Sentences with phrase «government axed»

The Abbott Government axed the carbon tax so it is imperative that Australia now has a strong RET if we are to reduce our very high levels of greenhouse emissions.

WHEN the Abbott Government axed the Climate Commission in 2013, in what was its very first act of government, professional alarmist Tim Flannery and his mates immediately created a Climate Council to keep up their propagandising.

Last year, the Canadian government axed its $ 2 million annual appropriation, gave notice that it planned to start tearing down structures in September, shifted its staff of 16 to the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, and hired security guards to keep scientists off the site after 31 March.

That has come because the Government axed the annual advertising campaign and cancelled the flu jab plan for the under - fives.»

After forty years of successfully partnering with community organizations and municipalities to create good student jobs, the PC government axed the program in 2013.

Not exact matches

There has been a common consensus that world governments have slightly taken a back seat on the issue of sustainability and the environment (the sustainable development commission was axed in 2010 as part of Uk government spending cuts for example).

Industry Minister Tony Clement has set off a firestorm of controversy with the government's decision to ax the mandatory long - form census from Statistics Canada, which caused the head of the national polling agency to resign in protest.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

The government was failing to prevent some schools from stockpiling unspent reserves while cutting curriculum provision and axing teaching jobs, it added.

By axing the Flexible New Deal, the government has removed the compulsory four weeks of work for jobseekers during the second year of their benefit claim.

The Coalition Government pledged to cut waste by axing chauffeur driven ministerial cars.

What will make the difference to pupils who need additional help is ongoing support for literacy and numeracy such as one to one tuition and reading recovery programmes, both of which the Government recently announced would be axed.

Commenting on the Local Government Association's claim that more than # 160 million has been spent by councils on Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects axed by the Coalition Government, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:

Appearing on Channel 5's The Wright Stuff for the second day running, the Conservative MP - who was axed as culture minister by Theresa May - explained why he had not been told off for criticisms of the government's approach to Brexit that he made yesterday.

The union says the government's slash and burn approach to tackling the budget deficit will mean vital public services are axed, hundreds of thousands of public sector workers will be thrown out of work, and those that remain will have their pay and pensions cut.

Embraced by the far - right Tea Party movement, his slash - and - burn view of government includes cutting state taxes 10 % in his first six months and axing spending 20 % in the first year.

After May brutally axed every single one of his supporters from government, no one wants to be seen near him.

«The First Minister may shower himself in glory with a gracious u-turn, but the simple fact remains that any party committed to the principle of open and transparent government would never have axed these reports in the first place.

The Government announces an 8 per cent cut to the Defence Budget with almost 50,000 jobs being axed along with naval destroyers, Harrier jets and the Nimrod aircraft project.

She said that when she asked why she was getting the ax, she was told that «it wasn't anything to do with job performance — they just wanted to make changes in the government affairs office.»

Clegg also accuses Gove — who was education secretary for the majority of the coalition government — of putting dogma ahead of the interests of pupils when he axed the Connexions careers advice service but refused to give schools instructions on how to compensate for it because he did not want to compromise their autonomy.

But council cuts in youth provision and the axing of the EMA show this government is not interested in bringing crime down.

Marcello Giorgi of the University of Pisa, who is leading the project's technical design team, acknowledges that «everything is possible,» including the axing of the project, but says that to date the government has given no signs it will cut research funding.

Sequestration also axed hundreds of government - funded research grants, one of the fundamental sources of science funding at academic institutions.

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Heineman has a solid grasp on the affected territories and the people who inhabit them, casting characters whose commitment to axing organized crime when the Mexican government will not.

Everything else is lifted directly from Armageddon, as we have problems with a space shuttle, the destruction of a European city (Rome in this case, whereas Paris got the ax in Armageddon), and the recruitment of civilians to aid the government in saving the world.

At the same time the fugitive is being hunted by another government trained asset (Vincent Cassel) with an ax to grind.

Natasha Devon, the government's mental health champion for UK schools, has been axed by the Department for Education (DfE).

«In government, Liberal Democrats have shown we trust teachers by giving the profession control of our # 2.5 bn pupil premium; backing a new Royal College of Teaching; axing Labour's hated A * - C league table measure, and successfully fighting to implement independent recommendations on pay.

An academy trust set to have its funding axed by the government has hit back — blasting department officials for «waging a campaign» against the school, and has...

Hundreds of school building projects are being scrapped as England's national school redevelopment scheme is axed by the government.

In July 2010, more than 730 school rebuilds were axed when the Building Schools for the Future scheme was scrapped as part of government cost - cutting measures.

However, a change in government in 2010 led to the existing school building programmes at the time being axed and the Priority School Building Programme being introduced in 2011, with baseline design guidelines and the aim to make school construction more cost - effective.

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The shadow climate and energy minister, Clive Lewis, said: «The prime minister promised the greenest government ever but he is axing carbon capture, cutting energy efficiency, blocking wind power, threatening the solar industry and selling off the green bank.

Tasmania, which has a far higher percentage of renewable electricity than any other state, has been hurt by the Abbott Government's axing of the carbon tax.

Only government and government scientists can establish what individuals should be allowed to consume simply because they are not concerned with wages or profits as the rest of us are; they are therefore the only people who have no bias or ax to grind.

Apart from the advisability of bringing the province's lawyers on side, Bryant wants to ensure that any new commission has non-governmental funding to make it more difficult for it to be axed in the future by a hostile government, at least according to a report in The Toronto Star a few days ago.

The media ran stories such as: «Federal government to end «zombie laws,» clean up Criminal Code» and «Federal government to axe «zombie laws» from Canada's Criminal Code» — except there was no real cleanup and not all zombie laws were axed.

The Consumers Health Forum has put out a statement arguing that this final COAG Reform Council report demonstrates why the Government should think twice about axing the Council.

Two important reports on Indigenous health were released today amid continuing fears about the future of independent reporting and accountability on health and welfare in Australia in the wake of the axing and merger of key Federal Government agencies.