recommendations, and has a wide discretion not to i...

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... performance since the beginning of the 1990s has restored relative productivity and GDP per person to the position held in 1950s. This improvement in productivity can be attributed to the adoption of more flexible labour market practices including enterprise bargaining; the range of microeconomic reform measures introduced to make markets more competitive and the increasing absorption of new technologies which has ... to macroeconomic objectives. If microeconomic reforms are successful, they will contribute to a better Australian macroeconomic performance by helping to overcome structur...

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... economic benefits through spending in the region. The proposal would result in likely future discoveries and improvements in technology for extraction. In summary, the development of Barrow Island would provide wide ranging, long term conservation benefits to the community, contribute to world class conservation programs while Australia would benefit from a new major competitive and more secure gas supply for the next ... . The loss of species, populations or genetic diversity on Barrow Island through impacts beyond the plant site are not considered to be high risk and can be avoided thr...

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... and Labour) have helped the stability of the constitutional system and the numerous minor parties have 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 achieved by using the principles of representative government to form parliament. The election process requires every ... way that the two conflicting principles of responsible government and federation have been combined to form the government structure as outlined in the constitution. This can be see...

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