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1. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 1Season 1: LocalWhat does your local council actually do?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
2. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 2Season 1: LocalWho's in charge at your council?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
3. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 3Season 1: LocalWhere does your council's money come from?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
4. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 4Season 1: LocalHow do councillors get elected, and are they paid?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
5. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 5Season 2: StateWhat does your state government do?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
6. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 6Season 2: StateWhy do most states have two houses of parliament?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
7. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 7Season 2: StatePremier, ministers, public servants: who does what?Watch on YouTubeWatch video on X
8. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 8Season 2: StateHow are state MPs elected, and who sets their pay?Watch on YouTube
9. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 9Season 3: FederalWhat does the federal government actually do?Coming soon
10. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 10Season 3: FederalParliament, government, Governor-General: what's the difference?Coming soon
11. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 11Season 3: FederalPublic servants vs MPs: who's elected and who isn't?Coming soon
12. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 12Season 3: FederalHow much are federal MPs paid, and who decides?Coming soon
13. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 13Season 4: How laws are madeHow does a bill become a law?Coming soon
14. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 14Season 4: How laws are madeWhat do committees and the Senate do to a bill?Coming soon
15. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 15Season 4: How laws are madeWhen does a bill become an Act, and when does it start?Coming soon
16. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 16Season 4: How laws are madeWhat are regulations and legislative instruments?Coming soon
17. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 17Season 4: How laws are madeHow many federal laws are there right now?Coming soon
18. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 18Season 5: Elections and partiesWho has to enrol and vote, and what for?Coming soon
19. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 19Season 5: Elections and partiesHow voting and preferences work in AustraliaComing soon
20. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 20Season 5: Elections and partiesWhat is a political party, and how does it work?Coming soon
21. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 21Season 5: Elections and partiesHow do you start a political party?Coming soon
22. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 22Season 5: Elections and partiesWhere do parties and candidates get their money?Coming soon
23. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 23Season 1: LocalDoes your council make laws?Coming soon
24. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 24Season 3: FederalWhy do we have rules at all?Coming soon
25. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 25Season 3: FederalWhere did our system of government come from?Coming soon
26. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 26Season 4: How laws are madeWhere do ideas for new laws come from?Coming soon
27. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 27Season 4: How laws are madeHow does government ask what people think?Coming soon
28. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 28Season 4: How laws are madeWhat is lobbying, and what are the rules?Coming soon
29. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 29Season 4: How laws are madeHow does an idea become a bill?Coming soon
30. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 30Season 4: How laws are madeAct, regulation or "the law": what's the difference?Coming soon
31. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 31Season 4: How laws are madeDo rules ever expire?Coming soon
32. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 32Season 4: How laws are madeWho checks the rules ministers make?Coming soon
33. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 33Season 4: How laws are madeDo laws get looked at again after they pass?Coming soon
34. EDUCATION SERIESLesson 34Season 4: How laws are madeIs reviewing old rules a normal part of government?Coming soon

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