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Australia's Parliament House
Australia's parliament house aerial plan description
This graphic is an aerial plan of Australia 's Parliament House showing the location of the:
- Public entrance
- House of Representatives wing
- House of Representatives chamber
- Cabinet Room
- Executive wing
- Senate chamber
- Senate wing.
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A Multi-tiered System: governing Australia
australia's states and territories Description
This graphic shows a map of Australia and its states and territories and the location of six state parliaments and two territory legislative assemblies in each capital city. The text states that:
- The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in Darwin makes laws for the Northern Territory.
- The Western Australian Parliament in Perth makes laws for Western Australia.
- The South Australian Parliament in Adelaide makes laws for South Australia.
- The Queensland Parliament in Brisbane makes laws for Queensland.
- The New South Wales Parliament in Sydney makes laws for New South Wales.
- The Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in Canberra makes laws for the Australian Capital Territory.
- The Victorian Parliament in Melbourne makes laws for Victoria.
- The Tasmanian Parliament in Hobart makes laws for Tasmania.
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Law making bodies in Australia description
This graphic shows three small maps of Australia which represent the location and scope of Australia ’s three different law-making bodies.
- The first is the federal Parliament, located in the national capital and responsible for making laws for the whole country.
- The second is state and territory parliaments, located in each state and territory capital and responsible for making laws for each of Australia ’s six states and two mainland territories.
- The third is local councils, located right across Australia and responsible for making by-laws for numerous municipalities within each state.
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Who is in the executive, where do they come from - Description
This graphic shows that there are 226 members of the current federal Parliament, 42 of which are also members of executive government.