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Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972
The ''Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972'' (AHA) is a law in the state of Western Australia governing the protection of Aboriginal cultural sites, which is as of 2022 being superseded by the '' Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021'' (ACH Act). The AHA protects all Aboriginal heritage sites in Western Australia, whether or not they are registered with the Department of Planning, Lands, and Heritage. The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs of WA must provide approval for any activity which will negatively impact Aboriginal heritage sites. Under the AHA, Aboriginal sites of outstanding importance may be declared Protected Areas. The AHA also provides protection for Aboriginal objects. Juukan Gorge destruction After the mining company Rio Tinto blew up the 46,000-year old caves in Juukan Gorge on 24 May 2020, which was legal under a Section 18 exemption of the Act, WA Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt started a review of the Act. The interim report of a bipartisan parliamentary inq ...
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Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a total land area of . It is the second-largest country subdivision in the world, surpassed only by Russia's Sakha Republic. the state has 2.76 million inhabitants  percent of the national total. The vast majority (92 percent) live in the south-west corner; 79 percent of the population lives in the Perth area, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The first Europeans to visit Western Australia belonged to the Dutch Dirk Hartog expedition, who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616. The first permanent European colony of Western Australia occurred following the ...
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Moratorium (law)
A moratorium is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law. In a legal context, it may refer to the temporary suspension of a law to allow a legal challenge to be carried out. For example, animal rights activists and conservation authorities may request fishing or hunting moratoria to protect endangered or threatened animal species. These delays, or suspensions, prevent people from hunting or fishing the animals in discussion. Another instance is a delay of legal obligations or payment (''debt moratorium''). A legal official can order due to extenuating circumstances, which render one party incapable of paying another. See also *Justice delayed is justice denied *Moratorium (other) Moratorium (from Late Latin ''morātōrium'', neuter of ''morātōrius'', "delaying"), may refer to: Law *Moratorium (law), a delay or suspension of an activity or a law Music *"Moratorium", a song by Alanis Morissette on her album ''Flavors of E ... References * Legal terminolo ...
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1972 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1972 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarchy in Australia, Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor General of Australia, Governor-General – Paul Hasluck, Sir Paul Hasluck *Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister – William McMahon (until 5 December), then Gough Whitlam **Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister – Doug Anthony (until 5 December), then Lance Barnard **List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition, Opposition Leader – Gough Whitlam (until 5 December), then Billy Snedden (from 20 December) *Chief Justice of Australia, Chief Justice – Garfield Barwick, Sir Garfield Barwick State and territory leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Robert Askin, (Sir) Robert Askin **Leader of the Opposition (New South Wales), Opposition Leader – Pat Hills *Premier of Queensland – Joh Bjelke-Petersen **Leader of the Opposition (Queensland), Opposition Leader – Jack Houston *Premier of South Australia – Don ...
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Australian Heritage Law
Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state and territory levels. Generally there are separate laws governing Aboriginal cultural heritage and sacred sites, and historical (sometimes referred to as post-contact or non-Aboriginal) heritage. State laws also allow heritage to be protected through local government regulations, such as planning schemes, as well. Overview The heritage laws seek to protect, preserve, present, and transmit the Australian nation's natural, cultural, and historical heritage. National heritage The ''Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984'' is legislation passed by the parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia to enable the Commonwealth to intervene and, where necessary, preserve and protect areas and objects of particular significance to Australia' ...
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Traditional Owners
Native title is the designation given to the common law doctrine of Aboriginal title in Australia, which is the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous Australians (both Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people) have rights and interests to their land that derive from their traditional laws and customs. The concept recognises that in certain cases there was and is a continued beneficial legal interest in land held by Indigenous peoples which survived the acquisition of radical title to the land by the Crown at the time of sovereignty. Native title can co-exist with non-Aboriginal proprietary rights and in some cases different Aboriginal groups can exercise their native title over the same land. The foundational case for native title in Australia was ''Mabo v Queensland (No 2)'' (1992). One year after the recognition of the legal concept of native title in ''Mabo'', the Keating Government formalised the recognition by legislation with the enactment by the Au ...
