Crossing the Floor
Crossing the Floor
Haylie Pepper
Court challenges, Changing Rights and the Death of COAG
29 minutes Posted Jun 12, 2020 at 12:12 am.
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Federal Court Live Export Ruling

the court hierarchy, methods of statutory interpretation and the doctrine of precedent

#11PAL8

the accountability of the Executive and public servants

  • through judicial review #12PAL15


BLM Protests - NSW Court of Appeal ruling

operating principles of a liberal democracy

  • equality of political rights
  • majority rule
  • political participation
  • political freedom

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the ways in which Australia and one other country can both uphold and/or undermine democratic principles, with reference to

  • political representation
  • popular participation
  • the rule of law
  • judicial independence
  • natural justice

#12PAL20

the accountability of the courts

  • through the appeals process

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China and Hong Kong - new subversion law

structures and processes of

  • one democratic political and      legal system
  • one non-democratic political and legal system

#11PAL5

the ways in which Australia and one other country can both uphold and/or undermine democratic principles, with reference to

  • political representation
  • popular participation
  • the rule of law
  • judicial independence
  • natural justice

#12PAL20

COAG cancelled

federalism in Australia with reference to

  • constitutional      powers of State      and Commonwealth parliaments, including exclusive, concurrent and residual      powers, Sections 51, 52, 90, 107 and 109
  • financial      powers of the      Commonwealth Parliament, including taxation power, tied or special purpose      grants, including Sections 51(ii), 87, 90, 92 and 96
  • change in      the balance of power since federation, with reference to
  • financial powers, including      vertical fiscal imbalance and horizontal fiscal equalisation, the Grants      Commission
  • referral of powers Section      51(xxxvii)
  • the Council of Australian      Governments (COAG)
  • co-operative federalism as      opposed to coercive federalism
  • High      Court of Australia constitutional interpretation, including external      affairs power Section 51(xxix), corporations power Section 51(xx), and      taxation powers
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roles and powers of the Prime Minister, Cabinet and the Ministry

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structure of the political and legal system in Australia

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