Because we must no longer tell our people that Europe is a process which is going ahead in spite of them and which will inevitably lead to their rights being eroded! The President's principal duty is to preside over the Senate, to maintain order in the Senate, uphold the Standing Orders (rules of procedure) and protect the rights of backbench Senators. And we shall therefore have several centenaries to celebrate. In fact, I have five points to make about Iran. It is no longer acceptable for web operators and a number of platforms to continue hosting – or withdrawing too slowly – content that is neither informative nor pleasant: content that is clearly identified as terrorist propaganda or incitement to terrorism.   Commonwealth Liberal Party ‹See Tfd› It is this same spirit of a protective Europe that helped us move forward on discussions on migration and asylum policies, but the next six months will be key in this area. This is also what helped us initiate reform of the trade policy, with mechanisms enabling fair reciprocity. That is not true. We have set spring as our deadline to identify a common framework on the Economic and Monetary Union and the major strategic challenges, which will subsequently enable us to move forward more effectively. That requires a genuine educational policy, as I was saying, as well as a cooperation and development policy and an economic policy aimed at developing our businesses and their businesses. I will apply myself to this. I spoke earlier of the financing of terrorist movements. This is why I welcome what the Federal Chancellor and I announced in December – I am following with great interest and friendship what is happening in Germany today, and in the coming weeks I shall be having significant meetings with the Chancellor. We must act in this way to ensure our multilateralism, the multilateralism that we fully revolutionized in 1945. 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That said, I believe that we must move away from the moral stances which sometimes make us powerless, but we must also step away from the concessions we have made to certain powers that some believe, by recognizing a foreign-appointed opposition party, could resolve the situation in Syria in a stable and sustainable fashion.   Protectionist Party ‹See Tfd›, MP for Higgins, Vic,1968–1975 (retired)[c], The Electoral Division of Ballaarat was spelled with a double, Gorton retired from the House of Representatives at the, sfn error: no target: CITEREFNorris1981 (, sfn error: no target: CITEREFRobertson1988 (, List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office, List of Prime Ministers of Australia (graphical), Spouse of the Prime Minister of Australia, "Page, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton (1880–1961)", "Hughes, William Morris (Billy) (1862–1952)", "Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon (Bob) (1894–1978)", "Bruce, Stanley Melbourne [Viscount Bruce] (1883–1967)", Official website of the Prime Minister of Australia, Museum of Australian Democracy Prime Minister Information, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_prime_ministers_of_Australia&oldid=978745824, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 September 2020, at 18:25. 2018 will see us continue and scale up the work we have already started. 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We therefore now have a responsibility to build Libya’s stability. The position is not provided for by the constitution, but instead by the Senate's standing orders – it was borrowed more or less directly from the colonial legislative councils. Il a notamment reconnu publiquement à plusieurs reprises les failles de l’institution, en dénonçant son « manque de transparence », et a été entendu à plusieurs reprises dans le cadre des investigations de la Commission royale d’enquête sur les abus sexuels du pays. « Avec peu d’illusions sur moi-même, ou sur la tâche qui m’attend, j’accepte humblement l’appel à servir comme président de la Conférence à un moment qui est clairement difficile », a-t-il affirmé, peu après l’annonce de son élection. As I said, Paris is no longer the centre of the French-speaking world; its epicentre now seems to lie somewhere between the Congo basin and Ouagadougou, and this trend is only set to continue. And there again, there is a unique dialogue in Europe without which things do not move forward, but which does not exclude others: namely the Franco-German dialogue. We have to ensure the Sahara ceases to be a cemetery of dashed hopes. France has been committed to this fight since 2013 and is currently playing a full role through Operation Barkhane, which I visited once again with the Minister at the end of last year. The outgoing Malcolm Turnbull said "a determined insurgency" in his … He or she also receives the various other entitlements and allowances available to senators.