aborigines - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word aborigines was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

Ministers noted that lack of suitable accommodation hindered young Aborigines from entering the work force, and agreed that the construction of urban hostels and other accommodation could alleviate this position. [More…]
The Ministers agreed that action to protect sacred sites, particularly in areas of major development, was necessary and that such action should be taken in consultation with the Aborigines directly concerned. [More…]
What (a) Commonwealth and (b) State laws discriminate against Aborigines. [More…]
Is it a fact that allegations of brutality against Aborigines by Territory police have been made by security officers in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Aborigines can and do own land. [More…]
to (3) The eradication of leprosy amongst Aboriginal people of Australia is seen by the Commonwealth as being within the framework of the general improvement of the health of Aborigines. [More…]
How many Aborigines are in the Air Force. [More…]
Is it a fact that there are known cases where persons who are not Aborigines have obtained prospecting rights over large areas of Aboriginal Reserves and subsequently sub-let these rights to others. [More…]
What financial assistance has been given by the Commonwealth to the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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Has his attention been drawn to a recently completed 5-year survey into law enforcement practices affecting Aborigines in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria by Dr Elizabeth Eggelston, a lecturer in criminal law at Monash University, Melbourne? [More…]
If so, do Dr Eggelston’s findings indicated gross discrimination against Aborigines in law enforcement? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he can give to the House any information about the proposal to establish an Australian National Film and Television School. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the complaint made at the 14th Annual Conference of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders that if a white child in the Northern Territory has diarrhoea, Medair is called immediately, but if uri Aboriginal child has diarrhoea, Medair ls not called until the child reached the critical stages. [More…]
It was recognised that the existing Queensland legislation was designed to assist in protecting persons who, without guidance and assistance, could be subject to exploitation and that it was not, therefore, to be seen as discrimination against Aborigines. [More…]
The Prime Minister had discussions with the Premier and Deputy Premier of Queensland on 8th April 1971 about the legislation concerning Aborigines’ in that State and broad agreement was reached on the nature of changes which should be made in the legislation. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has subsequently corresponded with the Queensland Minister for Marine, Conservation and Aboriginal Affairs about the proposed changes in the Queensland legislation and had further discussions during his visit to Queensland early in August. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Is he able to state the estimated number of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who are subject to this Act [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs is also represented, acting on behalf of and with assisted Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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In addition Aborigines at some centres, e.g. [More…]
As part of a continuing programme over many years the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and linguists have recorded and catalogued a considerable amount of oral literature and history from Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
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and (3) As stated by the Prime Minister on 6th May, a Ministerial Committee on Aboriginal affairs has been set up to consider among other matters, whether changes in or developments of policy are desirable in relation to land for the use of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
When will the Yirrkala Village Council and the Djapu Tribe of Aborigines be given answers to their demand for land rights made to the Prime Minister on 6th May 1971. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
ls there any evidence to show that Aborigines are the subject of discrimination by licensees of some hotels and clubs in country areas of New South Wales. [More…]
He asked a question of the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) about a fire fighting tanker being used to cart water for watering the lawns instead of carting fresh water for the Aborigines because the station supply is close to finished. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
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Does his Department inspect the standard of food and living conditions of Aborigines employed at Victoria River Downs and Wave Hill Stations. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What sums were provided in the Budgets of the (a) Commonwealth, (b) States, (c) Northern Territory and (d) Australian Capital Territory for the construction of houses for Aborigines and Islanders in the years 1969-70, 1970-71. [More…]
How many houses were constructed (a) on Government settlements and missions, (b) to house Aborigines previously living in a fringe dwelling environment and (c) to house or rehouse Aborigines living in cities, towns or villages. [More…]
How many Aborigines and Islanders live in substandard dwellings. [More…]
How many houses were actually built for Aborigines in the year 1969-70. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: (1)Is the Office of Aboriginal Affairs negotiating with the owners of Everard Park in the north-west of South Australia to purchase this property for Aboriginal purposes. [More…]
1 have never doubted the interest and good will of the Minister since I served with him on a select committee that went among the Aborigines. [More…]
The matter I want to deal with in relation to the National Film and Television Training School does not in fact relate to whether or not we should have a school but relates rather to the conduct of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Government in respect of the way in which they have handled this matter in the House. [More…]
I rise to speak about Aborigines also, but those to whom I refer are hundreds of miles from Cahill’s Crossing and Nhulunbuy which have been mentioned. [More…]
I am now advised that an Inspector recently inspected both stations and found that the variety of items of food provided for Aborigines did not fully meet the standards prescribed by the Cattle Station Industry (Northern Territory) Award. [More…]
Accommodation for Aborigines at Victoria Downs did not fully comply with the provisions of the award. [More…]
Does his Department inspect the standard of food and living conditions of Aborigines employed at Victoria River Downs and Wave Hill Station? [More…]
Mr Speaker, I thought that I would take part in this debate tonight not because I claim to have any great knowledge of Aboriginal affairs or indeed that I have had vast experience among Aborigines, but because I believe that I represent the average typical urban white Australian. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The 1966 Census counted as Aborigines persons of half or more than half Aboriginal descent: [More…]
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My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in his capacity as the Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
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What was the per capita expenditure on Aborigines for all purposes in the Northern Territory in each of the last 3 years. [More…]
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Do divisional returning officers make periodical tours through remote areas of Australia for the purpose of enrolling Aborigines on the electoral roll. [More…]
Aborigines: Per Capita Expenditure in Northern Territory (Question No. [More…]
A great deal of experience has gone into raising thi standard of living of Aborigines. [More…]
I further suggest to the honourable member, that in view of the Labor policy which he pronounces as the answer to the problems of Aborigines, he Should try to persuade his colleagues in both Western Australia and South Australia along the lines he has advocated. [More…]
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I think the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) will be aware that the Government Publishing Service has been transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and therefore the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) no longer has the ministerial responsibility in relation to this matter. [More…]
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In a letter of 6 January to the Secretary of the Griffith Aborigines Advancement Organization, written on behalf of the Prime Minister, I gave an assurance that it continues to be the Government’s intention that all provisions discriminating against Aborigines should be eliminated from Commonwealth and State legislation. [More…]
628 (Hansard page 248) the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affiairs listed all Commonwealth and State legislation regarded as discriminatory against Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Did he advise the Griffith Aborigines Advancement Organization on 27th January 1972 by letter that the Government intends to eliminate all provisions discriminating against Aborigines in Commonwealth and State legislation. [More…]
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If so, did the letter state that the infant mortality rale amongst Aborigines in the Northern Territory more than doubled in 1970, rising from 89.5 per 1,000 live births in 1969 to 182 per 1,000. [More…]
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Are persons of Aboriginal descent, who have received Commonwealth finance to establish commercial projects, subject to laws and regulations from which Aborigines in their native state are exempt. [More…]
The Employment Training Scheme for Aborigines; The Country Apprenticeship Scheme; The Permanent Forces PostDischarge Training Scheme; The Employment Training Scheme for Married Women PreviouslyRestricted from Employment by Domestic Responsibilities; The Employment Training Scheme for Persons Displaced by Technological Change; The Rural Reconstruction Employment Training Scheme; The National Service Vocational Training Scheme, administered in conjunction with the Departments of Education and Science and Primary Industry for the Repatriation Department; The Disabled Members and War Widows’ Training Scheme, administered in conjunction with the Repatriation Department [More…]
5298 from the honourable member provides the details sought concerning the Employment Training Scheme for Aborigines. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I table the report of the committee to review the situation of Aborigines on pastoral properties in the Northern Territory, commonly known as the Gibb Report. [More…]
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I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (l)-(5) Thirty-five Aborigines are employed as trackers. [More…]
No other Aborigines are employed in the Northern Territory Police Force but a review is at present being made of possible ways to increase opportunities for Aborigines in the Force. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (Wannon - Minister for Education and Science) - Mr Deputy Chairman, 1 suggest that the order for the consideration of the proposed expenditures agreed to by the Committee on 31st August be varied by postponing the consideration of the proposed expenditure for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the Department of External Territories and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
In answer to a question from the honourable member for Reid on 23rd August did the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts reject the principle of making environmental impact statements public on the grounds that these reports were for Government information only? [More…]
If so, will he overrule the Minister and make these important studies available to facilitate consideration by the House of the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
ls it a fact that a new organisation known as the Aboriginal Affairs Planning Authority has been set up in Western Australia to assist towards the integration of Western Australia’s 28,000 Aborigines. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I call the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
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Will the Government only apply its Aboriginal land rights policies to the Aborigines living in the Northern Territory, since the commission that has been set up has been instructed to consider a land rights policy with respect to the Northern Territory? [More…]
Do we assume from his answer that the Government will apply the land rights policy not only to the Northern Territory but to all other Territories and the States, including the city of Sydney where Aborigines are living in deplorable circumstances? [More…]
My Government is committed to see that Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders have rights under the law to the land which they and their forebears have used. [More…]
It has not done, as some other States have done, given rights to that land to the Aborigines as individuals or families. [More…]
How many Aborigines are living on settlements conducted by Church Missions in the Northern Territory. [More…]
How many Aborigines live (a) on and (b) outside Aboriginal Reserves In the Northern Territory. [More…]
Do any of the Aboriginal groups living on Reserves have traditional association with land off Reserves; if so, approximately how many Aborigines are involved. [More…]
Do any Aborigines living in communities off Reserves have traditional association with land in the Reserves; if so, approximately how many. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a petition banded to the United Nations on 15th October 1970 from certain Aborigines in Australia which stated that it is incumbent on the white invaders and practitioners of genocide to respond affirmatively to our demand that they pay us the sum of $6 billion so that we can achieve economic parity with those who have sought and still seek to wipe us out. [More…]
Will ghe granting of land rights according to traditional association result in the (a) fragmentation of existing Aboriginal communities and (b) transfer of groups of Aborigines from one location to another. [More…]
How many Gurindji will receive an economic benefit from the cattle station and what is the expected return to the Aborigines or a per capita basis. [More…]
Will Aborigines of other tribal origins at Wattie Creek also share in this land acquired for the Gurindji. [More…]
Will he honour the undertakings of the previous Government given to Aborigines who have obtained land leases in the Northern Territory for a variety of purposes. [More…]
ls it also a fact that the Aborigines of the progress association are erecting 6 other houses allotted to them but are not in a position through lack of tradesmen to handle the 15 houses mentioned. [More…]
Our prime aim is to look for the advancement of the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
I do not want to go into those difficulties and the distinctions between the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The fundamental and crucial issue is to consult with Aborigines - that is the primary matter of importance. [More…]
I warn honourable members who will make up this Committee that no good for Aborigines or for Europeans will come out of the establishment of this Committee if Aboriginal affairs are to be treated in this way. [More…]
But once again we must remember that if politics are allowed to enter into the Committee’s deliberations more harm will be done to the Aborigines than if the Committee had not been established at all. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to establish a national centre for Aborigines. [More…]
Since he became a member of the Ministry, on what occasions and for what purposes has he made official visits to examine the situation of Aborigines. [More…]
Has Dr Kalokerinos commenced his research into malnutrition matters among Aborigines in the Northern Territory as part of an International Collaborative Medical-Scientific Study on Malnutrition, Infection and Immunity. [More…]
Did Dr Kalokerinos wish to undertake special research and health care activities among Aborigines at Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But Dr Kalokerinos did make a submission seeking approval to do research on Aborigines at Papunya. [More…]
Has the Minister for Social Security noted in the Press recently reports that Aborigines in Western Australia were alleged to be spending their money on taxis, liquor and in other ways rather’ than on family welfare? [More…]
Whether the programming and expenditure by the Department, and in particular expenditure on the account of the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, the Aborigines Benefit Trust Fund and the Capital Fund for Aboriginal Enterprises is responsible to the Minister. [More…]
552 (Hansard, 28 August 1973, page 501) indicate that the number of Aborigines living in urban Sydney is 5,257. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a recent report to the Minister for Youth and Community Services in New South Wales which indicates that there are approximately 9,000 people who identify themselves as Aborigines resident in the Sydney metropolitan area. [More…]
All Aborigines jointly to share the benefit from the development of natural resources, including minerals, on Aboriginal lands. [More…]
Aborigines Residing in Urban Sydney (Question No. [More…]
Is the Department of Aboriginal Affairs purchasing land for Aborigines off reserves in accordance with the terms of the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
Will the Minister provide details of all property and land purchased by the Government for Aborigines throughout Australia, giving the names of the vendors and the buyers and the amount paid for each property. [More…]
Will the Government now proceed to service the 61 applications from Aborigines for exploration licences over areas on Northern Territory reserves. [More…]
How many leases for pastoral properties for Aborigines in the Northern Territory were either approved or in the process of examination by the Minister for the Interior in the McMahon Government. [More…]
Can the Minister also say whether the platform was changed at the Surfers’ Paradise Conference to provide for all Aborigines jointly to share the benefits from the development of natural resources including minerals on Aboriginal land. [More…]
Does he recall my asking him in the House to document and evaluate the Katherine Project and its success in advancing the education of Aborigines in the Community School; if so, has this work commenced. [More…]
If not, will the Minister give an assurance that in future the reporting opportunities of journalists writing for magazines of great importance to Aborigines will not be prejudiced. [More…]
How many Aborigines are or will be involved in the operation of the Kildurk Station in the Northern Territory. [More…]
What were the financial arrangements provided by the Commonwealth in order that the Aborigines could purchase the property at a cost of $829,000, i.e., what proportion was provided by way of grant, what proportion by way of loan, and on what terms. [More…]
How many Aborigines will be involved in the operation of the Willowra Station. [More…]
What were the financial arrangements provided by the Commonwealth in order that the Aborigines could purchase the property, i.e., what proportion was provided by way of grant, what proportion by way of loan, and on what terms. [More…]
How many Aborigines were enrolled to vote for Committee representatives in (a) each State, (b) the Northern Territory, (c) the Australian Capital Territory and (d) Jervis Bay, [More…]
How many Aborigines who were entitled to enrol failed to do so. [More…]
With reference to the establishment of the new legal aid office which is charged to give legal services to persons in need, particularly disadvantaged persons such as pensioners, Aborigines and migrants, is it proposed to amalgamate the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service with this wider body. [More…]
If not (a) does this imply that the Aborigines will not be adequately assisted by any authority which is not responsible to the Attorney-General’s Department, and (b) what are the precise lines of demarcation between and responsibilities of the two services so far as advice to Aborigines is concerned. [More…]
The implementation of a training program in Park management and associated activities for Aborigines. [More…]
The implementation of a positive programof action to protect sites and objects of cultural significance to Aborigines; and, [More…]
Who are the members of the study group that has been set up to examine relations between Aborigines and the police. [More…]
Has the Minister decided on a date for a conference of Police Commissioners, members of police unions, criminologists and Aborigines. [More…]
What initiatives are currently being undertaken by the Public Service to increase the number of Aborigines employed in the Public Service. [More…]
But Aborigines throughout Australia received voting rights at different times. [More…]
How many Aborigines are taking advantage of the transport and fishing facility that has been provided for Aboriginal and Islander communities in the north of Australia. [More…]
How many Aborigines have been trained or are being trained to use the vessels that have been provided. [More…]
As Indulkana Aboriginal Reserve occupies an area of 12 square miles, ringed by a dog-proof fence and surrounded by Granite Downs Station, in north-west South Australia, have any moves been made by the South Australian or Australian Government to acquire further areas from Granite Downs Station to ensure that Aborigines have free access to adjacent areas of great significance to them. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to comments by the Chairman of the Western Australian Aboriginal Board of Management, Mr Ken Colbung, expressing concern that many voluntary organisations assisting Aborigines in Western Australia had been waiting 7 months or more, since May 1973, to receive funds from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, [More…]
1 ) How many Aborigines are employed in road building programs at the Aboriginal communities in Central Australia for which funds were provided for that purpose in September 1973. [More…]
How many Aborigines from the Papunya Aboriginal community will be employed in the housing program being undertaken there following a grant of $ 140,500. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is he aware that in the State of Victoria and, in fact, throughout Australia there is a vast number of Aborigines registered with his Department awaiting employment? [More…]
Surely we are trying to do what the Aborigines concerned want, and there is very little doubt as to what these Aborigines who will be affected by this legislation want. [More…]
The Aborigines who want this legislation have a real reason for wanting it. [More…]
The Aboriginal people who are living there decently and quietly fear very much the incursion of rowdyism and drunkenness from other Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the advisory group of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders which has been appointed to formulate advice to the Schools Commission on education for the people. [More…]
How many Aborigines, not in the employ of the Government, have been brought to Canberra for discussions with the Minister or his predecessors since December 1 972. [More…]
Further to the answers to questions Nos 2343 and 1658, concerning administration of Aboriginal affairs policies, in which he indicated that responsibility for control of health services of Aborigines rests at present with various Australian Government and State Departments of Health, statutory commissions and a variety of similar organisations, some of which are associated with academic institutions, will he list all bodies to which he refers. [More…]
Will he have discussions with the Attorney-General to enable the functions of the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service to be taken over by the Australian Legal Aid Office to ensure that Aborigines receive legal aid of no less standard than anyone else. [More…]
In the absence of any similar legislation in relation to the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, by what authority do lawyers in that service act for Aborigines. [More…]
The Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia is an independent incorporated body controlled, within the terms of its constitution, by an executive committee which is answerable to the general membership of the Service; only Aborigines may be members of the incorporated body. [More…]
Even if it were not rushed through we would not be in a position to offer detailed criticism because we have not had an opportunity to consult the Aborigines who should be our principals in this matter. [More…]
He was quite wrong in saying that the Labor Government is the only body or the first body to give any land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
If he had read yesterday’s Hansard he would have seen that I reminded him that in 1971 the Legislative Council in the Northern Territory conferred land rights on Aborigines under the Northern Territory Lands Ordinance. [More…]
The Minister went on to say that it is known that Aborigines resolve their own problems in their own way. [More…]
The Minister and the Government are rattling it through before the Aborigines know anything about it. [More…]
7 a Bill for an Act relating to the provision of land in the Northern Territory for Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister will be aware that in the Government’s efforts to assist Aborigines by way of housing provisions to assume their right to live as ordinary Australians in Australian communities, cases arise where, by the extreme anti-social behaviour of some Aborigines, considerable distress and hardship are suffered by neighbouring tenants. [More…]
Employment and training schemes will be urgently investigated with aim of increasing job opportunities for Aborigines throughout Australia. [More…]
Under a Liberal Country Party Government Aborigines will be better not worse off. [More…]
Urge Aborigines to vote Liberal Country Party on 13 December. [More…]
Available statistics show that unemployment amongst Aborigines more than doubled between December 1 972 and November 1975. [More…]
In November 1972 about 3700 Aborigines were unemployed; in December 1975 there were 9900 Aborigines unemployed as a direct result of the spending programs and the irresponsibility of the policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to figures released by the National Aboriginal Congress, which state that the average weekly income for Northern Territory Aborigines is between $6 to $8. [More…]
3 ) Do only 1 0 per cent of Aborigines living outside towns have regular access to clean water and lavatories. [More…]
Do 90 per cent of Northern Territory Aborigines live in sub-standard houses. [More…]
Can any action be taken to recruit doctors to work temporarily as a task force, as they do in the north of Western Australia, without committing them to joining the Commonwealth Public Service, to attack trachoma and other health problems among Aborigines in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the report by Professor Hollows that health services for Aborigines in Central Australia are appalling and that eye, ear, nose and chest diseases together with other systemic disorders are present in an alarmingly high proportion of Aboriginal children and adults? [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to reports that Brisbane Aborigines are being constantly and unfairly harassed by police. [More…]
Is there any evidence that treatment of arrested Aborigines is often vulgar, physically demeaning and verging on sexist attacks on human decency. [More…]
Is it a fact that the cut from $230,000 in 1975-76 to $ 1 90,000 in 1 976-77 for the budget of the Medical Service in Redfern means that they cannot continue to give service to Aborigines at the present level? [More…]
-I present a report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, being a report that the Committee has been unable to complete its inquiry into the health problems of Aborigines. [More…]
As unemployment is higher among Aborigines than among any other group in our populationapparently about 50 per cent-I ask: Has the Government yet considered the submission and when will the Minister announce the decision to the House? [More…]
Does his answer to Senator Keeffe on 23 February 1977 (Senate Hansard, page 350) mean that there is no provision in Queensland for mining royalties to be paid to Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
However, I can say that in accordance with Queensland ‘s policy, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders would be viewed no differently from any other Queenslander regardless of racial ancestry’. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that today marks the decennial anniversary of the granting of constitutional power to the Commonwealth to make laws for Aborigines? [More…]
What progress has been achieved for Aborigines over that period of time? [More…]
Will he bring up to date the monthly statistics of Aborigines registered for employment with the Commonwealth Employment Service (Hansard, 26 May 1977, page 1926). [More…]
1 ) Do any State or Territory laws and practices touching Aborigines not yet comply with the requirements of International Labour Organisation Convention No. [More…]
Can the Australian community assume that in line with his anti-apartheid speech at the recent Commonwealth Conference examples of segregation of Aborigines in this country will soon be eliminated. [More…]
If so, will those Aborigines living on reserves be brought to the cities and integrated into Australian life and will this have the dual benefit of giving the present Administration the appearance of domestic policy being consistent with its international utterances, while simultaneously removing Aborigines from reserves which are located on top of uranium deposits. [More…]
As this will conflict with the wishes of the local Aboriginal community and is contrary to the provisions of the Commonwealth land rights legislation, will the Minister indicate whether the concern he expressed for Kimberley Aborigines prior to the recent Kimberley by-election extends to taking action to prevent the State Government disregarding the wishes, in particular, of the Oombulgurri people? [More…]
Can the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs advise the House whether there are any proposals to limit compensation payable to Aborigines for the mining of uranium on Aboriginal land or land claimed to be Aboriginal land? [More…]
The urgent need for the Federal Government to assume full legislative and administrative responsibilities for Aurukun and Mornington Island Aborigines in Queensland to ensure implementation of the Federal Government policies of self-government. [More…]
I do not know whether the Aborigines will accept our amendments or support the Government’s Bill. [More…]
It is silly for the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to be saying that this Government is about to give Aborigines the right to make decisions about their own future when the first request that comes from their own body, the National Aboriginal Conference, of which the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs thinks highly, is to give it some time so that it can deliberate on this legislation, make submissions if it feels the need to do so and come back to the Parliament on the matter. [More…]
Hostel Facilities for Aborigines in Guildford Area (Question No. [More…]
Ranger Uranium Project: Consultation with Aborigines (Question No. [More…]
If this paragraph were included in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill its effect would be to the disadvantage of Aborigines for no well-explained reason. [More…]
We believe that as far as possible a decision on the status of Aboriginal land should be left to Aborigines and that their views should take precedence over those which may be concerned with environmental issues. [More…]
I hope that he does, because he may then be able to influence his party to do something for Aborigines instead of making political capital out of them all the time. [More…]
I will not take advantage any more of the Chairman’s good nature but I had to put the facts straight as the honourable member had said that the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly should not have the right to make laws for Aborigines. [More…]
They would know 10 times more about Aborigines, Aboriginal rights and Aboriginal lore than all honourable members opposite put together. [More…]
Unfortunately, the honourable member for Reid has no real reeling for Aborigines, but just keeps pushing his unbalanced tirades for the Friends of the Earth. [More…]
and (3) Before each test, patrolling and air searches confirmed that there were no aborigines within 275 kilometres of the firing site north of the transcontinental railway line. [More…]
The Government’s failure to fulfil its obligations to protect the human rights and the right to self-determination of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the cases of interference with telegrams by officers of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement which were cited by Ms Lorna Lippman in her paper ‘Discrimination Against Aborigines by the Queensland Government’ distributed at a seminar at Monash University on 25 September 1 977; if so, when and how. [More…]
The Government’s failure to fulfil its obligations to protect the human rights and the right to self-determination of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
1 ) How many young Aborigines in the Electoral Division of Grey have received apprenticeships under the national employment scheme for Aborigines. [More…]
) In what establishments are the young Aborigines to be trained. [More…]
Aborigines Enrolled as Electors (Question No. [More…]
) Is Mrs June Tapp of Killarney Station subsidised by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to advise Aborigines on community work. [More…]
In 197 1 Mr Higgs was appointed as First Assistant Secretary in charge of the newly created Office of Environment in the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
In the time of the previous Administration there was enormous waste in expenditure on Aborigines, and that was readily admitted and conceded right around Australia. [More…]
Aborigines in Queensland (Question No. [More…]
What percentage of those Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders eligible for (a) age pensions, (b) invalid pensions, (c) widows’ pensions, (d) other pensions, (e) social security sickness benefits or (f) unemployment benefits, is estimated not to be receiving these payments on account of limited motivation, awareness or capacity to obtain the payments. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies on the Social Impact of Uranium Mining on the Aborigines of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Did the Depanment of Aboriginal Affairs grant Almond Growers, a non-Aboriginal company from Tamworth, NSW, an amount of $35,000 for growing almonds on the understanding that the company would employ 20 to 30 Aborigines. [More…]
If so, did that company use the money to buy cattle for its own use and subsequently not employ any Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Has the Central Land Council asked ( a) for Uluru and Katatajuta titles to go to a Land Trust under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, (b) the Trust to lease land to the Director of National Parks and (c) for a management body to be set up under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act with Aborigines having half the membership. [More…]
i If so, has this resulted in increased liquor sales to local Aborigines at black market prices. [More…]
During the recent conference of the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders League statements in the Press quoted the Federal President of the Australian Labor Party, Senator J. Keeffe, as saying that some Federal parliamentarians had been discreetly instructed to divide the Aboriginals. [More…]
Has any der sion been reached regarding the creation of additional facilities in the northwest of Western Australia to assist Aborigines to find employment or apply for unemployment or sickness benefit. [More…]
and (2) To supplement the normal services of the Commonwealth Employment Service five new positions have been created by my Department for officers who wilt give special employment assistance to Aborigines in the north-west of Western Australia. [More…]
This will involve visiting Aborigines where they are located, assessing their employment potential, counselling them about employment, assisting them to obtain employment locally or elsewhere where this is practicable or arranging for them to claim unemployment and sickness benefits as required. [More…]
Is there chronic unemployment amongst Aborigines, particularly the young people, from the Davenport Reserve near Port Augusta, South Australia. [More…]
At 27th February, there were 34 known Aborigines (22 males and 12 females) registered for employment in the whole of the Port Augusta District Office area of the Commonwealth Employment Service which includes the Davenport Reserve. [More…]
It is not known how many Aborigines may be unemployed but not registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
Their duties will involve visiting Aborigines where they are located, assessing their employment potential, counselling them about employment, assisting them to obtain employment locally or elsewhere where this is practicable or arranging for them to claim unemployment and sickness benefits as required. [More…]
The Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund - see section 21 of the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1969. [More…]
Moneys standing to the credit of the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund may be expended: [More…]
for any purpose that (he Minister for the Interior considers to be for the benefit of - I’D Aborigines in general; [More…]
The Medical Research in Aborigines (Reference) Sub-committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council considers proposals for medical research projects, involving Aboriginals, referred to it by the Chairman of Council or the Medical Research Advisory Committee of Council. [More…]
The Medical Research in Aborigines (Reference) Sub-committee of the Natonal Health and Medical Research Council considers proposals for medical research projects, involving Aborigines, referred to it by the Chairman of Council or the Medical Research Advisory Committee of Council. [More…]
Has the present situation resulted in (a) Australian trained speech therapists being excluded from higher appointments in Australia which go to members of the profession from overseas holding university degrees, (b) general retardation of the profession in Australia including a lack of research due to a deficiency of persons with a basic degree conducting research studies for higher degrees, (c) inability to accommodate students from Asian countries seeking speech therapy qualifications with universal acceptability and (d) insufficient trained personnel to properly treat polyglot immigrants, bilingual children, multi-lingual children, persons with a brain injury, speech, voice and hearing defects of Aborigines, and other more orthodox forms of speech therapy. [More…]
Persons of part-Aboriginal descent only are not included in the figures for Aborigines except where these people normally live in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Is it a fact that, although Aborigines represent only 2.5% of Western Australia’s population, approximately 21% of all children who die under the age of 1 year are Aborigines. [More…]
The percentage of full blood Aborigines may well be much lower, possibly less than half this figure. [More…]
Commonwealth Laws: The only remaining Laws that could be regarded as discriminating against Aborigines are Section 64 of the Migration Act 1958-1968 and Section 423a of the Navigation Act 1912-1968. [More…]
State Laws: The following State laws contain provisions that could be, prima facie, regarded as discriminating against Aborigines: [More…]
The Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act, 1965-1967 and the Regulations thereunder; [More…]
Some years ago with members of all parties I sat on the Select Committee into Grievances of Yirrkala Aborigines. [More…]
the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines. [More…]
the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
The number of aborigines in secondary schools has risen from 7 in 1967 to 63 in 1970. [More…]
The second way in which Aboriginals benefit from these enterprises is through the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund. [More…]
The immediate financing of special pro grammes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
The immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
Mr R. Beaver, a formersecurity guard employed at Gove in the Northern Territory, did make allegations that police officers had assaulted 2 Aborigines taken into custody. [More…]
Are funds available direct from his Office for local government bodies which desire to build homes for Aborigines. [More…]
Has there been any approach to the Office of Aboriginal Affairs for financial assistance in the purchase of Mount Arden Station, near Port Augusta, South Australia, for development by Aborigines as a rural property. [More…]
If so, were any feasibility studies carried out by any section of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs to determine whether this property could be developed as (a) a viable property which could be successfully worked or (b) a training area for Aborigines in pastoral industry requirements. [More…]
My Office is awaiting the views of the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs as to whether Mount Arden would have value as a training school for Aborigines in pastoral requirements. [More…]
This allocation meant that the Aboriginal houses lacked laundries and sewerage, something which Aborigines apparently can do without. [More…]
The Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Wentworth) probably will tell us that 50,000 shares are held in trust for the Aborigines. [More…]
I have waited for him to speak up for the Aborigines in his area, but T have waited in vain. [More…]
By the end of 1974, I think, the Aborigines Benefit Trust Fund will have a total of $4m with an annual income of Sim, so there is quite a lot of money which will be available for future projects many of which can be run by Aboriginals who are learning to manage the projects themselves. [More…]
One of the basic recommendations was that the Aborigines Welfare Board should be abolished. [More…]
The inquiries and investigations of the committee indicated that the Aborigines Welfare Board in New South Wales had not fulfilled its function and had not done the job that it was hoped it would do. [More…]
It was coincidental that at about the time the report of this all party joint committee was presented to the Parliament the Aborigines Welfare Board embarked on some improvement projects - and I am speaking from only personal experience here– at least in one quarter of New South Wales. [More…]
But, of course, there came the time when the Parliament of New South Wales in its wisdom implemented the report of the select committee and said that the Aborigines Welfare Board, should be dissolved and its functions taken over by the various departments of State that were charged with the care and responsibility and welfare of the rest of the community. [More…]
Therefore, in due course it was decided by the Government of New South Wales that the Aborigines Welfare Board would cease its operations and would be in fact dissolved. [More…]
In 1834 Sir Thomas Buxton, chairman of the Aborigines Committee of the British House of Commons said: [More…]
There is the Migration Act 1958-1968; the Navigation Act 1912-1968; in Queensland the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Acts 1965-67; the Vagrants, Gaming and Others Offences Acts 1931-1967; in Western Australia the Licensing Act 1911-1968; the Native Welfare Act 1963; the Native (Citizenship Rights) Act 1944-1964. [More…]
What 1 describe as ‘homelessness’, then, means that the Aborigines faced a kind of vertigo in living. [More…]
The immediate financing of special pro grammes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
Sir, Mrs Blackburn was one of the founders of the Aborigines Advancement League and of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders and is well remembered for her work in this area. [More…]
Children Fund and, as the Prime Minister mentioned, the Aborigines Advancement League and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and’ ‘Torres Strait Islanders, of which she was a founder. [More…]
Are there any plans to erect a hostel for male Aborigines in the northern Spencer Gulf area of South Australia to assist in providing suitable single accommodation where employment opportunities are available. [More…]
Can he state, from the latest information available for each State and Commonwealth Territory, the (a) neo-natal, birth, infant and age specific mortality rates for Aborigines and (b) the degree of deviation from internationally accepted standards of growth, for example in relation to height and weight, of Aboriginal infants and children according to age specific rates. [More…]
There is consultation between the MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs and the Minister for the Interior on policy issues affecting Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
One of the functions of the Welfare Division is to provide for the welfare and advancement of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and to carry out its functions the Division is staffed with experienced and qualified officers. [More…]
The duties of field officers include the training of Aborigines so that they can take advantage of opportunities for economic progress by using the natural resources within Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
A number of Aboriginal business ventures have been assisted with finance from the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund and the Capital Fund to assist Aboriginal enterprises. [More…]
Examples of this are the fishing project at Umbakumba, gardening projects at Maningrida and Garden Point, the proposed store at Wave Hill, the prospecting being done by Aborigines at Docker River, and the copper leaching plant at Yuendumu. [More…]
That Queensland Aborigines and Islanders are not equal, in that they are not entitled to use their money or property as they so desire. [More…]
The records of the Aborigines Welfare Boa id relating to Crown Land reserved for the use of Aborigines were incomplete and at present action is in hand to bring those records up to date. [More…]
So far as the future leasing or other use of Crown Land reserved for the use of Aborigines is concerned, the New South Wales Minister will be seeking the advice of the Aborigines Advisory Council on these matters in due course. [More…]
So far as Aboriginal Reserve lands within the control of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs are concerned, two applications have been received from Aborigines and have been granted. [More…]
Land at Point Pearce has not been leased by Aborigines. [More…]
This cannot be considered low, having regard to the small nurn- bers of Aborigines who wish to undertake business enterprises. [More…]
The Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs corresponded last year with the Minister for Native Welfare in Western Australia about the amendment of discriminatory provisions in legislation affecting Aborigines. [More…]
Would the large scale production of this transportable and expandable dwelling with its built-in thermal barrier and other unique features contribute to the alleviation of accommodation shortages at present sustained by large numbers of university students, aged people, Aborigines and persons engaged in employment in remote parts of the country. [More…]
The Office of Aboriginal Affairs has made grants to the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders amounting to $6,318.80 as follows: $2,000.00 - Fares for delegates to annual conference 1969 $1,192.00 - Fares to Executive Committee $2,000.00 - Fares for delegates to annual conference 1970 $1,126.80 - Fares for delegates to annual meeting 1971. [More…]
and (2) In the Royal Australian Air Force Aborigines are treated as members of the community, race is not recorded on enlistment and there are no special statistics kept of their number, rank, category or progress in the Service. [More…]
will be represented in the Senate by Senator Drake-Brockman, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts will be represented by Senator Greenwood, and Senator Cotton will represent the MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I know that the new Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has a commission from the Prime Minister to use his influence in the Liberal Party to destroy the former Prime Minister of this country. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
That Department has now been abolished and the Division has been relocated in the new Department of the Enrironment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
and (3) Dr Eggleston’s findings cannot, I believe, be said to indicate gross discrimination against Aborigines in law enforcement in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]
Some instances of discrimination on the grounds of race are cited and 1 certainly see these are a matter for concern; but the study also indicates some aspect in which Aborigines find themselves in a favoured position. [More…]
Dr Eggleston’s general conclusion is that many Aborigines, in common with other people of low social and economic status, are in various ways severely disadvantaged in dealings with the legal and judicial system. [More…]
The fact that the most common charge against Aborigines was drunkenness, whereas traffic offences represent more than half the charges against non-Aborigines, and that prison sentences are more often imposed for drunkenness than for traffic offences; [More…]
and (5) The Office of Aboriginal Affairs has been able to advise on police training courses in relation to Aborigines and officers have given talks at police colleges to develop a greater understanding of the special problems of Aboriginal people in relation to the law. [More…]
However, the attitudes of the Aborigines themselves to normal concepts of hygiene, the implications of the life style which most Aborigines choose to follow and the absence of family planning leading to the inadequate spacing of children are significant contributing factors to the Infant Mortality Rate. [More…]
The health of Aborigines is of major concern to Government and special health and hygiene services including infant welfare clinics are provided in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Aborigines: Service in Hotels (Question No. [More…]
My Department, which includes the Northern Territory Police Branch, has had no reports in recent times of Aborigines being excluded from hotels anywhere in the Northern Territory on the grounds of race. [More…]
There have been instances on which both Europeans and Aborigines have been refused service in hotels on the grounds of being drunk, quarrelsome or disorderly; it would, however, be an offence under the Northern Territory Licensing Ordinance for a publican to refuse service to any client on the grounds of race. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and refers to the recent Press notices stating that a report on the Great Barrier Reef has just been completed. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Can he say how many Aborigines (a) commenced tertiary education and (b) graduated from tertiary institutions in (i) each State and Territory and (ii) the Commonwealth in each of the last ten years? [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is also MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I have no means, as Minister for the Aborigines, of taking the matter any further, but should a research project be necessary as a result of this examination it might be possible to provide, through the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, funds for a research programme. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Legislation in the Northern Territory provides for the grant of leases to corporate Aboriginal groups or to individuals and a number of applications by groups of Aborigines for leases or substantial areas of Aboriginal reserves are now awaiting consideration by a special Land Board. [More…]
protection of lands reserved for the use and benefit of Aborigines and within such lands: [More…]
ensuring continuing groups of Aborigines the use of land for ceremonial, religious or recreational purposes [More…]
making available on appropriate tenure to individual Aborigines and groups of Aborigines land necessary for the conduct of commercial enterprises [More…]
ensuring that subject to the requirements of national development Aborigines on lands reserved for their use and benefit will be given [More…]
Discussions have been taking place with the representatives of the Aboriginal community at Weipa, the mining company and the Queensland Government on the development of programs to improve the situation of the Aborigines at Weipa and to ensure that the Aboriginal community derives increasing benefit from the development of the mining enterprises. [More…]
The newly appointed Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) would be better described as the Minister for spare parts. [More…]
I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not criticising the newly appointed Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts; quite the contrary. [More…]
In the short time left to me I would like to comment upon the appointment of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Australia-wide study into the health problems of Aborigines. [More…]
At the present time no specific survey into the health problems of Aborigines either on an Australiawide basis or in Aboriginal communities and fringe settlements is under consideration by the Department of Health and Office of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
It is expected that these and similar future projects will substantially increase existing knowledge of problems associated with Aboriginal health and will also be of early and direct benefit to the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The more localised health problems of Aborigines are of course matters for the individual States and Territories. [More…]
P. Howson, Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister assisting the Minister for Trade and Industry, in Tourist Activities. [More…]
Kerry Kirke in his book ‘Aboriginal Infant and Toddler Mortality and Morbidity in Central Australia’ lists the percentages of Aborigines and Europeans in the various age groups. [More…]
This age group is the only one in which Europeans have a higher percentage than Aborigines. [More…]
I point out that in this area there are 12 settlements and about 70 cattle stations which have in some cases several hundred Aborigines congregated around them. [More…]
There are many mining and drilling camps in the Territory around which Aborigines gather. [More…]
Aborigines on the Yuendumu Reserve prefer to stay there. [More…]
Whereas the Commonwealth has a clear mandate to act for the advancement of the Aboriginal people - And whereas the Parliament of Queensland refuses to repeal the clauses of The Aborigines’ and Torres Strait Islanders’ Affairs Act of 1965 which discriminate against the said Aboriginal people, [More…]
The immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities a question. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister-in-Charge of Tourist Activities a question arising from his statement 2 days ago on the National Film and Television Training School. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article in ‘The Australian’ newspaper of 9th April 1971 referring to an agreement between the Commonwealth and Queensland for the State Government to introduce legislation easing restrictions on Queensland’s 30,000 assisted Aborigines. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is now the focal point of a campaign by all, Australian governments to prevent pollution of the atmosphere and natural amenities, especially by industry and public authorities. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
The question of taxation is usually a matter for the Treasurer and not for the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the [More…]
As to effects on ecology these are now matters which, at the Commonwealth level, are the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to complaints by Gurindji Aborigines in the Wave Hill and Wattie Creek areas of the Northern Territory that they have experienced great difficulty in cashing cheques and are discriminated against because of the delay that takes place in the cashing of their cheques. [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
been reserved as an area of significance to Aborigines and this area is protected under the Native and Historical areas and Objects Preservation Ordinance. [More…]
Only Aborigines including those at Wattie Creek may enter this area without permission. [More…]
Figures for 30th June 1902 exclude fullblood Aborigines. [More…]
It is not unusual, however, for Aborigines themselves to choose European names which they use in conjunction with a subsection name and a mother will usually choose a European name for her child for birth registration purposes; nursing sisters frequently assist the mother in this by providing a panel of names from which she may choose. [More…]
There have been no complaints to the Administration nor has there been evidence of disturbance amongst the Aborigines and Yuendumu over the use of European names by Aborigines. [More…]
Is the- Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts aware that most, if not all, of the larger advertising agencies in Australia are now overseas owned or controlled? [More…]
Aborigines, particularly in Western Australia. [More…]
Notwithstanding past and present efforts the health status of Aborigines remains a cause for concern particularly in respect of infant mortality and malnutrition. [More…]
Beyond the statutory school leaving age, we are very encouraged by the response to the secondary and study grants schemes, which, as honourable members will bc aware, help make it possible for young Aborigines to pursue their studies as far as they are capable of proceeding with substantial benefit to themselves. [More…]
I am satisfied that very many more young Aborigines are now staying on in secondary school and that there has been generally a marked improvement in the attitudes and application of the children and in their level of attainment. [More…]
It has also provided amounts in the votes of other Commonwealth departments, such as the $154,000 in the votes of the Department of Labour and National Service for the continuation of the employment training scheme conducted by that Department - which is, I believe, already having an important effect in increasing permanent employment of young Aborigines. [More…]
By investing sufficient money in the right areas over the years immediately ahead we will be making it possible for increasing numbers of Aborigines to become independent of the special assistance now being provided through the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account and in other ways, and, where they need assistance, to be progressively cared for by the general provisions made for the community as a whole. [More…]
