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.

The ACT Government provides around one percent of the university's operating budget.

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 ACT is bounded by the Goulburn-Cooma railway line in the east, the watershed of Naas Creek in the south, the watershed of the Cotter River in the west, and the watershed of the Molonglo River in the north-east.

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 ACT Chief Minister ( currently Katy Gallagher, Australian Labor Party ) is elected by members of the ACT Assembly.

The Crown is represented by the Governor-General in the government of the ACT.

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 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 ).

The ACT's land on the Beecroft Peninsula is an " exclave ", that is, an area of territory not physically connected to the main part of the ACT.

Interestingly, this ACT exclave surrounds a small exclave of NSW territory, namely the Point Perpendicular lighthouse which is at the southern tip of the Beecroft Peninsula.

This is a geographic curiosity: an exclave of NSW land enclosed by an exclave of ACT land.

The average level of degree qualification in the ACT is higher than the national average.

All land in the ACT is held on 99 year leases from the national government, although most leases are now administered by the Territory government.

The ACT public education system schooling is normally split up into Pre-School, Primary School ( K-6 ), High School ( 7 – 10 ) and College ( 11 – 12 ) followed by studies at university or TAFE.

( The ACT concept is drawn from the Marvel Super Heroes game published by TSR shortly before development of Gamma World < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s third edition.

) The ACT requires the referee to cross-reference the difficulty of a character action with the ability score used to complete that action, determining which column of the ACT is used for that action.

Demonstrated ability in reading, mathematics, and writing, as typically measured in the United States by the SAT or similar tests such as the ACT, have often replaced colleges individual entrance exams, and is often required for admission to higher education.

At some campuses, such as Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Santa Cruz, a point system is used to weight grade point average, SAT Reasoning or ACT scores, and SAT Subject scores, while at Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, and Los Angeles, academic achievement is examined in the context of the school and the surrounding community.

Average ACT score is 22 ; average high school grade point average is 2. 94 ; tuition for 2009-2010 is $ 22, 350, with 100 percent of UIU students receiving need-and / or merit-based financial aid.

* Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a member of ACT UP Philadelphia.

* Chris Bartlett ( activist ), a member of ACT UP Philadelphia.

In late April 2011, Brash, still a National Party member, announced that he would like to lead the ACT Party which would require incumbent leader Rodney Hide to step down.

As for Richardson herself, she became a member of ACT New Zealand, her philosophical successors.

George is losing his sight to cytomegalovirus and is taking a drug that is manufactured by a company that, as a member of ACT UP, George is protesting.

* Von Flores as Ray ( ACT UP member )

* Scott Hurst as Michael ( ACT UP member )

* Duncan McIntosh as Ross ( ACT UP member )

Donna Lynn Awatere Huata ( sometimes written Awatere-Huata, previously known as Donna Awatere ; born 1949 ) is a former member of the Parliament of New Zealand for the ACT Party, former activist for Māori causes, and convicted fraudster.

With the formation of the 49th New Zealand Parliament after the 2008 election, it has a single member of the Parliament of New Zealand – party leader Peter Dunne, an electorate MP – and it has signed a confidence and supply agreement with the National Party, making it, along with ACT and the Maori Party, a support partner to the minority National government.

Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996.

Annette Louise Ellis ( born 13 October 1946 ), Australian politician, was a Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to August 2010, representing the Division of Namadgi ( Australian Capital Territory ) 1996 – 98 and the Division of Canberra ( ACT ) from 1998 to 2010.

The LWF is a member of ACT Alliance.

This caused a member of AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power ( ACT UP ), a gay AIDS organization, to call for a boycott of all of Maxis ' products, a measure which Servin rejected.

The original editorial collective included Denis Lemon ( editor ), Martin Corbett-who later was an active member of ACT UP, David Seligman, a founder member of the London Gay Switchboard collective, Ian Dunn of the Scottish Minorities Group, Glenys Parry ( national chair of CHE ), Suki J. Pitcher, and Doug Pollard, who later went on to launch the weekly gay newspaper, Gay Week ( affectionately known as Gweek ) ( he is now a presenter on Joy Melbourne 94. 9FM, Australia's first full-time GLBTI radio station, and was for a time editor of Melbourne Star, the city's fortnightly gay newspaper ).

A founding member, actor, director and teacher of the American Conservatory Theatre ( ACT ) in San Francisco, he played more than forty roles there, including " Hamlet ", " Oedipus Rex " and " Tiny Alice ".

Mackerras was a member of the ACT Young Liberals in the late 1960s.

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

In the 1999 elections, Hobbs won the Wellington Central electorate, defeating the incumbent member, ACT Party leader Richard Prebble.

In the same year, she was also secretary of the university student body, a member of the party executive in the ACT, and the founding co-convenor of the Vida Women's Network-an attempt to form a Democrat version of Emily's List Australia.

Kenneth Xiaoxuan Wang ( Chinese 王小选 )( born 1955 ) was a New Zealand politician and businessman, and a member of the ACT New Zealand party.

Judge gave vocal concerts for the Arts Council ACT and was an active member of Canberra Philharmonic Society and Canberra Opera.

LWR is a member of ACT Development, a global alliance of churches and related agencies working on development that are committed to working together.