Sentences with phrase «constitutional recognition as»

«We also welcome the Prime Minister's comments today that acknowledge the importance of constitutional recognition as an important step towards Closing the Gap and broader efforts to bring about a just, reconciled Australia.»

On other important Indigenous health issues, Croakey covered the launch of the Lowitja Institute's «Recognise health» initiative, a project that supports constitutional recognition as a pathway to better health and wellbeing for Aboriginal people.

Not exact matches

«Today's opinion dismantles the structure of constitutional law that has permitted a distinction to be made between heterosexual and homosexual unions, insofar as a formal recognition in marriage is concerned,» wrote Scalia.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Worley's initial sermon was partly framed as a response to Obama's endorsement of same - sex marriage, which he made in a TV interview a day after North Carolina voters passed a state constitutional amendment banning legal recognition of such marriages and other types of gay unions.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

But now the law has been federally enshrined by the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act, otherwise known as the Speech Act and Rory's help is getting serious recognition in the new book, «You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom.»

There is nowhere in the constitution that any ministerial portfolio has been created... So far as they have ministerial roles and functions, the only Minister who has been given constitutional recognition is the office of the Attorney General so with due respect to him, I do not see how he will have any serious argument to press home either in the court or within Parliament because it is pathetic... I am afraid his argument is jejune.

He said he believed there was a «serious legal and constitutional conflict» between the boundary changes and the relatively recent recognition of the Cornish as a national minority.

Just as in the previous week's security certificates case (where the effect of the invalidity was delayed for a year), the Court reasons its way towards a remedy in a way that at present is beyond the pale in Australia (where unlike Canada is there is no explicit constitutional recognition of the rule of law as a constitutional value).

[1] In the Reference Re Secession of Quebec, the Supreme Court explained that the recognition of underlying constitutional principles «could not be taken as an invitation to dispense with the written text of the Constitution».

In a January 2010 post, ABlawg's Top Cases and Legal Developments from the 2000s, and a Vote for Dunmore, I nominated Dunmore as the top constitutional decision of the 2000s for its recognition that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may impose positive obligations on government.

450 BCE Traditional date for the establishment of the Torah 624 CE Constitution of Medina (described by some as the world's first written constitution) 633 Quran 1087 Irnerius starts the first law school at Bologna 1190 — Enactment by Eleonore d'Aquitaine of the Laws of Oleron in maritime law 1259 The Provisions of Westminster 1274 Second Council of Lyons 1300 The Statute of Forestallers (printed in Statutes of the Realm) 1474 The Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanseatic League Printed in English Historical Documents 1327 - 1485 (by A.R. Myers and David Douglas) 1474 — Venetian patent statute, first recognition of patents 1506 the Statute of Jan Laski, the first Continental European constitutional statement of the rule of law.

From R. v. Powley in 2003 (which recognized that Métis communities have pre-existing aboriginal rights protected by s. 35) to Cunningham v. Alberta in 2011 (wherein Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin urged that «the time has finally come for recognition of the Métis as a unique and distinct people») to Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada in 2013 (which recognized the outstanding constitutional grievance of the Manitoba Métis flowing from land grant provisions set out in s. 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870), the Supreme Court of Canada has been consistent and unequivocal: s. 35 demands good faith and meaningful negotiations and reconciliation with the Métis people as well.

Some workshop participants saw this as a way of moving towards a more sustainable self - determination; others were sceptical that constitutional recognition would lead to real change.

He commented on the significant ways in which governments have already started to implement the Declaration, such as through constitutional recognition.

Phillips welcomed the commitment, describing a Treaty as «a seat at the table» versus the «crumbs off a table» that Constitutional Recognition delivers.

«The National Apology in 2008 was the crest of a new wave of commitment towards reconciliation in Australia — we owe it to ourselves as a nation to ride this wave further to give Indigenous Australians the Constitutional recognition we deserve.»

We might disagree on how we get there, as there are a diverse range of views among First Nations peoples about constitutional recognition.

«Constitutional recognition is so important because it is about recognition of Aboriginal heritage, our connection to country and our rights as Australia's First Peoples.

«It is also critical that constitutional recognition does not prevent or make void any efforts by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to assert their rights as sovereign peoples or to pursue a treaty.

The Expert Panel will report to the Government on possible options for constitutional change to give effect to Indigenous constitutional recognition, including advice as to the level of support from Indigenous people and the broader community for each option by December 2011.

As this Report was being finalised the Australian Government established an Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians (Expert Panel).

From justice to health to Constitutional recognition; the Commission urges all governments to listen and act on the advice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples regarding the issues that most affect them, as outlined in the Redfern Statement.

That the Australian Government make the report of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians public as soon as practicable following its submission.

The Panel terms of reference (see Appendix 4) required it to «lead a broad national consultation and community engagement program to seek the views of a wide spectrum of the community» [51] and report to Government on «possible options for constitutional change to give effect to Indigenous constitutional recognition, including advice as to the level of support from Indigenous people and the broader community for each option by December 2011».

«To create meaningful and substantive change, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples must shape the process for constitutional recognition, as well as the final proposal put to the Australian public,» Mr Mohamed said.

I am pleased to have been appointed as an ex-officio member to the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.

This does not obviate the possibility of acknowledging formal knowledge of the existence of Indigenous legal and political systems at a constitutional level or at the common law, as in the case of Mabo The functional approach advocated by the ALRC enables both the recognition of the continuing existence of Aboriginal law and custom and sufficient flexibility for Aboriginal people to be self - determining in the definition of customary law.

Request that the Government and the Opposition identify the parameters of what they will support in relation to constitutional recognition, based on the issues identified by the various review processes to date, as well as their willingness to consider further measures to address the specific circumstances faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Participants identified that over the next 20 years, the national representative body would have a leading role to play in achieving constitutional recognition and a treaty, in closing the gap, and in Australia as a country owning and facing up to its history.