Year 12 · WACE / Politics and Law
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- Review errors before attempting another section. Separate missing knowledge from timing problems.
Practice paper focus areas
- Exam 1 — responsible government; Senate powers s 53; federal financial relations
- Exam 2 — Governor-General reserve powers; pressure groups; High Court jurisdictions
- Exam 3 — separation of powers; non-Westminster comparison; competing mandates
- Exam 4 — Section 128 referendums; referral of powers; Opposition and shadow ministry
- Exam 5 — High Court constitutional decisions; external affairs power; Auditor-General
- Exam 6 — Prime Minister's powers; Cabinet solidarity; co-operative federalism
- Exam 7 — representative government; Section 7 and 24; horizontal fiscal equalisation
- Exam 8 — Westminster conventions; lawmaking by political parties; Section 109
- Exam 9 — 1975 crisis; Section 57; taxation power
- Exam 10 — individuals in lawmaking; precedent and statutory interpretation; corporations power
- Exam 11 — mandates in theory and practice; Senate as house of review; grants commission
- Exam 12 — reform proposal: republic; local government recognition; Section 44
- Exam 13 — High Court roles and powers; Section 75 and 76; National Cabinet and Ministerial Councils
- Exam 14 — Ministry and junior ministers; Section 64; concurrent powers
- Exam 15 — checks and balances in a non-Westminster system; judicial power; Section 92
- Exam 16 — pressure group outsider tactics; informal constitutional change; coercive federalism
- Exam 17 — Opposition tactics in Parliament; Question Time; referendum outcomes
- Exam 18 — division of powers; residual powers; contemporary issue relating to legal power
- Exam 19 — contemporary issue relating to political power; party discipline; Section 51
- Exam 20 — representative and responsible government; Cabinet and the House; financial powers s 96
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