I was interested in this regard in an observation made a few weeks ago by the Premier of Queensland when talking about the difficulties which he and his Government face in recruiting sufficient people to work in the field of welfare for Aborigines, lt has often seemed to me that those who demonstrate, whatever the form of demonstration, might well look to more beneficial and fruitful form in displaying their concern than simply to seek publicity, whatever the form of search might be. [More…]
The scheme cannot possibly work in relation to aborigines. [More…]
They were formerly provided for by a Government grant of about $20,000 a year made to doctors to care for the health of aborigines. [More…]
I understand that now there are fewer than 1,000 aborigines covered. [More…]
Therefore, any family with at least one dependant with a taxable income below $1,730 would be automatically exempted from contributing but would have full access for free public or standard ward hospital treatment and for medical services from a private doctor of the patient’s choosing, Importantly, those most luckless of all Australians - the Aborigines - would be fully covered. [More…]
With regard to Aborigines the honourable member for Bendigo referred to a scheme in Western Australia. [More…]
Under the scheme in Western Australia that Government gave the AMA 9,000 a year to provide free services for fringe dwelling Aborigines in the south-west of that State. [More…]
At the end of a year the doctors would total the amounts owing to them by Aborigines and, as I said, the return on fees owing was about 35 per cent. [More…]
The State Government said that the Aborigines would be all right as the Federal Government would make them members of medical funds, but it did not work out that way. [More…]
The AMA contacted the State Government and the State Government contacted the Department of Social Services and the Department of Health in Canberra stating that it was not working and with the request that the Commonwealth continue to subsidise Western Australia under the scheme whereby it provided medical services to Aborigines. [More…]
The Commonwealth said: ‘Oh no, the scheme was never intended to cover these people because some of the Aborigines might be earning too much and they would not come within the provisions of the scheme. [More…]
Four Or five years ago we passed a referendum about Aborigines. [More…]
In fact, what I have in mind was illustrated by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) a few days ago when he was asked a question about the $7m proposed for the establishment of a national film and television school to educate actors, television producers and the like which had been deferred. [More…]
Commonwealth - The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and I preface it by referring to a statement issued by the Minister for the Interior in which he referred to the establishment of an advisory council on the projected use of Commonwealth land. [More…]
To take the matter a stage further, within recent weeks I have had discussions with my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and I have pointed out to him that he is to proceed as quickly as possible to collect all the evidence that becomes available to him so that the proposal can be presented to the Government well before the next Budget and not necessarily therefore in a budget context. [More…]
Aborigines, the aged and those who are presently feeling the squeeze of the rural depression. [More…]
Downing, the Chairman of the Ministers Fraternal at Alice Springs, in which he recommended to me that we should purchase a property in order to look after the young Aborigines in Alice Springs. [More…]
One could talk at length about the health needs of the aged, the low income families, migrants and the Aborigines, yet of all these groups it is difficult to speak effectively. [More…]
I say to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) that we have an opportunity here to do likewise. [More…]
We have been variously told by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) firstly, that in 12 months time consideration will be given to the recommendations made by the interim council. [More…]
In the question that 1 put to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) this afternoon, I asked specifically had he had any communication from the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations. [More…]
This figure does not mean that Aborigines are 340 times more lawless than is the non-Aboriginal population. [More…]
It can mean, as I think it does mean, that there is discrimination against Aborigines in the enforcement of Australia’s criminal law. [More…]
Recently I asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) the following question: [More…]
According to census figures, the total population of South Australia was 1,079,380 and there were 5,505 full blood Aborigines - full blood, mind you. [More…]
Here the study revealed that Aborigines comprised only 2.5 per cent of the general population yet accounted for 25 per cent of all prisoners and 11 per cent of all criminal convictions. [More…]
The supposition that there is discrimination between Aborigines and whites in the administration of justice has been tested by several academics and by the Opposition’s Aboriginal Affairs Committee, of which I am a member. [More…]
offences such as drunkenness affecting Aborigines; attitudes of individual police were significant, affecting for example the decision whether to prosecute where Aboriginal people were involved; white people found under the influence were less likely to be arrested than were Aborigines; Aborigines were less likely to be granted bail than whites; poverty was often’ the reason an Aborigine was not released on bail; poverty and lack of education resulted in many Aborigines not obtaining legal representation. [More…]
In every category of offence the percentage of those charged receiving prison sentences was higher among Aborigines. [More…]
I rise to support the Budget estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I am pleased to see that most States have set up ministries of the environment and that they are co-operating with the Federal Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
These organisations are taking a very active interest in dealing with this problem which comes under the control of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates now before the Committee, I intend to confine my remarks to a subject which in my opinion is receiving very little, if any, real attention from the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I refer to the urgent requirement to improve substantially what in many areas at the moment can only be described as the deplorable and disgusting conditions in which many Aborigines are expected to exist - conditions which in turn are largely responsible for the high mortality rate among infant children, for the dreaded disease of leprosy and for several other ills and complaints from which so many Aborigines suffer. [More…]
But as I see it the initial responsibility lies with the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
She worked an area around Fitzroy Crossing where there was a population of some 700 Aborigines. [More…]
the United Aborigines Mission school where the children were housed in dormitories and had regular balanced meals, fruit and vegetables, and their own towels and face washers, there was an approximately 80 per cent cure, which shows what proper living conditions can mean. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is surely the department which must take the initiative even though it will have to obtain the co-operation and assistance of those other departments to which I have referred. [More…]
The eradication of leprosy amongst Aboriginal people of Australia is seen by the Commonwealth as being within the framework of the general improvement of the health of Aborigines. [More…]
At the present time no specific survey into the health problems of Aborigines, either on an Australiawide basis or in Aboriginal communities and fringe settlements, is under consideration by the Department of Health and Office of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I certainly hope that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who is at the table, notwithstanding that his interest seems to be very little, will give us some satisfactory explanation of the contradiction that exists between those 2 replies. [More…]
At the outset I wish to refer to the inept title of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
He is not, of course, responsible for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, where the Commonwealth has the greatest control and where most of them are located: where the emergence from tribalised society can best be studied and where the mistakes of the past can best be avoided. [More…]
All logic requires that he should be responsible for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I shall not deal at length with the environment and Aborigines beyond saying in the context of my particular thesis - the development of an Australian identity - that nothing could redound more to the advantage of our national image than, firstly, that we should succeed in dealing humanely and intelligently with the problem of promoting the happiness of and establishing a satisfactory relationship with our Aboriginals - ‘the first Australians. [More…]
This evening we are devoting our attention to the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and we all recognise that some very thoughtful speeches have been made on both sides of the House. [More…]
Although it is a new Department which when it was set up came under some criticism as being a miscellaneous sort of department, there is no doubt that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has under his control some very important facets of the national life and some very important responsibilities that the Commonwealth has to meet. [More…]
I agree that some Aborigines and islanders may be allocated Housing Commission homes, but by and large it is Government money which builds houses for Aborigines, whereas among what might be called the white Australian community people have a choice between being assisted by savings banks, home building societies of various kinds and, of course, housing commissions also. [More…]
We have Aborigines living in a number of environments on government settlements and missions. [More…]
Then we have Aborigines who work in the pastoral industry and who are fringe dwellers either around cattle stations or around the country towns. [More…]
When we consider the expenditure of Commonwealth money and where it is being spent we find that it is spent mainly on Aborigines who live in towns, and that the largest amounts of money spent have been on Aborigines other than those living in a fringe dwelling environment. [More…]
Then there are the Aborigines whom we might describe as urban Aborigines. [More…]
Many of the organisations working for Aborigines in the large country towns and in the cities have received grants from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
But the impact which needs to be made in an area which has not yet been touched on is in relation to the housing of urban Aborigines. [More…]
I noted in the documents distributed by the Minister recently that one house was built in the City of Brisbane, for example, for the housing of urban Aborigines. [More…]
It is true to say that when we look about our cities and see Aborigines and their housing our attention tends to be drawn to those places where the Aborigines are perhaps living in overcrowded conditions or in substandard housing. [More…]
This is because Aborigines living in these circumstances are obviously easier to see. [More…]
I am not detracting in any way from the fact that many Aborigines in our cities and towns are living in very satisfactory circumstances, but the problem still remains and it is a problem that we have yet to face up to. [More…]
This is an area in which it should not be difficult to make an assessment of what the needs are, not only to provide new houses for the expanding population but also to ensure that those Aborigines who are shifting into our cities and towns are satisfactorily housed. [More…]
The honourable member’s inference was that because of these assumed correct, but incorrect assumptions, the Aborigines on Napperby station are not receiving sympathy and consideration. [More…]
Another point is that in excess of 3,000 antibiotic tablets were sent to the station to be distributed to the Aborigines there. [More…]
Mr Shepherd personally distributed those tablets S times a day to the Aborigines who were on the station. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Did the right honourable member for Higgins last night assert that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts had given the House figures which were not accurate and estimates which were misleading on the national film and television training school? [More…]
I did listen in on the intercommunication system last night to the speech made by the right honourable gentleman from Higgins and I heard that part of it relating to the figures that had been presented to the House by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
What I can say is that if anyone knew the full story relating to the VIP incident, rather than being critical of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, he would say that he took upon himself an enormous responsibility when there was no need for him to have taken any responsibility whatsoever. [More…]
My Deputy Chairman, in speaking to the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, which cover, of course, matters relating to Aboriginal affairs, tourism and the arts. [More…]
I might say that he is one of few who happen to be working with the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I want particularly to draw the attention of the Government and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to a unique area called Hallett Cove in my electorate in South Australia. [More…]
As I said before we have the areas in which this development can take place; we now have a Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts; the Minister for the Environment (Mr Howson) is currently the Minister at the table. [More…]
I believe that we will not get anywhere until the Commonwealth does something like this as far as the Aborigines are concerned. [More…]
The people of Victoria have very few Aborigines as part of their national responsibility, but the actual financial and social responsibility lies as squarely upon the people of Coburg, whom I represent, as it does upon the people of Cloncurry whom the honourable member for Kennedy misrepresents. [More…]
How many Aborigines and Islanders live in substandard dwellings? [More…]
I am one of those who believe that housing is one of the fundamental solutions to the problem of Aborigines who live on the edges of most Australian towns and cities. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, to take the bit between his teeth in these matters and challenge the State authorities on them. [More…]
In the field of health, for instance, as I understand it, the highest infant mortality rate in the world is found amongst Aborigines in some areas of the Northern Territory, and the number of Aborigines attending university is extremely low. [More…]
During the time available to me I intend, naturally, to concern myself with Aboriginal welfare and with the way in which Aboriginals will benefit this year from the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
We have just listened to the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) giving his once a year, or is it once a session, expression of concern for the Aborigines. [More…]
Having visited the Aboriginal settlements and missions in central Australia in the last 10 days, the only point 1 would like to make is that the Aborigines are not impressed by either him or the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder). [More…]
When I was working last week in an area where the Aborigines live, the votes from only one ballot box in the Legislative Council election had been counted, and the colleague of the honourable member for the Northern Territory, representing the Country Party had received 39 votes and the Australian Labor Party candidate had received 152 votes. [More…]
When I visited central Australia I was impressed by the many people who worked for the Aborigines and by the shocking conditions under which the Aborigines live. [More…]
In 1969 for Aborigines in central Australia it was 89 per 1,000. [More…]
No!hing I say now is intended to reflect on either the sincerity or the integrity of the people who are working there with the Aborigines. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts certainly has to think about these matters. [More…]
At Papunya we have some 800 Aborigines from different tribes. [More…]
I am sure that people in Australian in 1971 would not believe the conditions under which the Aborigines are living there. [More…]
But I probably could not find a group of more concerned people or more with-it people than I found at Hermannsburg running that mission and trying to help the Aborigines there, whether they were there as teachers, nurses or in some other capacity. [More…]
At Santa Teresa we have 600 Aborigines. [More…]
There is no political education and no attempt is made to encourage Aborigines to look after themselves. [More…]
I am not going to fling a lot of cheap criticism at the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who is sitting at the table. [More…]
Anyone who moves around areas where Aborigines are will find that there seems to be a bit of a clash in regard to responsibility, a clash as to who is responsible for providing this and who is responsible for providing that. [More…]
In my electorate of Grey I suppose I have a greater number of Aborigines than there are in any other South Australian electorate. [More…]
The problem of the health of Aborigines in the north west area reserve is the same as the problem existing just over the border in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But there is an obvious need for a health education programme - different from the health education given by these officers - under officers who can move through these areas and spend more time helping the Aborigines to overcome the hygiene and health problems that do occur. [More…]
While in that area I spoke to quite a few of the people involved with Aborigines. [More…]
It can be said that the Ernabella people are running this successfully and by doing so are providing something for the Aborigines to do. [More…]
I noticed in other areas where Aborigines are that there is a great need for preschool kindergartens. [More…]
We are all aware that even in an area like Port Augusta where there are quite a number of educated and sophisticated Aborigines, most Aboriginal children because of their background and their parents lack of education start off at school behind white children. [More…]
I would like to move further south to the Port Augusta area and deal with the Aborigines in the southern part of my electorate. [More…]
For instance, Whyalla is an expanding town and there is a demand for labour but there is very little housing available for Aborigines. [More…]
In this way we would make possible a lot more employment for Aborigines in Whyalla. [More…]
There is not nearly enough work for Aborigines and this means that they are drifting more towards towns like Port Augusta and Whyalla and this again creates unemployment problems. [More…]
I want to make a few remarks in the debate on the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts mainly because of events that have taken place in the last few days in my electorate of Bowman. [More…]
But frustrations have been thrust on her by the Government and by the Department administered by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who sits at the table this afternoon. [More…]
It has been a most interesting time to see that all the facets of the Department - environment, Aborigines and the Arts - have come under scrutiny. [More…]
In the Commonwealth, overall responsibility for the arts has been placed by me with the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
They continue to this day and now advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Perhaps the Prime Minister tonight could have taken the opportunity to clear the air of assertions made by the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) in this House that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had been inaccurate and misleading in information he had supplied to the House - a squalid performance. [More…]
On 14th October, in reply to a question from the Leader of the Opposition, I undertook to look at figures concerning the proposals of the Interim Council for a National Film and Television Training School that my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had presented to the House and at criticisms that had been made about them. [More…]
A copy oi a Idler dated 28th July 1971 from the Chairman to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, [More…]
They claim that we have dispossessed the Aboriginal of his land, of his birthright, and that our general attitude is to treat Aborigines as second rate citizens. [More…]
Has that Committee recommended that land should be granted to Aborigines only when in the opinion of the Government it will be put to economic use, and then only on a leasehold basis? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
What are the general findings in the report of the Institute in relation to general health and mortality rates among Aborigines. [More…]
DrEveringham asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
My question is also directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts assure the House that the inquiry into the role of the crafts as an art form, which was announced by the Prime Minister 2 nights ago, will not entail any interruption of or reduction in the programme of support for craft activity currently being carried on by the Craft Council? [More…]
Yesterday and today I have heard speeches - particularly from the members of the Country Party - which have been an insult to every person in Australia who does not happen to have a white skin; and there are 100,000 Aborigines to start with. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
If one moves down the list a little one will find that the appropriation for the employment training scheme for Aborigines amounts -to $154,000 as against the expenditure of $94,932 last year. [More…]
I notice that an amount of almost $3.2m has been allocated for the maintenance of Aborigines at Government settlements and that an increased amount of $4. [More…]
It was stated that there would be a meeting of officials of the Department of the Interior, the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the [More…]
On Tuesday, 26th October last, 1 spoke on the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I made the point that I have visited the Northern Territory and that I have seen Aborigines who were living like animals at Papunya. [More…]
The honourable member for Prospect raised the question of the administration of the health facilities for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I would like to say something about the whole question of Aboriginal advancement in the Northern Territory because more questions are being asked today than ever before about what the Government is doing for the Aborigines. [More…]
This interest is a very welcome sign that the community generally is becoming more aware of our responsibility to assist Aborigines to overcome the disadvantages they suffer in comparison with the general community. [More…]
The closer interest shown by people in the situation of Aborigines is reflected in the increasing expenditures allocated specifically for the advancement of Aborigines. [More…]
The works programme for this year also includes a number of significant projects which will assist Aborigines. [More…]
More than 22,000 full-blood Aborigines are living in the Territory. [More…]
Most of these Aborigines live permanently on government settlements and on mission stations but a significant number of about 4,000 continue to reside on pastoral properties. [More…]
We have a great problem in formulating positive action to help those Aborigines on pastoral properties to live more productive lives at a reasonable standard. [More…]
My predecessor in this portfolio, who is now the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon), appointed a committee to look at the situation of Aborigines on pastoral properties to see what might be done to improve their social and economic standards. [More…]
People often comment that the Government has established settlements for Aborigines in places where there is little opportunity for the sort of economic development necessary to sustain a permanent community. [More…]
In many cases a settlement is located at a particular place because there were large numbers of Aborigines residing permanently in the general area. [More…]
For some years at least the main work of social, educational and economic advancement of Aborigines will necessarily have to be done within existing settlements and missions. [More…]
To conclude, I just want to mention one problem referring to the situation of Aborigines who live on the fringes of towns such as Katherine and Alice Springs. [More…]
Many Aborigines visit Alice Springs, and in the absence of any suitable facilities camp at various places. [More…]
Given unlimited funds and unlimited physical resources a great deal more could no doubt be done to improve the living standards of Aborigines. [More…]
We do not want the Aborigines to become permanent mendicants; the Aboriginal people do not want this either. [More…]
The real solution seems to be the provision pf balanced programmes of assistance which will give a real opportunity to Aborigines to exercise the same responsibilities in personal matters as is accepted by the general community. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The estimates for this Department are divided into 10 separate divisions, even after the hiving off of a number of divisions to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Included in it are people like the present Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who was going to revolutionise the situation of the Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Can he give details of (a) Federal and (b) State government actions which, since Federation, have (i) increased and (ii) decreased the size of Aboriginal reserves in Australia, including in the answer the dates of the actions, the amendments to areas of reserves and a note on whether Aborigines rights on resrved land were restricted in any way. [More…]
(a) Areas of land have been reserved for the use and benefit of Aborigines in all States and Territories but there has been no statutory recognition of any Aboriginal title in land. [More…]
To date the Trust has taken charge of a number of reserves which are not occupied by Aborigines and one Aboriginal community, at the Point Pearce Reserve, has applied to have the Trust assume responsibility for that reserve. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Is there any evidence to show that Aborigines are the subject of discrimination by licensees of some hotels and clubs in country areas of New South Wales. [More…]
There is no evidence to indicate that Aborigines are subject to discrimination by licensees of hotels or clubs. [More…]
The assistance of the Public Solicitor is available to Aborigines charged with more serious types of offences. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether the Council of Ministers established by the Prime Minister in May to inquire into Aboriginal land rights reached a decision on this matter some weeks ago. [More…]
Two of the MPs whose endorsement the committee will oppose are the Environment, Aborigines and Arts Minister, Mr Howson, and former Navy Minister, Mr Jess. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Has the New South Wales Police Commissioner reported that Aborigines, who comprise only about 1 per cent of the population, represent about 40 per cent of some 15,000 persons in New South Wales convicted for drunkenness? [More…]
Were only 2 of the cases involving Aborigines defended? [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts, from Mr P. Coleman, M.L.A., in reply to your queries passed on to my Executive Officer by Mr LeGassick this afternoon*. [More…]
This particular letter was in the possession of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Cabinet when they met on 25th October. [More…]
Whilst I fully realise that this matter is one that concerns mainly the Department of Civil Aviation it is also one that is, or should be, of the utmost importance to the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
Having regard to this clear charter given to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts I confidently expected that during the recent debate on the Estimates for his Department the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts would have grasped the opportunity further to restate his charter, particularly that section that directs him to intervene when the activities of any other Commonwealth department will cause added pollution. [More…]
At the same time I challenge the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts to stand up to his responsibilities and report this matter to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet immediately. [More…]
I understand from a reliable source that Professor Wootten, who investigated the living standards of Aborigines in Australia some time ago, made adverse comment on the fact that public defender facilities for Aborigines were practically non-existent. [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
He will be aware that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts said in answer to a question on Aboriginal land rights addressed to him on 9th November by the honourable member for Prospect that the matter was one for an announcement by the Prime Minister. [More…]
There have been many meetings of a ministerial kind to discuss and make decisions about the problems of Aborigines as a whole and I think we have now got to the position where with one exception, and that is associated with land rights, all outstanding problems have been decided and I believe they have been decided to the satisfaction of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines mid the Arts is co-ordinating preparation 13r Australia’s participation in the Stockholm Conference. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the letter from the Chairman of the Interim Council for the National Film and Television Training School about which he was asked yesterday by the honourable member for Franklin, and which he said he had not seen, was sent by the Chairman on 20th October and acknowledged by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on 25th October? [More…]
meet the special bousing needs of (a) low income earners, (b) pensioners, (c) migrants, (d) Aborigines and (e) deserted wives and similarly disadvantaged people and [More…]
We have problems with migrants as well as with Aborigines, deserted wives and others. [More…]
The manner in which Aborigines are treated and the high rentals they have to pay for housing is also worthy of consideration by the Government. [More…]
A congregation of Aborigines is living under terrible conditions in houses in Redfern which should be acquired by the State and renovated and leased back to those Aborigines. [More…]
He referred to low income earners, pensioners, migrants, Aborigines, deserted wives and similarly disadvantaged people. [More…]
In the first part of his amendment he proposes that the Commonwealth Government provide the States with adequate funds to enable them to meet the special housing needs of low income earners, pensioners, migrants, Aborigines and deserted wives and similarly disadvantaged people. [More…]
meet the special housing needs of (a) low income earners, (b) pensioners, (c) migrants, (d) Aborigines and (e) deserted wives and similarly disadvantaged people and [More…]
I understand that the Premier of Western Australia has asked for $10m to provide housing for Aborigines. [More…]
The housing of our Aborigines, no matter where it might be, is far from adequate. [More…]
I commend to the House the amendment which has been moved by the honourable member for Reid which advocates special consideration for the housing needs of pensioners, migrants, Aborigines, deserted wives and similarly disadvantaged people. [More…]
In his amendment, the honourable member for Reid has made special mention of lower income earners, pensioners, migrants, Aborigines, deserted wives and similar disadvantaged people. [More…]
Where is the concern of the Government shown for the low income earners, the pensioners, the migrants, the Aborigines, the deserted wives and the similarly disadvantaged people? [More…]
Also there is an extensive scheme to develop housing for Aborigines.. 1. understand that some thousands of units have been built under this scheme. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, before establishing a group of Ministers chaired by the Treasurer to handle the matter of the national film and television training school, advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Aru of his intention to do so? [More…]
I invite the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is sitting at the table, to study and consider the way in which the money has been allocated, particularly in respect of how much has been Spent on Cape Barren Island. [More…]
I spend a good deal of time discussing the problems confronting Aborigines both with the Aborigines and with the people who are concerned with their welfare, such as welfare workers and child welfare officers.. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment; Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) made mention in his second reading speech of the fact that direct national expenditure on Aboriginal advancement for 1971-72 will be $44m for an estimated Aboriginal population of 140,000.It could be said that the Government has shown some consideration for the Aboriginal problem on that score alone. [More…]
Are we leading the main body of the Aborigines out of their predicament or are we just skimming the cream off the top of the problem and making things much more comfortable only for those Aborigines who have really advanced? [More…]
The homes that the Aborigines are living in are well kept and the gardens look better than those of the Europeans next door. [More…]
So one wonders whether we are really getting hold of the main problem of our Aborigines. [More…]
T have been told of Aborigines in my electorate moving info homes and after a short period they become unemployed and they move out again. [More…]
Another important factor in lifting the Aborigines up as group and having them all working was the drought relief work for the western division of New South Wales up around Bourke, Brewarrina and Walgett. [More…]
When they were all working on drought relief it was noticeable that the drunkenness amongst the Aborigines reduced, absenteeism was just about nil and their general health standard rose. [More…]
I think that we must concentrate more on finding more regular employment for Aborigines. [More…]
Many people in these isolated areas are finding it very bard io educate their children and they arc conscious of the assistance being given to the Aborigines. [More…]
So we have to be very careful how we give them this assistance, lt will not assist the assimilation of the Aborigines if we cause some kind of hard feeling amongst the people in the area. [More…]
We have heard a fair amount of talk in this House at various times about the problems of the Aborigines, but I think we have to agree that there is a great need to concen-tra te a little more on the education of Aborigines. [More…]
We should also be concentrating on educating the Europeans about the Aboriginal problem because I feel that it is in this area that a lot of harm has been done to the Aborigines. [More…]
There is an urgent need for our educators to attack the ignorance of the average Australian about the Aborigines. [More…]
School curricula should include sections which explain how the Aborigines lived before the European invasion. [More…]
They should give some idea of the difficulties that Aborigines are facing in adapting to our technological environment. [More…]
it is well known that a good percentage of Aborigines leave school at an early age. [More…]
People go so far as to say that we will never make a great deal of progress in educating tha Aborigines. [More…]
Therefore, if the Aborigines are not making progress as a group we have to look to our own faults. [More…]
One of these faults was our treatment of the Aborigines shortly after we came to this country. [More…]
I believe that the statement made by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) that separate statistics for Aborigines were hard to find is true. [More…]
On one occasion when I was touring with the Labor Party’s Aboriginal committee we were informed by the Aborigines in a particular area that a large percentage of them were arrested each day for drunkenness. [More…]
Can you tell us how many whites and how many Aborigines were arrested?’ [More…]
On examining them we could not tell which was an Aboriginal name and which was not, but on asking someone who did know the area we found that they were all Aborigines. [More…]
We were informed by the police that they did get drunk but when they were spoken to by the police they would go home but the Aborigines gave a bit of check and were arrested. [More…]
I am not a knocker of the police because in a good many areas they have to be very considerate people, but I think that point clearly illustrates what is happening to the Aborigines. [More…]
Something along these lines should be done and it would not cost the Government very much, it might make a great deal of difference to the lot of the Aborigines. [More…]
It seems to me that the Aborigines are crying out for guidance. [More…]
This will be achieved only by a consideration of the Aborigines’ own thoughts and desires in the matter. [More…]
We have to find a way to get to know the Aborigines and to get the Aborigines themselves to take positive action to cope with the situation. [More…]
It- seems to me that we have to build in the Aborigines some- vision and some hope for the future. [More…]
The Minister should take into consideration that many people are concerning themselves With the problems of Aborigines. [More…]
According to the figures made available by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) there has been an increase from $3,650,000 in 1968-69 to $9,200,000 for this year. [More…]
But those people who move around the areas where there are Aborigines will know that this is certainly not enough because not a great deal of progress is being made. [More…]
I suppose that housing is one of the 4 major items of concern with respect to Aborigines. [More…]
Some of these Aborigines are still in a tribal state. [More…]
In the southern part of South Australia the Aborigines, particularly in the towns, are sometimes quite sophisticated. [More…]
In these settlements there are a few buildings which in most cases are occupied by Europeans and cluttered around these houses are the wiltjas in which the Aborigines live. [More…]
Previously when the Aborigines were on the move they did not create an unhealthy situation. [More…]
The Aborigines have got away from their natural foods. [More…]
Whereas previously the Aborigines used to hunt on foot, now one sees quite a few motor cars around these camps and the Aborigines use them to go out after kangaroos. [More…]
The Aborigines augment their diet with the food they buy from the reserves. [More…]
I understand that the Commonwealth Government has set up some prototype dwellings for Aborigines at Finke in the lower part of the Northern Territory. [More…]
This type of dwelling combines some European aspects with some features favoured by the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
However, it is housing that can be used more or less as transitionary housing for Aborigines. [More…]
In Port Augusta many Aborigines are able to get employment with the Commonwealth Railways, possibly the local town council, the Electricity Trust of South Australia and so on. [More…]
The employment opportunities are there to a certain extent but these, towns do not provide all the employment opportunities that we would hope would be available to Aborigines. [More…]
1 am aware that the Housing Trust of South Australia does allot a certain number of houses to Aborigines, but the Trust vets them pretty closely and it puts the screws on if the houses are not kept up to scratch. [More…]
It is a fact that there are employment opportunities in a number of these places but it is frequently found that no houses are available for Aborigines and they have to wait for accommodation. [More…]
This meant in many cases that although the employment could be arranged the Aborigines were not able to take up the employment because of the shortage of housing. [More…]
According to the figures supplied by the Minister in regard to the number of Commonwealth houses, 30 homes were built in South Australia but of that number very few were built in areas where employment existed for Aborigines. [More…]
One of the amazing things to me is that in Port Augusta where there is a population of between 500 and 600 Aborigines no homes have been built for them for 2 years. [More…]
The topic was ‘Housing for Aborigines in South Australia*. [More…]
Both of these people spoke of the bad conditions that apply in respect of Aborigines in the cities. [More…]
The first point they made was that a great many of these Aborigines are receiving unemployment benefits and that a great many are deserted wives. [More…]
The Commonwealth should involve itself in many of the other problems which confront Aborigines. [More…]
The South Australian Government plans to construct a proper school in that locality but there are no houses for Aborigines there. [More…]
The teachers who have been appointed to those schools - I have spoken to several of them - are young and dedicated and have a genuine interest in Aborigines. [More…]
So much depends on the background of the Aborigines. [More…]
One can compare people who have lived in completely dependent circumstances all of their lives and who find it difficult to make decisions with people like the Aborigines in Yirrkala where, under the guidance of the Methodist Mission for something of the order of a generation without any attempt to break down the Aboriginal culture, they enjoy the best of both worlds, as it were. [More…]
These Aborigines are able to stand up for themselves and to express opinions. [More…]
The officers of that Office look at the problems fairly and I am sure that the recommendations that they make to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) are well balanced and represent a much broader approach to the problems than is the case with many of the State administrations because the State administrations are tied down with their own administrative problems in settlements and reserves. [More…]
The 1967 referendum raised the hopes of Aborigines that they might have a new future in Australia - a future of equality, noi in the never never but in their own lifetimes. [More…]
Queensland has new legislation which was brought in late one week and rushed through the Parliament early the following week against the background of a demonstration by a number of unemployed Aborigines who were led by officers of the Aborigines and Islanders Tribal Council. [More…]
It is a sad thing that this legislation was not brought down in circumstances which would have enabled the whole range of people interested in Aboriginal welfare - no less the Aborigines themselves - to express their views on the legislation in order that whatever emerged from the Queensland Parliament might be the best possible legislation. [More…]
There is a deteriorating relationship between the staff and the Aborigines. [More…]
This has been mainly brought about, as I said earlier, by the rising expectations of the Aborigines and our failure to meet them. [More…]
There is an insufficient involvement of Aborigines in staff and technical positions. [More…]
Aborigines know that por tions of their reserves can be cut off at the whim of a Cabinet or by the GovernorinCouncil if some of that land happens to contain bauxite, valuable timber or some other mineral resource which could be exploited. [More…]
There is a problem in getting an effective voice for the Aborigines. [More…]
So although on the face of it the Aboriginal council may appear to be an independent agent of the Aborigines, in effect it is actually too closely dependent upon the Department. [More…]
There is no easy solution to that problem because in some of these areas the more enterprising young Aborigines have gone into the outside community looking for work in the pastoral industry and the like and the people who are left behind often do not have a great deal of leadership capacity. [More…]
However, there is a problem of alienation between the Aborigines and the administration. [More…]
Aborigines come down and ask me to explain some social service problem, some technicality about an unemployment benefit or a tuberculosis allowance that should have been explained to them on the settlement. [More…]
I would probably receive only a handful of the many problems that exist in a place like that and which are never picked up because of the alienation between the Aborigines and the administration. [More…]
We have programmes that meet the people on the settlements; we have programmes such as secondary school scholarships for Aborigines whose families are assimilated in our community. [More…]
However, we have no effective programmes in the broad to cater for the Aborigines who live in a fringe dwelling environment. [More…]
The problem of housing for Aborigines in the cities cannot be left to the housing commissions alone because very often Aborigines, because they lack training or because they may occupy labouring positions, may go from job to job and they do not have the basic requirements which would give them a priority in the system of the housing- commissions. [More…]
There is need for a special housing programme for urban Aborigines. [More…]
I think that this is an inevitable part of the acceptance of responsibility by Aborigines. [More…]
There are ways and means of helping Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has to do it directly himself. [More…]
When are we going to tackle the problem concerning Australian Aborigines with the same vigour? [More…]
The local councils were able to employ Aborigines, so Aborigines had full employment for the first time, so far as one can tell. [More…]
This had a remarkable effect not only on the morale of the Aborigines but also upon the towns themselves. [More…]
I do not propose to take my full 20 minutes this evening, not because I have lost interest in the problems facing Aborigines and not because I have lost my verve or my desire to do something about them. [More…]
Therefore, we can do nothing with it and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is now at the table can use all his charm; he has quite a deal of charm. [More…]
The Aborigines are not particularly concerned with ownership in the sense that we use the word. [More…]
1 have been an active member of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders since its inception, f attended its inaugural meeting in Adelaide 13 years ago. [More…]
The Aborigines called it place of red rock - Mildura. [More…]
The Aborigines Inland Mission of Austrafia [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: (!) [More…]
1 direct my question to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Ails. [More…]
Both’ Cabinet and a Cabinet committee have been looking at the problem of land rights for Australian Aborigines. [More…]
A- concluding example is that the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and . [More…]
Is it to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson)? [More…]
As has been stated, the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) set up a special committee of Cabinet and, assisted by the Minister for the Enrivonment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), it investigated a number of matters relating to this subject. [More…]
Professor Ronald Berndt, of the University of Western Australia, said in the three years since he last visited the mission the Aborigines had become apathetic and disillusioned. [More…]
Unles action was taken immediately, the 500 or so Aborigines on the mission would be destroyed. [More…]
Before the coming of the store, the Aborigines - primarily from the Gunwinggu tribe - were well on their way to adapting themselves to the ‘tremendous changes’ going on around them; at the same time retaining something of their cultural heritage, he said. [More…]
The Aborigines did not know how to cope with the problem. [More…]
The secretary for Aborigines of the Church Missionary Society, the Rev. [More…]
Stanley Giltrap, said in Sydney that the liquor Licence was granted by the Northern Territory licensing authority over the objections of both the mission and the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
Crossexamined by Mr Elliott, counsel for the Aborigines, he was asked: Did you understand that this discretion - [More…]
The witness was asked by Mr Elliott whether or not he should have consulted the Aborigines before issuing the permit, He replied: [More…]
In relation to his earlier statement that he would have consulted all parties before issuing a permit, the witness stated in relation to the Aborigines: [More…]
When asked a question in relation to bis powers to issue a permit under section 140E of the Licensing Ordinance, specifically having regard to the interests of the Aborigines, the witness replied: [More…]
This man was supposed to be looking after the interests of the Aborigines but he did not consult them because they were before the court. [More…]
It disclosed a disgraceful situation where the welfare officer gave no evidence to assist the court, where the applicant had no concern whatsoever for the Aborigines - he merely wanted a hotel licence to do what a storekeeper did on the other side of Arnhem Land - where there was talk about the accommodation of visitors whereas the mine discourages visitors and where every point of view was taken into account except the interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
Our country would be richer if there were more speeches of the type made by the honourable member for Bradfield regarding the peoples of the Northern Territory and particularly the Aborigines It is true that the Aborigines trudge for days after they get their social service cheques. [More…]
Without mentioning socialism or nationalism, if ever there was an industry that needed Government control to remove the profit motive it is the liquor industry in the Northern Territory, so that no more would a person selling intoxicating liquor be able to enrich himself through the intoxication of Aborigines. [More…]
What the honourable member for Bradfield has said is true and I hope the Parliament and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) will read what he said and do something about the intoxication of Aborigines and the profit motive behind the sale of liquor to Aborigines. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report by Professor Berndt, a Western Australian anthropologist, of the social behaviour of Aboriginal men and women since a liquor store opened on a mining lease at East Alligator River crossing late in 1969 despite objections by the adjoining mission and the Aborigines, and of his claim that the mission would soon be forced to close unless immediate action was taken. [More…]
There has been continuing and close consultation between the Mission authorities and the Administration about the incidence of drinking by Aborigines from Oenpelli at the store concerned. [More…]
The Advisory Council on Northern Territory Aboriginal Affairs which includes 12 Aborigines representing communities throughout the Territory will be given every opportunity, to consider the effects of the introduction of liquor in Aboriginal communities and to advise on action which might be taken in this regard. [More…]
Funds for health and social services for Aborigines in the Territory are provided under appropriations in the Budget of the responsible Departments. [More…]
How many houses for Aborigines have been constructed by the Northern Territory Administration (a) on settlements, (b) on missions and (c) elsewhere for each of the years 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70 and 1970-717 [More…]
(Does not include assistance from the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund to housing societies of $50,000 in 1967-70 and $20,000 in 1970-71.) [More…]
This part of the honourable member’s question refers to matters falling within the ministerial responsibility of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
It was timed to coincide with the pastoral collapse and there has been a drift of unskilled people to the cities, including quite a number of Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
In addition to these two positions, there are specialist employment officers in all Regional Offices and most District Employment Offices who provide counselling and assistance to the physically and socially handicapped, young people, elderly workers, aborigines, ex-prisoners and others with special problems. [More…]
The people concerned are Aborigines who are demonstrating in a peaceful way for a case in which they believe. [More…]
So neither I nor the Government have seen any great cause for concern about the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
In that statement, the Prime Minister dealt with the Government’s overall policy for Australian Aborigines and its specific policy on land and gave a summary of the Commonwealth’s achievements in that area. [More…]
Now I would like to inform the House of the Government’s intentions for the advancement of the Aborigines and explain the implications of our present policy. [More…]
We seek in this that Aborigines will achieve effective and respected places in a single Australian society. [More…]
The Government recognises that individual Aborigines have a right to decide for themselves at what pace and to what extent they come to Identify themselves with that society. [More…]
The thought of separate development of Aborigines as a long-term aim is completely alien to the Government’s objectives. [More…]
Mainly, these decisions are concerned with Aborigines in the Northern Territory, because it is a vast area of Australia in which the Commonwealth has direct responsibility for the development of the 22,000 Aboriginal Australians there. [More…]
Let me deal firstly with the decisions that have been made for those Aborigines who wish to continue substantially to follow their traditional way of life. [More…]
So that there shall be no doubt whatsoever, the Government has decided to provide explicitly in legislation for Aborigines to have effective access for hunting and foraging on reserves. [More…]
Aborigines already enjoy, by law, these rights on lands covered by pastoral leases off reserves. [More…]
In the opinion of the Government, these 4 new decisions make it clear that everything is being done to allow Aborigines who wish to continue their present way of life to do so. [More…]
It is possible under these proposals for a community or group of Aborigines to obtain a 50-year lease of land at a nominal rent for a variety of purposes. [More…]
As I said in my second reading speech on the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Bill last October, governments throughout Australia are spending some $44m this year on behalf of 140,000 Aborigines and, in addition, as [More…]
Also, several reports are being prepared by expert committees on special problems which affect the Aborigines of the north and these reports will give valuable guidance to those concerned with Aboriginal development. [More…]
One thing that impressed me greatly during my recent trip to the reserves in the western part of the Northern Territory was that there are no longer any nomadic Aborigines in that part of the Territory. [More…]
At the Port Keats mission community I saw Aborigines engaged in making bricks, sawing timber and erecting their own homes - in fact, entering into this new way of life. [More…]
At Yuendumu the Aborigines have made remarkable progress; they have their own modern community hall, a community store and various worthwhile enterprises. [More…]
The statement of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) deals with Aboriginal land rights alone. [More…]
There is no excuse now for the Commonwealth saying that the great variety of social, economic, political and cultural matters in which Aborigines do not have the same opportunity as other Australians can be dealt with by the Commonwealth only in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In fact, the Commonwealth now can deal with the whole range of these matters and can bring to bear upon them the entire resources of this nation in respect of Aborigines wherever they live or move in Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth is doing it increasingly in the Northern Territory and there is no possible reason why the Commonwealth should not do it directly for Aborigines in the States on each side of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I wish that the Commonwealth would provide these facilities for all children of preschool age, but the Aborigines need it more than any other identifiable group. [More…]
I have no time to go into the other fields where the Commonwealth could now assist Aborigines. [More…]
The Commonwealth should similarly make provision for hospitals in those areas in the States where there is a discernible number of Aborigines. [More…]
That is the first point 1 wish to make - that the Commonwealth should not now limit its horizons to the Northern Territory because, since the referendum in 1967, it can make provisions for Aborigines in any areas where there is a significant number of Aborigines anywhere in Australia. [More…]
It is asserted that both these bodies recommended that full title for land should be given to Aborigines on the basis of traditional occupancy. [More…]
I do not believe that it is proper to apply this excessive governmental secrecy to matters which concern Aborigines. [More…]
I believe that if these reports were presented to the public and to the Parliament much more would be done for Aborigines than has been done or is being done in this proposal. [More…]
Without being too partisan in these matters, the development of Commonwealth assistance for Aborigines in the Northern Territory has been inhibited for too long, as not only the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts but his predecessor with responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), have found, by a succession of Country Party Ministers for the Interior, and it has been inhibited in the States by the fact that there is a predominantly Country Party Government in the State of Queensland. [More…]
Coming to the substance of this proposal, it does not satisfy the Australian Labor Party that there should be such patronising proposals for Aborigines. [More…]
Unfortunately there are indications that the 144,000 Australian Aborigines will be used as a political football this year. [More…]
Since white settlement the Australian Aborigines have suffered one injustice after another, and they have gone from one disability or another, but it would be tragic if for the first time they are to be used for political motives and purposes by Communist elements and left-wing union leaders. [More…]
Yirrkala people as well as Aborigines living in urban and rural slums. [More…]
The Communist controlled unionists, the so-called peace movements, Maoists, Trotskyites and left-wingers generally are hellbent on dividing the Australian nation on racist issues, using the 144,000 part Aborigines and full blood Aborigines as a launching pad for their own motives. [More…]
Emotional speeches, high sounding phrases and cliches and a clamour for land rights in itself will not overcome the disabilities of the Australian Aborigines. [More…]
Having said that, it is true to say that no government has done more to recognise the Australian Aborigines and to assist in the advancement of the Aboriginal people than this Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
Essentially the Government’s aim is to have a single Australian society, including Australian Aborigines, having equal rights, responsibilities and opportunities. [More…]
