Sentences with phrase «federal parliament on»

The Australian Greens also introduced the Stolen Generations Reparations Tribunal Bill into federal parliament on 24 September 2008.

The Social Justice Commissioner is required to report annually to federal Parliament on significant social justice and native title issues facing Indigenous Australians.

The Commissioner reports annually to Australia's federal Parliament on the status of enjoyment of Indigenous human rights (the Social Justice Report) and the impact of native title legislation on the enjoyment of Indigenous human rights (the Native Title Report).

The Social Justice Commissioner has an independent monitoring role on the impact of government activity on the exercise and enjoyment of human rights by Australia's Indigenous peoples, and reports annually to Australia's federal Parliament on the status of enjoyment of Indigenous human rights (the Social Justice Report) and the impact of native title legislation on the enjoyment of Indigenous human rights (the Native Title Report).

My role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is to monitor and report to the federal Parliament on the ability of Indigenous peoples in Australia to enjoy their human rights, and to identify where legal or policy changes could be made to improve such enjoyment.

These reports were tabled in federal Parliament on the 20th March 2008.

These were the subject of a determination by the Commonwealth Attorney - General and passed the scrutiny of the federal Parliament on 12 December 2000 when the time to lodge a disallowance motion expired.

(68) This was made quite clear by the National Indigenous Working Group the day before the legislation passed through Federal Parliament on 8 July 1998: (69)

In his speech to the Australian federal parliament on 12 May 2015 in support of the Bill for the 2015 Budget, Treasurer Hockey announced that with effect from 1 January 2016, OECD transfer pricing documentation standards will apply to multinational corporations with global annual income of AUS$ 1 billion or more.

Why, none other than a former tobacco advertising guru; a «scientist» who has no acoustic training or qualifications; who is not a legally qualified medical practitioner; who was used to front up struggling Danish fan maker, Vesta's laughable Act on Facts campaign (see our post here); and who has received scathing criticism in Australia's Federal Parliament on more than one occasion (see our posts here and here).

Not exact matches

Minister of Finance Bill Morneau is accompanied by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he makes his way to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 (Sean Kilpatrick / CP)

On November 27, 2008, Flaherty gave a fiscal update to parliament that took note of the economic storm clouds in the distance, but confidently suggested that the federal government's books would remain in the black in the year to come.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tables the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday March 21, 2013.

CGCC members will also spend the day on Parliament Hill to meet with federal ministers and share their point of view on Canada's International Airports Policy.

With Parliament off on its winter break and a lack of any news out of Ottawa, speculation has started on the timing of the upcoming federal budget and what it may include.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

The Power of the Purse in a Revised Constitution: A Commentary on the Federal Constitutional Papers on Taxing Powers and the Federal Parliament's Power to Spend, by Claude E. Forget.

For the next week, the federal Liberals will be holding their annual «Summer Caucus» in Edmonton and the party's 37 Members of Parliament be criss - crossing the Canadian West, hosting events, promoting local candidates and knocking on doors.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

«Our alumni are in leadership positions on all continents: starting schools and even universities (for example Wyoming Catholic College), running pro-life programmes and post-abortion healing programmes (in the US, throughout Europe, and even in China), entering in politics (an Austrian graduate from our MMF program, Gudrun Kugler, is now a member of the Austrian Federal Parliament and she is in charge of women's, family and human rights issues).

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: German court ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community Germany's top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament «to ensure religious freedom» following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.

As such, the sovereignty of the each is passed on not by the governor general or federal parliament, but through the overreaching Crown itself as a part of the executive, legislative, and judicial operations in Canada's

However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

MEDIA STATEMENT 27 March 2014 Calls for a ban on energy drinks are misguided and without evidence The Australian Beverages Council has responded to a petition presented today to Federal Parliament by the Country Women's Association (CWA) NSW and Australian Medical Association (AMA) which calls for the ban of energy drink sales to children.

Queensland National MP David Littleproud takes on the new role having just served in the federal parliament for 18 months.

A bill to give effect to these amendments was passed through the Commonwealth Parliament on 9 November 2016 and is available on the Federal Register of Legislation website.

Any tax income flows into the general budget on the state or federal level, and the relevant parliament decides what it is spent on.

This is true, but mostly because the fee isn't determined on the federal level and requires consensus, which means that all 16 states» parliaments have to agree.

