Representative and responsible government in practice

What this note covers

1. What representative government means in Australia
2. Responsible government: ministers answerable to Parliament
3. Individual and collective ministerial responsibility
4. Question time, committees and other accountability mechanisms
5. Tensions between representative and responsible government
6. Worked example: a fictional minister and a public-transport scandal
7. How this topic is examined and what separates a top response

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