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Bennelong Society
The Bennelong Society was a conservative think-tank dedicated to Indigenous Australian affairs. The society was named after the Eora man Bennelong, who served as an interlocutor between the Indigenous Australian and British cultures, both in Sydney and in the United Kingdom almost from the start of British settlement of Australia in 1788. It was affiliated with conservative commentators in debates on Indigenous affairs. The society was established to: * promote debate and analysis of Aboriginal policy in Australia, both contemporary and historical; * inquire into the causes of the present appalling plight of many contemporary Aboriginal people; * seek to influence public opinion so that the prospects for amelioration of the condition of these people are improved; * encourage research into the history of the interaction between Australia's Indigenous people and the Europeans and others who settled in Australia from 1788 onwards, and of the ideas through which this interaction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Think-tank
A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmental organizations, but some are semi-autonomous agencies within government or are associated with particular political parties, businesses or the military. Think-tank funding often includes a combination of donations from very wealthy people and those not so wealthy, with many also accepting government grants. Think tanks publish articles and studies, and even draft legislation on particular matters of policy or society. This information is then used by governments, businesses, media organizations, social movements or other interest groups. Think tanks range from those associated with highly academic or scholarly activities to those that are overtly ideological and pushing for particular policies, with a wide range among them in terms of the qual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavoisier Group
The Lavoisier Group is an Australian organisation formed by politicians and dominated by retired industrial businesspeople and engineers. Theage.com.au. Nov. 27, 2004. Retrieved Jan. 1, 2014. It does not accept the Scientific opinion on climate change, science of global warming and works to influence attitudes of policy makers and politicians. The organisation downplays the risk of the effects of global warming, rejects the scientific conclusion that human activity causes it, and opposes Politics of global warming, policies designed to curtail it. Some members regard climate change as a "scam." The group was named after French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), the father of modern chemistry who disproved the Phlogiston theory of combustion. Creation The Lavoisier Group was created in respo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2005 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General – Michael Jeffery *Prime Minister – John Howard **Deputy Prime Minister – John Anderson (until 6 July), then Mark Vaile **Opposition Leader – Mark Latham (until 18 January), then Kim Beazley * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Bob Carr (until 3 August), then Morris Iemma **Opposition Leader – John Brogden (until 1 September), then Peter Debnam *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie **Opposition Leader – Lawrence Springborg *Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Rob Kerin *Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon **Opposition Leader – Rene Hidding *Premier of Victoria – Steve Bracks **Opposition Leader – Robert Doyle *Premier of Western Australia – Geoff Gallop **Opposition Leader – Colin Barnett (until 9 March), then Matt Birney *Chief Minister of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermannsburg, Northern Territory
Hermannsburg, also known as Ntaria, is an Aboriginal community in Ljirapinta Ward of the MacDonnell Shire in the Northern Territory of Australia, ; west southwest of Alice Springs, on the Finke River, in the traditional lands of the Western Arrarnta people. Established as a Lutheran Aboriginal mission in 1877, linguist and anthropologist Carl Strehlow documented the local Western Arrernte language during his time there. The mission was known as Finke River Mission or Hermannsburg Mission, but the former term was later used to included a few more settlements, and from 2014 has applied to all Lutheran missions in Central Australia. The land was handed over to traditional ownership in 1982 under the ''Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976'', and the area is now heritage-listed. Geography Hermannsburg lies on the Finke River within the rolling hills of the MacDonnell Ranges in the southern Central Australia region of the Northern Territory. It is within the jurisdiction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Albrecht
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2004 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General – Michael Jeffery *Prime Minister – John Howard **Deputy Prime Minister – John Anderson **Opposition Leader – Mark Latham * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Bob Carr **Opposition Leader – John Brogden *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie **Opposition Leader – Lawrence Springborg *Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Rob Kerin *Premier of Tasmania – Jim Bacon (until 21 March), then Paul Lennon **Opposition Leader – Rene Hidding *Premier of Victoria – Steve Bracks **Opposition Leader – Robert Doyle *Premier of Western Australia – Geoff Gallop **Opposition Leader – Colin Barnett *Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory – Jon Stanhope **Opposition Leader – Brendan Smyth *Chief Minister of the Northern Territory – Clare Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindmarsh Island Bridge Controversy
The Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy was a 1990s Australian legal and political controversy that involved the clash of local Aboriginal Australian sacred culture and property rights. A proposed bridge to Hindmarsh Island, near Goolwa, South Australia (intended to replace the existing cable ferry and service a proposed marina development) attracted opposition from many local residents, environmental groups and indigenous leaders. In 1994, a group of Ngarrindjeri women elders claimed the site was sacred to them for reasons that could not be revealed. The case attracted much controversy because the issue intersected with broader concerns about Indigenous rights, specifically Aboriginal land rights, in the Australian community at the time, and coincided with the Mabo and Wik High Court cases regarding Native title in Australia. "Secret women's business", as the group's claims became known, became the subject of intense legal battles. Some Ngarrindjeri women came forward to di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngarrindjeri
The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ''Ngarrindjeri'' means "belonging to men", and refers to a "tribal constellation". The Ngarrindjeri actually comprised several distinct if closely related tribal groups, including the Jarildekald, Tanganekald, Meintangk and Ramindjeri, who began to form a unified cultural bloc after remnants of each separate community congregated at Raukkan, South Australia (formerly Point McLeay Mission). A descendant of these peoples, Irene Watson, has argued that the notion of Ngarrindjeri identity is a cultural construct imposed by settler colonialists, who bundled together and conflated a variety of distinct Aboriginal cultural and kinship groups into one homogenised pattern is now known as Ngarrindjeri. Historical designation and usage Sources disagree as to who the Ngarri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2003 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarchy of Australia, Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General of Australia, Governor-General – Peter Hollingworth (until 28 May), then Michael Jeffery (from 11 August) **Administrator (Australia), Administrator of the Commonwealth – Guy Green (judge), Sir Guy Green (from 28 May to 11 August) *Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister – John Howard **Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister – John Anderson (Australian politician), John Anderson **List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition, Opposition Leader – Simon Crean (until 2 December), then Mark Latham *Chief Justice of Australia, Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and territory leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Bob Carr **Leader of the Opposition (New South Wales), Opposition Leader – John Brogden (politician), John Brogden *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie **Leader of the Opposition (Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boni Robertson
Boni may refer to: Places * Bone state, a vassal state of the government of Celebes, Dutch East Indies * Boni MRT Station, a train station in Manila, Philippines * Boni, Benin, an arrondissement in the Collines department of Benin state * Boni (department), a department or commune of Tuy Province in Burkina Faso * Boni National Reserve, Garissa County, Kenya * Boni, an old name for a state on the island of Borneo, possibly Brunei Iran * Boni, Ramhormoz, a village in Howmeh-ye Gharbi Rural District * Now Boni, a village in Ganjabad Rural District * Seh Boni, a village in Jolgeh-ye Chah Hashem Rural District * Shahrak-e Shahid Mohasan Boni Najar, a village in Kiyaras Rural District Mali * Boni, Korarou, a village and seat of the commune of Korarou * Boni, Mali, a village Other uses * Aluku people, also known as Boni, French Guiana * Aweer people, also known as Boni, Kenya ** Boni (Kenyan language), a language of the Aweer * ''Boni'' (film), a 2009 Telugu film * ''Boni Homines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2002 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II * Governor-General – Peter Hollingworth *Prime Minister – John Howard **Deputy Prime Minister – John Anderson **Opposition Leader – Simon Crean * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Bob Carr **Opposition Leader – Kerry Chikarovski (until 28 March), then John Brogden *Premier of Queensland – Peter Beattie **Opposition Leader – Mike Horan *Premier of South Australia – Rob Kerin (until 5 March), then Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Mike Rann (until 5 March), then Rob Kerin *Premier of Tasmania – Jim Bacon **Opposition Leader – Bob Cheek (until 20 July), then Rene Hidding *Premier of Victoria – Steve Bracks **Opposition Leader – Denis Napthine (until 20 August), then Robert Doyle *Premier of Western Australia – Geoff Gallop **Opposition Leader – Colin Barnett * Chief Minister of the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
