Sentences with phrase «new federal parliament»

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.

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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.

They might then next want to turn their research to federal Liberal and New Democrat Members of Parliament — because the evidence of their political death wish is now well documented.

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

All this has a raft of significant consequences: a new parliament and government for England, a written constitution defining the powers of the two tiers, endowment of the Supreme Court with powers to interpret and enforce the federal constitution, transformation of the House of Lords into a federal Senate, negotiation of a framework for revenue allocation, and much more.

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

Speaking at the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN) project launch held in Abuja on 1st February, Karlsen said all objectives of the new initiative were anchored on the federal government's priorities, while also building on the recommendations of the EU Election Observation Mission which visited the country in 2015, followed by another visit led by Mr. Santiago Fisas, a member of the European Parliament last October.

Unlike the UKIP demand for a federal UK based on Little England as a fortress outside the European Union, Greens and progressives should seize this historic moment to argue for a new constitutional and democratic compact, with electoral reform, including proportional representation for both houses of parliament, greater participatory democracy in the regions, and a written constitution with a citizens bill of rights.

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

The most important thing to understand about the federal government's new National Energy Guarantee is that it is designed not to produce a sustainable and reliable electricity supply system for the future, but to meet purely political objectives for the current term of parliament.

The primary mission is for the third way to gain the balance of power of federal parliaments wherever possible and sending a new age of national representatives to the annual COP meetings and to the United Nations.

If the Federal Government is wanting to continue demonstrating its commitment towards closing the life expectancy gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country, then firstly we must ensure that any new budget announcements to support this work are highlighted in parliament and not just placed on the Treasury website for those interested in budget detail to find out for themselves.