Sentences with phrase «labor party»

She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1999 to 2014, first representing Melbourne West Province.

Turnbull's conservative coalition has been resisting calls from the centre - left opposition Labor Party for such an inquiry for almost two years.

The Guardian reported on May 2nd that Opposition Labor Party leader, Bill Shorten, is now vowing to end the live export trade before the government review since «Labor sees no future for live sheep exports.»

In 1970, the Socialist Labor Party won a lawsuit against the Ohio ballot access law for minor parties.

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has accused new state Labor Party leader Peter Malinauskas of being captive to the retail workers» union that he ran before entering politics, as the two disagreed over plans to deregulate shop trading hours.

Melissa held the Federal seat of Fremantle for the Australian Labor Party from 2007 up until her retirement from politics in 2016.

homeland's treatment by the English, battlers who simply believed in a fair - go for all, varying types of dissenters (including dogged anti-Communist social democrats), plus some outright careerists, and you had a cross-section of any factionalised State Labor Party.

In the National Platform and Constitution, the Australian Labor Party committed to ensuring that NTRBs would be supported to enable them to freely advocate on behalf of the people they represent.

He worked at the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), before being elected to the Commonwealth Parliament as Australian Labor Party member for Macarthur in 1972.

In an effort to unseat American Labor Party congressman Vito Marcantonio, [2] in 1950, he ran for Congress on both the Democratic and Republican party ballot lines.

In 2014 the Victorian Labor Party promised to restrict the number of dogs kept by breeders in Victoria to 10 if the party wins.

In July 2015 the Australian Labor Party announced a policy of aiming at 50 % renewable energy by 2030.

Other labor leaders aligned with the governor have threatened to create a competing new labor party of their own, as Mr. Cuomo has himself urged labor leaders to stop giving money to liberal community groups backing Ms. Nixon.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

Israel had primary elections for the Israeli Labor Party delayed by 24 hours because of security concerns - it clashed with a Britney Spears concert, and the police couldn't provide security for both.

In the latest round of federal elections, the governing Labor Party promised to implement power plant emissions standards and carbon capture requirements for new coal - burning generators.

In preparation for the 2007 federal election, the Australian Labor Party promised to honour its commitment to implement a package of social justice measures in response to Mabo (No 2).

DO N'T be baffled by the latest bout of factional feuding within Western Australia's ruling Labor Party.

But Rudd's new carbon plan is reliant on his centre - left Labor Party winning national elections, due between late August and November, and receiving support from the minority Australian Greens party.

Earlier this year, in Australia, a Chinese billionaire reportedly threatened to withdraw an AUD$ 400,000 donation to the opposition Labor party after an Australian official took a hard line against the Chinese military's activities in the South China Sea.

Climate change accepters in the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party: This is the biggest unknown; I suspect that very few would admit being skeptics even if they believed that anthropogenic climate change was not happening.

18 May, 2016 Hospital soft drink ban a misguided measure that provides no solution Responding to calls from the NSW Labor Party to ban soft drinks from hospitals across New South Wales, Australian Beverages Council CEO, Geoff Parker said; «We'd like to support comments from the NSW Nursing and Midwives Association stating a widespread ban -LSB-...]

While Australian authorities work halfheartedly to rein in the vast «climate» apparatus spawned under Labor Party rule, the entire global - warming - alarmism industry appears to be on the verge of imploding.

This change has led to the rise of a number of minor parties such as the Democratic Labor Party, Australian Democrats and Australian Greens who have taken advantage of this system to achieve parliamentary representation and the balance of power.

The State Canvassing Board Tuesday formally cleared the way for a recount in the razor - thin Governor's race between Democratic Farmer Labor Party candidate Mark Dayton and Republican state lawmaker Tom Emmer.

In 2013, Australia's conservative party won control of Parliament, ousting a progressive Labor Party majority.

The origins of the gang date back to the early»60s, when Edward Seaga, a Jamaican politician belonging to the country's conservative Jamaican Labor Party (JLP) decided to embark on a project of urban renewal in the capital city of Kingston.

On ABC Australia's «Q and A» — their equivalent of the UK's Question Time — Brendan O'Neill, Editor of Spiked - Online, called Labor Party MP, Tanya Plibersek up on her naked fear - mongering.

The pressure on the Australian Labor Party at a state and federal level to allow expanded uranium mining is building as fast as the uranium price is rising and new explorers are pouring into the market.

The Victorian Labor Party rejected an offer of a preference deal from the Greens for the November 29 state election.

Meanwhile back here on planet Earth; where no one, (not even someone such as myself with a lifelong interest in politics,) has ever heard of either Jeremy Corbyn or Angela Eagle much before last week, the Ivory tower jibe chimes very much in tune with my own previous assessment of a now all but completely defunct Labor party completely out of touch with the public at large and with broader opinion, and out to lunch.

Following the release of the bleaching report on Monday, Australian politicians — who are in the midst of an election campaign — jumped on the issue, with the opposition Labor Party pledging to create a $ 500 million fund for better management and research of the reef.

BEN Wyatt's failed attempt to wrest the leadership of the WA Labor Party from Eric Ripper continues to generate significant fallout.

To his reflexive homo faber they are animal laborans, their democratic - farmer - labor party full of all - too - human beasts of burden, working the yoke beneath preposterously too - high piles of individuality.

Clinton's Israeli ties were with the secular Labor Party, led by Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, not with the conservative Likud Party.

The various labor party governments surpass the conservative right forces in the application of radical neo-liberal programs.

In this period, the immediate target of Von Hayek is the English Labor Party.

The federal Labor Party responded to the program by calling on the Abbott government to investigate exploitation in the 417 holiday visa program.

Meanwhile, the Queensland Labor Party looks on, astonished that Rudd, a «native son», could not postpone his long - planned revenge against Gillard until after their state election campaign.

Australia uses British English for their spelling, which spells labour as in physical work, with a «u», where the Australian Labor Party spells it without a «u».

The revolving door at the top of the Australian Labor Party continues to spin, with ex-Foreign (and Prime) Minister, Kevin Rudd, challenging the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, for her job on Monday morning.

The National Republican Congressional Committee spent over $ 700,000 on the race, while the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Minnesota Democratic - Farmer - Labor Party spent a total of $ 577,000 on the race.

Labor Party officials employed a market research firm to conduct the polling, telling voters that Tate was the Labor mayor of Newcastle, when in fact he was not.

In the 1930s, socialist trade unionists formed the American Labor Party here basically to give people on the far left a way to support FDR and the New Deal without pulling the Democratic lever.

The Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Labor Party also nominated tickets.

Slightly over half of eligible Labor Party primary voters cast ballots in the party's leadership primaries by the time polls closed at 10 p.m. Thursday, already leading to worries in Yachimovich's camp that the low turnout could unseat her.

59 year - old Macklin worked on the staff of State and Federal Labor Party Ministers before her election to Federal Parliament in 1996.

A reaction to criticism that has become increasingly characteristic and typical of the post the Blair labor party.