Sentences with phrase «in federal parliament»

The Social Justice Report 2005 proposes that the Australian Health Minister's Conference agree to a National Commitment to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality and that bipartisan support for this commitment be sought in federal Parliament and in all state and territory parliaments.

Parliamentary apologies have also now been made in every State and Territory, and in the Federal Parliament.

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

The reports, which are tabled in federal Parliament, analyse the major changes and challenges in Indigenous affairs over the past year.

Yesterday in federal Parliament the Attorney - General tabled the Social Justice Report 2001, my annual review of the exercise of human rights by Indigenous Australians, and the Native Title Report 2001, my annual review of native title developments.

The final recommendation then recommended that the Australian Health Minister's Conference agree to a National Commitment to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality and that bi-partisan support for this commitment be sought in federal Parliament and in all state and territory parliaments.

Our theme is timely given the increasing number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people taking their places in Parliaments around the country, from Treasurer Ben Wyatt in Western Australia to Leeanne Enoch in Queensland, and our representation across party lines in the Federal Parliament.

The Social Justice Commissioner is required to report annually to the Attorney - General on the exercise and enjoyment of the human rights of Indigenous peoples in the Social Justice Report which is tabled in the federal Parliament.

[28] Once in the Federal Parliament, Senator Ridgeway soon found himself representing Indigenous Australians as much as the Australian Democrats.

While the outcome should provide the Government with the evidence they need that the community supports marriage equality, a Bill now needs to be introduced and debated in Federal Parliament, which could take weeks or months to resolve.

That the Australian Health Minister's Conference agree a National Commitment to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality and that bi-partisan support for this commitment be sought in federal Parliament and in all state and territory parliaments.

Both Reports are tabled in federal Parliament.

In Federal Parliament, Labor Senator Nova Peris asked Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion if he stood by his claim the Government's decision to cut $ 500m from Indigenous funding would not have an impact on frontline services.

These reports are tabled in the federal parliament each year and are available on HREOC's website.

One of the most outstanding speeches in Federal Parliament this year came from Labor Member for Lindsay, Emma Husar, ahead of White Ribbon Day, where she spoke so movingly about her own fami... Read more

One of the most outstanding speeches in Federal Parliament this year came from Labor Member for Lindsay, Emma Husar, ahead of White Ribbon Day, where she spoke so movingly about her own family's experiences with family violence.

Both reports were tabled in the federal Parliament 6 weeks ago on 14 February 2006.

In his Social Justice and Native Title Report 2015, tabled this week in Federal Parliament, Gooda says Closing the Gap agreements should include targets on both child welfare and disability.

These reports were tabled in federal Parliament on the 20th March 2008.

This is, of course, material that was tabled in the federal Parliament in 2007.

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

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

Especially when they have seats in the Federal Parliament which will be granting him coal mines on prime agricultural land.

Paul Scully (Labor Member for Wollongong in the NSW Parliament), Steve Posselt (petition campaigner), Sharon Bird (Labor Member in the Federal Parliament) and George Takacs (Greens Councillor)

The leading National Party (the farmer's political party) members in federal parliament are still denialists, and refusing to support any GHG reduction measures.

«If you're thinking of buying something frivolous, like a yacht or a Mercedes, you might want to consider trading that for an experience that very few Canadians will ever have, which is to sit in the federal Parliament of Canada,» he says.

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

That was why, as early as November 1960 — one month after independence — North and East lobbies, in the federal Parliament in Lagos, were already dizzy with reckless talks about «abolishing» the West, because they hated Obafemi Awolowo's politics.

In Australia, there is the possibility that we may face a double dissolution in the Federal Parliament because one of the taxes that Tony Abbott promised to abolish was knocked back in the Senate.

Dictating the pace and pattern of political policy was Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Premier of the Northern Region who held sway in Kaduna as leader of the Northern Peoples Congress, NPC, the party that with its allies formed the largest bloc in the federal parliament.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Matt Kellway, the federal NDP Member of Parliament for Beaches - East York will be adding to Canadian efforts in Bangladesh as he accompanies media and labour reps from UNIFOR, CUPE, PSAC, the UFCW and USW there later this month.

Minister of Finance Bill Morneau is accompanied by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he makes his way to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 (Sean Kilpatrick / CP)

Bourses in Europe were lower Monday as investors took a cautious approach as they came to terms with a hung parliament in the U.K. and awaited a meeting of the Federal Reserve later this week.

In hopes of offsetting the external environmental and health costs of meat, federal agencies and councils in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden ---- as well as a member of parliament in England ---- are calling for a meat taIn hopes of offsetting the external environmental and health costs of meat, federal agencies and councils in Denmark, Germany, and Sweden ---- as well as a member of parliament in England ---- are calling for a meat tain Denmark, Germany, and Sweden ---- as well as a member of parliament in England ---- are calling for a meat tain England ---- are calling for a meat tax.

On November 27, 2008, Flaherty gave a fiscal update to parliament that took note of the economic storm clouds in the distance, but confidently suggested that the federal government's books would remain in the black in the year to come.

It may seem auspicious, coming as it does while the federal government ponders approval of China National Offshore Oil Co.'s $ 15 - billion purchase of Calgary - based Nexen, but the new investment agreement with China that is soon to be ratified in Parliament was actually 18 years in the making.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tables the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday March 21, 2013.

However, for the federal government, the Public Accounts must be tabled in Parliament.

Since this debate over pipelines began in earnest last Fall, Jason Kenney and others have been calling on the federal government to invoke clause 92 (10)(c) of the Constitution, which allows the federal government to exert authority over infrastructure such as pipelines which, «although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their Execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general Advantage of Canada or for the Advantage of Two or more of the Provinces.»

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.

Edmonton, AB — Matt Jeneroux, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Riverbend and co-chair of the Alberta Jobs Taskforce, today joined Nathan Cooper, interim leader of the United Conservative Party, and representatives from Restaurants Canada in Edmonton to highlight how Alberta's restaurant industry is being negatively impacted by federal and provincial policies that are increasing costs for local businesses.

For the next week, the federal Liberals will be holding their annual «Summer Caucus» in Edmonton and the party's 37 Members of Parliament be criss - crossing the Canadian West, hosting events, promoting local candidates and knocking on doors.

Twenty - one years ago, in a federal election that reshaped the Canadian political landscape, the Liberals swept Edmonton, electing Members of Parliament in four of the city's six federal ridings.

Ross Harvey (NDP leader, 1994 to 1996): The former NDP Member of Parliament was selected as leader of the seatless party shortly after he was unseated in the 1993 federal election.

The Liberal presence shrunk to five MLAs in last year's provincial election and the federal Liberals last successfully elected a candidate to Parliament from Alberta in the 2004 election.

Mr. Mills served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's federal parliament from 198Parliament in Canada's federal parliament from 198parliament from 1988 to 2004.

Readers may remember Ms. Kennedy - Glans for her unsuccessful bid to wrestle the Calgary - West federal Conservative nomination from ultra-conservative Member of Parliament Rob Anders in 2010.