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Opposition and quickly
Sir Alec Douglas-Home quickly appointed him an Opposition whip, and when Edward Heath became leader that summer he made Johnson-Smith a party vice-chairman.
The then Australian Opposition Leader Mark Latham said " The terrorists responsible for this attack are evil and barbaric and must be dealt with as harshly as possible and as quickly as possible " and committed the Labor Party's " full support to all efforts by the Australian and Indonesian governments to ensure that happens ".
Many politicians quickly sent the Legion flags ; Prime Minister Paul Martin sent a flag that had flown atop the Peace Tower, and Opposition leader Stephen Harper personally delivered a dozen flags.
When it was tabled in the Parliament, there was significant concerns from civil libertarians and the Opposition that the Bill was passed far too quickly for those voting on it to actually read the document closely, and that insufficient physical copies of the bill had been given to the Opposition to read before a vote was held.

Opposition and began
Opposition to Konoe's diplomatic initiative began at home.
Opposition to Bradshaw's rule began to build, especially by the families and supporters of former estate owners, who founded the People's Action Movement party in 1964, after frustration over a failed demonstration against a raise in electricity rates.
Opposition to PAM began to build from this, as well as on accusations of corruption.
Opposition to Ratsiraka began to grow again.
During this period, Vajpayee remained center-stage as party President and Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, but increasingly hard-line Hindu nationalists began to rise within the party and define its politics.
Opposition groups began to band together against the emperor.
Opposition groups began organizing again, this time joined by many prominent political and military leaders, who deemed the Ponce regime unconstitutional.
Opposition to U. S. involvement in the Vietnam War began slowly and in small numbers in 1964 on various college campuses in the United States.
News of the surrender galvanised the Opposition and government majorities began to shrink over the following months with calls for resignations of senior ministers.
Opposition groups began organizing again, this time joined by many prominent political and military leaders who deemed the Ponce regime unconstitutional.
Opposition to the project started before construction began.
The position of Opposition House Leader evolved in the 1950s as each Opposition party began to designate a particular MP to question the Government House Leader on upcoming House business.
Manning asked that he be provided with a more ' modest ' residence, but soon moved into Stornoway after his refusal to do so began to be portrayed in the media as a mark of disrespect for his position as Leader of the Opposition.
It began as the IS Opposition, formed in 1975 within the International Socialists ( now the Socialist Workers Party ), and containing many prominent IS members, including Roger Protz and Jim Higgins.
Davie was first elected to the provincial legislature in 1875 from the riding of Lillooet and began as a supporter of the government of George Anthony Walkem but soon joined the Opposition.
The Left Opposition formed as part of the power struggle within the party leadership that began with the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin's illness and intensified with his death in January 1924.
His supporters remained in exile, but their resolve began to waver in 1929 as Stalin turned against Bukharin and Rykov and adopted the policy of collectivization, which appeared to be close to the policies that the Left Opposition advocated earlier.
Opposition to Bradshaw's rule began to build, especially by the families of former estate owners, who founded the People's Action Movement party in 1964, after frustration over a failed demonstration against a raise in electricity rates.
During the last term in power of Harry Atkinson, a conservative, Ballance began to organise the liberal-aligned opposition into a more united movement, and was officially named Leader of the Opposition in July 1889.
Opposition from a citizen group called NIFTI ( Neighbors Influencing Fifty-Three improvement ) began to lobby for a smaller expansion plan of three-lanes.
Opposition began to grow, led by Miklós Horthy, and in June, following an attempted coup, the KMP launched a violent terror campaign through its secret police mechanism.
Union leaders and Opposition politicians joined them thereafter and Police and crowd engaged in a standoff with occasional outbursts and usual elements of protesting until nightfall, when a few city residents came out and began burning tires on the bridge.
Opposition to the festival began soon after the festival's relocation to Bethel was announced.

