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| | Australian Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Rather than being modelled after the House of Lords, as the Canadian Senate was, the Australian Senate was in part modelled after the United States Senate and French Senate. | | | The Australian Senate serves as a model for some politicians in Canada, particularly in the Western provinces, who wish to reform the Canadian Senate to take a more active legislative role. | | | Because each state elects 6 senators at each half-senate election, and the quota for election is only 14.7%, some states have upwards of 70 candidates on their ballot papers, and the voter must individually number every single candidate for a "below the line" vote to count. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Senate
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia - The Senate |
| | Normally, one-half of the Senators from each state are elected every three years, along with all territory Senators, for a total of forty contested Senate seats on a half-Senate election. | | | In each state and territory, Senate seats are awarded to candidates who attain the state or territory quota, calculated by dividing the number of formal first preference votes cast in the state or territory by one more than the number of seats to be filled, and then adding one to the result. | | | The Australian Senate is composed of 76 members: twelve from each one of Australia's six states, and two from each of the country's two internal territories. |
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http://electionresources.org/au/senate.html
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| | Julian McGauran makes rude gesture to Australian Senate - Wikinews |
| | Later the President of the Senate ruled that the gesture was "unseemly but not obscene"[2]. | | | Whilst this was not immediately debated, Senator Bob Brown had asked the Acting Deputy President of the Senate to look into the matter[1]. | | | Senator Chris Evans, the Labor Senate leader and Senator Brown had called for McGauran's sacking as Chief Government whip; his National Party superiors have said that they will speak to McGauran about the incident. |
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Julian_McGauran_makes_rude_gesture_to_Australian_Senate
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| | PEO resources: Parliament House: the building |
| | Senators and members can be appointed by the Governor-General as Ministers of State (Section 64 of the Constitution). | | | The Senate seats 76 Senators, though there are empty seats for future increases in the number of Senators. | | | The Government Senators sit to the right of the President of Senate. |
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http://www.peo.gov.au/resources/building.html
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| | PlanetPapers - Power of the Australian Senate |
| | The Senate is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament. | | | Secondly, the Senate is not a monolithic voting block systematically thwarting the wishes of government. | | | The instruments the Founding Fathers chose to provide maximum protection for the People and the States were the Crown, the Senate, the High Court (with an Appeal to the Privy Council), and the Constitution. |
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http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/4149.php
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| | The Australian Democrats - CHANGE POLITICS - Keeping The Senate Strong |
| | Senator Helen Coonan has been published extensively on the matter of senate reform on ways to alter the voting system for electing Senators to make it easier for major parties (or rather the government of the day). | | | What the Senate is currently stopping is the government making medicines and education more expensive, the Senate is stopping them making life more difficult for the disabled, the Senate is stopping an erosion of civil liberties and an undermining of workers rights. | | | The Senate provides a check on government and the ruthless exercise of power by the government of the day. |
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http://www.democrats.org.au/campaigns/strong_senate/about.htm
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| | Australian Senate, 21 October 1999 |
| | Senator Alston also stated that we approve of offensive material being forced on children and adults and that we are the cause of a problem the Internet Industry Association and the Government have in negotiating a code of practice. | | | The committee reminds the Senate that, in matters of this nature, it does not judge the truth or otherwise of statements made by honourable senators or persons. | | | The persons Senator Alston quotes as not opposing the government's approach are generally persons outside Australia who will not be affected by the legislation. |
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http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/priv_ctee.html
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| | The President - In reply to the honourable senator's question I must advise him that I will not have the discussions with the Prime Minister which he requests. | | | By way of brief introduction I refer to a letter signed by a senior Minister of the present Government, Mr. | | | Debate 7th April 1976 - Senate of the Commonwealth of Australia |
