L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month." Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.” March is Women’s History Month The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society. A National Policy of Nagging Suffragists faced a difficult road in their march towards equality. Even women opposed giving women the right to vote.
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Introduction In this essay I am going to introduce the reader to the Our World. Your Move. campaign of the Red Cross Movement (Movement). Marking the 150th anniversary of the organisation, the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions and the 90th anniversary of the forerunner of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) this global communications campaign was launched in 2008 and continued with activities carried out in 2009. The formal international coordination and monitoring ended in November 2009.
Annotated Bibliography - Thursday 4-5pm tutorial 1) Tavan, G 2005, The long, slow death of White Australia, 1st edn, Scribe Publications, Victoria, Australia. ‘The long, slow death of White Australia’ encircles the fundamental ideals, concerns and history of the White Australia policy, comprehensively detailing the uprising progression of the policy as well as its gradual demise and entailing consequences. In providing an effectual in-depth analysis of the primary motivations and values manifested in the policy, as well as focusing particularly on its dismantlement through the careful evaluation of successive legislative provisions, the author thereby enables readers to effectively grasp a profound understanding of the policy’s context, its repercussions and aftermath. Encompassing the principles, background
In her article ‘Closing the Gap on the Constitutional Referendum’, Castan (2013, p.12) reports that on 13 February 2013, the Federal House of Representatives passed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Recognition Bill. According to Castan (2013) this was the result of the Minister for Indigenous Affairs beginning talks in 2010 regarding the process for a recognition referendum. The following year an “Expert Panel” was deployed to research and recommend on “the options for constitutional change and approaches to a referendum that would be most likely to obtain widespread support across the Australian community” (Castan 2013 p. 13). Castan argues that a sunset clause was put into place to provide “a clear timeframe to build towards
One hundred years ago the Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed, heralding in a supposedly new era of prosperity for the "lucky country" and its inhabitants. For Aborigines, however, 1901 marked year 113 of resistance to dispossession and racial oppression. One hundred years later, indigenous Australia continues this fight. The modern movement for indigenous rights began in the 1920s when the first Aboriginal political organisations were formed including the Australian Aborigines Protection Association, the Association for the Protection of the Native Races of Australia and Polynesia and the Aboriginal Union. The following decades saw the formation of probably the two best known of all the early groups, the Australian Aborigines League
The United Nations Refugee Conventions allows a person to be defined as a refugee only if they are outside their country of nationality or their usual country of residence and is unable or unwilling to return or to seek the protection of that country due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion is not a war criminal and has not committed any serious non-political crimes or acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. This treaty has increased the amount of migrants come to Australia and has also increased our population, though when John Howard introduced the Pacific solution, the amount of refugees coming to Australia dropped drastically. Signing the United Nations Refugee convention with that this treaty when signed made our country look good in its global community. Migration has changed along the many years from the first settlement to the White Australia policy , from that to multiculturalism to the United Nations refugee convention to now. All those years, all those treaties and laws make what we as a country are today, a country full of culture and traditions from all different countries
Law and Justice Foundation NSW, ‘Taking Justice into Custody: The Legal Needs of Prisoners’, Anne Grunseit et al. 2008, http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/report/prisoners [ 15 ]. Greg Barns, Prisoners and Barriers to their access to Legal Services’, (National Access to Justice and Pro Bono Services Conferences, Brisbane, 27 August 2010) https://wic041u.server-secure.com/vs155205_secure/CMS/files_cms/NA2JPBC2010-Barns.pdf [ 16 ]. Former Chief Justice Murray Gleeson, ‘Social Invisibility’ (Speech delivered at the St Vincent de Paul Society, Inaugural Gerald Ward Lecture, Canberra, 7 November 2008,) http://www.hcourt.gov.au/assets/publications/speeches/former-justices/gleesoncj/gleeson7nov08.pdf [ 17 ]. Vexatious Proceedings Act NSW
State vs. National For the first time in many years an education revolution is happening in Australia. The proposed Australian National Curriculum is the focus of that reform by the federal government. It is a reform that will see power taken from the state and territory education authorities and in its place we will eventually see a nationalised education course and process that will conclude what is learnt and taught in schools of every state and territory of Australia[1]. The education in Australia is currently the responsibility of the territories and states. Each territory and state government is responsible for funding and regulates schools, both private (catholic and independent) and public, within its area of respondsibility.
Reform of the Federation White Paper, Federation, Australian Leaders’ Retreat, viewed 31 August 2015, This paper studies the aspect how Australian constitution established Australia’s system of government as Federalism has changed over century. It emphasizes the main factors of the transformation; along with the suggestions on how to bring back on track. Australian federal system were the fruit of discussion and peaceful evolution because of which we tend to take our federal system for granted and ignores periodic re-assessment which is affecting our economic and social wellbeing. Author also provides survey factors, examples and statistic value to strengthen his arguments on why reform of Federalism is mandatory. This article provides