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    navigation and aircraft. It was put to voters for approval in a referendum held on 6 March 1937. Do you approve of the proposed law for the alteration of the...
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  • Australian referendum (Aviation) § Results This section is an excerpt from 1937 Australian referendum (Marketing) § Results Referendums in Australia Politics...
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  • non-constitutional 1916 Australian conscription referendum and the 2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum being examples. Voting in a referendum is compulsory...
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  • traffic lights installed. 1937: Federal Referendum - South Australia Votes: No (59.87%) on Aviation No (79.17%) on Marketing 1937: Outbreak of poliomyelitis...
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    R v Burgess; Ex parte Henry (category Aviation in Australia)
    latter. The Commonwealth held a referendum in 1937 to have the Constitution amended to give it express power over aviation. Although the measure received...
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    Goya Henry (category Aviation pioneers)
    regulate intrastate civil aviation under the constitution. As a result, the Lyons government held a constitutional referendum in 1937 to extend the government's...
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  • October 2023). "Voice to Parliament: Australia votes No in referendum". The Australian. Sydney: News Corp Australia. NCA NewsWire. ISSN 1038-8761. Archived...
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    1966, the Australian government gave Aboriginal people the same rights to social security benefits as other Australians. A 1967 referendum changed the...
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  • country music singer (b. 1937 in England) 20 May – Bill Serong, Australian rules footballer (b. 1936) 23 May – Barry Davis, Australian rules footballer (b...
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    sovereigntist Parti Québécois was elected in 1976, organizing an unsuccessful referendum on sovereignty-association in 1980. Attempts to accommodate Quebec nationalism...
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    John McEwen (category Use Australian English from September 2016)
    1900 – 20 November 1980) was an Australian politician and farmer who served as the 18th prime minister of Australia from 1967 to 1968, in a caretaker...
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  • Court held that all aviation has an interstate character, placing it within Commonwealth legislative power. In 1937 a referendum was submitted to the...
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    three additional Australian Government flags, the Australian Civil Aviation Ensign, Australian Border Force Flag and the Australian Federal Police Flag...
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    resumed its previous name at the end of the war. The Ministry of Civil Aviation was created by Winston Churchill in 1944 to look at peaceful ways of using...
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  • Biography, Australian National University – via Australian Dictionary of Biography. "Australian Communist Party - political party, Australia". britannica...
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    2012 referendum was by far the most successful referendum for statehood advocates and support for statehood rose in each successive popular referendum. However...
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    for Great Britain Transport Focus Trinity House Lighthouse Service Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Crossrail International DfT OLR Holdings East West Railway...
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  • 1937 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1937. 1937 (MCMXXXVII)...
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  • went missing a year prior. Parliament passes legislation reinstating the referendum requirement for Māori wards and constituencies in local councils. 1 August...
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  • serves as the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Initiative and Referendum Act (RA No. 6735). This action thereby suspends all proceedings regarding...
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  • recent state referendum in Western Australia was in 2009. John Forrest – first premier of Western Australia Edith Cowan – first Australian woman to serve...
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    The country lacked highways or railroads connecting its regions, civil aviation was in its early stages, and airports were virtually nonexistent. For many...
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  • all-Union referendum. Organizers: Democratic Russia, Moscow Association of Voters, Memorial Society. March 17 — 1991 Russian presidential referendum: 71% of...
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  • while swimming at Beachport, South Australia. Early voting begins for the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum. 3 October – New laws come into effect...
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    and new military schools were opened in Sana'a and Taiz. In 1958, the Aviation College, Petty Officer School, Artillery Training camp, and the new Military...
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    Chinese laborers for 20 years, citing the passage of the 1879 anti-Chinese referendums in California and Nevada by huge margins as proof of popular support...
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    and the eventual restoration of Australian control in 1945. In 1949, following administrative reforms by the Australian government, Bougainville was incorporated...
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    Harold Holt (category Use Australian English from January 2016)
    1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance...
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    parliament of the Kingdom of Spain, voted overwhelmingly to schedule a public referendum, to take place on December 6, on whether to approve or reject the new...
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  • This is an incomplete list of acts of the Parliament of Australia. Note: This list does not include Appropriation Acts, Customs Tariff Acts, Excise Tariffs...
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