In Mabo v Queensland ( No 1 ) ( 1988 ) the High Court held that this legislation was contrary to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

A number of liberal social reforms were instituted whilst the welfare state was significantly expanded ( with total public spending on social programs nearly doubling between 1969 and 1975 ), with health, housing, and social welfare legislation bringing about welcome improvements, and by the end of the Brandt Chancellorship West Germany had one of the most advanced systems of welfare in the world.

To combat child poverty, legislation to create a universal Child Benefit was introduced in 1975 ( a reform later implemented by the Callaghan Government ).

Medibank commenced on 1 July 1975 after the passing of the Medibank legislation by a joint sitting of Parliament on 6 and 7 August 1974.

On 7 October 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed legislation permitting women to enter the United States service academies.

; 1975: President Gerald Ford signs legislation including the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which ties U. S. trade benefits to the Soviet Union to freedom of emigration for Jews.

Within individual countries, examples of legislation pertaining to, and establishing guidelines for, the implementation and collection of child maintenance include the 1975 Family Law Act ( Australia ), the Child Support Act ( United Kingdom ) and the Maintenance and Affiliation Act ( Fiji ) Child support in the United States, 45 C. F. R.

The Federal Election Commission ( FEC ) is an independent regulatory agency that was founded in 1975 by the United States Congress to regulate the campaign finance legislation in the United States.

One of Elmer Andersen's proudest achievements came in April 1975, when the U. S. Congress passed the legislation establishing Voyageurs National Park — thousands of acres of forests and lakes along Minnesota's northern border.

The court decided many other significant constitutional cases, including the Seas and Submerged Lands case ( 1975 ), upholding legislation asserting sovereignty over the territorial sea ; the First ( 1975 ) and Second ( 1977 ) Territory Senators cases, which concerned whether legislation allowing for the mainland territories to be represented in the Parliament of Australia was valid ; and Russell v Russell ( 1976 ), which concerned the validity of the Family Law Act 1975.

Locals succeeded in acquiring state protection of the site with the passing of legislation acquiring the site in 1975.

The Commonwealth Parliament was empowered to legislate to limit the latter path and it did so in 1968 and 1975 ; but legislation could only limit, not abolish.

In the United States House of Representatives, proposed legislation can be sent to more than one Congressional committee due to a 1975 rules change.

The Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds was published in 1973, and legislation was encated with the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

Hawke's government first passed regulations under the existing National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975, and then passed the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983, which prohibited Franklin River dam-related clearing, excavation and building activities that had been authorised by Tasmanian state legislation.

In 1975, legislation was changed to officially allow the enrolment of female cadets into the Royal Canadian Sea, Army, and Air Cadets.

This legislation amended the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 and designated the metric system as " the Preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce ".

Stevenson introduced legislation requiring an end to all foreign aid to South Vietnam by June 30, 1975.

On July 30, 1975, the Canadian parliament amended the relevant legislation by changing the word " boys " to " persons ", therefore permitting girls to become members of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets.

On July 6, 1975, however, the Comorian parliament passed a resolution declaring unilateral independence.

When he unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January 1975, his share of TSR passed to his wife, a woman whom Gygax characterized as " less than personable ... After Don died she dumped all the Tactical Studies Rules materials off on my front porch.

In 1975, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution that designated Zionism as " a form of racism and racial discrimination ".

BNA Acts were passed in 1867, 1871, 1886, 1907, 1915, 1916 *, 1930, 1940, 1943 *, 1946 *, 1949, 1949 ( No. 2 )*, 1951 *, 1952 *, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1974, 1975 and 1975 ( No. 2 ).

In 1975 the Whitlam Government passed the Racial Discrimination Act, which made racially-based selection criteria illegal.

In October 1975, the Opposition used its control of the Senate to defer passage of appropriation bills, or supply, which finance governmental operations and which had been passed by the House of Representatives.

In 1975, the city passed an ordinance restricting growth to a maximum of 85, 000 residents, through zoning.

U. S. Route 66 passed through the town, bringing scores of travelers, for decades until I-40 was completed to the north in 1975.

The crisis began on the afternoon of May 12, 1975, as the American container ship SS Mayaguez passed near Poulo Wai island en route to Sattahip, Thailand in recognized international sea lanes claimed as territorial waters by Cambodia.

In Italy, by an anti-terrorism Law passed in 1975, it is forbidden to wear any dress that hides the face of a person.

