Following the grant announcement, Kevin Rudd, Australia's then Prime Minister, stated that production would support 600 new jobs at the Elizabeth facility.

Although domestic opposition to the war was beginning to build, Australia's involvement in Vietnam still enjoyed majority popular support.

Historically anti-union, the party has vacillated between state support for primary industries (" agrarian socialism ") and free agricultural trade and has opposed tariff protection for Australia's manufacturing and service industries.

But he continued to support Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, a position he had reluctantly inherited from Holt, which became increasingly unpopular after 1968.

The Australian Democrats ( formerly Australia's third party ) strongly support a move towards a republic through a system of an elected Head of State through popular voting.

Both these delegates were on the public record of holding unswerving support for the monarchy despite being appointed to articulate the views of one of Australia's most pro-republican territories.

Adopting strong protectionist policies, One Nation advocated the restoration of import tariffs, a revival of Australia's manufacturing industry, and an increase in support for small business and the rural sector.

Nevertheless, Push associates regularly assisted in organising and turning out for street demonstrations, e. g., against South African apartheid and in support of victims of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre ; against the initial refusal of immigration minister Alexander Downer, Sr. to grant political asylum to three Portuguese merchant seamen who jumped ship in Darwin ; and against Australia's participation in the Vietnam War.

Australia's capital cities each support traditional " high culture " institutions in the form of major art galleries, ballet troupes, theatres, symphony orchestras, opera houses and dance companies.

Australia's first pro-voluntary euthanasia billboard, on the Hume Highway in western Sydney ( Australia ) | SydneyIn 2010, Nitschke planned to use billboards in Australia to feature the message " 85 per cent of Australians support voluntary euthanasia but our government won't listen ".

In 1968 Tatchell began campaigning against the United States's and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, which he believed was a war of aggression in support of a " brutal and corrupt dictatorship in Saigon which was notorious for the torture and execution of political opponents ".

He defended Barton's decision to commit support to the conflict, emphasized his own role in the making of the decision alongside Barton and professed a belief that it was Australia's duty to stand behind the imperial government in the war.

These increases have occurred in spite of opinion polls indicating that public support for the deployment is decreasing, with a poll released in September 2008 finding that a majority of those surveyed were opposed to Australia's continued military involvement in the country.

In 1948, with demobilisation of Australia's wartime army complete, the decision was made to re-raise the part-time forces of the Militia, albeit with the new name of the Citizens Military Force ( CMF ), and on a reduced establishment of two infantry divisions, an armoured brigade and various corps-level support units.

He continues to support various charities including GOAL ( 3rd world development and relief organisation ) The Orchid Appeal ( men's cancer ) and founded Australia's best known environmental charity Planet Ark with mate Jon Dee.

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.

Bjelke-Petersen had no party base outside the Queensland National Party, and since Australia's Westminster system requires the Prime Minister to be capable of commanding a majority in the House of Representatives, in practice Bjelke-Petersen would have required the support of the Liberal Party and other state branches of the National Party, who were in any case in no position to do so without first winning the 1987 election.

In 2007, readers of Banking and Finance Magazine voted Koch Australia's Best Finance Journalist while the Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia presented him with the " Small Business Champion award " in recognition of his support of Australian small business.

South Australia's current Planning Minister, John Rau said that the Government should not have approved the rezoning of land without the government and council being able to support that community with infrastructure.

He then caught Brett Lee at third man in Australia's only innings, before offering Hussain " stout support " in making 23 second time around.

Rangelands support Australia's valuable mining industry ($ 12 billion / yr ), tourism ($ 2 billion / yr ), pastoralism ($ 5. 5 billion / yr – cattle $ 4. 4 billion & sheep $ 1 billion ).

Dismissed for only 5 playing a rash shot in Australia's run chase in the second Test, his place in the side came under increasing scrutiny in the media, although he received several statements of support from members of the Australia team, notably Mike Hussey and Justin Langer.

