Search Results - Senate of Australia
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Revolutionising the senate in Malaysia : lessons from Australia and Canada
Published 2020“…Since its formation in 1959, the Senate has been seen as a less influential House of Parliament. …”
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Ballot Bungles: Lessons from the Australian Senate
Published 2014“…This article provides an overview of the controversy surrounding the 2013 election of senators for Western Australia and the judgment of the High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns in Australian Electoral Commission v. …”
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Green Smokescreens: A submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into greenwashing
Published 2023“…In this submission, invited by the Australian Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications, we use three key recommendations – establish clear regulations, build robust enforcement, and offer irrefutable incentives – to describe a desired future state for Australia, which we believe is achievable within a 5-10 year timeframe. …”
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Australia's federal experience
Published 2004“…In 1901, the former colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia federated to create the nation of Australia under the auspices of a new constitution. …”
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They give evidence: bodies, borders and the disappeared
Published 2006“…Beginning with the disappeared of the SIEV X sinking, euphemistically referred to in the recent Senate Inquiry as 'A Certain Maritime Incident', this essay examines ways in which nameless bodies of the dead and disappeared are made present in contemporary Australia as evidence, as political bodies…”
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The challenges of dealing with tax havens: Can innovative uses of technology be part of the solution?
Published 2008“…The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) estimates that in 2005-06 about $5.3 billion flowed from Australia to tax havens. A US Senate Committee recently estimated that offshore tax havens hold trillions of dollars in assets provided by citizens of other countries. …”
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‘Profitable for the country’. An Australian historical perspective of the contested purpose of public universities
Published 2020“…Using contemporary records–for example, legislation, parliamentary debates, university acts, newspaper articles, senate and professorial board minutes, and similar–this article examines how Australia’s early scholarly community contested and negotiated what it believed to be the purpose of higher education, with a sometimes-conflicting view held by the state. …”
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