It lies approximately 40 km southwest of Canberra, and makes up approximately 46 % of the ACT's land area.

While this was an increase on ACT's previous achievements, it would not have been sufficient to give National victory.

She was ranked in fourth place on ACT's party list, and stood as a candidate in the Māori electorate of Te Puku O Te Whenua, coming in 4th place.

Local Works, ACT's campaign for the Sustainable Communities Bill however continued successfully and the legislation received Royal Assent on 27 October 2007.

Humphries was the first Liberal senator to vote against the Howard Government in its 11. 5 years in office, when he voted to reverse the Federal Government's ban on the ACT's civil unions law in the Senate, claiming that the Commonwealth should not be able to automatically overturn ACT legislation.

At the 2005 elections Wang contested the seat of Mt Roskill, and was seventh on ACT's party list.

She was ranked second on ACT's party list, but did not stand as an electorate candidate because of her husband's illness.

Some commentators see the modern ACT New Zealand party as being the successor of the New Zealand Party, and Bob Jones is counted among ACT's supporters.

:* Newman's contribution is a paper entitled: " ACT's welfare vision.

The Commonwealth Government owns the dam which is operated by ACTEWAGL, the ACT's electricity, water and gas utility provider.

However, the Point Perpendicular lighthouse ( and its grounds ) at Point Perpendicular, which is the southern tip of the peninsula and at the northern entrance to Jervis Bay, remains an enclave of New South Wales territory within the ACT's enclave.

Fires spread through the Kambah Pool area and into the suburb of Kambah causing damage to many homes and one of the ACT's primary Urban and Rural fire stations.

One of ACT's main projects was Local Works the successful campaign for the Sustainable Communities Bill.

Kambah High was also closed at the conclusion of the 2007 school year as part of the ACT's Towards 2020 education reforms, having operated for 31 years.

For a few short years Macarthur was part of the ACT's motorsport activities.

However, at the same time, ACT New Zealand strongly criticised it for deviating from its former New Right economic policy perspectives, and at the same election, National did little to enable ACT's survival.

At ACT's 2008 annual conference in Auckland, Douglas announced his intention to stand for Parliament again, as an ACT candidate.

In the fall of 2004, ACT was featured in the Frontline Documentary, The Persuaders, which described ACT's use of narrowcasting.

For example, ACT's foreign and defence policies are directly contrary to New Zealand Party policy, with ACT advocating increased defence expenditure and the strengthening of traditional alliances.

Although ACT's proprietary computers were successful in the UK, the IBM PC had achieved critical mass in the US market before ACT could make an impression.

On 27 May 2009, Eastman was transferred from a NSW prison to the ACT's Alexander Maconochie Centre to see out his sentence.

ACT's efforts to curb these trends resulted in the Children's Television Act, enacted in 1990 and strictly enforced by the FCC starting in 1996.

Douglas did not win the Hunua seat, but ACT's 3. 65 % share of the party vote gave it five seats, so he re-entered Parliament as a list MP.

Roger Douglas himself has emerged as one of Hide's more prominent critics, referring to Hide's " stunts " as detracting from ACT's core economic message, shifting focus to populist issues of law and order and to provocative race relations policies.

In the race he claimed that his high public profile and his image of strength would prove crucial to ACT's political survival.

This high ranking ( above several sitting MPs ) was indicative of ACT's high hopes for Franks at the time-as a prominent lawyer, he was generally regarded as a significant asset for the party.

In he stood in which had been won by ACT's Richard Prebble in.

Follett was the ACT's Sex Discrimination Commissioner from 1996 to 2004.

National withdrew its candidate from the Wellington Central electorate to ensure ACT's candidate, Richard Prebble, would succeed in the election.

ACT's view was accepted, and Awatere Huata was expelled.

In 2004, when Richard Prebble stepped down as ACT's leader, Newman chose to step forward as a candidate to succeed him.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

And it's goin' to go on like this year after year until the white people take over this land ''.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;

The aborigine lives on the cruelest land I have ever seen.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.

`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

This work will cover the most serious one-fourth of all land needing such treatment, and will consist of burning 250,000 acres of highly hazardous debris concentration, felling snags on 350,000 acres of high lightning-occurrence areas, prescribed burning on 3.5 million acres, removing roadside fuel on 39,000 acres, and clearing and maintaining 11,000 miles of firebreaks.