The aim is to ensure that Aborigines will achieve an efficient and respected place in the single Australian society, preserving their own cultures, languages, traditions and arts if they so desire. [More…]
But the thought of separate development of Australian Aborigines is completely alien to the Government’s intentions. [More…]
It is against this background that we should look at what the Government is doing in the Northern Territory, the Territory over which I have responsibility and in which there are 22.000 full blood Aborigines many of whom have been in contact with European civilisation for the past few years only. [More…]
There have been 135 applications received for leases from Aborigines, some for very large areas. [More…]
The Prime Minister has announced, as my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), has said, that an additional $13m is to be provided for the purchase of properties and land coming on the market from outside the reserves. [More…]
There are grants and loans available from public moneys and also the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund to establish Aborigines on the land. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition gave a wrong impression with respect to sites of special and historical significance to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
They are set aside for all time for Aborigines. [More…]
The claim for $6 billion compensation for dispossession of land in the past which has been made by some groups of Aborigines inspired by radical groups flows quite naturally from the argument that Aborigines anywhere in Australia have a> moral, if not a legal, right to land based on ancestral association with that land. [More…]
to Aborigines where there bad been an historical association. [More…]
I think there is a tremendous amount of confusion over the whole issue, particularly as it applies to the Northern Territory, because the Aborigines are in fact getting entitlement to land for themselves and are applying for it under the terms and conditions and are happy to operate under them. [More…]
Outside this Parliament, according to Press reports, a spokesman for Aborigines said that they wanted full State rights of the Northern Territory under Aboriginal ownership and all titles for mineral ownership together with all other reserves and settlements in Australia with their titles to mining and mineral rights. [More…]
Indeed, the principal claim for land rights seems to be for compensation for land which it is claimed was taken away from the Aborigines over the past 200 years. [More…]
Numbers of people have remarked to me that the protagonists of land claims for Aborigines are frequently neither Aboriginal nor part-Aboriginal. [More…]
As I have said, some of those who have an interest in attacking our present order of society have declared that with the passing of the Vietnam crisis the next big crusade will come in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
We are told that each objective set is designed to solve the problems of the Aborigines. [More…]
I do not think anybody really wants to see one land law for Australian Aborigines and another land law for other Australians. [More…]
The Northern Territory Administration is concentrating its efforts on developing an education system more closely related to the special needs of Aborigines because of their different background and, where possible, Aborigines are being used as assistants in the teaching profession. [More…]
There are plans for Aborigines to own service stations and motels. [More…]
In nearly every case the groups concerned will be receiving grants or loans from the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund. [More…]
This income will increase substantially as a result of the uranium mining at Nabarlek in the near future for the benefit of 22,000 Aborigines. [More…]
Recently I visited Docker River with my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
The Aborigines are a wonderful people. [More…]
We have now seen him displaying himself in the role of the Pontius Pilate of the Northern Territory and of the Aborigines of the rest of Australia, wiping his hands absolutely of any real responsibility for them. [More…]
In all of the 150 years before that, nobody had created an atmosphere in which the Aborigines could speak with a free voice, with an equal voice or with self respect. [More…]
The situation has now been created in which Aborigines are joining the Australian community. [More…]
The Aborigines who step into the community to assert their rights, to show what they stand for and to speak in their own right are speaking as part of the real Australian community. [More…]
The Minister for the Interior and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) have been patting themselves on the back. [More…]
The recent statement of Commonwealth policy towards the Aborigines was not based on direct consultations with them, was directed as much towards a European as an Aboriginal public, and was couched in words that, to a considerable extent must have passed over the heads even of English-speaking Aborigines. [More…]
He made another point which is relevant because both the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and the Minister for the Interior referred to the Yirrkala people. [More…]
But he did not explain sufficiently what he would do regarding land for the Aborigines or the coloured people. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) mentioned the health of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and the health situation at the Alice Springs Hospital. [More…]
Not long ago the Leader of the Opposition made a promise, which has received widespread publicity, that he would grant freehold land to Aborigines. [More…]
For instance, when he mentions land rights for Aborigines does he include Torres Strait Islanders? [More…]
Would he acquire this land from existing landholders out of Commonwealth revenue if the Aborigines applied for it? [More…]
Finally, I ask the Leader of the Opposition: Is what he spoke about today but has not covered fully yet ALP policy on land rights for Aborigines or is it his own thoughts on the matter or something he dreamed up on the spur of the moment for political expediency to gain the support of the coloured people prior to the next election? [More…]
They support the Aborigines but no speaker has opposed this particular suggestion. [More…]
What bothers trie is that we are reaching the stage when several groups are being formed and the Aborigines are being led along a dead end path. [More…]
In his statement the Minister for the Environment Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) outlined the Government’s policy on Aboriginal land rights - a policy with which I am sure the great majority of our coloured people will be happy. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) suggested that the Australian Labor Party’s policy was one of separate development. [More…]
We recognise that many Aborigines who live on settlements and reserves in country areas will choose to come to the city where greater opportunities exist just as many people who live in rural areas choose to come to the city, but we believe that the decision to assimilate with the broad Australian community should be made by free choice. [More…]
The Aborigines and Islanders should have the choice of coming into our society or remaining in their own communities with all the opportunities that our education gives them and with all the background that their own culture may give them as well. [More…]
The Minister for the Interior made the point that Aborigines - he mentioned the people of Yirrkala - were happy with the form of land tenure being offeredto them. [More…]
This question must be answered before we can accept the statement of the Minister for the Interior that Aborigines at Yirrkala are happy with this form of land tenure. [More…]
He said that it has developed special curricula and established special forms of schools to cater for special needs because of the specific background of the Aborigines. [More…]
All Aboriginal lands to be vested in a public trust or trusts composed of Aborigines or Islanders as appropriate. [More…]
That exclusive corporate land rights be granted to Aboriginal communities which retain a strong tribal structure or demonstrate a potential for corporate action in regard to land at present reserved for the use of Aborigines, or where traditional occupancy according to tribal custom can be established from anthropological or other evidence. [More…]
The sacred sites of the Aborigines will be mapped and protected. [More…]
An interesting statement of the Government’s altitude to land rights was made in the last publication by the Government on Australian Aborigines, made under the authority of the then Minister for Territories, the hon C. E. Barnes, in July 1967. [More…]
Until all Aborigines become independent members of the Australian community, land must be reserved for their use normally within their tribal territories. [More…]
Aborigines live on Aboriginal reserves for a number of reasons. [More…]
In the case of people like the Aborigines at Yirrkala, who have already been mentioned, and in Arnhem Land, who have lived on their traditional and tribal lands, the policy of the Labor Party is to vest these lands in local trusts with the local people involved. [More…]
Presumably they could sell out to other Aborigines, but it would be a corporate trust We do not want them to be like the Red Indians in the United States who, when they received land rights, had a situation where generations of chiefs lived it up and their descendants have remained paupers to this day. [More…]
In all fairness, I must say that 1,415 square miles of that land was allocated to Aborigines or Aboriginal organisations. [More…]
In other circumstances in Australia - not in the Commonwealth territories - there are Aborigines who live on reserves for a different purpose. [More…]
Settlements’ which, on page 96, table 21 gives details of Aborigines removed to settlements and missions in Queensland between 1911 and 1940. [More…]
This table points out that there were 5,672 Aborigines removed and in a note at the bottom of the table it indicates that this figure does not convey the true number of people that were removed, because sometimes it represented the head of a family, when his family was removed with him. [More…]
So, today, Aborigines in many cases occupy land which in earlier days was regarded as not capable of being developed for pastoral projects and the like. [More…]
Having destroyed the Aboriginal population of 251,000 which existed at the time Captain Cook discovered the eastern seaboard of this country are we now in our generation, to take away from the Aborigines and Islanders What yet remains? [More…]
We must cater for those Aborigines who live on the fringes of country towns. [More…]
We need to develop schemes where these people can be compensated for loss of land rights and this probably means acquiring allotments and assisting Aborigines to obtain houses. [More…]
This could perhaps be done by giving them allotments and providing them with a deposit under a scheme similar to the Housing Commission scheme which would make it economic for the Aborigines to be decently housed. [More…]
Of course, for many tens of thousands of Aborigines in urban areas - the indications are that over 60 per cent of those Aborigines at least need rehousing because of low standard accommodation - we must develop schemes of compensation for loss of land rights. [More…]
The point was made by several Government supporters tonight that by developing these policies we will develop a white backlash; that we are to give Aborigines so many advantages that underprivileged nonAboriginal people in Australia will feel antagonistic towards the Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is our task in this generation - in our time - and it is our responsibility as members of the Federal Parliament with a direct responsibility in the Northern Territory to carry into effect such enlightened policies as will enable people in the future to say: ‘Many wrongs were done to the Aboriginal people of Australia but in the 1970s the Parliament of the day rectified the position and set the Aborigines on the road to equal opportunity in the Australian community’. [More…]
I do not believe there is any honourable member in this House who has had more experience in working among ‘Aborigines than has the Minister for the Interior, and I wish that we could hear about some of his experiences instead of some of the statements which have been made in this debate. [More…]
He alleged that Country Party Ministers had retarded the progress of Aborigines, and I take that as a reflection on the Government. [More…]
I thought that honourable members opposite may be interested to hear what the Aborigines themselves think about this Government. [More…]
In fact, he would say that in Queensland Aborigines did not receive a fair deal until the LiberalCountry Party coalition came to office. [More…]
He is telling the people of Australia that we cannot hurry progress for Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who rs responsible for all things miscellaneous. [More…]
Tonight, running through the speech of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts was talk of consultation with the Aborigines. [More…]
He did not refer to the discriminatory state of affairs that operates around Australia in respect of Aborigines. [More…]
We make no apology for -the fact that we intend to put our alternative programme to the people of this country because it is not only idealistic but it is also in keeping with the programme which operates in other countries where there are indigenous people, if ever there was an occasion of anti-Australian statements it was the no land rights for Aborigines speech delivered on Australia Day by the Prime Minister. [More…]
This matter was raised this afternoon and we were asked what we would do about land set aside for Aborigines. [More…]
The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders has decided by resolution to launch a national campaign urging the granting of Aboriginal land rights and, in particular, the granting of full title and rights to compensation with respect to all existing Aboriginal reserve land throughout Australia, and the provision of land for all Aboriginal individuals and groups seeking to live on, use and develop land in their traditionally occupied areas. [More…]
This is not just the point of view of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders but also it is the point of view of the Australian Council of Churches. [More…]
both the Aborigines and the Australian Council of Churches. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice. [More…]
I refer to Aborigines who are in the underprivileged section. [More…]
I know that in my own area there is quite a number of Aborigines. [More…]
What area of land is owned by Aborigines, in Territories under the control of the Commonwealth, either as individuals or associated groups. [More…]
In the Northern Territory since legislation providing for the grant of leases of land within reserves to Aborigines or Aboriginal groups came into operation in December 1970, 65 leases have been approved. [More…]
One of the points made by the Reverend Grierson is that Aborigines and others in outlying districts, which are defined as any places more than 5 miles from the nearest polling booth, are automatically supplied with a ballot paper in elections in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We have available statutory declarations from a number of Aborigines but an insufficient number to put in a protest on the particular poll in the Stuart electorate showing that the Aborigines who were registered did not receive ballot papers or that they were held up somewhere on the way. [More…]
It is not compulsory for Aborigines to register and there is no systematic registration campaign carried out by electoral officers although funds are allocated for this express purpose. [More…]
It is an offence at the present time for anyone else to canvass Aborigines to enrol as voters. [More…]
I do not know why the present complicated system of postal votes is used in the Stuart electorate, unless it is for the purpose of preventing Aborigines from voting. [More…]
Pressure is also exerted on Aborigines on the stations. [More…]
If the practical disenfranchisement of many Territory Aborigines is a consequence of neglect and indifference, it is a disgrace. [More…]
Why do Aborigines when they get the chance vote for the Labor Party candidate? [More…]
Not only the Aborigines in Alice Springs suffer from this. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in his capacity as Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities. [More…]
I make a request tonight to the Minister for Health, firstly, to recognise the bush nursing centre as an approved place for the treatment of pensioners under the national health scheme - it is obvious that that should be done; secondly, to take action to ensure that all medical and hos pital funds properly recognise the treatment given - let us end the 80c charge for a confinement; and, thirdly, to ensure that there is adequate Commonwealth compensation for the thousands of Aborigines treated over the years. [More…]
In many of these places there are substantial Aboriginal populations and these Aborigines are treated there. [More…]
Is it a fact that an Ordinance is about to be gazetted that will make illegal the demonstration by Aborigines outside Parliament House? [More…]
Did the Minister on 23rd February last in answering a question by the right honourable member for Higgins describe the demonstration as one that concerned Aborigines who were demonstrating in a peaceful way for a cause in which they believed, that they had been quiet and well behaved and had co-operated with the police extremely well? [More…]
Did he also say that the Aborigines had observed every request that the police had made of them, that there was no litter or health problem and that the Government saw no great cause for concern about the Aborigines? [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
on asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or hinder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Government does not enact any law that would detract from or binder the rights of the Aborigines to be there. [More…]
And further that the Government instructs its officers not to interfere with the Aborigines who are peacefully assembled outside Parliament House. [More…]
They are: The widow pensioners training scheme; the national service vocational training scheme; the employment training scheme for women restricted from employment by domestic responsibilities; the employment training scheme for Aborigines; the employment training scheme for persons displaced by technological change; and the rural reconstruction employment training scheme to which the honourable member made passing reference. [More…]
The first was the widow pensioners training scheme run by the Department of Social Services the second was the national service vocational training scheme; the third was the employment training scheme for women restricted from employment by domestic responsibilities; the fourth was the employment training scheme for Aborigines; the fifth - this is one that was mentioned - was the employment training scheme, for persons displaced by technological change; and the sixth was the rural reconstruction employment training scheme. [More…]
The 4 schemes which I just mentioned - the widow pensioners training scheme, the national service vocational training scheme, the employment training scheme for women restricted from employment by domestic responsibilities and the employment training scheme for Aborigines - stand in this way at the present time: They have been available for over 12 months and each has been effective in assisting a significant number of people. [More…]
The population of Katherine between 1954 and 1961 was 555 to 606 excluding Aborigines. [More…]
by leave- First of all, I hope that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) can assure us that there will be no impediment to or suspension of the activities in the area of the crafts which is currently being supported by the Arts Council of Australia. [More…]
It will be a very difficult task for the new Teaching Service to equate the service of a teacher in one of those authorities - say, a teacher teaching Aborigines in the Northern Territory - with the service of a teacher at, say, the Narrabundah school here in Canberra. [More…]
Many teachers are interested in teaching Aborigines but under the scheme which has been operating to date they were enlisted in the Northern Territory Administration school system. [More…]
We can think of the Australian Capital Territory, the teaching of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and serving in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I ask the honourable gentleman: Will senior counsel be appointed to assist this board, as in the case of the inquiry into general medical practitioners’ fees in New South Wales, and will that counsel be available to assist Aborigines and their well-wishers in the preparation and presentation of their written and ora] submissions? [More…]
With respect to the last part of the question, I will make further inquiries to ascertain whether this sort of facility will be available to assist Aborigines. [More…]
I want to make it clear that I have had discussions with the officers of my Department to ensure that this committee of inquiry travels throughout the Northern Territory so that Aborigines can give evidence before it as much as possible - to ensure that the committee goes to Aboriginal centres or to as many of them as possible. [More…]
What a lot of nonsense it is to say that the next Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Mr Huong, made a request through the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
Just one comment before 1 commence: It is interesting to note that Ambassador Anderson described the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) as the most fluent French speaker in the Australian foreign services; that is just for the record. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
And Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The Australian Labor Party does believe in discrimination when dealing with Aborigines. [More…]
It believes that after 200 years during which we have discriminated against Aborigines it is necessary in the years immediately ahead for us to discriminate in favour of Aborigines in certain ways in order that we may redress the wrongs we have done to them in the past, and to overcome problems such as malnutrition, poor housing, cultural deprivation, lack of education and the like. [More…]
In other words, the Labor Party believes - this is not very far from the sentiments expressed by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who has just come into the chamber, in the States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bill introduced not long ago - that this sort of assistance is necessary. [More…]
So, in the period immediately ahead of us we have to discriminate in favour of Aborigines in order to give them equality of opportunity in the Australian community. [More…]
Aborigines are not alone in this regard. [More…]
That is the policy of the Labor Party as far as Aborigines are concerned. [More…]
When one looks at that Party’s complete absence of policy - and the Liberal Party is in the same position - one can well understand why the Australian Aborigines suffered so much under Liberal-Country Party governments - particularly State governments - over all the years before the Commonwealth, by constitutional change, took up at least part of the challenge thrown down to it by the people of Australia at that time. [More…]
I want to give the lie, if I can, to the idea that discriminating in favour of the Aborigines in the way in which the Labor Party proposes to do it - in housing and other ways - will cause racism in the Australian community. [More…]
Aborigines live under a great range of environments from one end of this country to the other. [More…]
If I may speak from the point of view of my own electorate of Brisbane, there were very few Aborigines living there until comparatively recent years. [More…]
With the rural depression and the drift of country people, including Aborigines, to the cities, large numbers of Aboriginal families now live there in sub-standard housing. [More…]
Discriminating in favour of Aborigines by policies in this way is not only ensuring that problems of racism in the long term are minimised but also making a great contribution towards the Australian community as a whole. [More…]
1 think he should look at his own Party’s policy which treats the Aborigines as part of our past. [More…]
The Labor Party is proud of its policy for Aboriginal advancement and, instead of our being accused, because we have developed sophisticated policies for Aboriginal advancement, of using the Aborigines as a political football, I would like to see the Country Party and the Liberal Party devoting some of their energies to developing policies of similar sophistication. [More…]
He made a great attack on the Premier of Queensland and the policy of the present Queensland Government in the matter of Aborigines. [More…]
I will answer that with just one example of the contribution which Labor made to the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
After years of agitation, pleading, appealing and all sort of petitions going down to Brisbane to the Labor government of the day, it decided to meet our request for a home for transient Aborigines in a great centre where Aborigines reside in the north west. [More…]
What was built for the Aborigines by the then Labor government was a large galvanised iron shed with an earth floor and not even partitions. [More…]
This is one example of Labor’s concern for the Aborigines^ When I go back home my Aboriginal friends say to me: ‘Well, Bob, what are they going to do for us poor Aborigines now?’ [More…]
The point is that we do not regard them as Aborigines. [More…]
They make the greatest joke of all your stirring and your attempts to arouse Aborigines into forming some sort of black power movement. [More…]
Will officers of the Commonwealth Electoral Office tour the Northern Territory in August and September 1972 to inform Aborigines of their right to enrol for the Electoral Division of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The second Commonwealth committee is the National Radiation Advisory Committee (NRAC) which reports to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and advises the Commonwealth Government on matters concerning the effects of ionising radiation, whatever its origin, on the Australian community. [More…]
The first is that it seems an unusually cumbersome process to split responsibility for these monitoring programmes between two committees, one of which reports to the Minister for Supply and the other to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, (Mr Howson). [More…]
Tn 1947 when this Parliament did not deal with Aborigines in the way it does now, or with education in the way it does now, and when its involvement in so many areas of foreign policy was less acute and many other areas of public policy were not before it, the House met on 92 days. [More…]
I welcome the statement that has been made to the House this afternoon by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) as indeed does the Opposition. [More…]
I know that my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) had indicated that he wished to respond to other matters that have been raised tonight. [More…]
My question which, is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts follows on his announcement that a proposal for a national film and television training school would be resurrected, although in a much truncated form. [More…]
If we have this constant harping, and the attempts to make the Aborigines feel racially and become a black power operation, if we have this rather pathetic ‘embassy’ cluttering up the area in front of Parliament House, and if we are to adopt the policy of the Labor Party Opposition which was adopted in Launceston, and people are simply to be admitted without regard to race, colour and so on, and if there is to be a change in our present policy, for heaven’s sake let us look down the line. [More…]
It deals with Aborigines in Australian Territories. [More…]
In reality the section provides that Aborigines can be excluded from the provisions of the Act and they can work under conditions different from those which apply to other people such as Europeans, Australians or anyone else to whom the provisions of the Act apply. [More…]
In summation, I suggest to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, that he convey this submission to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) so that he may review the constraints that I have, mentioned and so that he may look at the research project within the CSIRO which has been held up in order to evaluate what is being done and to indicate needs in a forward way. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is sitting at the table, is one of the very few intelligent Ministers. [More…]
His work does not bring him into contact with the Aborigines of the area. [More…]
The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has a general responsibility to act for the Commonwealth in environmental matters including - [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who is in charge of tourism. [More…]
Why will not the Government tell us the reason for Aborigines names being removed from the roll because they are supposed to be not living at the address given? [More…]
1 introduce now the question of the enrolment of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe that less than 50 per cent of the Aborigines in the Northern Territory who are eligible to be enrolled on the Commonwealth electoral rolls have been so enrolled. [More…]
Did the survey cover the whole of the Territory and include full-blood Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Again the Melbourne research findings are seriously defective in the respect that they make no allowance for Aborigines, and that is specifically referred to in the report. [More…]
The provision was put there in connection with the voting rights of Aborigines, not of persons under 21, but it is clearly applicable to the age issues as well if section 41 of the Constitution is interpreted as 1 have suggested. [More…]
But not one word came from the lips of the honourable member about the shocking exploitation of the Aborigines working on some of the cattle stations in the Northern Territory, which situation is coming to the notice of the educated people of the world today and is shaming this nation in the eyes of the world. [More…]
On what date was the employment training scheme for Aborigines introduced. [More…]
How many Aborigines in (a) each State and Territory and (b) the Commonwealth have (i) (A) applied for, (B) been approved for, (C) been rejected for, (D) commenced and (E) completed training and (ii) been placed in employment (A) after training and (B) without training. [More…]
What are the names and locations of educational and training institutions at which Aborigines are being trained and for what kinds of employment does each prepare Aborigines benefiting from the scheme. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Will he urge the Catholic immigration authorities in every State and the World Council of Churches to concentrate their efforts on helping Australian Aborigines and part-Aborigines on the principle that charity begins at home. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he has seen a report of comments made by Professor Ali Mazru of Uganda recommending a policy which encourages Aboriginal children to be educated with ot without the consent of their parents and suggesting that some degree of coercion is needed if Aboriginal children are to be separated from parental influence and absorbed, through education processes, into the mainstream of change? [More…]
Has he noted that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts stated 2 days later (Hansard, page 1391), in answer to question No. [More…]
Prime Minister had with the Premier and Deputy Premier of Queensland about the legislation concerning Aborigines in the State of Queensland and I said that broad agreement was reached on the nature of changes which should be made in the legislation. [More…]
There were 3 or 4 matters that I would have liked to raise today - the question of Aborigines, the failure of the Government to do anything about attempting to produce a ceasefire in Vietnam and the occupation of this place in a short time by SEATO representatives. [More…]
The other Departments presently involved in the matter are the Departments of the Treasury and of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) contains a few items which are very welcome but which are buried in a wealth of meaningless cliches. [More…]
Still unanswered on the notice paper is a question asked on 17th August last year by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities (Mr Howson) spoke today on the important matter of the environment, but there was no debate on the matter. [More…]
Since June 1969 Aborigines in New South Wales have been the responsibility of the Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare in the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare and separate records are not maintained. [More…]
Expenditure which was normally a charge against the Department of Native Welfare in respect to medical and education for Aborigines is now carried by the relevant Departments and not included in the above figures since 1962-63. [More…]
The Commonwealth Statistician is currently engaged on developing statistics of Commonwealth and State outlays on programmes designed specifically to benefit Aborigines. [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
On 26th January 1972 I issued a statement entitled ‘Australian Aborigines- Commonwealth Policy, and Achievement’ which, inter alia, outlined the new decisions the Government had taken as a result of the first stage of the work of the Ministerial Committee on Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
1 ask: Approximately what was the percentage of Australian Aborigines of those until recently encamped on the lawns in front of this House in the so-called Aboriginal ‘embassy”? [More…]
I cannot give the honourable gentleman an accurate estimate of the percentage of Aborigines to Europeans who were camped at the ‘embassy’. [More…]
They were mostly part Aborigines. [More…]
On the days of confrontation, certainly the Aborigines and part-Aborigines were in the minority to the Europeans who were involved in the confrontation. [More…]
Can the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts inform the House whether the Commonwealth ever held an option to purchase Everard Park in north west South Australia? [More…]
In January there was a tent erected on the lawns in front of Parliament House to express the points of view of persons concerned about the position and status of Aborigines in this country. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that some 3 or 4 years ago a vigil was organised in front of Parliament House to express concern about the position of Aborigines in this country. [More…]
The appeal made to the Queen recently by Australia’s Aborigines asking her to prevent the Canberra Government fron enacting legislation said to be discriminatory, is bound to cause considerable embarrassment to Mr McMahon’s Government. [More…]
The embassy- a dozen tan-and-orange tents - was established earlier this year after the rejection of an appeal by Aborigines whose tribal lands were threatened by mining development [More…]
I travelled 21,000 miles with a select committee inquiring into Aboriginal voting rights, but that place was a palace compared to what I saw as a member of that committee and the conditions under which Aborigines live in the south-west of Western Australia, around Gnowangerup and elsewhere where the weather is extremely cold, or generally speaking, throughout the Northern Territory. [More…]
I would say it was even superior to the transitional dwellings, usually made out of aluminium and entirely inappropriate to the climate where they are erected, which are built for Aborigines in the rest of Australia. [More…]
One of the most distinguished Aborigines in the country, one of the most highly educated - Mr Phillip Roberts - many years before he was an employee of the Commonwealth spoke about the conditions of the Aborigines. [More…]
They are apparently unaware that Aborigines themselves are Caucasians. [More…]
If we have any sensitivity at all, we should take the trouble to see the conditions of Aborigines to remind us of the problem with which we ought to be deal. [More…]
All through this situation we had firstly a Liberal Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs, the Honourable W. C. Wentworth, and now we have the Minister for the Environment Aborigines and the Arts, the [More…]
When any of these Aboriginal evictions or denials of right take place the Liberal Minister who is supposedly the defender of the Aborigines does, like the House of Lords in Gilbert and Sullivan, nothing in particular and does it very . [More…]
In February 1972, hi answer to a question from the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) atom the campers, I indicated that the people concerned were Aborigines demonstrating in a peaceful way for a cause in which they believed. [More…]
It is not a question of the Government taking action against the Aborigines; it is a question of the Government facing up to its responsibilities of preserving public places in Canberra for public use. [More…]
The police requested the demonstrators, comprising part Aborigines and Europeans, to permit them to remove the remaining tent. [More…]
It was agreed that the Commonwealth would bring 9 leaders nominated by the Aborigines to Canberra to discuss the matter with the Ministers. [More…]
On 29th July my colleagues, the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs (Dr Coombs) and officers of my Department met with Aboriginal leaders in Canberra. [More…]
For the record, I am pleased to say that, in spite of attempts by radical groups to pressure Aborigines from my own home town of Moree, they refused to be associated with the activities of those who were hell-bent on creating further violence outside Parliament House. [More…]
He said that the Aborigines were there for political reasons; that they were there not just to live in a tent but to make a political point; and that they were exercising a right to assemble. [More…]
The Aborigines made it clear that they hoped to stay there until Parliament began sitting in order to make their point - the Minister says it was a political point - concerning a claim for land rights. [More…]
Naturally, like any human being, the Aborigines said: We will not be told not to do something which we want to do, which is completely legal and which we are allowed to do’. [More…]
I do not really see any reference to Aborigines in that statement. [More…]
I remind the Minister, when it comes to a question of his credibility, that on television he said that when the ordinance came in the Aborigines would be given a couple of weeks - a reasonable time–within which to get off the land. [More…]
I saw a group of Aborigines and white people linked arm in arm around the remaining tent which carried the flag and the sign ‘Aboriginal Embassy’. [More…]
I recognised the Reverend Jim Udy, a very respectable clergyman in Canberra, linked arm in arm with the Aborigines. [More…]
I recognised the Reverend George Garnsey, another very respected and responsible clergyman from Canberra, linked arm in arm with the Aborigines. [More…]
I recognised Bruce Kent, another responsible, recognised and well known man in Canberra, linked arm in arm with the Aborigines. [More…]
I will tell honourable members this: On the second time round when the 2,000 people assembled, the Aborigines searched each other - this is a measure of their responsibility - to ensure that there would be no arms of any sort on any of them if anything got out of control. [More…]
That afternoon I received a message that some of the Aborigines and some of the gentlemen to whom I have already referred had gone to the police station to lend moral support to the people who had been arrested as a result of the fracas and who were being released on bail. [More…]
I sent him a telegram because all of the reports said that he and his colleague - I suppose that one can call the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) a colleague - were in Darwin or somewhere doing something else probably quite irrelevant, given the situation that had arisen in Canberra. [More…]
They talked about the cause of Aborigines and the cause of land rights. [More…]
One thing that I have been endeavouring to do as Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is to improve the dialogue between the Government and the Aboriginal people. [More…]
So, it has been for this purpose that for the last few months I have been endeavouring to call together a conference of as widely rep resentative groups of Aboriginal people as possible in order to start that dialogue between the Government and the Aborigines. [More…]
Having stated how I believe we shall be able to understand these needs more closely, I now wish to inform the House of what has taken place while I have been Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
As these important matters have been raised let me refer to the important decisions we have made respecting land for Aborigines. [More…]
This is the very point that is being dealt with now by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Today there are 4,000 scholarships in use by Aborigines throughout Australia. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) introduced the general question of Aboriginal administration. [More…]
I was interested in the comment made by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts about the Government’s aim to create a single society in Australia. [More…]
While we all recognise that most of the Aboriginal people of Australia will probably choose to be assimilated into our society, as a great number of them have, the Labor Party recognises the right of those Aborigines who choose to stay in their own communities to do so. [More…]
It is well known that the government in this country has never acknowledged the land rights of the Aborigines in the way in which the land rights of the Red Indians of Canada and the United States of America and the land rights of the indigenous populations of South America and other places were acknowledged by the respective colonial governments. [More…]
It was situated in tents which the Aborigines could afford to buy, to erect and to maintain. [More…]
It was a protest against the failure of this Government to understand what land means to the Australian Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts spoke about the Government’s plans. [More…]
These are the things that frustrate the Aborigines, as they frustrate many people on this side of the Parliament. [More…]
When Aborigines stand up to fight for something it is immediately suspected that they are being manipulated by other people. [More…]
I am speaking from the Aborigines’ point of view. [More…]
Eventually the Aborigines may get something, or they may get nothing. [More…]
How could the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders or any other Aboriginal organisation continue to negotiate under those circumstances? [More…]
There was similar action by the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
The Minister carries the burden of responsibility for the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
If they are to be areas on which people can park, then anybody can erect a tent city whether they are Aborigines or members of the Returned Services League or the Country Women’s Association. [More…]
I believe th.it on the first count the Minister was entirely right, in protecting the public interest, in removing this tent city not because it was anything to do with Aborigines but because he should have done so no matter whom it had anything to do with. [More…]
I do not want to over emotionalise the aspect of the fallout from the French nuclear tests but I want to draw to the attention of the House some facts which have been stated by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in his statement. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid pointed out to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) what he calls the ‘conservative view’ stated on page 4 of this statement where these words appear: [More…]
The honourable member for Reid asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts what he had done or what anyone on behalf of the Australian Government had done to try to persuade the French to accept the Australian Government’s view. [More…]
I welcome the statement made by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Finally, will the Prime Minister lay down firm guidelines for future acquisition of land for Aborigines in accordance with the statement he made on Australia Day this year? [More…]
Education of Migrants and Aborigines [More…]
Aborigines are chronically disadvantaged at the age of 6, at the age of 10 and at the age of 12. [More…]
Adult grants to Aborigines need to be diversified and an attack on Aboriginal adult illiteracy deliberately launched. [More…]
When grants are made to Aborigines to assist them with their education, this is done under the Commonwealth power of benefits to students but, after all, what is the reason for this special assistance to an Aborigine to receive an education? [More…]
It never asks whether this ability is intrinsic, and except in the case of Aborigines it is not seeking pastoral care, remedial care or curative care of Australian children. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
This is the root of the present national sickness - the feeling deeply held by whole sections of the community, the employees, large sections of the employers, the youth, the poor, the Aborigines, that their own elected Government is . [More…]
Of course, the Commonwealh has stated its position in a statement made by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Why is there one law for the Aborigines in front of Parliament House and another law for the people in the Prime Minister’s Department at the rear of it? [More…]
but large in terms of human values, namely, the Aborigines - these bewildered, gentle folk of another civilisation whose land we share. [More…]
This year the Government will spend $53m in direct aid to 144,000 Aborigines, which amounts to about $370 a head, .man, woman and child. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to see a separate race within a race developed in Australia, with an embassy from the Aborigines to the Government of Australia as though they were a foreign power. [More…]
This Budget, which raises aid to Aborigines by 70 per cent - or over $21 m - shows a better way. [More…]
I must compliment the Government on the decision to give special assistance to Aborigines. [More…]
This is a good decision which must be applauded by all people who have some interest in the Aborigines of our country* I think that more could have been done, but this is a lot more than has ever been done before. [More…]
On 24th May last, speaking on behalf of the Government, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) said that all Federal action would require an ‘environment impact statement’ about future legislation. [More…]
We expect the displays of the art of the Australian Aborigines and the arts of the Pacific Basin, including the rich art of Melanesia, embracing Papua New Guinea, to be of world standard and a revelation to all exposed to them for the first time when the Gallery is opened. [More…]
Finally, $24m is being allocated for the assistance of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The overall amount for Aborigines in Australia has been increased by 58 per cent. [More…]
There is a policy, and funds are available, to acquire stations off reserves for Aborigines so that they can learn how to operate them. [More…]
As I said on the last occasion that we discussed the Estimates, the Government has to find suitable people to lead the Aborigines into organising and running these projects themselves. [More…]
Will the inquiry cover Aborigines? [More…]
The deprivation, discrimination and repression of Aborigines in the Australian society, whether they are fringe dwelling urban residents or living in rural communities, stand as a monument to the selfish and cruel indifference of this wealthy community of ours. [More…]
In February 1971 Dr William Langsford, the Director of the Northern Territory divisional office of the Department of Health, was ordered to slash his expenditures by $200,000 and it is reported that he noted in his diary that day ‘disaster day’ because he knew that the people who would surfer as a result of this reduction would be the unfortunate Aborigines of the Northern Territory where infant mortality rates are 6 times the Australian rate for the white population; where in that area tuberculosis is 60 per 100,000 population compared to IS per 100,000 for the rest of Australia. [More…]
If it was possible, as in fact it was, with a national campaign to reduce tuberculosis rates among the non-Aboriginal population from 52 per 100,000 in 1947 to 15 per 100,000 by 1970, why have we not shown similar initiatives and resourcefulness and a similar moral commitment to the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
If we go through the whole range of the morbidity pattern among Aborigines we will find that in any form of morbidity Aborigines have a rate considerably higher than Europeans in the Australian population. [More…]
People could have examined them and those who are interested could have said: ‘We would have liked to have seen something better done in relation to hospitals, Aborigines or in this defence area or in that education area’. [More…]
I absolve the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is sitting at the table, from guilt in this matter, lt was the Minister for the Navy who made the suggestion. [More…]
In conclusion, I would like to express the personal satisfaction I received when the Royal Lifesaving Society of Australia and the Surf Lifesaving Association of Australia received an increase in the grants in aid from the Department responsible to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) who is now sitting at the table. [More…]
The Budget will provide for taxation reductions, pension increases, social services, the lifting of the means test, housing, health, education, child welfare, estate duty, Aborigines, defence, shipping, airlines, gift duty, nursing homes, special grants and fares for the unemployed. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, to draw the attention of the Attorney-General to this loophole which exists. [More…]
As my Department of Primary Industry is responsible for the general negotiations that take place within the International Whaling Commission it might be appropriate if I explained to the House that there was no inconsistency between the vote cast by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts at Stockholm and the others made within the International Whaling Commission for the control of resources of whales around the oceans of the world, lt needs to be recognised that whaling is an industry which today has contracted significantly. [More…]
There is no discrepancy between the action taken by my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, and that taken by officers of my Department with the International Whaling Commission. [More…]
As far back as May members of the Labor Party and political commentators were predicting that there would be across the board increases in social services and repatriation benefits, that there would be reductions in taxation, that the education commitment of the Commonwealth would be increased, that there would be improvements in the national health scheme, that there would be an increase in home savings grants, that there would be a few incentives to primary and secondary industries and a sop or 2 to the Aborigines. [More…]
I should like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that on 24th May this year the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) stated that, when Commonwealth Government money was involved in anything that could have an environmental impact, an impact statement would be made. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) whether any impact statement has been prepared by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, because Commonwealth money is being used for a project in a Commonwealth Ter ritory. [More…]
The Minister responsible for the Corporation - the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) - might care to claim that the Corporation’s role has consisted primarily of creating a climate of stability and confidence in the Australian feature film industry, encouraging private investors to join in the development of that industry, and so on. [More…]
Has the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) been hovering around in the background on this one too? [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts a question. [More…]
They have found a fault in the law and their finding indicates sheer incompetence in the law-making processes of the Government that goes beyond Aborigines and camping outside Parliament House. [More…]
ls the Treasurer aware that his colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, has indicated that environmental impact statements will be prepared on the effects of any Government measures but only if the responsible Ministers request them? [More…]
I am not quite sure of the circumstances in which my colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, uses the term ‘impact statement’. [More…]
He could not really co-relate what the Minister for the Environment Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) meant by an ‘impact statement’. [More…]
The people concerned are Aborigines who are demonstrating in a peaceful way for a cause in which they believe. [More…]
So neither I nor the Government have seen any great cause for concern about the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The decision of the Full Court yesterday aroused great hopes among the Aboriginal community that their expectations could be fulfilled and their aims achieved through the operation of the normal processes of the law, through what an increasing number of Aborigines are coming to describe as ‘white man’s law’. [More…]
For a few hours yesterday on the lawns outside this House a few pieces of canvass flew as an assertion of the rights and dignity of the Australian Aborigines. [More…]
Today this Bill has been brought in to delay another historically inevitable event - the assertion by the Australian Aborigines of their rights as human beings. [More…]
The Aborigines had not seen a copy of the ordinance. [More…]
The remaining tent which carried the sign ‘Aboriginal Embassy’ and the flag - it is a symbol of the demonstration - had been surrounded by 20 or 30 people who were mainly Aborigines but included some white supporters. [More…]
Unfortunately there are indications that the 144,000 Australian Aborigines will be used as a political football this year. [More…]
The Minister for the Interior went on to point out in the booklet what a tragedy it would be if Aborigines were to be used for political motives. [More…]
What respect did he have for them as a part of the human race that has been denied all concepts of what the Aborigines consider to be their just and proper right in this unforgiving land of white supremacy. [More…]
The Minister went on in the booklet to draw the red herring of hypocrisy about the fact that certain Aborigines were claiming land rights and a total payment of some $6 billion. [More…]
If the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) was sincere in his speech on Australia Day this year and if he was sincere in what he had to say to the Aboriginal lass that he clasped his arms around in Adelaide during a visit to that city in the winter months about the rights of Aborigines he should have challenged the making of this ordinance. [More…]
The marauders in front of this House at midnight last night did not draw blood, but they may well have drawn blood because of their failure to appreciate the meaning of the basic principle of land rights to the Aborigines. [More…]
The Government has done absolutely nothing, other than use a few words, to put into effect any form of land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
The documents relating to the proposed acquisition of that property on behalf of Aborigines have not been tabled. [More…]
It might interest honourable members opposite to learn that in door knocking in my electorate I have found to my surprise that the treatment of Aborigines and the denial of their land rights by this Government rank as one of the main issues, at least in the minds of the womenfolk. [More…]
In my electorate of Sydney there are several thousand part-Aborigines. [More…]
Two field officers are working for the Aborigines through this organisation. [More…]
In addition, the Minister who is supposed to represent the Aborigines of Australia - the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) - has not spoken in this debate. [More…]
I presume that in representing the Aborigines of Australia he is looking after their welfare. [More…]
Is he afraid that he might get the sack from his position of Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts? [More…]
Speaking on behalf of the part- Aborigines who live in the South Sydney area in my electorate of Sydney, I assure honourable members that they are absolutely disgusted with the action of this Government and that they will certainly vote accordingly at the next election. [More…]
We believe it is necessary to ensure that in relation to Commonwealth lands which are not just in front of Parliament House but right throughout the Australian Capital Territory there should be a specific understanding that there is a continued opportunity - indeed, a right - for people to demonstrate, to be present on those lands and to express their views as a minority or majority group, lt is not a right to erect tents or to create what all of us saw, in the language which the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) used quite effectively this afternoon, as a presence which we found objectionable not because of its intrinsic presence but because of its failure to achieve what the honourable member for Moreton and so many others on this side of the house believe is a valid cause of Aborigines in the community. [More…]
I, like the honourable member for Moreton, feel that there is a great deal we can do to help the Aborigines in our community but we should do it in such a way as to help them positively. [More…]
The police arrived and an inspector of police went across to the assembled Aborigines and their supporters. [More…]
Four or five years ago some university students decided to hold a vigil in connection with the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
We are in difficulty about the Aborigines because we know that after all these years of our history - nearly 200 years - it is time there was some sort of effective Aboriginal voice and Aboriginal presence in this national capital. [More…]
I do not care whether it is in some cultural exhibit manned by Aborigines who can express their way of life; it is time the Aboriginal people were acknowledged in the Australian national capital. [More…]
Some were people of part Aboriginal descent and some were people of Islander descent who identified themselves with the Aborigines. [More…]
Some of them had no idea what the Aborigines in the inland aspire to and some of them had genuine ideas about what the Aborigines in the inland aspire to. [More…]
Outside the Parliament of Western Australia the Aborigines erected a very beautiful tent and had established a dignified consulate, as they called it, as a means of demonstration. [More…]
There may be a tent erected there for a fair, a circus, a carnival, a show or for any of those purposes but no-one has the power in the future to permit a tent to be erected there where the purpose is to demonstrate for Aborigines. [More…]
Provided that a permit could be granted for the Aborigines, we could say that with the consent of the police or the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt), the Aborigines could erect a tent. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister what progress has been made in the negotiations to purchase the Everard Park property in South Australia for Aborigines under the $13m land purchase policy announced by him earlier this year. [More…]
