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	Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Australia's neighbouring countries are Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east.
		Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role that is distinct from her position as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
		Australia led the formation of the Cairns Group and APEC, and is a member of the OECD and the WTO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australia (4601 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia - The Senate
		The Australian Senate is composed of 76 members: twelve from each one of Australia's six states, and two from each of the country's two internal territories.
		However, in the event the Senate repeatedly fails to approve legislation passed by the House of Representatives, the Constitution of Australia provides for the dissolution of both houses of Parliament - a double dissolution - followed by elections for the House of Representatives and the full Senate.
		In each state and territory, Senate seats are awarded to candidates who attain the state or territory quota, calculated by dividing the number of formal first preference votes cast in the state or territory by one more than the number of seats to be filled, and then adding one to the result.
	electionresources.org /au/senate.html (866 words)

	Australia (08/05)
		Australia's comparative advantage in primary products is a reflection of the natural wealth of the Australian continent and its small domestic market; 20 million people occupy a continent the size of the contiguous United States.
		Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia.
		Australia also is active in meetings of the Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, and has been a leader in the Cairns Group--countries pressing for agricultural trade reform in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations -- and in the APEC forum.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2698.htm (4388 words)

	AFTINET Submission on the Aust-US Free Trade Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Australia needs to ensure that its national interests are not compromised in relation to other countries by being perceived in such a way.
		Australia has specific restrictions on foreign investment in newspapers and television which are intended to prevent total domination of a relatively small market by global corporations.
		Australia has relatively high quarantine standards because as an island country we are disease-free in some areas, and the impact of such diseases would be devastating.
	www.aftinet.org.au /campaigns/usftasubmission1.html (4845 words)

	ICL - Australia Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It is therefore UK legislation granted for the purposes of a self-governing colony, as witnessed by Section 2 of the Act, continually vesting sovereignty in the UK monarchy, as well as Section 57 (3) (with 58, 59, 60), 128 (4), and 74 (3) of the Constitution, preserving the "Queen's assent" and "Royal prerogative".
		Australia joined the League of Nations on 10 January 1920, but there is no specific date for the independence from Britain.
		Furthermore, Australia did not separately declare war in 1939: Britain was at war and therefore Australia was, too.
	www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/as__indx.html (456 words)

	Senate declares no confidence motion in PM
		The Senate today censured the federal government for deploying troops to a potential war against Iraq, declaring no confidence in Prime Minister John Howard.
		In a 33 to 31 vote, the Senate criticised the government for sending troops to a potential war without a proper explanation to the Australian people.
		Greens senator Bob Brown said the Senate censure marked a historic condemnation of the government.
	www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_020503_general10.html (322 words)

	Australia: another Senate committee whitewash of government lies on Iraq
		Australia’s Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Senate Committee report into “Duties of Australian Personnel in Iraq,” released on August 18, is a political whitewash.
		The Senate report claimed that it was “not clear” whether Barton was involved in interrogations because “the meaning of the terms ‘interview’ and ‘interrogation’ appear to merge”.
		Labor Senator John Faulkner told parliament that Dr Gee’s failure to testify “stymied the work of the committee” and meant that it was “unable to get closer to the truth of the Australian participation in the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners.” Faulkner declared that the opposition would “pursue these issues relentlessly”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/sep2005/bart-s01.shtml (1526 words)

	Australia
		Australia is a constitutional democracy with a federal parliamentary government.
		In April, the Federal Court of Australia ruled that continued detention of asylum seekers when there was no real likelihood of the detainee being removed was unlawful; the Government's appeal of the decision was pending at year's end (see Section 2.d.).
		In 2002, both the High Commissioner for Human Rights Special Envoy to Australia and the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) investigated conditions in the detention centers and expressed concerns about the psychological impact that prolonged detention was having on asylum seekers, in particular children, unaccompanied minors, the elderly, and those with disabilities.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27763.htm (9451 words)

	CIO \| Senate report criticises Australia's broadband network
		The Senate Broadband Inquiry Report said the copper network is at the end of its life and the government had done little to ensure Australia had a state of the art broadband network.
		"Australia cannot afford to be left behind; competition is being stifled because of Telstra's ownership of the copper wire, optic fibre network and Foxtel," he said.
		The recommendation for Telstra to divest its holding in Foxtel is in line with Labor policy and with Labor senators occupying three of the six seats on the inquiry, government senators John Tierney and Tsebin Tchen released a dissenting report.
	www.cio.com.au /index.php?id=31957230&eid=-601 (455 words)

