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Governors-General - Australia's Culture Portal

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...

The changing face of early Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Eventually, the arrival of people from diverse societies created a cultural diversity that is now an integral part of Australian society and identity. Image courtesy of the Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia. Migration Museum, History Trus...

Bark Petitions: Many visits, many petitions and much misunderstanding - Australia's Culture Portal

The bark petitions were the first to use traditional forms and combine bark painting with text typed on paper. Petition to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd by Galarrwuy Yunupingu from Yirrkala, Northern Territory, 23 July, 2008. In July 2008, Yunupingu presented...

Federation - Australia's Culture Portal

The Federation Kiosk, Centennial Park, Sydney at the Proclamation of Federation, 1 January 1901. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia. The movement had begun to gather real momentum after Henry Parkes wrote to the other premiers in 1889 an...

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The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Referendums   (website Constitutional Centre of Western Australia )

Advisory Referendums (also called plebiscites) Not all referendums are about changing the Constitution. Governments can hold advisory referendums to test whether people either support or oppose a proposed action or issue. They are not bound by the "resu...

The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Constitutional Referendums   (website Constitutional Centre of Western Australia )

The Australian people have voted on 44 proposals for change in 20 constitutional referendums since 1901. Amending the Commonwealth Constitution has proved difficult. Examples of unsuccessful referendums: 1988 Rights and Freedoms In September 1988, a rig...

The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - The Federal Constitutional Referendums 1898, 1899 and 1900   (website Constitutional Centre of Western Australia )

The members of the Women's Federal League in New South Wales, none of whom had a vote, were more positive. On 3 and 4 June 1898, Tasmania, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria went to the polls. These changes were accepted by the voters at anot...

A CENTENARY REFLECTION ON THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION:á THE REPUBLIC REFERENDUM, 1999   (website High Court of Australia )

For Robert Gordon Menzies, long-time Prime Minister of Australia, republicanism was unthinkable in the Australian context. Soon after he attempted to have the constitution amended after the High Court of Australia struck down the Communist Party Dissolut...

The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Examples of Successful Referendums   (website Constitutional Centre of Western Australia )

1946 Social Services Referendum The 1946 referendum proposed to give the Commonwealth power to legislate on: The provision of maternity allowances, widows' pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical an...

The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia - Interactive Referendum   (website Constitutional Centre of Western Australia )

How would you vote if these referendums were held today? Follow the prompts and register your votes on the screen. > All contents copyright &copy Government of Western Australia. ...

ABC Unleashed - 18/03/2008: Republic of Australia? Do it for Britain   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

Kevin Rudd has said the question of an Australian republic is not his highest priority, that there are more pressing concerns for his first term in office. Australia has, in my view, taken the British political system and improved upon it immeasurably. ...

Australian Public Intellectual [API] Network   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

>Popular Music: Practices, Formations and Change - Australian Perspectives>The papers collected here in this special edition of Altitude offer a brief snapshot of popular music research broadly connected with Australia. Network Review of Books (Perth, Au...

biographical notes.qxd   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

The Making of a Queensland Politician: Jack Dugganís life before parliament 1910- 1935 Maurice French The Biographical Registers and Jack Duggan Professor Duncan Waterson has a long- term and on- going commitment to the study of Queensland politics an int...

ch 25.qxd   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

Women in the 2001 election Marian Sawer When asked to rank political issues, women generally give priority to health, education and employment over abstractions such as economic management. Policies There was little for women in terms of policy offering...

Australian Public Intellectual [API] Network   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

>>Orphaned in South Australia>>Jack Duggan s grandfather, Daniel Duggan, was born in Cashel, Ireland, on 25 December 1840. >2 D B Waterson, A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 19...

Australian Public Intellectual [API] Network   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

>>Orphaned in South Australia>>Jack Duggan s grandfather, Daniel Duggan, was born in Cashel, Ireland, on 25 December 1840. >2 D B Waterson, A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament 1860-1929, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 19...

Australian Public Intellectual [API] Network   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

> Media Law Handbook>>This fifth edition of Joseph Fernandez's popular and accessible study considers the laws that impact on freedom of speech in Australia. To order, please contact Network Books at 08 9266 3717 with your order details.... Network Revi...

ABC Unleashed - 30/04/2008: A true republic   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

The American founding fathers recognised this problem and in The Federalist Papers explained the checks and balances that their Constitution would contain to prevent a despot from seizing power. Whatever your view of Gough Whitlam, his dismissal as Prime...

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra - Collection Search Info   (website National Portrait Gallery )

InformationFaith Bandler AC (b. Settling in Sydney after the war, she began to work full time on Indigenous issues, founding the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship in 1956 and becoming a founding member of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigi...

Coghlan, Sir Timothy Augustine (1855 - 1926) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan (1855 - 1926), by unknown photographer, 1900s , courtesy of National Library of Australia. In 1886 Coghlan sought the patronage of (Sir) George Dibbs to obtain the new position of government statistician. N. Hicks, ÔÇÿThis S...