Sentences with phrase «australian royal commission»

In regard to uranium mining, the South Australian Royal Commission into the nuclear cycle had recently stated in their provisional conclusions that nuclear power in South Australia was too expensive to be viable.
I heard recently at the Australian Royal Commission into sexual abuse of children in institutions that Brian Houston was so traumatized by learning of his father's crimes he developed PTSD.

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The Royal Commission into the Australian financial sector seems to be taking a dim view of the way lenders assess the expenditure of loan applicants.
Offshore investors appear to be taking a negative view of the Australian banking sector, which is under fire from royal commission into the financial services sector.
Rt Rev Kay Goldsworthy will lead the West Australian division, replacing Roger Herft who stood down from the top job after admitting he let down survivors of child sexual abuse during Royal Commission hearings last year.
South Australian Agriculture Minister Leon Bignell injected $ 2.5 million in funds into the Beston dairy facilities on Wednesday and said he didn't think there would be any compromising of the state's «clean and green» premium food and wine image if it eventually pursued an underground nuclear waste facility in the desert lands in the north of the state, as recommended by a nuclear Royal Commission.
«Along with many Australians, I can't help but wonder how many customers were ripped off by this kind of misconduct in the two years it took the government to relent and agree to Labor's calls for a royal commission,» he wrote.
Who does he get to run his royal commission into the Australian financial sector?
Nationals senator John Williams has reiterated to The Australian Financial Review if Hayne doesn't come good on Monday and ask all financial institutions to waiver gag orders, he will make a speech in the chamber on Wednesday and push for a Senate inquiry to run in parallel with the royal commission.
Whether by accident or design, the royal commission's background paper, titled Some Features of The Australian Banking Industry, echoed themes raised in a draft report released days earlier by the Productivity Commission, which noted that the last time Australia's financial system was fiercely competitive was in the eacommission's background paper, titled Some Features of The Australian Banking Industry, echoed themes raised in a draft report released days earlier by the Productivity Commission, which noted that the last time Australia's financial system was fiercely competitive was in the eaCommission, which noted that the last time Australia's financial system was fiercely competitive was in the early 2000s.
A construction union official and former NRL star charged with blackmail during the trade unions royal commission receives a payout courtesy of the Australian Federal Police, who he took to court claiming he was maliciously prosecuted.
He is President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Fellow of the International Ornithological Union and has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Foundation, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, and Wiener - Anspach foundation amongst other awards; he is funded by the Australian Research Council.
With last week's announcement of the Royal Commission on the Australian financial sector, which will likely have an emphasis on the largest banks, we have opted to reduce our weighting to Australia.
Grant helps clients subject to regulatory investigations and actions, including Australian Federal Police, Independent Commission Against Corruption, ASIC, Royal Commission and ACCC inquiries and proceedings.
They say cultural safety should be part of course accreditation for each health profession and in the standards governing clinical professionalism and quality, such as the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Standards for general practices and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
«The Western Australian Government, and indeed all governments across Australia, have largely failed to follow the road map provided 25 years ago by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody both on how to prevent these types of tragic deaths and also, really importantly, how to reduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's over-imprisonment.
The book outlines the Family Wellbeing program, developed first in 1993 by the Aboriginal Education Development Branch of the South Australian Department of Education, in response to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
The passage of overriding legislation by the Commonwealth would send a clear message to the states and territories that they do not have unlimited power to introduce laws that further discriminate against Indigenous Australians, and would re-emphasise the importance of the recommendations of the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission that aim to reduce over-representation of Indigenous people in criminal justice processes.
Coombs begins own review as part of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, also commissions Rowley to report on NACC.
Commenting on the current Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, Mr Kirby said media reports of the conditions in some communities was «a horrible thought for us Australians to think about and to reflect upon».
With World Suicide Prevention Day approaching on 10 September, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Evaluation Project (ATSISPEP), headed by Australian University Chancellor Professor Tom Calma and Indigenous Mental Health Commissioner Pat Dudgeon, have issued the statement below calling for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide rates, which are among the highest in the world, to become a national priority and subject to a national inquiry or Royal Commission.
For example, life expectancy has begun to decline for Indigenous people in Australia and still exists at levels comparable to the rate for non-Indigenous Australians in the year 1900; incarceration rates and rates of over-representation in custody have increased since the Royal Commission over ten years ago - for example, Indigenous juveniles comprise 42 % of all juveniles in custody at any one time, despite being 2 % of the general population; and there has been limited improvement in health statistics in the past decade.
The Third Action Plan was also informed by the Coalition of Australian Governments (COAG) Advisory Panel on Reducing Violence against Women and their Children and various state and territory inquiries, consultation processes and significant reports, including the Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland and the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence.
Relationships Australia Victoria (RAV) is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services (DSS) to provide free, specialist support to people engaged with or affected by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The program has been funded by the Australian Government to support the work of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Through the Council of Australian Governments (COAG), Berry Street urges all Australian governments to take immediate action to reform our youth justice systems and to build on the recommendations from the Royal Commission.
Last week saw the publication of the latest National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS), conducted every six years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and one of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Donna Ah Chee, CEO of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress in Alice Springs, said we should not have needed a Royal Commission into the abuses at the Don Dale juvenile detention centre.
«We've had Royal Commissions for so many reason in this country, we need one as a matter of urgency into an issue that is costing the lives of too many Australians and devastating entire communities.»
The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) calls on the Northern Territory and Australian Governments to work with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations on the implementation of recommendations of the Royal Commission and Board of Inquiry into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory released today.
Keynote presenters Donna Ah Chee, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress CEO, and John Paterson, Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) executive director, discuss why health researchers need to support the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the need for ongoing funding for the Lowitja Institute, and how the findings of the Northern Territory Royal Commission into the abuse of children in detention must not just gather dust on the bookshelves, like so many before it.
(The list of agencies signed up to the campaign include: National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Congress of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Nurses Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory Australian Indigenous Doctors Association Amnesty International Australia Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine Australian Council of Social Service Australian Council for International Development Australian General Practice Network Australian Nursing Federation Australian Red Cross Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation Caritas Australia Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health Diplomacy Training Program Fred Hollows Foundation Gnibi the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University Human Rights Law Resource Centre Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth Indigenous Law Centre Make Indigenous Poverty History campaign National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Council National Association of Community Legal Centres National Children's and Youth Law Centre National Rural Health Alliance Oxfam Australia Professor Daniel Tarantola, Chair of Health and Human Rights, University of New South Public Health Association of Australia Quaker Services Australia Royal Australasian College of Physicians Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Rural Doctors Association of Australia Save the Children Australia Telethon Institute for Child Health Research UNICEF Australia Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre)
See, for example, Aboriginal Issues Unit of the Northern Territory «Too much sorry business» in Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody National Report AGPS Canberra 1991 Volume 5 Appendix D (i); A Bolger Aboriginal Women and Violence Australian National University North Australia Research Unit Darwin 1991; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence Report of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women's Task Force on Violence State of Queensland 1999; S Gordon et al Putting the Picture Together: Inquiry into response by government agencies to complaints of family violence and child abuse in Aboriginal communities State Law Publisher Perth 2002.
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