Parliament is the supreme law making body consisting of all elected members of both houses. Its main role is to make laws, laws that not only protect society and individual rights but reflect the societies values. Parliament can be viewed as an arena for debate where new ideas for laws and proposed laws are discussed and debated on their purpose for an effective law to be delivered. Thus lessening the chance of an unjust law being created. However, parliament is not always effective when making laws as many factors can hinder the process of legislation within the two houses. However there are multiple strengths that far outweigh the weaknesses when determining parliament’s effectiveness.
A main strength of the parliament is its ability to delegate law-making powers to subordinate bodies such as local councils. This is especially important because for a law to be effective it needs to reflect the values of the community and the parliament (whether the federal parliament or the state parliament) will look at the whole state or the whole country as a community whereas a subordinate body is able to break down each individual community and create laws that reflect the values and beliefs of that particular society. Parliament is also able to create effective laws through the use of
These subordinate authorities will still abide under the parliament’s jurisdiction and parliament will remain the supreme law making body but through delegation, more effective laws can be created. However, the people do not always elect the experts and lawmakers in these subordinate bodies, which can be a slight weakness or issue and there may be too many bodies making laws, which may cause turmoil in the community
One main strength is the immense amount of resources available to parliament at any given time. Parliament has resources in the form of money and experts in areas that can run through investigations. One such expert is the Victorian