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/HUTTRIVER/index9.html
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| | Australia Revokes Scott Parkin's Visa - SourceWatch |
| | Senator Stott Despoja, "Speech: MR SCOTT PARKIN (http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?ID=2242613andTABLE=HANSARDS)", Senate Hansard, September 15, 2005. | | | On the morning that Parkin was due to be deported the Australian Senate debated a motion by Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown, urging the government to provide an explanation on the reasons for the revocation of Parkin's visa. | | | Senator Joe Ludwig, "Speech: MR SCOTT PARKIN (http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb/view_document.aspx?ID=2242605andTABLE=HANSARDS)", Senate Hansard, September 15, 2005. |
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Australia_Revokes_Scott_Parkin's_Visa
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| | Australian Senate Discussion of the Blunn Report |
| | Senator SCHACHT—Mr Brady, at the estimates hearings in February I asked you a question in relation to the Jenkins case. | | | Senator Kemp—This must be the first time that Senator Schacht has exceeded the limit time. | | | Senator SCHACHT—Has the American defense department or the secretary of the department of state made any formal comment to Australia about the circumstances of Mr Jenkins’ investigation, his death and the subsequent report of the Blunn inquiry that this is embarrassing to our powerful and friendly allies, the United States of America? |
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http://ftp.die.net/mirror/cryptome/blunn-rep2.htm
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| | Australian Senate to Sell Telstra Stake (phillyBurbs.com) General |
| | Senate President Paul Culvert said the vote was 37 to 35 to approve the sale of the 51.8 percent government stake in Australia's biggest privatization. | | | CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian Senate voted to sell the government's controlling stake in Telstra Corp. on Wednesday, clearing the major hurdle for the privatization of the former state-owned telecommunications monopoly. | | | The government had long hoped to divest itself of Australia's largest telecommunications company but has been thwarted in the Senate in the past by opposition lawmakers who argued services outside major cities would suffer once Telstra was out of government hands. |
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http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/24-09142005-540984.html
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| | Right-wing Christian party may gain the balance of power in Australian Senate |
| | He is poised to win a Senate seat and, if the government fails to win an outright majority, could hold the balance of power in the upper house. | | | The fact that Fielding is likely to win a Senate seat—ahead of the Greens—is the outcome of Australia& anti-democratic preferential voting system and the backroom vote-swapping deals carried out by the major parties. | | | The voting system is particularly pernicious in the Senate. |
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http://wsws.org/articles/2004/oct2004/fafi-o16.shtml
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| | The Southern Cross Group: Working for change for the Australian Diaspora |
| | The Australian Senate's Legal and Constitutional References Committee finally tabled its Report in the Inquiry into Australian Expatriates in Canberra on 8 March 2005. | | | In the meantime, at the initiative of the Australian Democrats, the Senate has referred the Australian Citizenship Bill 2005 to a dedicated Inquiry, to be conducted by the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee. | | | This recommendation, if and when it becomes law, would provide access to Australian citizenship for the children of some 2,000 Australian-born Maltese citizens in Malta. |
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http://www.southern-cross-group.org
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| | Democratic Underground Forums - (Australian) Senate passes Iraq no confidence motion |
| | There is much discussion about the role of the Senate in Canadian politics because Prime Ministers frequently use an appointment to the Senate as a reward for services rendered to the PMs particular political party. | | | In Canada, for example, our Senators are appointed (not elected) by the government of the day as seats become vacant. | | | Sometimes when a long time MP looses his seat in the House of Commons, the PM will reward him for his faithful service with an appointment to the Senate. |
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=13429&forum=DCForumID61
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| | Chairman Senate also briefed the visiting Australian delegation about Pakistan’s Parliamentary system, women’s participation in socio-economic development, devolution plan, local government system and Pakistan’s role in the war against terrorism. | | | The dinner was attended by a number of Federal Minister’s, Parliamentarians, High Commissioner of Australia and senior officials. | | | Islamabad, Sept 27 : Australian Parliamentary delegation led by Mr. |
