The ACT Government is a member of the Council of Australian Governments.

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

On August 24, 2009 the ACT Government announced a complete ban on backyard fireworks.

While the current lease is due to expire in 2010, the ACT Government is seeking ownership of the stadium through a land transfer with the Australian Government.

As such, the ACT Government launched a study examining the upgrading or replacing of Canberra Stadium, with options ranging from increasing capacity and enclosing the current facility, to completely re-configuring the current stadium to an oval for cricket and Australian rules football and building a state of the art rectangular facility next door.

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.

The Crown is therefore represented by the Governor-General of Australia in the Government of the ACT.

Until this point, the ACT had been directly administered by the Commonwealth Government.

Instead of vice-regal or regal assent, a Bill passed by the ACT Legislative Assembly is enacted on ‘ notification ’— publication of a notice authorised by the Chief Minister, in the Government Gazette.

In July 2006, the Federal Government again threatened to overrule the ACT Stanhope Government's anti-terror legislation, which was not consistent with other state laws.

The ACT Government plans to construct a busway to connect the Belconnen Town centre with the hospital and CIT precinct in Bruce and the city centre.

The ACT Government had legislated to prevent further legal delays from community groups however this did not affect Save the Ridge continuing action which they had commenced in the Federal Court.

* Belconnen suburbs map-links to ACT Government street-level maps.

Accordingly the Government of Victoria ( though not the ACT Government ) makes a contribution to the provision of these services.

* seek to have the ACT Government contribute to the cost of the Sydney-Canberra service

In November 2008, as part of the Supply and Confidence Agreement between the ACT and National Party which allowed the formation of a Government, Heather Roy was appointed to ministerial posts outside the cabinet as Minister of Consumer Affairs, Associate Defence Minister and Associate Education Minister.

Each is created as part of the Constitution of Australia, or for the Supreme Courts, by the Constitution of that state or the Self Government Acts for the ACT and the Northern Territory.

The Canberra Spatial Plan released by the ACT Government in March 2004 identified the airport and surrounding areas as being an important centre for future industrial and related development.

The road system around Canberra Airport and the road between Civic and Canberra Airport was being duplicated as at July 2008, partly funded by Canberra Airport and the ACT Government.

The Chief Minister of the ACT Government, Jon Stanhope, initially blamed the Commonwealth for the increased traffic congestion around the airport, which he claims has occurred due to the construction of office buildings on airport land, however, Mr Stanhope later stated that while he accepted the development of the airport adds to the level of traffic on the roads, it is not the cause of the congestion during peak periods.

The ACT Government established a roundtable working group to examine the roads around the Airport and identify solutions to the road congestion through the Majura Valley.

In April 1995 the Keating Government agreed in principle with the Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ) Government to exchange certain sites of land within the ACT to facilitate the building of the National Museum.

The close proximity of the Library provides students with access to the ACT public library collection, free computing facilities and study space.

Periodic detention provides an effective alternative sentencing option for ACT offenders.

Named to honor the Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall, the program affords a rigorous academic program and provides a full tuition / fees waiver and stipend to students with a composite ACT score of 30 or higher who have been accepted to the University.

Similarly, ' Ainslie Village ' - an ACT Government centre which provides accommodation for people with special needs-is in the neighbouring suburb of Campbell.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

The oldest rocks in the ACT date from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago.

The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).

Other protests on the Capitol steps have used the seal as a rallying point: in 1960, a group picketing the execution of Caryl Chessman gathered around the seal and said, " blame our leaders ," in 1967 signs reading " I Protest " and " Thou Shalt Not Kill " were left on the seal to protest the execution of Aaron Mitchell, later that year a black casket representing " the living dead farm worker " was the centerpiece of a " funeral " march and placed atop the seal for an all-night vigil, and in 1990 the seal was marked with handprints of red paint by members of ACT UP, protesting possible state health care cuts.

