Sentences with phrase «parliamentary committee considering»

I have explained this in my submission to a Commonwealth Parliamentary Committee considering the effect of Australia's (voluntarily - assumed) obligations under the International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination:

As Peter Showler, former Chair of the IRB, testifying before the Parliamentary committee considering these reforms, stated: «In regard to the [revised] refugee claim process itself, I must say candidly that the time limits are simply too short and will undermine its fairness and its efficiency».

Surely, this endorses my point that some form of cross examination should be present when the Parliamentary committee considers these submissions.

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All the issues about entry on to the premises of Parliament, the searching of parliamentary offices and constituency correspondence and what is, or should be, available to the court can be considered by the Speaker's Committee, which the House agreed should start its work after the criminal proceedings had come to a conclusion.

A Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson Dafeamekpor, today [Wednesday], walked out of a meeting to consider an agreement with the United States of America for a defence cooperation arrangement, that will allow them to have a camp in Ghana for its military forces.

He was a member of the employment select committee for four years and the committee considering televising parliamentary proceedings — a development he opposed on the grounds that it would lead to grandstanding by individual politicians.

Public confidence is likely to be tested again in this parliament — not least when the Standards Committee considers the findings of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on allegations about Alistair Carmichael MP leaking a government memo during the election campaign.

The allegation, which was considered a grave infringement of parliamentary privilege, was investigated by the Committee of Privileges, who decided there was no evidence to support them.

At a stakeholder forum in Accra, existing challenges on land were raised and the parliamentary Select Committee on Lands and Forestry is expected to consider them during their deliberations.

In response to the prime minister's statement one MP sought an assurance from Brown that the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill which his joint committee had been considering would be in the Queen's Speech and that it would become law in the next Parliamentary session.

The government should consider reforms to CASL in light of two specific upcoming events: CASL's private action rights that come into force on July 1 and the forthcoming mandatory three - year review of the law (s. 65 of CASL requires a Parliamentary committee to review the provisions and operation of the law three years after it has been in force).

Sara George and Alan Ward at Stephenson Harwood in London consider the powers of UK parliamentary select committees to investigate, and the potential difficulties that being required to answer questions before a select committee may pose, for both the subjects of investigations and those investigating.

I indicated to the Joint Parliamentary Committee in response to a series of questions put to me when I appeared before it on 22 February 2000 that the amended NTA as a whole could not be considered a special measure but to the extent that the amended NTA recognises and protects the traditions and customs of Indigenous people then this recognition and protection was a non-discriminatory differential treatment of Indigenous people.

Failure to recognise the social determinants of health and failure to respond effectively to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody has developed into a situation where even the Chief Justice of Western Australia, Wayne Martin, told a parliamentary committee in August 2015 that «young Aboriginal people consider jail a «rite of passage»».

Two Commonwealth parliamentary committees, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Indigenous Land Fund and the Senate Legal and Constitutional (Legislation) Committee have, on 2 April 1998, 1 June 1998, and 31 March 1999 respectively, considered the parliamentary committees, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Indigenous Land Fund and the Senate Legal and Constitutional (Legislation) Committee have, on 2 April 1998, 1 June 1998, and 31 March 1999 respectively, considered the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Native Title and the Indigenous Land Fund and the Senate Legal and Constitutional (Legislation) Committee have, on 2 April 1998, 1 June 1998, and 31 March 1999 respectively, considered the Evatt Report.