We hope that we will have a settlement soon and that this property will soon be handed over to the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
I should like to suggest that the Ministry for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts - this Ministry which is very ambiguous in many respects and which from the environmental standpoint hardly seems to have come down to any positive line of objectivity - should start to accept some responsibility in this regard. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is in the House at the moment, has consciously applied himself to this matter and whether in fact he concedes that it ought to be the responsibility and the prerogative of his Department to liaise with the Post Office in this case and indeed with many other Departments where there is a responsibility to determine whether an historical building, such as the Customs House in Sydney, is to remain. [More…]
It was an old Army building and I think that all Australians would have been embarrassed had visitors from overseas seen the dilapidated condition of the building in which Aborigines were being educated. [More…]
We had evidence from Miss Sommerlad of the Australian National University who had done a 12-month study of the way of life of Aborigines, particularly at Kormilda College. [More…]
The main conflict before the Committee concerned the educational training methods for Aborigines. [More…]
He was interested in the moral degradation of young girls who attend Kormilda College, return to the missions and become virtually victims of the lust of elderly Aborigines. [More…]
During the year of its existence Kormilda College has been of tremendous and real value, to Aborigines and Aboriginal students from every corner of the Northern Territory - including those in Arnhem Land, those at Port Keats Mission and those down in the central area of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Committee did request evidence to be given on behalf of some of the churches in particular so that we would have as good a picture as possible of the type of building and the type of education which would be in the best interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
The College will play an increasingly important part in educating Aborigines who, in turn, will be able to influence their families and other Aboriginals in the community to recognise the advantage of a better educational standard. [More…]
I believe that it is necessary to expand the College as much as possible because it is through Aborigines that we will be able to reach those other Aborigines who are not yet convinced of the need for and the benefits of a higher standard of education. [More…]
At Easter time when I was in the Northern Territory for a conference of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders I had an interesting discussion with 2 people involved with the Aboriginal people. [More…]
How do we make education for the Aborigines relevant? [More…]
On page 2 of the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Works it states that the Government’s policy is for assimilation of Aborigines, a parallel education system and so on. [More…]
It is not enough to expect Kormilda College to be a halfway house in the transition of young Aborigines from the Aboriginal society into our own society. [More…]
We have to recognise that most of these young Aborigines are interested in learning something about our society, but probably most of them will choose to return to live in their own communities. [More…]
However, during the hearing of evidence a lot of information came before the Committee with regard to this College and it was stressed on many occasions by witnesses that they would like to see more Aboriginal involvement in the teaching of Aborigines. [More…]
The College will do a good deal for the advancement of Aborigines in the area providing we do not frighten these people off. [More…]
Along with my colleagues, I believe that there should be more involvement of Aboriginal teachers and others who understand the Aborigines and understand what we are trying to do for them. [More…]
I say this guardedly because I have lived in an area which has a lot of Aborigines and I have been to school with these people. [More…]
if we can involve some of our educated Aborigines in the education of their people we could do a lot more for them than we are doing at present. [More…]
In addition, however, some of the programmes of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs from the $8,045,000 available to it, after making the proposed States grants, will benefit Aborigines in the States. [More…]
Both of these programmes will benefit Aborigines in the States. [More…]
Clearly much remains to be done in the health field and the health status of Aborigines remains a cause for concern, particularly in respect of infant mortality and malnutrition. [More…]
Whereas in 1969 there might have been no more than 2,000 Aborigines in secondary schools throughout Australia, by 1972 there are of the order of 8,000, of whom 4,266 were in training as at June under the secondary grants scheme. [More…]
Of course, this falls far short of the ideal: On a population percentage basis there should be some 13,000 Aborigines in secondary schooling. [More…]
Funds have been granted to local and other authorities to provide employment for Aborigines on socially valuable projects chosen in accordance with criteria specified by my Office and the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
These projects have enabled shire councils in many rural areas to carry out projects of value to their communities while at the same time providing employment and training for Aborigines. [More…]
Thus, the research phase in our crocodile and turtle farming projects has made progress, and Dr Bustard has numbers of Torres Strait Islanders and coastal Aborigines engaged in pilot farming projects. [More…]
Of course, as honourable members will already be aware, the whole direction of the capital fund for Aboriginal Enterprises operated by the Office is to assist suitable Aborigines to become self-employed. [More…]
The housing programmes aim primarily to assist families, whose children will benefit thereby; a great deal of health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist schoolleavers. [More…]
I think it important to bear in mind that the problems facing the Aborigines in major towns and cities and those of the Aborigines living in communities on reserves, on pastoral properties and on the fringes of remote townships differ very greatly. [More…]
The movement of Aborigines into the major cities has been quite striking over the past decade or two. [More…]
Consequently, we have placed an increasing emphasis on programmes to assist Aborigines in urban areas. [More…]
If one looks at our major city, Sydney, one can see examples in all these fields: Either with the State or unilaterally we have provided hostels and houses, supported the Aboriginal health service in south Sydney, provided funds for schooling, pre-schooling and adult education facilities, assisted Aborigines to find and hold employment, and supported the Aboriginal Legal Service. [More…]
During a visit which I paid some months ago, I was personally most impressed at the work being done by the Aboriginal Medical Service in south Sydney, and believe that the Aborigines and non-Aborigines involved are providing a referral or treatment service to numbers of Aborigines in the Sydney metropolitan area who would not at this stage have the necessary confidence to seek treatment in the first instance from the normal community services. [More…]
We expect that, as our programmes become more and more effective, the urbanised Aborigines will need our assistance less and less. [More…]
There seems little doubt that ample employment is available in the cities: What we seek to do is to remove those handicaps inhibiting Aborigines from taking full advantage of this situation. [More…]
As regards the remote Aborigines, most of those involved are now living in static communities. [More…]
But if almost all Aborigines have abandoned their semi-nomadic hunting and gathering life, this does not mean that the old tribal structures and beliefs have also disappeared. [More…]
I think we should all try to realise that these Aborigines living in remote situations are experiencing a difficult period of rapid change. [More…]
We should help them develop appropriate kinds of dwellings, such as the house developed by the Aborigines at Finke. [More…]
In addition we have embarked on a far-reaching programme to delineate areas which are of sacred or special significance to Aborigines. [More…]
I hope that we can through the provision of relevant education ensure that members of the remote communities become less and less dependent, while at the same time relating that education more directly to the sorts of employment we will be encouraging the Aborigines there to undertake. [More…]
Unless we can find additional, different and meaningful employment opportunities for Aborigines living in remote communities, we may expect the drift to the cities about which I spoke earlier to accelerate. [More…]
In the same month, on 24th May, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in a statement, entitled ‘Australian Environment - Commonwealth Policy and Achievements’, incorporated statements of the Government’s observations on the recommendations of the Senate Committee and concluded: [More…]
Accordingly we find that the largest semigovernment authorities in Australia, the ones which have most conspicuously failed to meet the requirements of a civilised community, are to have no help from the Commonwealth as far as the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts is concerned and no help from the Commonwealth as far as the present Prime Minister is concerned. [More…]
I refer to the suggested wood chip industry in the Gove Peninsula in which the Aborigines of the Yirrkala district could have a significant financial interest. [More…]
There has been an examination of a feasibility study that was publicly invited in 1968 as part of a Territory-wide investigation of wood chip timber which could form the basis for an industry to provide employment and also a financial return to the Aborigines in Arnhem Land - the principle area that has some potential for a wood chip industry. [More…]
There is no intention whatsoever on the part of the Government to proceed with any wood chip industry in the Aboriginal reserve area unless the Aborigines themselves are desirous of proceeding on an equity basis with companies in exploiting the timber of the area. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
On 24th May last, speaking on behalf of the Government, the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is now sitting on the front bench, made a statement that all Federal action would require an ‘environmental impact statement’. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has shown itself to be a complete washout. [More…]
Did the Minister state recently that the upsurge in the incidence of venereal disease amongst Aborigines reflected a worldwide trend. [More…]
If so, will the Minister provide statistics showing the incidence of venereal disease in (a) Aborigines and (b) Europeans in each State and Territory of the Commonwealth during the latest year for which information is available and for the year a decade earlier. [More…]
Will the Minister also provide comparative figures supporting the statement that the incidence of venereal disease amongst Aborigines reflects a worldwide trend. [More…]
IS) What sum has been spent on education in respect of venereal disease amongst Aborigines during each of the last 5 years. [More…]
refusing to restore land rights to Aborigines living on reserves or in significant communities; [More…]
They are: To investigate ways of providing a simple, flexible form of incorporation for Aboriginal communities; to amend the law under which land is reserved for the use and benefit of Aborigines so that a reserve cannot be revoked in whole or in part without an effective opportunity for a review both by the Legislative Council of the Northern Territory and by both Houses of the Commonwealth Parliament; to complete as expeditiously as possible programmes to delineate and protect areas of land both within and outside reserves for Aboriginal religious and ceremonial purposes. [More…]
The Minister then said that Aborigines ‘have a right to areas of special significance, but just to set aside land because they claim it tends to perpetuate the Aboriginal tribal system was no justification’. [More…]
We have seen claims that, although Aborigines account for only a little more than 1 per cent of the Australian population, they account for 10 per cent of Australia’s infant deaths, 28 per cent of the deaths of 1-year olds, about 10 per cent of the deaths of 2 to 4-year olds and 94 per cent of the deaths of lepers. [More…]
From time to time, as an explanation for the failure to achieve any improvement, the Government has said that the health problem stems from the nomadic background of the Aborigines - the fact that they are in mobile groups - but of course this is merely to say something about the problem and not to provide a justification for cbe problem not being more satisfactorily attended to. [More…]
Unlike sheep, Aborigines were never counted until 1966 and we are still far behind in getting an adequate idea of their position statistically. [More…]
In doing so, I would like to draw the attention of the House to the statement of the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson). [More…]
If one takes up all the factors of State expenditure and so on, one sees that about $53m has been spent on Aborigines. [More…]
The first question is: Do we recognise the right of the Aborigines to be a distinctive people? [More…]
Negatively we have been able to see the Aborigines as a distinctive people. [More…]
The old section 51, paragraph (xxvi), of the Constitution excluded the Commonwealth from the power to legislate for Aborigines. [More…]
So if we knew for whom we cannot legislate, presumably we could see Aborigines. [More…]
We do not know who these Aborigines are. [More…]
She wrote a disastrous book The Passing of the Aborigines’ which gave a couple of generations of Australian administrators the excuse for thinking that they did not need to do anything but smooth the dying pillow. [More…]
Aborigines cannot wear. [More…]
Do we recognise the right of Aborigines to be a distinctive people? [More…]
Sir Paul Hasluck, as the relevant Minister, gave it a more humane touch where he said that assimilation meant Aborigines would live at the same standard and have the same rights and so forth as Europeans. [More…]
I suggest that we should declare straightly that Aborigines are distinctive people. [More…]
Seats must be reserved for Aborigines in the Legislative Council for the Northern Territory and the members for those seats should be elected by Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, the Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and I were both members of a select committee which examined the grievances of the Aboriginal people of Yirrkala. [More…]
The important point about those select committees was that the members of them went with interpreters to hear what the Aborigines had to say. [More…]
Those Aborigines lived in a balanced relationship with the creatures they hunt. [More…]
Some of us may remember that Aborigines who had served the Australian Army and the Royal Australian Navy during the war as coast watchers and who had not been paid for 16 years seized the opportunity to make a statement about that and that this action led to their being paid. [More…]
I make this point because those Aborigines had been saying to welfare officers for 16 years that they had not been paid. [More…]
So the second unanswered question in the Minister’s second reading speech is: Will we provide for representation of Aborigines as a distinct people? [More…]
It did not matter where Aborigines were in Australia. [More…]
To Aborigines the reading of the proclamation meant: ‘Hereafter you own nothing’. [More…]
Aborigines say that they own the land for various reasons. [More…]
I do not see that I can practically assert that some descendant of the original tribe in Sydney owns all of Sydney, but there are large areas of land in Australia still vested in the Crown which are reserved to Aborigines and where there is a distinctive tribal ownership discernible. [More…]
In that rather tragic case before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory it appears that if the Aborigines had had the forethought to run a wire along the land and to draw a boundary they would have received the same sorts of rights as a squatter has, only that they would have been better entitled as squatters from time immemorial. [More…]
The terms the Government has set out under which the Aborigines may operate some stations economically seems to us to be inadequate. [More…]
But George III did not need an alliance with the Aborigines in Australia and so no treaty was entered into with them to acknowledge their land rights. [More…]
Will we acknowledge the right of the Aborigines to an education in their tongue. [More…]
The only sufferers from tuberculosis today are Aborigines. [More…]
If we say that our policy is assimilation and ask an administrator what he has done to assimilate the Aborigines today, there is no answer to the question because it is a senseless question and it is an imprecise objective. [More…]
I would suggest to the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) that the statement he is criticising is the second reading speech by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on the States Grants (Aboriginal Advancement) Bill 1972. [More…]
I have been in this Parliament for a long time and I have never once debated the issue of Aborigines. [More…]
Before going on to state my opinions on this matter, I should like to say that I do not know how many honourable members have captained football teams which have played against Aboriginal teams and who on that basis know the Aborigines well. [More…]
I would go so far as to say that I for one, having given a lot of thought to this problem, find it most difficult to understand precisely why the last Aboriginal embassy, which unfortunately had to be removed from outside this House, had, on the night of its removal when one of our members went to it, no Aborigines in it. [More…]
I do not understand why we have to take so much notice of an Aboriginal embassy that evidently does not have Aborigines in it. [More…]
I do not know why, when the Aboriginal embassy was set up in Brougham Place, Adelaide, it was set up entirely by interstate Aborigines. [More…]
What is the point in setting up an Aboriginal embassy such as the one in South Australia, where there are only interstate Aborigines standing around* - I am being awfully polite - day and night? [More…]
1 do not think this is fair to the Aborigines whom I know. [More…]
I do not think it is fair to the Aborigines with whom I have played sport. [More…]
1 do not think for one moment that the Aborigines are doing their cause an ounce of good. [More…]
I think frankly that members of the Opposition should explain to this Parliament and to the people of Australia just how they feel that the example set by these people in those places is helping the cause of the Aborigines because to the vast majority of Australians it is not helping their cause. [More…]
As honourable members well know, part of the implication of that referendum was that the Federal Government should lend resources, interest and example to the States to help them equate with the problems of Aborigines. [More…]
We are not here - this indicates the stupidity of the Opposition’s list of amendments - as a Federal government to guarantee Aborigines jobs in country areas. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor referred to housing of Aborigines. [More…]
On the one hand he says that our capacity to grant lands to the Aborigines is way behind that of the countries of southern Africa. [More…]
The Aborigines I know come from the Ooldeas, the Ernabellas and other northern missions and stations in South Australia until they meet people in the electorate of the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis). [More…]
I would take this as being the desirable method for the future development of Aborigines. [More…]
In the estimates of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, there is a provision under the Office of Aboriginal Affairs for consultation and liaison with Aboriginal panels and associations. [More…]
In Queensland, the State which I know best, the Aboriginal councillors represent only those Aborigines who live on settlements. [More…]
When I spoke on a similar Bill 2 years ago the Minister then responsible for the administration of Aborigines made some projections of the housing needs of Aborigines. [More…]
He cited research that had been carried out in Sydney and elsewhere indicating that 80 per cent of Aborigines already living in houses needed re-housing. [More…]
We all recognise the wide range of environments in Australia and that the Aborigines in various parts of this continent have different needs and priorities. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) and the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) pointed out that too many of the decisions concerning Aborigines are being made for the Aborigines and not by them. [More…]
Aborigines have stood for electorates in the Northern Territory Legislative Council in the past but they have been unsuccessful. [More…]
In the Council, the honourable member for Arnhem - which is where most of the Aborigines in the top end of the Northern Territory live - comes from a lay missionary background and knows the Aborigines very well. [More…]
He can give first-class practical advice and assistance in places such as Milingimbi, Elcho Island, Bathurst Island, Croker Island, Goulburn Island and Maningrida with regard to developing projects which are in the interests of Aborigines residing in those areas. [More…]
I imagine that, when the Aborigines wish to have representation in the Northern Territory Legislative Council they will nominate their own member and support him and he will be elected. [More…]
It is a way of saying that anything that the Opposition considers the Aborigines should have was automatically voted for by 90 per cent of the electorate. [More…]
I remember that some of the top end Aborigines were fairly firm in their remarks and attitudes towards some people in Canberra who purported to support the Aboriginal cause. [More…]
Claude Narjic from Port Keats stated that he was quite capable of presenting the opinions of the Aborigines in northern Australia and that he did not have to be told by people whom he did not consider to be Aborigines how to go about things. [More…]
Aborigines are quite capable of consulting and giving advice and they are given an opportunity to do so. [More…]
It seems to me that it is just a catchcry to -attack the Government, which is endeavouring to assist Aborigines to use the land which they have in the Northern Territory - 94,000 square miles - for their own benefit and to develop their own interests and projects. [More…]
In fact I think a man is operating an industry there at the moment and I believe he intends to hand his plant and the whole concern over to the Aborigines and train them how to do the job so they can get into this very lucrative beef export industry. [More…]
The point is that people have to be prepared to go and help the Aborigines wilh these projects in the Northern Territory and in such areas. [More…]
People must be prepared to go into these areas and, if it happens to be a buffalo project, train the Aborigines how to operate the project and to run it successfully and how to keep the carcasses scrupulously clean so that they will maintain an export standard. [More…]
People will have to train the Aborigines how to run the mechanics of the whole operation and to stay on the job in their own interests for months at a time and to run the concern for their own benefit as a financial success. [More…]
If you envisage going out into this country, even today when the amenities are somewhat better than they used to be, trying to get organised a 4,000 square mile property with a number of Aborigines who are essentially not used to having to work regular and lengthy hours, you would have to fence the area, build yards, build outstations, brand regularly, attend local musters, watch your own boundary fences and look after your water supply. [More…]
This to my way of thinking is the basis of using the land which the Aborigines have to their own benefit. [More…]
A lot of Aborigines in this area have the determination and ability to run some places on their own, but the point is that the Aboriginal philosophy is such that if one man and his family get onto a block and get a few head of cattle and some water they are obliged to see that their relatives, if they arrive on the verandah or outside the homestead, are watered, fed and cared for. [More…]
This is the main problem of Aborigines who have their land and ventures of their own :o organise and run. [More…]
So to say that nothing is happening with regard to Aborigines is quite wrong. [More…]
In the last minute or two I have I would like to refer to something which was mentioned by the Minister for the Environ ment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) - enterprise and thought to assist Aborigines. [More…]
There is the Apatula housing project which was established at Finke in respect of which the Aborigines were consulted on what sort of design they wanted. [More…]
After some months they came out with a practical design and I note that the Government has made provision for the placing of one of those houses on show so that people can see what the Aborigines themselves wanted. [More…]
We hear mention of the wrong sorts of houses being foisted upon them and about Aborigines living in houses of a design they do not wish. [More…]
The Opposition said that the Government is doing nothing for Aborigines, but there are over 1,000 people in the Northern Territory who are doing something practical for them and who are putting in a tremendous amount of thought. [More…]
The Government is putting in the money and the Minister has introduced into this House a Bill which is designed to help the Aborigines in the States. [More…]
There are 4 cases that I have thought of just like that where the Government is supplying the know-how and the finance to build these houses to improve the situation for Aborigines. [More…]
There is no excuse for Aborigines to be badly housed. [More…]
There is no point in mentioning the 94,000 square miles or whatever it is in the Northern Territory to which the Aborigines have access. [More…]
It is not even run by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) but the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt). [More…]
So, despite the rejection by Aborigines, and perhaps in the concept of land rights and the materialistic view of things, we must do something about this in the North. [More…]
In general, my experience from observation leads me to believe that we must at least be prepared to persevere with the Aboriginal people for another 15 to 20 years after we have given the average young Austraiian away because, for all sorts of reasons, Aborigines mature into our view of things at a much later stage. [More…]
I have been associated with the Federal Council for the advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders since its inception. [More…]
I feel that this variation between the States in their attitudes to Aborigines is one of the reasons why the Commonwealth should take full responsibility, and that is one of the reasons why the first point in the amendment should be accepted. [More…]
The amendment refers to the Government’s refusal to restore land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
In the paper issued by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) we see a list of houses to be built by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I realise that the South Australian Government, with possibly some assistance from the Commonwealth, has provided improved educational facilities for Aborigines. [More…]
Much was said earlier about angry Aborigines. [More…]
I think it could be admitted that the South Australia Government has possibly the most progressive ideas in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
He went on to say that we recognise the rights of individual Aborigines to effective choice about the degree to which, and the pace at which, they come to identify themselves with the Aboriginal society and that we encourage and assist them to develop their culture, languages, traditions and arts so that these can become living elements in the Australian society. [More…]
Having said that, I ask the honourable member for Fremantle where is the difference between that aim and his aim to encourage the Aborigines to become a distinctive people. [More…]
I gather that they wish the Aborigines to develop as a distinctive people. [More…]
Does that mean that the Aborigines should stay as they are? [More…]
I do not think it does because one of the parts of the Opposition’s amendment asserts that we should provide more employment for Aborigines and that we should be doing more in the field of health so that the standard of health and the way in which health services are provided are similar to the bases of those provided to other Australians. [More…]
If honourable members opposite say that education, health, employment and housing services should all be on those lines, surely they are advocating that in the long run we shall be moving towards one community, preserving distinctive cultures of Aborigines but certainly moving in the more material things of life to one common community. [More…]
The more, people who come out of the education system and the more people who ask for the sort of employment that has been mentioned this afternoon, the more changes there are in the fundamental desires of Aborigines. [More…]
Therefore, the essential task of this Government is to maintain a flexible policy towards Aborigines in order to find out as the years go by how we can achieve those aims that I believe rightly have been set out. [More…]
I cannot agree more with honourable members opposite when they say that we should be doing much more than has been done in the past to consult directly with the Aborigines. [More…]
I do not believe, for instance, that the way in which the honourable member for Wills suggested consultation should take place - that is through the Federal Council of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders - is the answer. [More…]
Should we have schools for Aborigines only in Redfern and Brisbane? [More…]
in conjunction with discussions with the Aboriginal communities, can delineate the sites that are of special and sacred significance to Aborigines and preserve them for all time for the purposes which they desire. [More…]
My second point concerns another facet of the recommendations of the Institute, namely that those sites that are of importance historically but not of importance to living Aborigines should be treated as sites which all Australians should be encouraged to visit so that they can understand to a greater degree than has been possible in the past the essential aspects of Aboriginal life and tradition. [More…]
These sites which have been of significance to the Aboriginal people for 4,000 years bear the same sort of relationship to Aborigines as do churches and other sacred areas to other parts of the Australian community. [More…]
First of all, in the field of education it was suggested that we should do more towards helping to educate Aborigines in their own tongue. [More…]
Have those tribes which were nomadic only a few years ago when the honourable member for Fremantle and 1 were on the House of Representatives Select Committee on Voting Rights for Aborigines ceased to be nomadic? [More…]
The real reason why we give grants to them is that we know that ipso facto if they are Aborigines they are poor and they are socially disadvantaged, But there are poor people and socially disadvantaged people who are not Aborigines and precisely the same case for assisting them exists. [More…]
Moreover, in the case of Aborigines, grants starting at the age of 14 are grants starting too late. [More…]
One of the intriguing things about this debate today and the earlier one that took place is the way in which there has been an injection in the last 12 or 15 years into debate here of the subject of education and Aborigines - 2 areas in which 12 or 13 years ago honourable members opposite and in particular their leadership said: ‘We have no responsibility’. [More…]
The positive discrimination in favour of Aborigines through the provision of special scholarships is another area in this vein. [More…]
Last Thursday the right honourable gentleman amplified an earlier statement by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts on the subject of impact statements which the Government will require from Commonwealth departments and expect from State governments when questions of the environment and pollution are involved. [More…]
01m for secondary school grants for Aborigines; and a further S0.72m for Aboriginal study giants. [More…]
I support the other forms of special assistance for education, such as migrant education, Aborigines and handicapped children. [More…]
We will then be in a position where the Aborigines can encourage and set examples for their own people. [More…]
Then there is a group of old age pensioners and also a group of refugee Aborigines from the countryside. [More…]
Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts [More…]
If one takes the population into account - as I believe one should under the Constitution and as the Supreme Court of the United States insists must be done under the American Constitution, from which we have borrowed the same words - the disparity would be still greater because the numbers of electors do not include migrants who are unnaturalised and citizens who are still under 21 years of age and Aborigines who have not chosen to enrol. [More…]
I put on record my thoughts about the real role of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts in a federal system. [More…]
I challenged it to describe to this Parliament its concept of what should be the concern of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) on 24th May last in which he detailed the Department’s so-called duties. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts can investigate and write the guidelines to indicate what is environmentally wise. [More…]
The Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has a key role to play here to ensure that such sell-outs to industry do not occur. [More…]
It is about time that the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts gave some leadership in these matters. [More…]
We are well aware that the initial attempts of the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to enlist the cooperation of the States in a national intrusion, as it were, into this field were not universally acclaimed. [More…]
I think we will see that it is not long before the Department of Environment, Aborigines and the Arts will be working towards national standards for a variety nf things. [More…]
As honourable members will realise, the Council is chaired by the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, who is at the table, and the several States are represented by the appropriate State Ministers. [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
In examining the functions of the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, I am afraid that its functions are far too nebulous and that they do not give us any clear guidelines as to what we are determining. [More…]
On a more serious note, mention has been made of impact studies carried out by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
Mr Chairman - [Quorum formed] In speaking to the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts 1 would point out to the honourable member for Sturt who has just left his seat- [More…]
Of course one has to go a long way beyond that in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines are not different from us, other than in colour and custom. [More…]
I hope that no-one will think that I am casting a reflection on the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) in that regard. [More…]
So it is clear that the Government considers that Aborigines are worthy of only a bits and pieces Minister. [More…]
As far as the Aborigines are concerned, it is a change for the worse. [More…]
Members of the DLP also would have thrown their weight against any suggestion of land rights for the Aborigines. [More…]
The DLP attitude was made quite clear in an article appearing in the Melbourne Herald’ of 7th August which stated that the DLP at its State conference had rejected a motion calling on the Government to recognise land rights for the Aborigines. [More…]
It is utterly impossible and ridiculous for one Minister to try to handle the several responsibilities that the present Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts has had placed upon him. [More…]
To the best of my knowledge, during the period of 18 months or so that the Minister has held the portfolio he has never visited, let alone made a detailed survey or investigation of the situation, in the north, north-west and north-east of Western Australia where several thousand Aborigines live. [More…]
These areas require urgent attention in a general way and not only with regard to Aborigines. [More…]
Some well-meaning people err in believing that all Aborigines can be treated in the same way, regardless of the part of Australia in which they are living. [More…]
In certain parts of my own electorate of Kalgoorlie some of the Aborigines need teaching. [More…]
lt must be remembered that it could well be that before the Aborigines mixed with whites or other people the hygiene question did not have the same significance. [More…]
But today there is a need and to satisfy that need it will be necessary to finance and to equip medical and nursing terms to be operating continually out in the field, teaching and helping the Aborigines wherever they are, on stations, in camps, on reserves, or no matter where they are. [More…]
I am pleased that the matter before the Committee concerns Aborigines, the arts and the environment because they represent 3 of the merging issues in Australia about which young people, particularly, are showing a great deal of interest. [More…]
Recently we have heard from the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, that there is to be a manifestation of governmental concern in the form of impact studies and subsequent statements. [More…]
I am glad that we have had such a useful series of speeches today and also last Thursday week on the estimates for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
1 say to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) that we have an opportunity here to do likewise. [More…]
Honourable members may ask me whether the Legislative Council should take over responsibility for Aborigines. [More…]
As one who lives amongst Aborigines frankly I do not know what the best policy is. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory would have his own views as to whether self-government for the Northern Territory should in fact include complete control over the Aborigines who live in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I would like to see this happen in Queensland and in all States of the Commonwealth because I believe that this would be the best way in which the welfare of Aborigines would be looked after from a national point of view. [More…]
This would be preferable to having a proliferation of State and local government laws in regard to Aborigines. [More…]
I am not qualified to speak on that subject, but from mixing with Aborigines and having lived with them over the years I do know some of their problems and I think this is a national responsibility. [More…]
I refer to the provision of additional finance for the Western Australian State Housing Commission, particularly for the provision of houses for Aborigines. [More…]
That is a sad reflection of our attitude towards the Aborigines. [More…]
The Senate Committee was told that at least $20m was needed to overcome the backlog in housing for Aborigines. [More…]
This is a humane way of providing homes for Aborigines and at the same time keeping our building workers in full employment. [More…]
There are training schemes for Aborigines, for national servicemen to whom I referred a moment ago, for those displaced owing to redundancy or replaced by technological change, for women wishing to re-enter the work force, and there is training provided under the rural reconstruction scheme. [More…]
Had time permitted I would have referred to housing for Aborigines and to flats for migrants. [More…]
I wonder what the’ Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) would say about this proposal if he were available to participate in this debate. [More…]
I notice that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) is sitting on the front bench. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts interjects. [More…]
I am glad to see that the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) has just come into the chamber. [More…]
We have not been informed in this House whether this property is being purchased on behalf of the Aborigines. [More…]
In addition, on figures that I have revealed already by way of Press statements and so forth, there is a large discrepancy in regard to the purchase price of this property and what later appeared in Press statements and other statements by the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts about this property. [More…]
Its history of treatment of Aborigines in South Australia is nothing short of shocking. [More…]
At that time these people stood on the then South Australian Government and insisted on a dogproof fence being erected around waterholes and timber on the property and denied access to both water and timber by the Aborigines concerned. [More…]
The family has a long history of bad treatment of the Aborigines. [More…]
Is it any wonder that, when the Commonwealth had its options open to acquire the Everard Park property on behalf of the northwest Aborigines in South Australia, the McLachlans went under the neck of the Commonwealth and acquired the property because they did not want to see any reserve or. [More…]
further than that, any land rights for Aborigines in areas adjacent to their own properties? [More…]
It should also lay down guidelines as to the future acquisition of properties, suitable of course to the Aborigines and after consultation with the Aborigines concerned. [More…]
The attitude of the Department of the Interior to Aboriginal affairs and Aboriginal land rights and the attitude displayed by the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts are somewhat different. [More…]
Then this matter will be approached on a proper basis and not with interdepartmental jealousies as have occurred over this particular property where the Department of the Interior on the one hand, does not wish to see the property acquired by the Commonwealth and perhaps the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts wants to acquire the property and has to have some considerable interdepartmental argument with the Department of the Interior. [More…]
I shall conclude and make 4 minutes of my time available to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts so that he can answer the questions which I have put to him in regard to the transaction. [More…]
Will he tell the do-gooders who have been pressurising bis Department on African and Asian migration to exhaust themselves in doing something practical to help fair dinkum Australians to do something worthwhile for the Australian Aborigines who alone have a claim for justice and fair treatment by the Australian people. [More…]
Why has it taken the Government 9 months since January to grant land to the Gurindji Aborigines? [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, is supplementary to the one asked by the honourable member for Sturt. [More…]
It should ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the State [More…]
Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) to take part in the debate. [More…]
There appear now to be no impediments to ratification of the Convention in regard to the employment of Aborigines in Australian jurisdictions including the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
COMMONWEALTH- The Honourable Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
I have said in this House, and I did tell a group of people at Perenjori, that there was pot the slightest doubt that members of the Communist Party and communist elements were associated with activist groups among Aborigines fighting for land rights. [More…]
I agree with the Government in respect of Aborigines. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Government should have as much power as is possible to make laws regarding the Aborigines of Australia. [More…]
The Government has declared itself categorically in respect of Aborigines but why has it not declared itself with respect to minerals and land? [More…]
By this I mean that I would hope that there would be a cutting of the Gordian knot bet .seen Canberra and the Northern Territory in relation to a lot of the minor decisions that are made even in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
I would like it noted that I have made the following speeches on welfare: On 5th March 1970 in my maiden speech; on 12th March 1970 on Aborigines; on 3rd June 1970 on handicapped children; on 17th September 1970 on the Social Services Bill in relation to pensioner poverty; on 22nd October 1970 on Aboriginal advancement; on 1st April 1971 on the Social Services Bill; on 15th [More…]
I note that once again the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) is not in the House. [More…]
Information has been provided by the State authorities responsible for Aborigines. [More…]
No special records are kept of Aborigines commissioned as Justices of the Peace, but some appointments are known to the Aboriginal affairs authorities which have supplied the following information: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
The promissory system is still widely practised in many communities and any precipitate a’ction aimed at destroying it would provoke resentment from Aborigines. [More…]
asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Which of the Commonwealth, Queensland and Western Australian laws that could be regarded as discriminating against Aborigines (Hansard, 19th August 1970, page 248) have been abolished as the former Prime Minister promised in his election policy speech on 8th October 1969 would be done in the life of the present Parliament. [More…]
The Aboriginal Affairs Council has discussed at recent annual meetings such matters as policies on land for Aborigines, discriminatory legislation and legislation prohibiting discrimination on racial grounds, which are relevant to, for example, the International Labour Organisation Convention No. [More…]
Peter Howson, M.P., Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Legislation is before the Parliament to provide that Australian Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, now receiving war compensation and associated benefits under the Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act 1957-1968, will receive these benefits under the Repatriation Act 1920- 1972. [More…]
ns asked the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, upon notice: [More…]
Will he make available to the -Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, a copy of the minutes of the Conference of Commonwealth and State Ministers for Housing held in Hobart in April 1972, if the Minister should request it, in order that the Minister might acquaint himself with the views of the Queensland Minister for Housing as to the precise location of homes built for Aborigines with Commonwealth grants. [More…]
They will not, however, permit any State Government or State agency to frustrate the clear will of the Australian people recorded so overwhelmingly in the 1967 Referendum that the national Government should assume constitutional responsibility for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
Among many measures already announced, my Government will give priority to establishing Aboriginal land rights and to ensuring that Aborigines are truly equal before the law. [More…]
Above that is a discretionary allowance which is actually taken from a similar allowance constructed in relation to allowances for the education of Aborigines under certain circumstances - that is, $150 for clothing, $50 for books and between $26 and $104 for pocket money according to the age of the child concerned. [More…]
Controls on Aborigines as such have now been lifted in all States and in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. [More…]
There is a lot to be done for Aborigines but there are a lot of other people living up there as well and we should also see about their welfare. [More…]
In other words, we have said: There are areas of concern up there, such as Aborigines, northern development, minerals and energy, and things of this sort that need to be singled out for special attention.’ [More…]
The Government intends to press for the establishment of Aboriginal land rights, far better health services and better nutritional standards for Aborigines so thu no longer will they be the poverty-stricken section of this Australian community with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. [More…]
But a community of Aborigines near Redlynch engendered a lot of newspaper publicity and a public telephone was installed in their area immediately. [More…]
In 1821 Captain John Bingie of Newcastle joined a walking tour to Lake Macquarie in the company of 100 Aborigines. [More…]
Ministers have already embarked upon this course - against Queensland over territorial boundaries and Torres Strait islanders as well as over Aborigines and coal export prices, and against Victoria over housing. [More…]
The calculated confrontation with all States over Aborigines which is to be found in the Governor-General’s Speech disdains cooperation rather than enhances it. [More…]
We paved the way for a better deal for Aborigines, to give them the land rights which they have justly and rightly deserved for a long while and upon which question the previous Government see-sawed and wavered because it was afraid of offending big business in this country, of which it was the servant. [More…]
The other 50 per cent are Aborigines clearly defined amongst themselves, whose attitudes are clearly expressed and who are clearly accepted by their own Aboriginal community. [More…]
If a large number of people in Australia are unemployed it will be found that many of them are Aborigines living in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
This is an area where special attention needs to be offered to minority groups - Aborigines, migrants and students. [More…]
It has quite a high proportion of Aborigines who because of their background find difficulty in obtaining jobs. [More…]
The first are the Aborigines in the northern part of Australia. [More…]
The first question may relate to Aborigines, the next to the state of the economy and the third one to immigration. [More…]
Eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this has been allocated to legal aid for Aborigines. [More…]
There was a time when arguments in favour of voting rights for women and Aborigines were also rejected. [More…]
The electoral officers - Mr Lee and the men in that Department - are to be congratulated for the effort they made to educate people, mainly Aborigines, to be able to vote with preference cards listing 6 or 7 candidates. [More…]
As there was a 5 per cent or greater informal vote at the last election, I ask the Ministers responsible for this matter to start now to teach not only Aborigines but also young men and women down to the age of 18, or as the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) suggested, down to the age of 14 years. [More…]
For example, Aborigines, migrants and electors with young children are not uniformly dispersed throughout the various regions. [More…]
As the Minister stated in his second reading speech, controls on Aborigines as such have been lifted in all States and in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Consequently it is in the nature of a formality that reference to controls on Aborigines be removed from Federal legislation. [More…]
The Aborigines of Australia ought not to be exploited by persons who merely wish to make money out of them. [More…]
Our Aborigines cannot possibly understand the conditions under which they will be employed outside the Commonwealth, or the experiences they are likely to undergo in a foreign country. [More…]
As such, Aborigines should be assisted to hold effective and respected places within one Australian society with equal access to the rights and opportunities it provides and acceptance of responsibilities towards it. [More…]
We recognised the right of Aborigines to choose the degree to which and the rate at which they intend to identify themselves with our Australian society. [More…]
The Government we believe must take into account the expressed wishes of Aborigines and it is our belief that programs of advancement will prove ineffective without the voluntary involvement of Aborigines themselves. [More…]
Finally, the Opposition believes that it is essential that the present Council for Aboriginal Affairs should be replaced by a council comprising Aborigines themselves. [More…]
We believe that Government policy in this area should be designed to encourage and strengthen the capacity of Aborigines to manage their own affairs; to increase their economic independence; to reduce their handicaps in health, housing, education, training and employment; and to promote their enjoyment of civil liberties. [More…]
The conviction that governments must assist Aborigines to exercise their civil liberties is firmly held by the Opposition. [More…]
Most Australians are equally ignorant of the historical aspects of the settlement of Australia by the Europeans and the catastrophic effects which this has had on the Aborigines. [More…]
There is no doubt that education can play a significant part in contributing towards a better understanding of the problems facing Aborigines in our society and effectively assisting in the changing of attitudes which are discriminatory on racial grounds. [More…]
The Constitution itself restricted the role of this Parliament concerning Aborigines; we have now removed that discrimination. [More…]
Wherever one turns in Australia, one will find that Aborigines are more likely to be punished for the sins to which all humanity seems to be heir. [More…]
His findings, however, will be the basis upon which the Commonwealth will act not only in the Northern Territory, not only in the Jervis Bay territory at places such as Wreck Bay, but also in the States where the Aborigines are still exercising traditional land rights. [More…]
We are determined to see that there will be non-alienable nontransferable rights vested in the Aborigines in respect of the land which they have traditionally occupied. [More…]
It is very likely that when it has to hand Mr Justice Woodward’s report the Commonwealth will exercise its constitutional powers if need be by way of acquisition of these Aboriginal reserves and other relevant lands to which the Aborigines can reasonably claim title. [More…]
Whereas the former Government subsidised family planning for Aborigines but not for other Australians, the present Government has already made available $300,000 for the development of family planning in all sections of our community, including those whose interest is restricted to the ovulation method. [More…]
Will consideration be given by the Government to implementing or setting up a national committee to combat racism and racial discriminanon which would include groups from all sections of the community so that as well as educating our black population we can start to educate our white population as to the reasons for the plight of underprivileged groups of people, not only Aborigines but other sections of the community such as national groups and ethnic groups? [More…]
A great deal of Health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist school leavers. [More…]
An important distinction must be made between the problems faced by Aborigines in major towns and cities and the problems faced by Aborigines living on reserves or in remote areas. [More…]
The number of Aborigines who have moved into the major cities has been extremely high. [More…]
At least 30 per cent of Aborigines are living in urban centres and consequently increasing emphasis must be placed on programs to assist them. [More…]
If there are handicaps in the way of stable employment opportunities for Aborigines then the Department of Labour and State authorities must help to remove those handicaps. [More…]
So far as the Aborigines in remote areas are concerned, I understand that the majority of them are living in static communities. [More…]
The spirit of looking towards the Aborigines for guidance and indeed for direction also is a cardinal one as far as I am concerned. [More…]
Let me return very briefly to the question of Aborigines deciding primarily the conduct of their welfare or future negotiations between themselves and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The last 2 Prime Ministers, the honourable member for Mackellar and his successor made a number of statements indicating that we must look to the Aborigines themselves to provide the voice for the pattern of development. [More…]
This thought should be encouraged to ensure that Aborigines participate in the management of their own affairs. [More…]
The Government recognises the rights of individual Aborigines to effective choice about the degree to which and the pace at which they come to identify themselves with that Australian society. [More…]
Australians should be generous enough to welcome such diversity if it is desired by Aborigines. [More…]
I know his interest in this subject over a very long period and his record of service to the Aborigines Advancement League in Victoria and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
Aborigines who are sick will go to State hospitals. [More…]
The Minister, in his second reading speech, spoke about consultation with Aborigines and Islanders. [More…]
Conferences were held at Townsville and elsewhere, and the legitimate views of Aborigines were sought in quite an honest way. [More…]
Under the Minister in the McMahon Government the Commonwealth, in its consultations with Aborigines, chose to work through people who were appointed as advisers by the State governments. [More…]
They represented only a little more than one-third of the Aboriginal and Island population of the State - those Aborigines who actually lived in communities. [More…]
The people who attended that conference were invited, irrespective of political considerations, to try to give a broad ranging representative group of Aborigines the opportunity to tell the Commonwealth the patterns of consultations which should apply in future. [More…]
It is a matter of gradually expanding the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs and involving Aborigines in the Department, particularly in the field, in making contact with Aboriginal and Island communities, in liaison and so on. [More…]
Our aim must not be ,to further the interests of those people who themselves are trying to help Aborigines or to further political interests. [More…]
It must be to further the interests of the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
I do not believe that everything that could be done or should be done for Aborigines is material. [More…]
There are terrible difficulties in this whole program, and 1 think that one of the things which probably the Government appreciates but which may not be appreciated outside this House is that all Aborigines are not the same. [More…]
There is, and it is quite natural, a feeling among people in the electorates that Aborigines are like the people they see in their own town or their own city. [More…]
Of course more than half the Aborigines are like that, but most of the people who cast their votes for members of this House have scarcely ever seen the Aborigines at the other end of the spectrum - the people who are still living in tribal or near tribal conditions. [More…]
