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Jonas ArnellDuring this time he was secretary for the Christian democrats' report'' A Socialist University Sector'' (2005), which after submission to the Constitutional Committee and in the voting of the Parliament led to a reprimand of the Minister of Education Thomas Östros, being a less common outcome for the opposition side.
Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount BrookeboroughGraham Walker writes (p. 149)''... Brookeborough's achievements over twenty years were substantial : the Unionist Party maintained essential unity, the anti-partitionist project was thwarted, and a potentially difficult post-war relationship with Britain under Labour was managed to the long-term benefit of Northern Ireland's full participation in the welfare state and new educational opportunities...'' In 1952 Sir Basil, whilst Prime Minister, was raised to the peerage as Viscount Brookeborough, the title taken from the village named after the Brookes.
Lynne SerpeIn this capacity, Serpe campaigned in November 2002 to pass a binding referendum in Auckland in favor of single transferable voting (STV), a method of voting that allows proportional representation.
David CameronAt the 1992 Conservative Party conference, Cameron had difficulty trying to arrange to brief the speakers in the economic debate, having to resort to putting messages on the internal television system imploring the mover of the motion, Patricia Morris, to contact him.
Charlie AngusIn 2005, Angus' own priest confronted him, and threatened to deny him Holy Communion if he voted with the government and his party to legalize same-sex marriage by Act of Parliament.
Hone HarawiraHis resignation coming following the Māori Party's support for the National Party, in particular over the Foreshore and Seabed issue, on 8 March 2011 Harawira missed the vote in Parliament for the crucial second reading of the legislation which replaced the Foreshore and Seabed Act.
Tony AbbottAbbott has repeatedly spoken of his admiration for Pearson, and in March 2010, introduced the Wild Rivers (Environmental Management) Bill to Parliament in support of Pearson's campaign to overturn the Queensland government's Wild Rivers legislation.
Simon Hughes In May 2013 Hughes was criticised in an open letter by Liberal Democrat members, party officers and councillors in his south London constituency for abstaining in that month's parliamentary vote on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.
Louis PlamondonPlamondon strongly opposed the Clarity Act legislation introduced by intergovernmental affairs minister Stéphane Dion in 1999, arguing that it would create confusion in any future referendum on Quebec sovereignty.
Anne MiltonIn February 2006, Milton was among a minority of Conservative MPs to oppose exceptions for private clubs from the proposed Smoking ban in England.
WongsonegoroIn early February 1951 he attempted to pass legislation requiring the election of a Constituent Assembly ; however, the Natsir Cabinet collapsed before the bill could be passed.
Bob Blackman (politician)On 5 February 2013 MP Bob Blackman voted against in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.
Peter Mahon (UK politician)During his time in Parliament, Mahon was a vociferous opponent of relaxation of the Abortion Law s, and in 1966 was responsible for the failure of David Steel's first attempt to introduce an Abortion Law reform bill, by his use of the parliamentary device of'' talking out.''
Edward du CannIn the last week of the 1975 referendum on British membership of the European Economic Community, du Cann came out against British membership.
Pierre TrudeauIn his final years, Trudeau commanded broad respect in Canada, but was regarded with suspicion in Quebec for his role in the 1982 constitutional deal which was seen as having excluded that province, while dislike for him remained commonplace in western Canada.
Albert Thomas Dryer On 21 July 1915, at a meeting of 18 Irish people in Sydney, Dryer proposed the establishment of the Irish National Association of Australasia, to preserve the notion of Irish sovereignty in Australia.
Robert LoweLowe spoke against the Royal Titles Bill in 1876 at East Retford and implied that Queen Victoria had been responsible for the bill's introduction.
John Robertson (New South Wales Premier)Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought to open up the selection of Crown land and break the monopoly of the squatters.
Douglas Alexander On 17 January 2013 in a speech to London thinktank Chatham House, Douglas Alexander outlined his support for the UK to remain a member in the European Union but would not support a federal United States of Europe.
Jim KarygiannisIn April 2004, Karygiannis brought forward a private member's motion which recognized the death of 1.