[4]. On this basis we must continue to expand, and we shall be able to rebuild Europe on new foundations. Records of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, Parliamentary Friendship Groups (non-country), House of Representatives chamber and business documents, Getting involved in Parliamentary Committees, Department of the House of Representatives. There must be an extremely clear and transparent debate on this issue to control the external hegemonies over certain countries. Let us create coalitions of goodwill that are ready to go further! Unless we reach agreement together, we will not get there. We will also continue the work in partnership with the African Union that was decided in Abidjan. We will have an opportunity to work on them during many international meetings including the G7 and G20 under the presidencies of Canada and Argentina, which I wish every success. Otherwise, what credibility would we have when telling a given power which has forgotten its duties that it must get back on track? He or she chairs the department's budget committee and oversees its organisational structure. Those who don’t have any projects and don’t feel like it need not follow. The coming months will be peppered with many commemorations involving several of your leaders. Succédant à Mgr Denis Hart, archevêque de Melbourne, qui occupait ce poste depuis six ans, il devra notamment réagir et communiquer, ces prochaines semaines, sur le procès du cardinal George Pell, préfet du Secrétariat pour l’économie – actuellement en disponibilité pour faire face, justement, à des accusations d’abus sexuels – et ancien archevêque de Sydney. And I shall not go back on what I said in the first part of my speech; defending our collective security by military and diplomatic means is a matter of our credibility, it prevents us from leaving credibility to the strongest, but it also means the multilateral system is never that of the strongest; it is about restoring strength to international law and multilateralism. The first, which is fundamental for our nations and people, is security. Dans sa nouvelle charge, il sera épaulé par Mgr Anthony Fisher, archevêque de Sidney, élu vendredi 4 mai vice-président de la Conférence des évêques d’Australie. And so we must, through our official development assistance and our commitment, carry out concrete activities in the field to strengthen our education efforts. The President of Senate has also various administrative and ceremonial duties, sharing responsibility for the management of Parliament House and other parliamentary facilities and services with the Speaker of the House. Having appointed a new personal representative, Leïla Slimani, I will pay great attention to preparing the International Organization of La Francophonie summit planned to take place in Yerevan in November 2018, and I will also have the opportunity to meet with the Armenian President on … It is with this desire that, in the coming weeks, I will have the honour of co-chairing the replenishment conference, attended by many countries that I encourage to take part, for the Global Partnership for Education, along with President Macky Sall in Dakar on 2 February. Indeed, what better time to bring out the full value of our European Union than this new year 2018 when we are meeting? Europe must regain the strength to project itself, which raises the profile of governments, its peoples and those who are watching us! [5] The deputy president's main tasks are to preside over committees of the whole and to serve as presiding officer when the President of the Senate is absent. As I mentioned in my speech to the French ambassadors here in this very room, at the end of August last year, the French line is focused on four priorities: security, independence, solidarity and influence. My fourth point is on the current situation regarding Iran. France has helped to strengthen this agreement through its diplomatic action, at a time when others advocated concluding it more quickly and cheaply! We signed it, for the powers which were around the table. The hardliners in our camps were happy! The President of the Senate in the Australian Parliament is the presiding officer who chairs meetings of the Senate. But no weakness or compromise can be tolerated here. And on this, France is fully aware – and with it Europe, I believe – that it must regain its full role in its security for neighbourhood policies in the Middle East and Africa, and must rethink the terms of its Mediterranean and African partnership. The fourth change of approach for our Europe is that I also want us to involve our peoples more. So we will actively continue to seek a political solution which brings an end to North Korea’s provocations and paves the way for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Robert Menzies served the longest, over eighteen years. France made a modest contribution, through the La Celle-Saint-Cloud meeting in July last year, which for the first time brought Mr Sarraj and Mr Haftar together around a common text. There will be progress which is sometimes less visible but is significant, and what I want to emphasize here is the European civil protection force, which the Commission proposed at the end of November and I put forward in the Sorbonne speech, which is essential for a number of EU member states. The Presidency has always been a partisan office and the nominee of the government party has nearly always been elected—although this cannot be guaranteed since the