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MEDIA RELEASE – September 5, 2016 Ex-SAS Amputee on 10,000Km Charity Ride to Support Injured Veterans
MEDIA RELEASE – September 5, 2016 Ex-SAS Amputee on 10,000km Charity Ride to Support Injured Veterans Vietnam veteran Laurie ‘Truck’ Sams left Perth today to cross the Nullarbor on the hardest leg of his 10,000km bike ride from Hanoi to Sydney to raise awareness for post-traumatic stress disorder and veteran suicide. Truck’s determination to complete the epic 10,000km ride was buoyed by the news that former Governor-General Major General Michael Jeffery AC, AO(Mil), CVO, MC (Retd) had agreed to support the 10,000km ride as official patron. “Mike Jeffery’s endorsement is a huge boost because it adds real horsepower to our objective of generating greater community awareness and support,” he said standing on the picturesque South Perth foreshore beside a large van brandishing his Victory over PTSD logo. A former Special Air Service Regiment Warrant Officer who lost his left leg below the knee in a parachute accident in 1995, Truck and his trusty Trek bike have logged 73 days and 5830km since leaving Hanoi on May 12 carrying an Australian flag he wants to hand to the Prime Minister in Canberra on Remembrance Day. “We’ve had to contend with bucketing rain, high winds, and the chaotic roads of Asia in the monsoon season, almost being beheaded by a front-end loader on Route 1 in Vietnam and sliding under an out of control gravel truck in heavy mud further south near Vinh city,” he said. “But the toughest test will be the Nullarbor – it is totally unforgiving of man and machinery and we’ve had to prepare like we’re going into battle.” Riding with Truck on the wheat belt leg will be Fremantle-based former SAS Trooper Mat Jones, 44, who served in East Timor, The Solomons, Afghanistan and Iraq and is now with the WA office of Lockforce Consultancy International, a major sponsor of the six-month charity ride. -
Ministerial Staff Under the Howard Government: Problem, Solution Or Black Hole?
Ministerial Staff Under the Howard Government: Problem, Solution or Black Hole? Author Tiernan, Anne-Maree Published 2005 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School Department of Politics and Public Policy DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/3587 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367746 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Ministerial Staff under the Howard Government: Problem, Solution or Black Hole? Anne-Maree Tiernan BA (Australian National University) BComm (Hons) (Griffith University) Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy November 2004 Abstract This thesis traces the development of the ministerial staffing system in Australian Commonwealth government from 1972 to the present. It explores four aspects of its contemporary operations that are potentially problematic. These are: the accountability of ministerial staff, their conduct and behaviour, the adequacy of current arrangements for managing and controlling the staff, and their fit within a Westminster-style political system. In the thirty years since its formal introduction by the Whitlam government, the ministerial staffing system has evolved to become a powerful new political institution within the Australian core executive. Its growing importance is reflected in the significant growth in ministerial staff numbers, in their increasing seniority and status, and in the progressive expansion of their role and influence. There is now broad acceptance that ministerial staff play necessary and legitimate roles, assisting overloaded ministers to cope with the unrelenting demands of their jobs. However, recent controversies involving ministerial staff indicate that concerns persist about their accountability, about their role and conduct, and about their impact on the system of advice and support to ministers and prime ministers. -
Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government / Edited by Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis
AND MINISTERIAL CAREERS ACCOUNTABILITYIN THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT AND MINISTERIAL CAREERS ACCOUNTABILITYIN THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT Edited by Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at http://epress.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Ministerial careers and accountability in the Australian Commonwealth government / edited by Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis. ISBN: 9781922144003 (pbk.) 9781922144010 (ebook) Series: ANZSOG series Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Politicians--Australia. Politicians--Australia--Ethical behavior. Political ethics--Australia. Politicians--Australia--Public opinion. Australia--Politics and government. Australia--Politics and government--Public opinion. Other Authors/Contributors: Dowding, Keith M. Lewis, Chris. Dewey Number: 324.220994 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design and layout by ANU E Press Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2012 ANU E Press Contents 1. Hiring, Firing, Roles and Responsibilities. 1 Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis 2. Ministers as Ministries and the Logic of their Collective Action . 15 John Wanna 3. Predicting Cabinet Ministers: A psychological approach ..... 35 Michael Dalvean 4. Democratic Ambivalence? Ministerial attitudes to party and parliamentary scrutiny ........................... 67 James Walter 5. Ministerial Accountability to Parliament ................ 95 Phil Larkin 6. The Pattern of Forced Exits from the Ministry ........... 115 Keith Dowding, Chris Lewis and Adam Packer 7. Ministers and Scandals ......................... -
