Parliament is an ineffective law making body, it

takes too long and isnt in line with the

community. ~~~ Evaluate

Parliament is not always effective because it takes too long to pass laws.
Parliament only sits for approximately 76 days, which means that there isnt
enough time to pass all of the laws needed. Particularly for complex or
controversial laws. The legislative process also takes a long time as it needs
to pass through both houses, including allowing for debate and amendments.
However, Parliament can delegate its law making power by passing an
Enabling Act, (enabling Act gives power to a subordinate authority). These
subordinate authorities take the pressure off Parliament, particularly for
specific laws that may require expertise or a quick response. Delegated
legislation can be passed quickly such as total fire bans by the CFA.
Although, these subordinate authorities do not always pass laws that reflect
community values, or they create laws that match popular interest rather
than what is actually most beneficial for the community. This creates both
laws that the community deems unacceptable and the laws are more likely
to be broken anyway, or the law does little to actually benefit the community
as opposed to enabling it.
Parliament itself however, can make extraordinarily comprehensive laws,
given their vast authoritative figures to which they have access when making
new laws. Along with this, they can make laws that pre-empt problems in the
law coming up in the future, and can do this effectively, stopping a lot of
potential legal issues from actually coming to fruition, and doing so whilst
covering all of the nuances of that law.
However sometimes this doesnt work as intended, and laws are made far
too broad to actually be effective. This means that a law is so vaguely
applied to so many areas no one is really clear on when exactly someone is
breaking the law and not.
But Parliament is self-regulated fairly well. Its open floor for debate gives it a
lot of room to have clear and concise rulings on different parts of a new bill.
This debate and clarification is often necessary with more complex bills, or
bills which are of especially high import.
A terrible problem that can occur is when there is a Hostile Upper House or a
Hung Parliament, which massively slows down the law-making process,
because either laws cannot get through the upper house (because the
majority there does not reflect the values of the lower house/they belong to
opposing parties), or because the lower house itself cannot actually get
enough votes to pass any bills through itself.
Worse yet is that the parliament has no transparency, it could easily create
laws that are opposed to community needs or values without the community
knowing about it. It has a moral responsibility to the people, and we can vote
them out, but that does not necessarily hold them to it.

Parliament seems to be more ineffective than it is worth, but an examination

of its strengths and weaknesses as opposed to other forms of government; it
has the best ratio of good/bad points about it.