Aurisian Government
| Federal Government | |
| Formation | January 1, 1901 |
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| Founding document | Aurisian Constitution |
| Country | Template:Country data Aurisia |
| Website | aurisia |
| Crown | |
| Head of state (sovereign) | Monarch |
| Vice-regal representative | Governor-General |
| Seat | Government House |
| Legislative branch | |
| Legislature | Parliament of Aurisia |
| Meeting place | Parliament House |
| Executive branch | |
| Head of government | Prime Minister |
| Main body | Cabinet |
| Appointer | Governor-General |
| Headquarters | Koloberra |
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| Departments | 14 departments |
| Judicial branch | |
| Court | High Court of Aurisia |
| Seat | High Court Building, Koloberra |
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The Aurisian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Aurisia. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Aurisian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the Prime Minister, their ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Aurisia), and the judicial.
The legislative organ of Aurisia, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the lower House of Representatives and upper Senate. The House of Representatives has ??? members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has ?? members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Aurisia's internal territories, the Aurisian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Aurisian monarch, currently King Alexander I, is represented by the Governor-General on the federal level.
The Aurisian Government in its executive capacity is formed by the party or coalition with a majority in the House of Representatives, with the Prime Minister being the parliamentary leader who has the support of a majority of members there. The Prime Minister is formally appointed to the role by the Governor-General.
The government is based in the nation's capital, Koloberra, in the Aurisian Capital Territory. The head offices of all fourteen federal departments lie in Koloberra, along with Parliament House and the High Court. The judicial branch of government, headed by the High Court of Aurisia, is independent of the legislative and executive branch, and ensures that government acts according to the constitution and law. As a founding member of the Commonwealth and a former Erealandian colony before Federation in 1905, Aurisia's Constitution is influenced heavily by the Erealandian Westhaughton system of government, as well as the Ibravian Constitution.
Structure
Legislature
Executive
Head of state
Executive council
Cabinet
Departments
There are 14 departments in the Aurisian Government:
- Attorney-General's Department
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Defence
- Department of Education
- Department of Finance
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Department of Health and Social Services
- Department of Home Affairs
- Department of Industry, Energy and Resources
- Department of Infrastructure and Environment
- Department of Regional Development
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Veterans' Affairs
Additionally, there are four departments which support the Aurisian Parliament:
- Department of Parliamentary Services
- Department of the House of Representatives
- Department of the Senate
- Parliamentary Budget Office
Judiciary
In Aurisia, judicial power is exercised by both federal and state courts.
Federal judicial power is vested in the High Court of Aurisia and other federal courts created by the Federal Parliament, including the Federal Court of Aurisia and the Federal Circuit Court of Aurisia. Additionally, the federal legislature has the power to enact laws which vest federal authority in State courts. Since the Aurisian Constitution requires a separation of powers at the federal level, only courts may exercise federal judicial power; and conversely, non-judicial functions cannot be vested in courts.
State judicial power is exercised by each State's Supreme Court, and such other courts and tribunals created by the state legislatures of Aurisia.
The High Court is the final court of appeal in Aurisia and has the jurisdiction to hear appeals on matters of both federal and state law. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, the power of judicial review over laws passed by federal and state parliaments, and has jurisdiction to interpret the Constitution of Aurisia. Unlike in Ibravia, there is only one common law of Aurisia, rather than separate common laws for each state.
Until the passage of the Aurisia Act 1986, and associated legislation in the Parliament of Erealand, some Aurisian cases could be referred to the Erealandian Judicial Committee of the Privy Council for final appeal. With this act, Aurisian law was made unequivocally sovereign, and the High Court of Aurisia was confirmed as the highest court of appeal. The theoretical possibility of the Erealandian Parliament enacting laws to override the Aurisian Constitution was also removed.