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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Politics: You're in It -- Chapter 1 Australian Politics: The Basics -- What Is Politics? -- Compulsory Voting -- A Lot of Government -- Governing the nation -- Governing the states -- Administering the territories -- Roads, rates and rubbish: Local government -- From Government to Politics -- Political parties -- A two-party system? -- Interest Groups: Fighting for Causes and Advancing Interests -- Promotional interest groups -- Sectional interest groups -- Umbrellas and peaks -- Understanding Politicians -- Who becomes a politician? -- A 'boys' club'? -- Heavy hitters: Interest group politicians -- Politics: You Can't Escape It -- Chapter 2 Hot Topics in Australia: The Political Debate -- Apathetic or Engaged? -- Awareness of issues -- The 'isms' in politics -- Things We Never Tire of Talking About -- Tariffs -- The role of the unions -- Immigration -- Reconciliation -- Women in politics -- Great and powerful friends -- New Things We're Talking About -- COVID-19 and the pandemic -- The environment and climate change -- Climate change and water -- The republic -- Globalisation -- Nation building -- Complex Issues, Simple Choices -- Part 2 The Australian System of Government -- Chapter 3 One Country, Many Rulebooks -- Australia Is a Federation -- The Constitution and power-sharing -- The constitutions as rulebooks -- The Path to Federation -- The constitutional conventions -- The states came first -- The need for a national government -- Big States and Small States -- A house for the states: The Senate -- You get at least five lower house seats if . . . -- Changing the Constitution -- The Australian System of Constitutional Government.