Of the indigenous Aborigines - I do not mean visitors - there are in Victoria probably no full bloods. [More…]
By themselves, they are probably what is needed in the main for those Aborigines who are nearly assimilated, but they are certainly not enough for those who still maintain the traditional way of life. [More…]
I am not trying to say that this has anything to do with the Aborigines in Redfern or the Aborigines in Footscray or somewhere like that; it has not. [More…]
But it has a great deal to do with the Aborigines in the north of Australia and the centre of Australia. [More…]
The Minister said in his second reading speech that he calculated that nearly 90 per cent of Aborigines were living in absolute and acute social depression. [More…]
Complaints are made that money is being spent on Aborigines when it ought to be spent for other purposes. [More…]
It is a question of providing the necessary money for the Aborigines and their advancement. [More…]
When we consider this question we must understand that Aborigines who live in a tribal state have a direct link with the land they occupy. [More…]
This House ought to recognise, and 1 believe it does, the right of Aborigines to be a distinctive but not a separate people. [More…]
Some of his advisers who arrived in the north very recently to our way of thinking in the Northern Territory are not Aborigines. [More…]
Australia is being told what Aborigines want and v/hat they are thinking. [More…]
The reason for the meeting - and this will cause many more such meetings - is that those who were seen associating with the Minister and who could be advising him do not have the respect of either the Europeans or Aborigines in that area. [More…]
Unemployment at various centres of both Aborigines and whites. [More…]
Let us face the fact that the previous Government did a tremendous amount for Aborigines. [More…]
One has only to proceed from Unakumba to Angurguru, travel across the top end of Arnhem Land and through to the centre to see what people have done and are doing for Aborigines to recognise that what [More…]
Some of the critics, a number of whom are churchmen, are accused of dividing Aborigines. [More…]
The Bishop of Darwin, J. P. O’Loughlin, has spent 20 years with Aborigines, as have many other churchmen in Australia. [More…]
However, on the other side is a list of Aborigines. [More…]
These fellows are leaders of thousands of Aborigines. [More…]
With the exception of Gus Williams from Hermannsburg, who is part-coloured, these men are all full-blooded Aborigines. [More…]
Bishop 0’Loughlin was quite right when he said that the problems of the people in northern Australia are entirely different from those of part coloured Aborigines living in city suburbs. [More…]
Everard Park, which covers 2,400 square miles, was acquired and returned to the Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister has to get people and money to help the Aborigines to develop this land. [More…]
I know that the Minister probably told the Aborigines at Yirrkala that they did not have to work at Gove, that they could sit under a tree and that they could do whatever they wanted. [More…]
Although we on this side of the House do not aften agree wilh him I think that those of us who are interested in Aboriginal affairs have recognised that he has shown a concern for Aborigines for some time. [More…]
I think the amount he was charging his fellow Aborigines was about $18 a frame. [More…]
The Gwydir electorate has a relatively high population of part Aborigines but very few full bloods. [More…]
Aborigines or part Aborigines who are living in my electorate have good jobs, are Jiving with dignity and are highly respected citizens in the electorate. [More…]
It is fair to say that in New South Wales since 1965 greater efforts than ever before have been made by the present Liberal-Country Party Government to advance the Aborigines. [More…]
Until recent years there was a lack of social conscience so far as Aborigines were concerned. [More…]
As the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant) knows, there is a problem at Wee Waa among Aborigines who are mostly itinerant workers on the cotton fields. [More…]
Both the New South Wales and Commonwealth governments have moved to help to improve the working and living conditions of the itinerant workers, most of whom are Aborigines. [More…]
The Committee is representative of all sections of the community, including well known cotton growers who want to see the Aborigines helped and given decent conditions which will allow them to live with at least some sense of dignity and to work under conditions that are acceptable to them. [More…]
Moree, my home town, has an acute housing problem for the local Aborigines. [More…]
After the February 1971 flood about 20 families were moved from the low lying areas surrounding Moree to what is called the Mehi Crescent and were provided with emergency accommodation in caravans, and 16 of those 20 caravans are still providing shelter for approximately 110 Aborigines - more than 30 adults and 80 children. [More…]
More and more funds will be required to provide an increasing population of Aborigines and part Aborigines in this area with adequate housing on an annual basis and to provide more health facilities, adequate pre-school facilities and so on. [More…]
It is not surprising that so many people are concerned about the enormous social problems facing Aborigines and part Aborigines. [More…]
There are strong demands from militant groups of Aborigines and their supporters for financial compensation amounting to $6 billion and a percentage of the gross national product per annum to compensate their race for occupancy of land which they claim once belonged to their ancestors and which is now owned by white Australians. [More…]
No matter how strongly one may work for the Aboriginal cause, one cannot ignore the fact that the Aborigines cannot be isolated from the total Australian community. [More…]
In the Northern Territory there are approximately 95,000 square miles of reserves sei aside for the purpose of Aborigines. [More…]
There is no earthly use saying that the Aborigines in the Northern Territory did not accept the principle of the leasehold tenure. [More…]
What was more important was that on land boards that determined the applications for those leases the Government appointed 2 Aborigines out of the 5 board members so that the Aborigines themselves were making a decision and taking part in the decision itself. [More…]
The Government has now established the Woodward Commiission to inquire into land rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I agree with the Prime Minister that if the Government introduces new measures or new tenures or titles for the Aborigines in the Northern Territory this principle must also be applied to the States. [More…]
There is no justice at all in making one law for the Northern Territory Aborigines and another for dispossessed Aborigines in the States. [More…]
Indeed, the Aborigines or part Aborigines, many of whom live in deplorable circumstances in Sydney and in other capital cities have less land available to them than those in the Northern Territory. [More…]
For instance, in New South Wales there are only 20 square miles of reserves whereas in the Northern Territory there are 95,000 square miles where the Aborigines have the right to roam, to hunt and to forage over the total area. [More…]
non-alienable non-transferable rights vested in the Aborigines in respect of the land which they have traditionally occupied. [More…]
the Commonwealth will exercise its constitutional powers if need be by way of acquisition of these Aboriginal reserves and other relevant lands to which the Aborigines can reasonably claim title. [More…]
Do part Aborigines have equal claim to land on traditional grounds? [More…]
In this respect, I wish to quote from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment which inquired into the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders and the preservation of their sacred sites. [More…]
They have contributed enormously to our appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of the Aborigines and to our understanding of their traditional relationships with the land and the physical features of the countryside around them. [More…]
The Government will also supplement education for Aboriginal children with the teaching of traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills mostly by Aborigines themselves. [More…]
I think that in the pre-school level and infants school level, and even up to the primary level, there is a great case to be made out for the use in Aboriginal schools in the Northern Territory, particularly in Central Australia, and in Western Australia of the native language where that is current and in use by the Aborigines who live there. [More…]
The transition must be a matter of choice by the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
In my experience I have found that most Aborigines, although they do not want to abandon their own language, are anxious to become literate and fluent in English. [More…]
We should help Aborigines to become fluent in normal English, but I do not believe that this means imposing upon them an English curriculum in primary and preprimary schools. [More…]
I am not suggesting for one moment that we should not endeavour to get Aborigines who are academically capable of taking the higher grades; I am not trying to rule that out for a moment. [More…]
But it does seem to me that the first priority now is to get Aborigines who are capable in their own language - the language is crucial - of taking the lower grades in the schools. [More…]
We have mixed groups which are very difficult and which I believe are not in the best interests of the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
If there is to be mixture and a breaking down of the tribe then let the initiative come from the Aborigines. [More…]
I would almost hope that in some cases there might be within a limited framework some kind of re-sorting of the tribal situations, again not forcing it, but allowing the Aborigines themselves to choose it. [More…]
I see the scheme as a way of encouraging Aborigines to be interested in teaching their own children in their own areas so that the children will grow up with respect for and knowledge of their own circumstances and traditions. [More…]
If the young Aborigines enter our way of life it would be a great pity if they entered it without having any chance of knowing about their traditions, background and arts. [More…]
This House ought to pay tribute to much of the pioneering work that was done by the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) in the original efforts to gain a greater appreciation and understanding of the problems of Aborigines. [More…]
I think it might be useful for this House if the Minister asks his officers to document what has been attempted, the successes that were achieved and the failures that resulted from some of the efforts in that area, not restricting the examination of the paper to what has occurred at Katherine but including other examples where special efforts have been made to solve some of the problems of education and of Aborigines in the wider community. [More…]
One item to which we could raise no objection is the appropriation of $10m for the advancement of Aborigines and their development. [More…]
The Bill provides an appropriation of $10,850,000 to be allocated to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account to improve the health, education and housing of Aborigines and to make legal representation available to those Aborigines who appear as defendants in courts. [More…]
I think the right for Aborigines to have an equal opportunity to avail themselves of the benefits provided by the Public Defender on the same basis as Europeans is long overdue. [More…]
Some years ago the Australian people by referendum expressed overwhelmingly the view that more should be done for Aborigines. [More…]
Whilst I admit that the previous Government had shown some endeavour to aid Aborigines, I am joyfully pleased that my Party in Government is making a more determined effort to relieve the plight of Aborigines. [More…]
Another college is to be built for Aborigines near Alice Springs. [More…]
My Government believes that sufficient was not being done by the previous Government and we are endeavouring to meet the needs of Aborigines whose problems are a legacy, one might say, of our great-great-grandfathers. [More…]
Not so long ago, in 1962, we passed an Act which gave Aborigines the right to vote, but no citizen guarantee in the Constitution gave them that right. [More…]
It specifies, in effect, that the representations shall be in relation to the numbers of people; that is, the total population of the States including children, migrants and - since 1967 - Aborigines. [More…]
Difficulties are associated with the Aborigines in my area. [More…]
Let us not forget the people that a government should set out to represent, whether they be Aborigines living on the bank of the Darling River or struggling farmers living on the Namoi. [More…]
However, the most important matters which the Committee will be discussing will involve many social problems in the Northern Territory, problems such as education and Aborigines and problems intrinsic to the Northern Territory such as land tenure, mining leases and other related matters. [More…]
concerned excessive drunkeness and the exploitation of Aborigines. [More…]
T believe that it will be a committee of a non-party political nature from which the people of the Northern Territory will derive great benefit, particularly the Aborigines, who will be saved from exploitation in the fields on which I put my greatest emphasis. [More…]
Welfare must be taken into consideration - the welfare of the people of the north and of our original Australians, the Aborigines, who have a special claim for attention and consideration by the Committee. [More…]
I rise tonight to say that that man did the cause of the Aborigines and the Europeans in that area and of the people who are trying to bring these 2 groups together - the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant), the Minister for Education (Mr Beasley) and all of us - a great disservice. [More…]
I do not know whether honourable members - 1 am speaking now not of migrants but of Aborigines - saw recently on television a backlash from towns in the Northern Territory about what was being done for our Aborigines. [More…]
I am entirely in favour of differential treatment for the advantage of our Aborigines. [More…]
The honourable member cited the case of Aborigines. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that a few weeks ago during the second reading stage of an earlier social services Bill he expressed concern about what he seemed to feel was the generosity in regard to unemployment and sickness benefits, specifically unemployment benefits, going to Aborigines. [More…]
The Aboriginal problems of social maladjustment come in fact from cultural clash, from long term neglect of the needs of the Aborigines within our society, from the way in which the Aborigines have been repressed and discriminated against and the way in which their needs have not been attended to. [More…]
After leaning over the door of his car he pointed at the Crossways Hotel in Katherine and said: ‘And the whites are over there in their $2m Crossways Hotel planning their strategy, working out what they are going to do in their air conditioned rooms, while the Aborigines are across the high level bridge over the Katherine River’. [More…]
It is making the job of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant), who is sitting at the table, far harder than it would otherwise be because this program endeavoured to paint a picture and excluded from the scene anyone who happened to be interested in the welfare of Australian citizens whether they be Aborigines or anyone else. [More…]
I will not have time to go through them all but some of them were: The running of educational, health and job opportunity functions of the Department; the running of settlements at Hooker Creek, Beswick and Roper River - these places are in the local area and naturally enough the people would be interested in them; the allocation of funds to the Department and the way they are expended; the questioning of the lack of supervision of the spending of welfare cheques paid to Aborigines for specific purposes. [More…]
But this reporter did not wish to portray this genuine interest in the welfare of the people in the area, not only Aborigines but also whites on the settlements. [More…]
Unemployment at various centres of both Aborigines and whites was another of the terms of reference. [More…]
He has done a great disservice to the people who are trying to help Aborigines. [More…]
He lured them across the high level bridge ostensibly to be seen speaking to Aborigines in camp environment. [More…]
Those who go to the area and write news stories and take pictures have to understand that they can help the Aborigines as well as we can. [More…]
This belief was put forward on the sole argument - a very questionable on and one which seems to reveal certain biases he has - that it would destroy the moral fibre and the drive for self-improvement of Aborigines. [More…]
He also is concerned with other activities on behalf of the Government in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
1 do not suggest as a Minister has suggested that Aborigines should be sterilised. [More…]
When there has been no comparable organised campaign against the atrocities committed in Vietnam, against capital punishment, against nuclear testing in the Pacific or against an infant mortality rate amongst Aborigines that is 17 times higher than for the general community, one can be excused for thinking that among those who now campaign so strongly against abortion law reform there are many who have a great feeling for foetal life but once it stops being a foetus their respect for human life stops well short of that concern. [More…]
As this campaign for abortion has proceeded, it is notable that concern for child endowment, maternity welfare, reduction of neo-natal, infant and child mortality of Aborigines have all been played off the stage. [More…]
At 31st December 1972 there were approximately 7,550 Aborigines living in communities conducted by Church Missions in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Aborigines’ Petition to the United Nations (Question No. [More…]
I will be looking in particular to the National Aborigines Consultative Council, when it becomes fully operative, to advise me on further action which might be taken in relation to the matters referred to in the petition. [More…]
The former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts approved in principle the recommendations in the report and indicated that the Government would provide funds for their implementation. [More…]
Particular attention is being given to Aborigines and to women in this regard. [More…]
In the operations of the Commonwealth Employment Service, what is involved is drawing up guide lines to eliminate the discriminatory practices associated with notifying and filling job vacancies; for example, where employers specify that only men should be referred to fill vacancies which could be filled by women, or specify that they do not want Aborigines. [More…]
Just as we have embarked on a determined campaign to restore the Australian Aborigines to their rightful place in Australian society, so we have an obligation to remove methodically from Australia’s laws and practices all racially discriminatory provisions and from international activities any hint or suggestion that we favour policies, decrees or resolutions that seek to differentiate between peoples on the basis of the colour of their skin. [More…]
To help overcome some pockets of poverty amongst Aborigines and others in rural Australia, will the Minister continue- ‘indeed, step up - the previous Government’s policy of providing regional offices of his Department in rural areas? [More…]
I am aware that there is a very serious problem of poverty, and indeed, a serious health problem among Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
Nursing sisters are unable to treat patients without the supervision of a doctor, as it is contrary to medical professional practices and nursing training, lt would, therefore, also be of detriment to the health of Aborigines, and the Ministry will noi provide a second-rate service to Aboriginal people. [More…]
I can assure that Minister that almost any sort of health care service for Aborigines would be better than the service available to them at present in Nowa Nowa. [More…]
The population of the Northern Territory includes the highest percentage of Aborigines when compared with persons of any other group within this community of ours. [More…]
1 ) How were the Northern Territory representatives to the recent National Conference of Aborigines in Canberra selected? [More…]
1 believe that the teaching of Aborigines in their own language has already commenced. [More…]
I hope that the teachers will be asked to get through to the Aborigines the importance of respecting their environment. [More…]
it through to the young Aborigines and Europeans that they must respect the environment because we see it ruined from top to bottom by people of various ages. [More…]
We hear so much about the Aborigines and the areas in which they have lived and which are sacred to them but one has to go there to see the devastation which a tribe or a gathering of Aborigines can cause in any one area. [More…]
I would also like to make a comment on some of the observations of the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
Very often we think that we will teach Aborigines in our categories of thought instead of in their own categories of thought. [More…]
As the honourable member will know, some very interesting experimental work is being done in Alice Springs at the present time on the question of how to really communicate with Aborigines, to find out not merely whether they know English but whether, when matters are discussed with them in one’s own thought categories, in fact anything is being conveyed at all. [More…]
I believe that some psychological advantage has been achieved, in the respect that is being shown for their languages for the first time, in trying to teach the Aborigines in their own languages with Aboriginal teachers or teaching aids. [More…]
The education scheme for Aborigines has been extended by the present Government into the full area of secondary education. [More…]
There are also similarities in regard to the study grants scheme for Aborigines and the migrant education program. [More…]
I would be interested to know whether those 14 benefited from the Aborigines study grant proposal. [More…]
Honourable members will recall how the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) as Prime Minister and my predecessor in Casey, as Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts endeavoured, in the parlance of the day, to de-Gortonise this project along with many other projects in a manner that was highly disruptive to the unity of the Liberal Party and damaging to its electoral prospects. [More…]
On 8 September 1971 the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts said in answer to a question without notice from the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley): [More…]
within recent weeks I have had discussions with my colleague the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, and I have pointed out to him that he is to proceed as quickly as possible to collect all the evidence that becomes available to him so that the proposal can be presented to the Government well before the next Budget and not necessarily therefore in a Budget context. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister, before establishing a group of Ministers chaired by the Treasurer to handle the matter of the national film and television training school, advise the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts of his intention to do so? [More…]
On 19 April 1972 the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts announced that the Government had received a third report from the Interim Council. [More…]
To have heard the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts talk at the time one might have supposed that Australia had no film industry and that there would have been no opening for the graduates of the school other than in our limited number of television studios. [More…]
Those honourable members in the House who wanted to have a little morning doze would have been indebted to the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) for his monotonous, archaic monologue which seemed to be devoted more primarily to taking apart the former honourable member for Casey who was Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
How many Aborigines are employed by each Commonwealth Department. [More…]
Did he state that it is the Government’s policy that 1 per cent of the employees of each Department be Aborigines. [More…]
Did he also state that the Commonwealth will employ Aborigines on the basis of their Aboriginality rather than their educational or other qualifications. [More…]
What action has been taken to increase the employment of Aborigines in Commonwealth Departments. [More…]
Aboriginal organisations consulted to date include, apart from the -National Aboriginal Consultative Council itself, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, the Aborigines Advancement Council of Western Australia, the Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Adelaide, and the Aboriginal Advancement League, Victoria. [More…]
How many leases of land to Aborigines and Aboriginal groups were approved by the Minister for the Interior in the McMahon Government. [More…]
Will he supply details of each lease granted to Aborigines, including the pastoral stations. [More…]
Are there Aboriginal members on the Land Board appointed to hear applications from Aborigines [More…]
Did the lease conditions and land laws applying to Aborigines differ from those applying to Australians generally. [More…]
Has the Government issued an instruction stopping all further action on the land lease approvals to Aborigines made by the former Minister for the Interior. [More…]
recruited from the United States of America as an adviser on Aboriginal rights, has criticised the absence of Aborigines from the bodies which determine policies on aboriginal affairs? [More…]
If so, does the Government propose to appoint any Aborigines as members of (a) the Woodward Commission and (b) the Council for Aboriginal Affairs; if not, why not [More…]
No proposals for the appointment of Aborigines to the Land Rights Commission or to the Council for Aboriginal Affairs are currently under consideration. [More…]
What price did the Walbri Aborigines pay for Willowra Station, in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Under the procedure now adopted by the Government for purchases of land for Aborigines outside reserves, how is it possible to prevent Aboriginal purchasers paying too high a price to the advantage of the vendor and disadvantage to the public. [More…]
For local government areas only partly included in the capital city urban area, the figures given are for Aborigines in the total LGA. [More…]
2 (b) Local government areas with 100 or more Aborigines in urban centres of population 50,000 or more (other than capital city urban areas). [More…]
The main problems we have in Australia at the present time are poverty, inequality and the under-privileged members of our society, particularly the Aborigines. [More…]
These facts illustrate clearly the Midas touch of failure which Victorian governments bring to all their dealings with the Aborigines of East Gippsland. [More…]
In choosing to ignore this advice and instead to hand over Lake Tyers to a group of Aborigines described by their own representative in the Victorian Parliament as having ‘at best extremely limited experience in or knowledge of farming operations and probably a complete absence of knowledge of the more vital problems of farm economies’, the Victorian Government showed a cynical disregard for the cause of Aboriginal land rights to which its spokesmen at the same time were paying lip service. [More…]
The Government raised expectations both among Aborigines and in other sections of the community which it knew could not be satisfied. [More…]
The number of Aborigines on the 7-man Lake Tyers committee of management has fallen from 5 to 2, and great difficulty is being experienced in finding replacements for those who have resigned. [More…]
More than half the 36 adult Aborigines resident at present on the Lake Tyers property are living on social security payments or waiting for approval as social security beneficiaries. [More…]
The aspirations, determination and self-respect of the Aborigines of Lake Tyers, no less than the health of Aboriginal children throughout East Gippsland- [More…]
They have been sacrificed to the dogma that Aborigines must run before they have finished learning to walk. [More…]
Whereas frequent false alarms have made the Bairnsdale ambulance service reluctant to visit Lake Tyers in response to calls from Aborigines, it is th, policy of the Victorian Ministry that such calls should not be made on behalf of Aborigines by other people. [More…]
It is not from a book or a film but from grim experience that the Aborigines of Lake Tyers have learned the meaning of ‘Catch-22’. [More…]
It is symbolised by the Ministry sending out its officials to buy back from Aborigines the shares with which they were issued only 2 short years ago. [More…]
Shares in the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust acquired in recent months by the Victorian Ministry for Aboriginal Affairs must now be reassigned to Aborigines who can make good those deficiencies in skills and expertise and leadership by which the Trust has so far found itself crippled. [More…]
We must take into account the effects of mining on the rights of Aborigines, on the environment and pollution and the rights of those people who work in and around the mines. [More…]
Some of its increased expenditure I heartily applaud, in particular that on pensions, on education, on the cities, and on Aborigines. [More…]
In Australia the likely members of such an under-class are mainly Aborigines, deserted wives and widows with young families, pensioners and large low income families. [More…]
This is because there have been heavy commitments to the easing of the means test, to education and to Aborigines. [More…]
This is consistent with the large percentage increases that have taken place throughout the whole of Australia, whether it be on education, housing, social services, Aborigines, money spent on the cities through the Department of Urban and Regional Development or public transport. [More…]
We recognise Aborigines are a major proportion of the Northern Territory’s population. [More…]
I preface my question by saying that over a period of years disturbing reports have appeared in the Press concerning conditions in such prisons as Fannie Bay gaol, particularly affecting Aborigines. [More…]
One minor one which has not been acted on, but which I hope will be, is the concessional rate of duty on plug tobacco sold to Aborigines. [More…]
It began in 1935 ostensibly to help the tobacco industry and depends on 2 requirements, firstly, that the tobacco is of low quality and, secondly, that it is supplied to Aborigines. [More…]
On the one hand it has about it an air of paternalism which appears to be entirely out of keeping with the approach of the present Government to Aborigines’ problems: on the other hand it involves the provision to Aborigines on ‘subsidised’ terms of a clearly inferior product. [More…]
The various other forms of financial and other assistance now being provided to Aborigines render the concession as unnecessary as it is offensive. [More…]
I have received a telex message that carries the advice that the Sydney based Sutton group of companies has bought Tipperary station for $5.4m and that the sale is associated with an arrangement that was previously being entered into with the Tipperary group of companies over a dispute with Aborigines who claim cattle rights in the Daly River area. [More…]
The only unusual feature I am aware of is the relationship to the sale of that arrangement that existed between Tipperary and the Aborigines in the Daly River area. [More…]
It will cover everyone in the community and it will not fail as the present scheme does in respect of low income earners and the fringe dwelling Aborigines. [More…]
I can follow the efforts of the PostmasterGeneral in this case to equate these things as he sees it, but I ask him: Does his Government, for instance, see fit, rightly, to give extra help to Aborigines? [More…]
I am particularly concerned by the suggestion voiced in some quarters that the Government should intervene, directly and arbitrarily, to prohibit certain betrothal and marriage customs, or aspects of them, and even to disallow or abrogate arrangements which Aborigines have entered into amongst themselves, simply because the customs or arrangements are distasteful or repugnant to our ideas. [More…]
It is nearly always the case that incidents of this kind occur in communities which continue to live to a substantial extent in accordance with tradition although, as I will mention later, there is evidence that Aborigines widely are beginning to adapt that tradition, voluntarily, to their changed circumstances of life. [More…]
Polygyny was apparently never universal amongst Aborigines in the sense that every man had more than one wife at a time, or even in the course of a lifetime. [More…]
This is not simply because the Christian missions, as they are entitled to, expect their adherents to be monogamists, but because there is a distinct shift of sentiment amongst Aborigines themselves, especially the younger ones. [More…]
Insofar as it is a problem it will be dealt with by Aborigines in their own way and in all probability will in time disappear. [More…]
The main point I desire to make is that most of the circumstances allowing or encouraging polygyny have changed, and that Aborigines widely realise that this is the case. [More…]
It certainly runs counter to some of our most cherished ideas, but many people who worry themselves about so-called child marriage do not realise the extent to which this misrepresents the Aboriginal custom, and even insults the Aborigines, who in some ways could teach us a lesson or two about the care of children. [More…]
This is what the Aborigines describe as the promise system. [More…]
All I am doing is to suggest that meddlesome and morally censorious interference by us is not the answer to a tradition which a great many Aborigines, especially in the more traditional areas, still uphold strongly. [More…]
I thought it very interesting and significant that a recent congress of Aborigines in the Northern Territory decided, of their own motion, that promises of long standing would continue to be honoured but that in future young men and women would be free to marry by choice provided they kept the other laws of marriage. [More…]
If so, I and my Department will discuss them with the Aborigines concerned with the utmost patience and goodwill. [More…]
The life that Aborigines lead might well be austere, but to assume that they ill-treat children is quite wrong. [More…]
The reticence of the previous Government may have been due partly to shame but probably more likely it was due to indifference, particularly over the statistics concerning Aborigines in the system. [More…]
Aborigines constitute only 26 per cent of the population of the Northern Territory but they make up 56 per cent of the gaol population. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant) said that the Australian Government would assume ultimate responsibility for Aborigines and would establish a Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, with offices in each State to give the Commonwealth a genuine presence in the States. [More…]
I query its capability to speak on the welfare of all Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, seeing that virtually all of this committee was nominated by the Minister and drawn from the ranks of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, except for a few other reputable people, who, in the opinion of a number of people, were appointed for window dressing purposes only. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he hand picked the organisers of this committee, for again there seems to be a large number of members of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders appointed as such, and this organisation, as we all know, was presided over by the Minister. [More…]
Aborigines were regarded as rural pests and an obstruction to what is called development. [More…]
Even when Aboriginal reserves were established towards the end of the 19th century they were leased not to the Aborigines but to Government departments or religious missions on the assumption that they could best judge the most appropriate form of development. [More…]
Change from the assumption that our society is entitled to expect of Aborigines the supreme flattery of imitation has been very slow. [More…]
After the referendum which brought the Commonwealth into the field of policy the then Prime Minister, the right honourable John Gorton, expressed a view which acknowledged that Aboriginal Australians may have different views about the pace at which assimilation is to take place but the objective remained unchanged and the conviction that Aborigines would, in due course, desire it is re-emphasised by the following statement by him: [More…]
We believe that Aborigines must be helped to take an increasing part in the management of their own affairs. [More…]
I would say further that well conceived programs designed by social scientists and administrators have failed because their clients, the Aborigines, have been involved only as passive recipients and, at most, have been invited to endorse programs already approved for them. [More…]
However, one wonders what programs, if any, have been evolved for the Aborigines. [More…]
He found the same thing applied to education in that only a handful of the Aborigines he reported on had reached the top classes in secondary schools. [More…]
The Minister reported that 90 per cent of the Aborigines in some towns are unemployed and are living on unemployment benefit, social benefits and handouts. [More…]
I support everything the Minister said with regard to the conditions under which the Aborigines in those areas are living. [More…]
One may therefore ask: Where has this large amount of money - the amount of $259m which has been provided by the Commonwealth and the States for the benefit of Aborigines - been spent? [More…]
The honourable P. Howson, as the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, in a debate in Parliament on 14 September 1972 set out the number of organisations which had been set up to care for the welfare of the Aboriginal. [More…]
There are approximately 160 organisations in Australia looking after Aborigines. [More…]
I would say that the Aboriginal is very fortunate because each of those organisations presumably is really dedicated to doing its best for the interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
It was only as a result of the passing of the referendum, and it will be only as a result of the passing of this legislation that the Commonwealth will have some say in the future with regard to the management and control of Aborigines throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think that situation is related to the previous Administration which was in power for 23 years and had control of Aborigines. [More…]
I am sure that they are working in the interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
The purpose of the referendum of 1967 was that the Australian Government should assume responsibility for Aborigines. [More…]
One only has to be a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and to have a look at the conditions under which Aborigines are living at present to realise the importance of the Standing Committee. [More…]
The sooner the provisions of this Bill can be brought into operation, Australian Government control established and some sense of sanity and goodness achieved for the Aborigines, the better. [More…]
In accordance with the referendum of 1967, the Commonwealth Government is to assume the ultimate responsibility for Aborigines. [More…]
There is better liaison, very often, between State departments when the matter being dealt with concerns the health, education or housing of Aborigines. [More…]
I think the Aborigines are missing a chance for their children to get a better start in life, especially if they do not wish to care for them in their early years. [More…]
It will be a pity if the present case breaks down this sort of feeling between Aborigines and Europeans. [More…]
At the conclusion of the sale the members of the Borroloola Social Club, who are Aborigines, had to be instructed on what had occurred. [More…]
The Aborigines did not know what was going on; they were told later. [More…]
In his second reading speech, the Minister stated that some confusion existed among Australian Aborigines as to whom they should approach. [More…]
Is it truly representative of all Aborigines across the nation? [More…]
What is happening with regard to the election which Aborigines are supposed to be holding to put Aboriginal members on to that Council? [More…]
What thoughts has the Minister about the complaint from many Aborigines in the outback areas of Western Australia, Queensland or the Northern Territory - I say this reservedly - that they are being bulldozed into accepting the decisions which come from this Council and which purports to represent them? [More…]
These Aborigines say that they are being bulldozed into agreement by the better educated part-coloured city slickers, as it were, who come into their areas and are used as mouthpieces. [More…]
Do Aborigines really understand what is meant by transferring authority from the States to the Commonwealth? [More…]
Someone must advise the Aborigines. [More…]
The policy being espoused in Australia for Aborigines is quite separate and distinct from that followed with respect to European Australians. [More…]
By all means let us work towards assisting Aborigines to take their place in our society. [More…]
Let Aborigines participate in the fruits of the development of this tremendous country. [More…]
Is the Government embarked on a course which will bring Aborigines to that desirable state? [More…]
Are Aborigines and the Government working together to achieve that end? [More…]
Unless something is done the whole onward movement of Aborigines towards involvement in their own enterprises will go down the drain. [More…]
But I say to the Minister: Do not turn your back on those who can assist you and the Aborigines. [More…]
The Government should be training men and women who can assist the Aborigines themselves to develop their own skills and to develop their own determination to work for themselves in order to enable them to own and operate a considerable part of this country. [More…]
It will be a matter of lining up the people with the experience and trying to teach the Aborigines until they have reached the stage where they can cope for themselves. [More…]
It was directly under the control of the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts but the 2 previous speakers on the Opposition side said they know nothing about it. [More…]
At that time somehow it was announced that the new Labor Government had bought the Baptist Theological College in the Brisbane suburb of Hill End for the purpose of a hostel for Aborigines. [More…]
The ‘Australian’ newspaper - perhaps the Queensland edition - on 30 July reported that Aborigines were not being consulted by the Federal Government over the use of hostels. [More…]
The President of the Black Community Service advised that ‘Aborigines were angry that the Federal Government had reserved the Hill End hostel for girl workers and not students as originally proposed’. [More…]
Of course, we all realise that whilst the Torres Strait Islanders are Aborigines within the strict interpretation of the word, they are proud to retain their own identity as Islanders. [More…]
When Mr Howson, the former honourable member for Casey, was the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, government policy was to liaise with the organisations set up in each State. [More…]
The honourable member for Herbert, in criticising the proposal for the establishment of a national Aborigines consultative council, did not take into account what has actually happened. [More…]
Earlier in the year the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs brought together a representative group of people who had been involved in Aboriginal affairs He asked them to recommend the manner in which Aborigines could be consulted in the future. [More…]
They suggested to him in 2 conferences in Canberra, and in a number of regional conferences, that an elected national Aborigines consultative council be set up. [More…]
This matter has involved a great number of discussions and I am told that more than 2,000 Aborigines have attended regional conferences to discuss it. [More…]
In its day that department managed the affairs of Aborigines from the cradle to the grave. [More…]
Through the Commonwealth Employment Service it selects and offers pre-employment training to young Aborigines who might be short on skills but show that they are not afraid to work. [More…]
But surely we ought to be encouraging anything that enables Aborigines to be given a better life than living on unemployment benefits or on subsistence agriculture or fishing. [More…]
The officer also said that he experienced very great difficulty in getting the Aborigines to apply for work previously and that it would be quite impossible now. [More…]
It is all very well to sneer at paternalism and say that paternalism is a bad thing, but just to wash one’s hands of the problem /because of the unpopularity that comes with authority and to let things drift along is to buy popularity at the expense of the well being of the Aborigines. [More…]
It is all very well to give Aborigines the same rights as other people to obtain drink, but, in view of the way in which the drink problem is destroying them, the price of being popular in the general community is a very dear one. [More…]
It is all very well for the Government to say that it will buy popularity by giving Aborigines land rights. [More…]
This willingness to sacrifice the Aborigines on the altar of political popularity is one of the things about which I am acutely anxious. [More…]
In conclusion - I have been asked to be brief - I add that it is no good thinking that the problems of the Aborigines can be buried under a mountain of money, because they will fester there. [More…]
It is no good thinking that the problems of the Aborigines can be washed away in a torrent of eloquence, because they will still be there when the speeches are finished. [More…]
One senses the .morale and notices the different way in which the Aborigines approach things compared with what they did 12 months or even 10 years ago. [More…]
The first question may be about Aborigines, the next question about prices, the following question on the post office at WOOP WOOP. [More…]
We know that about 90,000 people are in the Northern Territory and a third of them are Aborigines. [More…]
1 go on record as saying that there is no doubt as to his experience with and genuine concern for Australian Aborigines. [More…]
There is no doubt that the future success of Government policies will be facilitated by a greater understanding of Aborigines, their history, their culture and their contemporary problems by all Australians. [More…]
Because I believe that the development of a greater understanding of Aborigines is important I would put the following suggestions for consideration by the Minister. [More…]
There may be some advantage for Aborigines in legislation of this type where there is provision for the investigation of complaints and for conciliation procedures such as exist in the United Kingdom and New Zealand legislation. [More…]
The Opposition recognises the rights of individual Aborigines to effective choice about the degree to which, and the pace at which, they come to identify themselves with our society. [More…]
The dual policy which seeks to inculcate and maintain a pride in Aboriginal identity, tradition and culture while providing bridging assistance into Australian society such as legal and medical services, operates on Aborigines but not on the white Australian society. [More…]
Clearly, if Aborigines are to be assisted towards accepting the values and social structures of our society there must be an equal emphasis on policies designed to create acceptance and understanding of this by white Australians. [More…]
Unless greater emphasis is directed towards the public understanding of Aborigines most of the increased financial assistance provided in the Budget will not have the most productive results. [More…]
Many migrant groups experience substantially similar problems to Aborigines in our society. [More…]
There is no reason to prevent the sponsorship of councils along similar lines for the benefit of both Aborigines and white Australians. [More…]
Apart from the urban dwellers most Aborigines in South Australia are located in the electorates of Wakefield, Grey and to a lesser extent Angas. [More…]
Most of the western and northern Aborigines reside in my electorate and I should like to see something done for them. [More…]
Port Augusta has been accepted by the Aborigines as the centre of this area. [More…]
What usually happens is that after a period in this reserve the Aborigines can be moved into houses provided by the South Australian Housing Trust. [More…]
In Port Augusta a group of Aborigines calling themselves the Aboriginal Social Club has done a fantastic job, thanks to money allocated by the Commonwealth Government and with the assistance of the local council in purchasing an old house and transforming it into a social club wherein the group has provided facilities for Aboriginal old folk, including a television room. [More…]
When Aborigines make a go of life, are able to hold down steady jobs, move into the town itself, become part of it and merge into community life no publicity results. [More…]
The land around this area is sacred to the Aborigines. [More…]
One can appreciate the significance of these Ranges to the Aborigines in the area. [More…]
It is very fortunate that some Aborigines who are full time teachers on the staff of the Education Department of South Australia are from that area and, as such, are able to teach the children in their own language. [More…]
I point out to the Minister for his sake and so that when he does get a chance to reply to my comments - I imagine that that will be tomorrow - he will have it clearly in his mind that he stated on 23 June that the proposed hostel at Hill End would provide study facilities and a respectable place for Aborigines to live. [More…]
In recent times - I know that the honourable member for Cook (Mr Thorburn) is interested in this area - we have looked at the program being conducted through the New South Wales Housing Commission to provide homes for Aborigines. [More…]
I think that there is a lot to be said for building homes for Aborigines through an instrumentality that caters for the housing needs of the whole community. [More…]
It seems to me that we should embark on a program of positive discrimination in favour of Aborigines in this generation in order that they may have equality in the next generation. [More…]
The Aborigines on that settlement at that time banned him from the settlement. [More…]
We have the affair at this moment at Utopia Station where Aborigines are pressuring the owners to sell it to them and threatening that if they do not sell the Aborigines will acquire the property. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister knows about them, but from the public relations aspect of Europeans and Aborigines living together in the country as Australian citizens, all these sorts of things are leading to a very serious state of affairs. [More…]
I think that the Aborigines are being told or led to believe that they may expect almost anything they wish. [More…]
There is an expectancy cult, if I could call it that, and someone has to put to the Aborigines that a reasonable approach has to be adopted. [More…]
He said that it now has 2,500 cattle on it and it will be built up and run for the benefit of Aborigines. [More…]
If the Aborigines get Utopia it too will run down. [More…]
The Aborigines should be trained and people should be provided to help the Aborigines run the properties. [More…]
The Government is spending millions of dollars on the purchase of cattle stations and at present the Aborigines are threatening the pioneers who own another one. [More…]
The Government could not get the Aborigines to do that. [More…]
If they stuck to giving legal aid to Aborigines they probably would be all right. [More…]
We have lived there peaceably with the Aborigines for 20, 30 or 40 years, but the present Government’s policy is pulling us apart. [More…]
I am always interested to listen to the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), but particularly in a debate on Aboriginal affairs because I think one can truly say that there are more Aborigines in his Territory than in any other part of Australia. [More…]
Vesteys worked Aborigines for those hours and it paid them about 30 bob a month or a very small wage. [More…]
As I see things, sometimes we have gone a little too fast in trying to help the Aborigines. [More…]
The education should be based to a great extent on films shown to Aborigines at a very early age. [More…]
These generators could be used on the outlying missions to teach Aborigines at an early age the benefits and the dangers of electricity and the use of electrical appliances so that when they come to the city they will not be so bewildered. [More…]
I know that all this was in the mind of the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, now the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant), because he raised the matter with me and said that he would invoke the potential of the Department of Supply, particularly the valuable material that it sells at its auctions, with a view to lifting the standards of the Aborigines to an all time high at a minimum cost. [More…]
Aborigines should be given more assistance. [More…]
The previous Government stepped up its aid to the Aborigines throughout the country. [More…]
1 believe that the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), who is presently in the chamber, would like to have done much more for Aborigines during his term as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs had other members of his Tory party allowed him to do so. [More…]
Otherwise he would have done much more for the Aborigines. [More…]
We know that in the olden days there were shooting expeditions on Saturday or Sunday afternoons, when Europeans went out and shot down the Aborigines like foxes or other vermin in our countryside. [More…]
It pains this generation to read about what previous generations did to our Aborigines. [More…]
There are conflicts in the opinions of the greatest experts who have made very deep studies of how to lift up the Aborigines in this country. [More…]
We talk about doing something for the Aborigines. [More…]
There does not appear to be any clearly defined policy, or should I say clearly defined method of applying the Government’s policy of assistance to the Aborigines. [More…]
Everything he said added up to saying that nothing should be done about the Aborigines, that they should be left as they are, that they have been happy in the past and we should let the old way continue, that we should not think about giving them cattle stations to run, that we should not think of spending money on them and that we should treat them as simple, innocent people who occasionally get drunk. [More…]
Most of them are Aborigines. [More…]
Whether a government spends money on pensions, on industry, on welfare or on Aborigines, the department concerned should program its expenditure so that it accounts for its actions. [More…]
I believe that the Minister became alarmed at the weakness of his Department when it was agreed on 4 September that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs would take over the responsibility for the housing of Aborigines in Victoria. [More…]
In looking at the national park structure it seems strange in view of the make-up of many of our national parks that there is very litle involvement of indigenous Aborigines in the conduct of these great tourist attractions. [More…]
I am hopeful that we will see in the life of this Parliament a much greater involvement of Aborigines in the running of these projects because these people have their own dignity, they have their own distinction and they have their own feeling for these areas. [More…]
There can be no doubt that he put his heart and soul into improving the conditions and the opportunities afforded to Aborigines. [More…]
Some have only 20 or 30 Aborigines and some of them have a thousand or more. [More…]
We all colleagues opposite will say: These people are not real Aborigines. [More…]
Some terms about Aborigines were used during the course of the debate. [More…]
I will not mention them, but on behalf of the Aborigines I say to honourable members: Please do not use derogatory terms in debates about Aboriginal people or anybody else. [More…]
All I can say to that is: ‘If it is not a ghetto for Baptists, it is not a ghetto for Aborigines’. [More…]
I understand the facts are that the cattle population on properties taken oyer by Aborigines is not all that much different from what it used to be. [More…]
Recently the Minister was discussing Aborigines and their drinking problems. [More…]
Mr Justice Adams, and had such experienced and knowledgeable men on it as Mr Haynes Leader, the Reverend Paul Albrecht, who is head of the Lutheran Church in the Northern Territory and who was born and bred in the Northern Territory and has vast experience with Aborigines and the alcohol situation, and Mr Claude Narjic, a full-blooded Aborigine from Port Keats. [More…]
Recently, I was in Alice Springs, which is the home town of the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), and in a hotel there I saw a fracas taking place between Aborigines. [More…]
Last year or the year before in this Parliament in a similar debate to this the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) pointed out in regard to this question of drunkenness among Aborigines in the Northern Territory that there were almost no prosecutions against licencees of liquor houses for selling liquor or serving liquor to a drunken person. [More…]
I should like him to tell the House when he speaks how many prosecutions have taken place against the liquor interests in the Northern Territory in the last six or twelve months or the last three or four years for serving drunken persons and, in particular, Aborigines. [More…]
Two friends of mine in whose integrity I have complete faith were working on an Aboriginal mission about 40 miles from Katherine when the previous Government rightly increased social service payments to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
They informed me that on the day the Aborigines received their social service cheques, there was a fleet of taxis from Katherine lined up outside this mission to take them into Katherine. [More…]
If it is not a mission it is a place where a large body of Aborigines reside. [More…]
If the Aborigines were to drink under the supervision of their superiors, there would be less chance of them indulging in gross offensive behaviour. [More…]
I hope that the 2 dedicated Ministers at the table, the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) and the Minister for Secondary Industry (Mr Enderby), will heed what I am saying in connection with this question because I intend to propound in the Parliament, in my Party room and wherever I get an audience that will listen to me the shocking exploitation of the Aborigines in the Northern Territory by the liquor interests. [More…]
I take seriously what the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) has said and I believe that there is a good deal of substance in his alarm at the incursions of liquor among Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In my view, on the whole the position in the Northern Territory in regard to Aborigines is not getting better; I think that on the whole it is getting worse and, unhappily, the reason for this is the great increase in the amount of liquor and drunkenness among Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Enderby) in a debate on the estimates earlier this afternoon mentioned a number of Aborigines who were in gaol for drunkenness and he said - 1 felt some sympathy with what he said - that perhaps the recourse to drink was a natural reaction by people who felt that their dignity had been taken from them. [More…]
