Sentence examples for peak lobby from inspiring English sources

Last week, the peak lobby group for Australian higher education, Universities Australia, told a Senate committee that it now supported the deregulation of fees proposed by the Abbott Coalition government in its as-yet-blocked May budget.

Both peak lobby groups in the aged care sector – the Council on the Ageing and National Seniors – initially welcomed social services minister Scott Morrison's new pension plan to reduce or remove the pension for wealthier retirees while increasing it for poorer pensioners.

He saw the Academy as the peak lobby group of the scientific community and their main liaison with government and industry.

An urban vice-president, Trent Zimmerman, works for the Tourism and Transport Forum, a peak industry lobby group.

In 2015, the peak mining lobby group launched its "Little Black Rock" campaign to tell us about the "endless possibilities" of coal.

Westacott said the peak business lobby group had long supported an increase to the unemployment allowance, as part of a broader package of measures to increase productivity.

By 2010 Solyndra had hit its lobbying peak.

The Chinese billionaire was the long-term chairman of a peak Chinese Community Party-linked lobby group, the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China, and was heavily scrutinised for his dealings with Labor senator Sam Dastyari.

Last year, the NRA hit a seven-year peak, with nearly $700,000 in lobbying money going to candidates or state ballot measures.

Anyone navigating the construction rubble would wonder how Tussaud's could ever expect that 1.8 million people a year (1,200 an hour at peak times) would troop through that lobby, paying $12.75 to $19.95 for their two-hour visits.

In Australia, bicycle groups organize 'critical mass' demonstrations, disrupting traffic during evening peak hours in metropolitan areas, to lobby for better and safer road space.