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The Federal Parliament is the legislative branch of the Commonwealth of Australia. It consists of two elements: the Crown (The Monarch and the Governor General), and the House of Representatives (the sole law-making branch of the government). Since its founding in August 2020, the commonwealth has witnessed 4 elections: the September 2020 election, the November 2020 election, the February 2021 election, and the June 2022 election.

The House of Representatives consists of representatives each elected (via differing methods each election) from single-member constituencies known as electoral divisions (and commonly referred to as "electorates" or "seats"). This tends to lead to the chamber being dominated by different major political groups, majorly the "left" political parties such as the "Draymond Green" Party (and its variations such as the former DGSF and PSC) and the Australian Labor Party (the ALP gaining a large number of seats after the DGP's initial deregistration in Feberuary 2021). There are other parties active that have had a strong effect on the nation, such as the centrist Australian Libertarians formed in June 2022, the newly right-wing Browny's Waltzing Matilda Party, and the far right Australian Labour Party and the Australian Reform Party who are both now respectively deregistered and inactive. The government of the day must achieve the confidence of the house in order to gain and remain in power. The leader of the government is the Prime Minister (and the Deputy Prime Minister in the PM's absence), and the leader of the opposition is the Opposition Leader (and the Deputy Opposition Leader in the OL's absence). The house is moderated by the Speaker of the House.

The High Court of Australia is the sole court in the Australian judicial system, consisting of 4 justices (3 active and 1 deputy). It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of Australia, and the ability to interpret the Constitution of Australia. As it is the only court in the Commonwealth, it additionally takes on the duties and jurisdiction of all lower courts.

The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is the independent federal agency in charge of organising, conducting and supervising federal Australian elections, by-elections and referendums.

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## History (Meta)

The Commonwealth of Australia Discord server was first founded on the 9th of August 2020 by Russian Hacker, Mike Nolan, jezd7, Killbane184, and Dillon. They created this server after 4 of these members had been banned from the parent server of CoA - Aussie Politics - which they believed was a violation of their free speech. The 4 members were banned from AP (for periods ranging up to 6 months) for spamming curses towards the head admin at the time in their AP Liberal Party server, after a party member snitched to the senior admin himself.

The server was designed to be a rival to Aussie Politics (AP) which was at the time the largest discord based Australian political server, and contrary to AP, the founders of CoA designed the new server to place value on freedom of speech and thought and not punish citizens for speaking out.

The server officially opened to the public on the 23rd of August, welcoming 70 members in the first day, and over 100 in the first week. At the start of January 2021, five months later, the Commonwealth officially overtook AP as the largest discord based Australian politics simulation for a period of months. However after admins Mike Nolan and Jezd7 went inactive on the server, participation declined from late February 2021 until June 2022, where it was booted up again by Jezd7 and has again since become the largest Australian politics simulation based on discord again since July 2022.

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