I can understand how the breakdown in the normal social values among the Aborigines in the Northern Territory has led to the kind of despair which prompts them to take refuge in drink. [More…]
Indeed, as he knows there would be visits to the places where Aborigines are congregated by what are called ‘flagon wagons’ carrying bottles of cheap wine which, in terms of intoxicating effect, give much more per dollar spent than do beer or spirits. [More…]
What happened afterwards is not known to me by personal experience because I was no longer the Minister and I have not been to the mission since, but I have heard some secondhand accounts - I will not vouch for them absolutely because they are secondhand and, as I have said, I have not had them from official files or from personal experience - that the experiment went very well for a year or so, and then unhappily it started to break down because the Aborigines left the lighter and the restricted drinks and went back to the spirits which they could obtain legally by the bottle. [More…]
I think one of the saddest things about the campaign for Aboriginal rights has been the emphasis which so many professional Aborigines have put on drinking rights. [More…]
If one looks at the columns of the newspapers one will see reports claiming discrimination against Aborigines because they are not being allowed to drink as freely as does everybody else. [More…]
Yet when one examines the cases one finds usually - not always, but usually - that this claim of discrimination has been raised against the publican because he has refused to serve Aborigines who have had perhaps a little too much to drink. [More…]
I cannot give him the specific figures for which he asks, but I would agree with him that the major problem of Aborigines in the Northern Territory is drink. [More…]
I was in the Northern Territory when various people, who were members of the Committee for the Rights of Aborigines and Torres Strait islanders - the former Minister was one - and various other interested bodies were ramming very hard for Aborigines to have equal rights with Europeans to drink alcohol, to go into bars and so on. [More…]
At one time there was some control over Aborigines drinking. [More…]
The Aborigines themselves, the old-timers, will tell you that flagon wine is the big problem. [More…]
He had 25 years experience with Aborigines which does not seem to be wanted by the present setup. [More…]
I was there when we discussed it with the Aborigines, so I do not know where the honourable member is getting his information. [More…]
Very often the Aborigines, who can now buy cars and so on - it is quite right that they should be able to do so- drive to the hotel, get the grog themselves and run the flagon wagons themselves. [More…]
lt is not just the Europeans; it is the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
I hope that this will always be taken to mean that Aborigines will have a right to have an education in their own language and culture, which we are attempting to give them for the first time. [More…]
The report goes on to deal with Aborigines and drunkenness. [More…]
On that board of inquiry were Mr Haynes Leader, a well known former magistrate in the Territory and Pastor Paul Albrecht, bom in the Territory and head of the Finke River Aboriginal Mission set up in central Australia, who would know far more about Aborigines and their drinking problems than some imported American and some academic professor from Sydney, no matter what their legal qualifications might be. [More…]
We have heard so much from the Minister for the Northern Territory and the previous Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on who fills the gaols in the Northern Territory and that 56 per cent of the 75 per cent of the Northern Territory inmates who are imprisoned for offences against the liquor laws are Aborigines; this is quite right. [More…]
The complaint was that there were no Aborigines being employed in these positions. [More…]
A further interesting point mentioned in the report on this subject is the suggestion that there ought to be a permanent Aboriginal spokesman to serve as an interpreter for Aborigines who are charged before courts. [More…]
A permanent interpreter would be dealing every day with criminal cases involving Aborigines. [More…]
In view of the decision - I think a wise decision - that was taken recently to set up a national advisory council for Aborigines one would be forgiven if he deduced that the Council for Aboriginal Affairs is redundant. [More…]
None of us on this side of the House is any less convinced of the need to take positive action and to spend money to help overcome the difficulties of Aborigines and to enable them to take their proper place in the Australian society. [More…]
Table 6 discloses that $1.5m will be spent on legal aid for Aborigines. [More…]
It is a matter of notoriety that it was impossible to establish any contact with the Queensland Government over questions concerning the Aborigines and Islanders. [More…]
If there is any truth whatever in the statements made by that senator, then it should attract the attention of this House to see whether we can improve matters for the sake of the public, for the sake of the public purse and for the sake of the Aborigines who may not be benefiting as much from expenditure from the public purse as they would be if we had a Minister whom we could hold fully responsible for everything that was done. [More…]
This year $180m is to be spent on Aborigines, not all of it for projects of the type to which I have been referring, but a great proportion of it. [More…]
The program for which the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) was originally responsible in no small measure involved trusting Aborigines to the maximum possible extent to manage their own affairs. [More…]
This Government has advanced money, as the previous Government did, to Aboriginal organisations which seemed to have a cohesive element, a constitution and a program that looked worthwhile, in order to allow them to spend the money in the interests of the Aboriginal people and in accordance with the priorities that the Aborigines determined. [More…]
There is to be a great increase in expenditure on the education of Aborigines, migrant children and isolated children. [More…]
Particularly pleasing, I feel, are the proposals for assisting special groups such as Aborigines, migrant children, soldiers children and isolated children. [More…]
My attention has been drawn not only to the article in that newspaper but also to an announcement by a gentleman, I think named Mr Clapperton, that he had a league which was dedicated to the white purity of the nation based on Aborigines, which seemed to me to be an extraordinary exercise in acrobatics and semantics. [More…]
The honourable member should go through Hansard and see how often he voted for the guillotine and the gag and constantly refused to let my colleagues and I discuss everything from social services and Aborigines to other things. [More…]
Very clearly problems will arise if we try to interfere and direct that Aborigines shall not spend their social security benefits in the same way as other people. [More…]
I am sure that that is not the only part of Australia in which Aborigines are living under similar conditions. [More…]
At this stage I ought to concede that when the honourable member for Mackellar raised this matter earlier in the year I expressed some scepticism of bis reports about the effects of the payments of these benefits to Aborigines. [More…]
This problem is worrying many people, including anthropologists, sociologists and people generally who are concerned about the welfare of Aborigines in remote areas. [More…]
There are very few Aborigines on these reserves. [More…]
The permitted misuse and wastage of funds within that Department all flow over to the judgment which we were asked to cast on this Government’s performance in foreign relations, and last week all members of this Parliament were greeted with screaming and frankly dissatisfied Aborigines. [More…]
An area of some 55 acres would be available as a grand forecourt to Parliament where people could assemble, gather and camp for reasonably short durations in order to press their cause, as the Aborigines who are camping on the lawns opposite Parliament House are doing at present. [More…]
On the other hand, there was plenty of evidence which showed that Aborigines have lived in the area for a long number of years. [More…]
Personally I can see no reason why Ranger should not go ahead and provided that the claims of Aborigines are protected with respect to both compensation and rights, I can see no reason also why Nabarlek should not go ahead in those areas with those qualifications. [More…]
But I make the point - I think that this was implicit in what the honourable member for Scullin said - that the interests of the Aborigines in this area should be preserved at all costs. [More…]
As far as I am aware - I speak after having talked to people who have some knowledge of the Ayers Rock situation - the significance of Ayers Rock itself to the Aborigines was very great, particularly to the western desert people, but is now much less important because of its desecration. [More…]
It is very difficult and it will be very difficult to reconcile the interest of tourism so-called with those of the Aboriginal involvement and the significance to the Aborigines of this area. [More…]
Has the Government granted special licences to the Torres Strait Aborigines to export turtles and turtle meat? [More…]
For example, Aborigines, migrants and electors with young children are not uniformly dispersed throughout the various regions. [More…]
One thinks, of course, of the interests of our Aboriginal people in the north, and one hopes that the policy which the former Government implemented of involving Aborigines in the advantages of development will be continued and maintained. [More…]
Between 1965 and 1967, before and after the last referendum - on the nexus with the Senate and also on Aborigines - the ACT Advisory Council passed a series of resolutions seeking voting right for ACT residents at referendums. [More…]
The Barmera Hospital has to cope with both of the groups I have mentioned and, furthermore, must cope with itinerant Aborigines coming in from further afield. [More…]
Of this average, 5.51 is accounted for by Aborigines. [More…]
In relation to the total number of Aborigines in that area, it means that one Aborigine out of every 30 in the area is in that hospital every day. [More…]
As the daily average of Aborigines has increased from 3.05 last year to 5.51 for the first 4 months of this year, the hospital has a problem because of non-payment of hospital dues. [More…]
It is fair to say that this hospital has worked very hard to try to make sure that all Aborigines who are admitted to the hospital are properly signed up in regard to their hospital benefits but in spite of this there exists a tremendous problem in terms of the amounts of money owing over quite a period of time. [More…]
Those passed related to Senate elections - submitted in 1906; State debtssubmitted in 1910; again State debts - submitted in 1928; social services - submitted in 1947; and the more recent one concerning the counting of Aborigines in reckoning our population, which was submitted to the people in 1967. [More…]
We saw an example of this in 1967 when 2 questions, one dealing with Aborigines and the other with the breaking of the nexus between the numbers in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, were posed at a referendum. [More…]
The Australian people were in favour of the question relating to Aborigines but were against breaking the nexus between the 2 Houses of this Parliament. [More…]
A few days ago the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said that his Government would be proud if its record in relation to the Aborigines was remembered. [More…]
I did take Dr Coombs overseas with me on one occasion and used his services on an irregular basis on several other occasions particularly in relation to Aborigines. [More…]
In addition to the greatly increased capital, recurrent and library grants which will apply to almost all students, there will be extra millions of dollars in each of these and other aspects of education for those in disadvantaged schools - children of lower income families, many migrants with low incomes and language and social adjustment problems, Aborigines and children living in isolated areas. [More…]
The reservations we hold have been caused by the recent allegations of misuse of public funds set aside for the welfare of Aborigines and islanders and by the report of expenditure which was tabled on 11 October last by the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I was under the impression that there were no Aborigines in Tasmania. [More…]
Just what return can be expected from these enterprises for the benefit of the Aborigines to warrant such expenditure? [More…]
Who authorised the expenditure of $35,000 to hold a national seminar of Aboriginal arts, $23,500 to stage the 1973 national Aborigines Day celebration and $19,000 for the October football carnival? [More…]
In this instance I am not talking about the tribal Aborigines who wish to live in dwellings of their own design, but I am speaking about the fringe dwellers, as we call them, and those who rent premises in a town or city. [More…]
The first thing I would like to say is that the grants made to many of the organisations which he quoted were, from my own personal knowledge, approved by Mr Peter Howson, the former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
There is a great deal of talk about handouts to Aborigines. [More…]
I strongly believe that, to the maximum extent possible, housing for Aborigines should be built by authorities that build houses for the whole of the Australian community. [More…]
I do not subscribe to the idea that we should have special authorities building houses for Aborigines, except in those very isolated or exceptional circumstances in which there seems to be no better solution. [More…]
I would like to see in the programs for succeeding years some provision for the training in the building industry of young Aborigines who show a capacity for this area of employment. [More…]
Of course, when I talk about building through organisations such as housing commissions which cater for the needs of the whole community, I am not unmindful of the fact that Aborigines everywhere do not wish to live in housing commission type houses. [More…]
There is a need to design special types of houses - I know that the word ‘transitional’ is a dirty word in relation to housing, but it need not be - to cater for the particular needs of Aborigines and to suit the degree of transition that they have made from their own traditional environment to living in the broader Australian community. [More…]
I was happy to learn in conversations with officers of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs recently that the contracts which are being let for sewerage and water supply in these communities require that preference in employment shall be given to the Aborigines and Islanders who live in these communities. [More…]
Nearer home, if one goes to the electorate which the Speaker represents which covers the suburb of Redfern in Sydney - not a wealthy area and an area which is predominantly Labor - he will find a white backlash against the Aborigines. [More…]
Let me briefly say something about, the health of Aborigines and mention 2 matters which may seem peripheral and trivial but which I think are important. [More…]
Dr Kalokerinos corrected this deficiency by administering quite massive doses of this vitamin to Aborigines. [More…]
Incidentally, if one goes to the area in western New South Wales where much of this vitamin deficiency is said to occur amongst the Aborigines, one finds, along the Darling River, the capacity to grow citrus fruits of the very highest quality. [More…]
The Minister announced an intention to establish a consultative group of Aborigines from all parts of Australia which was to advise him on programs and policies for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]
All matters with regard to health, education and housing for Aborigines remained as they were. [More…]
But when one considers this amount and discusses it with officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the State Ministers who control Aboriginal affairs and the various organisations that play a part with regard to Aborigines, one realises that $170,478,000 spent over the 5 years, in view of the requirements of the Aborigines and the outlandish places where they live - I refer to the farflung places - and the problems they had with the Government trying to better their conditions, was not all that much. [More…]
Change from the assumption that our society is entitled to expect of Aborigines the supreme flattery of imitation has been very slow. [More…]
I return to what was said by John Gorton when he expressed the view that without destroying our Aboriginal culture we want to help our Aborigines to become an integral part of the rest of the Australian people. [More…]
He said that we want the Aborigines themselves to have a voice in the pace at which this process occurs. [More…]
Mr McMahon said ‘We believe that Aborigines must be helped to take an increasing part in the management of their own affairs.’ [More…]
Right up to the change of government the Aborigines were involved only as passive recipients and at most were invited to endorse programs approved for them. [More…]
Having regard to the problems confronting Aborigines - the vastness of the country, housing, health and education - we should ask ourselves whether we could have done the job any cheaper? [More…]
I think that if we are to maintain the level of assistance to Aborigines the amount that has been appropriated this year will just about cover what we require to do. [More…]
The Minister for Youth and Community Services in the New South Wales Government - I will not mention any names - went up there and decided that the Aborigines had to be shifted because they were in a flood area. [More…]
These Aborigines were settled in the 20 caravans with the promise that within 4 or 5 months or possibly a little longer houses would be built for them. [More…]
With the introduction of the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, which divides the Commonwealth into 41 electorates, we hope that many of the problems that now exist in regard to Aborigines will be overcome. [More…]
At last the Aborigines will be able to submit their problems to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs as a result of complaints coming from the various areas. [More…]
In addition to the many State and Federal organisations which have been set up for Aborigines, we now have coming into being such organisations as Applied Ecology Pty Ltd, Aboriginal and Island Products Pty Ltd and Aboriginal and Island Marketing Pty Ltd which, of course, have ventured into the field of turtle and crocodile farming mainly for the purpose of benefiting the Aboriginal by keeping him employed, while at the same time providing a product for export. [More…]
I am sure that the public at large does not know the amount of work being done at the present time in relation to Aborigines by organisations and institutions set up by the Commonwealth Government and the States. [More…]
These organisations include the Sacred Sites for Aborigines Committee and the Committee on Linguistic Studies. [More…]
To compensate Aborigines for the loss of their exclusive use of reserve land and the disturbance of their way of life, a trust fund was established in the Northern Territory into which royalties from minerals mined on reserves were to be paid. [More…]
But the fact is that the Aborigines did not know the new Minister. [More…]
However, we are achieving decent housing for Aborigines. [More…]
This is a source of worry to everyone who has lived among Aborigines and knows their history and what is happening to them. [More…]
The sort of Aboriginal with whom I have had a close association is somewhat different, which bears out what my colleague says, namely, that there are various categories of Aborigines. [More…]
This is one of the clear indications that a uniform set of rules for Aborigines throughout Australia would not be satisfactory. [More…]
This is one of the great problems that everyone interested in the welfare of Aborigines is trying to solve. [More…]
Most of my experience of the activities of Aborigines and their more lucrative and more prolific types of activity was gained in the area where I have spent, and am still spending, my lifetime - the north west of Queensland. [More…]
If I was to focus on one particular activity of the Aborigines I would look more specifically at Mornington Island. [More…]
Aborigines had foreshadowed this; they knew the waters. [More…]
The point I am trying to make is that the Government - no doubt it is doing this in the best way it can - should gain local knowledge and let the Aborigines indulge in activities in which they are expert and then they will make a very profound contribution not only to their own advancement but to the advancement of the particular area in which they live.. [More…]
Aborigines should be given the opportunity of developing these enterprises. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Aborigines of Australia differ. [More…]
There is a group of opportunists who, let us face it, are not genuine Aborigines and who will exploit genuine Aborigines who are part of the early and almost forgotten history of this nation. [More…]
I pay full tribute to a second group - I do not like to hear people talk about the city slicker type of Aborigines - who live in the cities, who have come out of their natural environment and who have obtained university degrees. [More…]
I appreciate that, although the total increase is large, the amount spent on Aborigines was growing year by year even under the previous Government. [More…]
This may not seem a great number of houses, and it certainly would not be if they were the only houses to be provided for Aborigines. [More…]
But the South Australian Housing Trust certainly fills a great part of the gap in this field, because whenever the Housing Trust builds homes in an area where Aborigines live an allocation of houses is made to Aborigines. [More…]
In many of the larger towns a considerable number of Aborigines have been allocated houses and have moved into the town. [More…]
I think legal aid is an area in which Aborigines have been at a grave disadvantage in the past. [More…]
If a white person was picked up he would engage a lawyer and possibly get off the charge, but of course this did not apply to Aborigines. [More…]
As everybody knows, in most cases, to save trouble the Aborigines plead guilty. [More…]
In quite a number of the remote places - Ernabella is one - there are ti few motor cars that Aborigines have probably purchased in Alice Springs, Adelaide or elsewhere. [More…]
Most Aborigines are now mobile with motor cars. [More…]
It was suggested that the Highways Department of South Australia take a number of Aborigines, train them in the operation of earthmoving equipment and let them have the contract for looking after the road. [More…]
These councils have done a good job, particularly with the rural unemployment relief scheme, in providing work for Aborigines. [More…]
Much has been said tonight about housing for Aborigines. [More…]
But I know that at Ernabella the Aborigines themselves have been building under the supervision of a tradesman carpenter. [More…]
I agree with the statement of Professor Strehlow that Dr Coombs has no practical knowledge of Aborigines. [More…]
It is becoming more and more obvious that the people who can help Aborigines are those who have practical experience. [More…]
Aborigines need practical assistance. [More…]
He speaks the language and he knows more about Aborigines than anyone in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs today. [More…]
These 2 men say these things and so does anyone else who knows anything about Aborigines. [More…]
He is sincere all along the line in trying to do something for the Aborigines. [More…]
We are calling on Aborigines from all over Australia. [More…]
This afternoon the Parliament involved itself in another very interesting debate on the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
The matter on which I wish to speak is this: I do not think that honourable members on either side of the House realise the tragic plight of Aborigines generally in the Northern Territory as a result of the manner in which they are indulging in the use of alcoholic beverages. [More…]
I would be very happy to see honourable members interest themselves more in this growing problem among Aborigines. [More…]
I do not know the answer, but I would like to see the liquor interests prevailed upon to agree to persuade Aborigines who have had a fair quantity of alcohol to go home. [More…]
I hope that honourable members will interest themselves in this problem of over-indulgence in alcohol by Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
None of us would suggest barring them from drinking, but we should prevail upon the liquor interests to desist from serving drunken Aborigines or otherwise incur a very severe penalty. [More…]
If so, did the Professor say, on resignation, that the Chairman of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs, Dr H. C. Coombs, has no personal experience of Aboriginal problems yet has direct access to the Prime Minister on major issues concerning Aborigines. [More…]
We have not had any figures from the outback - or at least I have not - but there are disturbing stories of hundreds of Aborigines having enrolled but only a few voting. [More…]
This aspect has been raised by some Aborigines not from the outback but from the coastal areas of Australia. [More…]
Further, during the elections certain militant Aborigines in their genuine concern to stop the farce - that is what they call it - forced blacks away from the polls so they could not vote. [More…]
Aborigines everywhere have complained that the time allowed between voter registrations, the nomination of candidates and the actual voting day did not allow sufficient time to permit the people to become acquainted with the true function of the body to be elected or with the processes of nomination. [More…]
That was expressed in writing by the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
From the experience that I have gained over the past 35 years as a result of living in association with Aborigines, and from speaking to men who have had the same - if not more - experience, I believe that a grass roots approach should be adopted. [More…]
It means going back to a hard slog of getting departmental officers or interested people - I would say both black and white Australians - to go out and consult with Aborigines in their own groups. [More…]
A fairly strong feeling is coming through at the grass roots level that although this Consultative Committee was set up and it was hoped that it would be a success, the way to discuss their affairs or any matters with Aborigines is to go and confer with them in the small groups in which they live. [More…]
For instance, one might think that all the Aborigines at Hermannsburg, south-west of Alice Springs, were of the one group and one representative would speak for them. [More…]
I do not intend to be critical; I am suggesting that we will probably have to go back to the concept of having teams trained to contact and talk to the Aborigines. [More…]
One must face the situation that these people differ from the Aborigines who are located on the fringe of towns or who work in cities. [More…]
I would strongly press the Government to aim at training people to go out and work among Aborigines, to sit down with them and find out what they themselves want. [More…]
If one is to obtain the view of Aborigines one has to give them time, time and more time. [More…]
I have been saying this for years, as have a lot of other people who live in a fairly close relationship to Aborigines. [More…]
I have previously listed in this House some 15 to 20 Europeans and 15 to 20 Aborigines - that is only in the Northern Territory - who should constitute an advisory panel to initiate advice to the Government and to Aborigines. [More…]
I have said often that I consider that the Minister and the Government are getting the wrong advice about Aborigines. [More…]
If we are to get the right answer to the problems of Aborigines arid if we are to take the right action to assist them - this will take a long time - what I propose is the way that we will have to do it. [More…]
He works with the Aborigines and is, incidentally, the Superintendent of the settlement. [More…]
By the same token, he works with the Aborigines and they with him. [More…]
These are the people who have been working with Aborigines right down the line for years. [More…]
I am certain that the Aborigines themselves do not want to turn their backs on such men and the experience these men have. [More…]
The Minister mentioned that another $10m will be allocated to provide 500 houses for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Speaking of housing brings to my mind another point about Aborigines. [More…]
Only last year or perhaps it may have been the year before, Mr Bernie Kilgariff, the member for Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory Legislative Council, Jock Nelson and I - I do not remember whether he was the Mayor of Alice Springs - went around in an endeavour to stop the Housing Commission evicting Aborigines. [More…]
But, in so doing, once again we came up with the idea that the Department or the Government, should ‘be supplying great numbers of people to teach Aborigines how to live in houses. [More…]
There are Aborigines who could do this job. [More…]
There are several other points I should like to raise, but in particular I wish to refer to the drinking problem of Aborigines. [More…]
A lot of money is being spent on material requirements for Aborigines. [More…]
A number of other drinking problems as they affect Aborigines are a lot older. [More…]
Aborigines have been drinking in excess and a lot of them have been on the grog for many years. [More…]
I think that education of Aborigines in the proper use of alcohol should be foremost in the Government’s thinking today. [More…]
It is all right to spend $2m on buying properties for the Aborigines which they probably will never work because they are all in the local pub! [More…]
I do know something of the Queensland Department which deals with Aborigines. [More…]
I would hope that when these houses are built the Aborigines become part of the neighbourhood and part of the community life. [More…]
One hopes that the Aborigines themselves will be involved as much as possible, giving them self satisfaction while at all times maintaining their self respect and dignity. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) mentioned that the Government was providing to the Aborigines an amount of $ 1,000 a head. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs been drawn to statements that have been made by the eminent criminologist, Gordon Hawkins, which point to a dangerous and pernicious mythology in Australia today that Aborigines are paid in excess of what is paid to Europeans or white people, that is, through the Social Security Department? [More…]
I have not had the particular statement brought to my notice but it is one of the sad facts of Australian life that people do magnify the benefits that are being paid to Aborigines beyond all belief. [More…]
There are still some parts of Australia where for various reasons Aborigines do not receive the full benefits available to the rest of the community and there are some advantages, such as the secondary school allowances, which are payable to Aboriginal children and only to selected groups of non-Aboriginal children. [More…]
Perhaps nobody would doubt the sincerity of those who were trying to find adequate enterprises and projects for the Aborigines of the Tones Straits and elsewhere in Australia, but every effort must be made in the future to ensure that Aboriginal enterprises do not end up as failures. [More…]
I think this was followed then by statements by a senator in another place, making rather serious allegations against the way in which funds were being spent to advance Aborigines. [More…]
It means the children, the Aborigines, the criminals in gaols, the persons in mental institutions and members of the Armed Forces at home and abroad. [More…]
However, it appears to me that the Minister could be intending to do this with Aborigines. [More…]
Is the Government going to have discrimination with Aborigines owning title to minerals, v/hen no one else owns such a title? [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to statements by spokesmen for the Yirrkala Aborigines suggesting (a) that the hotel at Nhulunbuy be closed and (b) that the tribal groups return from the missionfounded settlement to their own ancestral grounds around Arnhem Land to protect the culture, family life and tribal unity of the tribes. [More…]
How many Aborigines are involved in the employment carried on at the Mount Minnie property which was purchased by the Government for the Noualla Group of Aborigines in Western Australia for $33,000. [More…]
How many Aborigines live on the property and in what type of accommodation. [More…]
Each Service may reimburse existing facilities for the provision of Legal Aid to Aborigines at the rate of the cost to that facility of assisting the Aboriginal in a particular matter, plus a amount equal to the estimated cost of administration by the facility of that matter not exceeding 5 per cent of the legal account. [More…]
acting as a liaising body to assist each Service with inter-State arrangements and to work to a national level of Legal Assistance to Aborigines; [More…]
It is intended that Aborigines be among those trained to care for the parks. [More…]
In accordance with its declared policy my Government will assume the constitutional responsibility for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders given to the national government by referendum in 1967. [More…]
It intends to eliminate any remnants of discriminatory State legislation against Aborigines, a hope declared but unfulfilled by an earlier Government. [More…]
My Government, on receipt of the report of the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission which is expected shortly, will legislate to give effect to its policy on granting land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In that regard I should mention that there is some spread-eagled constitutionality which could be brought together since the Commonwealth has the constitutional prerogative in regard to housing in the Territories and for such categories of people as Aborigines, students, public servants and a wider range of defence personnel than at present are covered by the Defence Service Homes Act and for certain recipients of social security benefits. [More…]
A government which came into office announcing such high flown attempts to raise the status of Aborigines is now mutely, meekly abdicating its responsibility to those people, and not a single attempt has been made by the Prime Minister to set things right. [More…]
There are more Aborigines in the division of Kalgoorlie than in any division in Australia. [More…]
Under the present law those Aborigines can be taken into account only if they enrol. [More…]
Aborigines alone among Australians do not have to enrol. [More…]
This provision will require Aborigines to be taken into account in determining the size of an electorate, even if the Aborigines do not choose to enrol. [More…]
The fact that successive Country Party Ministers, particularly successive Country Party Ministers for the Interior, found his attitude on Aborigines unacceptable and unpalatable is to Dr Coombs’ credit and to the discredit of the Country Party. [More…]
Indeed, I represent more Aborigines in this Parliament than 90 per cent of the people who sit in it. [More…]
I think it is fair to point out that after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government the present Opposition parties must take some blame for the sad plight of many of our Aborigines at the present time. [More…]
It took too long for governments of the past to get started and when they did start they adopted a system of skimming the cream off the milk, of moving the best of the Aborigines into the towns and giving them an education and of trying to hide the rest of them away from public view. [More…]
I have said before in this House, and I will say it again now, that no system of Aboriginal advancement will be any good unless we can find a way of uplifting the whole body of Aborigines at the one time. [More…]
When the present Government came to power Aborigines all over Australia complained bitterly that no one would take any notice of their views and that money was being wasted in all directions. [More…]
During the flood period I visited many areas and was very surprised to hear the Aborigines complaining that they were unfairly treated during the flood when they were moved in. [More…]
However, shamefully I think, many of our Aborigines were better off during the flood than they were prior to it. [More…]
At Coonamble I was shown about 11 homes for Aborigines and they were well kept and in good condition but one Aborigine said: ‘What about having a look at some of the other places?’ [More…]
Three or four Aborigines were living in it. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Aborigines are getting their backs up about this kind of thing. [More…]
As a matter of fact, some of the Aborigines reminded me that they are human beings and not animals and that they deserve something better. [More…]
Although one or two houses have been built nothing has been done to assist the advancement of the main body of Aborigines. [More…]
I point out to representatives of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs that a group of local people could solve the problem in no time if a prefabricated building of a double garage type, with some alterations, could be put on the land that the Aborigines occupy. [More…]
The Aborigines themselves are in favour of this. [More…]
It does not want the Aborigines to move back into the other areas. [More…]
They seem to indicate to me that the elected parliamentarians, in the discharge of their duties, should have regard to the people of Australia as a whole and at all times endeavour to secure the advancement of the national welfare, including that of our Aborigines. [More…]
It seems that when it comes to the problem of our Aboriginal population too many people are too anxious to put Aborigines in gaol and not anxious enough to give them a decent home and permanent employment so that they can share the good things of life with the rest of the population. [More…]
This problem will continue to grow as long as the Aborigines are unable to feel that they are part of the Australian community. [More…]
In matters such as defence, primary production, interest rates, postal services, Aborigines, pensions and the referenda or referendums - however one likes to say it - that have been put before this House one can see a degree of confusion and haste in most of the Government’s legislation and in most of its actions. [More…]
Let me refer to the question of Aborigines. [More…]
I have some experience with this matter because there are a number of Aborigines in the electorate of Lyne. [More…]
Even the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) - this is one statement with which we can agree - said that the Government’s policy in regard to Aborigines had been a disaster. [More…]
It has neglected the Aborigines, the poor, the pensioners and the weak. [More…]
It came into office promising a new deal for Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Cavanagh) has said that the implementation of Labor policy on Aborigines has been a disaster. [More…]
One expects the Government to have a crack at the Americans, the Brits and so on, but who would have thought that it would have alienated Aborigines, and who would have thought that it would have alienated those refugees who sought refuge after the last World War in Australia where they could find a home safe from the knock on the door in the night, the secret police and the footsteps in the corridor? [More…]
Who would have thought that we would have had to wait until 1974 and a Labor Government for Aborigines to be given twice as much money as ever and to be half as happy with their lot? [More…]
In addition to these matters, we believe the proposed inquiry should be directed to examine the existing barriers to female employment, the role of the Government in the employment of physically and mentally handicapped persons, the employment of Aborigines, and the relationship between public employment and decentralisation. [More…]
I have never thought that Aborigines should in any way have less than anybody else in the community, but what I have advocated and will continue to advocate is that unemployment benefits should he kept out of the areas where Aboriginals live by the simple expedient of making jobs available at the point where the Aborigines are. [More…]
I say, by way of an aside, that that seems to me to be much the Prime Minister’s attitude to problems concerning Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines, after all, live in our country but aid to them is almost analogous to foreign aid because they are a different people and are mostly a separate people. [More…]
What is the (a) number and (b) classification of officers in the Public Service Board who are responsible for the recruitment, placement or employment of Aborigines in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
Liaise with Vocational Officers of the Department of Labour referring Aborigines to the Service for employment; [More…]
Act as a contact point for Aborigines seeking employment and for departments or organisations inquiring about Aboriginal employment; [More…]
Provide information to the Board’s Central Office on the difficulties faced by Aborigines in obtaining employment in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
It cannot let justice be done to Aborigines and to low income earners. [More…]
elderly, disabled, Aborigines) or for special types of housing (remote area accommodation, mobile homes, etc.) [More…]
That is probably because there are many Aborigines in the electorate who have not bothered to enrol. [More…]
In chapters 3 and 4 the problems of Aborigines, ethnic groups and immigrants are faced. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention also been drawn to the pre-election speech of the Prime Minister in which he said that the Australian Labor Party will establish once and for all Aborigines’ rights to land and insist that, whatever the law of George III says, a tribe and a race with an identity of centuriesofmillenia is proprietary company. [More…]
Can he say whether the latter statement has raised doubts in the minds of property owners outside Aboriginal reserves as to the security of their tenure and raised expectations among Aborigines that land now held by others will be given to them. [More…]
Pending this report, have all applications by Aborigines for titles to land on reserves been frozen; if so, how many applications have been frozen. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s Policy Speech said: We will establish once and for all Aborigines’ rights to land and insist that whatever the law of George III says, a tribe and a race with an identity of centuriesmillenia - is as much entitled to own land as even a proprietary company. [More…]
Aborigines: Employment in Private Industry (Question No. [More…]
Which industry leaders has the Minister or his predecessor consulted on the question of employment of Aborigines in private industry. [More…]
Employment off Aborigines (Question No. [More…]
In relation to the grants in excess of $800,000 that have been provided to a number of shire and city councils in Queensland, how many Aborigines are employed by each council as a result of these grants and in what capacity. [More…]
Over what time period is it intended or anticipated that the grants will be used to provide on the job or regular employment to Aborigines. [More…]
When the moneys allocated have been expended by the council concerned, is it expected that the Aborigines will be given the opportunity to remain in employment. [More…]
Legislation will also be introduced to supersede certain provisions of the Queensland Aborigines Act and Torres Strait Islanders Act which are contrary to the principles embodied in the Racial Discrimination Convention and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
We would review and strengthen the capacity of the Department of Labor - 1 am glad to see that the Minister is doing this - to provide assistance to those who experience special disadvantages and handicaps in employment and to seek out and promote employment opportunities for Aborigines. [More…]
We place special emphasis on facilities for those who are disadvantaged - for example Aborigines - for those who are experiencing some particular handicap or disadvantage and for those with a record of continuous unemployment. [More…]
The Committee was asked to give specific attention to the kind of representation that should be given Aborigines. [More…]
Let me give an example relating to Aborigines. [More…]
About one-third of the population of the Northern Territory is Aborigines. [More…]
When one asks the local people of the Northern Territory: ‘Do you want control of the Aborigines?’ [More…]
These concerns vary significantly between community groups, such as the aged, single parents, Aborigines and students among others. [More…]
For more than 200 years the white rulers in Australia have treated Aborigines as less than human. [More…]
The Australian people gave the Australian Government power to overrule the State governments in matters of Aboriginal affairs and to legislate on behalf of the Aborigines. [More…]
The report does not deal with land rights in the States nor with other areas of recognition of the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
subject to and in accordance with any regulations made under this Act and applicable to the grant in question, the Director may grant aid to any Aborigine who applies to him therefor and, where necessary, may apply therein money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose or money held by him for the benefit of Aborigines generally. [More…]
These are to ensure that people in isolated areas, particularly itinerant Aborigines, will have the opportunity to vote. [More…]
I questioned him about what would happen if there was a conflict of interests between the mining industry and the Aborigines, and his view was that perhaps the mining companies could put off going ahead with the mining for a few years, but then he went on to say that eventually the would have to go ahead with the mining irrespective of the interests of the Aboriginal communities. [More…]
I believe that we cannot disregard the interests of the Aborigines so lightly. [More…]
Should the real responsibility for Aborigines rest with the Government in Canberra or with the self governing body in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Many people say: “The Aborigines problem is too hard for us to handle and is too expensive for the Northern Territory to carry. [More…]
I do not know whether, for example, the Aborigines in the Northern Territory should come under national control and national administration. [More…]
I believe that the administration of the Aborigines of Australia should be under one Federal Minister, but I accept what the honourable member for Wakefield said because he also said he did not knowthe answer. [More…]
He is close to the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Senator Brown met Aborigines in Orbost, Lake Tyers, Nowa Nowa and Bairnsdale. [More…]
When he came to Gippsland we had a meeting at Orbost at which the main complaint lodged by the twenty or thirty Aborigines present at the shire chambers was the lack of housing. [More…]
Being a very prompt and thoughtful member of Parliament I immediately proposed that the Aborigines present should submit their names to the shire secretary. [More…]
During the course of a long tirade lasting about forty to fifty minutes Senator Brown directed his remarks mostly to the alleged failure of the previous Government to do anything for Aborigines. [More…]
He pointed out that Senator Brown had been incorrect about when Aborigines got the vote. [More…]
Senator Brown had said that if it had not been for Labor Party pressure Aborigines would not have had the vote a few years ago when they did receive it. [More…]
Senator Brown replied by saying: ‘Look, if Aborigines had a vote in 1908 I will give SI, 000 to any charity you like to name. [More…]
In 1855 Aborigines got the vote in Victoria so Senator Brown was a little bit out. [More…]
Have confirmed that Aborigines have had the vote since 1855 in the State of Victoria and logically from 1901 for Federal elections. [More…]
I do not want the Aborigines in Gippsland to be disappointed any longer by the Labor Government. [More…]
Is the Department of Aboriginal Affairs purchasing land for public purposes and for the use and benefit of Aborigines through the Department of Services and Property and using the provision of the Lands Acquisition Act in the normal way. [More…]
and’ (2) The Department of Aboriginal Affairs has not purchased land for ‘public purposes and for the use and benefit of Aborigines’. [More…]
The reason is that Aborigines do not have to enrol and many workers in the Pilbara do not choose to do so. [More…]
We have recently, by enfranchising Aborigines, moved to equal representation of all races. [More…]
There can be no doubt that since coming to office this Government has sought consistently to remove all forms of discrimination from our laws, whether it be discrimination against women, Aborigines, migrants or in the various other forms that it appears in our statutes. [More…]
It has not told us whether we will there have a true one vote one value or how Aborigines will be treated. [More…]
We know that it is a significant and growing electorate in which there are many Aborigines. [More…]
Many of the Aborigines of Australia have benefited from the actions of a recent Minister- not the present Minister for Aboriginal Affairs- who went around Australia distributing Government largesse in millions of dollars. [More…]
He said it was to advance the Aborigines. [More…]
He would have wanted to advance the Aborigines but, at the same time, he let those who followed him say with some conviction: ‘Take away this Government, change the Government, and the largesse which you are receiving will not be available to you any longer’. [More…]
What about the Aborigines in the Northern Territory who wish to have their names included on the electoral roll? [More…]
migrant, above 50 year old male labourers, Aborigines, skilled, unskilled, female office employees, graduates, etc. [More…]
There are many cultures among Aborigines. [More…]
Very few people do not want to give more to the pensioners, do not want to give more to Aborigines, do not want to see a better education system and do not want to pay a cent for it. [More…]
In such fields as health, social security and help for Aborigines and in other areas such as education, the Labor Government has tried in a way that the Liberals did not to introduce genuine social reform. [More…]
No political speech about the Riverina would be complete unless mention was made of Aborigines. [More…]
In most centres in the Riverina there are communities of Aborigines and these people have their own special problems. [More…]
In many ways this Government’s current policy is isolating the Aborigines to a greater extent than ever before and it is also helping to create additional and certainly more serious problems for the future. [More…]
I would suggest that in many cases understanding and compassionate white leaders would achieve more at the local community level than Aborigines, however well intentioned, who are perhaps unskilled and untrained in the work that must be done. [More…]
Some of the Aborigines’ handouts discriminate against the underprivileged white citizens- and we have far more under-privileged white Australians than we have under-privileged Aborigines [More…]
I am here to seek a better deal for the Aborigines and for the under-privileged whites. [More…]
The people of the city of Canberra- particularly our public servantsproved last weekend that they have now realised that they were used as the pensioners, the Aborigines and the school teachers were used. [More…]
There is the problem of that now very small group of Aborigines still living in something like their traditional tribal life style. [More…]
There is the problem of those Aborigines, those unhappy people, neither tribalised nor truly urbanised who live in the twilight zone of Australian society. [More…]
I raise the question of their welfare tonight because the takeover of the affairs of Aborigines in Victoria by the Australian Government is now so imminent. [More…]
Since the referendum on Aborigines in 1967 when the Australian people gave the Australian Government the right to legislate for Aboriginal advancement there has certainly been a big increase in the Government’s activities in this field. [More…]
It is obvious that the legislation relating to Aborigines is better in some States than it is in others. [More…]
The passage in 1967 of the referendum on Aborigines permitted the Federal Government to accept a national responsibility and to adopt a national approach to the problems of Aborigines. [More…]
The Australian Government intends to proceed with its proposals in respect of Aborigines in Queensland regardless of what the Queensland Government intends to do. [More…]
Let me indicate the concern that has been expressed by this Government for Aborigines. [More…]
The provision of these funds will permit more assistance to be given to the States to provide housing, health, education, employment, welfare and community services for Aborigines. [More…]
Most of the work is being done by the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The biggest percentage of Aborigines in South Australia are in my electorate. [More…]
The Aboriginal population ranges from those who still have strong tribal ties in the north-west reserve area to some sophisticated Aborigines who live in some of the larger cities in my electorate. [More…]
Some of the Aborigines in that area, with the aid of money from this Government, purchased an old house in Port Augusta in which they sought to set up their own social club. [More…]
What has happened since then is certainly to the credit of those Aborigines. [More…]
Let me outline the types of activities in which these Aborigines indulge. [More…]
The Aborigines are striving to provide the Aboriginal children attending primary school with a hot midday meal. [More…]
Because of this, we find that relations between the police and the Aborigines at Port Augusta have never been on so high a level. [More…]
The work is under the control of Aborigines who have the assistance of a former employee of the earth moving firm. [More…]
The whole undertaking is run completely by full blood Aborigines. [More…]
Needless to say, a very considerable percentage of the funds that were appropriated last year and no doubt of those that will be appropriate this year in fact will not reach the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) announced in a Press release dated 6 June 1974 that there had been established the Australian Legal Office whose stated purpose is: to provide legal advice and assistance to the socially deprived and people for whom the Australian Government has a special responsibility such as those on social services, Aborigines, ex-servicemen and migrants. [More…]
He is supposed to be secretary of the CAAC which at Government expense during this election campaign circulated letters on the notepaper of the Congress recommending to Aborigines that they did not support a certain candidate and suggesting that he was an ex-policeman who was known to treat Aborigines badly and belonged to a racist party. [More…]
Another letter suggested that Aborigines should not support a certain candidate because he belonged to the racist CountryLiberal Party. [More…]
I asked him who he wanted to see and he said ‘Neville Perkins’, so the Aborigines accept him as being associated with the legal aid service. [More…]
One could ask other questions about the way money is expended through government instrumentalities A lot of money is being spent through the legal aid service and other bodies but half the time the Aborigines are not getting any benefit. [More…]
I am all for the Aborigines having a fair go but money is being wasted by part-coloureds from elsewhere. [More…]
If we are not satisfied with that result, let us look to the Australian Capital Territory, where there is a different group of people altogether, the academic group, a group of people who can think for themselves and who began to see clearly and distinctly that they, like the pensioners and the Aborigines, were being taken for granted. [More…]
There should be a system of land use control to avoid conflicts of interest between major processors and local land users, including Aborigines. [More…]
Plenty of information is available about such schemes as the training scheme for Aborigines, assistance to country apprentices and the CESAME scheme- the Commonwealth Employment Service Automated Memory Employment training scheme for people displaced by redundancy. [More…]
Its purpose is to replace the Aboriginal Enterprises (Assistance) Act 1968, under which the Capital Fund for Aboriginal Enterprises was established, by an Act providing means of making loans to Aborigines both for enterprises as in the past, and for housing and for personal purposes as denned in section 24. [More…]
It is proposed initially to appoint two or three leading financiers and businessmen, as well as at least 2 Aborigines, to the Board of Commissioners. [More…]
The amount provided for special groups such as Aborigines, migrants, soldiers’ children and isolated children, will be cut by $5.46m and if the amount payable to colleges of” advanced education and teachers’ colleges were included in the 8 per cent, expenditure in these areas would be cut by $25.6m. [More…]
As these are very considerable areas of land I ask the Government: Is it intending to ride roughshod over the Aborigines in these areas and has any consideration been given to this matter? [More…]
One of the significant companies has been bought on behalf of Aborigines by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
An additional factor is that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, on behalf of the Aborigines, has bought 70 per cent of the largest operator in this area. [More…]
On behalf of Aborigines the Government has purchased a 70 per cent share in one of the largest barge operators in the Northern Territory. [More…]
This share was purchased by the Government with a view to interesting the Aborigines in their own affairs and to involve them in a transport operation. [More…]
From my knowledge of the men who used to skipper the luggers across the north coast, Aborigines would be hard put to do the work. [More…]
The present operators are prepared to help develop that business on behalf of Aborigines. [More…]
The increased expenditures on Aborigines in Australia give support to the disadvantaged. [More…]
It has done its best with the city of Newcastle to remove the discrimination which exists against Aborigines. [More…]
In addition to recommending that Aboriginal reserves and certain other lands in the Northern Territory should be vested in Aborigines, and that machinery should be set up to enable Aboriginal claims to other lands to be considered, the report recommended that a fund or funds should be set up from which additional lands could be purchased for Aborigines. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward suggested that such funds should be seen as providing compensation in the form of useful land to those Aborigines who have lost their lands. [More…]
No wonder the Aborigines are protesting against the Minister and his Department. [More…]
In the meantime, the New South Wales Housing Commission and the Housing for Aborigines source of funds has given the only real help to the town of Moree in its efforts to overcome the great backlog of housing needs. [More…]
