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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Garrett was one of the founders of the Nuclear Disarmament Party and stood for a seat in the Australian Senate in New South Wales at the December 1984 federal election.
		Garrett served as president of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1989 to 1993 and 1998 to 2004.
		In 2000 Garrett was awarded the Australian Humanitarian Foundation Award in the Environment category and in 2001 he received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New South Wales.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Peter_Garrett (947 words)

	Australian - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Various surveys held before and since the referendum suggest that the majority of Australians favour some form of republic, and hence many people ascribe the negative result of the referendum to dissatisfaction with the particular republican model that was proposed (A further discussion of this issue can be found in the topic Australian republicanism).
		The Australian Aborigines population, estimated at about 500,000 at the time of Europeans arrival, declined steeply for 150 years but had recovered to 386,049 (including Torres Strait Islanders, who are of Papuan descent) in 1996.
		Although the Australian colonies were founded as a penal colonies (except for South Australia and Western Australia - with the latter later receiving convicts), the transportation of British convicts to Australian colonies was gradually phased out between 1840 and 1868.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /australian.htm (3644 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Pr' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Presidency of the Council of the European Union
		President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
		President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /p/pr (192 words)

	Margaret Reid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was the first woman to be President of the Australian Senate.
		In 1996 she was elected Senate President, retiring in 2002 after six years, the longest-serving President in 25 years.
		Reid resigned from the Senate in February 2003 was replaced in the Senate by former Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Gary Humphries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Reid (187 words)

	The Australian: Senate passes gay marriage ban (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Senator Greig said it was deeply offensive for anti-gay campaigners to argue that love and commitment between gay people was less or different to that between people of the opposite sex.
		Manager of opposition business in the Senate Joe Ludwig said Labor supported the change because it was in line with the common law definition of marriage and was consistent with marriage's social and religious history.
		Senator Brown accused Mr Howard of "hate legislating" and refused to apologise when the Senate president described it as unparliamentary language.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,10431993^1702,00.html (506 words)

	MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE 26 November 2003 The Australian Senate
		Senator HARRIS (Queensland) (3.49 p.m.)—In moving this matter of public importance, I also signal that today I have given a notice of motion to establish a Senate select committee inquiry into the Lindeberg grievance, because both are interlinked.
		Former Senator Newman chaired the same committee the year before I became chair, and in that inquiry we made a number of recommendations in respect of a preliminary investigation of the Heiner documents affair which were not accepted by the Queensland government at the time.
		Senator MOORE (Queensland) (4.32 p.m.)—When Senator Harris moved his motion this afternoon he said that somehow the mention of the Heiner inquiry causes apoplexy on this side of the chamber.
	www.gwb.com.au /gwb/news/goss/senate2.htm (5215 words)

	The Australian Constitution - Section 17 - Election of President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Senate shall, before proceeding to the despatch of any other business, choose a senator to be to President of the Senate; and as often as the office of President becomes vacant the Senate shall again choose a senator to be the President.
		The President shall cease to hold his office if he ceases to be a senator.
		He may be removed from office by a vote of the Senate, or he may resign his office or his seat by writing addressed to the Governor-General.
	www.australianpolitics.com /constitution/text/17.shtml (104 words)

	Parliament of Australia: Senate: Briefs - 9
		This was intended to ensure that the Senate was independent of the executive government (which we usually refer to as `the government' and which consists of the Prime Minister and the other ministers of state) on whose advice the Governor-General would usually act when dissolving a house of Parliament.
		However, the Senate may force the government to account for its actions, and in the last resort to go to an election, [27] by rejecting an appropriation bill for the ordinary annual services of government.
		The President governs for a fixed term of four years irrespective of whether the party he or she belongs to possesses a majority of seats in either or both Houses of Congress.
	www.aph.gov.au /senate/dept/briefs/brief9.htm (3064 words)

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		The President of the Senate, on the advice of a panel comprising senators and other persons with expert knowledge, may award the prize in the amount of $3000 to one entrant, or may make two awards of $2000 to two entrants.
		The President may choose not to award a prize if no entry is deemed to be of a sufficiently high standard.
		Serving senators, Senior Executive staff of the Department of the Senate and members of the judging panel are not eligible for the prize.
	activated.det.act.gov.au /word/040401AustralianSenate.doc (362 words)

	Immigration Proposals Pass Test In Senate - washingtonpost.com
		But in the Senate, the bipartisan coalition appears to be holding behind broad-based legislation that would tighten border controls, create a new guest-worker program, and offer illegal immigrants who have been in the country at least five years a legal work permit and a path to citizenship.
		Senators voted 55 to 40 to kill an amendment, offered by Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), that would have prohibited the implementation of any guest-worker program for illegal immigrants until the secretary of homeland security certified that the bill's border security provisions were fully funded and operational.
		Senators both for and against the immigration measure expressed confidence that the bill will be passed by the end of next week.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/16/AR2006051600843.html (1065 words)

