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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Australian States and Territories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Jervis Bay Territory is a territory of the Commonwealth of Australia.
In the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth retains the power to directly administer uranium mining and Aboriginal lands, powers which it does not possess with respect to the states.
The Administrators of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island are, by contrast, appointed by the Governor-General.
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  Northern Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Northern Territory was part of New South Wales from 1825 to 1863, and part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911.
The Northern Territory was briefly one of the few places in the world with legal voluntary euthanasia, until the Federal Parliament overturned the legislation.
The territory is represented in the Commonwealth parliament by two members in the House of Representatives, currently Warren Snowdon for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and David Tollner for the Country Liberal Party (CLP), and two members in the Senate, currently Trish Crossin for the ALP and Nigel Scullion for the CLP.
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 Northern Territory
Northern Territory, a territory of Australia in the north-central part of the continent.
On July 1, 1978, the territory became self governing under an administrator appointed by the governor-general and an elected legislative assembly of 25 members headed by a chief minister.
The territory is represented in federal parliament by one member in the House of Representatives and two senators.
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 ipedia.com: Northern Territory Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Northern Territory was part of New South Wales from 1825 to 1863 and was later part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911.
The Northern Territory is also home to two spectacular natural rock formations, Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas), which are sacred to the local Aborigines and which have become major tourist attractions.
The territory is represented in the Commonwealth parliament by two members in the House of Representatives and two members in the Senate.
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 Australia - Genealogy
Australia's neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east.
Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
The two mainland territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory; the federal government administers a separate area within New South Wales, the Jervis Bay Territory, as a naval base and sea port for the national capital.
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 Australia ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania and a number of other islands in the Southern, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
The lower house is known as the Legislative Assembly (House of Assembly in South Australia and Tasmania) and the upper house is known as the Legislative Council.
Australia led the formation of the Cairns Group and APEC, and is a member of the OECD and the WTO.
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 Parliament@Work - Northern Territory
In 1978, the Northern Territory was granted self-government by an Act of the Commonwealth Parliament, but because it is not a State, the degree of self-government is limited.
Northern Territory Government Ministers are appointed by the Administrator on the advice of the Chief Minister.
Until the Northern Territory was granted self-government on 1 July 1978, it was run by the Commonwealth Government, and used the Commonwealth Coat of Arms.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Northern Territory
Australia bounded on the north by the ocean, on the south by South
Australia, on the east by Queensland and on the west by Western
administrator of the Diocese of Perth; he retired in 1861 and died in 1886 in Spain.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
From 1926 to 1931, Central Australia existed as a separate territory between the 20th and 26th parallels of latitude, before being reincorporated into the Northern Territory.
In the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth retains the power to directly administer uranium mining and Aboriginal lands - powers which it does not possess with respect to the states.
The Australian Capital Territory has neither a Governor nor Administrator, but the Governor-General exercises some powers that in other jurisdictions are exercised by the Governor of a state or Administrator of a territory, such as the power to dissolve the Legislative Assembly.
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 AUSTRALIA
Australia's neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.
Australia is a founding member of the United Nations, and maintains an international aid program under which some 60 countries receive assistance.
Australia's emphasis on economic reform is often claimed to be key factor behind the economy's strength.
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 National Native Title Tribunal: : Area Survey: Cox Peninsula to Daly River, Northern Territory - 21 April 2003
Northern Land Council 1979, Kenbi Land Claim to vacant crown land in the Cox Peninsula Bynoe Harbour and Port Patterson areas of the Northern Territory of Australia, Northern Land Council, Darwin.
Northern Land Council 1980, The Finniss River Land Claim: A claim on unalienated Crown land in the Adelaide River - Batchelor - Wagait Reserve area of the Northern Territory, Northern Land Council, Darwin.
Sowden, W.J. The Northern Territory as it is: A narrative of the South Australian Parliamentary Party's trip, and full descriptions of the Northern Territory; its settlements and industries, W.K. Thomas and Co, Adelaide.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kata Tjuta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kata Tjuta, also known as Mount Olga (or colloquially as The Olgas), are large conglomerate rock formations, which are a remarkable group of 30 or so domed hills situated about 25 km from Uluru in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Uluru at midday Uluru, otherwise known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in central Australia, in the Northern Territory.
Yulara is an isolated town in Australias Northern Territory with approximately 2,000 inhabitants.
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 Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Note 32 1996-97
The legalisation of euthanasia by the Northern Territory is a world first: no other country has laws in place that allow a doctor to kill a patient.
Removing the Territories' power to make this kind of law is the best way to remove this threat to human rights, because it ensures that neither the Northern Territory nor any other Territory will be able to legalise euthanasia in the future.
Finally, the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth) specifically states that the Governor-General may disallow legislation passed by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, in part or in its entirety, within six months of the Administrator's assent to the legislation.
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 Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia
The political office of the Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia has been held by the following people.
Administrators and Government Residents of the Northern Territory after transfer of control to the Commonwealth Government:
The office of the Deputy of the Administrator was established in 1997.
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 Wallis and Futuna - Australia - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The Senior Administrator is responsible to the French Minister for Overseas France and is ex-officio President of the Territorial Council, composed of the three kings (paramount chiefs) of the territory and of three members appointed by the Prefect with the approval of the elected Territorial Assembly.
Unemployment is the territory's most pressing economic and social problem, with only an estimated 1,800 of the Territory's 15,000 inhabitants in formal employment (over half of those are in the public sector).
Australia continues to provide scholarships to applicants from the Territory, as part of its AUD 1 million per annum development assistance program of scholarships for students from the French Pacific entities.
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 Northern Territory Legislative Assembly - Committees - Select Committee on Euthanasia
The Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory,
On 16 June 1995, His Honour the Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia, Mr KJ (Austin) Asche, advised the Legislative Assembly that, pursuant to section 7 of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 of the Commonwealth, he had assented to the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 to become proposed law.
The Rights of the Terminally Ill Amendment Bill was passed by the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly on 20 February 1996 and assented to by His Honour the Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia, Mr KJ (Austin) Asche, on 20 March 1996.
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 Documenting Democracy
This painting by Northern Territory artist Heather Riley commemorates the official transfer of the Northern Territory from South Australia to the Commonwealth on 1 January 1911.
The new Administrator of the Northern Territory, Dr John Gilruth, Jeannie Gilruth, their children and the family's governess explore the grounds of Government House, their new home overlooking Darwin harbour, in 1912.
Territory trades unions, led by Harold Nelson, were as vigorously opposed to the administration of Dr John Gilruth as they were to the Vestey company meatworks.
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 Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory of Australia
In Australia, a Chief Minister is the head of government of a self-governing territory, while the head of government of a state is a Premier.
The Chief Minister is appointed by the Administrator of the Northern Territory, who in normal circumstances will appoint the head of whatever party holds the majority of seats in the legislature of the territory (in the Northern Territory, the Legislative Assembly).
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 info: Administrator_of_the_Northern_Territory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Government House NT - AdministratorThe Administrator of the Northern Territory is appointed by the Governor-General by Commission under the Seal of Australia in accordance with the provisions of the...
Documenting DemocracyThe new Administrator of the Northern Territory, Dr John Gilruth, Jeannie Gilruth, their children and the family's governess explore the grounds of Government House, their new home overlooking Darwin...
Northern Territory Functions AHRI HR Week ConferencesThe Hon Ted Egan, Administrator of the Northern Territory and Nerys Evans.
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 Tourist Attractions Northern Territory NT Attractions
Australia's oldest date plantation, The Date Garden continues to produce juicy dates you can sample in ice-cream and muffins, or au naturel.
The homestead located near the Thermal Pools were once the residence of the former administrator of the Northern Territory, Dr. Gilruth.
Tennant Creek Region is the fascinating Golden Heart of the Northern Territory in Australia.
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 Police internet site
That Territory was then under South Australian control and the town of Palmerston now the city of Darwin was founded by William George Goyder – Surveyor General of South Australia.
In 1931, the two Territories became the Northern Territory of Australia and the authority of the Commissioner of Police was vested in the Administrator of the Northern Territory, in Darwin.
On 1 July 1964, Clive William Graham, a police officer of long standing in the Territory, was appointed as Commissioner and the force as a whole was administered as part of the Public Service of the Northern Territory.
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 Government House Northern Territory - Biography: Mr Ted Egan
In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Northern Territory University for outstanding community service and notable achievement in the fields of Aboriginal affairs, historical studies and preservation and promotion of Australia’s cultural heritage, particularly song, verse and folklore.
He was the 2003 Northern Territory recipient of the Australian of the Year Award.
His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Major General Michael Jeffery AC CVO MC appointed Mr Egan as the eighteenth Administrator of the Northern Territory with effect from 31 October 2003.
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 Bathurst Island - Northern Territory - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au
Born in Alsace-Lorraine and educated in Rome, Gsell was a member of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
He travelled to Sydney in 1897 and by 1906 was the Apostolic administrator of the Northern Territory.
The mission achieved the dubious distinction of being the first place in Australia to experience foreign invasion when, on 19 February 1942, Japanese bombers, on their way to Darwin, strafed Nguiu.
www.theage.com.au /news/Northern-Territory/Bathurst-Island/2005/02/17/1108500201592.html   (680 words)

