Federal State local

The federal State/territory Local councils

government raises governments also collect taxes (rates)
money to run the raise money from from all local
country by collecting taxes but receive property owners and
taxes on incomes, more than half their receive grants from
goods and services money from the federal and
and company profits federal government state/territory
and spends it on and spend it on governments and
national matters: for state/territory spend this on local
example, trade, matters: for example, matters: for example,
defence, schools, housing and town planning,
immigration, hospitals, roads and rubbish collection,
customs and the railways (regional water and sewerage,
environment. transport), police and local roads (local
emergency services. transport) and pet
control.
The cabinet are a group of ministers who meet with the
prime minister to advise him. The prime minister can put
forward a new law, or he can repeal (or get rid of) an existing
law if enough people vote for it. When a new law is passed,
lawyers study them (it is their job to study and interpret the
law). Before new laws are passed, parliament debates over it
(this means that they
discuss or argue about
it). Before the final law
is put forward, drafts
are normally made
(these are rough copies
of the document).