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Annual report

Details:

Title

Annual report

Creator

Northern Territory. Legislative Assembly. Sessional Committee on Constitutional Development

Collection

Parliamentary reports; ParliamentNT

Date

1990

Notes

Period: 1 July 1991 to 30 June 1992; 1 July 1994 to 30 June 1995

Language

English

Subject

Northern Territory. Legislative Assembly. Sessional Committee on Constitutional Development -- Periodicals.; Constitutional law -- Northern Territory -- Periodicals.

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Darwin

Format

1 volume ; 25 cm.

File type

application/pdf

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory

License

https://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/257674

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/509391

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/509393

Page content

2. ACTIVITIES 1991/92 General RevieJv During the first half of the year the Committee concentrated on the consolidation of evidence it has received to date and the preparation of further discussion and information papers, whilst toward the latter half of the year work began on organising the conference. The only travel conducted by the Committee during the year was the meeting with the Constitutjonal Centenary Foundation in Melbourne. Individual members of the Committee continued to undertake speaking engagements with interested organisations throughout the Northern Territory. Public Hearings and Meetings During 1991/92 the Committee held meetings and hea rings in the following formats: Public Meetings and Hearings: Nil Deliberative Meetings: Seven (7) held in Darwin. Briefings: Nil Appendix 4 sun1mariscs the Committee's Deliberative Meetings for 199 J /92. Statenients and Motions The following is a summary of Committee business conducted in the Legislative Assen1bly during the year. Tabling of Discussion Paper No. 3 entitled "Citizen's Initiated Referendums" (Parliamentary Record No . ./, 22 August 1991, pp 1978-79) ., Tabling of the Con1mittee's Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 1991 . (Parliamentary Record No. 7, 19 November 1991, pp 3-177-79) Papers / In August 1991 the Committee published Discussion Paper No.3, on "Citizens' Initiated Referendums". The content of the submissions received was quite good, raising a range of options and mcchanisn1s for citizens' initiatives on matters such as constitutiona l change and reform, legislative change or veto and the recall of elected and appointed officials. 8