The National Party opposed the bill, saying that it gave too much control to Māori, United Future opposed it due to the removal of the public domain concept and ACT opposed it on the grounds of the legislation being retrospective, that it was a denial of property rights ( in this case Māori property rights ), and that it was an unwarranted incursion by the Crown into areas that were specifically Tikanga Māori.

* ACT Planning & Land Authority: City Hill … a concept for the future

The ACT is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east, the watershed of Naas Creek in the south, the watershed of the Cotter River in the west, and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

The ACT Chief Minister ( currently Katy Gallagher, Australian Labor Party ) is elected by members of the ACT Assembly.

The ACT Government is a member of the Council of Australian Governments.

The Crown is represented by the Governor-General in the government of the ACT.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).

The ACT's land on the Beecroft Peninsula is an " exclave ", that is, an area of territory not physically connected to the main part of the ACT.

Interestingly, this ACT exclave surrounds a small exclave of NSW territory, namely the Point Perpendicular lighthouse which is at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula.

This is a geographic curiosity: an exclave of NSW land enclosed by an exclave of ACT land.

The average level of degree qualification in the ACT is higher than the national average.

All land in the ACT is held on 99 year leases from the national government, although most leases are now administered by the Territory government.

The ACT public education system schooling is normally split up into Pre-School, Primary School ( K-6 ), High School ( 7 – 10 ) and College ( 11 – 12 ) followed by studies at university or TAFE.

) The ACT requires the referee to cross-reference the difficulty of a character action with the ability score used to complete that action, determining which column of the ACT is used for that action.

Demonstrated ability in reading, mathematics, and writing, as typically measured in the United States by the SAT or similar tests such as the ACT, have often replaced colleges individual entrance exams, and is often required for admission to higher education.

At some campuses, such as Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Cruz, a point system is used to weight grade point average, SAT Reasoning or ACT scores, and SAT Subject scores, while at Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, and Los Angeles, academic achievement is examined in the context of the school and the surrounding community.

Average ACT score is 22 ; average high school grade point average is 2. 94 ; tuition for 2009-2010 is $ 22, 350, with 100 percent of UIU students receiving need-and / or merit-based financial aid.

The following chronological accounts of ACT UP actions are drawn from Douglas Crimp's history of ACT UP, the ACT UP Oral History Project, and the online Capsule History of ACT UP, New York.

The oldest rocks in the ACT date from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago.

The lighthouse and its grounds are New South Wales territory, but cut off from the rest of the state by the strip of ACT land.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

This allows the user to update contact, schedule, or other information on their computer, using software such as Microsoft Outlook or ACT !, and have that same data transferred to PDA — or transfer updated information from the PDA back to the computer.

* The colophon of two Babylonian System B lunar ephemerides from Babylon ( see ACT 122 for 104 – 101 BC, and ACT 123a for an unknown year ) say that they are the tersitu of Kidinnu.

The ACT, like Washington, D. C. in the United States, is independent of any state to prevent any one state from gaining an advantage by hosting the seat of Federal power.

To do so, the ALP would have to win Field's and Bunton's seats, and one seat in each territory, and have the second ACT seat fall to either a Labor candidate or an independent, former Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton, now estranged from his party.

However, the calculator is banned from use on the ACT, the PLAN, and in some classrooms.

* ACT mouthwash from Chattem

* Centurions ( gridiron team ) from Canberra, ACT, Australia

These tactics were borrowed from the filibuster undertaken by National and ACT in August 2000 for the Employment Relations Bill.

Schools with average SAT scores above 1300 or average ACT scores above 27 are excluded from the list ; these are categorized instead as " Public Elite " High Schools.

Also students from other countries, who hold a high school leaving certificate that is not counted as the Abitur ( such as the American high school diploma ) who did well on the ACT or SAT, may enter college even if they do not hold the Abitur.

The middle half of the class of 2012 had test scores that ranged from 1950 – 2220 on the SAT and 30 – 33 on the ACT.

The university incorporates a number of structures and sites of historical and conservational significance dating from the earliest establishment of the national capital, with many buildings recognised by one or more of the Commonwealth Heritage List, the ACT Heritage Register and the National Trust.

Women from ACT UP who had been having informal " dyke dinners " met with Dr. Gould in person, questioned him about several misleading facts ( that penis to vagina transmission is impossible, for example ), questionable journalistic methods ( no peer review, bibliographic information, failing to disclose that he was a psychiatrist and not a practitioner of internal medicine ), and demanded a retraction and apology.

" According to those who were involved in organizing the action, it was significant in that it was the first time the women in ACT UP organized separately from the main body of the group.

Although less as a " collective " after 1990, DIVA TV continued documenting ( over 700 camera hours ) the direct actions of ACT UP, activists, and the community responses to HIV / AIDS, producing over 160 video programs for public access television channels ( as the weekly series " AIDS Community Television " from 1991 – 1996 http :// www. actupny. org / divatv ; and from 1994-96 the weekly call-in public access series " ACT UP Live "; film festival screenings ; and continuing on-line documentation and streaming internet webcasts.

* Super 12 final – ACT Brumbies defeated Crusaders 47-38

From 1996 to 2005 they were one of three Australian teams competing in the Super 12 competition, alongside the New South Wales Waratahs and the ACT Brumbies.

* 28, 753 – 2004 Super 12 Final, ACT Brumbies vs Canterbury Crusaders

* Matt Giteau-former Australian Wallaby player, once Australia's highest ever paid domestic player of any code, played for ACT Brumbies and Western Force in Super 12 / Super 14

The team went on to defeat the ACT Brumbies by 42-21 in the semi-final, before beating the Crusaders 21-17 in the final for the franchise's third Super Rugby title.

The Brumbies ( for sponsorship reasons known as the University of Canberra Brumbies and formerly known as the ACT Brumbies ) are a Super Rugby rugby union team based in Canberra, Australia and named for the wild horses which inhabit Canberra's hinterland.

ACT defeated NSW 44 to 28 at Sydney's Concord Oval in 1994, which led the way for the ACT to become a franchise, and be included in the new professional international Super 12 competition, alongside the Reds and Waratahs.

The Brumbies were originally known as the ACT Brumbies when they were accepted into the Super 12 for its inaugural season in 1996.

The 1999 Super 12 season was far more successful for the Stormers, as the lost only three matches during the regular season ; against the ACT Brumbies, the Otago Highlanders and fellow South African team, the Cats, though the Stormers ended up finishing higher on the table than all of those sides, finishing in second place overall, behind only the Queensland Reds.

The game went professional post-1995 World Cup, and one outcome of this was the formation of the Super 12, of which Gregan became a foundation player for the ACT Brumbies franchise.

He first gained notice in 1995 when he was plucked from reserve grade club rugby to represent ACT in the Super 12 as a utility back in the Brumbies squad, playing a number of Super 12 games before attracting the attention of the national selectors.

The three-channel, 480-powered Super Cub RTF incorporates ACT technology for novice pilots in a larger, more powerful package than ParkZone's intermediate J-3 Cub.

He has won 72 caps for Australia and 112 Super Rugby caps for the ACT Brumbies.

Manuka Oval hosted first-grade rugby league on 29 May 2001 with the Canberra Raiders moving their National Rugby League game to the ground because the ACT Brumbies were playing the Super 12 Final on the same night at Bruce Stadium.

* Ruaidhri Murphy plays Super 15 rugby with the ACT Brumbies

The brumby was adopted as an emblem in 1996 by then newly formed ACT Brumbies, a rugby union team based in Canberra, Australia competing in what was then known as Super 14, now Super Rugby.