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  Australia Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On July 1, 1975, separate government commissions were created to undertake the operational responsibilities of the PMG.
One of these was the Australian Postal Commission, trading as Australia Post.
It later changed its name to the Australian Postal Corporation on January 1, 1989 when it was corporatised, although it still trades as Australia Post.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia_Post   (413 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Australia Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On 1 January 1901, federation of the Colonies occurred and the Commonwealth of Australia was born, as a dominion of the British Empire.
The Australian Capital Territory, centred on the new federal capital of Canberra, was separated from New South Wales in 1911.
With this act of parliament, Australian law was made unequivocally the law in the nation, and the High Court of Australia was confirmed as the single highest court of appeal.
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 Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Australian fashion generally follows Western styles of dress, but is distinctive for the lightweight, colorful casual wear that reflects the absence of harsh winters.
Australian painters of the 20th century include Sir William Dobell, known for his portraits; George Russell Drysdale, noted for depictions of the isolated inhabitants of the interior of the country; and Frederick Ronald Williams, whose landscapes and seascapes were notable for their quality of light.
Australian soils and climate, with the recurrent droughts, were better suited for large-scale grazing than for farming, and the most successful and dramatic transformation of the Australian continent occurred in the 1830s and 1840s, as squatters established huge sheep runs.
members.tripod.com /~amdon666/aus/aus.htm   (15269 words)

  
 Australia MEDIA
On 1 July 1975, responsibility for the nation's postal service was vested in the Australian Postal Commission, and for telecommunications in the Australian Telecommunications Commission; previously these functions had been administered by the Department of the Postmaster General.
The Australian, one of only two national newspapers, was established in 1964 and is published in all state capitals.
Though the Australian constitution does not have specific guarantees of freedom of expression, the High Court has, in two decisions, declared that freedom of political discourse is implied.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Asia-and-Oceania/Australia-MEDIA.html   (383 words)

  
 Australia - MSN Encarta
Under older Australian tariff policies, protection was afforded to those Australian industries considered essential, and preferential treatment was granted to imports from certain British Commonwealth countries.
Each Australian colony established its own rail network prior to becoming a state within the federation; as a result, the gauge varies from one state to another.
The head of government is the Australian prime minister, who is responsible to the Australian parliament.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761568792_8/Australia.html   (895 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Australian Atomic Energy Commission   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) was a statutory body of the Australian government.
In 1981 parts of the Commission were split off to become part of CSIRO, the remainder continuing until 1987, when it was replaced by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO).
The Commission head office was in Coogee, and its main facilities were at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, established in 1958.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Australian_Atomic_Energy_Commission   (228 words)

  
 Australia
Many Australian children in remote areas of the outback receive their primary and secondary education at home by means of correspondence schools and schools of the air.
The platypus and the echidna are among the strangest Australian animals.
Eucalyptus trees, which Australians call gum trees or gums, are the tallest trees in the country and among the tallest in the world.
www.fortunecity.com /greenfield/bypass/314/english/australia.htm   (8363 words)

  
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Australian society seems to have viewed research and development as rather aberrant activities, carried out in the main by isolated groups of academics, but with little relevance to the real world.
CSIRO and the State Electricity Commission of Victoria have developed an instrument to detect poor quality coal as it is being mined in open-cut seams.
Using the carbon dioxide results in their subsequent investigations, the scientists have found that carbon dioxide currently released through the destruction of forests is being matched by an almost equivalent compensatory amount taken up by the remaining vegetation, and that the increases in atmospheric CO2 are due to human use of fossil fuels.
www.dest.gov.au /NR/rdonlyres/3890867C-E5DD-4EAA-A793-0F467DBAA3D5/2057/sts86_87.doc   (14396 words)

  
 Gheorghe Pasla v. Australia, Communication No 751/1997, U.N. Doc. CCPR/65/D/751/1997 (12 May 1999).   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1988, his worker's compensation was terminated by the Australian Postal Commission by determinations dated 6 June 1988, 23 August 1988 and 28 September 1988, on the ground that the condition suffered by the author was not the result of the injury of November 1985.
The application was first rejected by the Legal Aid Commission on 9 May 1994, and then on appeal by the Legal Aid Review Committee on 9 August 1994, on the ground that the author's claims lacked merit.
It is submitted that the rejections of his applications for legal aid denied him the right to appeal the AAT's decision of 22 August 1991 and the Retirement Benefits Office's decision of 9 March 1993, and the right to challenge his dismissal and to sue his former legal advisers for malpractice.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/undocs/session65/view751.htm   (1272 words)

  
 DCITA - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Australian Postal Commission was a statutory body and was required to operate without direct budget funding and to be financially self-sufficient.
When the Australian Postal Commission was established in 1975, it retained the qualified letter monopoly of its predecessor – the carriage of letters weighing up to and including 500 grams.
The Universal Postal Congress is the supreme authority of the UPU and brings together plenipotentiaries of all member countries.
www.dcita.gov.au /post/history   (1110 words)

