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Analyse the role of the contemporary Australian High Court. Why is it often criticised by politicians and others? Is the Court a judicial or political body? How the high court operates????? (my benefit) - The High Court is the highest court in the Australian judicial system. It was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution. The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts (judicial or political bdoy). (Each House of the Parliament has the power to determine its own constitution, in so far as it is not determined by constitutional or statutory law. In Australia, this power, though explicitly recognised in section 47 of the Constitution, is of limited significance because the Constitution and the statutory law provide for the qualification and disqualification of members of the Houses and a method whereby disputed elections may be referred to the High Court ) The seat of the High Court is in Canberra, where it is located in its own building within the Parliamentary Triangle. The High Court buildin