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| | Australia (09/05) |
 | | Each state is headed by a premier, who is the leader of the party with a majority or a working minority in the lower house of the state legislature. | | | Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state and since 1973 has been officially styled "Queen of Australia." The Queen is represented throughout Australia by a governor general and in each state by a governor. | | | Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia. |
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| | Liberal Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While the party holds government federally, it does not in any of the states or territories. | | | In state politics, however, the reverse applies: the Liberals and Nationals are in opposition in all Australian states and territories. | | | In the 2004 Federal elections the party strengthened its majority in the Lower House and, with its coalition partners, became the first federal government in twenty years to gain an absolute majority in the Senate. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Liberal Party of Australia |
| | Since its foundation in 1945 it has been the dominant party of the centre-right in Australia and competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office, both at the federal level and in the Australian states and territories. | | | Raymond Steele Hall was Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970, Senator for South Australia from 1975 to 1977 and federal member for Boothby constituency from 1981 to 1996. | | | Australian republicanism is a movement within Australia to replace the countrys existing status as a Commonwealth realm under a constitutional monarchy with a republican form of government. |
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| | Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act - definition of Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act in Encyclopedia |
| | The Commonwealth uses this constitutional power in concert with its large revenues (relative to the States) to exert de facto control or significant influence in such areas as hospitals, main roads and education that would otherwise be solely within the State's legislative competence. | | | The referee in such disputes between the Commonwealth and the States is the High Court of Australia (established under Chapter III of the Constitution). | | | Conventions which evolved over the decades, defining how various constitutional articles should be viewed |
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| | .Republican Party of Australia Official Website |
| | We are a minority political party but we have members in all six States and the two Territories. | | | The first thing to clearly establish is that we are not the party political wing of the Australian Republican Movement (the ARM). | | | The RPA is an alternative voice for the "Thinking Voters" of Australia. |
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| | Australia Day. Celebrate what's great |
| | All States and Territories celebrate the 26 January as Australia Day | | | in 1946, the Commonwealth Government, States and Territories agreed to observe one national day 'Australia Day' under one banner and on the same day. | | | Governor Macquarie officiated at a thirty-gun salute during the day and a dinner ball at Government House that evening. |
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| | Australia (09/05) |
| | Australia's comparative advantage in primary products is a reflection of the natural wealth of the Australian continent and its small domestic market; 20 million people occupy a continent the size of the contiguous United States. | | | Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state and since 1973 has been officially styled "Queen of Australia." The Queen is represented throughout Australia by a governor general and in each state by a governor. | | | Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia. |
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| | Liberal Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While the party holds government federally, it does not in any of the states or territories. | | | The Liberal Party's organisation is dominated by the six state divisions, reflecting the party's original commitment to a federalised system of government (a commitment which was strongly maintained by all Liberal governments until 1983, but has been to a large extent abandoned by the Howard government, which has shown strong centralising tendencies). | | | In the 2004 Federal elections the party strengthened its majority in the Lower House and, with its coalition partners, became the first federal government in twenty years to gain an absolute majority in the Senate. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia
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| | Australia's Political System |
| | The parliaments and governments of states and self-governing territories are responsible for all matters not assigned to the Commonwealth. | | | Although Australia is an independent nation, the formal Head of State is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who is also the Queen of Australia. | | | Australia became a nation after the people of six self-governing colonies voted to unite and accept the Constitution which established the Commonwealth of Australia. |
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| | List of Australia-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Economy of Australia, Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories Eucalyptus | | | Australia, Australian birds, Australian Capital Territory, Australian Constitutional History, Australian cuisine, Australian Dollar, Australian electoral system, Australian fauna, Australian flora, Australian House of Representatives, Australian Labor Party, Australian public holidays, Australian Senate, Australian States and Territories | | | Paul Keating, Pauline Hansons One Nation, [Australian floraPlants]], Parliament of Australia, Politics of Australia, Perth, Australia, Prime Minister of Australia, Prisons, Protected areas of Australia |
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| | Australia Now - Australia's System of Government |
| | Governments of States and Territories are responsible for all matters not assigned to the Commonwealth. | | | Government is based on a popularly elected Parliament with two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate. | | | The Australian Constitution sets out the powers of government in three separate chapters for the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, but insists that members of the executive must also be members of the legislature. |
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| | Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia - The Senate |
| | 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. | | | However, in the event the Senate repeatedly fails to approve legislation passed by the House of Representatives, the Constitution of Australia provides for the dissolution of both houses of Parliament- a double dissolution - followed by elections for the House of Representatives and the full Senate. | | | 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. |
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| | Australia - Gurupedia |
| | Australia is divided into six states and several territories. | | | Until the passage of this act, Australian cases could be referred to the highest courts of Great Britain and even to the Privy Council for final appeal. | | | Australia's economic development was slow at first and based on the export of wool. |
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| | Australia (09/05) |
| | Australia's comparative advantage in primary products is a reflection of the natural wealth of the Australian continent and its small domestic market; 20 million people occupy a continent the size of the contiguous United States. | | | Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state and since 1973 has been officially styled "Queen of Australia." The Queen is represented throughout Australia by a governor general and in each state by a governor. | | | Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia. |
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| | globalEDGE (TM) country insights - Government of Australia |
