After the resignation of Nationals leader Mark Vaile, McGauran was expected to challenge for the leadership, however he dropped out of the race, stating that it was time for younger members to contribute to the party, and that he looked forward to using his experience to help them.

Deputy Leader Mark Vaile was elected the new Leader, and Truss was elected Deputy Leader.

Vaile was born in Sydney and worked as a farm machinery retailer and stock and station and real estate agent before entering politics.

When John Anderson resigned in 2005, Vaile was elected Leader unopposed.

As Trade Minister, Vaile was involved in the negotiation of the U. S .- Australia Free Trade Agreement, which was opposed by some traditional National Party constituencies such as the sugar industry.

Negotiations for the FTA began in April 2003 and after five rounds of negotiations held in Canberra, Hawaii and Washington, D. C., the text was finally agreed to in February 2004, and signed off on by Australian Trade Minister Mark Vaile and U. S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick in Washington in May 2004.

Between 1999 and 2004 she worked as staff member for National Party federal ministers, Mark Vaile, Larry Anthony, and De-Anne Kelly.

Many successful people have resided in Taree, including poets Les Murray and Henry Kendall, Ian Moffitt ( journalist and author ), former deputy Prime Minister and National Party leader Mark Vaile, Troy Bayliss and Damian Cudlin ( professional motorcycle racers ), Danny Buderus ( former Australian rugby league captain ), Oenone Wood ( cyclist ), Jade North ( Socceroos, Newcastle Jets captain ), Murray Doust ( rower ), Dr Ken Henry ( Secretary to the Treasury ), John H. Coates ( mathematician ) and Liz Hayes ( Australian Television Reporter ).

In the next session of Congress, Representative William N. Vaile sponsored the bill in the House of Representatives.

In 1993, after the exclusion of minor candidates, the Nationals ' Mark Vaile led over the Liberals by only 233 votes.

* Mark Vaile, MP: Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry ( to 20 July 1999 ).

Vaile retired in July 2008 which triggered a Lyne by-election.

* Varely, P. ( 2000 ), Japanese Culture Fourth Edition, The Maple – Vaile Book Manufacturing Group, Retrieved August 3, 2008 from: http :// www. netlibrary. com. ezproxy. umuc. edu / Reader /

Federal leader Mark Vaile stated the Nationals will not merge with the Liberal Party at a federal level.

Still trade is quite small, In 2002 The Hon Mark Vaile visited Santa Cruz for the Cairns Group meeting.

In 2006, following the AWB oil for food scandal, Truss and Vaile swapped portfolios, with Truss becoming Minister for Trade and Vaile taking the Transport and Regional Services portfolio until the defeat of the Liberal / National Coalition government at the 2007 election.

Mark Anthony James Vaile AO ( born 18 April 1956 ) is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and former leader of the National Party of Australia.

The chapter contains elements modelled on the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act 1998 ( US ) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 ( US ) In December 2003, Trade Minister Mark Vaile pledged to defend the copyright term in Australia: “ It is a very important issue, particularly in terms of cost to libraries, educational institutions and the like here in Australia .” Two months later, Australia agreed to a copyright term extension, as part of the deal with the United States.

A portrait of the Comtesse de Neubourg and her Daughter formed part of the Vaile Collection, and realized 4500 guineas at the sale of this collection in 1903.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Fosdick, a brother of minister Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a graduate of Princeton, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Philosophical Association.

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

-- The best 2-year-old pacing mile up to date at Ben White Raceway has been that of Mary Liner ( Mainliner-Highland Ellen ), a member of the Dick Williams stable, who was clocked 2:25.

The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.

The 1952 demographic inquiry in Ruanda-Urundi was directed by V. Neesen, a member of the IRSAC staff, though the inquiry was carried out under the auspices of AIMO, which has continuing responsibility for demographic statistics in this territory.

A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.

The choice of the single member district was dictated to a certain extent by problems of communication and understanding in the more remote areas of the country, but it also served to minimize the national political value of the elections.

He was a member of The Fighting Seventh.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

He said he was `` confessing that I was a member of the Socialist Party in 1910 ''.

The bride, daughter of Rhodes Semmes Baker Jr. of Houston and the late Mrs. Baker, was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma and a member of Mortar Board at Aj.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

The proposal was made by Dr. David S. Jenkins after he and Mrs. D. Ellwood Williams, Jr., a board member and long-time critic of the superintendent, argued for about fifteen minutes at this week's meeting.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.

He was a member of the Baptist church.

He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 – 1 victory in 1950 – 51.

The series was overshadowed by the furore over various Australian bowlers, most notably Ian Meckiff, whom the English management and media accused of illegally throwing Australia to victory.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

But the most dominant Australian player was leg-spinner Shane Warne, whose first delivery in Ashes cricket in 1993, to dismiss Mike Gatting, became known as the Ball of the century.

Use of the name " Ashes " was suggested by the Australian team when rugby league matches between the two countries commenced in 1908.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

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

The Australian Labor Party ( also ALP and Labor, was Labour before 1912 ) is a social-democratic political party in Australia.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

According to linguist Bruce Moore, " the major input of the various sounds that went into constructing the Australian accent was from south-east England.

In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.