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 ).

In 1907 the Australian Government awarded McCormick £ 100 for his composition.

The ad hominem argument was particularly used by the Howard Government against members of the Australian Labor Party.

The Australian Government has introduced legislation that requires ISP's to " restrict access to age restricted content ( commercial MA15 + content and R18 + content ) either hosted in Australia or provided from Australia " that was due to commence from 20 January 2008, known as Cleanfeed.

The Australian Federal Government is considering changes to the Australian Criminal Code that would classify any plants containing any amount of DMT as " controlled plants ".

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The Australian Government was merely asked, as a matter of courtesy, whether they approved of the choice or not.

Governors-General were expected to exercise a supervisory role over the Australian Government in the manner of a colonial Governor.

As a result of decisions made at the 1926 Imperial Conference, the Governor-General ceased to be the diplomatic representative of the British Government, and the British right of supervision over Australian affairs was abolished.

All communication between the Australian colonies and the British Government was meant to go through the Governor-General, and the other colonies had Lieutenant-Governors.

Before the war ended, the Australian Government took steps to encourage an Australian automotive industry.

Both GM and Ford provided studies to the Australian Government outlining the production of the first Australian designed car.

The Australian Government tried to revive the industry with the Button car plan, which encouraged car makers to focus on producing fewer models at higher, more economical volumes, and to export cars.

During the 1990s Holden, other Australian automakers and trade unionists pressured the Australian Government to halt the lowering of car import tariffs.

* 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.

The premises must meet the Australian Government Standards.

* Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia-For service to the South Australian Government by

Arguably inelegant implementation makes the future of OBE unclear, and at odds with the Australian Government in Canberra.

In January 2007, the Western Australian Government responded to the massive opposition by teachers and parents to its implementation of an OBE system by stating that it would allow year 11 and 12 students to be graded traditionally.

The Court maintains registries in all Australian states and territories except Western Australia.

The Royal Australian Navy maintains a rank of rear admiral ; refer to Australian Defence Force ranks and insignia.

Although the AAD maintains a base on Macquarie Island, that island is not a federal territory but is rather part of the Australian state of Tasmania.

The Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage maintains a register of Threatened Species and Threatened Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ( EPBC Act ).

The orchestra seats their endpins in planks of wood placed on the stage as the Opera House Trust maintains that the entire building is heritage-listed under Australian law and that such work would therefore be illegal.

Australia maintains an Australian representative office of AusAid in the country.

The ACCC maintains a website listing all Australian product recalls and the following organisations are commissioned to assist with the surveillance and monitoring of product safety in relevant areas.

The Australian Electoral Commission is also responsible for seat boundaries and redistributions, and maintains the Commonwealth electoral roll.

The Library is a world leader in digital preservation techniques, and maintains an Internet-accessible archive of selected Australian websites called the Pandora Archive.

Due to his efforts ( and those of later curators ), the Mollusc Section at the Australian Museum maintains now the largest research collection of molluscs in the Southern Hemisphere with over 6, 000 specimens.

The Convention archives are housed in the Victorian Jazz Archive, which maintains a collection of Australian and overseas jazz materials.

The Australian Rail Track Corporation ( ARTC ) is a federal government owned corporation established in 1997 that owns, leases, maintains and controls the majority of main line standard gauge railway lines on the mainland of Australia, known as the Designated Interstate Rail Network ( DIRN ).

Since 2003, the NSW interstate and Hunter Valley rail corridors, and the dedicated metropolitan freight lines to the Sydney ports have been under the control of the Australian Rail Track Corporation, and it also maintains other rural branch lines under contract to Rail Corporation New South Wales.

ALAEA is not affiliated with an Australian political party, but maintains industrial affiliations with the NSW Labor Council and the International Transport Workers ' Federation.

To address concerns, the Australian Army maintains a list of approved non-standard issue boots that can be worn by troops.

Currently, the Corps maintains alliances with the Dental Branch of the Canadian Forces, the Royal Australian Army Dental Corps and the Royal New Zealand Dental Corps.

