what kind of government is australia communism or capitalism or another one i know its monarchy.....?

Question

please need help im doing nation notebook and my nation is australia

Answer 1

Wow, you've got some strange answers here.

Let me set the record straight:

Australia is a constitutional monarchy, not a democracy.
The head of state is Queen Elizabeth.
She is represented in Australia by the Govenor General.
The Govenor General is nominated by the Prime Minister and appointed by the queen..

She does NOT rule us, she has no real powers (nor does the GG) except to rubber-stamp laws made by the elected government.

In theory the Queen can override decisions made by the government but the last time this happened was in 1977 and it caused quite a fuss. I doubt if it will ever happen again.

The Prime Minister is the head of government and acts as our "Political head of state" (i.e. like the US President).

check out http://www.australia.gov.au/ for more information
Specifically: http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-6govt
which talks about the government structure.

Answer 2

Some of the answers you have been given are factually wrong. Australia is not legally a Republic but is a Constitutional Monarchy. The Monarch, Queen Elizabeth, reigns but does not rule. Australia is also a Federation and a parliamentary democracy (one of the oldest in the world) like the USA and the system of houses of parliament is arranged in a similar manner, though the parliament runs more like the British one.

I suggest you consult the "CIA Factbook" for short answers to your questions - it is an excellent source for brief facts and is very accurate. Also check articles in on-line encyclopedias.

The economy of Australia is fundamentally capitalist. While there have been state enterprises in the past most of them were in competition with private companies and the state enterprises have now mostly but not all been placed in the hands of shareholders like any other corporation.

A few of the state governments maintain control of railways. Water supply, sewerage, electricity distribution are mostly state or local government functions here. However some power stations are owned by corporations and sell power to the state-run distributors.

These sorts of arrangement are caused by the fact that there is or once was a fairly small population spread over a wide area and the companies that formed to build railways etc often went bankrupt very quickly - so the state governments took them over.

Answer 3

Australia is not a republic and the only attempt so far to make it so was defeated in a referendum, unfortunately.

We are a constitutional monarchy. Queen Elizabeth is our head of State represented in Australia by the Governor General. We have a democratically elected bicameral parliament. We differ from the Uk in that our upper house, the Senate, is elected while seats in the British upper house, the House of Lords, are interited or appointed. The Government in Parliament runs the country with the leader of the governing party being the Prime Minister. The Queen does as she is told, she has no power but is good for opening things like Opera Houses.

The six Australian States became a Federation in 1901 and the full name of the country is the Commonwealth of Australia.

Answer 4

Australia is a democracy but we are ruled by the monarchy (ie. Queen Elizabeth II is our Head Of State).
To represent her we have a Governer General (currently Major General Michael Geoffery) but the person that is the equivalent of the US President is our Prime Minister (currently John Howard).
Each state then has a Premier (I'm not going into the difference between States and Territories!) and then within each State and Territory there are municipalities which have a representative in state parliament and then local councils also have mayors.

Answer 5

An answer with 2 parts 1. I want a democratic GOVERNMENT -- an improved version of what the US already has, with political and civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, with "checks and balances" between the different branches of government, and with either a 2-party or multi-party political system with regularly scheduled elections. I do think that a "democratic" or "republican" form of US government needs to place some real restraints on the influence of large corporations and wealthy individuals over American elections, though. And I think to make political self-government meaningful, we need to have a free Internet that remains open to political ideas of all kinds, as well as a system of independent newspapers and magazines that will provide that free Internet with some of its content. Otherwise the ordinary voters will lack enough information to make good decisions. 2. Along with a democratic GOVERNMENT, I want an ECONOMY that resembles "socialism" or perhaps a kind of "economic democracy." I think the ECONOMY needs to combine the best features of socialism, small entrepreneurial businesses, anarchist and cooperative enterprises, and worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, whether large or small. These would compete in a more or less free market for consumers' dollars, but with some government oversight and regulation. Also, the "Economic Democracy" or "green libertarian socialism" I favor would impose limits on overall economic growth, so that the US Gross Domestic Product doesn't continue expanding to the point where it wrecks large parts of the world environment. In harmony with certain ideas that have long been favored by the Marxist and anarchist left and significant portions of the American labor movement, significant ** limits on the length of the average work week** would be part of the new economy. Everyone but the seriously disabled would need to work for a living, and the US economy would include a "green" industrial sector as well as an agricultural sector, a retail sector, a service sector, etc. However, the length of the work week would be restricted to perhaps 20 hours a week, or even less. The shorter work week would be adopted for several reasons: (a) partly so that the unemployed could be absorbed into the workforce, (b) partly so all Americans would enjoy more leisure time for recreation & family life, religion, artistic creation, sports, nature appreciation, reading etc., and (c) partly so the economy can provide employment opportunities for everyone without also consuming an every-expanding volume of natural resources. Again, however, this GREEN SOCIALIST ECONOMY -- or "Green economic democracy" -- would be combined with political democracy resembling what Americans enjoy now, but with greater incentives for individual participation and greater constraints on corporate influence. Why is this my preference? As an American, I think our Bill of Rights and our system of elected government are more or less sacred -- I think "government of the people, by the people, for the people" should continue. However, as an ex-Christian and present day humanist I'm appalled by the extensive poverty and unemployment in our society under corporate capitalism, and as an environmentalist I'm appalled at capitalism's apparent addiction to endless economic growth, even at the cost of putting all nature at risk. I also see corporate capitalism as undermining traditional self-government in the US. Therefore, I think we urgently need to combine an improved political democracy, compassion for the poor & unemployed, greater economic security for the broad middle class, and a respect for natural ecological limits into a new political and economic synthesis.

Answer 6

Andrew f is correct that Australia is a Republic. It is a representative government very much like the government in England.
I disagree with his belief that a Democracy can be a communist economy. That will only work on a very small level where everyone knows everyone else. It will never work as a national economy. It never has and never will. The experiment has failed over and over, but Liberals want to keep trying.

Answer 7

Well, it's not exactly a monarchy, but it's not exactly democarcy.
De facto, Australia is democracy. But, formaly the king/queen of the UK is the ruler of Australia.

Answer 8

You are confusing economic structure with political structure.

A communist economy can be a democracy, a dictatorship or anything between the two. Example is many Israeli kibbutzim have been democratic communism.

Australia is a republic.

It is primarily a capitalist economy.

Answer 9

Democratic!

Answer 10

Well we're not commies I can assure you