government of the day does not necessarily have a majority in the Senate. The war in Iraq and then in Afghanistan, the errors committed in the past helped to bolster al-Qaeda, and then Daesh and their affiliates. It is this protective Europe which led us to revise the Posting of Workers Directive, making it more ambitious and eagerly awaited, with work on its implementation continuing every day. Indeed, and I want to end my remarks on this point, to see this new year in the light of what it will finish with – the centenary of the first global conflict – also means considering, in these first days of the year, the importance of our international, multilateral system, built initially in 1919 and fully rebuilt in 1945. This is because the Senate is in theory a states' house, and depriving the President of a deliberative vote would have robbed one of the states or territories one of its Senators' votes. Alors que l’Église australienne traverse une profonde crise, liée à la révélation ces dernières années de plusieurs affaires d’abus sexuels mettant en cause des membres du clergé – y compris au plus haut niveau –, Mgr Mark Coleridge, archevêque de Brisbane, à l’est du pays, a été élu vendredi 4 mai président de la Conférence des évêques d’Australie. La tenue de ce concile, approuvé fin mars par le pape François suite à une demande formulée en 2016 par Mgr Coleridge, devrait être l’occasion de repenser la présence de l’institution dans le pays et « de discerner ce qui est demandé [aux évêques] en ce temps au cours duquel l’Église australienne fait face à des défis significatifs ». Sometimes it requires us to show our disagreements but without allowing such disagreements to get out of hand. Ce déplacement intervenait quelques jours après celui du Premier ministre australien Malcolm Turnbull en France pour les commémorations du 100ème anniversaire de la bataille de Villers-Bretonneux. Firstly, because even if we beat Daesh and if, as I hope, we achieve victory in the next few weeks, we must achieve peace in the Levant to avoid the resurgence of any such force. There will be a number of areas, in the coming year, where Europe will continue moving forward. A few months ago in my speech at the Sorbonne, I set out the ambition to renew the European dream, to reform the European Union in order to create the triangle of a sovereign, united and democratic Europe, so I will not now go back over these proposals which I explained in detail at the time. We therefore request every state with which we maintain this demanding dialogue to fully respect religious, ethnic and political minorities. The core of a centuries-old trade has thus been reinvented in the Sahel-Sahara strip, and we have to be tough on this issue. Home Technically, the prime minister serves by way of what is known as a commission from the Governor-General of Australia. 2017 was a year of significant change in France and you were witness to the choice of the French people, this desire to transform our country, a transformation that we have started to implement to meet the immense expectations of the French people. In our haste to conclude agreements, we never examined the issue of reciprocity. The position is provided for by Section 17 of the Constitution of Australia. In contrast to this vision I want to propose an international policy that is determined, open, engaged and based on partnership. Europe can only have a rapid, fully integrated response worthy of the name if we bring to completion – this is one of the goals of the coming six months for me – the seven texts that are currently being discussed. If we are to improve collective security in the region, it is essential to initiate dialogue with Iran, like our dialogue on nuclear energy, to control Iranian ballistic activity, restricting it to what is strictly essential and ensuring that there is no aggressive ballistic activity with medium- and long-range missiles! Ultimately, this was one of the core messages of Brexit! A strong and sovereign Europe is one of the best ways to ensure this, and one of the prerequisites if we are to meet the challenges of the 21st century. I believe that in this regard, we have done useful work by helping to shield Lebanon from the conflict in the region, and I think that this method must be rolled out country by country! Mr. Morrison speaks openly about his evangelical faith. The Governor-General is the representative of the Queen of Australia, who is Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and acts in her stead. And so I fully assume this approach, and I would like us to continue taking it. We are facing many challenges as we start this new year. Next, a partnership policy is needed with all transit countries. We must therefore have a Europe which provides more protection, getting back to the basics of sovereignty. France itself will continue to organize itself to ensure it has a humane and effective approach, with an important asylum and immigration text that will be proposed by the government in the coming weeks and months. Alors que l’Église du pays est éprouvée depuis plusieurs années par des scandales d’abus sexuels, Mgr Mark Coleridge, archevêque de Brisbane depuis 2012, a été