David Bahati Bahati came to international attention in October 2009 after introducing the Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill as a Private Member's Bill on 13 October proposing that a new offence be created in Uganda named'' aggravated homosexuality'' which would be punishable as a capital offence.
Antoine-Aim? DorionFollowing the Quebec Conference of 1864 he denounced the proposed Canadian Confederation and led the opposition in Lower Canada to the project.
Johan Steyn, Baron SteynHis judicial work in the House of Lords has been instrumental in weaving the Human Rights Act 1998 into the fabric of English law.
Anne McTaggart In November 2012 McTaggart was criticised for her Parliamentary expenses used to purchase books shortly after her election, including Public Speaking and Presentation for Dummies, The Scottish Parliament : An Introduction and several books on Labour politician Barbara Castle.
Maria EagleOn 5 February 2013 MP Maria Eagle voted in favour in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.
Vaiben SolomonHe served as Government Whip before becoming Leader of the Opposition in 1899, when he had the Charles Kingston government dissolve over Kingston's proposal to extend suffrage to all householders and their wives.
Theresa MayBy way of a government bill which became the Identity Documents Act 2010, she brought about the abolition of the Labour government's National Identity Card and database scheme and also reformed the regulations on the retention of DNA samples for suspects and controls on the use of CCTV cameras.
Kwame NkrumahHe presented his'' Motion of Destiny'' to the Assembly, requesting independence within the British Commonwealth'' as soon as the necessary constitutional arrangements are made'' on 10 July 1953, and that body approved it.
Ian Davidson (British politician)During the debate in the House of Commons over the decision whether to have a referendum over the EU Treaty of Lisbon (5 March 2008), Davidson drew jeers from his Labour colleagues for branding New Labour supporters'' Maoist s and Trotskyist s''.
George P. McLean Probably McLean's most lasting legislative achievement was the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
Gianfranco FiniHe fought against the bad practices of absenteeism and double-voting by MPs in the Italian Parliament, promoting a digital voting system (to be implemented from March 2009) to prevent other MPs from voting on behalf of absent members, judging it'' immoral'' 19 MPs out of a total of 630 refused, however, to allow their fingerprints to be recorded, and the system was implemented on a voluntary basis.
Barnaby JoyceIn October 2006 he again crossed the floor, unsuccessfully moving amendments to the government's cross media ownership laws.
Michael O'Brien (South Australian politician) As Minister for Forests, O'Brien faced hostility in the South East of the state when he advanced the government's plans to forward sell harvest rights In November 2010, O'Brien clashed in Parliament with then Treasurer Kevin Foley, who accused him of creating `` unnecessary anxiety'' over the planned forward sale.
Jon GerrardSpeaking to an interviewer in 2007, he said that the highlight of his political career was convincing the Chrétien government to include a reference to the information highway in its first throne speech.
Geoff PlantHe oversaw the province-wide British Columbia Treaty Referendum in 2002 and the creation and oversight of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
Edward Charles StirlingOn 22 July 1885, the year after his election, he proposed the following motion for women's suffrage :' That in the opinion of this House, women... who fulfil the conditions and possess the qualifications on which the parliamentary franchise for the Legislative Council is granted to men, shall, like them, be admitted to the franchise for both Houses of Parliament.'
Guy BisaillonIn May 1985, Bisaillon and three other party dissidents sponsored a private member's bill to recognize Quebec's right to self-determination.
Wayne Cao Cao has moved a large number of private member's bill s. Of these, the only one to pass was 2001's Alberta Official Song Act, which established a contest for the province's official song, with the winner to be selected by an all party committee of the legislature.
Pierre ParadisHe campaigned for the'' non'' side in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty.
Michael MeacherIn May 2005 he introduced an early day motion on climate change to parliament, which calls upon the government to commit to yearly CO <sub> 2 </sub> emission reductions of 3 %.
James Tennant MoltenoParliamentary writer Ralph Kilpin found the contradictory Speaker rather amusing, and described in his book, The Old Cape House, how Molteno once firmly silenced disruptive parliamentarians who were roaring with laughter in the backbenches, only to whisper audibly to the culprit as he passed the Speaker's seat on his way out :'' You can tell me the joke afterwards'' In 1909, at the Prime Minister's request, he joined the South African delegation as legal adviser, and submitted the draft South Africa Act at the National Convention in London.