' The battalion was designed to be a self-contained flexible force able to be deployed at short notice to undertake offensive operations in support of Australia's national interests '.

The BRS provides scientific advice to government in support of more profitable, competitive and sustainable use of Australia's Natural Resources.

Sydney FC draw support from right across the city of Sydney, as they were the only A-League team from Australia's largest city until 2012.

The current scholarly support for Arminianism is wide and varied.

Critics of this type of argument have tended to point out that this is just a standard criticism of representative democracy — a democratically elected government will not always act in the direction of greatest current public support — and that, therefore, there is no inconsistency in the leaders ' positions given that these countries are parliamentary democracies.

Atlas Autocode included a < code >< u > complex </ u ></ code > data type which would support complex numbers, partly because of pressure from the electrical engineering department, as complex numbers are used to represent the behavior of alternating current.

In England, an Oath of Abjuration was taken by Members of Parliament, clergy, and laymen, pledging to support the current British monarch and repudiated the right of the Stuarts and other claimants to the throne.

Today they are a rather weak institution, dependent on international support to hold back the enemies in the current civil war.

The following page shows the foreign relations of Croatia from history, current events, international disputes and foreign support.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

Some dissenting groups continue to solicit support among current members of the church.

DOM Level 3, the current release of the DOM specification, published in April 2004, added support for XPath and keyboard event handling, as well as an interface for serializing documents as XML.

The current role of The Royal Canadian Dragoons is to provide Armour Reconnaissance support to 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group ( 2 CMBG ) operations.

Tax-credit scholarships which are in most part disbursed to current private school students or to families which made substantial donations to the scholarship fund, rather than to low-income students attempting to escape from failing schools, amount to nothing more than a mechanism to use public funds in the form of foregone taxes to support private, often religiously based, private schools.

Modern acceptance of Haeckel's Biogenetic Law, despite current rejection of Haeckelian views, finds support in the certain degree of parallelism between ontogeny and phylogeny.

At first a number of leading Esperantists put their support behind the Ido project, but the movement stagnated and declined, first with the accidental death of one of its main proponents and later as people proposed further changes, and the number of current speakers is estimated at between 250 and 5000.

For example, Lake Magadi has high concentrations of soda ( sodium carbonate ) and Lake Elmenteita, Lake Bogoria, and Lake Nakuru are all strongly alkaline, while the freshwater springs supplying Lake Naivasha are essential to support its current biological variety.

In 2010 IMU formed the Commission for Developing Countries ( CDC ) which brings together all of the past and current initiatives in support of mathematics and mathematicians in the developing world.

Funded by the John Templeton Foundation, IMU released a report in 2008 " Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities " on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development.

In support of Iowa Department of Natural Resources efforts to re-establish the trumpeter swans in Iowa, university officials avoided bringing breeding pairs of male and female mute swans to Iowa State which means the current Sir Lancelot and Elaine are both female.

Insulators are used in electrical equipment to support and separate electrical conductors without allowing current through themselves.

Other practical motivations for interplanetary travel are more speculative, because our current technologies are not yet advanced enough to support test projects.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

The minimum demands included a halt to the economic and oil embargoes, withdrawal of political and economic support for the Chinese Nationalist government, agreement to keep Western military forces in the Pacific at their current level, and non-interference in Japan's attempts to bring " peace " to China.

Although banned by then-President Marc Ravalomanana from 2000 to 2009, the collection of small quantities of precious timber from national parks was re-authorized in January 2009 and has dramatically intensified under the administration of current head of state Andry Rajoelina as a key source of state revenues to offset cuts in donor support following Ravalomanana's ouster.

A major drawback of current gesture interaction solutions is the lack of support for two necessary user interface design principles, feedback and visibility ( or affordance ).

Indeed, a great many of the refugees fleeing to China because of famine still showed significant support for the current government as well as pride in their homeland.

Although the planet Earth is currently the only known body within the solar system to support life, current evidence suggests that in the distant past the planet Mars possessed bodies of liquid water on the surface.