élu, vendredi 4 mai, à la tête de la Conférence des évêques d’Australie. As of 1 July 2019, the base salary for senators is A$211,242. In this context, we will also need to fully stabilize the Libya situation. UNESCO has been through turbulent times over the last few years due to games of influence and power, and decisions made. We have an enemy in Syria and that enemy is Daesh; we are about to defeat our enemy. It is not true that a 27-strong Europe will continue moving forward homogeneously. Those launched at the end of last year in the social, cultural and educational fields, with initial declarations included in our conclusions, will give rise to concrete actions. I believe in this consistently reaffirmed method. This centenary will also provide an opportunity for several of your countries to celebrate their own centenaries, because within Europe itself the peace treaties were also constituent treaties for several states in our European Union or our Europe. It will come only from the people of Iran. It has not, however, fully resolved the problem and we continue to work in all of these theatres. Having appointed a new personal representative, Leïla Slimani, I will pay great attention to preparing the International Organization of La Francophonie summit planned to take place in Yerevan in November 2018, and I will also have the opportunity to meet with the Armenian President on this issue in the next few days. France has clearly indicated its commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and its reservations as to any international initiative that could weaken it. It is an important moment in the mobilization of the coming months, in which I will ceaselessly invest myself, and which is involving several ministers of my government. L'Australie, en forme longue le Commonwealth d'Australie (en anglais : Australia et Commonwealth of Australia), est un pays de l'hémisphère sud dont la superficie couvre la plus grande partie de l'Océanie.En plus de l'île éponyme, l'Australie comprend également la Tasmanie ainsi que d’autres îles des océans Austral, Pacifique et Indien.Elle revendique aussi 6 000 000 km 2 en Antarctique. That is an absolute priority. The President is elected by the Senate in a secret ballot. And on this level, on these issues of security, culture and the economy, I would like us to really strengthen our Mediterranean and African strategy, and I know several of you here are committed to this battle, and I thank you, and we shall continue to fight it during 2018. But I am just as committed to the goal of an open vanguard. At the end of last year, we worked to enable Prime Minister Abadi to build a stable state and calm the situation in his country, particularly with the Kurdish party, before the forthcoming elections. In the Iraqi and Syrian region, they have long drawn their financing from natural resources. The parties shown are those to which the prime ministers belonged at the time they held office, and the electoral divisions shown are those they represented while in office. This action is set to be intensified in the coming months. Presidents day weekend typically features some of the best car deals of the year as dealers try to clear out prior-year inventory. To achieve this, we must rigorously and swiftly apply the Algiers Agreement, and I welcome the decisions announced at the end of last year by President Keita in Mali. The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Australian Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Australia. There have been 25 presidents of the Senate since 1901. And these setbacks also feed into other difficulties faced by the same countries. Multilateralism has given us the common good of linguistic and cultural diversity, which we must also protect. It was a sort of democratic trial and error. Firstly because we have seen nationalism and self-centred national interests making headway in Europe and the world, and together we must calm the public anxieties which lie behind the rise of individualism and isolationism. No, which is why I want it to be supplemented through several other actions, which brings me to my second point: Iranian ballistic activity. The second change of approach is that I fully take on board the idea of an open vanguard. It must be determined in the country, at the heart of civil society. It is essential that this debate take place, and not only with Iran, but no doubt with several countries. The third challenge for our collective security that we had to address last year, which is unfortunately not likely to go away soon, is that of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. And in December, it also enabled the implementation of this permanent structured cooperation and initiatives which will be taken in the first half of this year on the European Defence Fund, which will again allow us to complete concrete projects on which we have made progress. A conference will be held on this issue in Paris in April 2018 for this purpose. The President is also the spokesperson for the Senate, who represents the Senate in dealings with the Governor-General, the executive government, the House of Representatives and persons outside the Parliament.