Pierre DelvalNevertheless, the Council of Europe, with its 47 Member States, showed its agreement with Delval, as from 2006, through the Parliamentary Assembly's ratification of the Convention on the necessity of a political, legal and technological alternative with regard to the fight against dangerous counterfeiting (counterfeiting-crime).
Robert GarranGarran would later recall with approval that the 1891 convention was the first with the courage to face the'' lion in the path'', the issue of customs duties and tariff s, which had previously divided states such as Victoria, who were in favour of protectionism, and states such as New South Wales, who were in favour of free trade.
Shahid Malik Malik placed an early day motion (EDM 434, 2005), which attracted 178 MPs signatures and led to the first picket and strike in the Houses of Parliament and eventually to improved pay and conditions for the cleaners of Parliament.
Robert BordenWith his return to power, he introduced a bill in 1918 for extending the franchise to women.
John Baird (Canadian politician)Shortly after the bill first passed the Commons, Baird acknowledged that the Conservatives may have unintentionally broken political financing laws by failing to report convention fees collected in 2005.
Eleanor Laing In a Commons debate in June 1998 Laing sponsored the motion for lowering the homosexual age of consent to 16, saying' Nothing that is being proposed tonight is in any way encouraging physical sexual activity among young people before they are sufficiently mature.'
Alun MichaelOn 18 May 2007 Alun Michael was among the majority of MPs who voted in favour of exempting MPs from having to disclose information under the act.
Julia GillardThe triennial Labor conference held in December 2011 saw Gillard successfully negotiate an amendment on same-sex marriage to see the party introduce a conscience vote to parliament through a private member's bill, rather than a binding vote.
James LamondHe opposed the plans for devolution in Scotland, voting against the Scotland Bill in 1977.
Ernest BevinIn 1945, Bevin advocated the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, saying in the House of Commons that'' There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.''
David OwenDuring the United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011 he signed a letter in the Guardian, stating that he opposed AV but would continue to campaign for proportional representation.
William Aitken (politician)In 1951 he called for reform of the House of Lords so that it included representatives of the Colonies, Dominions and states of the Commonwealth.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of SalisburyIn July 1885 the Housing of the Working Classes Bill was introduced by Cross in the Commons and Salisbury in the Lords.
Brian ToppOn January 10, 2012, Topp released a policy document detailing the act he would introduce as prime minister that would reform parliament to reduce the powers of the prime minister, abolish the Senate and bring in Mixed-member proportional representation to the House of Commons.
Paul Murphy (British politician)In 2013, he became one of the few Labour MPs to vote against the bill that legalised same-sex marriage in England and Wales, which was eventually passed with cross-party support.
George KerferdKerferd's Treasurer, James Service, was, like most colonial conservatives, a convinced free trade r, and the government's 1875 budget proposed repealing the tariffs imposed by Charles Gavan Duffy's liberal government, and replacing the lost revenue with a land tax and a tax on beer and spirits.
George Currie (politician)He won the seat in May 1955 and on 19 December made his maiden speech in a debate on the White Fish Subsidy (United Kingdom) No. 2 Scheme.
Monte SolbergSolberg kept a high-profile blog, and in 2005, is thought to have made history when, using his BlackBerry, he blogged from the floor of the House of Commons immediately upon the passage of Bill C-38, which provided legal recognition of same-sex marriage.
Anas Sarwar In 2013, Anas took a very strong line in attacking both the Bedroom Tax and the Scottish Government for failing to mitigate its worst effect, but when presented with an opportunity to vote for its repeal, Anas along with 45 other Labour MPs failed to vote, with the vote being lost by 252 to 226 - less than the number of Labour MPs who failed to vote.
Michael IgnatieffOn March 25, 2011, Ignatieff introduced a motion of non-confidence against the Harper government to attempt to force a May 2011 federal election after the government was found to be in Contempt of Parliament, the first such occurrence in Commonwealth history.