  
 Airlines urged to take up AAS routes. 16/09/2006. ABC News Online
Northern Territory's Transport Minister Delia Lawrie says she will encourage aviation companies to take up routes that will be stopped with the closure of Aboriginal Air Services (AAS).
"The way forward for the Territory is to really work with the commercial operators in the air industry," she said.
Now the administrator says things are so bad the service will close its doors permanently this Sunday.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200609/s1742434.htm   (333 words)

  
 Guide to the Papers of Arthur Atlee Hunt (1864-1935) - MS 52
He made official visits to British New Guinea in 1905 and the Northern Territory in 1915 and attended the Imperial Conferences in London in 1907 and 1911.
Correspondence concerned mainly with administration, after 1913, of Norfolk Island as a territory of Australia.
Correspondence, confidential and semi-official, with Capt. Barton, Administrator of British New Guinea, concerning Barton’s assumption of the position of Administrator; his relationships with Administration personnel; Hunt’s visit to British New Guinea (1905); Barton’s travels in the Possession; establishment and proceedings of the Royal Commission into the administration of British New Guinea requested by Barton (1906).
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 Anglican Communion News Service
Bishop Administrator of the Diocese Dr John Wilson said, “I am delighted with the election – this is a wonderful choice.
He was a leading proponent of the opposition to legislation on mandatory detention in the Northern Territory.
He was an Advisor to the Anglican Church of Australia delegation to the World Council of Churches 9th Assembly (Porto Alegre, 2006); and was a member of the Missionary and Ecumenical Commission of General Synod from 1995 to 1998.
www.anglicancommunion.org /acns/articles/41/75/acns4180.cfm?view=normal   (580 words)

  
 Sports Administrator 1299-19 - Australian Skills Recognition Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
VETASSESS is the authority in Australia responsible for assessing this occupation for the purposes of skilled migration.
Factors which are taken into account in assessments include the education system of the country concerned, the awarding institution, and the level, structure, length and content of the program of study undertaken.
In many occupations you must be registered with or obtain a license from a local authority in the state or territory where you wish to practise your occupation.
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