	LLRX.com - Update to Researching Australian Law
		The Commonwealth of Australia is a common law jurisdiction; a federation within the British Commonwealth, with Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state.
		Australia was first settled as a British penal colony in 1788, and, although there was a widespread indigenous population, was deemed "terra nullius" (empty land), a finding only overturned in 1992 by the famous land rights decision of the High Court of Australia in Mabo
		It is important to an understanding of the federal nature of Australia to know that each of the colonies had their own constitutions and had been enacting laws long before Federation.
	www.llrx.com /features/australian2.htm (4885 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Australia's Hanson in Senate bid
		Ms Hanson, whose views on migrants and aborigines have divided the nation, said she would run for a Senate seat.
		It seemed she was destined to follow a career in business or in country and western music.
		She has put this about-turn down to the level of public support she has been receiving - and to her father, who has urged her to re-join the rough and tumble of Australian politics.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/3658428.stm (335 words)

	Australia Senate passes Net control bill \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The legislation was passed through the Senate with the support of conservative Tasmanian Senator Brian Harradine over objections from Democrats and the Labor Party.
		Democrat Senator Natasha Stott Despoja noted her party's objection to the bill, saying that it supported the need to control illegal and offensive content on the Internet but felt that the government legislation would fail to do so and would have a detrimental effect on the Internet industry.
		Australia's peak Internet industry body, the Internet Industry Association (IIA), played a prominent role in lobbying the government over changes to the bill and was influential in some of the amendments that eventually were enacted.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-514744.html?legacy=zdnn (1209 words)

	AUSTRALIA: Howard's Senate Majority Rings Alarm Bells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		For example, the Senate Committee that revealed government deception over its 2001 election campaign that refugees callously threw their children into the ocean, was instituted against the administration's wishes.
		If Family First does win a Senate seat in Victoria it will only be because both the Labor Party and the centre-left Democrats directed preferences to them in an effort to deny the Australian Greens an additional seat.
		While pressure from both the international and business community is likely to force Australia to ratify the Kyoto climate change treaty, the debate over the escalating logging of Tasmania's wilderness and old-growth forests is set to drag on.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=25800 (1039 words)

	Australia: Howard's Senate victory fuels Coalition tensions
		Now that the government controls the Senate, but only on the basis of maintaining the ongoing support of five National Senators, these conflicts are certain to fester.
		For the past quarter century, the minor parties in the Senate have acted as a political safety valve for the erosion of support for the Coalition and Labor and their pro-business policies.
		All those outraged by government plans were implored to channel their energies into lobbying senators and lodging submissions to parliamentary committees, which were depicted as models of parliamentary democracy at work.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/nov2004/howa-n19_prn.shtml (2178 words)

	Welcome to the Australian Greens Online - View Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Senator Rachel Siewert is in Darwin today to support the community in rejecting a national radioactive waste dump in the Northern Territory.
		Senator Brown challenged claims that Australia is highly taxed (in 2002 we were 8th lowest of 30 OECD nations), or had super high top personal income tax rates (France 42.6%, Germany 45%, Italy 45%).
		Greens Senator Kerry Nettle today renewed Greens calls for the abolition of the government's mandatory detention regime following news that traumatised former detainee, 10 yr old Shayan Badraie, is suing the federal government for damages.
	www.greens.org.au (796 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Howard seizes Australia's Senate
		Australia's John Howard has captured control of his country's Senate, making him the most powerful prime minister in 24 years.
		Senator Ron Boswell of the National Party, partner to Mr Howard's Liberals, said he phoned Mr Howard with the words "open sesame" in congratulation, but went on to deny the Senate would now be simply a rubber stamp for government policy.
		However the leader of the Democrats, who lost a seat to the ruling coalition in Queensland, Andrew Bartlett, said the result was a sad day for the Senate and for Australian democracy.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/asia-pacific/3960585.stm (356 words)

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	www.oceania-cruises.info /australia-oceania-senate-report.htm (233 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia
		Members of both houses of Australia's Parliament - the Senate and the House of Representatives - are chosen by preferential voting systems, which are described here.
		Unless otherwise indicated, Senate elections are for one-half of the state Senators, as well as all territory Senators.
		As in the United States, the states have equal representation in the Senate, whereas House seats are apportioned among the states in proportion to their populations.
	electionresources.org /au (525 words)

