Sentences with phrase «federal parliament»

My understanding is that if a person has a citizenship of a foreign country they can not serve as a member of federal parliament.

A national «Sorry Day» is being observed on 26 May, 1998, exactly one year after the tabling in Federal Parliament of the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.

This year's Native Title Report, which was tabled in federal Parliament on Tuesday, assesses the issues and the potential impacts of the Indigenous land leasing proposal, as well as providing some alternative economic development strategies and initiatives.

In New Zealand the threshold is 5 %, in Bolivia 3 %, in Germany 5 % for elections for federal parliament and most state parliaments.

Labor MP Tim Hammond has announced his resignation from federal parliament due to the job's toll on his family, with Labor's state secretary Patrick Gorman tipped to be the party's candidate at the upcoming by - election in the seat of Perth.

A Bill has been introduced into federal Parliament which seeks to abolish the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.

In his speech to the Australian federal parliament on 12 May 2015 in support of the Bill for the 2015 Budget, Treasurer Hockey announced that with effect from 1 January 2016, OECD transfer pricing documentation standards will apply to multinational corporations with global annual income of AUS$ 1 billion or more.

The report, tabled in Federal Parliament today, contains 35 recommendations to address community safety and imprisonment rates amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The proposed R18 + classification for video games in Australia passed Federal Parliament without amendment today, turning the adult rating for games into official federal legislation.

Dr Jonas» annual Social Justice and Native Title reports for 2002 were tabled in Federal Parliament yesterday.

He always made clear that we all have to fight for peace, both when talking to the family or in his political life as mayor of Jena and member of the German Federal Parliament.

It may have only 15 seats in a 150 - seat federal parliament, but WA could still play a determining role in the August election.

Human resources managers and business owners employing workers on 457 visas may be fined thousands of dollars if they fail to pay for employees» travel, medical and recruitment costs, under new legislation before federal parliament.

«Our alumni are in leadership positions on all continents: starting schools and even universities (for example Wyoming Catholic College), running pro-life programmes and post-abortion healing programmes (in the US, throughout Europe, and even in China), entering in politics (an Austrian graduate from our MMF program, Gudrun Kugler, is now a member of the Austrian Federal Parliament and she is in charge of women's, family and human rights issues).

Other members of federal parliament acknowledged National Agriculture Day through various methods including posting on social media, like rural SA Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey.

The bicameral Belgian Federal Parliament, by contrast, has a building in the classical style.

When in eastern Canada, compare and contrast the Canadian Federal Parliament in Ottawa, and the Quebec National Assembly in Quebec City.

Three Darebin councillors and two candidates in the next council election — Bo Li, Angela Villeila and Trent McCarthy — signed the Climate Emergency Declaration Petition, together with 160 Darebin citizens, asking federal parliament to declare a climate emergency and restore a safe climate.

Ironically enough, the judgement of the CJEU was published almost at the same time as the small chamber of the Swiss Federal Parliament (Ständerat) approved a Draft Agreement with Germany intended to resolve the decades - long noise issue around Zurich airport — although the ratification procedure was already blocked in Germany in November 2012.

Sometimes the sound bite title of a bill will offer some fairly clear political motivation for a legislative change, like these bills from the current federal parliament the example:

Under the Australian Constitution, Mr Pascoe and Attorney - General Philip Ruddock are powerless to act unless Federal Parliament votes to remove her.

On 8 March 2017, Green Party Members of Parliament Wouter De Vriendt and Benoit Hellings tabled a motion in Belgium's federal parliament urging the federal government to call for the start of negotiations aimed at creating an additional protocol within the Convention on Conventional Weapons to pre-emptively ban the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons.

The 524 - page report by the Australian Law Reform Commission, led by Indigenous judge Matthew Myers, was tabled in Federal Parliament last week and has been supported by Aboriginal legal bodies and human rights organisations across the nation.

Aboriginal health services today called on all parties to back a Royal Commission into the devastating rate of suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people as a priority for the new Federal parliament.

Anna has worked as a television, radio and online reporter at Federal Parliament since 2012, and also covers the national Indigenous Affairs round.

Under the Native Title Act 1993, the Social Justice Commissioner is required to prepare a Native Title Report each year for federal Parliament.

(68) This was made quite clear by the National Indigenous Working Group the day before the legislation passed through Federal Parliament on 8 July 1998: (69)

This report and his annual review of native title developments, the Native Title Report 2001, were tabled in federal Parliament yesterday.

Statutory authority for wine industry A single statutory authority that will provide centralised marketing and research and development for Australias $ 3.4 billion wine industry will be established through legislation introduced into Federal Parliament...

In a letter to the members of the Family Affairs Committee of the German Federal Parliament, Schucht had asserted that Meyer, as an expert witness at a public hearing of the Committee, had publicly stated various untruths about events connected with the Contergan Foundation.

Full preferential voting is used for elections to the Australian federal parliament and for most State parliaments.

Mrs Prentice is one of only three women representing the LNP in Federal Parliament from Queensland.

The Power of the Purse in a Revised Constitution: A Commentary on the Federal Constitutional Papers on Taxing Powers and the Federal Parliament's Power to Spend, by Claude E. Forget.

Mr. Mills served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's federal parliament from 1988 to 2004.

Meanwhile, Jan Korte, leader of the Left party's parliamentary group in the federal parliament, said: «Why can the CSU never think of anything that brings people together, instead of trying to divide the country at every level?»

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency: German court ruling on circumcision riles Jewish community Germany's top Jewish leader called on the federal Parliament «to ensure religious freedom» following a Cologne court ruling that said circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm.

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

The Australian Beverages Council has responded to a petition presented today to Federal Parliament by the Country Women's Association (CWA) NSW and Australian Medical Association (AMA) which calls for the ban of energy drink sales to children.

MEDIA STATEMENT 27 March 2014 Calls for a ban on energy drinks are misguided and without evidence The Australian Beverages Council has responded to a petition presented today to Federal Parliament by the Country Women's Association (CWA) NSW and Australian Medical Association (AMA) which calls for the ban of energy drink sales to children.

Queensland National MP David Littleproud takes on the new role having just served in the federal parliament for 18 months.

Independents Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon have announced that they will introduce legislation to both houses of Federal Parliament to ban live exports.

A nation without a parliament would be directly administered by the federal parliament in Westminster.