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Topic: John Hayes Australian politician


  
  Dictionary of Australian Biography P-Q
Parkes then engaged as a labourer with Sir John Jamison (q.v.) near Penrith at £25 a year and a ration and a half of food, principally rice, flour and sugar, for the meat was sometimes unfit to eat.
He was generally in favour of (Sir) John Robertson's (q.v.) land policy, of the extension of education, and of free trade.
He was friendly with John Macarthur (q.v.) and acted as his second in the duel with Paterson (q.v.) in September 1801.
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 Special Collections -- Occasional Paper No. 8
John Blue (1875-1945) was born in Tara, Ont. and educated at the University of Toronto.
Irving's account of John Jacob Astor's attempt to establish the first American settlement on the Pacific coast in 1811 is based extensively on the memoirs of fur traders in the area.
Scadding (1813-1901), born in England, was the son of a one-time factor to Col. John Graves Simcoe.
www.ucalgary.ca /library/SpecColl/OccPaper/occ8.htm   (10227 words)

  
 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
John Macarthur did not approve of it and objected strongly to Wentworth's estimates of the profits to be made by growing fine wool.
John West (q.v.) took a prominent part in the formation of the anti-transportation league which between 1849 and 1853 had an important influence in the success of this movement.
As a politician he was responsible for the preservation of Belmore Park, Church Hill, and Flagstaff Hill, Clarke, Rodd, and Schnapper Islands, and the land at the head of Long Bay.
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 towleroad: Little Johnnie, Big Trouble
Over a million Australians flooded Sydney’s streets (this is just one city in a country with a population of under 20 million) to peacefully protest Howard’s decision to join with US forces in Iraq.
Discriminatory laws are almost always changed by politicians with courage and vision, often in the face of the ignorance and discrimination of a majority.
Australians have a strong affinity with Americans, irrespective of the state of politics on either side of the Pacific.
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 Physician-Assisted Suicide - Willamette University College of Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
On 11/7/01, in response to Attorney General John Ashcroft's directive that prescribing lethal medication was not a legitimate medical purpose under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) [SEE DISCUSSION BELOW], the State of Oregon filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief.
On 11/6/01, Attorney General John Ashcroft sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) determining that assisting suicide is not a "legitimate medical purpose" under the Controlled Substances Act and that a physician's license to prescribe is subject to suspension or revocation if the physician prescribes lethal medication for assisting suicide.
Hayes, who was suffering from terminal kidney cancer, allegedly died after being given a lethal intravenous injection of atracurium and midazolam.
www.willamette.edu /wucl/pas/2002_reports/032002.html   (4299 words)

  
 WebRoots Library U.S. History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John A. Logan of Illinois, a prominent politician and soldier, was nominated for the Vice-Presidency--a tail to the ticket, in the opinion of the Democrats, which was designed to "Wag Invitation to the Soldier Vote." The choice of Blaine was variously received by the different factions in the convention.
When John Murray Forbes was investigating the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy he found that the president of the road was paying himself a salary as president of a construction company, out of the railroad's funds, without the supervision of the treasurer or any one else, and without any auditing of his accounts.
If the politicians did not accept him with joy, they at least accepted him; for he was master of the party for the moment at least, and his hold on a large body of the rank and file was not to be doubted.
www.webroots.org /library/usahist/usstcw04.html   (17016 words)

  
 Douglas W. Jones Illustrated Voting Machine History
The example Australian ballot shown in Figure 5 allows straight-party voting by a single X in the circle by the party name at the top of the column, or a split ticket vote by marking an X in the box by an individual candidate name.
While most Australian ballots ask the voter to mark an X or checkmark in the voting target beside the candidate's name, where the target is either a box or a circle, the original form of this ballot asked the voter to scratch out the names of all but the preferred candidates.
Corrupt politicians and political machines have always been quick to search out and exploit the weaknesses of new voting methods, and it was not long before the weakness of the Australian ballot was uncovered.
www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/pictures   (6881 words)

  
 Co. Tyrone Biographies
She is the daughter of John and Mary Cooper, and was born in Canada on the 23d of December, 1847.
John McDonald, flour and feed, Oakland, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in April, 1834; his father, William McDonald, was born in the same place as subject, as was a miller by occupation; he emigrated to the United States and settled in Illinois, Warren County, in 1855, and died the following year of typhoid fever.
John P. Gallagher, the junior member of the firm of Osborn and Gallagher, publishers of the Williamsburg Journal Tribune, is a native of York township.
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 Australian Quotes & Notes - The Quotes - 1850 to 1901
Catherine Hayes, the mid-30s Irish singer ('the Madonna of the 19th century', one 21st century biographer called her) visited Sydney and Melbourne in 1855, accompanied by her watchful mother, on a grand operatic circumnavigation.
Squatters John and Ebenezer Orr offered a reward for his capture, reflecting the change in attitudes towards aborigines in northern NSW since the Myall Creek massacre in 1838, and the subsequent hanging of seven white men for the crime.
It was addressed to John Macadam, honorary secretary of the Exploration Committee in Melbourne and entrusted to an Outback mailman on 2 June.
www.australianquotes.com /quotes_1850-1901.html   (19172 words)