Sas Resources Fund History 1996-2016
SPECIAL AIR SERVICE RESOURCES FUND 5 SAS RESOURCES FUND HISTORY 1996-2016 November 2016 SPECIAL AIR SERVICE RESOURCES FUND 6 FOREWORD If there was one single glimmer of light to emerge from the ashes of the 1996 Blackhawk disaster, it would certainly be the creation of the Special Air Service Resources Fund. While the unit was understandably reeling from its worst ever loss, and rightfully focused on rebuilding the short notice Counter Terrorism capability that Australia relies upon it to provide, a selfless group of individuals coalesced, unprompted, and set about creating this amazing institution. In doing so, they reacted swiftly, decisively and generously; and have continued to ever since. The 20 years since the Blackhawk tragedy represents about a “generation” within the Special Air Service Regiment; the unit’s most senior soldiers today were young troopers or lance corporals back in 1996 when the accident occurred. Sadly, during that generation, almost every single member of the unit has experienced the loss of a friend in training or combat. But on each occasion, in the midst of their grief, our men and women have also seen the Fund immediately step into action. As a result, we have witnessed the children of our fallen mates grow up, being cared for by the Fund. No one can replace a lost father or husband but through its financial support and empathy, the Fund provides a backbone of solace in this darkest of situations. By virtue of this fact, every time our soldiers step forward into the breach, they do so confident in the knowledge that should they fall in the service of this country, the Fund has their back, and will continue to take care of that which is most precious to them. -
Report: the 1998 Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Tests
The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia THE 1998 INDIAN AND PAKISTANI NUCLEAR TESTS REPORT OF THE SENATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS, DEFENCE AND TRADE REFERENCES COMMITTEE JUNE 1999 © Commonwealth of Australia ISBN 0 642 71024 4 This document is produced from camera-ready copy by the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee Secretariat, and printed by the Senate Printing Unit, Parliament House, Canberra. iii MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE Current Senator John Hogg, ALP, Qld (Chair) Members Senator Sandy Macdonald, NPA, NSW (Deputy Chair) Senator Vicki Bourne, AD, NSW (from 12.5.99) Senator Ross Lightfoot, LP, WA Senator John Quirke, ALP, SA Senator Sue West, ALP, NSW Current Senator Eric Abetz, LP, Tas Participating Members Senator the Hon Nick Bolkus, ALP, SA Senator Ron Boswell, NPA, Qld Senator Bob Brown, TG, WA Senator the Hon David Brownhill, NPA, NSW Senator Mal Colston, Ind, Qld Senator the Hon Peter Cook, ALP, WA (from 3.12.98) Senator Alan Eggleston, LP, WA (from 9.12.98) Senator the Hon John Faulkner, ALP, NSW Senator Michael Forshaw, ALP, NSW Senator Brenda Gibbs, ALP, Qld (from 3.12.98) Senator Brian Harradine, Ind, Tas Senator Dee Margetts, GWA, WA Senator Julian McGauran, NPA, Vic (from 3.12.98) Former Senator the Hon Peter Cook, ALP, WA (to 9.11.98) Members Senator Alan Eggleston, LP, WA (to 3.12.98) Senator Brenda Gibbs, ALP, Qld (to 3.12.98) Senator John Woodley, AD, Qld (to 12.5.99) Former Senator the Hon Paul Calvert, LP, Tas (to 24.11.98) Participating Members Senator Grant Chapman, LP, SA (to 24.11.98) -
ATTA News January 2015
ATTA News January 2015 https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/about/schools/taxation-business-law/australasian-tax- teachers-association/newsletters Editor: Colin Fong, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney [email protected] ATTA website https://www.business.unsw.edu.au/about/schools/taxation-business- law/australasian-tax-teachers-association Contents 1 Presidential column 1 2 ATTA Conference 2015 1 3 ATTA Annual General Meeting agenda 3 4 Notice of Meeting: Annual General Meeting 4 5 TTPI Australian Visiting Fellow Awards program 4 6 Arrivals, departures and honours 4 7 United Kingdom developments 4 8 IBFD Frans Vanistendael Award for International Tax Law 8 9 Master of Laws in international tax law scholarship 8 10 Call for papers 9 11 Tax, accounting, economics and law related meetings 13 12 ATTA members in the media 15 13 Recent publications 15 14 Quotable quotes 16 1 Presidential column Welcome back to everyone after the Christmas break. I hope that you are all rested in preparation for the new academic year. The new year starts with a bang for ATTA as we head to Adelaide for the annual conference next week. The programme details are now available (see details later in this newsletter) and, as usual, it looks like being an interesting start to the year. We will also be bringing the proposed constitutional amendments to the AGM for a vote of the membership, so please review the details that have been published in the ATTA news so that we can finalise the amendments next week. If you are unable to attend and would like your views to be taken into account, proxy forms have been circulated. -
