Mike Rann
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"Michael David Rann" Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit/CNZM is Australia's Ambassador to Italy, San Marino, Albania and Libya. He is also Australia's Permanent Representative to the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme. He was the Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2014 and a former Australian politician who served as the 44th Premier of South Australia. He led the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to minority government at the South Australian state election, 2002/2002 election, before attaining a landslide win at the South Australian state election, 2006/2006 election. Rann Labor was elected to a third four-year term at the South Australian state election, 2010/2010 election, retaining majority government despite a swing. He resigned from the premiership in October 2011 to be succeeded by Jay Weatherill.

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World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected.

That is as un-Australian as you can get. That has to be a serious criminal offence with serious criminal consequences.

People know what the laws are (in Singapore) and they take the risks, they choose to play a form of Russian roulette.

Australia has many sports institutes offering advanced sports training facilities. Especially South Australia is known to be a good place for setting up the training camps before mega sporting events like the Commonwealth and the Olympics.

Following the incident, the Police Commissioner will be required to report to the Attorney-General on the reason for invoking the authorisation, the extraordinary powers used, how they were used and the result of the use of the powers, ... The Attorney-General will then be required to report to the Parliament.

There is no place in the world which is somehow exempt from the threat of terrorism. It is a threat to all of us.

It's very much a symbol of what's happening in South Australia.

We expect this legislation to be an important weapon in our arsenal against terrorism.

Of course it's also a real demonstration of what happens in a real partnership between management and workers working together.