Their One World Initiative, billed as "the perspective that unifies the world's diverse religions and beliefs," is nothing if not ambitious.
The first step of the claim form for the government's flagship welfare reform initiative, billed as the biggest change to the benefits system for 60 years, invites people to input a security code, "seperating" each word with a space.
Last summer, the House passed a religion-based-initiative bill largely along party lines.
"He's more politically savvy than he lets on sometimes," said Dan Gerstein, a spokesman for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, a sponsor of the initiatives bill.
Should the initiatives bill pass, Mr. Towey said, his job will be to implement it but to keep the "delicate balance" between church and state.
Between dates on Shakira's current arena tour was a scheduled address, on Wednesday, to the Clinton Global Initiative — Bill Clinton's gathering for philanthropists, government figures and do-gooders — about her Barefoot Foundation for education in Colombia.
But Xenophon says he wants to secure several amendments to the carbon farming initiative amendment bill, which implements the $2.5bn emissions reduction fund.
Also on the Senate agenda this week is the carbon farming initiative amendment bill which, as it stands, is opposed by Labor, the Greens, the PUP and the independent senator Nick Xenophon.