	President Bush Addresses Australian Parliament
		PRESIDENT BUSH: Governor General Michael Jeffery, Prime Minister John Howard, Speaker of the House, Leader of the Senate, Leader of the Opposition Simon Crean, distinguished members of the House and the Senate, Premiers, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, ladies and gentlemen: Laura and I are honored to be in the Commonwealth of Australia.
		Yet in times of trouble and danger, Australians are the first to step forward, to accept the hard duties, and to fight bravely until the fighting is done.
		PRESIDENT BUSH: Surely no one who cares about human rights and democracy and stability in the Middle East.
	www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2003/10/20031022-12.html (2104 words)

	IDFA - News Article Template - Updated July 19, 2004
		The measure was passed on July 14 in the House of Representatives by a vote of 314-109.
		In the Senate, the bill received approval by the finance committee on July 14 and from the full Senate (80-16) on July 15.
		The Australian government has indicated that its dairy industry has the potential to gain about US$41 million worth of the U.S. market in the first year of the agreement, about 0.06% of the total value of the $70 billion U.S. dairy product manufacturing industry.
	www.idfa.org /news/stories/2004/07/australianfta.cfm (336 words)

	Australian senator Barnaby Joyce crosses floor - News IRC4ever.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Canberra, Australia â“ Barnaby Joyce, an Australian National Party member of Parliament crossed the floor in the Australian Senate October 11 over legislation proposed to permit mergers without the agreement of the competition watchdog body, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
		The vote was tied with 32 for and 32 against and thus the question was not carried by the government (the President of the Australian Senate does not hold the casting vote as in the Australian House of Representatives).
		This is the first time Joyce, a recently elected senator, has crossed the floor in the Senate, and Joyce has suggested that this may not be the last.
	irc4ever.net /wiki/Australian_senator_Barnaby_Joyce_crosses_floor (178 words)

	CG Bio - Australian Consulate-General
		From 1990 to 1992, Mr Olsen was appointed to the Federal Senate.
		He joined the South Australian Parliament in 1979, was the President of the South Australian Liberal Party from 1976 – 1979 and was awarded the US Bicentennial Fellowship in 1976.
		Mr Olsen was the Mayor of Kadina from 1974 – 1977 and the Past President of Kernewek Lowender and Rural Youth South Australia.
	www.australianyc.org /nycg/CGBIO.html (353 words)

	Australian government unveils military restructure and new callout powers
		In addition, it specifically covers threats to “critical infrastructure,” such as public transport and utilities, that are not Commonwealth, but state or territory responsibilities, as well as any incidents in the air and offshore waters.
		The procedures for calling out the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) will be expedited so that in “sudden and extraordinary emergency” situations the prime minister or two other ministers can give the order, which does not need to be in writing.
		Taken together, the proposed changes to the Australian military are part of an escalating attack on basic democratic rights and follow the recent passage of the Howard government’s anti-terror legislation early this month.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/december2005/171205Australian_Gov.htm (1606 words)

	Senator blocks Bush's Australian envoy pick - National - theage.com.au
		In a letter to President Bush, Senator Durbin said it was premature to place Mr McCallum in a new position of trust while the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility was examining his role in a controversial case against the tobacco industry.
		In his letter to Mr Bush, Senator Durbin said: "It appears that the dramatic change in course by the Department of Justice was not the result of any new evidence about smoking cessation or the facts of the case but the result of political pressure on the career prosecutors.
		The US constitution gives the President the power "to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint ambassadors" and other public officials, such as Supreme Court judges.
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/senator-blocks-bushs-australian-envoy-pick/2006/04/14/1144521502642.html (687 words)

	The Australian: President quits in cocoa protests (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mr Mesa came to power in October 2003, after president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada was toppled by street demonstrations, which killed as many as 80.
		The constitution requires the president to be replaced by his vice president.
		However, because that post is vacant, the job would fall to the president of the Senate, Hormando Vaca Diez.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,12468553^1702,00.html (674 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| God help the Queen
		Club president Jack Kellahan, a pro-republic financial consultant, is checking his notes and wondering when the sponsors want to hand out their six complimentary golf umbrellas.
		If accepted, it would mean that anyone could nominate any Australian who was not a serving politician as president, but the final choice would be made from a shortlist drawn up by a 32-strong committee and referred to the prime minster.
		When Hawke responds to a questioner in the audience that "I don't believe Australians are inferior to the house of Windsor", the questioner ripostes that "Australia has more to fear from the house of Murdoch".
	www.guardian.co.uk /ausref/Story/0,2763,196501,00.html (1474 words)

