LLB101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lower House, 6 Years, Responsible Government
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The function of the legislature is to make laws. See commonwealth of australia constitution act 1900 (imp) s1: The legislative power of the commonwealth shall be vested in a federal. Parliament, which shall of the queen, a senate, and a house of. Representatives, and which is hereinafter called the parliament, or the. Next general election 2019 (earlier if a double dissolution: constitution s57) Each state of australia is divided into electorates"; each electorate elects a. Member of the house of representatives to represent it in parliament for the next. Each state, acting as one electorate, elects 12 senators (act and nt, 2); half senate (6) election at each general election; term - 6 years. Senate was created to protect the states after federation, this has been lost due to party alliances. The commonwealth parliament makes laws for the whole of australia in respect of the matters in which it has power.
