* 2010 – The Federal Court of Australia's ruling in Roadshow Films v iiNet sets a precedent that Internet service providers ( ISPs ) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them.

* March 11 – Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in ; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.

With the exception of the Federal Capital of Canberra, which is far inland, Highway 1 links all of Australia's capital cities, although Brisbane and Darwin are not directly connected, but rather are bypassed short distances away.

On 9 May 1988, a larger and permanent Parliament House was opened on Capital Hill as part of Australia's bicentenary celebrations, and the Federal Parliament moved there from the Provisional Parliament House, now known as Old Parliament House .< ref name = pho >

He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before the law was overturned by the Federal government.

* In Australia's One Nation Party case, it has been revealed that Federal Cabinet Minister Tony Abbott controlled " slush funds " which were used to lay the groundwork for party leader Pauline Hanson's prosecution, and to guarantee a private lawsuit against the party.

Officers of domestic intelligence agencies ( such as the United States ' Federal Bureau of Investigation, the UK's Security Service ( MI5 ) and Australia's Security Intelligence Organisation ( ASIO ) are responsible for counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, counter-proliferation and the detection and prevention of serious organized crime within their own countries ( although, in Britain, the Serious Organised Crime Agency has been set up to take care of serious organized crime ).

He was interviewed for The Pink Broad ( Issue 15, published Wednesday 22 February 2006 ), a fortnightly gay and lesbian newspaper, in which he confirmed that he planned to sponsor a private member ’ s bill in Federal Parliament within months that promised to eradicate discrimination and the " inequities " faced by Australia's gay and lesbian population under Federal law.

Through a Sunrise campaign, and his involvement in ShareLife, Koch influenced the Federal Government to establish a national authority to oversee Australia's organ transplant system.

Due to Australia's failed 2022 FIFA World Cup bid, guaranteed funding from the Federal Government for the full $ 130 million redevelopment of the stadium has been rejected and the final stage to redevelop the northern or city end of the stadium remains in limbo.

In August 2008, Madafferi was arrested and charged, along with several of Australia's other suspected crime bosses ( including Australian ' Ndrangheta boss Pasquale " Pat " Barbaro ), after Australian Federal Police made the world's biggest ecstasy haul, seizing drugs with a street value of $ 440 million.

During World War II the hotel was " booming " and the hotel was sold to Australia's oldest hotel group, Federal Hotels, in March 1956.

In the 1960s, The Federal Group attempted to secure Australia's first casino license.

Local policing in the Australian Capital Territory, Jervis Bay Territory and Australia's external territories is contracted to the Australian Federal Police ( AFP ).

* the Griffin drawings-Walter and Marion Griffin's winning entry for the design of Australia's Federal Capital

* In 1968, Tasmanian voters took part in a referendum to approve the granting of Australia's first casino licence to the Federal Group to operate the Wrest Point Hotel Casino in Hobart.

The First Century, ( a chronogical reference to Australia's Federal elections ) co-authored with Doug Aiton was published in June 2000.

" Governing disorder: the Australian Federal Police and Australia's new regional frontier ," Pacific Review, Dec 2009, Vol.

In 1903 a Federal Royal Commission named Dalgety as the location for Australia's national capital city.

In June 1985, the Federal government announced the establishment of a national museum focusing on Australia's maritime history and the nation's ongoing involvement and dependence on the sea.

* Pickering, Larry ( 1973 ) The best of Pickering: a collection of some of the best cartoons of Larry Pickering, Australia's most popular and successful political cartoonist, Federal Capital Press, Canberra.

The bombing of the Hilton Hotel in Sydney during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting ( CHOGM ) on 13 February 1978 prompted the Federal Government to commission an inquiry into Australia's national police service by former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Robert Mark.

Post the September 11 terror attacks the Commonwealth Government conducted a review and as a result decided to combine both the Australian Federal Police ( AFP ) and the APS in order to ensure the closest possible co-ordination between two of Australia's key counter terrorist agencies and on 1 July 2004 the Australian Protective Service merged into the AFP, becoming an Operating Division.

She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.

The first Parliament of Australia quickly moved to restrict immigration to maintain Australia's " British character ", and the Pacific Island Labourers Bill and the Immigration Restriction Bill were passed shortly before parliament rose for its first Christmas recess.

As established by the Constitution, the Parliament of Australia is composed of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate, together with Australia's Queen.

As in most Westminster system parliaments, Australia's government is formed by the party enjoying the confidence of the lower House of Parliament, the House of Representatives.

However, Australia's Parliament also has a powerful upper house, the Senate, which must pass any legislation initiated by the House of Representatives if it is to become law.

In Australia, they take such forms as a " NO WAR " slogan being painted on the Sydney Opera House, Greenpeace demonstrators chaining themselves to the gates of the Australian Prime Minister's residence ( the Lodge ) and a former Navy officer burning his uniform outside Australia's Parliament House.

Mulock was Canada's representative at the opening of Australia's first Parliament in 1901, and was one of Canadian representatives at the coronation of King Edward VII.

The Convention was divided into four philosophical groups: those wanting to retain Australia's existing constitutional monarchy, those wanting Australia to become a republic with a head of state chosen by the Parliament (" indirect electionists "), those wanting Australia to become a republic with a president elected by the people (" direct electionists "), and those having no fixed position or seeking a compromise between the other groups.

Construction of Australia's permanent Parliament House was delayed while its location was debated.

The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 ( NT ) was a controversial law legalising euthanasia passed by Australia's Northern Territory in 1995 and, for all practical purposes, nullified in 1997 by the federal Parliament.

Parliament House, Sydney on Macquarie Street, Sydney | Macquarie Street, is Australia's oldest Parliament.

Australia's first commemorative stamp was issued on 9 May 1927 to mark the opening of the first Parliament House in Canberra.

In 2003, Paul Hopkinson, a Wellington schoolteacher, burned the Flag of New Zealand as part of a protest in Parliament grounds at the New Zealand Government's hosting of the Prime Minister of Australia, against the background of Australia's support of the United States in its war in Iraq.

The Parliament of New South Wales is Australia's oldest legislature.

As we have seen, on 12 March that same year, the city was formally named by the Governor-General's wife, Lady Denman, at a ceremony held on Capital Hill, the site of Australia's current Parliament House.

For all this, Canberra remained a small country town prior to World War II, far more rural than urban in its nature and size, with little to mark it as Australia's capital other than Parliament House and the developing War Memorial.

In what was described at the time as ‘ perhaps the finest moment in his political career ’, he played the leading role in getting the government's Native Title Act 1993 through the Senate in one of the Parliament ’ s longest-ever debates following the High Court of Australia's decision in Mabo v Queensland.

" He had previously been made an Officer of the Order of Australia ( AO ) in 2001 for " service to the Australian Parliament, particularly through advancing Australia's foreign policy and trade interests, especially in Asia and through the United Nations ", and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates of Laws by the University of Melbourne in 2002, Carleton University in 2005, the University of Sydney in 2008 and Queen's University Ontario in 2010.