Sentences with phrase «australian federal government policy»

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Western Australian business has not warmed to the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme, with warnings that the policy could drive billions of dollars of investment offshore.

Michael Pusey argues that the central policy departments of the Australian Federal government of the 1980s and 1990s have been dominated by economists who think like this.

The official document deployed by the federal government is the National Safe Schools Framework, which is designed to help Australian schools develop effective student safety and wellbeing policies including cyberbullying.

Bronwyn Hinz, researcher and teacher of public policy and Australian politics at the University of Melbourne who is currently completing a PhD on school funding and federalism, has taken a keen interest in the Federal Government's white paper.

WHILE it may be true to say that «We are all environmentalists now», the great majority of Australians have little or no say in the environmental policies being put to governments — federal, state or local.

The South Australian government can control the types of projects it approves within SA regardless of federal policies.

A sweeping energy policy endorsed by Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull earlier this week could position hydropower as a key asset in the federal government's plan to overhaul the country's power sector.

Shortcomings in the climate change policies of the Australian Government have been brought to light through the initiative of independent Federal Senator Steve Fielding seeking a meeting with Climate Change MInister Penny Wong, at which the Senator posed three basic questions...

Participating in this Forum are representatives of the Federal Court, Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, National Native Title Tribunal, the Attorney - General's Department, State and Territory Governments, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, the Australian Local Government Association, state farming organisations, fishing, mining and petroleum industries and a Native Title Representative Body.

And this article in The Conversation argues that federal and state government policy directions are jeopardising Indigenous peoples» access to affordable and nutritious food, which is critical in addressing the health outcomes gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

The current Australian Indigenous health policy environment has developed in parallel with increasing recognition of broader concepts of health that involve social determinants — including peace, education and social justice, and equity — as enunciated in documents such as the Ottawa Charter11 and repeated in Australian strategic documents such as the Ways forward blueprint for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health.12 Unfortunately, the implementation of such strategies appears to be held back by a lack of coordination between federal and state governments and departments in terms of effective administrative responsibility for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and social determinants.