Shayne Neumann, Labor's spokesman on immigration, told ABC's Lateline on Wednesday night that Labor's migration amendment (mandatory reporting) bill, put before the last parliament last October, would be reintroduced.
"By contrast, in a system where guidelines are merely advisory and not mandatory, the Sixth Amendment problem of fact-finding by judges goes away, at least theoretically, because there's no requirement that the judge's discretionary sentencing decision be tied to his having made some particular finding of fact that should rightly be for a jury to make.
Referenda were made mandatory for any amendment of this constitution.
On the national level, mandatory referendums on constitutional amendments were introduced in 1848, citizen-demanded rejective referendums on new legislation of parliament in 1874, citizens' initiatives on constitutional amendments in 1891, and mandatory referendums on major international treaties in 1921.
A series of amendments imposed mandatory interconnection, a new obligation for common carriers that would prove important in future.Telegraph lines presented a similar economic challenge high start-up capital and low marginal operating costs.
Today, personhood amendments and mandatory ultrasounds continue to chip away at women's access to health care.
That last one is a doozy: turns out that the Model Business Corporation Act, the template for most States' Corporations Law, says that by-law amendments requiring mandatory proxy access are prohibited.
Far from safeguarding the vulnerable, it can expose them to undue pressure, if not worse, by dangerous offenders … My amendment... is mandatory.
In a 5-4 decision, the Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibited mandatory sentences of life without parole for juvenile offenders convicted of homicide.
Also in Colorado, the petition-gathering effort for the Mandatory Setback from Oil and Gas Development Amendment (Amendment 78) was a target of an unprecedented "decline to sign" campaign, which was funded by the amendment's fossil fuel company-backed opposition.
The June bill included $20.5 billion in proposed cuts to the food stamp program, plus amendments calling for mandatory drugs tests for recipients and employment requirements.
