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  John Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Murphy (Alabama) (1786-1841), Governor and Congressman from Alabama
John J. Murphy (b.1959), was a Republican candidate for Governor in New Jersey in 2005
John Murphy (Canadian politician) was a member of the House of Commons from 1993-1997
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 John Murphy (Australian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Paul Murphy (born 31 May 1950), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Lowe, New South Wales.
Murphy is considered a hard-working local member, who has fought hard on the issues of aircraft noise, an MRI licence for the local hospital at Concord, health and childcare.
In the 2001 Federal Election the average swing against Labor was 2.26%.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography N-O
John Neilson was brought to South Australia at nine years of age, had practically no education and was shepherd, shearer, and small farmer all his life.
Sir John Forrest (q.v.) was at first opposed to this plan but was eventually converted, and in March 1892 funds were provided for a start to be made.
On 25 January 1903 Sir John Forrest with the temperature 106 in the shade turned on the water at Coolgardie, and at five o'clock of the same afternoon he turned on the water which began to flow steadily into a great reservoir at Kalgoorlie.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography Hi-Hu
His, father, John Higgins, was a Methodist minister, whose wife, Anne Bournes, was the well-educated daughter of a county Mayo landholder.
As a politician he could not compromise, to him the course proposed was either right or wrong, and this rigidity made him difficult to work with.
He had come in conflict with the South Australian colonization commissioners before leaving London, and a very short while after his arrival was at odds with the surveyor-general Colonel William Light (q.v.) on the question of the capital site.
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 wiki/Tasmania Definition / wiki/Tasmania Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tasmania's relatively low population density and temperate, maritime climate mean that it has a number of relatively unspoilt, ecologicallyEcology is the branch of science that studies the distribution and abundance of living organisms, and the interactions between organisms and their environment.
The anti-dam sentiment was shared by many Australians outside Tasmania, and proved a factor in the election of the HawkeRobert James Lee Hawke (born December 9, 1929), Australian trade union leader and politician, was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia.
Australian Rules FootballAustralian rules football (also known as Aussie Rules or Footy) is a game played between two teams of 18 players, on cricket ovals, or similar-sized areas.
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 Crikey Website - Christine Jackman vs Iron Mark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The obviously infuriated Jackman then separately called Murphy and a senior Latham staffer yesterday in what were clearly full and frank exchanges because Murphy then went back into the chamber and made this speech.
Showing the opposite of courage, John Murphy used the shield of privilege to hint gratuitously and cruelly at the personal relationship between Jackman and Australian editor Chris Mitchell, in the most defamatory way, drawing a link between their relationship and her performance as a journalist.
Well, John Murphy has just cranked things up another notch by going back into the House this afternoon and declaring that he was completely unaware of the relationship between Jackman and Mitchell when he made his comments.
www.crikey.com.au /articles/2004/12/07-0004.html   (1575 words)

  
 TIME Pacific | Up close and Personal | November 12, 2001 | NO. 45
Politicians are never happier than when talking about themselves or announcing a giveaway of taxpayers' funds-especially at election time.
Away from the presidential tussle between Liberal Prime Minister John Howard and Australian Labor Party leader Kim Beazley and the white noise of the national media and opinion polls, another contest, lower-key but just as vital, is being played out in marginal seats across the country.
The Australian Democrats are running on a "Change Politics" platform, but voters-especially swinging voters-have dallied with protest in past elections; now they're sticking with the devils they know.
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 Politics, Foreign Relations and the Law Listings: "C - M"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This is a sophisticated account of three important aspects of the war: social and political life in Vietnam; Australian political attitudes and diplomacy through the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s and the origins and impact of the peace movement during this period.
This scholarly biography of Sir Isaac Isaacs, lawyer, politician (at both state and federal levels), and from 1931 the first Australian-born governor-general, was written when Zelman Cowen was dean of the law school of the University of Melbourne.
Introduced with an overview by Murphy of Labor politics during the period, this is a collection of narrative essays on the development of the party in each state.
www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/argo/lists/pollawlst2.html   (6400 words)

  
 Mark Latham - Public Lecture
When John Howard, the Australian Labor Party, the Canberra Press Gallery, and the Packer and Murdoch empires combine, as they have over the past fortnight, to tell people not to read this book, it sends a powerful message: the Canberra Club has a lot to worry about and a lot to hide.
One of the telling aspects of the John Brogden tragedy in New South Wales was the involvement of the same group of media men who took such an unhealthy interest in my private life, namely Glenn Milne, Luke McIlveen and David Penberthy from News Limited and Damien Murphy from Fairfax.
Most politicians, of course, are afraid to take on this problem, deciding not to tell the truth about the media because they might need them in the future.
www.mup.unimelb.edu.au /publicity/lathamlecture.html   (6546 words)

