1981 Tasmanian power referendum information

The Tasmanian power referendum was a one-question referendum held on 12 December 1981, and intended to determine the location of a proposed hydroelectricity...

constitutional law Franklin Dam controversy 1981 Tasmanian power referendum Commonwealth v Tasmania (Tasmanian Dams case) [1983] HCA 21, (1983) 158 CLR 1...

Franklin's water as well as the Gordon's water. The Tasmanian Government then offered a referendum on the issue, which only offered two choices: the Gordon...

became a self-governing territory in 1989. In 1981, the Tasmanian Government held a controversial referendum to decide the location of a hydro-electric dam...

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12 December 1981, the state government held a referendum, the Power Referendum 1981, in an attempt to break the deadlock. The referendum gave voters only...

Federation of Australia wins overwhelming Tasmanian approval in the second referendum 1900: More Tasmanian troops leave for Second Boer War 1900: Adult...

legislative power. In 1937 a referendum was submitted to the people giving the Commonwealth power over aviation, and that the referendum was rejected...

1967 Referendum enabled the Commonwealth parliament to enact laws specifically with respect to Aboriginal peoples as a "race". In the Tasmanian Dam Case...

character". The external affairs power was expanded further in the case of Commonwealth v Tasmania in 1983 known as the Tasmanian Dams case. The High Court upheld...

Representatives after negotiations with independents and the Greens. 2021 Tasmanian state election: Liberal Premier Peter Gutwein called the election a year...

World which kills four people and injures nine others. 3 January – A Tasmanian prisoner who absconded from custody while receiving treatment at the Royal...

was active in the Labor Party from a young age and won election to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1909. He was Treasurer of Tasmania (1912–1914) under...

becoming prime minister, Hughes abandoned a promised referendum to give the Commonwealth the power to control prices, although the government later used...

in the Labor Party in 1955. As a result of a 1967 referendum, the federal government gained the power to legislate with regard to Indigenous Australians...

undertaken by a joint sitting of the Tasmanian Parliament on 8 May 1987, which resulted in a tied vote. Under Tasmanian Parliament's rules adopted for joint...

recently, Labor Enabled - the action group for Disability Advocacy The Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party recently[when?] gave these groups...

19 August – A referendum is held, concerning Post-War Reconstruction and Democratic Rights. It proposes to grant the government power to legislate over...

the Nuenonne, or South-East tribe. The descendants of theses indigenous Tasmanians now refer to themselves as 'Palawa'. Little is known about the region...

creation of a new state in the referendum. 25 May – The report by the Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission on the Gordon Power scheme was tabled in parliament...

Notable decisions of the court include: Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen The Tasmanian Dams case Kioa v West The Chamberlain case A v Hayden Sir Anthony Mason...

expected to alter balance of power, The Australian, 11 June 1987, p.5 Constitution (Parliamentary Reform) Act 2003 "1992 Referendum". www.elections.act.gov...

"Public Order Act 1986". www.legislation.gov.uk. "Relationships Act 2003". Tasmanian Legislation. Retrieved 14 September 2012. "South Australia gays get new...

Annual Report 2005-06 Barbie Dutter (25 July 2002). "Battle of 'last Tasmanians'". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 March 2006. Retrieved...

the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2010. "Daylight Saving Referendum" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Queensland. July 1992. Archived from the...

mouse" on Tasmanian forest policy between Mark Latham and John Howard, Latham eventually lost out when Dick Adams (Labor member for the Tasmanian seat of...

competitions were run separately as rival night competitions. In 1978, the Tasmanian representative team competed in both the NFL and VFL night competitions...