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http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Sep05/27/07.htm
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| | Australian Senate condemns Famine-Genocide (11/16/03) |
| | CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian Senate on October 30 passed a motion condemning Stalin's action in bringing about an act of genocide by creating the Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, calling it one the most heinous acts of genocide in history. | | | The motion reiterates the fact that the Famine was an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation," said Stefan Romaniw, chairman of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations. | | | Kaye Darveniza, parliamentary secretary to the premier of Victoria, raised the Famine issue in the State Parliament, commemorating the death of many millions and offering support for the current commemoration program. |
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http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2003/460302.shtml
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| | The Parliament of Australia: A Bibliography: Parliamentary_Organization/Senate |
| | "Senate Is Not the House of States." Canberra Times, 21 November 1998: C7. | | | "The Australian Senate in its Second Century." Representation 37, 2 (2000): 139-145. | | | "The Senate Evolving into a House of Information, Knowledge, Minorities." Australian FinancialReview, November 20, 1970, pp. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~librcsd/bib/australia_parliament/Parliamentary_Organization/Senate/more3.html
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| | A Request to the Australian Senate to Support Mine Action Petition |
| | The A Request to the Australian Senate to Support Mine Action Petition to The Australian Senate was created by The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (NSW) and written by Michael Elphick. | | | A Request to the Australian Senate to Support Mine Action Petition | | | A Request to the Australian Senate to Support Mine Action |
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http://www.petitiononline.com/mjebsb1/petition.html
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| | Echelon: Senator Brown's questions |
| | (Tasmania) (6.47 p.m.) --I congratulate Senator Cooney for that speech and particularly for his concern that there is a tendency for legislative creep in this act and his concern that we have to be very vigilant about legislation like this, which is the reason I do not support it. | | | I am asking the minister whether this is the case. | | | The Senate committee was not privy to this information. |
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| | theage.com.au - The Age |
| | The Senate vote was non-binding, but senators said it reflected deep community division over the war. | | | But the Senate instead passed a historic motion 37-32 to condemn the war and call for the immediate return of Australian troops. | | | Prime Minister John Howard last night called for Australians to get behind the 2000 troops in Iraq as the Senate delivered an unprecedented vote condemning the war and demanding the forces come home. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/20/1047749880719.html
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| | Australian Senate Inquiry re Cell Phone technology |
| | Our inquiry has been voted for in the senate. | | | Contacts: Justin O'Brien on 0411 473 697, Senator Lyn Allison 0407 691 512 | | | "This will also be an opportunity for the Senate to scrutinise the expenditure of the Commonwealth's $4.5 million fund for research into and information on EME and to look at the latest research in Australia and overseas," Senator Allison concluded. |
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http://www.emfguru.org/CellPhone/Australian-senate.html
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| | Australian Senate Passes Content Legislation |
| | Under new amendments, private e-mail will not fall under the scope of the regime but news group postings and mail lists are to be censored. | | | A community advisory body will support the ABA's role, an initiative requested by Senator Harradine on Monday, although the nature and membership of this body have not been detailed. | | | According to Senator Alston, the new amended Bill now: |
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/print.php/127271
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| | Australian Senate supports Govt over Iraq |
| | Senator Stott Despoja said there were insufficient grounds for Australia to support a first strike and the Government must support diplomatic endeavours. | | | But the urgency motion lost 11-57, with the seven Democrats, two Greens and Len Harris (ON, Qld) and Meg Lees (Ind, SA), defeated by the Government and Labor. | | | "We do not believe the case has yet been made as would warrant a direct attack from the United States on Iraq," Opposition Senate Leader John Faulkner said. |
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| | Update 2: Australian Senate Inquiry Opens on Telstra - Forbes.com |
| | Australian government attempts to boost competition in the telecommunications industry as part of its push to privatize former state-run monopoly Telstra Corp. will have the opposite effect, the company said Friday. | | | McKenzie sought in the senate to reassure rural voters that Telstra wants to abandon them. | | | Joyce's vote is considered key for the Telstra sale bills to win passage through the Senate upper house, where Howard's government has a single-seat majority. |