Sally KeebleKeeble introduced a private members bill to introduce the offence of causing death by careless driving : the measure was later accepted by the Government and introduced in the Road Safety Act 2006.
Charles MarrIn October 1927, he urged the Australian parliament not to highlight the past mistreatment of indigenous Australians, in order to preserve the White Australia policy :'' To review the past (...) would be to unjustly misrepresent the conditions that obtain today.
Nick XenophonAt the 2006 state election, he ran an aggressive campaign and attracted considerable publicity through a range of imaginative stunts, including riding a model locomotive'' gravy train'' outside Parliament House to protest MPs' superannuation entitlements, parading along Rundle Mall wearing a sandwich board to advertise his campaign, and bringing a small goat to Parliament urging voters not to'' kid around'' with their vote.
Nicolas SarkozyOn 21 July 2008, the French parliament passed constitutional reforms which Sarkozy had made one of the key pledges of his presidential campaign.
Wilhelm SponneckIn 1853, Parliament rejected his proposal to remove the customs border between Denmark/Schleswig and Holstein by applying the same rates everywhere.
Francine LalondeIn June 2005, Lalonde introduced in Parliament a private Bill C-407 that would have legalized assisted suicide in Canada.
Peter CostelloHowever, he has also stated, at a Liberal and National Party gathering in 1992 in company with John Sharp MP, that he would support an Australia-based system of constitutional monarchy, in which a member of the House of Windsor would be invited to relocate to Australia and serve as the monarch of Australia, in place of the current system in which the crowns of Australia and the United Kingdom are both held by the same individual.
Thomas Robert McInnesMcInnes is also remembered for an 1890 senate bill entitled'' An Act to Provide for the Use of Gaelic in Official Proceedings'' which would have made Gaelic an official language in Canada.
Mae SextonIn June 2005, she attracted attention by calling for the Irish government to abandon plans for a referendum on the European Constitution after the defeats of the referendums in France and the Netherlands.
Frederick Llewellyn-JonesIn November 1932 a vote of no confidence in him was passed by the Flintshire Conservatives, for persistently voting against the government on fiscal matters, including the Ottawa Agreements.
Vincent NicholsIn February 2010, Nichols was thanked by British education minister Ed Balls for supporting a sexual education bill which would require schools -- including Catholic schools -- to explain civil partnerships and, as Balls put it, give'' a balanced view on abortion... give both sides of the argument... explain how to access an abortion, the same is true on contraception as well.''
Brendan NelsonIn January 2008, Nelson opposed making any formal apology to the indigenous Australians known as the'' Stolen Generations''.
Amanda VanstoneIn May 1990, as an opposition backbencher, Vanstone was instrumental in the introduction of televised proceedings in parliament.
Herbert GreenfieldAt the UFA convention in 1923, a proponent of a provincial banking, George Bevington, made a passionate speech in favour of this idea, bringing most of the membership around to his side.
Peter MacKayThe decision was made to pass an omnibus budget implementation bill, Bill C-4 :'' A second act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 21, 2013 and other measures'', at the opening of the second session 41st Parliament, thus relieving MacKay of responsibility for the amendments to the Supreme Court Act, and making it a matter of confidence.
Diane WatsonShe opposed the Cherokee Nation's March 2007 vote to amend its constitution to limit membership to only those descendants with at least one Indian ancestor on the Dawes Roll.
Geraint Talfan DaviesHis tenure at ACW was cut short in 2006 when, following the Council's successful resistance to Welsh Government plans to take over responsibility for the main national arts organisations, the Culture Minister, Alun Pugh, did not renew his appointment for a second term.
Thomas Atholl RobertsonHe took a particular interest in a number of traditional Liberal issues, including land reform and was in 1923 the President of the English League for Taxation of Land Values.
Cornelis Nagtglas(1863), in which he first elaborated on the dilapidated state of affairs of the colony, before arguing for increased salary for the administrators, for better education of the local people, for an interchange of territory with the British, for equal tariffs, and for the installation of qualified people on the Gold Coast.
