Sentences with phrase «australian labor party»

The Commission notes that the Australian Labor Party has acknowledged the importance of land and water to Indigenous peoples» spirituality, law, culture, economy and well - being.

[114] Australian Labor Party, National Platform, 2011, see in particular pp 155 - 185.

The Campaign also welcomed the Australian Labor Party [114] and Australian Greens Indigenous Affairs [115] election platform.

[4] Australian Labor Party, ALP National Platform and Constitution 2007, available online at: http://www.alp.org.au/platform/index.php.

Overall, the Australian Government has acted contrary to the Australian Labor Party's National Platform and Constitution 2007, which commits to ensuring adequate resourcing for the core responsibilities of PBCs.

As the Australian Labor Party launches a national Indigenous caucus of Federal, state and territory MPs following another disappointing Close the Gap statement from the government, Yorta Yorta man Daniel James argues new attitudes rather than platitudes will drive meaningful change.

Prior to that she was a health policy advisor to the Federal Australian Labor Party, working for Simon Crean when he was Leader of the Opposition and then Julia Gillard when she was Shadow Minister for Health.

The Australian Labor Party announces that if elected at the forthcoming federal election it will abolish ATSIC and put into place a new framework for Indigenous self - governance and program delivery.

The Australian Labor Party announces that if elected at the forthcoming federal election it will put into place a new framework for Indigenous self - governance and program delivery.

[5] Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation, the Hon J Macklin, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs, the Hon W Snowdon, Indigenous economic development, Australian Labor Party - Election 2007.

«Obviously, I can't give any assurances about what the Australian Labor Party may do in terms of the data that they hold or, for that matter, how the Australian Labor Party obtained their data,» the communications minister said in response.

It is by no means an exaggeration to comment that the Australian Labor Party (the Left - Wing opposition) is in my mind now a more conservative opposition to the Turnbull led Libs!

One of my biggest problems with the nature of political debate in Australia at the moment is Tony Abbot's invocation of his «mandate» as a reason for the Australian Labor Party and other minor parties to support his repeal of the carbon tax.

The same can not be said of any left - leaning political philosophy or party, even the Australian Labor Party.

The Australian Labor Party («progressive») has just elected a new leader, having been beaten in the recent election in a landslide.

If you had seen the ads you would realise they had a lot more to do with establishing the green credentials of the South Australian Labor Party prior to a state election than global warming.

In July 2015 the Australian Labor Party announced a policy of aiming at 50 % renewable energy by 2030.

Oh, and we might also reflect that the only party in recent history which memorably changed its leader at the last minute was the Australian Labor Party.

One senior Labour MP said it could work in a similar way to the Australian Labor party's caucus system, which formally splits into factions of which the «national left» and «national right» are the biggest.

But the current Leader of the Opposition, Harriet Harman, seemed happy to defy that convention yesterday by endorsing the Australian Labor Party and in particular its Prime MInister, Julia Gillard, ahead of this Saturday's general election.

The 1910 election was the first to elect a majority government, with the Australian Labor Party concurrently winning the first Senate majority.

On 11 November 1975 the Governor - General withdrew the commission of Prime Minister Whitlam (Australian Labor Party) and commissioned Leader of the Opposition Fraser (Liberal — Country Party coalition) to form a «caretaker» Government.

Readers may like to know that the Australian Labor Party - a sister Party of British Labour with a very similar history and values to our own - has rules which insist on mandatory re-selection for all Federal MPs before each Federal Parliamentary election.

In Australian politics, the similar phrase «the light on the hill» was famously used in a 1949 conference speech by then Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and as a consequence this phrase is used to describe the objective of the Australian Labor Party.

Asked whether the Australian Labor party could win the upcoming election despite Murdoch campaigning against them he replied that: «Of course they can and I'm sure Rupert Murdoch would be the first to concede that the power of the printed media is not what it was twenty or thirty years ago.»

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

As do labourisms (Australian Labor Party, Labour in the UK, etc).

952 (0.09 %) votes originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 2 of 3) distributed to Australian Labor Party (Don FARRELL) via preference 4.

385 (0.03 %) votes originally from Socialist Equality Party (Ticket 2 of 3) distributed to Australian Labor Party (Louise PRATT) via preference 4.

Currently in Australia, there are two major parties: The Australian Labor Party and the Australian Liberal Party (which ironically is a conservative party.

The revolving door at the top of the Australian Labor Party continues to spin, with ex-Foreign (and Prime) Minister, Kevin Rudd, challenging the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, for her job on Monday morning.

Australia uses British English for their spelling, which spells labour as in physical work, with a «u», where the Australian Labor Party spells it without a «u».

Melissa held the Federal seat of Fremantle for the Australian Labor Party from 2007 up until her retirement from politics in 2016.

She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1999 to 2014, first representing Melbourne West Province.

He worked at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), before being elected to the Commonwealth Parliament as Australian Labor Party member for Macarthur in 1972.

On September 16th, Preston Manning published an article on the recent defeat of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) at the hands of the conservative Liberal - National coalition in the Globe and Mail.

The pressure on the Australian Labor Party at a state and federal level to allow expanded uranium mining is building as fast as the uranium price is rising and new explorers are pouring into the market.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, in Australia, a Chinese billionaire reportedly threatened to withdraw an AUD$ 400,000 donation to the opposition Labor party after an Australian official took a hard line against the Chinese military's activities in the South China Sea.

Although most ardent Australian admirers of that increasingly murderous hellhole joined the Communist Party of Australia, a significant segment of Labor's activist strata also saw Sovietism as the way to go.

They have alluded to the time that Mr Turnbull's predecessor Tony Abbott asked the Senator to briefly stand aside while the Independent Commission against Corruption looked into donations to the Liberal Party from Australian Water Holdings - which the Senator was a former senior office holder of and was part - owned by corrupt former Labor kingpin Eddie Obeid.

18 May, 2016 Hospital soft drink ban a misguided measure that provides no solution Responding to calls from the NSW Labor Party to ban soft drinks from hospitals across New South Wales, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said; «We'd like to support comments from the NSW Nursing and Midwives Association stating a widespread ban -LSB-...]

South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall has promised a «new dawn» for South Australia after his party won the state election and ended 16 years of Labor Government.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has accused new state Labor Party leader Peter Malinauskas of being captive to the retail workers» union that he ran before entering politics, as the two disagreed over plans to deregulate shop trading hours.

Responding to calls from the NSW Labor Party to ban soft drinks from hospitals across New South Wales, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said;

SA Liberal Party leader Steven Marshall said that state Labor policy had left South Australians with «the highest energy prices in Australia» and «the least reliable grid».

[292] The Australian Green party called for a parliamentary inquiry into News Limited, but Hartigan directly denied allegations by both the Greens and the governing Labor party that News Limited has been running a campaign against them, describing his group's journalism as «aggressive but fair.»

This change has led to the rise of a number of minor parties such as the Democratic Labor Party, Australian Democrats and Australian Greens who have taken advantage of this system to achieve parliamentary representation and the balance of power.

It has carried with it the Greens, the Labor Party and — if polls are correct — a growing majority of Australians.

New politics puts CCS on shaky ground Australian states are operating on tight budgets, and state political control is switching from the Labor Party to more conservative coalition governments.

However, the plan has been criticised by the Labor Party and Australian Education Union, who argue Gonski funding commitments are the best way to improve educational outcomes.