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http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2005/09/09/ap2215174.html
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| | REFUGEES: Australian Senate Wants Immigration Jail Closed |
| | CANBERRA, Jun 20 (IPS) - The Australian Senate has backed a motion that would result in the closure of the government-funded immigration prison on Nauru, where 46 mostly Afghani people, including four children, have been held for almost four years awaiting decisions on their application for refugee status. | | | While the government backs keeping the Nauru centre open, its senators did not speak against the motion. | | | Last Friday Australian Prime Minister John Howard sought to defuse a rebellion by several of his own backbenchers by announcing a series of procedural reforms to speed up decisions on applications for refugee status from up to 10,500 people, including over 900 still held in immigration prisons in Australia. |
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http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=29138
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| | Bastards Inc.: Australian Senate in grave danger. Apparently. |
| | Q: Are the Australian voters that elected for conservative control of both houses of federal parliament, | | | Specious arguments to justify a position against the will of the majority of Australian voters. | | | A quick flick to another one of their polls on that very subject returned the decisive result that the issue of gay marriage should be neutralised and that Labor was right to vote with Howard in the senate. |
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http://bastardsinc.blogs.com/bastardsinc/2005/06/australian_sena.html
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| | Portal:Australia - Wikinews |
| | Australian Senate inquiry to new anti-terrorism laws to take place in one day | | | Australia's ABC head Levy leaves for "Channel Nine" | | | Constitutional challenge to secret trials in Australian courts |
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| | The Australian: Senate probe on Iraq interrogations (archived) |
| | Labor Senate leader Chris Evans said the Government had been misleading the Australian public for nearly a year. | | | The committee must report back to the Senate by June 21. | | | The Opposition, Australian Democrats and Australian Greens joined forces to ram through an inquiry against strong government objections, using their combined majority before the Government gains control of the Senate on July 1. |
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12484781^1702,00.html
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Australian viewers pick Senate candidates |
| | They will each fight for a seat in the Senate at the next election, which could be just a few months away. | | | They have been chosen by viewers and will go on to fight for a seat as independents in the Senate. | | | The balance of power in the upper house of parliament is often held by minority parties and independents. |
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| | International News Australian Senate Delays Vote on Embryonic Stem Cell Research - Kaisernetwork.org |
| | "Barring any fresh delaying tactics," the Senate will likely vote on the provision tomorrow afternoon after discussion of the amendments ends, according to | | | Australian Sen. Ian Campbell, leader of government business in the Senate, today proposed a motion that would tag the legislation as "urgent" and would mandate that the discussion of amendments would conclude by 12:45 p.m. | | | The House in September approved the legislation 99-33, and the Senate is also expected to pass the bill, although the vote could be "close," according to various recent newspaper polls (Holland, |
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| | Australian-Senate-EMR-Inquiry-(Maisch)-- |
| | At the end of this message is a brief outline of two of the several foreign language reports that have been submitted to the Senate Inquiry. | | | To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org Subject: The Australian Senate EMR Inquiry declines to consider foreign language submissions Dear Roy Now that your back, here's an update to the Australian Senate EMR Inquiry. | | | This closed for submissions on 16 June and they were received before that date. |
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http://www.wave-guide.org/archives/emf-l/Jun2000/Australian-Senate-EMR-Inquiry-(Maisch)--.html
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| | Directory of Archives in Australia - Australian Senate |
| | To ensure that the records of the Senate are retained in accordance with the standing orders of the Senate. | | | Access to records not usually available for research requires prior approval of the Clerk of the Senate. | | | Directory of Archives in Australia - Australian Senate |
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| | The Epoch Times Australian Senate Inquiry into Espionage Debacle |
