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  •         NOVEMBER 15, 2011 Queen's visit revives republican debate Source: Wikimedia Commons The recent trip to Australia by Queen Elizabeth II marked her 16th visit since 1954, when she was the first reigning British monarch to make the journey. The Queen is the Head of State of
    Date: 15/11/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/1232357 - Source: FlagPost - Author: MCCANN, Joy

  •     NOVEMBER 11, 2011 Addresses to joint meetings of the Australian Parliament Source: Prime Minister of Australia Following an invitation from Prime Minister Julia Gillard, United States President Barack Obama will visit Australia on 16-17 November 2011 to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the ANZUS Alliance. On 3
    Date: 11/11/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/1230062 - Source: FlagPost - Author: FERNANDES, Sophia

  • OCTOBER 28, 2011 How many venues would be affected if mandatory pre-commitment is implemented in 2012? ABC News Online A significant proportion of gaming venues will be exempt from the proposed reforms to electronic gaming machines (EGMs), at least until 2018. Mr Wilkie's proposal is for venues to introduce mandatory
    Date: 28/10/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/1195608 - Source: FlagPost - Author: BIGGS, Amanda

  • OCTOBER 27, 2011 Is counselling for pokie addiction an effective harm minimisation measure? Source: ABC online At a rally at the Canterbury RSL in western Sydney on Tuesday evening, the opposition leader Tony Abbott predicted a future Coalition government would rescind any legislation that introduces mandatory pre-commitment on electronic gaming
    Date: 27/10/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/1195610 - Source: FlagPost - Author: BIGGS, Amanda

  •   This Blog This Blog JUNE 8, 2011 R18+ games classification In response to lobbying by gamers and the games industry and extensive public consultation, on 25 May 2011, the Minister for Justice, Brendan O’Connor, announced the release of new draft guidelines for the classification of computer games. If adopted,
    Date: 08/06/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/844451 - Source: FlagPost - Author: JOLLY, Rhonda

  •   MAY 6, 2011 Gambling on the pokies - recommendations for government policy The Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform has just released a report into the design and implementation of a mandatory pre-commitment system for electronic gaming (poker) machines. The introduction of mandatory pre-commitment technology for poker machines
    Date: 06/05/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/844470 - Source: FlagPost - Author: THOMAS, Matthew

  • ISSN 1328-8091 Parliament of Australia Departmentof Parliamentary Services Contents Purpose .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Committee consideration ........................................................................................................................ 4 Schedule 1—Film tax offsets .................................................................................................................... 4 Background ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Main provisions ................................................................................................................................... 5 Schedule 2—Capital protected borrowings ............................................................................................. 6 Background ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Capital protected borrowings ........................................................................................................ 6 Deductibility of interest on capital protected borrowings
    Date: 23/02/2011 - Collection: Bills and Legislation - ID: legislation/billsdgs/574806 - Source: Bills Digest Service - Author: MURRAY, John

  •     ISBN 1834‐9854  Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services   RESEARCH PAPER NO. 9, 2010-11  12 January 2011 Marketing obesity? Junk food, advertising and kids  Dr Rhonda Jolly  Social Policy  Executive summary  • Childhood obesity has been labelled one of the most serious public health issues of the 21 st   century.  • Overweight and obese children typically grow into overweight and obese adults, who are  susceptible to chronic complaints such as diabetes and cardio vascular disease. These diseases  place considerable burdens on national health systems and economies.   • It can be argued therefore that policy which encourages healthy eating habits is desirable.   However, the increasing availability of foods high in fat, sugar and salt (so called junk foods)  across the world has made eating healthily a challenge.    • This challenge, according to some research, is compounded by advertising that adversely  influences people’s food preferences and consumption patterns. As a consequence of this  research, there has been considerable advocacy which has urged governments to place  limitations on the advertising of junk foods, particularly to children.  • In opposition, other research has supported the argument that junk food can be part of a  balanced diet and that it should be the responsibility of individuals, including children, to make  decisions about what they consume.   • This paper considers both sides of this debate.    • The paper also looks briefly at the policy approaches to junk food in a number of countries and  consequent actions taken to control or prohibit the influence of advertising. In particular, the  paper notes recent Australian Government approaches to dealing with this issue.    • The paper concludes that to date, the Australian response to this issue has emphasised the value  of a self regulatory regime.  However, this approach may be modified in the future, as a result of  a number of factors. These include growing public demand for intervention and a shift in health  policy more towards preventive health than has been emphasised in the past.   
    Date: 12/01/2011 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/481449 - Source: Research Paper (Parliamen... - Author: JOLLY, Rhonda

