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Australia Card
The Australia Card was a proposal for a national identification card for Australian citizens and resident foreigners. The proposal was made in 1985, and abandoned in 1987. History The idea for the card was raised at the national Tax Summit in 1985 convened by the then Federal Labor government led by Bob Hawke. The card was to amalgamate other government identification systems and act against tax avoidance, and health and welfare fraud. The government introduced legislation in the parliament in 1986, but it did not have a majority in the Senate and was repeatedly blocked by the opposition and minor parties. Due to his opposition to the card, ALP senator George Georges resigned from the party to sit as an independent in December 1986. In the House of Representatives, ALP backbencher Lewis Kent said the card was un-Australian and that it would be more appropriate to call it a "Hitlercard or Stalincard". In response, Hawke asked the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen for a do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Identity Document
An identity document (abbreviated as ID) is a documentation, document proving a person's Identity (social science), identity. If the identity document is a plastic card it is called an ''identity card'' (abbreviated as ''IC'' or ''ID card''). When the identity document incorporates a photographic portrait, it is called a ''Photo identification, photo ID''. In some countries, identity documents may be List of national identity card policies by country#Countries with compulsory identity cards, compulsory to have. The identity document is used to connect a person to information about the person, often in a database. The connection between the identity document and database is based on personal information present on the document, such as the bearer's full name, birth date, Address (geography), address, an identification number, card number, gender, citizenship and more. A unique national identification number is the most secure way, but some countries lack such numbers or do not s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stone (Australian Politician)
John Owen Stone (born 31 January 1929) is a former Australian public servant and politician. He was Secretary to the Treasury between 1979 and 1984, and a senator for Queensland, representing the National Party, from 1987 to 1990. Early life Stone was born in Perth on 31 January 1929. He was the first of two sons born to Eva Sydney Myee (née Hunt) and Horace Joseph Stone; his father was a wheat farmer and his mother was a primary school teacher. Stone spent most of his early childhood on his father's farming property at Korbel in the Western Australian wheatbelt. He briefly lived in Perth and attended a state school in Victoria Park, then received the rest of his primary schooling in Korbel. His parents divorced when he was 12 years old and he and younger brother moved to Perth to live with their mother. He completed his secondary schooling at Perth Modern School on a scholarship. Stone graduated Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Australia in 1950, with f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1987 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarchy in Australia, Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor General of Australia, Governor-General – Ninian Stephen, Sir Ninian Stephen *Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister – Bob Hawke **Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Deputy Prime Minister – Lionel Bowen **List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition, Opposition Leader – John Howard *Chief Justice of Australia, Chief Justice – Harry Gibbs, Sir Harry Gibbs (until 5 February) then Anthony Mason (judge), Sir Anthony Mason State and territory leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Barrie Unsworth **Leader of the Opposition (New South Wales), Opposition Leader – Nick Greiner *Premier of Queensland – Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (until 1 December), then Mike Ahern (Australian politician), Mike Ahern **Leader of the Opposition (Queensland), Opposition Leader – Nev Warburton *Premier of South Australia – Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, '' The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an online site and app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including the magazines ''Good Weekend'' (included in the Saturday editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Australian Federal Election
The 2007 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 24 November 2007. All 150 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives and 40 of the seats in the 76-member Australian Senate, Senate were up for election. The election featured a 39-day campaign, with 13.6 million Australians enrolled to vote. The centre-left Australian Labor Party opposition, led by Kevin Rudd and deputy leader Julia Gillard, defeated the incumbent centre-right Coalition (Australia), Coalition government, led by Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister, John Howard, and National Party of Australia, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Mark Vaile, by a Landslide victory, landslide. The election marked the end of the 11-year-long Howard-led Liberal–National Coalition government that had been in power since the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 election. Howard lost his own seat, becoming the first sitting Australian Prime Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Government
The Howard government refers to the Government of Australia, federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister John Howard between 11 March 1996 and 3 December 2007. It was made up of members of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal–National Party of Australia, National Coalition (Australia), Coalition, which won a majority of seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives at four successive elections. The Howard government commenced following victory over the Keating government at the 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 federal election. It concluded with its defeat at the 2007 Australian federal election, 2007 federal election by the Australian Labor Party, whose leader Kevin Rudd then formed the first Rudd government (2007–2010), Rudd government. It was the second-longest government under a single prime minister, with the longest having been the second Menzies government (1949–1966). Two senior ministers served in single r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Access Card (Australia)