The History Journal Volume 14
annual service of rededication Order of St John St Hohn Historyenduring faith Awkward Hours, Awkward Jobs Capitular Procession of the Priory in Australia Christ Church Anglican Cathedral Frank Dunstan MStJ Darwin Historical Society of Australia annual service of rededication Order of St John St Hohn Historyenduring faith THE JOURNAL OF THE ST JOHN AMBULANCE HISTORICALCapitular SOCIETY Procession OF AUSTRALIA of the Priory in Australia Christ ChurchVOLUME Anglican 14, 2014 Cathedral ‘Preserving and promoting the St John heritage’ Historical Society of Australia Darwin Frank Dunstan MStJ Awkward Hours, Awkward Jobs The front cover of St John History Volume 14 shows the members of the Order of St John who took part in the Capitular Procession of the Priory in Australia at their annual service of rededication in Christ Church Capitular Procession of the Priory in Australia Anglican Cathedral in Darwin on Sunday 2 June 2013. enduring faith The members of the Order are pictured outside the porch of the cathedral, which is all that remains of the original structure built and consecrated in 1902. Constructed from the local red limestone, the original Christ Church Anglican Cathedral cathedral was damaged during a Japanese air raid in February 1942. After that the Australian military forces annual service of rededication used the building until the end of the war. Cyclone Tracy destroyed everything but the porch of the repaired cathedral in December 1974. Order of St John The new cathedral, built around and behind the porch, was consecrated in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Donald Coggan, on 13 March 1977. -
1 6 July 2017 the Secretary House of Representatives Standing
6 July 2017 The Secretary House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 Dear Secretary, INQUIRY INTO THE USE AND MARKETING OF ELECTORINIC CIGARETTES AND PERSONAL VAPORISERS IN AUSTRAIALIA As a public policy consultant and analyst, who has long had a professional interest in promoting good policy and sensible regulation of smoking, alcohol and other forms of personal choice involving health risks, I welcome this Inquiry and the decision of the Minister for Health to give the Committee this reference. While I will already be known to some members of the Committee, a brief outline of my background and expertise is in Appendix A. My comments on the vaping issue, and the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference, are based on my experience and expertise as a long-time public policy professional with extensive political experience. I am not a clinician, scientist or consumer. I do not claim expertise or competence to discuss the validity or otherwise of the science. I also have never smoked or vaped. As a public policy and political professional, however, who has worked in the Australian health policy space for over 20 years, I should say at the outset I have never been involved with an issue that has generated such personal vitriol, anger, ad hominem attacks and complete disrespect for professional integrity and reputations as e-cigarettes and vaping. That includes the virulent attacks on the 2014 GP co-payment proposal, for which I became a leading public and media advocate at personal cost. There is too much smoke and heat, and too little light, in the vaping debate. -
Interview with the Hon. Dr Michael Wooldridge: Tobacco Control Was the Best Buy in Health Then and It’S Still the Best Buy Now
September 2020; Vol. 30(3):e3032017 https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp3032017 www.phrp.com.au Perspective Interview with the Hon. Dr Michael Wooldridge: tobacco control was the best buy in health then and it’s still the best buy now Michael Wooldridgea and Paul Groganb,c,d a Former Federal Health Minister, 1996–2001 b Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, Australia c University of Sydney, NSW, Australia d Corresponding author: [email protected] Article history Abstract Publication date: September 2020 The late 1990s marked a turning point for tobacco control in Australia. In Citation: Wooldridge M, Grogan P. Interview March 1996, the Liberal-National Coalition won government after 13 years with the Hon. Dr Michael Wooldridge: of Labor rule. Prime Minister John Howard had campaigned on cutting tobacco control was the best buy in health expenditure, and had long been a proponent of small government and the then and it’s still the best buy now. Public private sector. Yet within 2 years of taking offce, the Howard Government Health Res Pract. 2020;30(3):e3032017. funded Australia’s frst big budget National Tobacco Campaign and https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp3032017 commenced a review of the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act 1992 to phase out industry sponsorship of international sporting events. The Honourable Dr Michael Wooldridge, Minister for Health from 1996 to his Key points retirement from politics in 2001, refects on how these reforms to tobacco control were achieved and how the public health community can best engage • The public health community can best with policy makers to advocate for reform. -
