But the actual part -- who does what, what needs to be done -- is a state responsibility.
In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.
Sean Sherlock, the Minister of State with responsibility for Research, is now under pressure to reverse the decision, so the story may not be over yet.
"That the state has the responsibility to punish them, that is one thing, " he said.
Infrastructure: Infrastructure is a state and local responsibility since the individual areas directly benefit.
"It is the state's responsibility to do justice and see that justice is done and provide security for its people, " Mr Mekki added.
Worse, the welfare state stunts personal responsibility.
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Kaiser has been asking the state to shift the responsibility off of buyers and onto manufacturers.
We go in and look at those things that would be the responsibility of state and local government.
Six options were set out in the SNP administration's green paper on higher education, including the state retaining "prime responsibility".
Still, he said, budget pressures don't relieve New York of what courts have said is ultimately the state's constitutional responsibility.
It flows naturally from the state's fiscal responsibility for your health that it will try to regulate your behavior, even mandating vegetable consumption.
Emphasizing individual responsibility over state intervention, the Free Democrats want to ease the country's strict job-protection laws, reduce subsides and, most importantly, cut marginal tax rates.
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Second by bailing out banks through semi or total nationalisations, the government is enlarging the perceived liabilities of the state, by assuming responsibility for banks' huge liabilities.
Websites, in turn, have a responsibility to state clearly up front exactly what personal data they are asking users to share and what users will get in return.
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It is in schools, public housing and doctors' surgeries that natives come face to face with migrants and it is often at the local and state level, where responsibility for such services usually lies, that hostility to migrants seems strongest.
Conservative spokesperson Liz Smith said there is "no greater responsibility for the state" than being a corporate parent.
But if politicians bear a grave responsibility for the state of Japanese politics, so do voters who keep electing them.
It would be the clearest signal possible that these companies could not be trusted with the responsibility that the state wishes to pass to them.
California's 33 prisons and associated camps therefore bear no small responsibility for the state's recurring budget crises, and the resultant crunch on school and university funding.
"The vast majority of people in this country will support the idea that if people get benefits from the state, they owe some responsibility in return, " he said.
This Consultation provided UNESCO and other international organizations an opportunity to advocate provision of free basic education as a right, and the responsibility of the state towards education of its masses.
Long before the idea took hold in the West that extending education to the masses was a responsibility of the state, the churches had come to see it as part of their mission.
But back when the NHS was set up in 1948, health was seen as a complete responsibility of the state, whereas care was means-tested, and very much the domain of the family and the local community.
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Parents and responsible adults need to be aware of many issues online, and my personal feeling has always been that this should not be a responsibility that the state assumes, it belongs in the family home.
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Nor are state authorities keen to take on responsibility for something as murkily intractable as urban government.
At the same time, we, the people, need to accept some responsibility for this sorry state of affairs.
The lion's share of responsibility for this dismal state of affairs lies with former president Bush and his administration.
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Like Britain's centrist Labour prime minister, Tony Blair, for example, she believes in individual responsibility more than in state assistance.
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