  
 Lawlink NSW: 1. The Community Law Reform Program and This Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This letter may therefore be taken as an authority to the Commission in its discretion to give preliminary consideration to proposals for law reform made to it by members of the legal profession and the community at large.
At the Commission’s request the Bureau conducted a survey in which 2,500 collectors were asked three questions about their experiences with dog attacks during the census.
Thanks are due also to the Australian Bureau of Statistics for conducting a special survey for the Commission, the Australian Postal Commission which prepared a lengthy and detailed submission and the Local Government and Shires Association which circulated a list of questions prepared by the Commission to its members.
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /lrc.nsf/pages/R52CHP1   (3970 words)

  
 Chapter II Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This initial body functioned in departmental form for three-quarters of a century until 1976 when two statutory authorities, viz the Australian Postal Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Commission, were established by legislation to take over the respective functions of the former department.
These public enterprise initiatives enabled services (particularly postal, telecommunications and air trans­port) to be extended to remote rural areas of Australia at much the same cost as paid by metropolitan consumers who thereby cross-subsidise isolated distant communi­ties.
It is a feature of the Australian parliamentary system that all agencies of the executive government - whether in the form of departments, statutory authorities or companies - report through the relevant Minister to the Parliament.
www.asosai.org /R_P_accountability_control/chapter_2_australia.htm   (7499 words)

  
 Australia - Economy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Australian currency system was converted in 1966 from the old British system of pounds, shillings, and pence to a decimal system based on a dollar divided into 100 pennies and coined in 1¢, 2¢, 5¢, 10¢, 20¢, and 50¢ pieces.
Each Australian state established its own rail network prior to federation; as a result, the gauge varies from one state to another.
The Australian is the national general newspaper; among the other large-circulation metropolitan dailies are the Herald (published in Melbourne), Courier-Mail (Brisbane), Advertiser (Adelaide), and West Australian (Perth).
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-3/data/web_type/Economy/australia.ausecon.html   (714 words)

  
 Overseas Telecommunications Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Overseas Telecommunications Commission (OTC) was established in August of 1946.
On 1 February 1992 it was merged with the Australian Telecommunications Corporation to create the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation.
This article related to telecommunications is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Overseas_Telecommunications_Commission   (99 words)

  
 Lawlink NSW: 2. The Wider Issues: Impact of the Constitution, International Human Rights Obligations and Industrial ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In view of the multi-cultural nature of Australian society, there are problems of inconsistency between generally accepted equality rights and certain customary practices and traditions of other religions and cultures, for example in relation to the treatment of women.
One of the aims of the amendment was to facilitate workplace bargaining agreements, to encourage their use in the prevention and settlement of disputes, and to specify the safeguards against proposed agreements that would potentially disadvantage employees.
The amendment requires the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to be satisfied that workers covered by an agreement are not disadvantaged, using a ‘test’ of disadvantage, before it certifies such an agreement.
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au /lrc.nsf/pages/DP30CHP2   (9576 words)

  
 National Museum of Australia - Gough Whitlam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Australian Labor Party had been in opposition for 23 years, and Whitlam, who had reformed the ALP's policies, was keen to bring a program of social reform to the people of Australia.
The crisis climaxed on 11 November 1975, when the Governor-General, John Kerr, withdrew Whitlam's commission as Prime Minister, commissioned the Liberal leader, Malcolm Fraser to form an interim government until a general election could be held, and dissolved the parliament.
After perhaps the most bitter and divisive election campaigns in Australian history, Malcolm Fraser's Liberal-NCP coalition routed the ALP at a general election on 13 December 1975, winning 56% of the overall vote, 91 of the 127 House of Representatives seats, and 35 of the 64 Senate seats.
www.nma.gov.au /schools/school_resources/resource_websites_and_interactives/primeministers/gough_whitlam   (1544 words)

  
 Western Australian Electoral Commission
It is compulsory for every Australian citizen who has turned 18 years of age to enrol once they have lived in an electoral district in Western Australia for more than a month, and to re-enrol immediately following a change of address.
Typically these locations include this Commission, the Australian Electoral Commission offices in WA, Court Houses in WA, the offices of other State Electoral authorities and a number of overseas locations.
Commission offices and all election facilities will be clearly signposted, including opening and closing times.
www.waec.wa.gov.au   (829 words)

  
 PR924004
Mr Lee's evidence was that he contacted Port Lincoln postal worker Mr Brownrigg (whom he knew), and requested that material relating to any abnormal UDS lodgements be sent to the Corporate Security Group.
The Commission's decision in Sprigg (supra) establishes an approach to this assessment.
In this respect, I have noted that Mr James is currently working on a casual basis and that his employment with Australian Bight Seafood is due to end shortly with the impending end of the fishing season.
www.airc.gov.au /decisionssigned/html/PR924004.htm   (7988 words)

