Sentence examples for commonwealth payments from inspiring English sources

Labor has promised to restore the demand-driven system, ending the two-year freeze on commonwealth payments to universities.

As for the chaplaincy decision, Brandis explained: It follows from the court's judgment that commonwealth payments to persons under the school chaplaincy program were invalidly made.

One participant felt that patient information was used more to trigger specific Commonwealth payments to the practice for chronic disease management work than for coordination and management of care.

Faced with severe financial pressures and an increasing reliance upon Commonwealth transfer payments, after some resistance the states consented, although vertical fiscal imbalance between the states and the Commonwealth continued to be an enduring feature of Australian federal relations.

As a result, nearly 80,000 women will lose some or all of their commonwealth leave payments.

"When considered against total commonwealth government payments of $74bn to universities over the next four years, the impact of this $2.8bn reform package is less than 4% of the revenues to universities from taxpayers and students," Birmingham said.

The new section, known as 198AHA, also declared the commonwealth could "make payments, or cause payments to be made, in relation to the arrangement or the regional processing functions of the country" or "do anything else that is incidental or conducive to the taking of such action or the making of such payments".

The two-year freeze replaces a proposed 2.5% efficiency dividend on commonwealth grant scheme payments in 2018 and 2019.

As anticipated by the tertiary education sector, the federal government has dropped plans to cut university funding by 20%, replacing it with a 2.5% efficiency dividend on commonwealth grant scheme payments in both 2018 and 2019.

It's not the bill anyone wanted, especially Democrats, but with the commonwealth facing a massive $2 billion debt payment on July 1, both parties rallied behind it in a 297-127 vote.

Puerto Rico defaulted on a roughly $400 million debt payment on May 1, and if the House bill doesn't reach the president's desk before July 1, the commonwealth will default on a massive $2 billion payment.