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2005 has reduced the power the House has as a legislative and judicial body (Norton, n.d.). Also, the 1999 House of Lords Act, which had phased out the hereditary peers and introduced the House of Lords Appointment Commission that has increased the number of minorities in the House of Lords (Norton,…

significant power to facilitate change. Lastly, current Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, was a former chairman of the Australian Republican Movement, and is now in the position to influence public opinion on policies and control the composition of the cabinet and the ministry (Department of the House of Representatives, 2012). Ultimately, I have chose to primarily target Turnbull for various reasons. Shortly after replacing Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, Turnbull declared that he…

Our first Prime Minister, John A. MacDonald, described the Senate in legislation a “sober second thought.” Unlike Members of Parliament, Senators are appointed in by the Governor General on advice from the Prime Minister, instead, of being voted in by the public. A Senator could be practically anyone the Prime Minister saw fit for the job. A Senator does not have to be in the same party as the Prime Minister. Meaning, they can’t be removed from parliament by anyone, even the Prime Minister.…

Throughout time certain stories have identified a number of ways in which certain news stories is manipulated by journalists to emphasise and alter meaning and perception. The majority of journalists today do frame their stories in ways that can mislead their audiences. However, often journalists employ frames without consciously knowing it. Therefore, it is important to note whether the way in which stories were produced had the effect of misleading audiences. A news item that illustrates how…

and includes the people from Congress. The founding fathers were in a practical discourse on whether to build the amount of representatives regarding masses, which would give more vitality to the more populated states, or to give each state the same number of specialists, which would give parallel vitality to all states paying little notice to their peoples. The Great Compromise achieved the creation of two houses, with representation considering masses in one and with proportionate…

executed by all adult citizens that freely elected the representatives. Democracy rests upon the principles of majority rule and individual rights. Democracies protect its citizens against all-powerful government. Democracies understand that one of their prime functions is to protect such basic human rights as freedom of speech and religion; the right to equal protection under law; and the opportunity to organize and participate fully in the political, economic, and cultural life of society.…

Australia is a large and relatively dry continent located on the Oceania, which is a continent between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. It is also the flattest continent on Earth with an average elevation of 985 feet; this is one of the primary reasons that the annual rainfall is thinly dispersed and scattered – approximately 16.5 inches. On top of that, 40% of the surface gets less than 10 inches per year, with annual evaporation exceeding annual rainfall on more than three fourth…

As the federal election is drawing near, the federal candidates give one last push in their political campaigns to acquire that extra vote. The voters have a big decision ahead of them: who do I choose to be the next Prime Minister? They have to carefully consider all of the candidates’ proposals and plans. A campaign promise made by Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau, gives food for thought when considering Canada’s economic future. Trudeau’s announcement, as described in The Globe and Mail’s…

set of guidelines with “merit-based criteria”, that also permits applications from the general public. The goal, it appears, is to one day have the Senate be filled with members that are selected through a process that is not directly linked to the Prime Minister so that there can be no affiliation to any party…

includes historical references such as, “Of the roughly one thousand people who shuffled ashore [Australia in 1788], about seven hundred were prisoners and the rest were marines and officers, officers’ families, and the governor and his staff. The exact numbers of each are not known, but it hardly matters. They were all prisoners now” (45). Which recaps the original colonization of Australia by the British, who took advantage of the opportunity to get rid of their convicts. The book includes…