Australia Catalog Sample

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Global Public Affairs Database 2010

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Australia

1. Overview

2. Decisional structure / Key figures for successful lobbying

- Australia’s system of government is founded in the liberal democratic tradition. Based on the values of

religious tolerance, freedom of speech and association, and the rule of law, Australia’s institutions and

practices of government reflect British and North American models. At the same time, they are uniquelyAustralian.- Australia’s government is based on a popularly elected parliament with two chambers: the House of

Representatives and the Senate. Ministers appointed from these chambers conduct executive government,and policy decisions are made in Cabinet meetings. Apart from the announcement of decisions, Cabinetdiscussions are not disclosed. Ministers are bound by the principle of Cabinet solidarity, which closelymirrors the British model of Cabinet government responsible to parliament.

-Policy actors with vested interests do not feature well or prominently in theories of deliberativedemocracy. Indeed, interest-based politics symbolizes much that deliberative procedures seek toovercome - partiality, competitiveness, and bargaining. In contrast, collective decisions under thedeliberative model are determined through reflective public reasoning.Though theorists are divided on thefiner details of what this exactly entails, deliberation in its strictest sense is a social communicative

Key figures

Population 21,445,441 Labour force 10.95 millionGDP $908.8 billion Currency AUS$ Budget revenues $321.3 billion Unemployment rate 4.4%

Background

-Democratic, federal-state system recognizing Britishmonarch as sovereign.-Capital: Canberra-English is the national language. English is the onlylanguage spoken in the home for around 80% of the population. The other most common languages areChinese, Italian and Greek.-The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in thesouthern hemisphere comprising the mainland of theworld's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and a number of other islands in the Indianand Pacific Oceans.-Australia has an enviable, strong economy with a per capita GDP at par with the four dominant WestEuropean economies.





process in which free, equal, and relatively impartial participants consider arguments on issues in view of the collective good.-Advocates argue that under such conditions, deliberation produces informed rational decisions; fairer,more publicly oriented outcomes; and improved civic skills.

3. Main political issues

-The Environment Issue - The environment is a vitally important issue in Australia, an issue which unites

large numbers of people as political allies. Support for many of the environmental organisations crossestraditional political boundaries, yet the "greenies" can be very influential in determining the course of our national development.-The Euthanasia Issue - The Northern Territory of Australia enacted what may well have been the most

controversial piece of legislation in the world: the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. Hailed by itssupporters as at last conferring the "right to die" and reviled by its opponents as an attack on thefundamental "right to life", the RTI Act was overidden by the federal Euthanasia Laws Act 1997. Theissue is so tremendously important to the shape of our future society that both sides will stop at nothing

which may further their cause.

-The Shredding Issue - An issue variously known as "The Lindeberg Affair", The "Heiner InquiryCoverup" or "Shreddergate" has been simmering on the back burner of Australian Politics for some timenow. Shreddergate is set to boil over with spectacular results, especially now that the spectre of a

paedophile cover up has been raised by the issue.-The MAI Issue - There has been considerable interest recently in the Multilateral Agreement onInvestment. The MAI has the potential to touch every one of our lives. If Australia signs the agreementthe political future of our country will no longer be driven solely by Australian interests, but we will be part of a global economy. Many people oppose this threat to our national sovereignty while others look

forward to entering the potential new markets of an integrated global economy.

4. Political organization

The Commonwealth of Australia is a constitutional democracy based on a federal division of powers. Theform of government used in Australia is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system of government. Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position asmonarch of the other Commonwealth realms. The Queen is represented by the Governor-General at

federal level and by the Governors at state level. Although the Constitution gives extensive executive powers to the Governor-General, these are normally exercised only on the advice of the Prime Minister.The most notable exercise of the Governor-General's reserve powers outside the Prime Minister'sdirection was the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in the constitutional crisis of 1975.

4.1 Administrative divisions -Australia has six states, two major mainland territories, and other minor territories. The states are New

South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. The two major mainland territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). In mostrespects, the territories function like the states, but the Commonwealth Parliament can override anylegislation of their parliaments. By contrast, federal legislation only overrides state legislation in certain

areas that are set out in Section 51 of the Constitution; state parliaments retain all residual legislative powers, including powers over hospitals, education, police, the judiciary, roads, public transport, andlocal government.





4.2 The executive-Queen of Australia ELIZABETH II is the chief of state (since 6 February 1952); represented by

Governor General Her Excellency Ms Quentin BRYCE AC (since 05 September 2008).-Prime Minister Kevin RUDD (since 3 December 2007); and Deputy Prime Minister Julia GILLARD arethe head of government (since 3 December 2007) .

-Prime minister nominates, from among members of Parliament, candidates who are subsequently swornin by the governor general to serve as government ministers.-The monarch is hereditary; governor general appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or leader of a majoritycoalition is sworn in as prime minister by the governor general.

4.3 The legislative

-Bicameral Federal Parliament consists of the Senate (76 seats; 12 members from each of the six statesand 2 from each of the two mainland territories; one-half of state members are elected every three years by popular vote to serve six-year terms while all territory members are elected every three years) and the

House of Representatives (150 seats; members elected by popular preferential vote to serve terms of up tothree-years; no state can have fewer than 5 representatives).-Senate elections last held on 24 November 2007 (next to be held on or before 16 April 2011); House of Representatives elections last held on 24 November 2007 (next to be held on or before 16 April 2011).

4.4 The judiciary-High Court (the chief justice and six other justices are appointed by the governor general).

-The High Court of Australia and other federal courts. Appeals from Australian courts to the JudicialCommittee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom ceased when the Australia Act was passed in1986.

5. Entity/Contact/Role Statistics

Contact Outreach %

5.1 Organizations 381 Address 100%

5.2 Contacts 1414 Telephone 99%

5.3 Job Titles (Roles) 2860 Fax 95%

E-mail 28%

Photos 81%

Bios 81%





Contact Categories Service Pack

Academia

Autonomous

Organization

Business Associations

Business Partners

Central Government

Financial Services

Organization

Local Government

National Agencies

NGO

Other

Political Party

Regional Government

Tech-Trade Organizations

Audience ‘On-Demand’ directories

Customized collections

Data cleansing - data cleansing through our ETL (Extraction Transform

Load) framework.

Internal Data integration

Collection Method:

Manual (dedicated collection teams specialized in the region and

countries).

Automated (specialized Web crawling technology to capture publicly

available information from the Web), Newsletters, public publications,

Embassies and media.

Online Subscription.

Audience coverage:

Approx. 1414 influential Contacts covering wide spectrum of the

country.

Update Frequency:

Tier 1 contacts: Monthly

Tier 2 contacts: Quarterly

Tier 3 contacts: 2 X per year

Tier 1 contacts (President, Ministers, head of cabinet,

parliamentarians…) are usually refreshed within two weeks)

2 months post General Elections.

Use specially, “in-house” developed tools as well as Media subscriptions

for maintaining freshness of the collected data.

Languages supplied:

English

Commercial Information:

Role :

Basic roles, address, phone and email of contacts.

o Indicative Pricing:

around ___ € per contact first year ___ € subsequently

Basic roles, address, phone and email and Photos of contacts.

o Indicative Pricing:

around ___ € per contact first year, ___ € subsequently

Full Biographies

Contacts address, telephones, fax, emails

Contact ‘s roles with the organizations, job titles Election zones (Constituencies)

Political Parties and groups

Biography items (Past Career, Training/Schools, Books, Awards, Civil

Status and personal information)

Picture

Organization Name, Address, Category

Geographic referential (ISO)

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