Speaking at the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN) project launch held in Abuja on 1st February, Karlsen said all objectives of the new initiative were anchored on the federal government's priorities, while also building on the recommendations of the EU Election Observation Mission which visited the country in 2015, followed by another visit led by Mr. Santiago Fisas, a member of the European Parliament last October.

Unlike the UKIP demand for a federal UK based on Little England as a fortress outside the European Union, Greens and progressives should seize this historic moment to argue for a new constitutional and democratic compact, with electoral reform, including proportional representation for both houses of parliament, greater participatory democracy in the regions, and a written constitution with a citizens bill of rights.

In the federal, regional and European elections on May 25, 2014, MR won 20 seats in the Chamber of Representatives, 25 seats in the Walloon Parliament, 18 seats in the Parliament of the Brussels - Capital Region, and 3 out of 21 seats in the European Parliament.

The Commission said a rushed process to overhaul school funding concluded early on Friday, with Education Minister Simon Birmingham doing a range of special deals with cross-bench Senators to force his education funding package through the Federal Parliament.

Copies of the 2015 federal budget are pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 21, 2015.

Swedlove says Canada's life insurers aren't in favour of federal legislation, currently before Parliament, that would impose limits on how much genetic information can be collected.

The revelations, included in reports and correspondence released through access - to - information legislation, also indicated that federal tax dollars were used to print about $ 2,000 worth of brochures to help the industry in its battle against the European Parliament's plan to crack down on greenhouse gas pollution from transportation fuels.

Especially when they have seats in the Federal Parliament which will be granting him coal mines on prime agricultural land.

In December 2016, the Federal Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the Governor General in Council and six federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty Federal Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of the Governor General in Council and six federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty federal government ministers, after the Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty Federal Court found they had breached their duty to consult the Mikisew Cree on the development and introduction in Parliament of two omnibus bills that reduced federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty federal regulatory oversight of works and projects that might affect the Mikisew Cree's treaty rights.

On June 23, 2015, Royal Assent was given to Parliament's Bill C - 59, otherwise known as the Economic Action Plan 2015 Act, No. 1, otherwise known as the federal government's 2015 budget.

The company challenged the constitutionality of the legislation, primarily on the grounds that it is ultra vires federal jurisdiction (outside of powers granted to the federal parliament under the constitution) and that it violated s. 2 (b) of the Charter and could not be saved by s. 1.

Public Safety Canada is required to issue a report to Parliament each year about requests by law enforcement on behalf of the federal government for traditional intercepts, such as wiretaps.

In 1982 Parliament — that same body elected by the Canadian people that now complains so bitterly — decided that Canada needed not just another law on par with all other federal laws, but a Constitutional law elevated as the «supreme law of Canada» [section 52 (1)-RSB- that would set limits and restrictions on all government powers in accordance with fundamental rights and freedoms inherent to all Canadians.

Chris Paliare was on his feet today, arguing for Friends of the Earth in a Federal Court judicial review to to force the Canadian government to follow the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, passed by Parliament a year ago.

However, says Bernstein, «a general principle of federal law is that Parliament has the last say on what the law is.

[The] e-brief summarises the approach taken in federal, state and territory and some overseas parliaments to codes of conduct for ministers and members of parliament, registers of interests, the post-separation employment of ministers and the use of ethics commissioners in providing advice on and / or conducting investigations into breaches of codes.

a) There must be a statutory grant of jurisdiction by the federal Parliament; b) There must be an existing body of federal law which is essential to the disposition of the case and which nourishes the statutory grant of jurisdiction; and c) The law on which the case is based must be «a law of Canada» as the phrase is used in section 101 of the Constitution Act, 1867.

In other words, the Walloon parliament wanted to know whether ICS is compatible with the EU Treaties, and asked the Belgian federal government to make use of the procedure of Article 218 (11) TFEU to request the CJEU's opinion on the issue.

Bruce Campion - Smith is the Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star, reporting from Parliament Hill on federal politics and policy.

C - 11 is said to be identical to bill C - 32, which was introduced into Parliament in 2010 and died on the order paper when the federal election was called.

There are several subjects on which the federal Parliament may pass laws that are likely to impact business activities, namely:

From 1992 to 1996, he was Director General of the Office of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and he has served on the three Commissions of the German Parliament.