  
 OPEN REPLY TO JOHN MURPHY
The influence wielded by a small vocal group in an electorate on a hapless politician who is prepared to sell his soul for a few votes would have been quite apparent to friend and foe alike in the Federal Parliament.
For vote starved politicians like you it may be beneficial to note that in Australia, the number of voters of Sri Lankan Tamil origin is less than 20% of all voters of Sri Lankan origin.
Mr Murphy, we request you to state publicly whether you are for a mono-ethnic "homeland" for less than half of the Sri Lankan Tamils led by an acknowledged terrorist leader or for a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka led by a democratic leader accountable to a democratically elected Parliament.
www.spur.asn.au /SPUR_open_reply_to_john_murphy.htm   (1320 words)

  
 SYDNEY LIBERTARIANISM & THE PUSH - AJ Baker 1975
John Anderson, Professor of Philosophy in Sydney University from 1927 to 1958, had much influence in academic philosophy and related subjects, but also had strong political commitments and under
The term "Andersonian" has some ambiguity as it may describe (a) Anderson's trainees in academic philosophy, many of whom, especially those who became academies, public servants and lawyers (including judges), we may be sure did not share his earlier political sympathies, and (b) his political followers, the members of the Freethought Society.
Thus, while some of the views and arguments of Libertarians have been very Andersonian (support for empiricism and objective inquiry, rejection of religion, conventional morality and censorship), the distinctive features of the Libertarian line, not to speak of its irreverent, downtown bohemianism, is in no obvious way Andersonian.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
A modern medical examination of her symptoms concludes that “she suffered from a somatization disorder, perhaps with a migrainous component, secondary opiate-dependence and pulmonary tuberculosis.” Isabella bore two children; in both cases the pregnancies and deliveries were extremely difficult.
The transfer of power from the governor and his appointed advisers to elected colonial politicians and the gradual acceptance of party politics created a system in which exclusivist views could not be maintained, at least in public.
HBC officer John H. McTavish had been in Ottawa in April, had seen Macdonald and others, and had been told of the transfer of the northwest to Canada with the same rights for its inhabitants as had existed before.
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 Articles - 1919   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight (they landed at Clifden, County Galway, Ireland the next day).
January 18 - Prince John of the United Kingdom (b.
June 30 - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b.
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 Religion, Television & the Info. Superhwy - Waymark Press - Robert Lewis Shayon
Cultural historian John Staudenmaier says that capitalism tends to separate people's inner selves from their outward "persona," that is, their real self from the self they project to others.
Like the charismatic politician, the electronic preacher creates a sense of intimacy with individual viewers who may be persuaded by the eyeball-to-eyeball experience that television offers.
JOHN S. John S. Sie is Chairman and CEO of Encore Media Corporation (EMC), which programs ENCORE, a low-cost premium cable channel featuring hit movies of the '60s, '70s and '80s, as well as the new premium first- run movie service STARZ!
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 Amazon.com: Lionel Murphy : A Political Biography: Books: Jenny Hocking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She argues that a long and influential career should not be obscured by the traumatic years before his death or the media sensationalism since.
As a Judge on Australian's constitutional and highest appeal court Murphy was often in dissent but his judgements were enormously persuasive and the court has slowly but surely moved to his view in many cases.
Nothing in Australian political life has ever happen like that before or since and it is no wonder that the man died from stress-related cancer as a result.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521581087?v=glance   (766 words)

  
 The Wild Geese Today Internet Resources
Pope John Paul II While the whole of the Catholic world mourns the death of Pope John Paul II today, none mourn him more than the Catholics of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora.
Father John Murphy: One of the leaders of the Rising in Wexford
John O'Neill: Commander of Fenian forces at the battle of Ridgeway in 1866.
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 News from Sri Lanka - 03 January 2004
Murphy in the adjournment debate, (March 23, 2004) stated that the forthcoming elections should be “free and fair” and that “the Tamil people of the north-east, who have been deprived of their franchise during the last two decades, are permitted to case their votes at the forthcoming coming elections.” Mr.
He was replying to pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) M.P., John Murphy, who represents the electorate, Lowe in New South Wales and believed to have many pro-Tiger supporters among the registered voters in the electorate.
Murphy’s speech was blasted for making “inaccurate” and “inflammatory” statements to appease his Tamil constituents in his electorate, Lowe (Full report in SPUR).
www.spur.asn.au /News_2004_April_03.htm   (4593 words)

