Sentences with phrase «labor party ministers»

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WA Labor is operating a cash - for - access Leaders» Forum — which charges wealthy company bosses about $ 25,000 a year for private meetings with the Premier and his ministers and is a carbon copy of a secretive Liberal Party fundraising venture slammed by Mark McGowan when he was in Opposition.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

The Israeli Labor Party, which governed Israel from its beginning as a state in 1946 until Prime Minister Menachem Begin took power in June, had avoided cultivating the kind of American evangelical support expressed in the recent newspaper ads because it knew that to engage in religious arguments over national boundaries would be self - defeating.

But the Labor party says Nash still has to explain why she told the Senate she had the «unanimous support» of the state ministers jointly responsible for the health star rating scheme for a new «cost benefit analysis».

The responses effectively blurred the lines between the two major parties on the issue of foreign investment, despite repeated statements from Labor ministers supporting foreign investment and ridiculing the Coalition's policy.

The Tamale South legislator who is also the Employment and Labor Relations minister also said the NDC is the only political party in the 4th Republic with unparalleled record of access to higher education in the history of the country.

The revolving door at the top of the Australian Labor Party continues to spin, with ex-Foreign (and Prime) Minister, Kevin Rudd, challenging the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, for her job on Monday morning.

Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis warned Labour in Britain could suffer the same fate as its namesake party in Australia, where former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been decisively defeated by Tony Abbott's Liberal - National coalition by taking 88 seats to Labor's 57.

While the scope of the enquiry was yet to be finalised, a spokesman for the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, said that the current administration under the Labor Party had decided that an investigation was required.

In Australian politics, the similar phrase «the light on the hill» was famously used in a 1949 conference speech by then Prime Minister Ben Chifley, and as a consequence this phrase is used to describe the objective of the Australian Labor Party.

On 11 November 1975 the Governor - General withdrew the commission of Prime Minister Whitlam (Australian Labor Party) and commissioned Leader of the Opposition Fraser (Liberal — Country Party coalition) to form a «caretaker» Government.

But the current Leader of the Opposition, Harriet Harman, seemed happy to defy that convention yesterday by endorsing the Australian Labor Party and in particular its Prime MInister, Julia Gillard, ahead of this Saturday's general election.

«In Macfarlane's world, whole branches of discovery would never have been funded,» wrote Kim Carr, a member of the Labor Party and the opposition's shadow minister for higher education, research, innovation, and industry, today in The Guardian.

Member of Parliament Barry Gardiner, the Labor Party's shadow energy and climate minister, told ClimateWire that Brexit could jeopardize the global warming accord.

And it has been seven years since the Labor Party and its prime minister, Tony Blair, came to power, pledging to raise standards with a blitz of initiatives and reforms.

In fact, similarities between the two parties are so strong that current Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham is now spruiking national teaching standards and curriculum as core bones of Liberal policy: two reform areas developed under federal Labor.

He describes how Penny Wong, the Labor Party senator for South Australia and minister for climate change in the Julia Gillard government, would «stand up in the Senate and say «The science is settled».

«Obviously, I can't give any assurances about what the Australian Labor Party may do in terms of the data that they hold or, for that matter, how the Australian Labor Party obtained their data,» the communications minister said in response.

[5] Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Reconciliation, the Hon J Macklin, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs, the Hon W Snowdon, Indigenous economic development, Australian Labor Party - Election 2007.

Prior to that she was a health policy advisor to the Federal Australian Labor Party, working for Simon Crean when he was Leader of the Opposition and then Julia Gillard when she was Shadow Minister for Health.

The mental health impacts on LGBTI Australians and their families was one of the core reasons given by the Labor Party in ultimately opposing a plebiscite, a position lambasted by the Prime Minister.

Plenty of Mr Barnes» advice mirrors that given by former Health Minister, and Labor Party MP, Nicola Roxon in a recent interview for the Sax Institute's journal Public Health Research & Practice.