Crossing the Floor

Court challenges, Changing Rights and the Death of COAG

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Federal Court Live Export Ruling

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

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the accountability of the Executive and public servants

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    • 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

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        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

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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

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              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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                Crossing the FloorBy Haylie Pepper