Closer Look SERIES
The Closer Look series is designed for secondary teachers and students who want to know more than the basic facts about how the Australian Parliament works.
The Closer Look series:
- explores the Australian federal structure
- provides clear accounts of processes that operate within parliament
- assists the reader to differentiate between features of the Australian system and other systems
- clarifies parliamentary terms.
The Closer Look series will be added to over time, so favourite or bookmark this page.
The current Closer Look series includes:
The Australian Constitution
Find out about the Australian Constitution, its history and significance.
A Multi-tiered System: governing Australia
Examine how Australia’s law-makers and governments share Australian governance.
A Short History of Parliament
Get an overview of how the Australian Parliament has grown from older European parliaments.
A Comparison of the Australian and United States Federal Legislatures
Find out how Australia’s constitutional monarchy is similar and dissimilar to the republic of the United States.
Australia’s Parliament House
Explore the facts surrounding the three buildings that have housed Australia’s federal Parliament since 1901.
The First Parliament of Australia: the ceremony
Relive all the pomp and ceremony of this historic occasion using Tom Robert’s painting of the Opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and extracts from the Age newspaper.
Download the complete Closer Look series
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