Week Two - Research

http://www.peo.gov.au/students/now_parl.html


The following research was discovered post tutorial leading up to week three.

Useful websites -


http://www.aph.gov.au/information/index.htm


http://australia.gov.au/topics/government-and-parliament/parliament-of-australia


http://www.peo.gov.au/students/now_parl.html

Today's parliament:



http://www.peo.gov.au/students/now_parl.html

The Senate and the House of Reps hold the power of our capital, and our nation. This gathering of politics was forged from the British form of Government. It has slowly adapted to change, and has had 43 different elections of power. Divided mainly between Labour and the Liberals, although made up of many more parties, who fight for regulations, laws, improvement, often clashing with differing views and opinion, parliament can become quite heated. 




SO how could the government of Australia be adapted to a Flexible, Mobile, Distributed or Virtual environment?


Would you focus on the government as a whole? Or improve/add to a specific area of politics? Or add a new system...to the system...


Interesting information that arose from the group tutorials were -


- What if World War Three was to happen?


- What if their was an uprising of anarchy like we are seeing in the Middle East, in Australia?




How would the nations capital adapt to these hypothetical situations?


Social networking has played a large part in the transfer of information and communications between people... (London Riots). How could this form of technology be used in a political sense? (Virtual?)