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

* ACT Chief Minister's Department ( same text )

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.

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 '.

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

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.

The current government is a coalition between the National Party, ACT Party, United Future and the Maori Party ; the Prime Minister is John Key.

* Simon Corbell, ACT Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Environment, Water and Climate Change and Minister for Energy.

Citing costs of building multiple facilities as an issue, ACT Sports Minister Andrew Barr indicated his preference would be a ' super stadium ' built with World Cup standard facilities and capacity, reducible to around 30, 000 seats after the event.

However, reserve powers analogous to those vested in a State Governor are vested by the Act in the Federal Minister for Territories, who may, for example, dissolve the ACT Assembly in cases of corruption or deadlock.

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.

ACT had been formed by former labour Finance Minister Roger Douglas ( now Sir Roger Douglas ).

In November 2008, as part of the Supply and Confidence Agreement between the ACT and National Party which allowed the formation of a Government, Heather Roy was appointed to ministerial posts outside the cabinet as Minister of Consumer Affairs, Associate Defence Minister and Associate Education Minister.

In July 2006, the Federal Government again threatened to overrule the ACT Stanhope Government's anti-terror legislation, which was not consistent with other state laws.

HAZMAT Response unit with the ACT Fire and Rescue | ACT Fire & Rescue Service in Canberra

Though the town was in very real danger, with the fire front surrounding and severely affecting the township, firefighters under the command of ACT Rural Fire Service Southern Brigades Captain Val Jeffrey were able to prevent the loss of any property other than some minor sheds.

An ACT Fire Brigade unit perceiving the fire from a vantage point in Fyshwick, overrode instructions by the radio controller to ignore the signs and remain where they were.

Peter James Dunn AO ( born 14 April 1947 ) is a former Commissioner for the ACT Emergency Services Authority responsible for the ACT Fire Brigade, ACT Ambulance Service, Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Service.

With the formation of the 49th New Zealand Parliament after the 2008 election, it has a single member of the Parliament of New Zealand – party leader Peter Dunne, an electorate MP – and it has signed a confidence and supply agreement with the National Party, making it, along with ACT and the Maori Party, a support partner to the minority National government.

After leaving Parliament in 2005 Muriel Newman established a political think tank organisation, the New Zealand Centre for Political Debate ( since renamed the New Zealand Centre for Political Research ) which has had many prominent New Zealand and overseas guests write columns including: Sir Roger Douglas ( Finance minister of the New Zealand Labour party from 1984 to 1988 and ACT New Zealand co-founder ), Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Prof. David Bellamy, Dr Don Brash, Alan Duff, Richard Epstein, Lord Nigel Lawson, Owen McShane, Johan Norberg, Professor Peter Saunders, and others.

* Costello, Tim ; Riddell, Michael ; Gill, Athol ; Nichols, Alan ; U ' ren, John ; Duncan, Michael ; Corney, Peter ; Ministry in an Urban World: Responding to the City, Acorn Press, ACT, 1991, ISBN 0-908284-10-1

There are also two parties other which have only a single MP United Future with Peter Dunne and ACT with John Banks.

At the start of the 49th Parliament, Chauvel was a member of the ad hoc Emissions Trading Scheme Review Committee ( chaired by Peter Dunne ), established as part of the confidence and supply agreement between the National and ACT parties.

In the 2006 census the population of the ACT was 333, 667, of which only 869 were outside Canberra.

In 2005 there were 60, 275 students in the ACT school system.

Anthropologist Norman Tindale suggested the principal group occupying the region were the Ngunnawal people, while the Ngarigo lived immediately to the south of the ACT, The Wandandian to the east, the Walgulu also to the south, Gandangara people to the north, and Wiradjuri to the north west.

ACT Architecture, a team of three young architects ( Pierre Colboc, Renaud Bardon and Jean-Paul Philippon ), were awarded the contract which involved creating 20, 000 sq.

The mean ACT composite and mean SAT total ( critical reading + math ) for admitted freshmen were 23. 3 and 1035 respectively.

For example, in the ACT, Sir David Smith and Heidi Zwar were appointed to represent the people of Canberra.

Average ACT scores in the Logan School District in 2005 were 21. 5 for English, 21. 3 for math, 22. 7 for reading, 22. 1 for science and 22 composite score.

Average ACT scores in the Cache County School District, which surrounds Logan city, in 2005 were 20. 9 in English, 20. 8 in math, 22. 5 in reading, 21. 5 in science and 21. 5 composite score.

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

Wheels were 3 piece BBS style produced by ACT, 8x16 " front & 10x17 " rear.

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats ( this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3. 7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4. 1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

In 1988 and 1992 competitions for a proposed new flag were held, in which artists and residents of the ACT could put forth their designs for the new flag.

Its admissions are difficult ; for 2009's entering class, the 25th / 75th percentiles for the SAT were 1030 and 1240 / 1600, and its 25th / 75th percentiles on the ACT were 23 and 27 / 36.

Dissenting minority opinions were recorded by the National, New Zealand First, ACT New Zealand and United Future members.

Seventeen ACT UP members were arrested during this civil disobedience.

On March 24, 1988, ACT UP returned to Wall Street for a larger demonstration in which over 100 people were arrested.

" 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.

ACT composite scores were 22 / 28.

Among the computers supported, before the arrival of the IBM PC, were Chuck Peddle's Sirius Systems Technology Victor 9000, the ACT Apricot Computers and the DEC Rainbow 100.

The Labour Government's April 2000 changes were criticised by opposition parties, with Richard Prebble of the ACT New Zealand party deriding the PCNZM's initials as standing for " a Politically Correct New Zealand that used to be a Monarchy ".

Opposing Labour were the National Party ( centre-right ), New Zealand First ( radical centrist and nationalist ), ACT New Zealand ( strongly supportive of the free market ), and United Future ( centrist ).

The admitted first-year class of 2016 had standardized test scores that were well above average: the interquartile range ( 25th percentile-75th percentile ) of SAT scores was 1170-1370 ( Math plus Critical Reading subscores ), while the interquartile range of ACT scores was 28-32.

Other protests on the Capitol steps have used the seal as a rallying point: in 1960, a group picketing the execution of Caryl Chessman gathered around the seal and said, " blame our leaders ," in 1967 signs reading " I Protest " and " Thou Shalt Not Kill " were left on the seal to protest the execution of Aaron Mitchell, later that year a black casket representing " the living dead farm worker " was the centerpiece of a " funeral " march and placed atop the seal for an all-night vigil, and in 1990 the seal was marked with handprints of red paint by members of ACT UP, protesting possible state health care cuts.

Prebble lost his Wellington Central seat ( the boundaries of which were significantly changed by the Electoral Commission, to Prebble's disfavour ) to Labour's Marian Hobbs in the 1999 election, but remained in Parliament as a list MP and leader of ACT.