This course studies the aspects of public law by which the executive government is regulated. It examines the structure and powers of Australian government, and how limits on governmental power can be enforced by administrative review processes in the courts and tribunals. Both merits review and judicial review - and the constitutional reasons for their separation - will be studied, along with additional avenues for oversight such as privacy, freedom of information, human rights and Ombudsman regimes. Importantly, the course will also cover the adequacy of current systems of administrative review to hold governments to account.