In August 1919, he became Private Secretary and speech writer to the politician John Storey, a prominent member of the centre-left Australian Labor Party that was then in opposition to the Nationalist government in the state of New South Wales.

Under the nominally centre-left Australian Labor Party from 1983 to 1996, the Bob Hawke and Paul Keating governments pursued many economic policies associated with economic rationalism, such as floating the Australian Dollar in 1983, reductions in trade tariffs, taxation reforms, changing from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, heavy restrictions on union activities including on strike action and pattern bargaining, the privatisation of government run services and enterprises such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and wholesale deregulation of the banking system.

However, in the last two state elections, Hamersley booths recorded a majority for the centre-left Australian Labor Party ( ALP ).

The Coalition's main rival for government is the centre-left Australian Labor Party.

It also has a long-established reputation as a staunch supporter of conservative Catholic parliamentarians. De Bruyn, himself a Catholic, is a leading figure in the right wing faction of the ACTU and the ALP De Bruyn has come under scrutiny for voicing his conservative views while being secretary of a trade union and holding a position on the National Executive of the centre-left Australian Labor Party.

The centre-left Australian Labor Party, led by Chief Minister Clare Martin, won a second term with a landslide victory, winning six of the ten seats held by the opposition Country Liberal Party in the 25-member Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, bringing their total to 19.

The Australian labour movement, represented by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, ran a very effective media campaign attacking the proposed changes, and alternate models were proposed by the centre-left Australian Labor Party ( ALP ), who won the subsequent election in a landslide.

The two children, both boys, wandered around the Australian and me for a few moments and then returned to their work.

Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

First: it " mandates that whoever is the sovereign of the United Kingdom is also, by virtue of this external fact, sovereign of Australia "; accordingly, changes to British succession laws would have no effect on Australian law, but if the British amendment changed the sovereign, then the new sovereign of the United Kingdom would automatically become the new sovereign of Australia.

Since then, a number of Australian states have introduced or tightened importation regulations.

There have been only Australian occupants since then.

As such, the Australian monarch approves with commission issued under the royal sign-manual and Public Seal of the State her New South Wales Premier's recommendation for viceroy, who is from then until being sworn-in referred to as the governor-designate.

Hoover first went to Coolgardie, then the center of the Western Australian goldfields, where he worked under Edward Hooper, a company partner.

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO ( 18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980 ) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering ( in 1948 ) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder ( then known as manic depression ).

In February and March 1985 the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket was played at the MCG, a One Day International tournament involving all of the then Test match playing countries to celebrate 150 years of the Australian state of Victoria.

The branching sequence of marsupial orders indicated by the study puts Didelphimorphia in the most basal position, followed by Paucituberculata, then Microbiotheria, and ending with the radiation of Australian marsupials.

In mid-1942 Militia units fought in two significant battles, both in New Guinea, which was then an Australian territory.

On his return to Sri Lanka he impressed against Allan Border's Australian team in a practice game and then went on to make his Test debut at R. Premadasa Stadium in the Second Test Match of the series.

Fadden's successor, Trade Minister John McEwen, took the then unusual step of declining to serve as Treasurer, believing he could better ensure that the interests of Australian primary producers were safeguarded.

* 1975 – The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor ( now East Timor ), are killed by Indonesian troops.

In 2004, then Australian Labor leader Mark Latham described conservative calls for " civility " as " The New Political Correctness ".

He again became Prime Minister at the 1949 election, and he then dominated Australian politics until his retirement in 1966.

Benaud said: " I ’ ll be doing Australian cricket next year – 2010 – but I don ’ t do any television at all anywhere else now and when I finish next year, then I ’ ll be doing other things ... But that ’ ll be no more television commentary ".

It follows, then, that less complex societies, such as the Australian Aborigines, have less complex religious systems, involving totems associated with particular clans.

In situations where cover ( or " headdress ", as it is called in the Australian Army ) is not being worn, the salute is given verbally ; the junior party ( or senior member thereof ) will first come to attention, then offer the salute " Good morning / afternoon Your Majesty / Your Royal Highness / Prime Minister / Your Grace / Sir / Ma ' am / Sergeant ", etc., as the case may be.

Film of their appearance was incorporated into their 1967 Australian television special The Seekers Down Under, which was screened on the Channel 7 and drew a then record audience of over 6 million.

She then continued on an Australian and New Zealand leg of the tour accompanied by Dave Stewart until December 2011.

Released unbowed from prison in August 1920 he would soon break with the IWW over its anti-political stand, standing for the NSW Parliament for the Industrial Socialist Labour Party unsuccessfully in 1922 and then in 1925 for the mainstream Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) also unsuccessfully.

* 1922 – Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader ( b. 1866 )

In December 2011, Fraser was highly critical of the Australian government's decision ( also supported by the Liberal Party Opposition ) to permit the export of uranium to India, relaxing the Fraser government's policy of banning sales of uranium to countries that are not signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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.

She was appointed Opposition Leader in 1999, and won a surprise victory at the 2001 territory election, becoming the first Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.

He is the only person in Australian history to have been Prime Minister, Premier of a State, and Leader of the Opposition in both the Federal Parliament and a State Parliament ( although George Reid had served as Premier of a colony before Federation ).

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Category: Australian Leaders of the Opposition

After the Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) lost government in 1922, Lang was elected as Opposition Leader in 1923 by his fellow Labor Party MPs.

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Category: Australian Leaders of the Opposition

Category: Australian Leaders of the Opposition

Another cousin was the academic and novelist Coral Lansbury, whose son is former Australian federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull.

He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition at the Federal level, from November 2001 to 2 December 2003.

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Some parliamentary parties, notably the Australian Labor Party, elect all the members of their shadow cabinets in a party room ballot, with the Leader of the Opposition then allocating portfolios to the Shadow Ministers.

* List of Australian Opposition Leaders

** Leader of the Opposition ( Australian Capital Territory )

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Category: Australian Leaders of the Opposition

In January 2012, Australian Federal Minister Anthony Albanese while criticizing Federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, copied several lines from The American President.

He explained that his decision was also due to the allegations over Opposition members receiving financial support from Australian company Getax.

The Australian National University was established by an act of the Parliament of Australia, introduced by the then Prime Minister Ben Chifley and the Minister for Post-war Reconstruction J. J. Dedman with support of the Opposition Leader Robert Menzies.

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