Sentences with phrase «australian government acted»

In 2007, the Western Australian Government acted to address some of this funding complexity.

To ensure the protection of rights and interests and the opportunity of traditional owners to effectively participate in decisions relating to their land, a human rights approach requires that the Western Australian Government act to protect Indigenous rights and interests in land until the resolution of traditional owner interests in conservation areas and appropriate negotiations can commence.

Not exact matches

The Western Australian government has called on its federal counterpart to beef up its Trade Practices Act (TPA) to help protect small business against predatory pricing by big business.

The Bank subscribes to tenders when necessary for its own portfolio management purposes and provides registry services, but since October 2006 the Bank no longer acts as agent for the Australian Government in conducting tenders of Australian Government Securities.

First, the Australian government has made a recommendation for an amendment to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 that would allow the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre to regulate businesses that use digital currencies in order to combat anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF).

The Australian Federal Government has today released its draft bill to change the Competition and Consumer Act and introduce the controversial «effects test».

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's substantial water entitlements and allocations have been acquired through the Australian Government's investment in water - saving infrastructure and water buybacks throughout the irrigation districts of the Murray - Darling Basin, as part of national water reforms (as per the Water Act 2007 and the Murray - Darling Basin Plan).

«We would call on the ACT Government to reconsider the role of fruit juices in the diet of Australian children» Mr Parker concluded.

The role of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder was established under the Water Act 2007 to manage water acquired by the Australian Government as part of a suite of national water reforms, including the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Terms of reference included consideration of «the findings and recommendations of the Harper Competition Policy Review in the context of the Australian Government's response, including recommendations related to parallel import restrictions in the Copyright Act 1968 and the parallel importation defence under the Trade Marks Act s1995».

Information from NRS programmes that identifies particular people or their property is released only to government authorities (i.e. Australian, state or territory government authorities responsible for the monitoring or regulation of agricultural and veterinary chemical residues and contaminants), or to individuals approved by the department as being appropriate persons to be granted access to the information under paragraph 11 (2)(b) of the Admin Act.

«Doctor calls on Australian government to lift threat of imprisonment from doctors: Provisions of the Border Force Act that can imprison doctors for putting patients first must be removed, says expert.»

The report recommends improvement in both the content and delivery of programmes by universities through stronger partnerships with education systems and schools, and the government has accepted most of the recommendations in the report, instructing the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) to act immediately.

Recently, Victorian, Western Australian and ACT governments announced they would withdraw from a trial of the online NAPLAN technology, after South Australia and Queensland withdrew it earlier in the year.

Johnny Depp's wife totally out - acted her more famous husband, or at least came across as more sincere, in this video apologizing to the Australian government for sneaking their two Yorkshire terriers into the country without declaring them.

For Australian residents: Under the Federal Government Medicare Act it is prohibited for any domestic travel insurance product to provide any financial reimbursement with regard to ambulance or air ambulance services.

The Rudd Government promised Australians that it would act on greenhouse, instead it is proposing an inadequate and deeply flawed Emissions trading scheme and a fraudulent solar credits scheme.

Australian governments to date have acted as if our future depends on protecting the fossil fuel industry from climate policy.

The sooner the Federal Government acts on this abuse of Australian citizens by the wind industry and their conflicted «useful idiots» the better off the world will be, for everyone.

The wind farm is contracted to the ACT (Australian Capital Territory) government under its 100 % renewable energy by 2020 target.

Driven by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government's renewable energy project, Canberra has developed a reverse - auction process to achieve 100 % renewable energy by 2020.

«This model Act provides the Australian Government with the legal powers and planning machinery needed to restructure the economy and mobilise resources in order to prevent or limit a general climate and ocean acidification crisis and to urgently restore a safe climate and safe ocean pH,» writes Philip Sutton in the introduction to the model Act.

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), represented by Shane Rattenbury, the Minister for Climate and Sustainability, showed how government action can meet 100 percent renewable energy targets by locking in long term, fixed - price renewable contracts.

If the Turnbull Coalition government was to use taxpayer's money to reopen this old power station it would have to be one of the most unethical acts ever by an Australian government (at least since Liberal PM John Howard got Australia involved in the Iraq War) and Australia would be even more an international climate - inaction pariah than it already is.

And The Christian Science Monitor has an article headlined «Same - sex marriage legalization in one Australian district may be short - lived; The federal government is challenging a bill in Australian Capital Territory that legalizes same - sex marriage, contending that it violates the federal Marriage Act.»