  
 SMU: From George to George - Essay by Hal Williams
A physician, an engineer, and a politician were once arguing about whose profession was the most important.
Americans have long had doubts about their politicians and political system, doubts we often think of as modern, but which go back in fact to the Founding Fathers and before.
One of the key developments, of course, was the formation in 1854 of the Republican party, which named its first presidential candidate in 1856, John Charles Frémont, a famed western explorer, "The Pathfinder," young and dashing, a person who, as Harrison had in 1840, might attract a wide range of voters.
www.smu.edu /smunews/george/williams-essay.asp   (13432 words)

  
 News for Elton John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John and songwriting partner Bernie Taupin hoped an extensive re-write would ensure its Broadway success but it was last night declared a lost cause when it opened at the Palace Theater.
British newspaper the Daily Mirror reported John labeled the Material Girl a "miserable cow" after she snubbed his star-studded bachelor party at London nightspot Too2Much, which was held ahead of the hitmaker's civil partnership ceremony with David Furnish on Wednesday.
Sixteen-year-old John Stevens, who had managed to remain a contestant on American Idol despite being reviled by judge Simon Cowell as well as radio disc jockeys and newspaper TV critics throughout the country, was finally sent packing Wednesday night as the program recorded a record 28 million votes (according to the program's host, Ryan Seacrest).
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 Physician-Assisted Suicide - Willamette University College of Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The new Attorney General, John Ashcroft, is a social conservative who is expected to oppose physician-assisted suicide.
Nitschke had assembled a team of physicians sympathetic to voluntary euthanasia to co-sign a prescription for sedatives, but Hall died after drinking the remains of a bottle of high-strength morphine which was prescribed for her by palliative care staff from Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick.
Following a three-day preliminary hearing, Magistrate Jeremy Packington ruled on 11/28/00 that the evidence was insufficient to commit West Australian urologist Dr. Daryl Allan Stephens for trial on charges that he murdered 48-year- old Freeda Patricia Hayes on 2/4/00 at the Murdoch Community Hospice in Perth.
www.willamette.edu /wucl/pas/2001_reports/032001.html   (4334 words)

  
 ISPO: From Globalization to Sustainability - A New Global Policy for Social Justice
Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, John McDonnell, becomes the latest politician to give SP a chance in the run-up to the UK general election.
Australian candidates endorse SP Five candidates and counting - including one sitting senator - pledge support for SP as Australia's October 9 national election draws near.
John Roberts has kindly agreed to become a special advisor to ISPO and we are hoping for opportunities to cooperate more closely with WFA during 2003.
www.simpol.org /dossiers/dossier-UK/html-UK/news-UK.html   (6372 words)

  
 DefendAmerica 11/04/2003 - Edition 4
Airmen of the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron and the Royal Australian Air Force airfield defense guards work side-by-side providing security and patrolling the airfield and surrounding areas watching for potential threats.
Ashton Hayes took command of the battalion in the assumption of command ceremony.
John Greenwood, chief of the office of medical history, said of the 1,077 soldiers injured in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, only 18 have died of their wounds, a rate of only 1.6 percent.
www.defendamerica.mil /archive/2003-11/20031104noon3.html   (2009 words)

  
 John Prine's Music | Celebrity quotes about John Prine
I may be gray-haired, but still, hardly anything does me as much good as putting John Prine, John Fogerty or the Rolling Stones on my stereo, cranking up the volume until the windows rattle and dancing around my den playing air guitar.
I didn't know it at the time, but looking back, it was people who created their own music that had something to say attached to that.
The current selection is John Prine, a folk singer he has seen in concert four times.
www.jpshrine.org /lyrics/prineapps5.htm   (3638 words)

  
 New Books in Judaic Studies
Kaltner, John 1954The use of Arabic in biblical Hebrew lexicography / by John Kaltner.
Rogerson, J. John William 1935Genesis and Exodus / John W. Rogerson, R.W.L. Moberly, and William Johnstone ; with an introduction by John Goldingay.
Hayes, Katherine MurpheyThe earth mourns : prophetic metaphor and oral aesthetic / Katherine M. Hayes.
sshl.ucsd.edu /judaic/newbooks.htm   (10482 words)

  
 Informed Comment: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
More on the Clarke conroversy: The pundits and politicians who keep saying that Clinton's anti-terrorism policies and Bush's are the same are missing a key piece of the puzzle.
The CPA administrator there, John Berry, had consulted with tribal leaders and called for volunteers in January, when he expanded the membership to 40 from 17.
He tried to blame the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 at Aden on a failure of the CIA and the State Department, and alleged that an anti-US and anti-Israel state was behind it (read: Iraq).
www.juancole.com /2004_03_01_juancole_archive.html   (13663 words)