Citing costs of building multiple facilities as an issue, ACT Sports Minister Andrew Barr indicated his preference would be a ' super stadium ' built with World Cup standard facilities and capacity, reducible to around 30, 000 seats after the event.

Its membership draws on the residents associations from around the ACT.

After burning for a week around the edges of the ACT, the fires entered the suburbs of Canberra on 18 January 2003.

The ACT portion of the peninsula consists of a strip of land around the southern edge of the peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

The ACT, like Washington, D. C. in the United States, is independent of any state to prevent any one state from gaining an advantage by hosting the seat of Federal power.

To do so, the ALP would have to win Field's and Bunton's seats, and one seat in each territory, and have the second ACT seat fall to either a Labor candidate or an independent, former Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton, now estranged from his party.

The following is based on official ACT ACT-SAT concordance chart ACT percentiles are calculated on the basis of the percent of test takers scoring the same score or a lower one, not ( as is the case for many other assessments ) only the percent scoring lower.

In this case the tactic maintained some proportionality by bypassing the 5 % threshold, but is largely disfavoured by the public due to it awarding smaller parties extra list seats while parties with a higher party vote percentage that don't win an electorate receive no seats ( this occurred in 2008 when ACT was awarded 5 seats on the back of one electorate seat and 3. 7 % of the party vote, while New Zealand First with no electorate seats and 4. 1 % of the party vote were awarded none.

Belhaven University students may be invited to participate in Belhaven's Honors College during their Freshman or Sophomore year provided they have a GPA of 3. 5 or higher and an ACT score of 27 or higher or an SAT score of 1220 or higher as well as the sponsorship of at least one professor.

The university incorporates a number of structures and sites of historical and conservational significance dating from the earliest establishment of the national capital, with many buildings recognised by one or more of the Commonwealth Heritage List, the ACT Heritage Register and the National Trust.

ACT New Zealand MP Stephen Franks was critical of the remarks, stating " I don't think she was regarded as one of the most weighty judges and she's putting herself into a difficult constitutional position by weighing in in this area ", as was the Sensible Sentencing Trust.

Today Allied Command Operations ( ACO ), is one of the two supreme commands of NATO ( the other being Allied Command Transformation, ACT ).

Regular visits take place in both directions and members of ACT are currently sponsoring the education of children in a school in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India.

These culminated in one of the Supreme Court's first major decisions in 2004 and she was removed from Parliament, giving the ACT Party a new MP, Kenneth Wang until the 2005 New Zealand Election.

At that time, the electorate was a large rural one that stretched from the south west of Sydney to the northern part of what is now the ACT.

As the one of the first institutions to be established in Camberra, RMC has been integral to the life of the ACT.

From 1996 to 2005 they were one of three Australian teams competing in the Super 12 competition, alongside the New South Wales Waratahs and the ACT Brumbies.

He is the president of Teatrul ACT ( the first independent theatre in Romania ) of which he was one of the founders in 1995.

Applicants submit application forms, grade transcripts, SAT or ACT results, and four letters of recommendation with one optional recommendation form.

ACT was not payable on dividends from one UK company to another ( unless the payor company elected to pay it ).

ACT received enough votes for Hide to enter Parliament, making him one of the party's " founding " MPs.

When Prebble announced his retirement from politics in early 2004, Franks was one of the four candidates who sought to take his place as leader of ACT.

The game went professional post-1995 World Cup, and one outcome of this was the formation of the Super 12, of which Gregan became a foundation player for the ACT Brumbies franchise.

Incoming freshmen have an average score of 25 on the ACT, which is one of the best among Alabama's public universities.

Newman was a founding member of the ACT New Zealand party, and was one of its candidates in its first election.

* High Technology High School was recognized by Newsweek magazine in its May 28, 2007 issue covering America's Best High Schools, as one of its 21 Public Elites, a group of consistent high performers excluded from its rankings because of the number of students with SAT ( or ACT ) scores well above the national average.