The Australian legal system is based on common law and its main sources are legislation (statutes, acts of Parliament), delegated (rules, regulations, orders and regulations of agencies to (including parliament as a delegated power) and court judgments While international law is based on a combination of different areas of law There is a clear hierarchy of legislation followed by delegated legislation then court judgments. that international law has no such order depending on the importance of a particular source International law can be broader in its terms as it attempts to encompass the needs of each state involved, while the sources of law. Australian law are much more specific with regard to the specific people involved (eg: court cases). "International law lacks not only the secondary rules of change and judgment which provide for the legislature and the courts, but also of a unifying rule of recognition specifying the “sources” of law and providing general criteria for identifying its sources.