When an ambulance reaches a public hospital in Australia, the patient is not finished with the ambulance. The crew stays with the patient until emergency department staff take over care, and while that lasts the vehicle cannot answer another call. The interval goes by several na…
Canadian immigration law lets the federal government detain people for immigration purposes and requires that the detention be reviewed on a fixed schedule, but it sets no maximum length of detention. Section 57 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act requires the Immigrat…
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163–3,598as of 2025, full year as labelled by CBSA
CORSIA is the market-based measure of the International Civil Aviation Organization that requires growth in carbon dioxide emissions from international flights to be offset. In 2025 the 42nd ICAO Assembly reaffirmed it, in Resolution A42-22, as the only global market-based measu…
보건복지부의 장애인활동지원제도 개요는 신청 자격의 기본 대상을 「만 6세 이상 65세 미만의 등록 장애인」으로 적습니다. 예외는 둘입니다 — 활동지원급여를 받던 사람이 65세 이후에도 혼자서 사회생활을 하기 어려운 경우, 그리고 노인성 질병으로 장기요양급여를 받는 65세 미만인 사람입니다 (2026-10-14 열람). 법 제5조의 신청자격 조문도 같은 구조입니다.
New Zealand pays private lawyers to act for people who receive legal aid. The government sets what those lawyers are paid through a schedule of hourly rates and fixed fees per stage of a case. According to the Ministry of Justice, as stated in its legal aid review FAQ checked on…
Under federal law, a child in foster care counts toward Title IV-E foster care maintenance payments — the federal share of the cost of room, board and clothing that states and tribes claim back — only if the home the child was removed from would have qualified for aid under the …
Protection for people who report wrongdoing inside the Australian federal public sector rests on the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013. A statutory review of that Act in 2016 made 33 recommendations. On 2022-11-30 the Attorney-General announced that reform would come in stages…
Under the federal Indian Act, entitlement to registration is passed down by a rule that counts generations. Indigenous Services Canada describes it this way in the materials it prepared for its 2025-09-24 appearance before the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples: aft…
The Biological Weapons Convention bans the development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons. It opened for signature on 1972-04-10 and entered into force on 1975-03-26. The page of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, as viewed on 2026-10-10, lists 189 states part…
New Zealand has a single national Coroners Court that inquires into reported deaths. In the 2024/25 financial year, 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, 4,890 deaths were reported to the National Initial Investigation Office and coroners accepted jurisdiction over 3,441 of them. The cou…
Every state, the District of Columbia and five territories run an Adult Protective Services program, the public agency that receives and investigates reports of abuse, neglect, self-neglect and financial exploitation of older adults and adults with disabilities. Who qualifies fo…
Coercive control is a pattern of controlling, threatening and isolating behaviour inside a relationship that need not involve physical violence. Australia has eight states and territories, each with its own criminal law, and each is deciding on its own whether and when to make t…
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3,903,900–13,402,600as of population 2025-09-30; legal status 2026-10-04
Canada has a federal law that sets conditions on how provinces run public health insurance, and a federal mechanism that actually takes money back from provinces that break those conditions. Neither of them reaches the question of whether a resident has a regular family doctor o…
A binding global agreement against harmful fishing subsidies exists, is in force, and carries a clause that ends it if the next stage of negotiation does not finish in time.
국회입법조사처 「2026 국정감사 이슈분석」을 인용한 두 보도에 따르면, 전국 85개 지방자치단체가 자기 지역 안에 화장시설을 두고 있지 않습니다. 2025년 한 해 전국 화장 34만 9,419건 가운데 8만 9,882건(25.7%), 곧 4건 중 1건이 고인이 살던 지역이 아닌 다른 지방자치단체의 시설에서 이뤄졌습니다. 이것을 관외 화장, 흔히 원정화장이라고 부릅니다.
In 2011, following a recommendation of the parliamentary Māori Affairs Select Committee, the New Zealand government adopted the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal: daily smoking below 5 percent in every population group by the end of 2025. Successive governments carried that number fo…
The National Weather Service runs 122 local forecast offices, and each one issues the forecasts, watches and warnings for its own slice of the country. In early 2025 a federal hiring freeze, a deferred resignation program and early retirements reduced the agency by about 600 emp…
An enduring power of attorney is a private legal document in which a person appoints someone else to manage their financial affairs, and it keeps working after the person loses the capacity to make decisions. In Australia each of the eight states and territories has its own law …
Canada has a federal housing law with a built-in watchdog, and the watchdog has no power to make anything happen. The National Housing Strategy Act, in force since 2019, declares in section 4 that adequate housing is a fundamental human right affirmed in international law, and i…