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Chapter 12 - Legislation
Section 1 of the Constitution vests the legislative power
of the Commonwealth, that is, the power to make laws subject to the limitations
provided by the Constitution, in the Parliament, which consists of the monarch
represented by the Governor-General, the Senate and the House of
Representatives. The agreement of each of the three components of the
Parliament to a proposed law is required to make a law of the Commonwealth. In practice, with
the ministry, the executive government, initiating most legislation in the
House of Representatives, controlling that House through a party majority, and
advising the Governor-General, the task of exercising the legislative power
falls upon the Senate.
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