The Access Card or Health and social services access card was a proposed Australian Government non-compulsory electronic identity card. Prime Minister of Australia John Howard announced the introduction of the scheme on 26 April 2006. Under the scheme, the card would be required for personal identification by an Australian citizen or permanent resident wishing to access benefits or services administered by the Department of Human Services, Department of Veterans Affairs or (from 2010) the universal Medicare. The scheme was to be phased in over two years, beginning in 2008, but the newly elected Labor Rudd Government terminated the project in November 2007. Scope It was proposed that the Access Card would be required for identification purposes in accessing government benefits or services, such as: * Welfare benefits administered by Centrelink, including: **unemployment, **disability, **veterans, and **study allowances. * The Health Care Card and Seniors Health Card. * Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hockey
Joseph Benedict Hockey (born 2 August 1965) is an Australian former politician and diplomat. He was the Member of Parliament for Division of North Sydney, North Sydney from 1996 Australian federal election, 1996 until 2015. He was the Treasurer of Australia in the Abbott government from 18 September 2013 until September 2015 when he resigned from Cabinet, having refused an alternative offer from the incoming Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull. He previously served as the Minister for Human Services (Australia), Minister for Human Services and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (Australia), Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations in the Howard government. He also served as List of ambassadors of Australia to the United States, Ambassador of Australia to the United States from January 2016 until January 2020. Hockey's parliamentary resignation triggered a 2015 North Sydney by-election where he was succeeded by Trent Zimmerman, who had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medicare (Australia)
Medicare is the publicly funded universal health care insurance scheme in Australia. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing manages the program, while Services Australia is responsible for claim and registration processing. The scheme either partially or fully covers the cost of most health care, with services being delivered by state and territory governments or private enterprises. All Australian citizens and permanent residents are eligible to enroll in Medicare, as well as international visitors from 11 countries that have #Reciprocal agreements, reciprocal agreements for medically necessary treatment. The Medicare (Australia)#Payments for health services, Medicare Benefits Schedule lists a standard operating fees for eligible services, called the ''schedule fee'', and the percentage-portion of that fee that Medicare will pay for. When a health service charges only how much Medicare will pay, this is called a "bulk billed" service. Providers can charge more than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London Bombings
This is a list of incidents in London that have been labelled as "terrorism". It includes various bomb attacks and other politically driven violent incidents. Irish republican attacks Fenian attacks during the Fenian Dynamite Campaign 1867–1885 ;1867 * 13 December 1867: "Clerkenwell Outrage": A bomb planted by Fenians at New Prison in Clerkenwell exploded, killing twelve passers-by. ;1881 * 15 March 1881: A Fenian bomb was found and defused in the Mansion House, London.Porter, Bernard. ''The origins of the vigilant state: the London Metropolitan Police Special Branch before the First World War''. Boydell & Brewer, 1991. Pp.27-28 ;1882 * 12 May 1882: A bomb exploded at the Mansion House, London. ;1883 * 15 March 1883: Bombs exploded at government buildings at Whitehall, within Scotland Yard itself, and at the offices of ''The Times'' newspaper. There were no injuries. * 30 October 1883: Two bombs exploded in the London Underground, at Paddington (Praed Street) station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia (LP) is the prominent centre-right political party in Australia. It is considered one of the two major parties in Australian politics, the other being the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Liberal Party was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Australia Party. Historically the most electorally successful party in Australia's history, the Liberal Party is now in opposition at a federal level, although it presently holds government in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania at a sub-national level. The Liberal Party is the largest partner in a centre-right grouping known in Australian politics as the Coalition, accompanied by the regional-based National Party, which is typically focussed on issues pertinent to regional Australia. The Liberal Party last governed Australia, in coalition with the Nationals, between 2013 and 2022, forming the Abbott (2013–2015), Turnbull (2015–2018) and Morrison (2018–2022) governments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Security Number
In the United States, a Social Security number (SSN) is a nine-digit number issued to United States nationality law, U.S. citizens, Permanent residence (United States), permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c)(2) of the Social Security Act, codified as . The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration, an Independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the United States government. Although the original purpose for the number was for the Social Security Administration to track individuals, the Social Security number has become a ''de facto'' national identification number for Taxation in the United States, taxation and other purposes. A Social Security number may be obtained by applying on Form SS-5, Application for a Social Security Number Card. History Social Security numbers were first issued by the Social Security Administration in November 1936 as part of the New Deal Social Securit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
