Which Australian court case commenced in the jurisdiction of the future Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation?
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Combet v Commonwealth Combet v Commonwealth was an Australian court case commenced in the original jurisdiction of the High Court of Australia by Greg Combet, then the secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Nicola Roxon. The plaintiffs challenged the Australian Government's use of public funds to advertise the new Work Choices legislation. The High Court found that the expenditure was authorised by the "Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2005-2006".
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Greg Combet Gregory Ivan "Greg" Combet {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born 28 April 1958) is a former Australian politician and trade unionist. He was Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions between 2000 and 2007. He was elected member for the New South Wales Federal seat of Charlton for the Australian Labor Party at the 2007 election and was immediately appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement in the First Rudd Ministry on 3 December 2007. Combet was the Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation in the Second Gillard Ministry before announcing his resignation from the ministry on 26 June 2013 following Gillard's defeat in a leadership ballot. He previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change, when Penny Wong was the Minister.
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Telstra Corporation Ltd v Commonwealth Telstra Corporation Limited v The Commonwealth was an important case decided in the High Court of Australia on 6 March 2008.
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Clive Hamilton Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is a member of the Board of the Climate Change Authority of the Australian Government, and is the Founder and former Executive Director of The Australia Institute. He regularly appears in the Australian media and contributes to public policy debates. Hamilton was granted the award of Member of the Order of Australia on 8 June 2009 for "service to public debate and policy development, particularly in the fields of climate change, sustainability and societal trends".
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Michaelia Cash Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia. She was promoted to cabinet as Minister for Employment and Minister for Women in the Turnbull Government from 21 September 2015.
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Anthony Meagher Anthony John Meagher (born 4 September 1953) is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.
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Container deposit legislation in Australia Container deposit legislation (CDL) also known as a Container Deposit Scheme (CDS) is in place in the Australian state of South Australia and the territory of the Northern Territory, and was used in the state of Victoria many years ago but was rescinded. New South Wales has announced plans to start a scheme by December 1 2017. Queensland has also announced it will pursue a scheme in partnership with NSW for implementation by July 1 2018. Western Australia has also announced plans for a scheme commencing in 2019.
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Gavin Marshall Gavin Mark Marshall (born 25 March 1960), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2002, representing the state of Victoria.
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Minister of Justice (New Zealand) The Minister of Justice (in Māori: "Tāhū o te Ture") is a minister in the government of New Zealand. The minister has responsibility for the formulation of justice policy and for the administration of law courts.
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Robert McClelland (Australian politician) Robert Bruce McClelland (born 26 January 1958 in Sydney) is a current judge on the Family Court of Australia, and a former Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 until September 2013 representing the Division of Barton. Between 2007 and 2011, McClelland was the Attorney-General of Australia.
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Kim Carr Kim John Carr (born 2 July 1955) is an Australian politician. Senator Carr was the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and Minister for Higher Education and served in the Second Rudd Cabinet, from July 2013 to September 2013. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since April 1993, representing the state of Victoria. Carr is a leading figure in Labor's left faction. He has previously held a range of ministerial responsibilities between 2007 and 2013, including serving in the First Rudd Cabinet and the first and second Gillard ministries.
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Button car plan The Button car plan, also known as the Button plan was the informal name given to the Motor Industry Development Plan, an Australian federal (Labor) government initiative intended to rationalise the Australian motor vehicle industry and transition it to lower levels of protection. It took its name from Senator John Button, the federal Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
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Australian Federal Police The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with a unique role to investigate crime and to protect the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia. The AFP an agency of the Attorney-General's Department and is responsible to the Minister for Justice. Since October 2014 the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police has been Andrew Colvin.
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Warren Truss Warren Errol Truss (born 8 October 1948) is a former Australian politician who served as the 16th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Abbott Government and the Turnbull Government. Truss served as the federal leader of the National Party of Australia (The Nationals) between 2007 and 11 February 2016 when he announced his decision to retire and not contest the 2016 federal election. He was the member of the House of Representatives for Wide Bay from the 1990 election until his retirement in May 2016. Following the merger of the Queensland branches of the Nationals and Liberals, Truss was re-elected in 2010 for the Liberal National Party.
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Climate change in Australia Climate change has been a major issue in Australia since the beginning of the 21st century. In 2013, the CSIRO released a report stating that Australia is becoming hotter, and that it will experience more extreme heat and longer fire seasons because of climate change. In 2014, the Bureau of Meteorology released a report on the state of Australia's climate that highlighted several key points, including the significant increase in Australia's temperatures (particularly night-time temperatures) and the increasing frequency of bush fires, droughts and floods, which have all been linked to climate change.
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Williams v Commonwealth Williams v Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCA 23 (also known as the "School chaplains case") is a landmark judgment of the High Court The matter related to executive prerogative and spending under .
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Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment
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Chris Hartcher Christopher "Chris" Peter Hartcher (born 21 December 1946) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2015, representing the electorates of Gosford (1988-2007) and Terrigal (2007-2015). He represented the Liberal Party of Australia for most of his career, serving as its deputy state leader from 2002 to 2003, and in the O'Farrell Ministry as Minister for Resources and Energy, Special Minister of State and Minister for the Central Coast. In 2013, he resigned to sit as an independent following his implication in an ongoing Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry, and retired at the 2015 state election.
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Court of Summary Jurisdiction The Court of Summary Jurisdiction is a court in the Northern Territory of Australia. It has jurisdiction to deal with criminal offences which occur in the territory. It is one of the courts that is usually referred to as a magistrates court.
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New South Wales v Commonwealth (1915) New South Wales v Commonwealth, commonly known as the Wheat case, or more recently as the Inter-State Commission case, is a landmark Australian judgment of the High Court made in 1915 regarding judicial separation of power. It was also a leading case on the freedom of interstate trade and commerce that is guaranteed by section 92 of the Constitution.
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Bob Ellicott Robert James "Bob" Ellicott {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 15 April 1927) is an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. Ellicott is one of only six politicians to have served in both the Parliament of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia, along with Nigel Bowen, Merv Everett, Tony Whitlam, John Reeves and Duncan Kerr.
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Joe Ludwig Joseph William "Joe" Ludwig (born 21 July 1959), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland from July 1999 to May 2016, representing the Australian Labor Party. Ludwig served in a range of portfolios in the first Rudd and the second Gillard ministries until his resignation from Cabinet as the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Minister Assisting the Attorney-General on Queensland Floods Recovery, in 2013.