Sentences with phrase «of federal parliament»

I recently (about five or six weeks ago) asked a very influential Member of the Federal Parliament to have one of his researchers look into the possibilty of a behind - the - scenes collaboration vis a vis Lawrence Dale and Ms Aitken.

This was particularly relevant in the early days of native title, where we heard claims by Members of the Federal Parliament that native title directly threatened the backyards and homes of ordinary Australians.

Reflecting this, the Prime Minister should continue to report to the Parliament and the nation on efforts to «close the gap» (including in relation to health outcomes) on the opening day or the first session of federal Parliament each year.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission was established in 1986 by an Act of the federal Parliament.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986 (HREOC Act) is a law of the federal Parliament that establishes the Commission.

The case concerned a law of the federal Parliament, the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act 1997 (Cth), and whether the constitutional power under which it was enacted supported legislation which clearly disadvantaged a particular racial group.

Senator Aden Ridgeway, the second ever Indigenous member of Federal Parliament, played a role in preparing the final proposal that went to referendum.

Today, on the first day of Federal Parliament, national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership organisations delivered a strong message to Prime Minister Turnbull, his government and -LSB-...]

Note that on 26 August 1999 both houses of federal Parliament passed a motion of reconciliation, which in addition to identifying reconciliation as an important national priority, expressed «deep and sincere regret» for «practices of past generations»: Hansard, House of Representatives, 26 August 1999, p 9205.

The High Court examined section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution (the race power) in the case of Kartinyeri v The Commonwealth [1998] HCA 22 specifically in relation to a law of the federal Parliament, the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act 1997 (Cth), and whether the constitutional power under which it was enacted supported legislation that clearly disadvantaged a particular racial group.

While the apology should be specific to stolen generations, it should also affirm the commitment of the federal Parliament to partnerships with Indigenous peoples and to continuing to work to address the legacy of the stolen generations.

That the federal government amend the Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1973 (Cth) to require: - The Commonwealth Grants Commission to conduct a biennial inquiry into Indigenous funding (from an absolute needs perspective); and - A joint committee of the federal Parliament to examine the Commission's report and, following consultation with Indigenous organizations, recommend any actions required to improve Commonwealth service delivery to Indigenous people.

Section 26C determinations do not require the approval of the federal Parliament.

Sections 26A and 26B are disallowable instruments and so must receive also the approval of the federal Parliament.

These were the subject of a determination by the Commonwealth Attorney - General and passed the scrutiny of the federal Parliament on 12 December 2000 when the time to lodge a disallowance motion expired.

Her office also provides expert legislative drafting services to Senators to assist them in their constitutional mandate to deliberate and legislate on all matters that fall within the legislative authority of the federal Parliament.

[87] Finally, an interpretation of «telephonically» that refers back to the underlying system of transmission also respects the legislative authority of the federal Parliament, and defines telephonic by reference to the limits of Parliament's constitutional authority.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was formed in 1908 by an Act of the Federal Parliament.

A colleague told me recently he decided to become a scientist 30 years ago when a lecturer in Australian universities was paid about the same as a backbench member of Federal parliament.

approval of a referendum bill, containing the proposed amendment, by an absolute majority in each house of the federal parliament; and then

My first encounter with Romario de Souza Faria was in the life - drainingly dull confines of Committee Room Number Four of the Federal Parliament in Brasilia.

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.

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 tax.

But looking back over Flaherty's six budgets, it is increasingly clear that he doesn't have much of a clue what he would do with the federal treasury if he were freed from the political constraints of a minority parliament.

It is increasingly clear that Jim Flaherty doesn't have much of a clue what he would do with the federal treasury if he were freed from a minority parliament.

As such, the document marked both the belated return of Parliament and the unofficial start to a federal election campaign that is still two years away.

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.

It is assumed that part of this increase is offset by the changes to the federal and members of Parliament pension plans, although one would have expected these savings to be included under «Policy Decisions».

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.

CGCC members will also spend the day on Parliament Hill to meet with federal ministers and share their point of view on Canada's International Airports Policy.

With Parliament off on its winter break and a lack of any news out of Ottawa, speculation has started on the timing of the upcoming federal budget and what it may include.

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.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

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.

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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.

She also worked with federal Members of Parliament at a House of Commons research bureau.

Because the National Energy Board reports to Parliament and its members via the Ministry of Natural Resources, which in turn acts as an advocate for resource development within the federal government.

In 2013, the federal government continued, as in the past, to show its ideological arrogance; its unwillingness to confront major economic challenges; its disdain for Parliament; its aversion to openness and transparency; its rejection of a federal role in working with the provinces to strengthen the Federation; and its inability to adopt evidence based policy.

The vote was taken in the Bundestag in Berlin during the last session of the German parliament before federal elections in September.

«Our alumni are in leadership positions on all continents: starting schools and even universities (for example Wyoming Catholic College), running pro-life programmes and post-abortion healing programmes (in the US, throughout Europe, and even in China), entering in politics (an Austrian graduate from our MMF program, Gudrun Kugler, is now a member of the Austrian Federal Parliament and she is in charge of women's, family and human rights issues).