  
 Australia Post Annual Report 2002/03
The corporation’s formal commercial origins lie in the first postal act of 1825, which enabled the New South Wales governor to fix postage rates and appoint postmasters outside of Sydney.
With the Federation of Australian colonies in 1901, a nationally integrated Postmaster General’s Department (the PMG) was established, with responsibility for the nation’s mail and telephone services.
The Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989 made Post a GBE with a board of directors and a charter to operate commercially while meeting a range of community service obligations.
www.auspost.com.au /annualreport2003/print/highlights_aboutap.asp   (624 words)

  
 ROBERT HENDERSON v. JULIENNE SAUZIER, MARIE ANTOINE ROBERT, FRICHOT, PIERRE EDMUND FRICHO and ELIZABETH WIESENo. 745 of ...
Accordingly, it may be that the last-minute amendment by the plaintiff is similar in character and effect to that in Australian Postal Commission v Dao (No.2) (supra); that is, it is merely an additional ground in support of relief under s44(3)(b)(i), sought by the plaintiff from the start.
If so, Australian Postal Commission v Dao (No.2) (supra) may suggest that the ordinary approach to costs should not be departed from.
In Australian Postal Commission v Dao (No.2) (supra), the appeal was heard, and various grounds of appeal, including the `last-minute' ground, were argued.
www.nt.gov.au /ntsc/doc/sentencing_remarks/0/97/0/NS000950.htm   (4889 words)

  
 Commission E Page Titles @ NaturalResearch.com (Natural Research)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Commission E Page Titles @ NaturalResearch.com (Natural Research)
Encyclopedia: Chairman of The National Defence Commission of North Korea
Encyclopedia: Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific
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 ADDEMDUM TO GREG MAYMAN'S HOME PAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The responsibility for technical services for this new body was vested in the P.M.G's Department, which operated the transmitters, and also provided technical personnel to build and operate the studios, the ABC being responsible for the presenters and perfomers, and the general administrative personnel.
Later, the PMG's Dept was split into the Australian Postal Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Commission (aka TELECOM).
Later again Telecom changed its name to Telstra when it amalgamated with the Overseas Telecommunication Commission (which body had been in charge of all overseas communications, except for public radio and TV broadcasting), while its responsibilities for operating and maintaining the radio and TV transmitting stations were vested in another government body.
homepages.picknowl.com.au /greg_mayman/PMG.htm   (327 words)

  
 PR933414
In my view, it is proper and appropriate that, where one organisation is referred to in the eligibility rules of another, it should be referred to by its registered name rather than the name by which it is referred to in popular usage.
Providing that any person employed in or usually employed in any of the callings prescribed in clause (a) of sub-rule 1C undergoing a fulltime course of training the object of which is to further qualify him for employment in any one or more of the said callings shall be classified as a student member.
For the purposes of this sub-rule 1D the Northern Region of the Australian National Railways Commission in South Australia shall mean and include that area in South Australia covered by the Commonwealth Railways prior to 1st July, 1975.
www.airc.gov.au /alldocuments/PR933414.htm   (5550 words)

  
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A.5.5 THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION The Commission was established as a result of the Government's decision to modernise, simplify, eliminate defects in, and adopt more effective methods for administering the law and dispensing justice.
The Commission is also responsible for the administration of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.
The Commission's Research program involves three main strands - research stemming from formal complaints to the Commission, research following a reference of existing or draft legislation by the Attorney-General, and research which the Commission considers to be of priority concern for the promotion of human rights in Australia.
www.dest.gov.au /NR/rdonlyres/8F2B2AC8-F80B-40C6-9FC0-669076580164/2056/sts85_86.doc   (13678 words)

  
 Australian Trade Commission Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Answer: The Australian Media Guide which is divided into four major sections: Newspapers, magazines radio and television, gives a comprehensive insight regarding circulation figures, frequency and advertising rates.
Answer: The Australian Education International (AEI) web site provides a complete guide to studying and living in Australia-up-to-date information on the Australian education and training system, cost of study and living, admission procedures, and way of life.
Answer: A: The Australian Tourist Commission is able to provide you with topics of interest such as accommodation, hotels, Australia map, weather, airport and places of interests.
www.austrade.com.ph /page.php?id=4   (1124 words)

  
 Administrative Review Council - Consolidated Case-Note Index
Australian Postal Commission v Hayes (1988) 18 ALD 135 (18/5/89)
McMaugh and Australian Telecommunications Commission; Re (1991) 22 ALD 393
Riley and Commission for the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation of Commonwealth Employees; Re (30/4/93)
www.ag.gov.au /agd/www/archome.nsf/Alldocs/F20E58858F4A4713CA256CE600764E38?OpenDocument   (4351 words)

  
 Australian and New Zealand OHS Literature 1987 - 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Australian and New Zealand OHS Literature 1987 - 1995
Complete documents can be obtained from Australian libraries via the interlibrary loan system.
Case study: application of ergonomics to Australia's postal services 1980-87
www.nohsc.gov.au /ohsinformation/databases/Archived/bibliodetails.asp?ohslid=3626   (127 words)

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