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  Shadow Cabinet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the United Kingdom and Canada the major opposition party and specifically its shadow cabinet is often called Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
Australia and New Zealand), the opposition is known simply as The Parliamentary Opposition.
Some parliamentary parties, notably the British Labour Party and the Australian Labor Party, elect all the members of their shadow cabinets in a partyroom ballot, with the Leader of the Opposition then allocating portfolios to the Shadow Ministers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shadow_Cabinet   (204 words)

  
 Opposition (Australia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Opposition in Australia fulfils the same function as the official opposition in other Commonwealth of Nations monarchies.
The present Opposition at a Federal level is the Australian Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
The current leader of the Opposition in the Senate is Senator Chris Evans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opposition_(Australia)   (233 words)

  
 Shadow Cabinet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In the United Kingdom, members of a Labour Shadow Cabinet are elected by the Parliamentary Labour Party.
A Labour Prime Minister is obliged to appoint members of the Shadow Cabinet to the first Cabinet formed by him after a General Election.
A Conservative Leader of the Opposition in contrast has complete freedom of appointment both to the Shadow Cabinet and any Cabinet formed in power.
shadow-cabinet.kiwiki.homeip.net   (325 words)

  
 official opposition
Leader official opposition - definition of leader of the official opposition in Canada.
Official opposition - definition of official opposition in parliament and legislative assemblies in Canada.
The MDC is the official opposition in Zimbabwe; it was born as a result of poor...
www.jointctr.org /?Category=official+opposition   (545 words)

  
 shadow cabinet
Shadow Cabinet was created by Brian Smith in June 1995 in order to share some pictures I\'d taken of the band.
The Liberal Shadow Cabinet as at 6 August 2002.
The full line-up of the Tory shadow cabinet is named, with Oliver Letwin and David Davis big winners.
www.jointctr.org /?Category=shadow+cabinet   (108 words)

  
 (Southern Cross) Words   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
As Australia starts towards its debate on the implementation of nuclear power plants, back in NYC the debate has moved on towards decommissioning Indian Point, and this raises a number of issues that must also be taken into consideration in Canberra.
Australia has lots of uranium, so much that we're going to start exporting it to China soon, and others, maybe, later, especially now that George Bush has welcomed Pakistan into the nuclear club (but not India, go figure), at least unofficially.
I’ve criticized Bush for his Cabinet picks before: they’re all the failed Cold Warriors of previous administrations or of academia, so the rhetoric they and they’re supporters (and their ostensible boss, Bush himself) continue to spout over the changed world we now live in falls flat, flatter every day, in fact.
www.crosswords.blogspot.com   (6380 words)

  
 Sena-BJP combine forms M’rashtra shadow Cabinet - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The shadow cabinet members are expected to keep a close watch on the developments in the departments allotted to them.
A member of the shadow cabinet is given a department, for which he or she is the Opposition’s chief spokesperson.
The shadow cabinet members are expected to analyse decisions of the state Cabinet taken at its weekly meetings.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/feb092005/n1.asp   (659 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special investigation: The spies who pushed for war on Iraq
According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence sources, senior administration figures created a shadow agency of Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence Agency.
Mr Tenet has officially taken responsibility for the president's unsubstantiated claim in January that Saddam Hussein's regime had been trying to buy uranium in Africa, but he also said his agency was under pressure to justify a war that the administration had already decided on.
The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria.
www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html   (1708 words)

  
 Glossary - Parliament of Victoria
Australia's oldest political party, formed nationally in 1901, and given its present name in 1918.
A Bill introduced by an Opposition, Independent or Government backbench member in his or her own capacity rather than as a Member of the Government.
A member of the Opposition who has responsibility for a particular area of policy; the member is said to `shadow' the appropriate Minister.
www.parliament.vic.gov.au /gloss.html   (2584 words)

  
 The Head Heeb: Terra Australis Cognita
Australia and the United States have obvious historical similarities - both are immigrant nations with vast frontiers, wide open spaces and a history of regional hegemony - and these have produced considerable overlap in attitudes.
Australia is one of the few countries where the breakdown between the political left and right is comprehensible to an American, right down to the debates over terrorism, federalism and abortion.
Australia before the 1960s had some aspects of apartheid - e.g., most aborigines were legally disenfranchised and their citizenship rights were decidedly uncertain - but its policy was to turn the aborigines into whites rather than to hermetically separate the two cultures.
headheeb.blogmosis.com /archives/025672.html   (5917 words)

  
 Fixing Australia
Australia has one of the world's strictest immigration policies, detaining all asylum seekers, illegal workers and anyone overstaying their visas in guarded camps while their cases are handled, a process that can take years.
Australia argues that it is forced to be more rigorous in its handling of asylum seekers because of the sheer number arriving on its shores.
Australia's humanitarian programme comprises "offshore resettlement for people in humanitarian need overseas; and onshore protection for those people already in Australia who arrived on temporary visas or in an unauthorised manner".
www.safecom.org.au /fixingaustralia.htm   (15844 words)

  
 The CIA in Australia
Allegations and information are available in Australia and overseas, and have been for a long time, but we are all faced by the iron curtain of American intelligence and Australian secrecy, the unavailability of such information to the public.
And it was following the interview with Australia’s 60 Minutes that he was put into a locked room with half a dozen members of the Aryan Brotherhood who were a neo-nazi group within the prison and they established beatings and have actually got a contract on his life.
What you in Australia must understand is that you are more to blame than the CIA is because you want this to happen, you want a certain administration in control and you don’t want another administration in control.
www.williambowles.info /spysrus/cia_australia.html   (19508 words)