  •     ISBN 1834‐9854  Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services   RESEARCH PAPER NO. 8, 2010-11  15 December 2010 Paternalism in social policy—when is it justifiable?  Matthew Thomas and Luke Buckmaster  Social Policy Section  Executive summary  • Governments are increasingly called upon to introduce paternalist policies—that is, policies that  restrict the choices of individual citizens in their own interests and without their consent.  • Paternalist policies are often controversial, not least because they infringe a key principle of  liberal societies; namely, that citizens are best placed to know their own interests.  • While paternalist policies are often contentious, they are nevertheless ubiquitous. This suggests  that the main issue is not whether or not paternalism itself is justifiable, but rather the  conditions under which particular paternalist policies may be said to be justifiable.  • This paper argues that paternalist policies may be considered justifiable under circumstances  where high stakes decisions are involved, the decisions being made by individuals are  irreversible and it is possible to identify failures in people’s reasoning. It is further argued that if  paternalist interventions are able to be justified in terms of people’s own values and  preferences, then this adds weight to their acceptability given that they do not undermine  people’s autonomy.  • Relatively little scholarly attention has been devoted to the questions of what particular forms of  paternalism may be deemed to be appropriate. This paper suggests that the principles of  discrimination, proportionality, accountability and efficacy provide a framework with which to  consider the appropriateness or otherwise of various forms of paternalist intervention.    Contents  Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1  Paternalism defined ................................................................................................................................. 2  Variants of paternalism ...................................................................................................................... 4  The problem of paternalism .................................................................................................................... 7    Possible grounds for paternalist public policy ....................................................................................... 10  Relevant preferences ........................................................................................................................ 11  Settled preferences—or, the current and future self ....................................................................... 12  Preferred preferences....................................................................................................................... 14 
    Date: 15/12/2010 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/433029 - Source: RESEARCH PAPERS (SOCIAL P... - Author: THOMAS, Matthew - BU...

  •       Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services BACKGROUND NOTE  8 November 2010 The sinking of the Montevideo Maru  David Watt  Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section  Contents  Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1  Background ......................................................................................................................................... 1  Lark Force and Rabaul ......................................................................................................................... 1  Uncertainty .................................................................................................................................... 3  Did the Montevideo Maru ever exist? ........................................................................................... 3  Did the Montevideo Maru really sink? .......................................................................................... 4  Impact of finding the HMAS Sydney II ................................................................................................ 5  Montevideo Maru groups ................................................................................................................... 6  Montevideo Maru Memorial Committee ...................................................................................... 6  Montevideo Maru Foundation ...................................................................................................... 7  Rabaul & Montevideo Maru Society ............................................................................................. 7  Petitions .............................................................................................................................................. 7  Government responses ....................................................................................................................... 8  Nominal Roll and other sources........................................................................................................ 10  Concluding comments ...................................................................................................................... 12  Further reading ............................................................................................................................ 12    The sinking of the Montevideo Maru  1  Introduction   The sinking of the Montevideo Maru in 1942 and the consequent loss of over 1000 Australian  soldiers and civilians is the greatest loss of Australian lives at sea in war or peace. The concealment  of the facts of the sinking by the Japanese military has led some to doubt the veracity of the  accounts given of the events, and resulted in great uncertainty about who was actually onboard. This  Background Note will outline the history of the sinking of the Montevideo Maru and tell the story of  the search to find the truth about the sinking, and just who was on board the vessel when she went  down.   Background  The Montevideo Maru was an unmarked Japanese transport freighter which sank on 1 July 1942  while taking 1051 Australian soldiers and civilian Prisoners of War (POWs) to Hainan Island, which  was then occupied by the Japanese. The Montevideo Maru was torpedoed and sunk in the South  China Sea, approximately 100 km west of the Philippines’ Cape Luzon by the USS Sturgeon, a United  States submarine, captained by Lieutenant Commander William Wright. The ship was torpedoed at  2.29 am and sank stern‐first 11 minutes later. There were no Australian survivors. This was the 
    Date: 08/11/2010 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/345793 - Source: BACKGROUND NOTE (RESEARCH... - Author: WATT, David