  
 Like Sands Through the Hourglass By Cullen Murphy
The term our times and its portentous relative our time (as in "one of the most important movies/books/recordings of our time") are rhetorically vast but temporally indeterminate, even as they become trivialized by overuse.
The Wall Street Journal's G. Paschal Zachary observed last September that America, or at least American journalism, was awash in defining moments (you know, the Gulf War, the Rodney King beating, the death of Diana).
Cullen Murphy is managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and also writes the comic strip Prince Valiant.
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 Shackleton news
In the afternoon the 1948 film 'Scott of the Antarctic', starring Sir John Mills and with music by Vaughan Williams, was shown, followed by a 'The Shackleton Forum' - a question and answer session with The Hon.
Together with the Director of the Scott-Polar Institute, Dr John Heap, William Mills worked in the early 1990s on a project which culminated in the building of the Shackleton Memorial Library, a significant addition to the earlier building and winner of a prestigious architectural award.
Using extensive archive footage shot by Hurley, as well as many of his photographs, this one hour documentary, to be shown on BBC 4 on Monday 23 August 2004 (9pm-10pm, repeated at 12.10am-1.10am; 3.05am-4.05am), traces the photographer's life and work.
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 Abbott backs new anti-abortion lobby
Two Australian couples will attend as the Australian Bishops' delegates to the World Meeting of the Holy Father with Families in Valencia, Spain.
The Australian reports that the new forum was attended by Coalition and Labor MPs and Family First senator-elect Steve Fielding in Sydney last night.
Attendees at the forum were expected to include independent senator Brian Harradine, Liberal Party MP Alan Cadman, Labor MP John Murphy Nationals senator Julian McGauran and the Christian Democratic Party's Fred Nile.
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 Biographical Information
John Saward, "Recognising the Rose: John Paul II and the Causes of the Saints"
John Paul II - Witness to Truth [proceedings of the 23rd annual convention of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars].
Coughlin, John J. "Pope John Paul II and the Dignity of the Human Being.
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 New Australian police powers overturn presumption of innocence [Free Republic]
A study of NSW District Court criminal trials in the early 1980s found that the police had obtained a confession or admission in 96 percent of the cases.
Inquiries into the conduct of NSW and other Australian state police during the 1980s and 1990s produced ample evidence of systemic frame-ups, involving false confessions and the planting of evidence.
I've even wondered if it might be that the Army and police, stuck with that miserable Australian F88 copy of the Austrian Steyr AUG, were jealous of their better-armed citizenry.
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Scates, B. (1998) Unemployment, in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds) The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp.
Scates, B., (1990) William Arthur Trenwith: Trade Unionist and Politician, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1990.
Scates, B. (1999) “From a brown land far away”: Australian pilgrimages to the cemeteries of the Great War, in Locality, November, 1999, pp.
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 1950 LIFE Magazine Back Issues For Sale at 2Neat Magazines
Profiles of 1920 heroes, Charles Lindbergh, Grover Whalen, John Held Jr, Red Grange, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Gilda Gray, Clara Bow, John Scopes, Sinclair Lewis.
John’s basketball team - McMahon, Zawoluk, McGuire, Calabrese, Mulzoff.
Miniature sub is equipped to sink, swim or crawl, Halley Hamlin.
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 May 3 - Psychology Central
1724 - John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard (b.
1750 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b.
Some material on Psych Central is Copyright © 1992-2006 John M. Grohol.
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 Brian McKinlay: John Howard's Grand Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Indeed while Howard was then in 2003, telling the Australian public that no decision had been made to send the troops to Iraq, later documents which came to light showed that the Australian had been committed and despatched before the war began, in keeping with promises made to Bush.
Like Blair and Bush, Howard is a 21-carat gold lying politician of a very accomplished order Howard only recently sent another force to Iraq to guard the small Japanese contingent doing "humanitarian" work, which may have something to do with the presence of a Japanese oil drilling operation in southern Iraq.
The Jananese are said however to be literally locked into their bases Howard is about to leave Australia on a special visit to Washington and London, where his hosts will provide all kinds of hoopla, and he in turn will do the poodle act which he has perfected.
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 Deaths in 2004 - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
22 Rudi Kolak, 86, former Bosnian communist politician, chairman of the Bosnian executive council from 1965 to 1967
24 Elijah Mwangale, 65, Kenyan politician, former member of Parliament, and foreign minister from 1983 to 1987, heart attack
12 Ahmed Dini Ahmed, 72, Djibouti politician, vice-president of the government council (1959-60) and prime minister (1977-78)
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
22 Marcel Caux, 105, Australian First World War veteran, last known survivor of the Battle of Pozières.
2 Sir John William Kay, Lord Justice of Court of Appeal of England and Wales
26 Gatjil Djerrkura, 54, Australian indigenous leader, Chairman of ATSIC 1996-2000
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