Sentences with phrase «constitutional recognition of»

[86] Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Final Report (2015) apps 4, 5.

Labor will build public support to meet the goal of providing constitutional recognition of the First Nations status of Indigenous Australians and their custodianship of land and waters;

[72] Some of the recommendations support proposals discussed in this Chapter, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples, the protection of cultural integrity and heritage, and increasing the participation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Australian economy.

On 25 June 2015, the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (Joint Select Committee) tabled its final report.

«In particular, I will be looking to work with them closely on advancing support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.»

I am pleased to have been appointed as an ex-officio member to the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.

At the federal level, a commitment has been made to hold a referendum on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples during the current term of government or at the next federal election.

The Expert Panel will report to the Australian Government on potential options for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and will advise on the level of support for these options by December 2011.

To give effect to this commitment, on 23 December 2010 the Australian Government appointed the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians (Panel).

To better reflect this, I am of the view that the name of the Expert Panel should be changed to the «Consultative Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians».

Text Box 2.8: Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians: Terms of Reference [122]

Four principles were set by the Panel to guide its assessment of proposals for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples:

That the Australian Government make the report of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians public as soon as practicable following its submission.

2.4 That the Australian Government adequately resource the provision of advice and assistance to the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians including in relation to leadership and engagement, ambassadorial outreach, and technical advice.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar has called on the Federal Government to continue the conversation about constitutional recognition of Indigenous people.Speaking at the Rural and Remote Mental Health...

As this Report was being finalised the Australian Government established an Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians (Expert Panel).

The Report cites significant milestones over the last 25 years, including the establishment of native title, Closing the Gap, the national Apology and progress towards constitutional recognition of First Australians.

In Australia, constitutional recognition of Indigenous languages and culture could take two possible forms.

«If we are going to achieve constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, which I know many people want to achieve, we need to look at this issue of unfinished business... I contend that unless we deal with this unfinished business, we will not close the gap.»

• The Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples released its report.

Recently, Reconciliation Australia also oversaw the Recognise campaign, promoting greater awareness of, and support for constitutional recognition of Australia's First Peoples.

There's a whole discussion going on about constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities at the moment.

Tom Calma was particularly powerful, in his NAIDOC call for Constitutional recognition of Indigenous people, of the need for both symbolic and practical steps towards reconcilation:

However, it is not likely that calls for constitutional recognition of municipalities and guarantees of fiscal security are going to die down in the near future.

... It is clear, then, that s. 35 (1) of the Constitution Act, 1982 represents the culmination of a long and difficult struggle in both the political forum and the courts for the constitutional recognition of aboriginal rights.»

Just as in the previous week's security certificates case (where the effect of the invalidity was delayed for a year), the Court reasons its way towards a remedy in a way that at present is beyond the pale in Australia (where unlike Canada is there is no explicit constitutional recognition of the rule of law as a constitutional value).

It is fair to say that provincial governments have increasingly come to appreciate the constitutional recognition of this status when it comes to working conditions and remuneration of Provincial Court judges.

The main thrust of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has been to press for the entrenchment of the right of First Nations self - government in the Canadian Constitution, and to gain increased governmental and popular acceptance of the existing constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and treaty rights.

* Gillard and the Greens have agreed to hold a referendum in the next three years to give constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians.

The breadth and depth of Falana's work contributes substantially to answering the myriad of questions raised and left unanswered by the absence of constitutional recognition of socio - economic rights in Nigeria.

The monarch, who noted that the project for the constitutional recognition of traditional institution has remained an unfinished assignment for the nation in the past administrations.

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) urges the Prime Minister to reconsider his response to the findings of the Final Report of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Peoples.

In the past decade, America has seen its first African - American president, the constitutional recognition of a right to same - sex marriage, and a new discourse on gender identity and workplace harassment.

Not exact matches

In a few weeks voters in six states will decide on state constitutional amendments that will bar same - sex marriage and any other legal recognition of same - sex couples.

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Notably, although Dignitatis Humanae does recommend religious freedom even in instances when «special civil recognition is given to one religious community in the constitutional order of society,» it does not suggest that the two are incompatible (s. 6).

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

that there should be constitutional recognition and protection of religious life in society.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

But now the law has been federally enshrined by the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, otherwise known as the Speech Act and Rory's help is getting serious recognition in the new book, «You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom.»

There is nowhere in the constitution that any ministerial portfolio has been created... So far as they have ministerial roles and functions, the only Minister who has been given constitutional recognition is the office of the Attorney General so with due respect to him, I do not see how he will have any serious argument to press home either in the court or within Parliament because it is pathetic... I am afraid his argument is jejune.

He said he believed there was a «serious legal and constitutional conflict» between the boundary changes and the relatively recent recognition of the Cornish as a national minority.

«If you have a number of Republican candidates running for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, the constitutional officers of the commonwealth, you can deplete your bench of the number of people who can run for those offices who have the name recognition and the capacity to fundraise,» said Taylor.

Currently well over half the nation has statutory and constitutional bans on same sex marriage and / or recognition of same sex couples.

Her PhD research focuses on the fundamental rights» and constitutional implications of applying mutual recognition to police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

First, Volokh suggests that these marriages will remain valid, though Volokh believes this is unlikely because the constitutional amendment precludes recognition of any same sex marriages, irrespective of when they took place.

And Sayn - Wittgenstein was less about the recognition of an Austrian constitutional idiosyncrasy than about the economic rationality of equality.

However, it runs into a difficulty identified by Iacobucci J. in Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Minister of Justice): «it hardly seems appropriate to entrust the Customs bureaucracy, in its administration of the Customs legislation, to deal with the matter through proper recognition of the constitutional values in play».

We say this because the division of powers part of the judgement (commencing at para 98) is full of all sorts of references to two levels of government (see e.g. para 141) and similar comments about «interlocking federal and provincial schemes» that make it abundantly clear that this Court has given no thought to the space within which indigenous laws may operate within the modern constitutional order (for recognition that the law making authority of aboriginal peoples pre-dated the Crown's acquisition of sovereignty, was not extinguished by that acquisition of sovereignty and was not impaired by the division of legislative powers between the federal and provincial governments in 1982 see Campbell v British Columbia (2000), 189 DLR (4th) 333 (BCSC) and Justice Deschamps in Beckman v Little Salmon / Carmacks First Nation, [2010] 3 SCR 103 at para 97).