Andy has acted for the former shareholders and directors of Raffles Town Club; the Philippines Government in relation to the recovery of monies allegedly appropriated by the former President Marcos and his family; Business Software Alliance on a defamation suit; a leading producer of Australian television programmes and Nike International Ltd in intellectual property infringement suits.

As reported earlier this year, the Australian Treasury has eliminated a goods - and - services tax on bitcoin purchases, an act that the Australian government noted will foster digital currency business development in the country.

The Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) was the government's legislative response to the High Court's decision in Mabo (No. 2) that held Australian law recognises a form of Indigenous title to the land given by the traditional laws and customs of the original inhabitants, Australia's Indigenous peoples.

Under the agreement with the Australian Government, the ACT Education Directorate will be responsible for delivering the program with an anticipated finish date of 31 December 2018.

In the Torres Strait Islands, the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) is an Australian Government Statutory Authority under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005.

Where the language of a statute permits a construction of the statute that is consistent with international human rights law, the Western Australian Government should act in accordance with Australia's human rights treaty obligations by adopting that construction because parliament is intended to legislate in accordance with its international obligations.

There is no consensus among Australian governments to act in such a concerted manner.

3.2 That the Australian Government amend the Native Title Act to provide a presumption of continuity.

The Act's preamble specifically confirms Australia's «acceptance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights», and the Australian Government has acknowledged the UDHR to be «the foundation of the international human rights system», Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Human Rights Manual (1998, 2nd Edition) Commonwealth of Australia, p1.

a tension between the expectations of Indigenous Australians for a strong organisation to represent their views and the preference of governments for them to act as «advisory» bodies.

This has been confirmed in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005 (Cth) 37 (ATSI Act) and recent commitments by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG).

The Australian Government will consult state and territory governments on possible measures to enable state or territory land rights corporations to act as PBCs where the native title holders agree to this.17

[16] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 1993, Review of the Operation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Act 1989 (Cth), Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

3.3 That the Australian Government amend the Native Title Act to address the court's inability to consider the reasons for interruption in continuity.

Public discussion began in late 20045 when the CEO of New South Wales Native Title Services and member of the government - appointed Indigenous advisory body, the National Indigenous Council (NIC), 6 Mr Warren Mundine, issued a press release calling for changes to the tenure of Indigenous land to facilitate increased home ownership and business development.7 In February 2005, the federal Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs indicated that the Australian Government would contemplate changes to tenure in reforming the federal land rights legislation operating in the Northern Territory, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 19government - appointed Indigenous advisory body, the National Indigenous Council (NIC), 6 Mr Warren Mundine, issued a press release calling for changes to the tenure of Indigenous land to facilitate increased home ownership and business development.7 In February 2005, the federal Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs indicated that the Australian Government would contemplate changes to tenure in reforming the federal land rights legislation operating in the Northern Territory, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 19Government would contemplate changes to tenure in reforming the federal land rights legislation operating in the Northern Territory, the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) 8

3.4 That the Australian Government amend the Native Title Act to define «traditional» for the purposes of s 223 as being satisfied when the culture remains identifiable through time.

[6] The Western Australian government has recently made funding available to NTRBs for extra Future Act officers in each NTRB region.

However, according to the ACT Government, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Canberra) is usually the first port of call for Indigenous people seeking personal and family information; project team meeting with Government.

However, the Australian Law Reform Commission has recommended in its report, Australia's Federal Record: A Review of the Archives Act 1983, that MOUs ought to be developed between government departments and Indigenous peoples in respect of records less than 30 years old; ALRC report No. 85, 1998, Rec.213, p. 361.

Accordingly, the federal government has upheld to all Australian citizens that all governments will act in conformity with this obligation.

The Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) is an Australian Government Statutory Authority established on July 1 1994 under the ATSIC Act 1989, which is today known as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER) Act 2005.

The group of representatives was reacting to a story which appeared in The Australian on Tuesday speculating that the Federal government proposes to remove the words «offend, insult, humiliate» from section 18C, as well as removing the requirement that a defendant must have acted «reasonably and in good faith» in order to be covered by the free speech defences available under section 18D.

The Australian Government recognise the level of research and consultation involved in the Australian Law Reform Commission's Inquiry into the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth) and take action to implement its recommendations.

The Australian Government should reconsider the requirement for Indigenous organisations receiving more than $ 500,000 of Indigenous Advancement Strategy funding to incorporate under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth).

Conference calls for the Australian Government to act by fostering inclusiveness, addressing the Aboriginal incarceration rate, acting to rectify the disadvantage of disability and providing ongoing funding to successful prevention programs.