Sentences with phrase «indigenous woman elected»

Burney, the first Indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, said: «I think both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition were very genuine in giving a commitment to look closely and to examine closely and to work together on those recommendations.»

First Australian Indigenous woman elected to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Ms Megan Davis is the first Australian Indigenous woman elected to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

This Croakey article summarised some of the winners in this election with a special mention to Linda Burney, the first Indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives.

Labor MP Linda Burney, the first Indigenous woman elected to the House of Representatives, was among those present at the plan's launch at Parliament House, amid a sea of hands on the lawn.

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A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

Notorious for insulting women, gay people and ethnic minorities and inciting violence against them, he is promising, if elected, to put an end to the demarcation of indigenous and quilombo territories and to stop the public funding of NGOs.

She is the first First Nations woman to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ex-officio member of a special House of Commons committee, the first Indigenous Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario, the first woman appointed Ontario's Ombudsman and the first woman elected Chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.

Meanwhile, the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the house of representatives and a former domestic violence victim Linda Burney lashed out at the head of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine for claiming in an Opinion Piece for The Australian (paywalled) that the Indigenous community ignores domestic violence.