Australian Senate

Our Congress consists of the Senate and House of Representatives. Every state has two Senators and as many House of Representatives as there are for the amount of people in them. For the state of North Carolina our two Senators are Richard Burr and Thom Tillis. The House of Representative that we have may vary because of the different districts, the one that I have is Craig Horn. Craig Horn has been in the House since 2011 and is up for reelection in 2016. Prior to getting elected for the House…

Two Republican candidates vying for Marco Rubio 's Senate seat said that though college tuition is too expensive, Sen. Bernie Sanders plans for tuition-free college don 't add up. “As much as I respect Mr. Sanders … I think if he’s going to offer free tuition, something is wrong with that idea,” said Senate candidate Dwight Young, a Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy. “I don’t see where we are going to get the money to afford it.” The University of Central Florida College Republicans invited…

mother’s milk of politics, negotiate visibility, politics has a “chit economy”, so keep track, reputations are permanent, and don’t let em get to you”. In the United States, the Congressional Leadership consists of Senate (upper house) and House of Representatives (lower house). The Senate has one hundred members, that includes two from each state. They serve six year terms, and one third of the total of members are up for election every two years. The House of Representatives have four hundred…

Coalition, 49.3% of the population who voted agreed that the Senate should be abolished (44% voted “…elected and held accountable”; 6.7% voted “…should be left as is”) (National Citizens Coalition). These are the options that are available for what we should do with the Canadian Senate. The number one view for what should be done with the senators is to get rid of them. This would not be done easily. In order to abolish the Canadian Senate every province would have to unanimously agree and…

The Senate is most likely the least appreciated and most unknown of our national political institutions. Its work attracts neither the interest of the media, the sympathy of the politicians, nor even the curiosity of public. How paradoxical is that, very few Canadians have an understanding of the history, role, and operations of the Senate, and yet everyone seems to have an opinion on the establishment. Many Canadians are asking themselves whether we might be better off without the Senate. Over…

Is the Senate simply a waste of institutional space? Or is it an opportunity to make a change that is long overdue? An expense scandal involving several senators in December of 2012 sparked a political debate with regards to the future of the Senate of Canada. Most will agree that the Senate is a thoroughly flawed institution, however the pros and cons of each proposition should be weighed before any action is taken. After presenting each of the proposed options regarding what decision is to be…

Terra nullius is a term that means ‘no man’s land’. It was given to the Australian land as the British didn’t recognise the traditional ways indigenous people used the land by. Fortunately, by the removal of terra nullius and so this allowed indigenous people to own lands and hence practice their own traditions and customs on…

significant to the existence and operation of the Senate, as it is a modern interpretation of the constitution regarding the role and purpose of it. In this ruling, three key points about the senate were established; firstly, the Senate is meant to work together with the House of Commons not rival them, secondly, the Senate is a ‘chamber of sober second thought’, it’s purpose is to review and suggest improvements to proposed legislation, lastly, the Senate is to be independent from the influence…

Although the term is highly contested in contemporary discourses, ‘terra nullius’ was historically used to defend the justice of colonisation in Australia for the benefit of the European expansion (Fitzmaurice, 2007). It allowed settlers to claim territorial jurisdiction and was ultimately responsible for the dispossession of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living on the land now known as Australia (Prokhovnik, 2015). The political ideology during federation revolved around…

minister is Malcolm Turnbull. Parliament is elected every three years in an election much like that of the United States. There are two sections in parliament, the House of Representatives and the Senate. There are 150 members in Australia’s House of Representatives. There are 76 senators in the senate. There are 12 senators from each state and two senators from each mainland territory. The economy of Australia is a…