Darius J. PearceIn January 2008 the States of Jersey voted to introduce DNA tests where paternity of a child was contested, and Home Affairs Minister Senator Wendy Kinnard publicly stated that she supported the introduction of the right of unmarried parents to name their child after the father.
Thomas Walter ScottSensing the sign of the times, Scott held a provincial referendum on the topic -- the first time women had been allowed to vote in Saskatchewan -- and in December 1916, 80 % of Saskatchewan voters voted to ban alcohol in the province.
Ruth KellyIn a free parliamentary vote on 20 May 2008, Kelly voted for cutting the upper limit for abortions from 24 to 12 weeks, along with two other Catholic cabinet ministers Des Browne and Paul Murphy.
Noel Pearson On 14 November 2007, it was reported that Pearson had accused the Queensland government of Anna Bligh, and the federal Labor opposition led by Kevin Rudd, of'' selling out Aborigines,'' saying that a plan to prevent development of the Cape York region was a bid to gain Greens preferences.
Sprent DabwidoIn June 2012, Dabwido sacked his cabinet after seven months in office, citing difficulty in passing the Constitutional Amendment Parliamentary Amendments Bill, a proposed constitutional reform bill that would alter the number of members of parliament, introduce an Ombudsman Commission, and introduce a code of ethics for parliamentarians.
Petre P. CarpBy March 1912, when he passed a new law on Northern Dobruja, Carp had adopted the colonial views of his contemporaries : all ethnic Romanian immigrants to the province, including the new arrivals from Transylvania, were raised to the same level of citizenship as the local Muslims.
Will CrooksAs an MP, he retained his working-class roots and contacts, campaigned hard for workers' pensions, supported reforms to limit the powers of the House of Lords, and supported Balfour's Unemployment Bill in 1905.
David SweetOn June 22, 2006, Sweet obtained the unanimous consent of the House of Commons for a motion awarding honorary Canadian citizenship to the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso.
Greg CombetHowever, later that day Combet told The Age newspaper that he was not planning an entry into federal politics at the 2007 election, preferring instead to continue leading the ACTU's campaign against the industrial relations law changes.
Tomasi VakatoraSince the 1996 census, the indigenous majority had increased, he claimed, but changes to parliamentary representation would be possible only through a constitutional amendment, which he called for.
Jack Lang (Australian politician)In October 1931 Lang's followers in the federal House of Representatives crossed the floor to vote with the conservative United Australia Party and bring down the Scullin government.
George Cunningham (politician)At his prompting the House accepted an amendment to the 1978 Scotland Act that a majority voting'' yes'' in the devolution referendum would have to constitute at least 40 % of the Scottish electorate.
Jerzy BuzekWelcoming the parliament's adoption of the legislation on 28 October 2011, Buzek stated :'' The adoption of the six-pack by the whole European Parliament is good news for the European Union.
Christopher Ward (UK politician) Ward made his maiden speech in a debate on capital punishment in December 1969, declaring that he wanted to vote for abolition of the death penalty with a clear conscience but that there was inadequate evidence that it was safe to do so.
Ross CliffordHe is occasionally asked for comment by the media, and spoke out against the industrial relations changes introduced by the Howard government in 2005.
Charles Gavan Duffy In 1871 Duffy led the opposition to Premier Sir James McCulloch's plan to introduce a land tax, on the grounds that it unfairly penalised small farmers.
Peter Duncan (British politician)In September 1997, he appeared as a member of the audience during a Scottish Television debate about the devolution referendum, and spoke opposing the establishment of a Scottish Parliament.
H. C. CoombsBut Aboriginal affairs remained his greatest passion, and in 1979 he launched the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, calling for a formal treaty between Australia and the Aboriginal people.
Julia Gillard Prime Minister Kevin Rudd suffered a decline in his personal ratings, and a perceived loss of support among his own MPs, following the failure of the Government's insulation program, controversy regarding the implementation of a tax on mining, the failure of the government to secure passage of its carbon trading scheme and some policy debate about immigration policy.
George VOn 18 September 1914, the King -- having considered vetoing the legislation -- gave his assent to the Home Rule Bill after it had been passed by Westminster, but its implementation was postponed by a Suspensory Act due to the outbreak of the First World War.