New Era is the exclusive manufacturer and marketer of the official on-field cap worn by every Major League Baseball team and their minor league affiliates, as well as select teams in the KBO and NPB, Australian Baseball League and maintains agreements with other licensed entities including NHL, NBA, NRL and over 200 colleges and universities in the United States.

The Age, an Australian newspaper, reported on how informal vendors at one market, dubbed ' The World Bank ', maintains a façade of trading goods when their real business is dealing in hard cash, albeit very small amounts at a time.

In February 2012, Henry moved to Sydney, Australia to join Network Ten's morning show Breakfast as a co-host. The show debuted on 23 February 2012 and trails behind its three main rivals Sunrise on the Seven Network, Today on the Nine Network, and ABC News Breakfast on ABC1 Since moving to Australia, Henry maintains work in New Zealand media as an Australian correspondent for Radio Live and as the host of Would I Lie to you?

Kirk maintains a strong interest in constitutional law and scholarship, and is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy degree in law at the Australian National University.

All these things are done and all these posts are held under the authority of the Australian Constitution.

An illustrative example is the Australian constitutional crises of 1975, when the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on his own reserve power authority and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser.

* April 2 – A Charter of Justice is signed providing the authority for the establishment of the first New South Wales ( i. e. Australian ) Courts of Criminal and Civil Jurisdiction.

In North American and Australian English, the term frequently implies major roads under the control of a state or provincial agency instead of a local road authority.

The High Court of Australia confirmed the authority of the Australian Parliament, under the Australian Constitution, to exercise universal jurisdiction over War Crimes in the Polyukhovich v Commonwealth case of 1991.

It is notable however, that the monarch herself was not consulted in the decision to use the reserve powers and pointedly refused to intervene, noting that she lacked authority to do so under the Australian constitution.

That same year, Bana made his film debut in the Australian film The Castle, which tells the story of a Melbourne-based family's struggles to keep their home by Melbourne's airport as the airport authority force them to move.

The ceremonial maces of the Australian House of Representatives and the Australian Senate symbolise both the authority of each chamber and the Royal authority of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen of Australia.

* Federal Executive Council ( Australia ), the formal body holding executive authority under the Australian Constitution

The Pandora Archive collects and provides long-term access to selected online publications and web sites that are about Australia, are by an Australian author on a subject of social, political, cultural, religious, scientific or economic significance and relevance to Australia, or are by an Australian author of recognised authority and make a contribution to international knowledge.

In 2002, the Australian Government sold Sydney Airports Corporation Limited ( later renamed Sydney Airport Corporation Limited, SACL ), the management authority for the airport, to Southern Cross Airports Corporation Holdings Ltd. 82. 93 per cent of SACL is owned by MAp Airports International Limited, a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank, Sydney Airport Intervest GmbH own 12. 11 per cent and Ontario Teachers ' Australia Trust own 4. 96 per cent.

However, he was perhaps best known as a leading authority on Australian blowflies.

In Australia arboricultural education and training are streamlined countrywide through a multi-disciplinary vocational education, training, and qualification authority called the Australian Qualifications Framework, which offers varying levels of professional qualification.

Australia ’ s main consumer regulatory authority the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ( ACCC ) is of the view that AS 6000 will be of assistance to courts when they next attempt to determine the meaning of organic.

* Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, an independent Australian commonwealth government authority established in 1995

* 30 — A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a 2 — 1 opinion written by Anthony Kennedy, affirms in the case of Adams v. Howerton that the Immigration and Naturalization Service did not abuse its authority when it refused to recognize the marriage of Australian Anthony Sullivan and Richard Adams, under a license issued by Boulder County, Colorado in 1975, for purposes of Sullivan's immigration.

It represents the amateur radio operators of Australia in dealings with the Australian Communications and Media Authority ( ACMA ), the authority under the government of Australia that administers communications within and external to Australia.

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ( APRA ) is a statutory authority and the prudential regulator of the Australian financial services industry.