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    To become effective‚ the proposals must be put to a referendum of all Australians of voting age‚ and must receive a "double majority": a majority of all votes‚ and a majority of votes in a majority of States. The Commonwealth Constitution also provides that the States can agree to refer any of their powers to the Commonwealth. This may be achieved by way of an amendment to the Constitution via referendum (a vote on whether the proposed transfer of power from the States to the

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    First Past the Post Essay First Pass the Post voting system is a single-winner voting system used to elect members of parliament. This voting method is also used in constituencies which is sometime called an exhaustive counting system where one member is elected at a time and the process repeated until the number of vacancies is filled. The most common system‚ is first-past-the-post. In this voting system the single winner is the person with the most votes‚ so there is no requirement that the

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    LGBT is an abbreviation for lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual or transgender people. The term LGBT is intended to emphasize the diversity of sexual and identity based cultures and is sometimes referred to people that are non- heterosexual. The human rights of the LGBT people are often under pressure. Worldwide the sexual minority are the victims of the violation of human rights. These violations differ from verbal discrimination until imprisoning and torture. Homosexuality is forbidden by law in about 80 countries

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    indigenous population were considered as ‘flora and fauna’ up until 1967‚ when a referendum was held as to whether they should be afforded the same basic human right to be officially recognised and counted as Australian citizens. An overwhelming 90.77% (www.aph.gov.au)‚ of Australia’s other eligible and recognised citizens thought that Australia’s indigenous population should be afforded the right. While this referendum had corrected a long standing wrong‚ Australia’s indigenous population with their

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    Changing Rights and Freedoms The rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people changed significantly between the years 1945 and 2000. The Australian government put in place polices of protection‚ assimilation‚ integration and self determination which disempowered Aboriginal people and severely affected their rights and freedoms. The policy of protection effected many Aboriginals rights and freedoms. They were treated unfairly‚ procrastinated on every move they made and were forced to be educated in

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    could elect representatives to take part in the convention which will be hold in St. Join’s to decide their future. Smallwood was one of these representatives. He proposition of joining in Canada Conference. He failed in the first referendum. But in the second referendum‚ he won. On March 31‚ 1949‚ Newfoundland entered Canadian Confederation as Canada’s tenth province. The next day‚ April 1‚ 1949‚ Joey Smallwood was appointed to be the premier of the interim government and he was elected to be the

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    for high-speed access to the system. This would give users of the system fast and reliable access to the application for the instant public referendum. Internet enabled devices must exist to consume the bandwidth that can be offered by this infrastructure at an affordable price so all citizens can own such devices to be able to participate in the referendum. This is the application stack of the system: View: This is the user facing component of the system. This is probably going to a webpage

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    Polytechnic University of the Philippines COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Mabini Campus‚ Sta. Mesa‚ Manila EDUC 2033 - EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS AND CURRENT ISSUES IN EDUCATION LEGAL BASES OF PHILIPPINE EDUCATION Submitted By: NACINO‚ ELSBETH ROMANTICO‚ DEANNA SANTOS‚ MARC LAWRENCE TARASONA‚ PAULINE BSEDFL 2-1 PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION Marc Lawrence S. Santos PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION INTRODUCTION Every state has had a constitution of some kind whether it be an elaborate

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    Bicameralism Introduction: According to L.S Wynn; “In government‚ bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. The relationship between the two chambers of a bicameral legislature can vary. In some cases‚ they have equal power‚ and in others‚ one chamber is clearly superior to the other.” (Wynn‚ 2012)‚ the latter being the case in Ireland. The Irish constitution provides that the national parliament be known as the Oireachtas and it consists of the President

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    and it capacity to influence the world. In order to demonstrate that‚ i would like to talk about This year in class we studied several documents about the idea of progress and in particular : the page cover of the week for scottish independence referendum and‚ The king’s speech the movie. Video of Emma’s Watson speech ( he for she campaign) In order to illustrate this notion I have chosen to talk about : The power of speech‚ Scotland’s independence‚ Women’s rights movement in the world and

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