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

However, she was not the first female head of government of a province of the Commonwealth of Australia ; being preceded by Rosemary Follett, who became Chief Minister of the ACT on 11 May 1989.

Anne Katherine ( Kate ) Carnell AO ( born 30 May 1955 ) is an Australian businesswoman and former Liberal Party politician, who served as the third Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) from 1995 to 2000.

After winning 7 of 17 seats in the 1995 ACT election, the Liberal Party formed a minority government with Carnell as Chief Minister.

Upon his death the Chief Minister of the ACT, Rosemary Follett, described Hollows to her parliamentary colleagues as " an egalitarian and a self-named anarcho-syndicalist who wanted to see an end to the economic disparity which exists between the First and Third Worlds and who believed in no power higher than the best expressions of the human spirit found in personal and social relationships.

Instead of vice-regal or regal assent, a Bill passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly is enacted on ‘ notification ’— publication of a notice authorised by the Chief Minister, in the Government Gazette.

Reid resigned from the Senate on 14 February 2003, and was replaced by the former ACT Chief Minister, Gary Humphries.

The inaugural ACT government was led by Chief Minister Rosemary Follett.

Where the Assembly is not in session, the choice is made by the Chief Minister of the ACT or the Administrator of the NT, as the case may be.

Follett became the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) on 11 May 1989 following the Australian Labor Party's victory in the first ACT election.

The Chief Minister of the ACT Government, Jon Stanhope, initially blamed the Commonwealth for the increased traffic congestion around the airport, which he claims has occurred due to the construction of office buildings on airport land, however, Mr Stanhope later stated that while he accepted the development of the airport adds to the level of traffic on the roads, it is not the cause of the congestion during peak periods.

While the ACT Government was supportive of the memorial, with Chief Minister Jon Stanhope opening the memorial, the then Howard Government tried to stop the memorial being constructed.

ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and Chief Fire Officer Peter Lucas-Smith were reviewing the fires nearby in the Snowy Hydro Southcare helicopter.

Although the ACT has its own Chief Minister and its own legislature ( the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly ), the Federal Parliament retains the right to overrule ACT legislation.

He was Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of the Society of St Vincent de Paul ( NSW / ACT ) from 1992 – 96 and CEO of Mission Australia from 1997-2006.

Named to honor the Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall, the program affords a rigorous academic program and provides a full tuition / fees waiver and stipend to students with a composite ACT score of 30 or higher who have been accepted to the University.

The Federal Government of Australia wants the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT includes Canberra ) to cooperate with the Chinese investigation into the murder, as written by a letter from John Howard to Chief Minister Stanhope in May 2005, and another request from Justice Minister Chris Ellison in June.

The ACT Liberal opposition wants the Chief Minister to use his Chinese contacts to bring Zhang to ' justice '.

* U. S. Department of Justice: Antitrust Division-text of SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT, 15 U. S. C.

In 2003, the Department of Justice created LifeAndLiberty. gov, a website that supported the PATRIOT ACT.

In January 1988, ACT UP Boston held its first protest at the Boston offices of the Department of Health and Human Services, regarding delays and red tape surrounding approval of AIDS treatment drugs.

* ACT UP / Boston ( David Stitt ) collection, 1986-1994 and the ACT UP / Boston ( Raymond Schmidt and Stephen Skuce ) collection, 1987-2007 ( bulk 1988-1995 ) are housed at the Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Department, Boston, MA.

The Wiesner Building in Cambridge, Massachusetts houses the MIT Media Lab, the Center for Bits and Atoms ( Neil Gershenfeld's lab ), the Department of Architecture's Program in Art, Culture and Technology ( ACT, formerly the Visual Arts Program ), the Comparative Media Studies ( CMS ) program and the List Visual Arts Center.

Sydney Missionary and Bible College ( SMBC ) is accredited by the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations ( DEEWR ) as an approved teaching institution of the Australian College of Theology ( ACT ).

Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve, part of Parks Conservation and Lands ( PCL ) within the Department of Territory and Municipal Services ( ACT Government ), and Conservation Volunteers have formed a highly innovative and mutually beneficial partnership to deliver visitor management and interpretation services using professionally trained and managed volunteers.

According to the Michigan Department of Education, the average Composite ACT score for the class of 2009 in the Clarenceville school district was 18, and the class of 2008's average was 17.

Basic ECP eligibility and entrance requirements include a minimum cumulative high school GPA of 2. 0 on a 4. 0 scale ( 2. 5 for scholarship ); a minimum SAT score of 850 ( Math and Verbal sections only ) or ACT score of 17 ( 920 / 19 for scholarship ); pass a Department of Defense Medical Examination ( arranged by Army ROTC ); pass the Army height / weight and physical fitness standards ; have U. S. citizenship ( original naturalization document issued by INS or state issued birth certificate ); and be between 17 and 27 years of age and of good moral character.

It is one of the many new ' super schools ' operated by the ACT Department of Education and Training.

Students are prepared for the ACT Year 12 Certificate, as mandated by the Department of Education and Board of Senior Secondary Studies.

Located in Hurtle Avenue and adjoining the Bonython shops, it is a public school operated by the ACT Government ( Department of Education and Training ) and includes Bonython Pre-school.

* A new community garden between Erindale College and the Shops was organised by Communities @ Work, Gugan Gulwan Youth Aboriginal Corporation and ACT Department of Territory and Municipal Services

This coupled with voucher schools not being required to put their students through the same tests and performing poorly on SAT and ACT testing in the 11th and 12th grades has led the academic community to declare it a complete and total failure.

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 following is based on official ACT ACT-SAT concordance chart ACT percentiles are calculated on the basis of the percent of test takers scoring the same score or a lower one, not ( as is the case for many other assessments ) only the percent scoring lower.

At the same time, the results of an ACT alumni survey conducted in 2008 show a high level of alumni satisfaction.

The same night ACT UP demonstrated at the studios of the MacNeil / Lehrer Newshour.

However, at the same time, ACT New Zealand strongly criticised it for deviating from its former New Right economic policy perspectives, and at the same election, National did little to enable ACT's survival.

His membership was ratified by the party board on Saturday 30 April and the ACT party parliamentary caucus confirmed him as leader the same day.

The TI-89 Titanium offers exactly the same functionality in a smaller format that is also legal on the SAT test, but not the ACT test.

ACT New Zealand, National's more right-wing neighbour, failed to capitalize on the exodus of National supporters, retaining the same number of seats as before.

When Douglas established the ACT New Zealand party, dedicated to the same laissez-faire economic policies he had promoted while in power, Prebble quickly became involved.

In that same year, the ACT became an alcohol-free area as a result of legislation that the Minister for Home Affairs, King O ' Malley, steered through the Federal Parliament in Melbourne.

The act was officially entitled " AN ACT to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes ," The Act opened the door to government funded railroad mail routes across the American continent.

In the same year, she was also secretary of the university student body, a member of the party executive in the ACT, and the founding co-convenor of the Vida Women's Network-an attempt to form a Democrat version of Emily's List Australia.

The party was announced on 13 March 2005, the same day that Turner failed to unseat Catherine Judd as president of ACT.

Rearming the ACT is accomplished in the same manner and will cause the plane to beep once.

In February 2005, an optional writing test was added to the ACT, mirroring changes to the SAT that took place later in March of the same year.

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.