The party was created to address concerns that the western voice was not being heard on the federal stage.
Fiona Simson, president of the New South Wales Farmers Association, is calling for a judicial review in the land and environment court over the NSW government approval process which led to the state's planning assessment commission (PAC) decision to allow the mine to proceed to the final federal stage.
That's why Congressman Barney Frank's coming out in 1987 set the federal stage for future lawmakers, and why he is a historic figure in American LGBT history.
As approval of Time Warner's merger with America Online neared the final federal stages yesterday, its Turner Broadcasting System division was busy making moves clearly aimed at tightening its belt in preparation for the leaner and meaner times believed to be ahead.
A sensible resolution would be to raise state judicial pay to the federal level, in stages, perhaps over two years.
In D.C., in front of the House Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations, I provided testimony in support of the measure to sustain funding for our federal arts and cultural agencies, because what is done at the federal level sets the stage for decisions that are made about the arts at every level of our national, state and local governments.
The explosive situation in Canada's prisons saw federal inmates stage their own labour strike last fall, decrying a 30percentnt pay-cut despite skyrocketing canteen costs.
Occasionally federal units staged limited counterattacks that were no more successful than the Southern assaults.
State and federal agents staged raids in several states, picking up individuals in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
After balloting in October 2009, the opposition in the federal Parliament staged a walkout in protest over the results.
In 1907 Virginia, with federal backing, staged a huge but poorly-attended exposition that presented Jamestown as a white Christian beachhead in a land of godless red savages.
