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  The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A referendum to change Australia's status, from a commonwealth headed by the British monarch to an independent republic, was defeated in 1999.
Nauru's phosphate deposits began to be mined early in the 20th century by a German-British consortium; the island was occupied by Australian forces in World War I. Nauru achieved independence in 1968 and joined the UN in 1999.
Coups in 1996 and 1999 were followed by the creation of a National Reconciliation Council that effected a transition to civilian rule by December 1999.
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 referendum
The Referendum Commission Background and Role: The Referendum Commission is an independent body, set up by the Referendum Act, 1998 as amended by the...
The European Referendum Campaign demands: An EU-Constitution can only be adopted by a Europe-wide binding referendum which is held on the same day in each...
The referendum or plebiscite is a form of direct democracy.
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 News on Ken Wilber
08/19/03: A banner to the Integral Futures section of the The Australian Foresight Institute website, hosted by Richard Slaughter, has been added to the Home page.
It is a spiritual and mundane journal he has kept during the year 1997.
In the fall of 1999 the first book about Wilber written by a single author will appear in Dutch: Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion by Frank Visser.
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