"As you know, under the constitution the Commonwealth has responsibility for marriage and the attorney-general will be seeking advice on precisely how far the ACT can go on this".
We need to compel governments, starting with the commonwealth, to take responsibility for the housing crisis.
Now, the McCann Worldgroup assumes sole responsibility for Commonwealth by buying out the 50 percent stake owned by Goodby, Silverstein.
In response, Bruce proposed that the responsibility for all government debts, Commonwealth and state, and the authority to acquire new debt, should be handed over to a National Loan Council in which all states would have one vote and the Commonwealth would have two votes and the casting vote.
In 1957, administrative responsibility for the Commonwealth Observatory was transferred from the Australian Government's Department of the Interior to the Australian National University (ANU), a move supported by both its director, Richard Woolley, and Gascoigne.
"Leaders agreed to consider a shift in responsibility for VET to the commonwealth, provided states and territories could elect to remain Tafe providers within a national system".
Might it not be as well, it is being asked, to recognise that the Colonial Office's present and most honourable function is to work itself out of a job; and to transfer responsibility for the emergent, and even pre-emergent, Commonwealth countries to the Commonwealth Relations Office?The timetable, after all, is getting filled in.
The commonwealth has outright rejected the findings, saying it does not have responsibility for the Northern Territory government and does not accept the government has contravened international human rights treaties which Australia is a signatory to.
In September it signed a deal with the federal government that shunted responsibility for providing essential services to remote communities from the commonwealth to the states.
