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sentence one: http://www.peo.gov.au/students/fss/fss35.html Apu1010 (talk) 14:19, 22 February 2011 (UTC) Sentence two: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2698.htm Apu1010 (talk) 13:53, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Australia does not maintain a strict separation of power between the legislative and executive branches of government—indeed, government ministers are required to be a member of parliament—but the federal judiciary strictly guards its independence from the other two branches. However, under influence from the American constitution, the Australian constitution does define the three branches of government separately, and this has been interpreted by the judiciary to induce an implicit separation of powers. State governments have a similar level of separation of power, but this is generally on the basis of convention, rather than constitution. Like the U.S. and Canada, Australia is separated into distinct areas called states. They are Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Since this country was originally a colony of Britain, Australia's government system is quite similar. Like Britain, Australia also has a parliamentary system. However unlike Britain, Australia'a also has a strong form of democracy shown in their process of the separations of powers.


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