Only in Australia The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism

14 Australia’s Distinctive Governance Westminster, Ottawa, and Canberra Contrasted J. R. Nethercote The practice of Westminster ...

It is equally conventional to observe that there are notable differences between‘Westminster in Australia’and‘Westminster at Wes ...

This provision has been fully activated on forty-four occasions; on eight such occasions the proposed change has succeeded with ...

of doubt about procedure, guidance would be sought in the practice of the UK House of Commons (Reid 1987, chs 1 and 2). The Aust ...

An interesting contrast can be found in relation to command of the naval and military forces. The Australian Constitution states ...

Australian-born Governors-General have come from four of the six states (Victoria, New South Wales (NSW), Western Australia, Que ...

like a number of Governors-General, quite a few have, however, been mem- bers of the UK Privy Council, which enabled them to sit ...

Intelligence Review Committee must, by law, be privy councillors. Both Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Prince of W ...

(DPMC 2015, p. 64). Selection of ministers is generally a key prerogative of the prime minister (though it would be misleading t ...

them at a senior level. Another rose from a senior post, having joined the public service at age 40 from a university. Of the ca ...

government, with a majority of around a hundred, had to abandon contro- versial legislation on industrial relations in the face ...

including two senators each from the two territories whose terms are aligned with those of the House of Representatives). In the ...

Appointment to the Senate is a prime ministerial prerogative. To be eligible for appointment to the Senate it is necessary to be ...

The Australian parliament has largely abandoned ceremonial attire. Neither presiding officer wears robes but, for a short time i ...

to win; this applies even to an incumbent prime minister, as was evident when Mrs Thatcher was successfully challenged in 1990. ...

The speakership has ever hereafter been an object of partisan contest. The governing party has only ever had one nominee when th ...

had an official residence, Stornoway. Australia instituted an allowance for the Leader of the Opposition in 1920. The explanatio ...

The second feature is the modernity of Parliament House, Canberra. It is just a quarter-century old. Indeed, this anniversary pa ...

The reasons for this course were several. First, the public service was a grandchild rather than a child of Whitehall. Most of i ...

It is in the handling of management–staff relations that the different natures of the three public services are revealed, with t ...