Sentences with phrase «successful referendum in»

Commissioner Gooda committed to working closely with Australia's political leaders and the people of Australia over the next three years to achieve a successful referendum in 2013 to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution.

Bruce Harrington, a brother of one of the Golden State Killer's victims, had also focused on DNA, helping pass a successful referendum in 2004 that required the collection of DNA from anyone arrested on a felony charge, the Sacramento Bee reports in a separate story.

The last successful referendum in District 64 was in 1972.

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The Glen Ellyn and Oak Brook Park Districts will proceed with a lawsuit Wednesday against the Du Page County Board of Election Commissioners despite a successful petition drive in Glen Ellyn to place three alternative referendum questions on the ballot.

The outcome was the successful 1975 «Save The Parks» referendum which authorized the Park District to increase the corporate tax rate from.125 % to.175 %, increase the recreation tax rate from.075 % to.12 %, and issue $ 537,000 in bonds for deferred maintenance projects and construction of a maintenance garage at Frontier Park.

And as the district marks its anniversary, officials point to high satisfaction ratings in a survey of patrons and a balanced, $ 16 million budget as signs that the district is successful — despite a tax referendum that failed in April.

And in absolute numbers Theresa May has been the most successful in attracting the other side of the referendum debate to her campaign.

Professor Kevin Theakston, at the University of Leeds, said: «For all his achievements as a successful coalition prime minister, David Cameron's reputation and place in history seems destined to be defined by Brexit and his calling and losing the referendum.»

Following a successful «yes» vote in a local referendum, a directly elected mayor is established to replace the council leader.

It's a big ask, but one that, with the right design and preparation, can make for a successful event with everyone being able to take all the information home with them in order to revisit it with fresh minds during the two weeks leading up to the referendum.

Following on from their successful referendum campaign in Thurrock - turnout was higher than in the recent local elections - The People's Pledge campaign have announced further referendums, to be held in 3 contiguous seats.

That agreement and a successful referendum on the 2013 statewide ballot made it possible for Wilmorite and others to compete for casino licenses elsewhere in New York.

He served as the Campaign Director of Vote Leave, the official and successful campaign in favour of leaving the European Union for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016.

She has been highly successful - much to the dismay of people like myself - in using this to present hard Brexit as the only intuitive response to the referendum result.

September 1997 - After unsuccessful vote in 1979, second attempt at referendum is successful.

«If the Yes side aren't successful in this referendum I will have serious reservations about rushing back, as it will be a clear message that the perception of a modern, forward thinking Ireland is an illusion.»

Boris Tadić has advocated an early presidential election that is required under constitutional law, since the adoption of the new Constitution of Serbia, after the successful constitutional referendum in October 2006.

The prime minister is committed to holding an EU referendum in 2017, but only after a successful renegotiation.

If the petition is successful there would be a referendum that only leads to a by - election if a majority of constituents voted in favour of it.

James began his career working for Business for Sterling, the successful campaign against British membership of the European single currency, and he managed the No campaign against the proposed North East Regional Assembly in the 2004 referendum, which won an upset landslide against the government - backed Yes Campaign.

He was the most successful Referendum Party candidate in the 1997 general election, winning nearly 10 percent of the vote in Harwich.

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Speaking at the G7 summit in Germany, Mr Cameron said: «If you want to be part of the Government you have to take the view that we are engaged in an exercise of renegotiation to have a referendum and that will lead to a successful outcome.

In the One Wales coalition agreement on 27 June 2007 the Wales Labour Party and Plaid Cymru made the commitment «to proceed to a successful outcome of a referendum for full law - making powers under Part IV of the Government of Wales Act 2006 as soon as practicable, at or before the end of the Assembly term».

If you want to be part of the government you have to take the view that we are engaged in an exercise of renegotiation to have a referendum and that will lead to a successful outcome.

He continued to be central to the pro devolution cause and was the leader of the Liberal Democrat campaign in the successful Welsh devolution referendum, 1997.

Amidst boiling tensions over an upcoming public referendum that, if successful, would alter the mayor's powers, Norman Rosenblum, the village of Mamaroneck's Republican mayor, will sue three Democrats on the Board of Trustees over alleged breaches in the New York state Open Meetings Law.

Fortunately in my opinion David Cameron and Nick Clegg insist the coalition government will survive the AV referendum, because in my opinion a successful coalition is what will most materially improve the chances of a «Representative House of Commons» becoming a reality.

I found The Divine Order to be a genial portrait of the kinds of diverse women who may have helped bring about a successful referendum on what seems surprising for a Western democracy in the late 20th century: the right to vote.

The DPI estimates the statewide cost of this bill to be a maximum of $ 21.8 million in 2019, depending on whether nine additional school districts going to referendum this spring are successful.

For example, DeVos and her husband bankrolled the successful 2004 ballot referendum in Michigan banning gay marriage.

2008 University of California - Berkeley graduate Rachel Barge also won a Brower Youth Award, though her efforts were focused closer to home: She helped lead the successful Green Initiative Fund, in which students passed a referendum supporting a $ 5 - per - student tuition increase that gave the school an additional $ 200,000 each year to put toward green projects.

While this is, from a legal point of view, a highly interesting case with regard to the relationship between EU law and international law, it amounts, more practically speaking, to good news for all those in search of shelter from violence - ridden regions on a continent marked by an increasing reluctance to welcome foreigners (note most recently the successful Swiss referendum on limiting mass immigration).

In Elkamet Kunststofftechnik GmbH v Saint - Gobain Glass France S.A. [2016] EWHC 3421 (Pat)-- involving a successful German claimant — the court was asked to make an additional costs order due to the decline in the exchange rate between the pound and the euro since the proceedings were launched and, in particular, since the referenduIn Elkamet Kunststofftechnik GmbH v Saint - Gobain Glass France S.A. [2016] EWHC 3421 (Pat)-- involving a successful German claimant — the court was asked to make an additional costs order due to the decline in the exchange rate between the pound and the euro since the proceedings were launched and, in particular, since the referenduin the exchange rate between the pound and the euro since the proceedings were launched and, in particular, since the referenduin particular, since the referendum.

Some of these entities are already known to have been AggregateIQ customers, and most of them were groups active in the successful «Leave» campaign in the run - up to the UK's 2016 «Brexit» referendum, in which the country voted to exit the European Union.

work towards a successful referendum that recognises the special place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in our nation

It is a welcome development that recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution maintains cross party support - as I reported in my Social Justice Report 2010, [50] maintaining this support is a critical factor in achieving a successful referendum.

«We look forward to working in collaboration with the government, the parliament, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and all Australians to build the consensus necessary to progress the nation towards a successful referendum and the best outcomes for reconciliation,» said Mr Mohamed.

The dates commemorate two significant milestones in the Reconciliation journey — the anniversaries of the successful 1967 referendum and the High Court Mabo decision.

During the next two years, I commit myself to working closely with our political leaders and, more importantly, the people of Australia to achieve a successful referendum, both as part of the Expert Panel, and in my capacity as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.