  • OCTOBER 20, 2010 The future of multiculturalism Recent events in Europe have called into question the future of multiculturalism as a policy approach in increasingly diverse societies. In Australia, public debate in relation to migrants has, more recently, been focused on issues relating to population growth and asylum seekers but
    Date: 20/10/2010 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/1042676 - Source: FlagPost - Author: KLAPDOR, Michael

  •       RESEARCH PAPER NO. 6, 2010-11  8 October 2010 Multiculturalism: a review of Australian policy statements  and recent debates in Australia and overseas  Elsa Koleth  Social Policy Section  Executive summary  • Multiculturalism has been a contested policy and concept since its introduction in Australia in  the 1970s. While maintaining some core principles, in the three decades since its introduction,  federal multicultural policy statements have evolved in response to changing government  priorities and responses to the challenges facing Australian society. While Australian  multicultural policy has its roots in government responses to the post‐settlement issues facing  migrants, through the 1980s and 1990s policy was articulated more broadly as an element of  Australia's nation building narratives. Today all Australian States and Territories have active  policies and programs dealing with multiculturalism.  • Australia's last federal multicultural policy statement was issued in 2003 and intended to apply  until 2006, with no new federal multicultural policy statements being issued since. In the past  ten years, at the national level multiculturalism has been subjected to criticism in public and  political debate, with some expressions of support for earlier policies of assimilation and  integration.   • Australian public and political debate about multiculturalism in the last decade has been  significantly impacted upon by issues that have had international resonance. Chief among these  has been concern about the global threat of terrorism and the challenges of ensuring social  cohesion in societies characterised by ethno‐cultural diversity. While these issues have  manifested in different ways in immigrant‐receiving countries in Europe, North America and in  the United Kingdom in many cases public debates have questioned the limits of multiculturalism  and governments have heightened their regulation of integration, citizenship and immigration.  • As global migration increases in scale and complexity Australia, like many countries in the world,  will continue to be faced with the challenges of constructively engaging the policy frameworks it  has established in building a multicultural society, while finding innovative approaches to deal  with the increasingly complex nature of contemporary diversity.    ISBN 1834‐9854  Contents  Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 1  Background .............................................................................................................................................. 1  PART ONE ................................................................................................................................................. 4  The evolution of multiculturalism as Australian Government policy ...................................................... 4  Australia's multicultural policy statements ............................................................................................. 7  National Agenda for a Multicultural Australia, 1989 .......................................................................... 9  New Agenda for Multicultural Australia, 1999 ................................................................................. 12  Multicultural Australia: United in Diversity—Updating the 1999 New Agenda for  Multicultural Australia: Strategic directions for 2003‐2006 .......................................................... 14 
    Date: 08/10/2010 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/272429 - Source: RESEARCH PAPERS (SOCIAL P... - Author: KOLETH, Elsa

  •   SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 Key Issues for the 43rd Parliament The federal election of 2010 produced the first hung parliament since 1940. The Gillard Labor Government retained power by the smallest possible majority with the support of three independents and the Australian Greens. To secure a governing coalition, the Australian
    Date: 24/09/2010 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/1063051 - Source: FlagPost - Author: MISSINGHAM, Roxanne

  • Parliamentary library briefing book: Key Issues for the 43rd Parliament Page | 68 Page | 69 law, justice and human rights the agreements between the minority l abor government with the various independents have a common theme of pursuing principles of transparent and accountable government. a ligned with these promises
    Date: 16/09/2010 - Collection: Publications - ID: library/prspub/2431543 - Source: Parliamentary Library bri... - Author: NEILSEN, Mary Anne

  • Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Parliamentary Library Information, analysis and advice for the Parliament BILLS DIGEST www.aph.gov.au/library 7 May 2010, no. 140, 2009-10, ISSN 1328-8091 Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Offences Against Children) Bill 2010 Monica Biddington Law and Bills Digest Section Contents Purpose ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Background ................................................................................................................................. 4
    Date: 07/05/2010 - Collection: Bills and Legislation - ID: legislation/billsdgs/SKMW6 - Source: Bills Digest Service - Author: BIDDINGTON, Monica

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