	LLRX.com - Update to Researching Australian Law
		Nick was the convenor of the Australian and New Zealand university law librarians group from 1993 to 1999 and was local convenor of the IALL conference held in Melbourne in September 1999.
		The model proposed was a 'minimalist' one which would, in essence, have seen the substitution of the Crown for a President in the Constitution, with the President being appointed by a two-thirds majority of the Federal Parliament.
		The Australian Commonwealth Parliament and those of the States are bicameral, with the exception of that of the State of Queensland which abolished its upper house in 1922.
	www.llrx.com /features/australian3.htm (4762 words)

	Australian Senate rejects Timor war crimes tribunal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Senator Brown said 2,000 East Timorese were killed during the referendum period but 200,000 were killed during the entire Indonesian occupation, so Indonesia was only investigating one per cent of crimes.
		Australian Democrats foreign affairs spokeswoman Vicki Bourne said people committing atrocities before 1999 would never be brought to justice without a tribunal.
		Senator Brown said the Senate lacked in nerve and morality.
	www.etan.org /et2001c/august/19-25/22austr.htm (395 words)

	Australian Gov't Unmoved by UN Criticism over Same-Sex Discrimination -- 09/12/2003
		The Senate, which is dominated by the official opposition Labor Party and small left-wing parties, passed the motion by a single vote.
		Wayne Morgan, an academic at the Australian National University who specializes in legal issues relating to sexuality and discrimination, said earlier that the implications of the U.N. decision were noteworthy.
		Senator Brett Mason, a member of the ruling coalition, took the U.N. to task for "focusing on democratic nations where it is easy to score points, and fail[ing] to pick up far grosser human rights abuses."
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Try=No&Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200309\FOR20030912a.html (1208 words)

	Australian Financial Review - President Arnie? Don't laugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The US Senate bill will allow the foreign-born American who has been a citizen for at least 20 years to be president.
		Senator Hatch, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pointed out that no similar birthplace restriction applies to other government offices, including the Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court, or the president's own cabinet.
		Senator Hatch said that, at the time the US constitution was written, the founding fathers of the US were worried that a foreign power, such as Britain, could seize the government through the electoral system, but argued the constitutional clause had long since outlived its usefulness.
	afr.com /articles/2003/10/09/1065676097285.html (694 words)

	Asia Times: Proposed 'anti-terrorism' law flouts rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After three days of hearings on the legislation in Melbourne and Canberra, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee - which is evenly balanced between government members and members from the opposition Labor and a progressive minor party - is likely to be split on the legislation.
		When it issues its report to the senate on May 3, the fate of the legislation will hinge on the position adopted by the Labor Party, which, with minor parties, can block the legislation in the Senate.
		Underlying opposition to the proposed legislation is the concern that Australian security agencies fail to distinguish between participation in democratic debate and "terrorism".
	www.atimes.com /oceania/DD23Ah01.html (857 words)

	Canadian Senate - International Perspective - Senates in the United States, Australia, Italy, and the United Kingdom
		The Senate President's most important role is casting the deciding vote in the case of a tie.
		As the 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis demonstrated, they are not reluctant to exercise their considerable powers.
		The Australian Senate's strong role relative to the House of Representatives is illustrated by a constitutional provision for breaking deadlock between the two chambers, involving a dissolution of Parliament and a joint sitting.
	www.rhondaparkinson.com /senateintnalperspective.htm (797 words)

	The Netherlands - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		An Australian parliamentary delegation to the Dutch Parliament in May 2004 was led by the Hon Senator Paul Calvert, President of the Australian Senate.
		In 2001, the Centenary of Federation celebration was marked by the Embassy with a gala Australian food and wine tasting, held during the Dutch International Wine Festival.
		The Netherlands is a significant destination for Australian FDI abroad and continues to offer potential as a highly English literate and relatively low-cost entry and distribution point for continental Europe.
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/netherlands/netherlands_country_brief.html (2686 words)

	The Australian Republic - A citizen-centred alternative
		The Australian Citizen of today still has to "hoe his own field", but has many new mechanical and electronic "slaves" to give him the leisure and education to take more of a direct role in government.
		Australians have been, in the various referendums over the years, very careful about change; not purely negative, as propagandists often paint us.
		Australians have passed controversial (at the time) referendums that we felt to be fair and in the public interest.
	www.ratifiersfordemocracy.org /ausrep.html (3696 words)

	Australian leader: Al-Qaida wants Obama - Boston.com
		He has also introduced a bill in the Senate to prevent President Bush from increasing American troop levels in Iraq and to remove U.S. combat forces from the country by March 31, 2008.
		Australian Prime Minister John Howard, a staunch Bush ally who has sent troops to Iraq and faces his own re-election bid later this year, said Obama's proposals would spell disaster for the Middle East.
		He is seeking a fifth term later this year, and recent polls suggest voters are increasingly unhappy about his refusal to set a deadline for withdrawing Australian troops from the Middle East.
	www.boston.com /news/world/australia/articles/2007/02/11/australian_leader_al_qaida_wants_obama?mode=PF (479 words)

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