Sentences with phrase «for constitutional recognition»

Engagement over the coming months with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about the acceptability of the proposed question for constitutional recognition; and

«In particular, I will be looking to work with them closely on advancing support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.»

The Expert Panel will report to the Australian Government on potential options for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and will advise on the level of support for these options 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.

Four principles were set by the Panel to guide its assessment of proposals for constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples:

In this way the process of undertaking a campaign for constitutional recognition can itself have a reconciling effect.

2010 Media Release: Calls for Constitutional recognition on National Aboriginal and Islanders Day

The celebrated activist was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to the Aboriginal community in 1999, and remained involved behind the scenes right up to his death on the push for constitutional recognition and a treaty in NSW.

This is why our efforts to close the gap, and build momentum for constitutional recognition, must always be informed by the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their community - controlled, representative organisations.

Recently, Reconciliation Australia also oversaw the Recognise campaign, promoting greater awareness of, and support for constitutional recognition of Australia's First Peoples.

Shorten also called for the Commonwealth to take the lead on reparation for the Stolen Generations and to map out a proper pathway and recommended wording for Constitutional Recognition by the end of this year.

Tom Calma was particularly powerful, in his NAIDOC call for Constitutional recognition of Indigenous people, of the need for both symbolic and practical steps towards reconcilation:

However, it is not likely that calls for constitutional recognition of municipalities and guarantees of fiscal security are going to die down in the near future.

... It is clear, then, that s. 35 (1) of the Constitution Act, 1982 represents the culmination of a long and difficult struggle in both the political forum and the courts for the constitutional recognition of aboriginal rights.»

The monarch, who noted that the project for the constitutional recognition of traditional institution has remained an unfinished assignment for the nation in the past administrations.

Not exact matches

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).

The reasons for this shift are to be found in Catalonia's political evolution over the past decade, especially in the shortcomings with regard to constitutional recognition and political and economic accommodation displayed by the Spanish political system.

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.

«If you have a number of Republican candidates running for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, the constitutional officers of the commonwealth, you can deplete your bench of the number of people who can run for those offices who have the name recognition and the capacity to fundraise,» said Taylor.

We say this because the division of powers part of the judgement (commencing at para 98) is full of all sorts of references to two levels of government (see e.g. para 141) and similar comments about «interlocking federal and provincial schemes» that make it abundantly clear that this Court has given no thought to the space within which indigenous laws may operate within the modern constitutional order (for recognition that the law making authority of aboriginal peoples pre-dated the Crown's acquisition of sovereignty, was not extinguished by that acquisition of sovereignty and was not impaired by the division of legislative powers between the federal and provincial governments in 1982 see Campbell v British Columbia (2000), 189 DLR (4th) 333 (BCSC) and Justice Deschamps in Beckman v Little Salmon / Carmacks First Nation, [2010] 3 SCR 103 at para 97).

The main thrust of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has been to press for the entrenchment of the right of First Nations self - government in the Canadian Constitution, and to gain increased governmental and popular acceptance of the existing constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and treaty rights.

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).

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.

While in law school, Professor Zuckerman received recognition for her excellence in Legal Research and Writing, Constitutional Law II, and Advanced Evidence.

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.

Long before the draft recognition convention appeared, assorted enforcement initiatives had been tried in relation to IP — pan-European patent injunctions faded, the EU Criminal Enforcement Directive for IP floundered and the proposed Unified Patent Court, having tripped over Brexit, has now landed hard on a German constitutional challenge.

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.

That the Commonwealth Government undertake national consultations and begin a constitutional process for the recognition of the special place of Indigenous peoples in the preamble to the Constitution.

That, in recognition that existing protections against racial discrimination have been overridden in relation to Indigenous peoples, the Commonwealth Government begin a constitutional process for the removal of section 25 of the Constitution and its replacement with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law and non-discrimination.

Constitutional reform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is the next major step towards reconciliation and full recognition of Indigenous rights, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda, and Co-Chairs of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Sam Jeffries and Dr Kerry Arabena, said today, on National Constitution Day.

That's to be seen, he said, in the concession from the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition to put aside demands for greater Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty because they would be highly contested by many other Australians and could put Recognition at risk.

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.

«The call for nominations for the expert panel is a sensible approach and I believe will ensure we get the broad cross section of views we need to reach a consensus on Constitutional recognition for Australia's First Peoples,» Commissioner Gooda said.

«I firmly believe the time is right and that the Australian commitment to reconciliation is strong enough for us to be able to build the momentum, the understanding and the support that is so necessary for us to bring about this Constitutional recognition.»

«Constitutional recognition can only improve the trust and respect between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia and for that reason alone it has the potential to make a real difference to peoples» lives,» he said.

The next big challenge is achieving constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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».

• Invest in respectful relationships with Australia's First Peoples; • Support constitutional recognition and discussions on treaties and agreement making; • Recommit to and expand the Closing the Gap targets; • Invest in public anti-racism campaigns; and • Develop a formal truth and justice process for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Constitutional Recognition has been a much sought after milestone on Australia's reconciliation journey for many years.

The Government should pursue constitutional or other effective legal recognition and protection of the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a manner that would provide long - term security for these rights.

See also Anne Winckel, «A 21st Century Constitutional Preamble — An Opportunity For Unity Rather Than Partisan Politics» (2001) University of NSW Law Journal [11], < http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UNSWLJ/2001/51.html > at 15 April 2008; Greg Gardiner, «Constitution (Recognition of Aboriginal People) Bill 2004» (2004) 6 D - Brief (Victorian Parliament) 5 - 6.

Lowitja Institute CEO Romlie Mokak said the conference comes at a time of rising xenophobia globally and domestically, and at a «critical juncture» in Australia, with the need for a «big yarn» about constitutional recognition and reconciliation — which will play a vital role in the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people.

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.

Most significantly, it oversaw an innovative process where — for the first time — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples themselves were asked to deliberate collectively and report back on what constitutional recognition meant to them.

That the Commonwealth Government undertake national consultations and begin a constitutional process for the recognition of the special place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the preamble to the Constitution.

The purpose of this Act was to build momentum for a referendum on constitutional recognition, and initially included a sunset clause of two years.