Sentence examples for commonwealth power from inspiring English sources

But it is also promising to give away Commonwealth power to the states via a one-stop shop for all environmental approvals.

And it will be half a century on 27 May 2017 since Australia voted at referendum to give the commonwealth power to legislate for the Indigenous and to count them formally among the citizenry on the census.

Fisher wanted additional Commonwealth power in certain areas, such as the nationalisation of monopolies.

Fisher committed Labour to amending the Constitution to give the Commonwealth power over labour, wages and prices, to expanding the navy and providing compulsory military training for youths, to extending pensions, to a land tax, to the construction of a transcontinental railway, to the replacement of pound sterling with Australian currency and to tariffs to protect the sugar industry.

Billy Hughes and several of his predecessors had sought resolution to the problem through greater Commonwealth powers, but all referendums to expand Commonwealth industrial powers had failed at the ballot box.

In 1967 the general electorate overwhelmingly supported a constitutional amendment to increase Commonwealth powers in Aboriginal matters.

In the 20th century, coins of the colonies continued in general to show a crowned bust of the monarch; those of the self-governing Commonwealth powers exchanged a crowned for an uncrowned bust.

This innocuous sounding phrase conceals the proposed removal of Commonwealth powers to regulate major projects, such as ports and coal mines under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

In his first speech to the House of Representatives as prime minister, he outlined a comprehensive vision for Australia that centered on economic development, reform of the federal system, increased Commonwealth powers over industrial relations, a greater voice for Australia within the British Empire and the establishment of a national capital.

Stewart told Guardian Australia "the whole bill is arguably beyond commonwealth legislative power" because it only applied to government emergency services.

The constitution gives the Commonwealth the power to detain people onshore who have broken the law, or deport them to their home countries, but does not specify that non-citizens can be removed and detained offshore.