Sir Robert Menzies founded the Liberal Party in 1939. They have had many leaders including Harold Holt, Sir John Gorden, Sir William McMahon, Billy Sneddon, Malcolm Fraser, Andrew Peacock, Alexander Downer, John Hewson, John Howard, Brenden Nealson, Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott. The current deputy prime minister is Julie Bishop. The environmentalleader is Greg Hunt , the treasurer is Joe Hockey, minister for employment is Eric Abetez, the minister for family is Kevin Andrews, the minister for small business is Bruce Billson, the Attorney general is George Brandis, the minister for agriculture is John Cobb, the minister for health is Peter Dutton, the minister for defence is David Johnston, the minister for regional development is Barnaby Joyce, the minister for energy is Ian Macfarlane, the minister for Immigration is Scott Morrison, the minister for education is Christopher Pyne, the minister for financeis Andrew Robb, the minister for indigenous affairs is Nigel Scullion, the minister for communications is Tony Smith and the minister for transport is Warren Truss.
The Labour party leader is Kevin Rudd. His ministers are the treasurer is Wayne Swan, the minister for defence is John Faulkner, the deputy prime minister is Julia Gillard, the minister for immigration is Chris Evans, the minister for climate change is Penny Wong, the minister for foreign affairs is Stephen Smith, the minister for health was Nicola Roxon, the minister for families is Jenny Macklin, the minister for finance is Lindsay Tanner, the minister for trade is Simon Crean, the minister for transport and regional devolpment is Anthony Albanese, the minister for communications is Stephon Conroy, the minister for innovation is Kim Carr, the Attorney General is Robert McClelland, the minister for population is Tony Burke and the minister for energy is Martin Ferguson.
Lobbyists, State Parliaments, Federal Parliament (Upper and Lower House), and The Governer General.
Yes. The American people decide who is allowed to hold what position in the federal government during elections.
There are 150 representatives and 76 senators so 226 total.
the lower house is there to limit the power of the upper house by looking after the interests of a different group of people. In the federal Parliament the upper house represents the interest of the states as distinct from that of the other states.
In Australia, the first Federal Parliament sat in Melbourne on 9 May 1901. Melbourne was never the nation's capital, but it was the only city with a building large enough to house the Federal Parliament.
The federal government did little to nothing to help people financially, because they didn't think it was their position to
The people select Members of Parliament by voting at a General Election.The Prime Minister is always the Leader of the political party with a majority in Parliament. The head of state is a monarch, so they get their position by birth right and are not selected.
In day to day speech, most people use the term parliament and government almost interchangeably. Commonwealth and Federal are completely interchangeable, technically, the parliament is the legislative body in its entirity and contains the House of Reps, the Senate (and constitutionally, the Queen) The Government is the term for the party that holds the majority of seats in the House of Representatives and is also the term for the whole of the departments and staff that administer the law.
There are many types of people that smoke parliament. There are girs, boys, sick people, black, white, depressed and hyper people that smoke parliament.
On a federal level, the united Federal Assembly composed of the two chambers of parliament, the national council representing the people directly (200 members) and the council of states that represents the 26 cantons (46 members).
Party People - Parliament song - was created in 1979.
Yes, it can. Federal refers to a number of states which are united but they have internal independence. Democratic is a country in which the people have a say in the government by electing representatives into Parliament and so indirectly take part in the law-making processes.