Similarities Between Australia And The United States

The President of America is frequently referred to as the world’s most powerful person. However, the federals structure of America has put restraints on the power of the President that do not occur in Australia, which is led by a Prime Minister. Governments have multiple structures and within these different structures, are equally as many heads of states. Democracy and Republic represent the majority of governments around the world with Australia and the United States of America are prime examples (Andeweg,1999). Australia uses a democracy while the United States is an example of a republic. Contrasting governments means that each one has a different leader a Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, for Australia and a President, Donald Trump, for the United States. By examining the differences within the offices of the Prime Minister and the President such as how the election process works, the jobs each respective office is responsible and even within the men who hold each office and their policies, With such differences in the countries from how they were founded to their differences today, I predict there will be very few similarities.

The Prime Minister of Australia is appointed, not elected, by the party who holds the majority of parliament. However, a hung parliament can occur if one party does not have enough members elected to hold a majority, in this case parties can agree to support each other in order to choose one candidate. Parliament is comprised of two separate sections, the Senate and the House of Representatives each of which has its own responsibilities (Rivera,2017). Australia in fact it shares the name for the two sections of Parliament with the American Congress The parliamentary elections are voted for by the citizens with a compulsory vote. Failure for voting incurs a fine to enforce the