Responsibilities of Australia's Federal Government
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Under the Australian Constitution, the states have their own parliaments
and most of their
powers. However, federal parliament
was given Responsibility for areas that affect the whole
nation
There are 227
of the Australian Parliament. This
includes 76 representatives in the Senate and 151 in the House of
These are the people responsible for making
laws. There are over 39 areas for which federal
(law-making) powers. These include
parliament has
defence, foreign policy and
The state parliaments are allowed to
matters to the
federal
that federal parliament has.
only the federal parliament can make decision about, and
powers are those that are shared between federal,
in some cases. There are two types of powers
powers are areas that
state and territory parliaments.
Because there are some areas where
overlaps, Section 109 of the
federal law
making
Constitution states that
state law if there is a