  
 Lawrence resigns from shadow cabinet - smh.com.au
Labor frontbencher Carmen Lawrence today resigned from Labor's shadow cabinet in protest at the party's new immigration policy.
But she said she was more comfortable with the views of the wider Labor Party than of the shadow cabinet.
Mrs Lawrence said too many decisions were being made before the issues were taken to shadow cabinet for discussion.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/12/05/1038950140639.html   (383 words)

  
 No Republic! Australians for Constitutional Monarchy - ACM Home
He is referring to Khalil Eideh who he says “came to Australia as a teenager in 1970, and is now the millionaire boss of Blue Star Transport and head of the Alawi Islamic Association of Victoria.” The ALP executive has approved his candidature for the elections.
The current political crisis in East Timor is so dire, that Australia needs to broaden its current policing only role, to that of seeking a UN mandate to actually govern the country, at least in the short term.
We reported recently in our column of 9 June, 2006(“Leading republican politician prefers Timor's constitution to Australia's!”) that at a Canberra function of the republican movement, it was admitted that the restoration of the monarchy was in fact proposed for Iraq on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
www.norepublic.com.au   (3970 words)

  
 Dail Debates Official Report - 29-03-00
I am particularly pleased that the Bill will establish family welfare conferences on a statutory basis to deal with those children who have been charged with an offence and referred to the health boards by the courts, and those children who are the subject of applications for special care orders.
We discussed matters of mutual interest, including the ongoing response of the international community to the situation in East Timor, economic and cultural ties between Ireland and Australia, Australian relations with the EU and the status of the peace process in Northern Ireland.
During my visit we were briefed on the planning and funding of the stadium project and on the facilities which have been put in place, both for the Olympics and for the continuing use of the stadium.
www.irlgov.ie /debates-00/29march/sect3.htm   (7490 words)

  
 Australia and Refugees, 19012002: An Annotated Chronology Based on Official Sources
The aim is to discuss the issue of people smuggling, to inform the five governments of Australia's strong position against people smuggling and the new laws to enforce it, and to develop a 'global approach' to the problem.
The Law Council of Australia calls on the Federal Government to reinstate the jurisdiction of the Federal Court to hear matters 'clogging' the High Court's workload.
Minister Ruddock reiterates his view that it is 'deeply regrettable that Australia's ability to take the most urgent casesthose languishing in refugee campswas under threat by people who bypassed the normal resettlement processes offshore by paying criminals to bring them to Australia'.
www.aph.gov.au /LIBRARY/pubs/online/Refugees_s7.htm   (8290 words)

  
 Jihad Watch
The document, which was produced by officials from MI5 and the Home and Foreign Offices, also states that as many as 16,000 British Muslims - or one per cent of the Muslim population in Britain - "support" Islamist terrorist acts at home and abroad.
Whitehall officials confirmed there was a problem of radicalisation amongst Muslim converts but have refused to reveal exactly how many were active terrorist suspects.
The original opposition of the Arabs to Jews buying land from landowners was naturally muted as long as the Arabs needed Western power to help them against the Turks.
www.jihadwatch.org   (8001 words)

  
 australia first queensland section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Party officials were active in the June 28 National Day of Action on the new commonwealth industrial relations legislation.
Australia First's Queensland Branch supports the development of a new flag which reflects the green and gold national colours.
There was no mass opposition to the white australia policy when it was finally abandoned in 1973 with the removal of the remaining discriminatory provisions in the Migration Act by the Labor Party's immigration minister, Al Grassby.
www.australiafirst.org.au   (3967 words)

  
 A SHORT HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 1901 Earl of Hopetoun (afterwards Marquis of Linlithgow).
In this way the western coasts of Australia were brought within sight of the regular sailing track of vessels from Europe; and as soon as that occurred the finding of other portions of the coast was only a matter of time.
One of the vexing questions confronting his Cabinet was that of the disposal of the felons, and the Minister responsible, Lord Sydney, recommended the plan of sending them to New Holland.
www.gutenberg.net.au /ebooks02/0200471h.html   (16126 words)

  
 Shadow Cabinet of ministers from the opposition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A Shadow Cabinet of ministers from the opposition will achieve nothing with the current government because of its association with the Communist party.
The shadow cabinet is apt in a two party system in any elective democracy.
Since NDA is the official national opposition, it could announce a shadow cabinet.
o3.indiatimes.com /citizenry/archive/2006/01/31/443027.aspx   (7282 words)

  
 Biography - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Alexander Downer has been Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs since the election of the Howard Government in March 1996, and has held the seat of Mayo for the Liberal Party continuously since 1984.
Born in 1951, Mr Downer was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria; Radley College, Oxford, United Kingdom; and the University of Newcastle on Tyne, United Kingdom.
Malcolm Fraser, and Political Adviser to the Federal Leader of the Opposition, the Hon.
www.foreignminister.gov.au /downer_bio.html   (701 words)

  
 The Corner on National Review Online
Mosul has been a problem, one the administration probably should have better anticipated, although the city seems to be coming under control again.
The police chief there, now fired and under arrest, was considered a model official not too long ago.
The shadow of 2000 loomed -- fears of a constitutional crisis.
www.nationalreview.com /thecorner/04_11_22_corner-archive.asp   (6391 words)

  
 frontpage
Oliver Heald, the shadow constitutional affairs secretary, told The Scotsman the latter option had been ruled out as it was "too expensive" and the last thing taxpayers needed was more MPs.
This week he's imitating Mrs T on Europe if today's FT is to be believed: "Britain is locked in a new dispute over its contributions to the European Union budget, only months after EU leaders thought they had settled the issue...
Although Mr Brown was consulted throughout the bruising negotiations in Brussels at the end of the British EU presidency, his officials claimed he was dismayed by the outcome.
conservativehome.blogs.com   (6513 words)

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