Until independence in 1975, São Tomé and Príncipe had few ties abroad except those that passed through Portugal.

The Federal law ( the Covenant ) making the CNMI a U. S. territory passed in 1975.

During the Indian Emergency from 1975 to 1977, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had laws passed that allowed her to rule by decree.

Due to the restrictions to the length of trains that could be passed at Penrhyn, Rhiw Goch was opened on 14 May 1975.

Following the version of the succession law advocated by the carloctavistas, that if the direct male line dies out the nearest female relative of the last king inherits the crown with succession to her heirs male, then with only descent through equal marriages allowed the claim would have passed on the death of Franz Josef in 1975 to Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona.

In 1975, the Privy Council ( Appeals from the High Court ) Act 1975 was passed, which had the effect of closing all routes of appeal from the High Court.

In 1975, Parliament passed amendments to the Universities and University Colleges Act ( UUCA ) which banned students from expressing support of or holding positions in any political party or trade union without written consent from the university's Vice Chancellor.

The Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms () is a statutory bill of rights and human rights code passed by the National Assembly of Quebec on June 27, 1975.

Section 29 of the Constitution as passed in 2001 provides that the office of Governor must exist and be appointed by the Sovereign, but parts of the earlier Consititution Act of 1867 relating to the Governor are still in force owing to the double entrenchment of them within the constitution by the government of Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who feared that the office and powers of state Governor might be abolished following the controversies of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis at a federal level.

This period came to an end in 1975, when a new administrative reform was passed and Suwałki yet again became the capital of a separate Suwałki Voivodeship.

After concluding the studies, he worked in Switzerland, as Assisting Doctor in the Hospital of St. Loup, of 1973 to 1975, having passed his internship ( surgery, obstetrics, medicine and pediatrics ).

Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov.

* Abduction ( 1975 film ), directed by Joseph Zito

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

See also note 43 at p. 163, with references to Palanque ( 1933 ), Gaudemet ( 1972 ), Matthews ( 1975 ) and King ( 1961 )</ ref > Under Ambrose's influence, Theodosius issued the 391 " Theodosian decrees ," which with increasing intensity outlawed Pagan practises, and the Altar of Victory was removed by Gratian.

* 1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.

* 1975 – Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the P. F. L.

Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

Alarums and Excursions ( A & E ) is an amateur press association started in June 1975 by Lee Gold ( at the request of Bruce Pelz, who felt that discussion of Dungeons & Dragons was taking up too much space in Apa-L, the APA of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society ).

* " Atmosphere ", a song by Funkadelic from their 1975 album, Let's Take It to the Stage

Other less commonly used nicknames were the " Gridbirds " ( used only by a local newspaper columnist ) or " Cardiac Cards " ( used only to refer to the 1975 team ).

" In 1975, amid increasing popular interest in astrology, The Humanist magazine presented a rebuttal of astrology in a statement put together by Bart J. Bok, Lawrence E. Jerome, and Paul Kurtz.

By 1975, after a failed uprising by the Muslim Youth, President Daoud Khan started to dissociate himself from the Soviet Union and the communist party of Afghanistan.

* 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union ( UDT ) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

The company was resold, following a further bankruptcy event, by the Receiver in 1975 to North American businessmen Peter Sprague and George Minden for £ 1. 05 million.

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

Morton wrote the column until 1975 ; it was revived in January 1996 and continues today, written by William Hartston, though the name " By the Way " has been dropped in favour of simply " Beachcomber ".

How to design and implement a stripped-down version of an interpreter for the BASIC language was covered in articles by Allison in the first three quarterly issues of the People's Computer Company newsletter published in 1975 and implementations with source code published in Dr. Dobb's Journal of Tiny BASIC Calisthenics & Orthodontia: Running Light without Overbyte.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

* Bug ( 1975 film ), directed by Jeannot Szwarc

The term BIOS ( Basic Input / Output System ) was invented by Gary Kildall and first appeared in the CP / M operating system in 1975, describing the machine-specific part of CP / M loaded during boot time that interfaces directly with the hardware ( a CP / M machine usually has only a simple boot loader in its ROM ).

The Born brothers were kept in a known Argentine State Intelligence safehouse for nine months until their June 1975 release, something made possible without public suspicion of outside involvement by the agency's numerous contacts inside the Montoneros ( including the leader, Mario Firmenich ).