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Number of petitions:
99
Number of signatories:
45 659

The complete text of petitions presented each day may be found in the Senate Hansard.

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Subject

2002 Petitions

2002 Signatures

Administration—Printing industry

1

345

Australian Flag

2

27

Banking Industry—Joint Select Committee to investigate conduct

1

526

Communications—Australia Post

1

2 235

Communications—Australian Broadcasting Corporation—Funding

1

18

Communications—Tasmanian telephone directories

1

1 802

Constitution—Republic and head of state

2

22

Constitution—Separation of powers

1

19

Economics—General Agreement on Trade in Services

6

548

Education—Deregulation of university fees

1

243

Employment—Geoscience Australia

1

314

Employment—Paid maternity leave

4

172

Environment—Exploration in the Townsville Trough

1

641

Environment—Fraser Island dingoes

1

9

Enrironment—Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area—Prawn trawling

1

9

Environment—Referendum

1

14

Export of live sheep

1

4 265

Exports—Live animals

1

22

Food irradiation

3

5 942

Foreign Affairs—Military action against Iraq

14

4972

Foreign Affairs—Religious, political and cultural freedoms in Vietnam

1

989

Goods and Services Tax—Alternative taxation regimes

1

23

Health—Goldfields Medical Fund

1

1 259

Health—Magnetic resonance imaging machines

1

2 939

Health—Respite care

1

1 779

Health—Stem cell research

1

348

Immigration—Asylum seekers

3

1 674

Immigration—Detention of boat people

1

18

Immigration—Human rights of children in detention

1

728

Immigration—Role of the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Federal Police in immigration related activities

1

220

Immigration—Sinking of the boat SIEV-X

1

306

Law and Justice—Suicide bombing

4

2 552

Legislation—Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) (Consequential Provisions) Act 2001

1

1 441

Medicare—Funding

1

47

Political Asylum Seekers—Procedures

13

787

Schools and Religious Institutions—Legislation

1

237

Science and Technology—Embryonic stem cells

10

4 076

Science and Technology—Research involving human embryos

4

1 983

Sexuality Discrimination Bill 1995—In support

1

105

Social Issues—Education as a human right

2

213

Telstra—Privatisation

2

124

Transport—State of the Princes Highway at Bega

1

1 658

Welfare System

1

8

 

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