	Stone Welcomes Senate Vote on Australia's New Tax System Media Release 25 June 1999
		Legislation to deliver $12 billion in tax cuts will be voted on in the Senate on Monday along with legislation to abolish wholesales sales taxes.
		"This legislation will ensure Australia has a modern, fair and transparent tax system well into the next century; a tax system that will provide a framework for jobs growth, increased exports and investment, and an increased standard of living for all Australians," Dr Stone said.
		The legislation was passed through the Senate today with the support of the Australian Democrats.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/ps/99/psmr25jun99.html (562 words)

	Napster fury fills the Senate: ZDNet Australia: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Although no legislation was being discussed at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the debate on the future of Net music helped paint the picture of an increasingly fractious online music world, in which artists, labels, retailers and technology companies each are taking diverging positions.
		Much of the testimony indicated that the record labels are losing some control of the debate over file-swapping service Napster and the online distribution of music, even as their legal position has been shored up in court.
		Several of the senators at the hearing wanted to know whether anything more could be done to spur the release of music online, ranging from small tax incentives to "compulsory licensing" of the type that feeds radio stations and cable TV.
	www.zdnet.com.au /news/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=20213331-39023165t-10000000c (716 words)

	Free trade deal tested as Labor threatens blockade - BusinessNewsAUS-FTA - www.smh.com.au
		Asked whether he had been advised that the agreement would damage Australia's international reputation as a free trade advocate, he said: "Oh look, we had a whole range of discussions on a daily basis right throughout the fortnight that we were negotiating in Washington.
		Senator Conroy said Labor would oppose the trade deal if it undermined the Government's ability to regulate local content in audiovisual products, including new technology that may not yet be available in Australia.
		Senator Conroy said Labor would also oppose the trade agreement if it considered it undermined Australia's global or regional trade objectives.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/01/1078117369335.html (562 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Australia's Senate passes U.S. trade deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Australia's Senate passed legislation Friday paving the way for a landmark free trade agreement with the United States to take effect next year.
		CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's Senate passed legislation Friday paving the way for a landmark free trade agreement with the United States to take effect next year.
		That agreement meant Labor voted for the deal in Parliament's upper house the Senate, where its support was vital as the government does not have a majority.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/08/12/australias_senate_passes_us_trade_deal (156 words)

	Trade deal deadlocked on medicines - National - www.theage.com.au
		The Senate inquiry into the FTA was told this was now routine practice in America.
		Labor trade spokesman Senator Stephen Conroy said it had yet to emerge in Australia, but Labor wanted to nip it in the bud.
		The Senate is expected to vote on the legislation next Monday.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/08/03/1091476492479.html (728 words)

	Parliament of Australia: Senate: Committee: Australia New Zealand Food Authority Amendment Bill 1996 and (No.2) 1997
		On 13 May 1997 the Senate, on the recommendation of the Selection of Bills Committee (Report No.7 of 1997), referred the Bill to the Committee for report by 16 June 1997.
		On 29 May 1997 the Senate, on the recommendation of the Selection of Bills Committee (Report No.9 of 1997), referred the Bill to the Committee for report by 16 June 1997.
		The Health Department of Western Australia was particularly concerned that if fees were imposed they should be waived for applications which were in the public interest and indeed for those that protected public health and safety [8];
	www.aph.gov.au /senate/committee/clac_ctte/anz/report/c01.htm (3277 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Oceania: Australia: Government: Legislative Powers: Members of the Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Crossin, Trish - Senator for the Northern Territory.
		Macdonald, The Hon Ian - Senator for Queensland.
		Troeth, The Hon Judith - Senator for Victoria.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Oceania/Australia/Government/Legislative_Powers/Members_of_the_Senate (268 words)

	AU-US FTA - Bad for Open Source? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Linux Australia have set up a Collaboration Wiki so that members of the community can join forces and know what each other are doing.
		Unlike the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (the 'JSCT', expected to "rubber stamp" the FTA), the Senate FTA Committee is balanced between 3 Coalition senators, (Boswell, Brandis, Ferris), 3 Labor senators (Cook, Conroy, O'Brien), 1 Democrat senator (Ridgeway) and 1 One Nation senator (Harris).
		However, legislative changes required by the treaty have to pass the Senate, which is not currently dominated by the government.
	www.linux.org.au /fta (1381 words)

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