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Reference Group
In the social sciences, social groups can be categorized based on the various group dynamics that define social organization.Boundless team.Types of Social Groups" ''Social Groups and Organization'' Open_educational_resources">OER_course.html" ;"title="Open_educational_resources.html" ;"title="nowiki/>OER_course">Open_educational_resources.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Open_educational_resources">OER_course_Boundless_Sociology'._Portland:_Lumen_Candela._In_ OER_course">Open_educational_resources.html"_;"title="nowiki/>Open_educational_resources">OER_course_Boundless_Sociology'._Portland:_Lumen_Candela._In_Sociology">sociological_terms,_groups_can_fundamentally_be_distinguished_from_one_another_by_the_extent_to_which_their_nature_influence_individuals_and_how._A_''primary_group'',_for_instance,_is_a_small_social_group_whose_members_share_close,_personal,_enduring_relationships_with_one_another_(e.g._family,_childhood_friend)._By_contrast,_a_''secondary_group''_is_one_in_which_interaction ...
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Parliament Of Australia
The Parliament of Australia (officially the Federal Parliament, also called the Commonwealth Parliament) is the legislature, legislative branch of the government of Australia. It consists of three elements: the monarch (represented by the Governor-General of Australia, governor-general), the Australian Senate, Senate and the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives.Constitution of Australia, Section 1 of the Constitution of Australia, section 1. The combination of two elected chambers, in which the members of the Senate represent the States and territories of Australia, states and territories while the members of the House represent electoral divisions according to population, is modelled on the United States Congress. Through both chambers, however, there is a Fusion of powers, fused executive, drawn from the Westminster system.. The upper house, the Senate, consists of 76 members: twelve for each state, and two each for the territories, Northern Terr ...
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Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
The ''Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984'' (Cth), is an Act passed by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia to enable the Commonwealth Government to intervene and, where necessary, preserve and protect areas and objects of particular significance to Australia's Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples from being desecrated or injured.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
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The Act has been considered ineffective to the legislation's purpose, as seen in court decisions and the minimal amendments and recommendations implemented. The minimal upd ...
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Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government is made up of three branches: the executive (the prime minister, the ministers, and government departments), the legislative (the Parliament of Australia), and the judicial. The legislative branch, the federal Parliament, is made up of two chambers: the House of Representatives (lower house) and Senate (upper house). The House of Representatives has 151 members, each representing an individual electoral district of about 165,000 people. The Senate has 76 members: twelve from each of the six states and two each from Australia's internal territories, the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Australian monarch, currently King Charles III, is represented by the governor-general. The Australian Government in its executive ca ...
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Western Australian Government
The Government of Western Australia, formally referred to as His Majesty's Government of Western Australia, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia. It is also commonly referred to as the WA Government or the Western Australian Government. The Government of Western Australia, a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, was formed in 1890 as prescribed in its Constitution, as amended from time to time. Since the Federation of Australia in 1901, Western Australia has been a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Constitution of Australia regulates its relationship with the Commonwealth. Under the Australian Constitution, Western Australia ceded legislative and judicial supremacy to the Commonwealth, but retained powers in all matters not in conflict with the Commonwealth. History Executive and judicial powers Western Australia is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government ba ...
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Parliamentary Inquiry
In parliamentary procedure, requests and inquiries are motions used by members of a deliberative assembly to obtain information or to do or have something done that requires permission of the assembly. Except for a request to be excused from a duty, these requests and inquiries are not debatable nor amendable. Explanation and use At a meeting, members may want to obtain information or request to do something that requires permission from the assembly. These requests and inquiries are in order when another has the floor if they require immediate attention. The requests and inquiries include a parliamentary inquiry, request for information, request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion, request to read papers, and request for any other privilege. Also, a member could request to be excused from a duty. Parliamentary inquiry When a member is unsure about the rules or procedures applying to a certain situation in a meeting, the member can ask the chairman a parliamentary inqu ...
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Aboriginal Australian Sacred Site
An Australian Aboriginal sacred site is a place deemed significant and meaningful by Aboriginal Australians based on their beliefs. It may include any feature in the landscape, and in coastal areas, these may lie underwater. The site's status is derived from an association with some aspect of social and cultural tradition, which is related to ancestral beings, collectively known as Dreamtime (or the Dreaming/s), who created both physical and social aspects of the world. The site may have its access restricted based on gender, clan or other Aboriginal grouping, or other factors. The sites are protected by various state- and territory-based legislation as part of Australian heritage laws, and the federal ''Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984'' can be invoked as a "last resort" if the site is not considered adequately covered by legislation in the jurisdiction. The legislation also protects sites of archaeological, historical and cultural significa ...
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