| | Former Chinese diplomat Mr Chen Yonglin has told a Senate inquiry that his life was endangered when immigration officials insisted on phoning the Chinese consulate to confirm his identity. | | | In another instance, a delegate from the Chinese consulate had threatened a minor political party and its supporters over their choice of a state election candidate, directly interfering with the democratic process in Australia. | | | No reference has yet been made by the Australian government of any obligation to ensure the safety of Mr Chen and his family. |
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| | Australian Senate rejects Timor war crimes tribunal |
| | "On the other hand, we do know that the new president of Indonesia, Megawati Sukarnoputri, has set up a new process which will broaden the scope of the special Indonesian court's work in investigating human rights violations in East Timor in the lead-up to the 1999 referendum," Senator Cook said. | | | Senator Brown said the Senate lacked in nerve and morality. | | | Subject: AAP: Australian Senate rejects Timor war crimes tribunal |
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| | ABC Asia Pacific - News - Australian senate passes Telstra sale legislation |
| | Another militant sentenced to death over Australian embassy blast » | | | The legislation was passed after the government secured the support of Nationals Party senator, Barnaby Joyce. | | | Although Senator Joyce is a member of Prime Minister John Howard's Liberal-National coalition government, he had expressed concerns about the sale and its effect on rural areas. |
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http://www.abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1460448.htm
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| | Parliament of Australia: Department of the Senate: Homepage |
| | The Senate will next sit on 7 February to 9 February 2006 | | | For general information about the Senate and the Senate's web site, see Introduction to the Senate. | | | The Senate Daily Summary is a convenient summary of each day’s proceedings in the Senate. |
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| | Senator Marise Payne: Report of the JSCFADT Human Rights Sub-Committee |
| | "I maintain that detention centres are no places for women and children..." (Asylum Seeker Policy - Response to Senator Hutchins, 13 February 2002) | | | Tabled by Senator Marise Payne, Senator for New South Wales (Chair) on Monday 13 October 2003 | | | Senator Marise Payne: Report of the JSCFADT Human Rights Sub-Committee |
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http://www.safecom.org.au/HR-subcommittee.htm
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| | Welcome to AANZA.org : News : Article Details |
| | The Senate Committee must report to Parliament by 1 September 2004 under the Inquiry's terms of reference. | | | More than 670 submissions have been received by the Australian Senate's Legal and Constitutional References Committee as part of its Inquiry into the Australian Diaspora. | | | We understand that the Senate Committee is presently digesting the many submissions and other background material it has received, and that in due course, dates will be set for a number of hearings as part of the inquiry. |
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http://www.aanza.org/news_view.asp?id=61
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| | ACS - CAB - ELSIC - Submission to the Senate Committee on IT on regulation of the Internet |
| | ACS - CAB - ELSIC - Submission to the Senate Committee on IT on regulation of the Internet | | | This submission is to the Australian Senate Committee on Information Technology (SCIT) and relates to the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill 1999. | | | The ACS has made it clear in the past to the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) and Senate Committees that we are not debating the pros and cons of Australia having a censorship regime, although this is a matter of strong concern for some individual ACS members. |
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| | Australian Senate Resolution on Vietnam's Human Rights |
| | Motion (by Senator Bourne, at the request of Senator Margetts and Senator Cook) agreed to: | | | (g) calls on the Australian Government to maintain an on-going and cooperative approach with the Government of Vietnam in dialogue on human rights issues. | | | (ii) the recent steps taken to improve the overall human rights situation in Vietnam, most notably the release of a number of people held in Vietnam for the peaceful expression of political or religious views under a Presidential Amnesty, including 13 people on whose behalf the Australian Government has expressed concern; |
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| | WEL Links 5: Women in Australian politics |
| | Women Senators and Members of the House of Representatives | | | - covers women in politics in general, including tables of women's political rights in selected national legislatures and Australia, a list of milestones, a list of women senators since 1902, a table of representation of women in Australian parliaments as of April 1995, and a list of print references | | | An excellent page covering the history of suffrage, women's entry into Parliament and appointment as office-bearers, women in Australian parliaments as of February 2000, and women in the Parliament of Victoria. |
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http://www.wel.org.au/links/wompol.htm
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