Council Tuesday, 11 March 1997
32 [COUNCIL] people laughed and suggested that no such thing could ever occur here in Western Australia. It was not 100 years ago; it was in the early 1970s, so it was relatively recently. When one is as old as I am one can say it was relatively recently! At that time he pointed out that the drug issue in Perth was under the jurisdiction of the police liquor and gaming squad, which consisted of two policemen. John Williams was proved to be correct and was given the onerous task of establishing the Alcohol and Drug Authority, of which he was the first chairman, and he went on to do those things about which previous members have spoken. Mention has also been made of his activities as Deputy Chairman of Committees and the skill with which he carried out the duties of that position. Unlike many people who are elected to this place, John Williams knew the rules, the Standing Orders, but, more importantly, he understood them and why they were necessary. He played his part in a very great way in ensuring that the procedures of this House were complied with while he was in the Chair. As is normal practice, I will write to Mrs Sylvia Williams and her family informing them of the terms of this motion and forwarding a copy of all the speeches that have been made. I ask members to join me in carrying this motion by rising in their places for one minute. Question passed, members standing. ADDRESS-IN-REPLY Motion Resumed from 6 March. -
03 List of Members
SENIOR OFFICE BEARERS VISITOR His Excellency The Governor of Victoria, Professor David de Krester, AO MBBS Melb. MD Monash. FRACP FAA FTSE. CHANCELLOR The Hon Justice Alex Chernov, BCom Melb. LLB(Hons) Melb.Appointe d to Council 1 January 1992. Elected DeputyChancello r 8Marc h2004 .Electe dChancello r 10 January2009 . DEPUTY CHANCELLORS Ms Rosa Storelli, Bed Ade CAE GradDipStudWelf Hawthorn MEducStud Monash MACE FACEA AFA1M. Appointed 1 January 2001. Re-appointed 1 January 2005. Elected DeputyChancello r1 January2007 ;re-electe d 1 January2009 . TheHon .Justic eSusa nCrenna n ACB AMel bLL B SydPostGradDi pMelb . Elected June 2009. VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRINCIPAL Professor Glyn Conrad Davis, AC BA NSWPh DANU .Appointe d 10 January2005 . DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR / PROVOST Professor John Dewar BCL MA Oxon. PhD Griff. Appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations) 6 April 2009.Appointe d Provost 28 September2009 . DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLORS Professor Peter David Rathjen BSc Hons Adel DPhil Oxon Appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) 1 May 2008. Professor Susan Leigh Elliott, MB BS Melb. MD Melb. FRACP. Appointed Acting Provost 15 July 2009. Appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) 28 September 2009. Professor Warren Arthur Bebbington, MA Queens (NY) MPhil MMus PhD CUNY. Appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (University Relations) 1Januar y 2006. Appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations) 1Jun e 2008. Appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (University Affairs) 28 September 2009. PRO-VICE-CHANCELLORS Professor Geoffrey Wayne Stevens, BE RM1TPh DMelb . FIChemE FAusIMM FTSE CEng. Appointed 1 January2007 . Professor Ron Slocombe, MVSc PhD Mich. ACVP. Appointed 1 January 2009. PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR (TEACHING AND LEARNING) Philippa Eleanor Pattison, BSc Melb. -
Major General Michael
Extract from Hansard [COUNCIL - Thursday, 26 June 2003] p9318b-9319a Hon Kim Chance; Hon Norman Moore MAJOR GENERAL MICHAEL JEFFERY, AC, MC, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF AUSTRALIA Motion HON KIM CHANCE (Agricultural - Leader of the House) [10.25 am]: I move without notice - That this House congratulates and offers its best wishes to Major General Michael Jeffery, AC, MC, a Western Australian and former Governor of Western Australia, on his appointment as Governor General of Australia. I move this motion to provide the House with the opportunity to express its congratulations to a Western Australian, Major General Michael Jeffery, following the recent announcement by the Prime Minister that the former Governor of Western Australia will be appointed to the post of Governor General effective from 11 August this year. I have met, as have other members, with the previous Western Australian Governor on a number of occasions. I have a high regard for this courageous and outspoken individual who has risen to the highest post in the country from his origins in Wiluna, Western Australia. It is testimony to Australia’s tradition of equality that a person from Wiluna, who, after a lifetime contribution and dedication to the interest of his country, can take up the highest post in the land. After receiving his secondary education in Perth, Michael Jeffery went to the Royal Military College, Duntroon at the age of 16. Major General Michael Jeffery went on to have an unblemished record of military service to his country. He served with distinction as a company commander in Vietnam where he was decorated with a Military Cross.