Opposition and official
Added to this was the fact that Menzies had not served in that war, and that as Attorney-General and Deputy Prime Minister, Menzies had made an official visit to Germany in 1938, and like his Opposition at the time, supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of Appeasement.
The Conservatives won 49, the newly-formed Progressive Party won 58 ( but declined to form the official Opposition ), and the remaining ten seats went to fringe parties and Independents ; most of these ten supported the Progressives.
Despite this exclusion, members of the commons must still express their loyalty to the monarch and defer to her authority, as the Oath of Allegiance must be recited by all new parliamentarians before they may take their seat, and the official opposition is traditionally dubbed as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.
The NDA then put forth a third candidate Abdul Kalam as their official choice, without seeking consensus ; one opposition party ( the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav ) dissipated the unity of the Opposition by supporting this proposal.
Harry Holland became the official Leader of the Opposition on 16 June 1926, after the Eden by-election on 15 April elected Rex Mason ( Labour ) to replace James Parr ( Reform ) who had resigned.
* Stornoway ( residence ), the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition in Canada
Any member of either House can put down a motion that an Instrument should be annulled, although in the Commons unless the motion is signed by a large number of Members, or is moved by the official Opposition, it is unlikely to be debated, and in the Lords they are seldom actually voted upon.
Similarly, universal suffrage was supervised and controlled by means of official candidature, by forbidding free speech and action in electoral matters to the Opposition, and by a gerrymandering in such a way as to overwhelm the Liberal vote in the mass of the rural population.
Its claims to be a populist and Western protest party came under attack in 1997, when Manning accepted an offer to live at Stornoway, the official residence provided to the leader of the Official Opposition.
Duceppe won the ensuing leadership contest and became the official leader of the Bloc Québécois and Leader of the Opposition.
* The Trotskyist Dissence ( 1928 ): In mid-1928, PC-SBIC suffered its first schism, when a small group of Marxist intellectuals broke with the political theses of PC-SBIC influenced by Leon Trotsky's Left Opposition, and its criticism to Stalinism prevailing as the official ideology of the Communist International and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He was the first Leader of Government Business and Minister of Local Government and Finance and first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system, from 1952 to 1959, and was the official Leader of the Opposition in the federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963.
While the opposing Members of Parliament may well espouse mutually opposed left-wing and right-wing views, the official division lies not between left and right but between Government and Opposition, with everyone aiming to sit on the Government side, and individuals often hoping to move in their careers from the back benches to the front benches-occupied by the leadership of each faction.
Reform emerged with 60 Western seats and Official Opposition status, while the demoralized PCs emerged from the brink of oblivion with 20 Eastern seats and regained party status ( a minimum of 12 seats is required for official party status in the Canadian House of Commons, allowing the party to have seats on parliamentary committees, guaranteed speaking time in the Commons, additional office space in the east and west blocks of Parliament, and multi-million dollar federal funding for party research and staffing ).
Prior to this, the only opposition recognition was that of the Leader of the Opposition, effectively limiting " official status " to the Government and the largest Opposition party.
For two years he also served as Leader of the Opposition, while Labour had no official leader and Sinn Féin refused to participate in parliamentary government.
The title of Opposition House Leader became official in 1963, and in 1974, a special annual indemnity was attached to the position of House Leader in each of the opposition parties.
The Leader of the Opposition does not have a large official role, as most of the post's functions are honorific, ceremonial and nominal.
Stornoway is the name of the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition in Canada, and has been used as such since 1950.
After the latter election the Parti Québécois became the official Opposition since the former opposition party ( Union Nationale ) failed to win any seats.
The Leader of the Opposition has an official residence in Ottawa known as Stornoway and the salary and perks of a cabinet minister.
He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was a trade union official, small business proprietor and researcher and adviser to the Victorian State Leader of the Opposition, John Brumby, before entering politics.
Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in Australia fulfils the same function as the official opposition in other Commonwealth of Nations monarchies.
The Left Opposition attempted to field opposition candidates against the official Communist Party candidates in the 1929 elections, but to no avail.

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