Stage 1 Executive arm retrieval practice

What is a role of the executive arm?

• Enact legislation

• Administer/

  enforce legislation

• Resolve disputes

Which principle belongs to the executive arm of government?

• representative government

• responsible government

• judicial independence

• judicial review

In the Constitution, who is vested with executive power?

• The Queen

• The Prime Minister

• The Governor-General

Who is the Head of State in Australia?

• The King, as represented by the Governor General

• The Prime Minister

• The Governor-General

If an alien came to Australia and read our Constitution, they wouldn't understand how our system of government operates. Why not?

• An alien COULD understand from reading the Constitution

• Because our system of government is explained in the English law

• Because we inherited unwritten rules called conventions from England

What does Federal Executive Council refer to?

• This is the office Ministers are sworn into and where the G-G accepts advice from the PM and responsible ministers

• This is a council consisting of elected members who make regulations for the government departments

• This is where the Governor-General lives once he or she has been sworn into office by the Queen

Westminster ​​ (a)   are unwritten ​ ​ (b)   adopted from the British Westminster system, that help explain how Australia's ​​ ​ (c)   of government operates.

• conventions
• rules
• system
• constitutions
• regulations