Handbook

This subject takes an innovative approach to teaching an analytically rigorous and applied understanding of Australian politics  that makes the most of the online format. In the first half of the course students will be introduced to the institutions of Australian government and to theories of power and government decision making.

 In the second half of the course students will be required choose an issue they care about as a case study. They will track that issue through the government decision making process, with view to identifying who sought to influence the outcome and who succeeded. Students will present their case studies to each other for feedback and debate. At the end of the semester they will have intimate knowledge of their own case study, they will also have been exposed to more than a dozen other case studies. Students will gain a rich and applied sense of how the Australian government works in practice.