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 Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:27 pm Post subject: Canberra residents |
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The Australian Capital Territory Police was created in 1927,[171] the same year the federal government moved to the ACT,[172] with eleven officers.[171] The size of the force grew over subsequent decades with the development of Canberra, and oversaw law and order in the territory until 1979.[173] In that year, the ACT Police merged with the Commonwealth Police and the Federal Narcotics Bureau to form the Australian Federal Police (AFP), which then took responsibility for law and order in Canberra.[171] Since self-government was granted in 1988,[174] the AFP has performed this under contract to the ACT government.[175]
The ACT was given its first federal representation in 1949, when it gained a seat in the House of Representatives, the Division of Australian Capital Territory,[176] under the 1948 Representation Act which increased the size of the House of Representatives.[177] The ACT member could only vote on matters directly affecting the Territory.[177] In 1974, the ACT and the Northern Territory were each allocated two Senate seats. In 1974, the House of Representatives seat was divided into two, the Division of Canberra and Division of Fraser.[176] A third, the Division of Namadgi, was created in 1996, but was abolished in 1998 after an updated assessment of changes to the regional demographic distribution.[178] Both House of Representatives seats have mostly been held by the Australian Labor Party,[178][179] while ALP and the Liberal Party of Australia have always each held one Senate seat.[180]
In 1930, the ACT Advisory Council was established to advise the Minister for Territories on the community's concerns and from 1934 the territory had its own Supreme Court. In 1974 the Council became a fully elected Legislative Assembly, advising the Minister of the Capital Territory, and in 1979 this renamed the House of Assembly.
[edit] Movements towards self-governance
Left third: White stars of the Southern Cross on blue field. Right two-thirds; black and white swans holding a blue shield with a white castle above a white flower and below a sword and scepter arranged in an "X" formation with a white crown superimposed, all on a yellow field.
The Flag of Australian Capital Territory was adopted in 1993 and features the Southern Cross and the Coat of Arms.
Although there was a push by residents of the ACT for a greater say in the management of the territory, this did not necessarily equate to a desire for self-governance. John Overall, who served as the head of the NCDC from 1957 to 1972, summarised the distinction in "Canberra: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow":
Canberra residents may have been demanding a greater say in their destiny, but they rejected attempts by the Federal Government to have them take control of their own affairs through self-government. They appeared reluctant to accept the responsibility of governing themselves, or perhaps, the increased costs which they feared would inevitably follow the handover of power from the Federal Government to a local body. ... [M]ost realised that the end of direct control by the Federal Government would inevitably lead to higher taxes or a cut in services, as indeed was the case when self-government finally occurred in the late 1980s.San Francisco Movers
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