Sentences with phrase «opposition labor party»

The Guardian reported on May 2nd that Opposition Labor Party leader, Bill Shorten, is now vowing to end the live export trade before the government review since «Labor sees no future for live sheep exports.»

A poll by the Haaretz newspaper gave the ruling party a two - seat advantage over the opposition Labor Party, 25 seats to 23.

No, she says, her nonprofit isn't an initiative of the opposition Labor Party.

Turnbull's conservative coalition has been resisting calls from the centre - left opposition Labor Party for such an inquiry for almost two years.

Earlier this year, in Australia, a Chinese billionaire reportedly threatened to withdraw an AUD$ 400,000 donation to the opposition Labor party after an Australian official took a hard line against the Chinese military's activities in the South China Sea.

Not exact matches

But opposition is strong from the Democratic Party and labor unions.

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.

When Mitt met with the Labor Party opposition leader, the moderate socialist Ed Miliband, the photos.

Despite the opposition from the Queens party establishment, Sanders maintains endorsements from a number of progressive groups and labor unions.

Their demands were anathema to the two ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, which will now sit in a 52 - strong Knesset opposition led by the Labor party.

Although Labor came up two seats short of official party status in the legislature, Newman promised that Labor would be «properly resourced as an opposition».

At a meeting Monday with a group of influential labor leaders representing some of the state's powerful unions, including 1199 SEIU, 32BJ, the Hotel Trades Council and the Communications Workers of America, Cuomo said he couldn't pass a budget with campaign finance reform because of Senate opposition, and pressed the leaders to rein in the restive members of the Working Families Party, who vote on the party's endorseParty, who vote on the party's endorseparty's endorsement.

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.

(CNN)-- It could have been a crucial piece of opposition research: The South Carolina Democratic Party accused Mark Sanford, who criticized his rival for taking union contributions, of receiving campaign cash from labor groups himself during a past run for Congress.

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.

Although a rich history of organized protest, opposition, and resistance by labor unions, professional syndicates, student groups, and Islamist organizations is prominent in both Egyptian and Tunisian modern histories, formulating policy and garnering political support were especially difficult for secular and liberal parties under the newly toppled dictatorships.

Kline and Alexander, who was ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at the time, each had draft bills that stood in opposition to Senate Democrats» proposals, and the House passed Kline's bill in the summer of 2013 along party lines.

The groundswell of opposition to the standards has been bipartisan: Both Tea Party conservatives and labor movement liberals have found reasons to hate them.

Having said that, it's generally expected to pass — the Labor Party, The Greens, and several independents have said they'll support it, and the opposition (generally opposed to anything climate - related) don't have the numbers to block it, although they've promised to repeal it if elected in 2013 (although the total package has been cleverly built, so to repeal it, they'll have to promise to raise taxes on the low & middle income brackets, cut aged & disability pensions, and rely on the «goodwill» of large corporations to lower prices for electricity & other carbon - intensive goods).

The state Democratic Party, Fuse (a large statewide progressive group), the Washington State Labor Council, and Front and Centered have come out in opposition.

It keeps enough of existing policy to prevent the backbench sceptics flaring up but it also overlaps sufficiently with the Labor Party's platform that the Opposition will go along with it and so vote for it in the Senate.

It is by no means an exaggeration to comment that the Australian Labor Party (the Left - Wing opposition) is in my mind now a more conservative opposition to the Turnbull led Libs!

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.

When it was in opposition, the Labor Party expressed concerns regarding the former Coalition Government's approach to Indigenous land tenure reform.

[98] In the course of the Senate debate Senator John Faulkner tabled a letter [99] from Premier Peter Beattie to Opposition Leader Kim Beazley that contained the terms of a compromise reached between the Queensland Government and the federal Labor Party which informed the Opposition's vote in the Senate.

Labor, Norway's largest opposition party, said it will probably support the proposal to boost the fund's exposure to real estate, and that, while it's too early now, it hopes expanding into infrastructure isn't completely off the table.