  
 Scoop: Pringle: Bush Election Theft Saga Heats Up In Ohio
The Lucas Country prosecutor John Weglian told O'Keeffe that he will focus on Mastro Auctions after Noe's trial in October which he says, will be a complex case that will require at least 4 weeks and involve over100 witnesses.
But funneling money to Republican politicians is not the only part Noe played in the theft of the Presidential election in Ohio.
In any event, between the media coverage and the involvement of Republican politicians all over the state, critics say it would be next to impossible to find a jury pool anywhere in Ohio who has not heard about the scandal.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0606/S00263.htm   (3364 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - September 18 - Calendar Encyclopedia
1812 - Herschel Vespasian Johnson, American politician (d.
1857 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d.
1967 - John Cockcroft, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
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 TheLatest.Net Independent News and Comment.
Presidential hopeful John Kerry has been carrying the headlines for weeks with his successful run through the Democratic primaries and caucuses -- and here he is again, now facing allegations he's been having a Clintonian extramarital affair with an intern.
In an interview to be aired Monday on Australian TV, a Pakistani journalist says he"s interviewed al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahri, who claims that "if you have $30 million, go to the fl market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and a lot of...
Furnishing shop manager Darryl Hayes was too late to bank his weekend receipts and decided to use the microwave as a hiding place, but it was a disaster when his fiance decided to heat up some Brussels sprouts.
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 THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
This means that the DUP (Orange, pro-British and opposed to the Good Friday Agreement) may have to share power with Sinn Fein (Green, Catholic and linked to the IRA).
And Paisley - the firebrand Presbyterian minister who once called Pope John Paul 'the antichrist' and branded line dancing 'sinful' because it 'caters to the lust of the flesh' - ought to become Northern Ireland's First Minister.
It didn't take long for politicians and commentators to condemn the fickle voters.
lark.phoblacht.net /electingbon.html   (1371 words)

  
 The OmbudsGod!
ABC Watch smells a fish in a “Defense Analyst” for Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “poor ethnic cousin … the Special Broadcasting Service.” His name is Adam Cobb.
In today’s Guardian, John Sutherland touts a conspiracy worthy of Mikey Rivero.
JOHN HIGHFIELD: Well the Nazis used to call it "blitzkrieg" when they did it prior to the Second World War, a softening up process.
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 The Corner on National Review Online
The segment before mine was this odd discussion of John Edwards' brother's drunk driving which was the news peg for a longer discussion about troublesome presidential brothers.
That's true, but a month or two ago I heard a clip of him on the radio, and it occurred to me why his speaking persona REALLY bothers me: He ends *every* *single* *sentence* as if it were an applause line.
You have another politician's baggage to explain and if you try to distance yourself too much from your old boss, you tick-off your base in the process.
www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/04_07_11_corner-archive.asp   (12262 words)

  
 Recent Analysis
It all suggests that there really is no substitute for people--particularly journalists, lawyers, and politicians, as well as other opinion leaders--coming to learn something about statistics and substantive disciplines such as economics and environmental science so that they can interpret data themselves.
Not so long ago, many major politicians were speaking and working in support of the slavery institution, at least in part because they had to satisfy their constituencies in order to remain in office.
In fact, some American politicians favored annexing all of Mexico, and, if McClellan had won the 1864 presidential election, it's fairly likely that the Confederate States of America would have moved quickly to do just that, and that slavery would have been legal throughout the greatly expanded Confederacy.
www.newwork.com /Pages/Opinion/Johnson/Analysis.html   (14842 words)

  
 Scoop: Media Flash and Australian Media Job Directory
Particularly in a society (Australian) that often doesn't support the entrepreneurial spirit as much as it should.
* JOHN STAR is Administrator of Sydney's Channel 31, which claims 240,000 viewers weekly in the Sydney and metropolitan area, according to AC NEILSEN surveys.
He is a journalist of 13 years standing, and has contributed to more than 20 Australian and British motoring and motorcycle publications.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0011/S00114.htm   (7680 words)

  
 Asylum in Canada Could be Sought in Pot Case: Drugwar.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
"Mayor John Fabrizi of Bridgeport, with his tearful admission that he used cocaine while in office, is the latest in a bewildering lineup of high-profile Connecticut officials who have committed crimes in the past five years."
"Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Health Christopher Pyne announced Monday that all state and territorial governments had signed on to a federal plan to create a tough, uniform set of marijuana laws as part of a crackdown on cannabis.
If a US politician were to suggest giving children coca it would be seen not just as political suicide, but as a criminal act."
www.drugwar.com /phayesasylum.shtm   (14661 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
Why not instead modify Martin Luther King: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will be judged by the color of their skin, but not by the content of their character"?
Sen. Hillary Clinton claims she didn't really want to be a politician, the Associated Press reports from Purchase, N.Y. Indeed, politics was at best her fifth career choice:
Thanks to Charles Brown, Gary Kolb, Jim Hook, Edward Tannen, Carl Stritter, William Katz, Michael Zukerman, Avinoam Sharon, David Mastio, Ray Samori, John Steele Gordon, Rod Pennington, Robert White, David Schlosser, Phil Hord, Chris Hayes, Rowe Sergent, Gary Petersen, Daniel Goldstein and Donald Segal.
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