Of course there are people who do not treat the Aborigines well but by and large there is a great degree of cooperation today among people out in those areas to try to ensure that the Aboriginal people get a fair go. [More…]
I believe that out of spite and childish pique the Minister is going to deny housing to the Queensland Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines themselves have had a taste of the Minister’s standover tactics and his threat to cut off funds to the legal aid service unless it does as it is told, unless it is prepared to act as he wants it to act. [More…]
In the ‘Canberra Times’ of 8 November, under the headline ‘End intimidation, Aborigines told’ the following report appeared: [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Senator Cavanagh, said yesterday that he would not talk to Aborigines on the present conflict between the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service and his department until ‘all intimidatory action indulged in at Canberra ends’. [More…]
A department spokesman confirmed that Senator Cavanagh wanted two tents put up by Aborigines opposite Parliament House removed and a planned demonstration today by 3 busloads of Aborigines called off. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh, who was reported to be upset at the action of the Aborigines, telephoned his statement to the department in Canberra while on a 10-day tour of Aboriginal settlements in Western Australia. [More…]
I did not attempt to blackmail the Aborigines opposite Parliament House when the Government of which I was a Minister felt that those tents had to go. [More…]
Confirming this last night, a spokesman for Senator Cavanagh said Aborigines would also have to end all forms of protest in Canberra before talks could begin. [More…]
Is it fair to the Queensland Aborigines to deny $3. [More…]
The protesting Aborigines certainly do not rate either the Minister or his Department highly. [More…]
I understand that, due to the Department’s inability for one reason or another to fund it, the project has now almost stopped, thus dashing the hopes of the enthusiastic Aborigines who started the whole thing off in the time of the former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, no doubt with the best intentions and the best will in the world. [More…]
From my experience in Aboriginal welfare I am bound to say that there is such a diversity in the level of advancement of Aborigines and in the levels of their living conditions that there is no simple common answer to the problem. [More…]
As I have already said employment opportunity is very important in today’s economic climate opportunities are not there, although I hope that some of the Regional Employment Development schemes may provide opportunities for the Aborigines in the near future. [More…]
It will give the Aborigines a facility for loans that is not available to them elsewhere and at reasonable interest rates. [More…]
The other point I should like to make is that, of course, the houses that have been built by the New South Wales Housing Commission under the Housing for Aborigines scheme are funded through the States grants legislation that we have before us. [More…]
When we came into Government we found that our predecessors had assisted organisations on the basis of a yearly grant and that very often Aborigines, with the best intentions in the world, did not have the administrative capacity to spend that money as well as they might. [More…]
It provided an arrangement whereby Aboriginal business enterprises could be assisted on fairly generous terms in order that Aborigines could start businesses, buy businesses and develop a better income and a better life for themselves. [More…]
In the experience of the last few years we have now come to realise that there are many other areas in which Aborigines need assistance. [More…]
When the program of assistance through the States for Aboriginal housing was evolved, no one imaged that Aborigines would actually own land themselves. [More…]
It was a scheme much like the Commonwealth-State housing scheme in which Aborigines would have made available to them rental homes on a very generous economic rental basis. [More…]
But those of us who have been interested in this field have found that there have been Aborigines who have acquired their own piece of land or who may have been given a piece of land on which to build a house. [More…]
Because Aborigines very often live in isolated places where it may not be easy to sell the house to some other person, it is not always easy for them to get the finance. [More…]
This Bill makes provision to assist Aborigines in this whole area of housing- in the provision of furniture and a whole range of other activities, such as paying for funerals and the other calls that Aborigines have on them. [More…]
Perhaps it would be worth while to spell out again the policy of the Government, which is to provide such assistance to Aborigines in this generation that the lot of the Aboriginal people of this country might.be so improved that in future generations they might have real equality with all other Australians. [More…]
The fact that the Opposition is supporting this legislation indicates that the Opposition realises too that it is necessary in this time, in this generation, to assist Aborigines generously in some cases in order that they and their children might enjoy real equality with other Australians in the next generation. [More…]
It has never been the intention of this Government to set up a Department of Aboriginal Affairs like the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs which has been referred to at some length already and which has, in its day, managed the affairs of Aborigines from the cradle to the grave. [More…]
It is an indictment of the administration of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs that a secondary education for an Aborigine is a one way ticket to the world outside, and that while the junior pass was formerly the level of entry to the Queensland Public Service, to the Queensland Police Force and, in earlier days, to the Queensland teaching profession, hardly any Aborigines have gone into the Queensland Public Service, only a handful have gone into the teaching profession, and I do not know of any who have gone into the Police Force. [More…]
The Government of New South Wales passed legislation whereby Aborigines on reserves could apply to have those reserves transferred to a lands trust, and that legislation has been on the statute book of New South Wales for some years. [More…]
We are in the process of transferring the reserves in the Northern Territory to the Aborigines who occupy those reserves, the Aborigines who have traditional claims to those lands. [More…]
The Committee hoped that by doing so it would break the long chain of visits to Yirrkala which, as far as the Aborigines are concerned, have never had any identifiable result. [More…]
The experience at Yirrkala will relate to other enterprises of a similar kind which are under consideration elsewhere in Northern Australia or where Aborigines live in a traditional manner. [More…]
The States Grants (Aboriginal Assistance) Bill seeks to advance moneys to assist the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
I think it is a great pity that it has used Aborigines and the welfare of Aborigines to chastise the Queensland Government on a matter that can only be an opinion. [More…]
There are some 80,000 Aborigines in various places throughout Australia- on missions, on pastoral leases, on farms, in rural towns, on State-managed settlements and in cities. [More…]
As well, they have problems which are peculiar to them as Aborigines, problems which are not possessed by Europeans. [More…]
The second Bill, the Aboriginal Loans Commission Bill, is aimed at dealing in the main with those problems which are peculiar to Aborigines as Aborigines. [More…]
The Aboriginal population in the area served by the Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth is something like 3.5 per cent of the total population, yet at this children’s hospital something like 13 per cent of admittances are Aborigines. [More…]
There are many individual Aborigines who are coping very well and I hope that there will be many more exceptions. [More…]
I think that surely we should adopt a common approach where there are common problems affecting Aborigines within the European community. [More…]
This technique is not dissimilar to the one used in the administration of this Bill to give loans to Aborigines. [More…]
The aim of the total offensive as far as Aboriginal affairs are concerned is to try to facilitate the ability of Aborigines to be a selfdetermining, self-sufficient and self-sustaining people along with other people in the community. [More…]
I do not want to remind the House of the reasons for the disgraceful situation in which Aborigines find themselves today. [More…]
When people talk about the need for Aborigines to be self-determining one must realise that one cannot just wave a magic wand and expect Aborigines to rise out of the horror of their own situation and to know exactly what they want and how they want to achieve it. [More…]
It is up to the Aborigines to tell us what to do. [More…]
One wonders where those Aborigines would have gone had it not been for the Aboriginal medical service. [More…]
It is doubtful whether those Aborigines would have received that medical attention or medical attention as good if this service had not existed. [More…]
The service is working extremely well and is filling needs as Aborigines see them. [More…]
The Government is helping these Aborigines to become self-determining and self-sufficient in at least one of their needs. [More…]
In view of the report from the Woodward Commission of Inquiry into Land Rights for Aborigines, has the Government now determined on what basis it will proceed to provide land for the Gurindji at Wattie Creek (Daguragu). [More…]
There are many Aborigines in Commonwealth territories living outside Reserves, some of whom belong to recognisable communities or groups. [More…]
There are to be at least 2 Aborigines on it. [More…]
In 1972, the former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, Mr Howson, said in a second reading speech that the procedures that were to be adopted in a Bill he was putting forward were ironed out in consultation and after discussion with the State Ministers. [More…]
I am also told that so far there are no Aborigines on the property. [More…]
There are many Aborigines in Commonwealth Territories living outside Reserves, some of whom belong to recognisable communities or groups. [More…]
In addition to recommending that Aboriginal reserves and certain other lands in the Northern Territory should be vested in Aborigines, and that machinery should be ‘set up to enable Aboriginal claims to other lands to be considered, the report recommended that a fund or funds should be set up from which additional lands could be purchased for Aborigines . [More…]
We always sensed that there would be some difficulty in trying to apply this land rights principle to Aborigines living off reserves. [More…]
To overcome that problem it was resolved that we should set up a land fund to buy land for Aborigines off reserves both in the Northern Territory and in the States. [More…]
Interestingly enough, all the properties that the Minister mentioned and indeed most of the properties that have, in fact, been acquired for the Aborigines throughout Australia were the subject of negotiation, if not acquisition, at the time the Labor Government achieved office. [More…]
But there is a general trend towards trying to overcome this great land problem for Aborigines by most political parties. [More…]
1 ) Is his Department purchasing land Tor Aborigines oft* reserves in accordance with the terms of the Lands Acquisition Act. [More…]
Will he provide details of all property and land purchased by the Government for Aborigines throughout Australia, giving the names of the vendors and the buyers and the amount paid for each property. [More…]
I believe that the whole administrative procedure is appalling; it reflects discredit on the Minister, the Department and the Government; and it gives some credence to those Aborigines who seek a royal commission into the Charles Perkins allegations. [More…]
I do not suggest that there is anything wrong below the surface, but it leaves the doors open for incriminations and allegations, and I do not think that it protects the public coffers as well as it should and I do not think that it protects the Aborigines from abuse. [More…]
Certain procedures have been designed to prevent the Government from paying prices that are too high for properties for Aborigines outside reserves, and this House is entitled to know whether the amounts of public money expended to buy Willowra, Kildurk Station in the Northern Territory, Everard Park in South Australia and Panther Downs in Western Australia accord with the values of the properties as assessed by the Valuer-General or the Government’s valuers. [More…]
I assure the honourable gentleman that there is no discrimination at all against Aborigines. [More…]
We do make a special effort to have a fairly large percentage of the Department’s total Aboriginal work force stationed in areas of the States where a fairly high or even a moderate number of Aborigional people are living so that they can have the opportunity of servicing the Aborigines there. [More…]
An amendment which we propose to move and to which I am optimistic that the Government will agree, will ensure that no land in a State can be acquired by the Commonwealth for a park or wildlife reserve which is dedicated or reserved under a law of a State for purposes related to nature conservation or the protection of areas of historical, archaelogical or geological importance or areas having special significance for Aborigines. [More…]
If this sub-clause is agreed to it will provide the assurance necessary to gain the sort of trust and co-operation for which the Minister will be looking in trying to achieve the preservation of wildlife and the conservation of our fauna and flora generally and of areas that are of special significance or importance to people in the States, particularly to Aborigines. [More…]
For this reason we have turned the clauses around a bit to make it clear that if we are going to deal with Aboriginal land we will first of all ensure that the complete understanding, co-operation and agreement of the Aborigines is obtained beforehand. [More…]
It is often difficult to know to which group of Aborigines one should address one’s attention, so we have specified what is required in these terms in proposed clause 18: [More…]
Many Aborigines do not recognise that it is the prerogative of land councils to make these sorts of decisions. [More…]
Aborigines have very strong views about who owns land. [More…]
Because of this situation, we wanted if possible to find the Aborigines whom other Aborigines would concede have the traditional rights to that land. [More…]
In other words, as some of the Aboriginal land is vested in Australia we cannot ride roughshod over the Aborigines and we cannot ride roughshod over whoever is their representative as far as the Australian Government is concerned: [More…]
The former Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the honourable Peter Howson, established the Australian Environment Council which is a council of State and Commonwealth Ministers. [More…]
We have accepted in principle the report of Mr Justice E. A. Woodward on land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) What was the level of infant mortality among Aborigines in the Northern Territory during 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973. [More…]
What actions are being taken to reduce the level of infant mortality among Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister sighted a copy of the report on racial discrimination prepared by social work students at Sydney University and submitted to the Attorney-General which alleges that 1 7 out of 25 estate agents surveyed between March and May 1 974 would not rent homes to Aborigines. [More…]
The Racial Discrimination Bill now before the Senate provides that such discrimination will be expressly declared unlawful by virtue of clause 12 and civil proceedings may be brought against estate agents refusing to rent homes because of the applicants being Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Will the Government now proceed to service the 6 1 applications from Aborigines for exploration licences over areas of Northern Territory reserves. [More…]
As applications were suspended pending recommendations of the Woodward Royal Commission into Land Rights for Aborigines, when will a final decision be made in regard to Aboriginal applications for exploration licences. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to supersede certain provisions of the laws of Queensland that discriminate against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and deny them basic human rights. [More…]
In recent years most discriminatory legislation against Aborigines has been abolished. [More…]
hopes that during the lifetime of the Parliament any remnants of discriminatory legislation against Aborigines will be eliminated. [More…]
On 2 1 May 1970 Senator Keeffe received a letter from the then Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Wentworth, in relation to the Queensland legislation observing that, as a result ofthe 1967 referendum, the Commonwealth had concurrent legislative power with the States regarding Aborigines. [More…]
The then Minister stated that the Commonwealth and the States had been discussing discriminatory and special legislation for some years, and that in the previous decade major changes had been made in all State Acts relating to Aborigines. [More…]
In a subsequent answer to a parliamentary question, Mr Wentworth identified the Queensland legislation with respect to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders as being prima facie discriminatory’. [More…]
There is legal discrimination still in some Australian States against Aborigines, but my Government has told those States that those laws will be repealed by those States within two years, or if they are not, we will move in and repeal them. [More…]
The Commonwealth is pledged to remove all discriminatory legislation against Aborigines by the end of 1 972.I regret that it is impossible to complete during 1971 the action necessary for Australia to ratify the Convention. [More…]
However, the amendments leave intact provisions that authorise the continued management under the present legislation of property managed without the consent of Aborigines and Islanders under earlier Queensland legislation. [More…]
It is the contention of the Queensland Government that the Aborigines and Islanders in Queensland do not desire any further amendments to the Queensland law. [More…]
It provides that Aborigines or Islanders in Queensland are not to be employed on terms and conditions of employment that are less favourable than those applicable to other employees. [More…]
Queensland laws with respect to Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders contain provisions relating to the employment of Aborigines and Islanders in accordance with the provisions of awards, but these provisions only apply outside a reserve. [More…]
This provision applies only to Aborigines and does not apply generally to persons in the work force. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill are not intended to replace the whole of the Queensland legislation with respect to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
This means, for example, that Aborigines and Islanders are unable to visit their relatives on reserves unless they apply for, and are granted, a permit to enter the reserve. [More…]
Elsewhere in Australia, Aborigines have a right to enter Aboriginal reserves but in Queensland not only do they have no title to those reserves but they must obtain a permit before being allowed on to them. [More…]
The purpose of this provision is to supersede such provisions as regulation 14 of the Aborigines Regulations, in its application to Aborigines, which provides that a person authorised to be on a reserve shall conduct himself properly and to the satisfaction of the Aboriginal Council and manager or district officer of a reserve. [More…]
How many were Aborigines. [More…]
However, preliminary analyses indicate the following: 82 per cent of persons approved for training were not employed at the time of making their application; 19 per cent of persons approved for training were redundant from their previous employment; about 50 per cent of persons approved for training were women (including widows) returning to the workforce; about 9 per cent of persons in training at 1 December 1974 were Aborigines. [More…]
The committee inquiring into poverty equated the situation of rural people and farmers with the standard of living of Aborigines. [More…]
I do not want to comment on the standard of living of Aborigines except to say that I find it most difficult to accept that a government would spend in excess of $ 1 1 7m per year on Aborigines and adopt an attitude to Australian beef producers of saying: ‘Let them stew’. [More…]
These may include, if the Government so decides- any future government- persons living in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, migrants, students, Aborigines and persons engaged in work for the Australian Government. [More…]
Discussions have also been held with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to ensure that the route of the road is satisfactory to the Aborigines and that there are no areas of special significance to them within 5 miles of the existing road. [More…]
They could include, according to the Bill, ex-servicemen, migrants, Aborigines, Commonwealth public servants, contractors working for the Federal Government and persons in receipt of a Commonwealth pension; that is, aged persons, widows, deserted wives, supporting mothers, and so on. [More…]
For instance, it can directly house migrants, students, Aborigines, persons engaged in work for the Australian Government and residents of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Certainly the Australian Government has always been active in providing financial assistance for housing to certain groups in the community, including the poor, the aged, migrants, Aborigines and suitably qualified past and present members of the armed Services. [More…]
It may be an administrative one which would gather under its umbrella all the housing areas which are at present administered by the Commonwealth Government, such as housing for Aborigines, certain immigration procedures and defence service homes. [More…]
Nor is it the intention of the Government that the activities of the Australian Housing Corporation should conflict in any way with established policy on the provision of housing for particular groups, such as migrants, students or Aborigines. [More…]
Again, that is a specific case: migrants, students, Aborigines- [More…]
It could still pursue all its objectives in the field of providing finance under the Defence Service Homes Act, for homes for pensioners, for homes for Aborigines and for public servants and others for whom the Government may legislate under its constitutional powers. [More…]
Everybody knows that there is no inhibition at all in respect of the provision of houses for people in the Territories or for Aborigines, migrants, servicemen, ex-servicemen, students and for certain recipients of social security benefits. [More…]
One is on Aborigines and Islanders in Brisbane. [More…]
From the broadest construction of the term ‘racist’, down to the inter-personal relationships between Aborigines and Europeans in Australian society, it is difficult to deny that prejudice exists and that this prejudice, over the years, has been erected into a functional system. [More…]
Provision is made for payments from the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account to the Aboriginal Enterprises Fund- $0.5m- and to the Aboriginal Housing and Personal Loans Fund$5m to permit the continuation of the financial support provided to individual Aborigines, and Aboriginal groups and enterprises, which commenced in 1974-75. [More…]
We have the recent example in Western Australia of the Premier, Sir Charles Court, resisting the Australian Government’s Royal Commission into allegations of police brutality when dealing with Aborigines. [More…]
Further to our north, Queensland Premier Bjelke-Petersen has resisted Australian Government initiative to give land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
If Aborigines were given land where they could lead their own lives in peace, the source of cheap labour would soon dry up. [More…]
A classic example occurred only recently in my own electorate involving a free legal service for Aborigines in Fitzroy. [More…]
I am sure that many honourable members here would be staggered to know how often such discrimination occurs, particularly as it affects Aborigines. [More…]
All honourable members would have heard that hoary old tale about Aborigines. [More…]
So it is that all Aborigines are branded with inherent racial characteristics and inherent patterns of social behaviour. [More…]
We all agree now that the treatment of Aborigines is a disgrace. [More…]
How many were (a) persons threatened with redundancy, (b) women returning to the workforce, (c) Aborigines, (d) students who had already begun a course and (e) blue collar workers. [More…]
Today a lunch which was hosted by the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross)- so apparently this is not a party matter at all- was attended by Aborigines from Oenpelli. [More…]
I say this to those gentlemen who talk about a democratic society: Ask the oppressed peoples who sometimes have to survive in a democratic society; ask the Aborigines about a democratic society; ask those who are getting angry at being denied their rights. [More…]
In the face of opposition from the Queensland Aborigines we witnessed the spectacle of the Government trying to force its will upon the people. [More…]
In an Aboriginal society the environs of an Aboriginal community are an Aboriginal’s castle because clearly Aborigines enjoy living in communities and acting as communities. [More…]
Just as we claim and exercise the right as to who shall visit our homes, the Aborigines should have the right to determine who shall visit their reserves, indeed their communities. [More…]
The point is that clearly the Aborigines themselves see thencouncils as their corporate voice. [More…]
It has been the view of Commonwealth governments for a substantial period of time that discriminatory laws that affect Aborigines should be removed. [More…]
I refer to the Aborigines Act of 1971, the Torres Strait Islanders Act of 1971 and to the regulations made under those Acts. [More…]
I would think that given the fact that we probably face a generation of legislation which positively discriminates in favour of Aborigines and Islanders, in the long term the needs of the Aboriginal and Island people of this country will be met by those Commonwealth and State government Acts and departments that service the needs and requirements of all of the other people in the Australian community. [More…]
If one were to look at the Queensland Aborigines Act of 1 97 1 or the Torres Strait Islanders Act of 1971 and the regulations made under them one would think that they provide an eminently sensible system of justice. [More…]
The previous Government, when my friend the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) was the Minister in Charge of Aboriginal Affairs, supported Aboriginal legal services which were designed to ensure that Aborigines were protected when they were charged in any court in the nation. [More…]
There are still regulations under the Queensland Acts which require Aborigines or islanders to perform work under the direction of the administration of the reserves. [More…]
The Government believes that Aborigines or Islanders who live on a reserve should enjoy the same award wages, the same conditions of labour, the same terms and conditions of employment as any other Australian. [More…]
It would be logical to look to those who have some influence and standing in the affairs of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to declare their attitude in the matter. [More…]
The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are Queenslanders. [More…]
This distracts our attention from those admirable people among the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders who stand tall and proud within our society, achieving their status by merit and ability and not only refusing to ask for charitable treatment or treatment that smacks of a degree of condescension but also arguing that it should not be given. [More…]
There is an argument to advance here that the more Aborigines are given too soon the less tendency they have to assume their civic responsibilities. [More…]
Again, we swing back to features of the Racial Discrimination Bill which would necessitate that if one of these Aborigines from a reserve or, to a lesser extent, one of these Torres Strait Islanders who ethnically seem to demonstrate an all-round greater ability in their original state should apply for a position in this outside world and find that because of lack of opportunity he is not up to the job and preference is given to a non-Aboriginal, immediately, under the terms of the Racial Discrimination Bill, an employer who decides to exercise that preference is liable because of all the reasons advanced for discrimination against the appointment. [More…]
As a Queenslander who is conscious of his responsibilities in this matter and is proud to number among his friends many Aborigines and some Torres Strait Islanders, I convince myself in all sincerity that their best interests are not being well served by the introduction of the measures that the Government now contemplates. [More…]
He brought with him the concept- I ask honourable members to bear in mind that this was 15 years ago- that the South Australian Government was ruining the initiative and the individuality of the Aboriginal race by making it too easy for Aborigines to claim, for example, free tucker. [More…]
Great advances were made in the field of child mortality and in bringing the Aborigines to missions, as they were in those days, and also to government reserves to try to give them some pride in their own endeavours and their own success. [More…]
As a forerunner to taking over a large and good station property in the north of the State, Aborigines in those days were trained, properly I think and within a limited scope, to play their part in the shearing teams. [More…]
Rightly or wrongly- I concede that it could have been a good measure- minimum wage levels were set for Aborigines. [More…]
Immediately the problem was to get Aborigines employed in those areas. [More…]
The Aborigines could not be employed as stockmen. [More…]
Aborigines suddenly discovered that where formerly they could obtain employment they now could not. [More…]
The reason was that, despite the best of will in the actions of governments which led to the setting of minimum wage levels, Aborigines, according to the people who had to employ them, had been priced out of the market. [More…]
The great misfortune suffered by Aborigines has been magnified greatly by the level of inflation which has made discrimination a lot more real in some areas. [More…]
I do not doubt that a majority of Aborigines desire to join in the Australian society and wish to attempt to do a good day’s work so that they may become part of and not separate from the whole. [More…]
But in many areas of Australia today the stage has been reached where many Aborigines are being discriminated against because they cannot obtain employment. [More…]
I have already discussed one of the reasons why Aborigines are. [More…]
There is no earthly use being kind and pricing Aborigines out of the market. [More…]
We have to do all we can to develop the remarkable situation, for instance, which I found in Murray Bridge in my electorate a little while ago, where the Government allows free dental treatment for Aborigines at repatriation rates. [More…]
A dentist in that area told me only five or six weeks ago that he has had 2 cases where Aborigines have said to him: ‘We do not want free treatment; we are part of the Australian society, we have a job and we will pay our own way, even if it is only to a dentist’. [More…]
I doubt whether I would have had the pride to take the same steps as to the 2 Aborigines in this case who said: ‘No, we do not want something free. [More…]
I hope that the Aborigines will take more pride in their race and that they will be encouraged by governments to hold up their heads and do their job of work to the benefit of the nation. [More…]
He said that giving Aborigines equal pay placed them in a disadvantageous position in that it priced them out of work. [More…]
The honourable member for Angas mentioned that we will not get far until we have solved the unemployment situation among Aborigines in certain areas. [More…]
The Aborigines have never got it back and it can never be found. [More…]
All the questions that arise across the board- the right of Aborigines to manage their own affairs, freedom of movement and the right to privacy- are being dealt with. [More…]
It seems to me that some of the Minister’s words are a little hollow when on the one hand he says that he wants Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to seek self-determination, to seek initiative, to seek the running of their own affairs and, on the other hand, on a combination of clauses 4 and 5, he seeks to do precisely the opposite. [More…]
This Government very shortly will introduce legislation to give land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I completely repudiate the suggestion that this Government rejects the properly expressed views of Aborigines and Islanders. [More…]
When looking at the arguments put forward by the honourable member for Gwydir the first point to be considered is that we are dealing with an Act of the Queensland Parliament which is in force, so anything that is done concerning the rights of Aborigines to enter on to reserves is done under the authority of that Act. [More…]
I have been led to believe that in any case the local people control absolutely the entry of Aborigines and Islanders on to the reserves which are controlled under the Queensland law. [More…]
We are talking about a discriminatory law which applies only to Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines living in Queensland who enter or live upon those reserves. [More…]
It should be clearly understood by honourable members that the clauses which were removed by the Senate and which are the subject of the amendment now before us are there to protect the rights of all Aborigines and all Islanders to enter upon and live peaceably on those places. [More…]
In Queensland, at Cape York and other places, there are some Aborigines who are of substantial tribal background and who would make the same claims to tribal land. [More…]
The most serious indictment that I make of the Queensland Department is that it has created insufficient opportunities for Aborigines who receives a secondary education to have a meaningful career on the Aboriginal reserves in Queensland and play a proper role in the management of those reserves. [More…]
If assimilation is to be a fact of life and if the Aborigines are to have a free choice as to whether they assimilate into the broader Australian community or stay in their own communities, it must be a 2-way traffic. [More…]
I make the point again that I think that Aborigines in these communities should have a substantial say in who comes in or goes out of their communities. [More…]
We find that now he is in charge of Aborigines and Tasmania. [More…]
He has never seen Tasmania, and there are no Aborigines on that island. [More…]
He is now handling the great problems of Tasmania and those of Aborigines, particularly in Tasmania where, I understand, there are not any Aborigines. [More…]
Priority will also be given to families in economic or other distress, and to groups with particular needs such as Aborigines, migrants, handicapped children and isolated children. [More…]
I want to incorporate in Hansard, just for the record, a Press release by Mr Howson, the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, issued on 16 August 1 972. [More…]
1 ) Following comments made by the Magistrate in the Finke case heard in Alice Springs from 8-11 March 1975 representations were made to the Government to hold an enquiry into Aborigines and the administration of justice in the Northern Territory. [More…]
What are the names of the Aborigines who have applied and what is the purpose of the application in each case. [More…]
If they have problems due to a large component of new Australians or Aborigines or if they have problems due to the population of their electorates being centred in one spot in some vast expanse of desert, quite clearly they need more facilities. [More…]
In order to obtain additional information on the educational needs of Aborigines the Commission invited a number of Aborigines to form an Aboriginal Consultative Group to meet with and advise the Commission. [More…]
The Group was formed to allow Aborigines to come together to consider educational issues and to present a viewpoint to the Commission on: present policies and educational provision with respect to Aborigines; present patterns of administering funds for the education of Aborigines; specific matters the Group feel are of importance in respect to the education of Aborigines. [More…]
They have been specially briefed on the difficulties they may encounter in counselling Aborigines. [More…]
1658 in which he provided a list of all Departments, other than the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, with some responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, which Departments are represented on the Bilingual Education Consultative Committee, the Aboriginal Community Committee and the Health Care for Aborigines Committee. [More…]
Is it intended that Aborigines will be recruited to the Australian Electoral Office so that the function of informing and educating Aboriginal people of their franchise rights might be more adequately performed. [More…]
3 ) Does the Public Service Board intend to employ Aborigines in the areas of its administration designated as having some responsibility for Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
1658 indicate that there are more than 3800 public servants, 830 of whom are Aborigines, engaged in Departments, other than the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, which have some direct responsibility for Aboriginal policies. [More…]
The other question posed at that referendum concerned the voting rights of Aborigines. [More…]
The people of the Northern Territory, who were probably more concerned with the rights of Aborigines than were people in any other community in Australia, were denied the right to vote at that referendum. [More…]
A referendum regarding Aborigines was passed with a huge and overwhelming majority by the nation. [More…]
Aborigines constitute a very great part of the voice of the Northern Territory. [More…]
In general terms this means matters arising under Federal or Territory law or in Federal courts and matters on behalf of persons for whom the Australian Government has a special responsibility, including persons on social services, newcomers to Australia, servicemen and ex-servicemen, Aborigines and students. [More…]
For instance, there are matters affecting Aborigines and there are domestic matters which come within an area somewhere in between the authority of the member of Parliament or the official statutory authority and the ombudsman. [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 25-Report of the 1969 Workshop on Health and Nutrition of Aborigines. [More…]
Health and Nutrition of Aborigines which was held in 1969 is a Departmental summary of proceedings and was distributed to the participants and other interested persons. [More…]
What proportion of this number were Aborigines. [More…]
What was the total number of police in the N.T., and what proportion of them were Aborigines. [More…]
The Bureau estimates the proportion of this number that were Aborigines was 25 per cent. [More…]
The total number of police in the Northern Territory on 24 December 1974 was 389 none of whom were Aborigines. [More…]
However, since that date seven Aborigines have been employed and trained as police liaison assistants, and they commenced duty at four of the major population centres, on 3 March 1975. [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 22- Assessment of the Needs and Opportunities for the Aborigines of the Kimberleys- October 197 1. [More…]
I am glad to see the Minister for the Capital Territory, a man for whom I have the greatest respect in his dealings with Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines: Discussions with Ministers (Question No. [More…]
We would have abolished the Department of the Media, as was announced earlier, the Prices Justification Tribunal, the Aus.tralian Legal Aid Office and the Australia Police This could have been done while maintaining grants to the States and to Aborigines for legal aid and while maintaining the existing numerical and equipment strength of the police forces. [More…]
They are the weak of our society- the unskilled, the migrants, the big families, the Aborigines, the ill and the injured. [More…]
1 ) How many Aborigines work in his Department. [More…]
Five members of the Committee were appointed on 13 March 1972 by the then Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts. [More…]
We have nothing against Aborigines, who are part of our Australia, but there should be administration to ensure that money is not wasted along the lines I have mentioned. [More…]
Most people would have answered this question by naming a clearly underprivileged group such as handicapped persons, people living in poverty, Aborigines or elderly persons, but not the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
In addition, funds have been made available to the Central Australian Aborigines Congress to enable it to undertake investigations towards the possible development of a communityorientated alternative health model, which has as its principal object the introduction of a more healthy way of fe for Aborigines. [More…]
The Central Australian Aborigines Congress is assisted by advisers from the University of New South Wales and Monash University. [More…]
In 1 97 1 Mr Justice Blackburn established that, under the law, Aborigines had no legal tenure of land as a traditional right; but no action was taken by the Government at that time to change that situation. [More…]
I found small houses for Aborigines costing over $50,000 each, and I also detected an excessive use of consultants. [More…]
Aboriginal activity in which Aborigines can mix with the rest of the community. [More…]
Another general comment which I wish to make relates to the degree to which funds allocated for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are being eaten up by administrative expenses and salaries of bureaucrats and middlemen, some of them in private enterprise. [More…]
The danger therefore is that Aborigines are remaining institutionalised and are being increasingly bureaucratised. [More…]
I would have asked the Minister why it was necessary to increase staff and how many of the increased number are to be Aborigines. [More…]
Ellicott), should also speak on matters concerning Tasmania where there is a lack of Aborigines because he appears to have a real lack of concern for Aborigines. [More…]
From what the previous speaker said I think that the Opposition still believes in a separatist policy for Aborigines because this appears to be what it is seeking in denying Aborigines the expertise of consultants and bureaucrats of the white community. [More…]
The Opposition seems to want to separate the amounts provided for bureaucrats and the amounts provided for Aborigines in some areas. [More…]
This is a typical white attitude- the removal of the Aborigines’ autonomy because of the cost factor. [More…]
If the Opposition ever became the Government it would deny Aborigines their autonomy and the right to make their own decisions. [More…]
Some of the major items of expenditure are: Salaries and payments in the nature of salaries; administrative expenses; other services, and this is where the greatest increase is; Aboriginal advancement or payment to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust; conferences, meetings and consultations- they were not consulted before; investigations and research; support of Aborigines on government settlements; assistance to missions- of course, the previous Government would know all about those areas of expenditure; repairs and maintenance of settlements; vocational training and adjustments; support for ecological projects; support for Aboriginal sporting activities; support for Aboriginal publication activities; the Royal Australian Institute of Architects; the housing panel contribution; Aboriginal enterprises for payment to the capital fund for Aboriginal enterprises; National Aboriginal Consultative Committee- again there was no voice for Aborigines before; salaries and allowances of members; meeting expenses; the provision of facilities for members; election expenses; incidental and other expenditure in that area; Aboriginal Loans Commission; Aboriginal enterprises for payment to the Aboriginal enterprises fund; and so I could go on. [More…]
The general attitude of the Opposition would take us back to the days when Aborigines were treated as they were during the war years. [More…]
Perhaps honourable members opposite would like to see a return of the situation where Aborigines were locked up at Moore River Missionthe children put in Wandering Mission- the children forcibly taken from their parents under the provisions of an Act and educated somewhere other than with white children. [More…]
I notice that there is an allocation for Aboriginal housing and I draw to the Minister’s attention the fact that in Western Australia- I know that the Opposition would not agree with this because a consultant has been asked to look into it- Aborigines want to establish a building company of their own in order to be in a position to utilise tradesmen who are being trained at the moment. [More…]
I understand that some 10 bricklayers are being trained as the base for this company which Will seek to build homes for Aborigines within the Perth metropolitan area. [More…]
I feel that the Government, if it consults with the Aborigines, will receive the co-operation which has been very evident in the past in Western Australia. [More…]
I feel that it is useless to have a situation where the Aborigines put their questions to the people concerned and who they elect. [More…]
The purpose for which I rose to speak on these Estimates was to ask for the Aborigines to be allowed autonomy instead of our having the high handed attitude, which has been so evident in the past, of everything being on a cost basis, on an efficiency basis. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that the white community is responsible for the situation in which the Aborigines find themselves through lack of education as a result of a lack of attention to the demands of the 1967 referendum held under the previous Government. [More…]
As a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, I know how closely and how well members of all sides of the Parliament have worked under the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross), our chairman, to try to do something positive for Aborigines and not just make Party political points concerning the problem. [More…]
One might be understood for fearing that the more articulate or better educated Aborigines might exercise a stronger influence on the Council than his or her tribal brother. [More…]
As I have said, Members of our Committee went along to one of the Council’s meetings and we found that so many of the Aborigines were confused as to what they should be doing and how they should be running their meetings. [More…]
I think that a lot of notice could be taken by the Department to show the Aboriginals just how the Council could run more efficiently in the interests of Aborigines. [More…]
He has shown that Aborigines can play a very significant part in the running of this nation, not only as Aborigines, but as Australians. [More…]
The first is that we hear a lot about drinking problems among Aborigines. [More…]
It is a problem we have to face with the Aborigines and it is a problem that many white people face. [More…]
The problem is not confined solely to Aborigines. [More…]
I know that it is not in the interest of Aborigines that they should drink alcoholic liquor. [More…]
The problems facing the tribal Aborigines are very different from those facing the fringe dwelling Aborigines. [More…]
Another aspect of the estimates shows the increasing amount which is being channelled through organisations which are composed of Aborigines and which are Aboriginal controlled. [More…]
I think that aU of us reject the concept that we should be paternalistic in the programs that are financed by the Australian Government to help Aborigines. [More…]
But leaving aside the more spectacular areas, the mistakes which I think all of us will admit have from time to time been made, there is a basis of very solid achievement within this program, real achievement in terms of approximately 12,000 children of Aboriginal descent now at secondary schools compared with the mere hundreds attending such schools before the program of Aboriginal secondary education grants was established; the substantial number of Aboriginal people who are now living in better housing than they were before; the numbers of Aboriginal children who are now receiving a better education in pre-schools, and schools whether those schools be conducted through the State system or whether the children go away and board; and, of course, the Aborigines who are assisted through Aboriginal enterprises. [More…]
But there are many people who, when looking at a program put forward in regard to Aboriginal affairs, are inclined to say: ‘This is discrimination in favour of the Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines do not want this discrimination. [More…]
Really the Aborigines do not need this, they do not want it and it is harmful’. [More…]
A report tided ‘Rural Poverty in Northern New South Wales’ by the Poverty Commission of Inquiry noted that if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 17.4m had been given directly to Aborigines, then estimated at 140 000, it would have meant $838 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
Parliamentarians in this place have a primary right to protect 2 groups of people to be assisted- in this case the Aborigines and, of course, the taxpayers. [More…]
I have never heard anyone deny that the relationship of power or authority between us and the Aborigines in the main has always been with the European population having authority over the Aborigines. [More…]
It is unfortunate that because Aborigines are a small ethnic minority- I believe that it is projected that they will represent 2 per cent of our population by the end of the century- they will remain under this disability for many years. [More…]
Looking at the problem from our position I suppose we would not be very concerned but if one were to look at our relationship from the point of view of the Aborigines one would understand that this relationship must have an effect on the Aboriginal population, especially on a young Aborigine going to school with his companions. [More…]
I believe that the problem, as we become more affluent, will be that we will have to make a greater redistribution to the Aborigines. [More…]
Because of this I think it should be remembered that the circumstances in which Aborigines now live were not caused by Aborigines; I believe that they are the end result of our own settlement, our own investments and the effect that our communications and transport had on Aboriginal society. [More…]
I believe that these things have forced Aborigines into a position of involuntary dependence. [More…]
For this reason alone I believe that this appropriation is justified and that we have an obligation, a responsibility, to lessen the hurt to and to lighten the burden of Aborigines. [More…]
Because of this fact, I believe that we have reason to expect a degree of co-operation from the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
It does not matter how we look at these matters; we cannot expect any great credibility in world forums, especially those where the developing nations are involved, if we allow Aborigines to live in the conditions in which they live at present. [More…]
Aborigines are human beings. [More…]
It is an indictment of the European population that Aborigines should feel it necessary to remind us that they are human beings. [More…]
Let me refer to the situation that I found at the end of the 1973 floods when the Aborigines at Wilcannia were flooded out as a result, I suppose, to some extent of the weirs and water schemes constructed lower down the river which caused a bank-up of water which flooded the grounds on which Aborigines had camped for many years. [More…]
When the Aborigines were living in tents the situation was much better than it was before the floods. [More…]
Unfortunately a promise was made to the Aborigines that permanent houses would be built. [More…]
By the time we returned to them, the Aborigines were very disappointed and a good deal of resentment was generated against the Government. [More…]
At Wilcannia, we have joined in many discussions with Aborigines and their committees, including their housing committee. [More…]
I was surprised that the Aborigines not only allowed us to express our opinion on what the remedy should be but also went to a lot of trouble to point out where we went wrong. [More…]
Instead of my convincing the Aborigines that they should accept something else, they convinced me that what they wanted to do was quite right. [More…]
What worries me and what should worry the Government- but that is not the point; it should worry the Australian people- is that the Aborigines in the north of Australia, whether they be in Western Australia or in the Northern Territory, are being debauched by a flood of money which they cannot sustain. [More…]
It is not my letter from which I have quoted; this is a letter written officially by the council of Aborigines at Oenpelli. [More…]
The situation is a running sore and it is very bad news for the Aborigines at what is and has been for many years a fantastic settlement . [More…]
of Aborigines- a fantastic place for them to live in and work in. [More…]
People are needed who will work with the Aborigines, who will help them, who are sympathetic towards them and who have experience and knowledge. [More…]
Unfortunately, many of the people who are coming into these areas today have neither the experience nor the knowledge, and the Aborigines are suffering as a result of that. [More…]
I know that someone must act as a consultant in the running of such an enterprise until the Aborigines reach the stage where they can run it themselves. [More…]
The Aborigines at Wave Hill have been given 1250 square miles. [More…]
The point I am making is that ever since this Government came to office I have had a standing offer to the Government- I endeavoured to get the same message across when we were in government- to get hold of someone who knows how to run a cattle station, who knows something about cattle and who knows something about working with Aborigines, and to get him to run these places. [More…]
A vast amount of money has been made available for Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister wm probably remember when the land at Wave Hill was being given to the Aborigines. [More…]
I do not want to hear people here saying what was not done during the 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government for Aborigines, because in actual fact a lot was done for Aborigines during that time before the present Government came into power. [More…]
A lot of money has been spent and great strides have been made towards the betterment of Aborigines. [More…]
It is up to us, if we are going to do any good for Aborigines at aU, to take it away. [More…]
I think it is deplorable and I hope that this Government will take every action that it possibly can to see that both Aborigines and Europeans are brought together, understand each other and work together on projects for the Aborigines, because they will be a failure if the European is not there to assist the Aborigine. [More…]
Instead of so much money being spent on material things we should be spending it on training people, on giving them the experience, on trying to find men and women with experience who can give the Aborigines the lead and help them enter the future life that they are going to have. [More…]
I say once again that it is no use voting tremendous amounts of money unless there is sympathy, understanding and preparedness for the people of Australia to be with the Aborigines and work with them. [More…]
Whilst the term Aboriginality has gained credence- a term which is intended to identify all people of Aboriginal blood with the commonly held view that the Aborigines have been dispossessed of their land and have been broken by white settlement- the term in itself tends to oversimplify the totality of the problems and the actions we must take in order to try to tackle the problems. [More…]
In New South Wales, while most of the Aborigines and people of Aboriginal bloods identify themselves with the term Aboriginality they have become part of the wider Australian community. [More…]
I asked the Minister on behalf of the Moree Aboriginal Advancement Association whether it would be possible to get a special works project going within that store in order to provide employment for the many unemployed Aborigines in the town and district. [More…]
The Aborigines on it seem to think that it has failed. [More…]
The difficulty for the Northern Territory Aborigines is that on the NACC they can barely cope with the Aborigines from the other States. [More…]
It is proposed on the part of the Aborigines to establish an association which also is to be incorporated and which probably will become the instrument by which the secretariat and the other funding requirements will be fulfilled. [More…]
It is also the Government’s intention to proceed with a royal commission into the plight of Aborigines in the Northern Territory in the hope that we will be able to effect better relations in the future between the Aboriginal people and the police. [More…]
In terms of the total staff which at 1 October stood at 1490, more than half-744- are Aborigines. [More…]
Excluding these, there remain 124 Aborigines within the Department’s total number of 840 second, third and fourth division staff members. [More…]
Many of these people exercising this control I hope would be Aborigines and, as the time went on, more would be Aborigines. [More…]
It is fairly restrictive in regard to those Aborigines who can take part in the enterprise. [More…]
I urge this minor change of attitude upon the Government and in fact upon all people who deal with Aborigines and with any weak minority groups within the community, because success is so important to those groups. [More…]
This includes payments to private legal practitioners of $7m, grants to the States to supplement existing legal aid schemes of $lm and legal aid to Aborigines of $3m. [More…]
Within days of being elected we were able to put into effect policies that ended conscription, removed the last vestiges of involvement in Vietnam, cut many of the ties with South Africa and commenced to improve the lot of Aborigines. [More…]
I said: ‘There is a large population of Aborigines there. [More…]
This Bill would assist not only the Aborigines, who are the main offenders, but everyone concerned. [More…]
The education of migrants and Aborigines is another area that claims priority. [More…]
The Aborigines themselves want it stopped and asked for something to be done. [More…]
One of the things that the Aborigines are asking for is proper police protection, and they are entitled to have it. [More…]
These are Aborigines who are asking for the protection of police and specifically asking for the location of European police officers in their communities. [More…]
Aborigines at Wattie Creek (Question No. [More…]
1 ) How many Aborigines are living at Wattie Creek. [More…]
To what tribes do the Aborigines belong other than the Gurindji tribe. [More…]