| | Each state is headed by a premier, who is the leader of the party with a majority or a working minority in the lower house of the state legislature. | | | Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state and since 1973 has been officially styled "Queen of Australia." The Queen is represented throughout Australia by a governor general and in each state by a governor. | | | Australia's two self-governing territories have political systems similar to those of the states. |
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| | Reviews |
| | Australian Politics and Government: The Commonwealth, the States and the Territories | | | It is important to note that the chapters on the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, the two self-governing territories within the Commonwealth, present radically different contrasts in almost every aspect of the political and judiciary institutions. | | | Therefore each state and territorial government is by necessity idiosyncratic, as the study clearly testifies to, affording Australia nine different political forums within the Commonwealth itself. |
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| | Queen of Australia |
| | But without Australian legislation, the effect of s1 of the Australia Act would be to deny the extension of the United Kingdom law to the Commonwealth, the States and the Territories. | | | Therefore swearing allegiance to the Queen of Australia was the same as swearing allegiance to the Queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. | | | The point of immediate significance is that the circumstance that the same monarch exercises regal functions under the constitutional arrangements in the United Kingdom and Australia does not deny the proposition that the United Kingdom is a foreign power within the meaning of s 44(i) of the Constitution. |
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| | Australia Now - Australia's States and Territories |
| | Although Victoria is the smallest of the mainland States, it is the second most populous, and the most densely populated. | | | Australian State and Territory Offices: New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia | | | The Northern Territory was administered by the State of South Australia until it was placed under federal government control in 1911. |
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| | Government in Australia |
| | Covering the entire Nation the Federal Government is lead by the Prime Minister and consists of the Senate, an Upper House that was designed to look after the interests of the various States and Territories and The House of Representatives a Lower House where most of our legislation is formulated and introduced. | | | There are the Federal or Commonwealth, State or Territory and local Governments. | | | It should be noted, though, that Local Government can only regulate, not legislate, as it is controlled by the laws of various State Government departments. |
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| | Local government (from Australia) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The word government is derived from a Greek verb meaning “to pilot a ship.” It is a fitting derivation, since, in metaphorical terms, it is the responsibility of government to steer the “ship of state.&; Governments have been a part of human history for thousands of years. | | | The Canadian parliament governs the country's provinces and territories. | | | The act was passed in response to the demand of the Port Phillip settlers, who felt inadequately represented in the New South Wales Legislative Council (self-governing since 1842) and who... |
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| | Australia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Australia consists of six states and several territories. | | | Australia has a bicameral federal Parliament, comprising a (Assembly possessing high legislative powers) Senate (the upper house) with 76 Senators, and a (The lower legislative house of the United States Congress) House of Representatives (the lower house) with 150 Members. | | | Flinders later renamed the land Australia in a chart compiled in 1804 whilst he was held prisoner by the (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French in (A parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius) Mauritius. |
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| | Australia |
| | The law at all levels (federal, state, and territories) provides workers with the right to organize and bargain collectively, and the law protects them from antiunion discrimination; the Government respects these rights in practice. | | | The Government responded later that year that the laws were passed after full debate in a democratically elected legislature and that the states have a sovereign right to determine land use policy. | | | Australia is a longstanding constitutional democracy with a federal parliamentary form of government in which citizens periodically choose their representatives in free and fair multiparty elections. |
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| | Centenary Flag (Australia) |
| | I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under section 6 of the Flags Act 1953, authorise the Governments of the Commonwealth and of each of the States and Territories, to use, on ceremonial occasions, the Centenary Flag described in the Schedule. | | | Each state and territory was requested by the Commonwealth to fly the flag for a day during the Centenary of Federation year. | | | The Governor-General did not proclaim it as a flag of Australia under section 5 of the Flags Act, but warranted its use by the commonwealth and state governments. |
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| | Politics_of_Australia : Essential Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links. |
| | States and Territories Each state is headed by a Premier, who is the leader of the party with a majority or a working minority in the lower house of the state legislature. | | | Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Government 2 States and Territories 3 Political system 4 Political Data 5 See also Government Australia is a federation and a constitutional monarchy, with a written Constitution governing the relationship between the national government (usually referred to as the Commonwealth) and the states. | | | Australia also has three self-governing territories, the Australian Capital Territory (where Canberra is located), the Northern Territory and Norfolk Island, with political systems similar to those of the states, although their legislatures exercise only those powers granted to them by Commonwealth legislation. |
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| | DD Units - Guide Govt & Law - Ch 5 - The system |
| | In the States and Territories all ministers are members of the cabinet. | | | Australia is a federation with a national government, the Commonwealth, and six State governments. | | | A shadow minister must learn about the responsibilities of the real minister and be able to criticise the minister’s actions and show that the opposition party would handle matters better. |
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| | Liberal Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | While the party holds government federally, it does not in any of the states or territories. | | | The Liberals were in power in Victoria from 1955 (the election in which they defeated John Cain Sr) to 1982 (in which they were defeated by the last Labor Premier's son, John Cain Jr) and in South Australia (under several names) from 1932 to 1965. | | | In the 2004 Federal elections the party strengthened its majority in the Lower House and, with its coalition partners, became the first federal government in twenty years to gain an absolute majority in the Senate. |
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| | Queen of Australia: Royal Style and Titles Act 1973 |
| | AND WHEREAS the Government of Australia considers it desirable to propose to Her Majesty a change in the form of the Royal Style and Titles to be used in relation to Australia and its Territories: | | | Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. | | | The assent of the Parliament is hereby given to the adoption by Her Majesty, for use in relation to Australia and its Territories, in lieu of the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953 |
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