I think the flexibility within the Act is extremely interesting and will lead to a lot more families- particularly families of deserted wives and those Aborigines who are not able to move into home ownership- being able to buy a home, which is the dream of most of us, through the Australian Housing Corporation. [More…]
For example, in one New South Wales town, Moree, the waiting list for Housing Commission homes for Aborigines in 1974 alone grew by twelve. [More…]
I am told that in Sydney housing conditions for Aborigines are so desperate that South Sydney Community Aid literally has to beg real estate agents to accept Aboriginal tenants. [More…]
This Government has pledged to house properly all Aborigines by 1983. [More…]
I am sure that Aborigines understand them and the public also must understand them. [More…]
It was to make funds available to assist Aborigines who wish to purchase their own homes, taking into account personal wishes as to design and location. [More…]
But what of the promise ‘to take into account Aborigines’ personal wishes as to design and location’. [More…]
Have they allowed Aborigines to participate in the housing programs? [More…]
And still the Aborigines have remained the victims, remained dependent. [More…]
It is saying that where housing is a live issue, whether among tribal Aboriginal communities or non-tribal associations, it is reasonable to assume that Aborigines themselves Will discuss the housing they prefer and determine their own priorities. [More…]
It has tended to tell Aborigines what their housing needs are. [More…]
Wherever practicable, self-management by Aborigines is our objective. [More…]
He was quite unfair and indeed it is false to suggest that this Government does not stand for dialogue, consultation and co-operation with Aborigines in the field of Aboriginal housing. [More…]
Will he provide a list of all schemes under which grants for loans or any form of assistance is provided to Aborigines or Aboriginal groups. [More…]
The purpose of loans provided by the Aboriginal Loans Commission is to enable Aborigines to engage in business enterprises that are likely to become, or continue to be, successful or in the case of housing and personal loans to assist Aborigines and their spouses to obtain a house, housing land and various essential personal items, such as basic furniture. [More…]
What is the area of pastoral leases that have been purchased by the Government for the Aborigines, and what area is now being negotiated. [More…]
What provision is being made to provide funds for purchase of properties by Aborigines during the financial year 1975-76. [More…]
The only one you got through was one which said that Aborigines should be regarded as people. [More…]
People in this latter group would be, for instance, students, Aborigines and migrants. [More…]
As it is, the federal legal aid program proposed in this BUI will be limited constitution.ally to all matters arising under federal law and to people to whom the Federal Parliament has a special responsibility, such as Aborigines, students, migrants and pensioners. [More…]
In the 1 975-76 Budget $ 16.7m was provided for legal aid, $ 13.7m of which was allocated to the ALAO and $3m for legal aid to Aborigines. [More…]
Others thought to benefit would be pensioners, Aborigines, Labor voters and deserted wives. [More…]
the collection of statistics relating to the labor market including comprehensive monthly surveys of CES transactions in dealing with the unemployed, the numbers unplaced at the end of the survey period, vacancy activities, unemployment among school leavers, the handicapped, Aborigines and apprentices, employment and overtime in larger private factories with appropriate comments on the reasons for significant variation in figures; [More…]
to offer a special employment counselling and placement service to school leavers, the handicapped, older workers, discharged servicemen, ex-prisoners, aborigines and migrants. [More…]
The planned Labor and Immigration advertising program for 1975-76 includes $ 100,000 for staff advertising and $250,000 for promoting employment opportunities particularly for youth, handicapped persons and aborigines, and for apprenticeship and industrial training. [More…]
Aboriginal Legal Services on the other hand are an example of community control by Aborigines. [More…]
Even the Aborigines were not happy to have their legal service integrated into the ALAO service. [More…]
This could have been done while maintaining grants to the States and to Aborigines for legal aid . [More…]
It is interesting to note that they are not confined to Northern Territory Aborigines. [More…]
Do they understand that this could be a means whereby Aborigines in other parts of Australia could obtain title or rights to land in the Northern Territory? [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to recognise and set out in a somewhat simpler form than applies in the existing State laws the fact that Aborigines do not have the sophistication and business experience to comply with many of the complex and technical requirements of State laws. [More…]
This legislation should prove a very useful step forward in assisting Aborigines to incorporate. [More…]
They are quite different from the land rights of Aborigines in a community like Cherbourg, near Brisbane, for example- and I do not denigrate in any way the right of the people of Cherbourg to own their own land. [More…]
The Aborigines had been there for 10 days and the Minister agreed to allow them to purchase the home for $32,000. [More…]
Of course the National Country Party speaks in this place precisely for those groups in our society who see themselves as threatened by land rights becoming available to Aborigines. [More…]
We are witnessing this last ditch attempt on the part of the honourable member for Wentworth to have the whole affair referred to yet another committee because the Country Party lives in hope that the matter of land rights for Aborigines, like the matter of electoral reform and one vote one value, can be staved off in the hope of an electoral miracle which will somehow make these issues dead letters. [More…]
Why otherwise could it have been that 8 long years had to go by before a small group of Aborigines, possessed of a fierce pride and an unusual measure of determination, could achieve title to their land at Wave Hill, title to land which was traditionally associated with the Gurindji tribe? [More…]
It is undoubtedly true that Aborigines show a unanimity in their voting behaviour in some settlements and on some missions which cannot be accounted for by any of the conventional rules of political science. [More…]
At Lake Tyers, a valuable property hitherto previously used as an Aboriginal reserve, was handed over to a group of Aborigines, broken in health, broken in spirit and deprived of self-respect, who were unable to take advantage of what had been given to them. [More…]
Of the 212 Aborigines living at Wattie Creek, how many are participants in the Muramulla Gurindji Pastoral Company or are dependants of participants. [More…]
We are simply talking about Aborigines living in a particular area. [More…]
The Registrar will determine the manner in which the election is to be conducted and he will explain to the Aborigines the manner in which the election is to be conducted. [More…]
One of the great things that we have to look at is the capacity on the part of Aborigines to exclude from their own area not merely Europeans but also Aboriginal people who are not conforming to their rules of the area or who are tribally incompatible with it. [More…]
This is something which the Aborigines of Arnhem Land, of the north of Australia and of the centre of Australia require. [More…]
We are not going to give that kind of authority to the Aborigines concerned. [More…]
It worries me very much that this Bill, which I am sure has been drafted with the very best of intentions- I do not want to denigrate the intentions of the people who have drafted this Billwas not meant, as the Minister said- he has gone back on his word- to come into operation until the Aborigines had had an opportunity to study it and to tell us what they wanted in regard to it. [More…]
One of the things that the Aborigines will want- it is not provided for in clause 30 as it should be- is power for local groups to issue and withdraw permits to enter their areas. [More…]
The time already taken in investigation of these proposals and particularly in investigation of the proposal of land rights for Aborigines has been very great, and there can be no question that the inquiry into land rights carried out by Mr Justice Woodward was one of the most thorough and searching inquiries which has been seen in this country in recent years, yet the Opposition is anxious to see this legislation referred for yet another inquiry. [More…]
It is the pastoralists on whose properties the overwhelming number of Aborigines have lived, the pastoralists who have so overwhelmingly ignored the proper provision of medical care on their properties. [More…]
This morning he made a bitter attack on Territorians generally and pastoralists in particular about the lack of” housing for Aborigines and about malnutrition. [More…]
From his one trip to Wave Hill, where I gather he got a fairly good dousing, and deserved it, he would have no idea of some of the very good works performed by pastoralists and citizens of the Northern Territory for Aborigines. [More…]
Labor supporters have been seen grabbing how to vote cards from Aborigines in various areas and abusing people for supporting the Country Party. [More…]
He also claimed that the Australian Labor Party was the first party to introduce land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
In 1971 the Legislative Council, as it then was, conferred land rights on Aborigines under the Northern Territory Lands Ordinance. [More…]
Aborigines were given rights on reserves. [More…]
At that time the Aborigines virtually had control and ownership of one-sixth of the Northern Territory plus various cattle stations. [More…]
The 3 properties which the Aborigines owned at that timeEverard Park which is now called Mimili, Willowra and Kildurk- are not run properly. [More…]
Although everyone supports Aboriginal land rights, great consideration should be given to the delicate situation of people who are training Aborigines. [More…]
This is not a scheme to delay land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
I warn the Minister that if he receives and mentions telegrams from the northern land council- from Bathurst Island, Melville Island and many other areas, but Bathurst Island in particular- in support of the Bill he should realise that there were 2 Aborigines, one part coloured, on the land council, and seven were what one might call ‘heavies’, department men or legal advisers. [More…]
There have been pleas from Aborigines in central Australia. [More…]
If the Aborigines wish to consider it- they do because they have indicated this from all quarters and Balanda Territorians wish to discuss it for the good of the people in the Northern Territory- the Government should discuss it. [More…]
Those men realise that both black and white must work together for the future of the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The introduction of the land trusts and the handling of the land situation can do nothing but bring very severe problems into the family life of the Aborigines. [More…]
With regard to mining, certainly the Aborigines must have interests in joint ventures with Europeans. [More…]
This Bill as it stands will destroy the permit system which the Aborigines again and again have requested the Liberal-Country Party, or the Country-Liberal Party as it is in the north, to preserve. [More…]
The permit system gives to the Aborigines the right to say who shall go on to their land; and that is their right. [More…]
We are trying to establish in a permanent way the rights of the Northern Territory Aborigines to the land which they have been deprived of for so long. [More…]
Until the white man came to Western Australia Aborigines enjoyed relative freedom from want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness in terms of their needs then. [More…]
One hundred and fifty years later the Aborigines are but one-half of their earlier number, they have been transformed from semi-nomadic hunters to sedentary unskilled labourers, and from freely self-determining persons to degraded dependants. [More…]
I think it is clear that one of the prime objectives of the Government and most observers on the question of Aboriginal advancement has been to try to establish a way of life in which these Aborigines, both as individuals and communities, can be selfdetermining. [More…]
There are some very grave pitfalls, as we move towards self-determination amongst Aborigines and that matter has to be approached with very great care. [More…]
We must not ever allow ourselves to wash our hands and say that because it is the Aborigines’ wish, we should not intervene in any way. [More…]
I do not know why the Bill does not refer to Aborigines. [More…]
It seems to be the custom now to call Aborigines ‘Aboriginals’. [More…]
Various definitions of Aborigines have been put before us. [More…]
It said that for a person to be identified as an Aborigine he had to be born an Aborigine and be prepared to live in the traditional style of Aborigines, or words to that effect. [More…]
What worries the Aborigines in the Northern Territory- I refer to those who we in the Northern Territory understand to be the traditional Aborigines, the full bloods- is that this definition and in many cases this Bill will allow people who they do not consider to be Aborigines at all, although they may claim to be spokesmen for the Aborigines and make publicity for and speak on behalf of Aborigines, to be recognised. [More…]
If a meeting is held down here, perhaps these people who claim to be Aborigines sway that meeting. [More…]
I am defending them against the interlopers, the part coloureds or whatever they are from the south, who express opinions all over Australia on behalf of the Aborigines. [More…]
Now they are to be allowed by this definition in this Bill to go to the Northern Territory and tramp on the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Once again I think he will have considerable trouble in this regard because some of the people he may believe in and who are making noises on behalf of Aborigines do not have the respect of either the Aborigines or the Europeans. [More…]
I know that the Aborigines in the Northern Territory do not accept them. [More…]
We are not talking about the carpet baggers who will be coming from the south and trying to exploit the full-blooded Aborigines because by this Bill we are giving, very properly, tremendous material advantages to a group of full-blooded Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Do honourable members think that the carpet baggers who call themselves Aborigines, but who are really three-quarters or more of European origin, will not go to the Northern Territory to try to cash in? [More…]
A number of criticisms have been levelled by Aborigines- a lot of them have been levelled by de-tribalised Aboriginal people- about the Aboriginal land commissioner as a functionary appointed under Part II of the Bill. [More…]
I ask Government supporters not to get me wrong and to say that I am trying to stop the Aborigines having something in the future or in the present. [More…]
Once people have to go from Darwin to Millingimbi to discuss a proposal about what is going to happen to the land of the Aborigines and once you start saying that you have to give them some building or some architectural advice or you have to give them some other sort of advice or assistance, naturally you are going to start building within that large land council another bureaucracy. [More…]
As I said before, this is one of the rights which Aborigines in north Australia especially hold very sacred. [More…]
They want control over people, whoever they happen to be, whether Aborigines or not, who do not have the right to go on to their land. [More…]
One of the fundamentals of Aboriginal life is that Aborigines wish to control the set up. [More…]
Despite the remarks made about me and my limited knowledge of Aborigines, I think I know this and that the Government does not. [More…]
It is perfectly true that we have had Aborigines coming before a commission and giving their points of view. [More…]
The honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) has proposed that the matter go to the Committee for consideration so that the interested people who include the Aborigines and our own council in Darwin can have an opportunity of putting their views before that Committee. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that Mr Justice Woodward made a point of consulting with Aborigines throughout the whole course of his inquiry during 1973 and up to the submission of his report in May 1974. [More…]
The Aborigines do not want any vacillation or delay in respect of this matter. [More…]
They talk about Aborigines not being contaminated by white opinion. [More…]
In this situation, I am advised, all the white people, all the non-Aboriginal people, were asked to leave the meeting so that the Aborigines could make up their own mind, and indeed they did. [More…]
I tell him here and now that what he says does not represent the views of the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I forestalled him this morning by telling him that the composition of the Northern Land Council that sent that telegram from Bathurst Island was 7 whites, one part-coloured and 2 Aborigines. [More…]
It is an absolute falsehood to say that all the people at the Native Land Council on Bathurst Island are Aborigines. [More…]
Obviously he is not interested and does not understand Aborigines, their traditions or the usage of their land. [More…]
The Minister should not trot into this House and tell me or any of us from the Northern Territory who understand these things far better than he does- I do not say we understand them entirely but we understand them far better than he or anyone on his side of the House doesthat this Bill represents the wish of the Aborigines. [More…]
By all means give the Aborigines land but the Minister is cutting across everything they are interested in, everything they understand and everything they want. [More…]
It is no answer simply to say that because Aborigines are used to sorting out things they can agree on boundaries. [More…]
Do not let us imagine that because Aborigines traditionally seem to resolve their problems problems will not arise in the future. [More…]
I do not think he is quibbling with the proposition that members of the land council should be Aborigines and that they should be chosen by Aborigines living in the area of the land council. [More…]
For the time being, having regard to the initial role of these 2 councils, which is very much about seeking out the identity of the land and the owners- and a great deal of field work has been undertaken at considerable cost where the views of a wide range of people are extremely beneficial- there is a lot to be said for having Aborigines together in such numbers on but 2 councils. [More…]
We might think of proceeding by making it clear that we are talking about traditionally oriented Aborigines. [More…]
These land councils will be talking about land which is allotted to Aborigines because of their traditional association with it. [More…]
That being so, one would want to make certain that the people who were on these councils were traditionally oriented themselves and were selected by traditionally oriented Aborigines. [More…]
The Northern Land Council, in numbers will be dominated by Darwin Aborigines, many of whom are no longer traditionally oriented. [More…]
Many of the Aborigines in Darwin have repudiated or lost their links with their traditional lives. [More…]
There is a constant circulation of Aborigines between Arnhem Land and Darwin and some of those in Darwin maintain their full traditional links. [More…]
Under this clause we may easily find that the Northern Land Council will be dominated by non-traditional Aborigines. [More…]
I am not prepared to be definite about it until I have had a chance to talk to the Aborigines concerned because, after all, what we should be doing is trying to bring forward a piece of legislation that suits the purposes not of the [More…]
Government, the Opposition or the Europeans, but the purposes of the Aborigines. [More…]
In order to do that we need to consult the Aborigines and this is the one thing that we are not allowed to do. [More…]
We are not complaining about their being Aborigines. [More…]
Once again what we are saying is that someone other than, for example, Daisy and Sam from Goulburn Island, who are genuine traditional Aborigines, could dominate that Land Council. [More…]
Honourable members opposite seem to be concerned about the possibility of part-Aboriginal people- even full-blood Aborigines who are not following the traditional Aboriginal ways of their forefathers- getting control of these councils. [More…]
It is a denial of rights to the local Aborigines. [More…]
We get all these complexities which the Aborigines themselves will resolve if left to themselves but they are inimical to our idea of ownership. [More…]
Here we are saying what the Aborigines will do with their land, what ceremonies they will perform on it, what they should do in an economic sense, whether they will have fishing, hunting, agriculture, or pastoral pursuits. [More…]
They will be determined for the Aborigines by a land council. [More…]
I also felt the approach was a sensible one because the community is the basic political and social grouping for Aborigines in modern society. [More…]
I know that he did make an attempt to find out what the Aborigines wanted. [More…]
It happened not in relation to Mr Justice Woodward but in relation to an administrator of the Northern Territory who knew Aborigines and was very sympathetic towards them. [More…]
He went to Yirrkala when the agreements with the aluminium company, Nabalco Pty Ltd, were being negotiated and he obtained from the Aborigines consent to what was going to be done to them at that place. [More…]
Afterwards when the Aborigines saw what they had given consent to- they did not realise and did not understand the implications- they were appalled. [More…]
Here we have something which I am sure that Aborigines- if their consent has been got formally- do not understand what they have consented to. [More…]
1 ) What are the details of developments in connection with properties which were purchased for Aborigines with public funds. [More…]
1 ) Properties purchased for Aborigines with public funds by both the previous and the present Governments were established pastoral properties. [More…]
What was the cost of the purchase of 10 960 square kilometres of pastoral properties in the Northern Territory for Aborigines. [More…]
What properties have been purchased for Aborigines in each State and what was the cost of purchase in each case. [More…]
What properties in each State are now being negotiated for purchase for Aborigines and what is their size and estimated cost. [More…]
However, residential blocks and business premises in the Northern Territory have been purchased on behalf of Aborigines from funds made available by this Department. [More…]
I must say that I was particularly impressed by the sensitivity of his remarks in relation to the Aborigines and the problems of the inhabitants of the Torres Strait islands. [More…]
I have come to the conclusion that our doctrine of assimilation is impertinence; our doctrine of integration is impertinence; every doctrine that we have imposed on the Aborigines is a piece of impertinence. [More…]
We have assumed that Aborigines ought to be our subjects or our citizens. [More…]
The first educational decision made by myself and taken to the then Prime Minister was that Aborigines had a right where they so chose to an education in their own language as the medium of instruction. [More…]
Almost every cutback in expenditure he has introduced has been aimed at the weakest and least protected groups in our communitythe pensioners, the Aborigines, the migrants, the people who are trying to re-establish themselves by means of retraining schemes, the unemployed, and now the children. [More…]
Indeed, the Liberal and Country Parties during their previous administration introduced many individual training schemes- for married women, Aborigines and other specially disadvantaged people in the community. [More…]
The report points out that there are many groups, such as single mothers and Aborigines, who understand the needs of their members and can make a most valuable contribution towards meeting them. [More…]
benefits for various disadvantaged groups, and to reduce expenditure on Aborigines by $7m this year. [More…]
It will also enhance the expression of public support in the referendum of 1967 when the Federal Government, under the leadership of the late Harold Holt, was entrusted with the paramount responsibility to legislate for Aborigines throughout the country. [More…]
These projects aim to increase the participation of Aborigines in the work force, to provide on-the-job training for unskilled workers, and, importantly, to provide employment opportunities for Aborigines in areas where jobs are scarce. [More…]
But the Committee has also seen the need on occasions to go outside its terms of reference and to look at the socially deprived, Aborigines and migrants to see whether their background and the difficulties they face in a new community or a strange society prevent them from coping with the learning process. [More…]
Even the Commonwealth Employment Service, which had a responsibility to find jobs and to create special works projects for the Aboriginal people did not employ Aborigines in its office employed on a form of special works projects, training them to take up positions in that area. [More…]
Special emphasis was placed in the report on the need for the Public Service Board to give attention to that matter and for Australian Government instrumentalities actively to recruit Aborigines for employment and to create positions for them. [More…]
Local government does not take roads out to the reserves or to where the Aborigines live- not universally anyway. [More…]
I am somewhat shattered by what has been happening through the years and I only hope that this new Committee, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), and honourable members on both sides see their way clear to keeping politics out of Aboriginal affairs because politics certainly do not do anything for the Aborigines. [More…]
I do not know whether the money is being spent in a sincere endeavour to help Aborigines but in a most misguided way the Government is spending $500,000 to buy a cattle station. [More…]
The Aborigines do not know what they are going to do with it. [More…]
This sort of thing and the spending of that son of money are not doing the Aborigines the slightest good. [More…]
We want to find people who are prepared to spend their time and their experience helping Aborigines. [More…]
-We hope that that will not happen on this occasion but that the Committee will find a real opinion about Aborigines; that it will speak to these people themselves. [More…]
We hear of telegrams coming from the northern land council and the central land council and people purporting to be spokesmen for Aborigines. [More…]
But if one speaks to the Aborigines themselves, underneath this very thin veneer of representation, some of which might be here tomorrow, one will find that they do not think that way. [More…]
If you read Strehlow, Albrecht and Stolle and these people who have lived and spent their lives with the Aborigines and speak their language, you will find that that is what they will say. [More…]
That is why we in the Northern Territory and we who have some knowledge and experience of Aborigines say: Do not force that Bill through the House without referring it to the people concerned. [More…]
I mean especially the Aborigines. [More…]
If one is to talk about land rights or Aborigines, go and speak to the people who know something about them. [More…]
The Aborigines were standing bewildered in the streets. [More…]
I hope that this Committee will be able to see through that sort of thing and will be able to listen to Aborigines whether they be in the Northern Territory, where we say an Aborigine is a different person to one covered by the definition of ‘Aboriginal ‘-quite wrongly- in the Bill produced by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
But it should also listen to those other Aborigines in other parts of Australia. [More…]
But we should remember that those in the Northern Territory, where we have the greatest percentage of real Aborigines, do not accept the domination of these people from the south, whether they claim to be Aborigines or not. [More…]
The people who must be consulted by any committee dealing with Aborigines are the people who live in the area, whether they are black or white or part coloured. [More…]
As I said when I started my speech if I can help in a non-political way to help the Aborigines and the people who live in those areas to live together, I feel that I will be doing some sort of a job for Australia and for the Aborigines. [More…]
I hope that this Committee will work towards giving the Aborigines a greater say and greater responsibility. [More…]
If we are to serve Aborigines to any extent we have to reverse that policy and we have to be rid of the people who espouse it. [More…]
I suppose that the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) has more Aborigines or Aboriginals- I am never too sure of the terminology- in his electorate than anybody else. [More…]
These days, when we take into account the full bloods and pan blood Aborigines and so on the figure is something like that again. [More…]
The Government of the day has to recognise- I think this is the crux of the federalism policy which we will be introducing- that there are States and that those States have got massive responsibilities in the areas of health, education, Aborigines and a whole range of things, and that those States’ governments are charged with the responsibility of looking after those areas. [More…]
Already we have had $360m worth which have meant the breaching of Budget promises to people such as Aborigines. [More…]
As honourable gentlemen would be aware, the Commonwealth is concerned that there should have been adequate consultation with the Aborigines of the Aurukun community concerning the proposal and the arrangements between the Queensland Government and the consortium in question. [More…]
The Queensland Premier is at the moment considering a proposal that there ought to be discussions in Queensland involving himself, the Minister for Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement and the Aborigines from Aurukun. [More…]
How the tools of capital opposite can bear themselves in the knowledge that it is the pensioners, the Aborigines, the people in need of health care and pharmaceutical benefits, the migrants, those needing legal aid and others in depressed sectors who are affected by this program, is absolutely beyond me. [More…]
It should be ‘Aborigines’. [More…]
There are far better ways of spending money and helping Aborigines than buying a cattle station which even if it costs $500,000 1 could run with 10 men-and that does not feed very many people. [More…]
Government: Get a look at all that and see that we are getting value for Aborigines from the money spent. [More…]
The Aborigines are being brainwashed, as they were in the streets of Alice Springs the week before last. [More…]
We are saying that certainly the Aborigines have land rights, but that the land should be allocated in a fair way and in accordance with what the real Aborigines believe and want. [More…]
This man presided over the greatest handouts to Aborigines that this country has seen. [More…]
While they were there, Throsby and Wild, with a constable named Vaughan, pushed on south in search of the Murrumbidgee, of which they had heard from the Aborigines. [More…]
They failed to discover it but reached the Yass River, which the Aborigines called the Boongaroom, and probably passed over the northern end of what is now the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
There is great scope for imparting these skills to Aboriginal and part Aboriginal students and even fully grown Aborigines. [More…]
Without provocation or cause of any kind, violence was done to a number of Aborigines and a significant number of them were arrested, gaoled and humiliated. [More…]
He fought hard for a royal commission into not only the Skull Creek incident, but also into reports of incidents involving drunkenness and violence among Aborigines in the town of Laverton itself for several weeks prior to 5 January. [More…]
The royal commission found that there were indeed a number of drunken Aborigines in [More…]
They, the police, altered their original charges, stated to be Aborigines fighting Aborigines, to Aborigines fighting police- a charge which was false although the royal commission found that there was one incident of violence, or more, at Skull Creek for which it could not say who was responsible. [More…]
By any standards of conduct, towards Aborigines or non-Aborigines, this constitutes the most deliberate attempt to pervert the administration of justice. [More…]
Further any question of excessive consumption of alcohol by Aborigines cannot be regarded as a cause for the conduct of the police at Skull Creek, nor was it regarded as such by the royal commission. [More…]
However, I am aware that the Department’s Area Officer in Laverton at the time, Mr Bachman, had been working beyond the call of duty with the Laverton Police Sergeant for some weeks to overcome the problems associated with the excessive consumption of alcohol among Aborigines in the town. [More…]
He was, however, sought by the imprisoned Aborigines and through visiting them and hearing their stories was able to help them. [More…]
Whilst the underlying causes are complex, the immediate cause of most of the troubles which we have described in this period was excessive drinking by Aborigines. [More…]
In my opening address to the conference on Monday I drew attention to the common but wrongly held view that Aborigines and drunkenness necessarily go together. [More…]
Events as revealed by the Royal Commission show the innocent purpose for which the Aborigines were moving from Warburton to Wiluna- to take part in their traditional rain making ceremonies. [More…]
Of the 28 police officers stationed at Laverton at the time of the Skull Creek incident, only ten had had any previous dealings with Aborigines. [More…]
Other States, notably South Australia, have been active from time to time in setting up committees on which police and Aborigines are represented, to build better relations. [More…]
If, in fact, the officer who took charge of the police reinforcements at Laverton at the time of the Skull Creek incident had knowledge of customs and traditions of Aborigines, he most likely would have understood the purpose of the Aborigines at Skull Creek and have made appropriate inquiries before taking any action. [More…]
I am convinced that the Aborigines were utterly and absolutely innocent in respect of Skull Creek. [More…]
He, like myself, when we read of the incident at Skull Creek and made inquiries, was convinced that the Aborigines at Skull Creek were completely innocent of the charges made. [More…]
In the interests of the Aboriginal people it is essential that the kind of incident that occurred at Laverton be brought to an end throughout the north and central part of Australia where Aborigines still maintain some of their own tribal infrastructure. [More…]
I believe that the policies of past governments -and I use the word ‘government’ in the plural- have been wrong in that they have endeavoured to disregard the Aborigines own identity and systems of authority. [More…]
Medibank would not have become a poor man’s health fund for the infirm, the unemployed, the Aborigines and the migrants. [More…]
The Government proudly announces these savings on education, especially as they affect Aborigines and migrants. [More…]
Of this year’s funds, $145.8m was to be spent through my Department either directly in the Northern Territory and by direct grants to Aborigines or organisations; through grants to the States or through related Government companies and statutory bodies. [More…]
The principles of Aboriginal self-management and self-sufficiency are not only major objectives of the Government’s policy but will, it is believed, have a cumulative effect in freeing Aborigines from [More…]
It is our aim to find ways in which Aborigines can play a more significant role in their own affairs. [More…]
Since my appointment as Minister, I have become aware of the need to institute policies at the national level to improve the relationships between Aborigines and police. [More…]
I will not dwell again on the statement I made concerning the royal commission’s report on the incidents at Laverton and Skull Creek in Western Australia other than to indicate that more needs to be done in achieving a greater level of understanding of the problems of Aborigines by those who enforce the law. [More…]
A recent national seminar funded by the Government on Aborigines and alcohol recommended the use of predominantly Aboriginal staff in treatment programs; that courts and ambulances refer Aboriginal alcoholics and problem drinkers to Aboriginal services; and that Aboriginal/ police steering committees be set up in each State to co-operate on the legal aspects of drunkenness and arrest. [More…]
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs has before it a reference on alcoholism and Aborigines. [More…]
These include the children of widow and invalid pensioners, of workers close to the minimum wage or in intermittent employment, of self-employed people unable to earn an adequate income, and of many Aborigines, recently-arrived migrants and other disadvantaged groups. [More…]
So is the miserable treatment applied to Aborigines. [More…]
Any savings to this social expenditure now will be more than offset by the enormous increase in expenditure which will be required in future years because of the problems not being cured this year, because of lack of resources made available by this government now for Aborigines. [More…]
They expect a whole range of services for groups in the community which have special needs such as the old, the sick, the young, women and Aborigines. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: Having regard to earlier statements made by the Minister on a timetable for the introduction of legislation to give effect to the granting of land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory, can the Minister inform the House of the current situation? [More…]
It is that the Government has authorised the introduction of legislation to recognise land rights for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, those land rights being in respect of the reserves there and also traditional lands to which Aborigines wish to make claim. [More…]
I know the anxiety of Aborigines throughout Australia that this legislation be introduced. [More…]
Since it became my responsibility I have taken it on myself to discuss the matter with many people, Aborigines and others, throughout the Northern Territory in particular, who are interested in the subject. [More…]
Without that provision the Bill really would have been worthless to Aborigines. [More…]
Out of this cooperative effort between this Government and the Northern Territory we will have a piece of legislation giving land rights to Aborigines which will be able to last for a long time. [More…]
It was thrust through without proper consultation with Aurukun Aborigines by the Queensland Government. [More…]
Under the arrangements of the Queensland Government some royalties are payable into a welfare fund for all the Aborigines of Queensland as a result of mining at Aurukun. [More…]
When it was pointed out to the Minister (a) that nobody would regard it as compensation for the owner of a property if that owner were European to inform him that his property was being disposed of for the benefit of all the people of Queensland and he would have his share in that, and (b) that it would be perfectly easy to use the royalties in a welfare fund as a means of reducing the payment of other consolidated revenue into the fund, to no ultimate real benefit to Aborigines, the Minister made a priceless reply. [More…]
The questions to be answered were really: Firstly, do you regard the Aborigines of Aurukun as having any title to the land of Aurukun; and secondly, have they been fully informed about what is happening to this land and do they consent to the arrangements? [More…]
It would be fair to say that Queensland follows the classic Australian pattern in acknowledging no Aboriginal land rights- I accept what is now happening, and has been happening for some time, in the Northern Territory- and regarding Aborigines in fact as a conquered people who may be dispossessed with impunity from what they regard as theirs. [More…]
Therefore the answer to the question ‘Do Aurukun Aborigines have any title to Aurukun land?’ [More…]
Three per cent of the net profits of the project would be spent for the benefit of 50 000 Aborigines in Queenslandminiscule individual benefit. [More…]
In a report tabled in the Queensland Parliament he said that the Aurukun Aborigines believed that they had not been consulted enough. [More…]
I noted this when I was a member of the select committees on the grievances of Yirrkala Aborigines and the voting rights of Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines were assumed by some officials to have no thoughts or opinions of their own, and the missionary was blamed for ‘stirring’- a great word in the Australian outback. [More…]
It was I who advised Yirrkala Aborigines to petition the House of Representatives and to do so on a bark painting. [More…]
The lawyers who advised the companies were legitimate but anybody who advised the Aborigines was a ‘stirrer’. [More…]
Aurukun Presbyterian mission, which has been derided in this context, carries the burden of caring about the Aborigines, the burden of understanding them, the burden of listening to them, the burden of applying inspired thought to their needs. [More…]
Aborigines are a pastoral people living off the land in their Aboriginal state. [More…]
The anthropologist Roheim long ago commented concerning Aborigines of the central Australian desert: [More…]
At Aurukun the Aborigines want a decent standing. [More…]
Any standing for Aborigines has to be deliberately enacted. [More…]
The late Harold Holt had a Parliament unanimous in his support for a referendum to confer power to legislate for Aborigines. [More…]
We all, including Mr Bjelke-Petersen, have humbly to learn how to deal with Aborigines and we might begin by listening to them, acknowledging land rights and treating them unsentimentally and with dignity. [More…]
His instructions to Captain Cook were to show the Aborigines: [More…]
I belong to an organisation called the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
I understand that last night the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs issued a statement about the acceptance of the general principles of land rights for Aborigines. [More…]
One of the astounding things about Aurukun is that it has shown how widespread throughout the Australian community is concern about Aboriginal affairs- concern about the fate and the future of Aboriginal people; concern about the relationship of Aborigines with their land and the impact of economic exploitation of that land. [More…]
The Government does have the strength of the 1967 referendum behind it and the acknowledgment by the Government in the face of the overwhelming result of that referendum that it does have in Australia today the paramount responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, and that will be the thought which guides the Government in its future action in respect of Aborigines. [More…]
When we speak of giving equal opportunity for employment to an Aboriginal community, it is not enough to ask employers to throw open their employment books to Aborigines and say to them: ‘Write your name down and we will look at the prospects of employing you’ because of course, that ignores the lack of skills, the lack of training and the lack of prior opportunity to be trained in the kinds of skills that a mining operation would require. [More…]
When the Aborigines seek protection for their land they seek protection for their spiritual affinity with the land, which was so adequately expressed by the honourable member for Fremantle. [More…]
That is why it is a matter of high priority for my Government that not only must things like land rights be recognised; programs for bicultural understanding must also be implemented, reach a high level and pervade every section of the community from the children to the elderly, because only when the Australian people understand Aborigines, their traditions, their culture, their spiritual affinity with land, can they understand what is involved in the granting of land rights and why. [More…]
people persist in trying to help Aborigines like the Aurukun people when they come face to face with the demands of economic interests over their land. [More…]
So the Aborigines have to sustain a $32m cut in the appropriations for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Let those honourable members and others in the community who are concerned for the Aborigines in Australia take note of this: Of every dollar spent on Aboriginal welfare only 13c ever reached the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The detailed appropriation of revenue in the Supply Bills does not give very much indication of what the Government will do in the next Budget but there are 2 areas in particular- the appropriation for Aborigines and the appropriation for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development- which draw to our attention once again the unfortunate statement of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) which was made on Thursday of last week, in which he announced such devastating cuts in so many areas of government spending. [More…]
In regard to Aborigines, in opening the debate on the statement in this House last Tuesday I said what a short sighted policy this was. [More…]
We now have this highlighted to us when we find the appropriation for Aborigines so markedly cut. [More…]
The tragedy of the situation is that expenditure of money on Aborigines now could have such a wonderfully beneficial social effect on integrating the Aboriginal community into our Australian community. [More…]
By reducing the appropriation for Aborigines as this Government is doing, as is witnessed in one of the Supply Bills before us, we can only come to the realisation that the Aboriginal community, growing in numbers, will become more and more bitter and that the expenditure on Aborigines by this Parliament over succeeding years will have to be greater in order to overcome those problems. [More…]
There are no ways in which we can improve the quality of life of this country with better schools, better cities, better sewerage, a better deal for Aborigines, which I have already talked about, better telephones and postal services, better legal aid, better housing, better hospitals and better urban life generally other than through the intervention of government. [More…]
I return to the details of the Supply Bills and say that particularly in the areas of appropriations for Aborigines and appropriations for environment, housing and community development, we see the first signs of real cuts. [More…]
The television channel people required that the students should set up a tent in King George Square- a public square outside the City Hall, Brisbane, in the centre of the cityand that this would be a sort of tent embassy, as I understand the situation, in competition with a tent embassy already established in King George Square by Aborigines. [More…]
In the course of the discussion the Aborigines, I am informed, were frequently referred to as ‘Abos’ in a most derogatory and offensive way. [More…]
When they (the gentlemen) spoke of the Aborigines they spoke in disrespectful terms such as ‘Abos’. [More…]
This is a very real manifestation of the growing recognition throughout Australia of the validity and strength of Aboriginal society -which, I might add, is clearly acknowledged in the policy of the Government Parties which recognises a special obligation ‘to provide opportunities for Aborigines to preserve their traditions, languages and customs from further encroachment and destruction where possible ‘. [More…]
He claimed that Aborigines would be better off and not worse off. [More…]
The Queensland Aurukun Associates Agreement Act, the Aborigines Act and the Torres Strait Islanders Act reek of paternalism and discrimination and stand in breach of United Nations and International Labour Organisation conventions. [More…]
One would think that the former Minister, the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), was a member of a Party which had had a successful policy with regard to Aborigines. [More…]
How did the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs before him describe the former Government’s policy on Aborigines? [More…]
He really had a great interest in and a great sympathy for the Aborigines, I know. [More…]
I think he went into the field with money to burn, and the Aborigines are now suffering from this fault of the Labor Party of rushing in to change all and to try to fix the lot of the Aborigine by spending money, just money alone. [More…]
There was a lack of direction and a lack of purpose in the policy of the Party and among the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
He expects to sit down and to get his ‘sit down’ money as the Aborigines call it. [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Hughes saying something about this despicable approach of paternalism towards Aborigines. [More…]
The whole development happened so fast that the Aborigines went from a society which was relying very heavily on the assistance and guidance of Europeans to a position where the Europeans were standing aside as advisers if requested. [More…]
The Labor Party did the Aborigines a great disservice. [More…]
We must have money for the schemes, the ideas, the education, the housing, the health care- you name it- for the Aborigines, to bring Aborigines up to a standard whereby they can hold their heads high in the community. [More…]
Let him get out in the spinifex and sit down amongst the Aborigines and the people who live there as I have done repeatedly for years. [More…]
He is no expert on Aborigines. [More…]
We have heard a certain amount of premeditated abuse of committees investigating whether Aborigines are getting real benefit from the money which has been appropriated on their behalf. [More…]
But the NACC should be investigated thoroughly to see whether Aborigines are really gaining from it. [More…]
-The honourable member started this disastrous program for Aborigines, and the man who followed him in the portfolio admitted that it was disastrous. [More…]
Many Aboriginal institutions or Aboriginal services should be investigated to see whether the Aborigines themselves are receiving the proper benefit, that the money is going to their benefit. [More…]
But the last Bill we debated in this place concerning Aborigines was the Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Bill which was produced by the Labor Government. [More…]
That definition was originally bulldozed through by the Labor Party in spite of the objections by those people who live among Aborigines. [More…]
We know that at least 10 000 Aborigines are unemployed. [More…]
He should look around this country as well before he starts reducing programs for Aborigines. [More…]
I saw the paddy waggons driven up and the Aborigines moved out of the beer garden at the Alice Springs Hotel. [More…]
Before Aborigines had the right to drink they would take a few flagons of wine with them into the scrub. [More…]
Aborigines were charged by association in that they happened to be present when the police raided. [More…]
These things still go on but at least Aborigines can get the correct advice and so forth and can be represented in the courts by legal people. [More…]
After a lot of hard negotiations, 12 square miles were cut out of that cattle station and sold on the condition that a dog-proof fence was put around the place and that the Aborigines did not take wood off the station. [More…]
The former Liberal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs started the States grants set-up relating to Aborigines. [More…]
I think we all realise that for many years up until the last few years nobody gave a damn about Aborigines. [More…]
The Aboriginal housing problem certainly has not been overcome, but the Aborigines have set up one of those so-called shocking organisations- a housing society. [More…]
That housing society is trying to purchase houses around the towns to house Aborigines in decent conditions. [More…]
Let us look at unemployment among Aborigines. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) said that the Labor Government caused unemployment among Aborigines. [More…]
Just before the Labor Party came into government nobody gave a damn about whether Aborigines were employed. [More…]
At least the Labor Government provided finance to local government authorities and various organisations and set up special works projects to provide jobs for Aborigines. [More…]
Whilst I do not have the figures with me, I know the amount outlayed in my area was considerable and certainly was helpful to the Aborigines who were able to get jobs. [More…]
We went a long way towards providing Aborigines with an opportunity to take their rightful place in society. [More…]
Everybody in the town knows that I have supported Aborigines for a long time. [More…]
I am a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs which is looking into alcoholism among Aborigines. [More…]
The hotel that the Aborigines frequent in Port Augusta where I live is right opposite my office, so I see what goes on. [More…]
Whilst we may get away with discrimination against Aborigines who lack education and unsophisticated Aborigines coming out of the bush, we cannot train them, educate them and throw them back on the scrap heap. [More…]
We have to admit that while there has been progress over the past six or seven years in some aspects, in other aspects there has been a retrogression, and certainly in the north and the centre of Australia things for the Aborigines are not as good now as they were a few years ago. [More…]
I have been in the field with Aborigines. [More…]
If we seek to understand it and give full recognition to it within our community, then in this way we can seek to bring about fundamental social changes in what we as a government and as a people do in respect of Aborigines. [More…]
This Bill will give traditional Aborigines inalienable freehold title to land on reserves in the Northern Territory and provide machinery for them to obtain title to traditional land outside reserves. [More…]
The coalition Parties’ policy on Aboriginal affairs clearly acknowledges that affinity with the land is fundamental to Aborigines’ sense of identity and recognises the right of Aborigines to obtain title to lands located within the reserves in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to that policy and, further, will provide Aborigines in the Northern Territory with the opportunity to claim and receive title to traditional Aboriginal land outside reserves. [More…]
The Government believes that this Bill will allow and encourage Aborigines in the Northern Territory to give full expression to the affinity with land that characterised their traditional society and gave a unique quality to their life. [More…]
Most of us now appreciate more sensitively than in the past that traditional Aborigines think, feel and act about land according to a plan of life a world apart from ours. [More…]
Traditional Aborigines associate identifiable groups of people with particular ‘countries’ or tracts of territory in such a way that the link was publicly reputed to express both spiritual and physical communication between living people and their ‘dream time’ ancestors and between the ‘country’ as it now is and the ‘ ancestral ‘ country which had been given its names, its physical features, its founding stocks of food and water, and its owners and possessors by the ancestors themselves. [More…]
In February 1 973, the former Government appointed an Aboriginal Land Rights Commissioner, Mr Justice A. E. Woodward, to inquire into and report on ‘the appropriate means to recognise and establish the traditional rights and interests of the Aborigines in and in relation to land, and to satisfy in other ways the reasonable aspirations of the Aborigines to rights in or in relation to land’ in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Since my oppointment I have received numerous submissions on the proposed legislation and had many discussions with aborigines and others, including members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and representatives of other interested groups in the Territory, and I have carefully considered their submissions, the recommendations of the Land Rights Commission and the terms of the legislation previously introduced to give effect to those recommendations. [More…]
Though some of the Indian people of Canada, as of the United States of America, earlier had some recognition of their rights in land through treaties, the Eskimo people, like the Aborigines of the Northern Territory, have had no legal recognition of their traditional rights in the domestic law of their country. [More…]
This Bill provides that the lands described in the Schedule being existing reserves and the Hermannsburg and Santa Teresa missions in Central Australia and the Delissaville area near Darwin will be vested in Aboriginal land trusts, composed entirely of Aborigines living in the area concerned, who will hold title on behalf of the traditional owners and those other Aborigines entitled by Aboriginal tradition to use and occupy those lands. [More…]
It is a fundamental change in social thinking in Australia to recognise that within our community there are some people, the Aborigines, who live by a unique and distinct system of customary law. [More…]
The Bill by clause 47 requires the Land Commissioner to inquire into the likely extent of traditional land claims by Aborigines to alienated Crown land and to report to the Minister, from time to time, the results of his inquiries. [More…]
This important provision allows a level of protection hitherto unknown over land held by Aborigines and will allow them to consider mining plans carefully before they assent to exploration. [More…]
Where Aborigines have agreed to mineral exploration we would expect, as Mr Justice Woodward proposed, that development of any economic discovery made would follow, subject only to agreement on terms and conditions. [More…]
With the added safeguard for Aborigines, miners and government of an independent inquiry in the difficult and delicate area of national interest, the provisions relating to mining on Aboriginal land are in accord with the broad statement of principles outlined by me to representatives of the mining industry last March. [More…]
Under the provisions of the Bill Aborigines will continue to receive royalties from mining operations on Aboriginal land. [More…]
It will be for the Government to determine the proportion of royalty that will be payable to Aborigines in excess of the current rates, fixed by law, should the Government determine that a higher rate of royalty will apply to particular minerals. [More…]
The main differences between this Bill and that presented last October by the previous Government are, briefly, that: We have clearly defined the nature of the Aboriginal land rights we are recognising by vesting title in trusts for the benefit of all those Aborigines with traditional rights to use and occupy that land- 1 might add, a fundamental provision strangely missing in the Labor Government’s Bill. [More…]
We have provided for an inquiry to be made where Aboriginal consent to mining is withheld and where it may be appropriate in the national interest to over-ride Aboriginal wishes; we have also provided for an arbitrator to be appointed where Aborigines and mining com- panies are unable to reach agreement on terms or mining development; and the Bill gives scope for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly to participate in this most important legislative process in particular in relation to the protection of sacred sites, in measures to protect wildlife in Aboriginal lands, in the control of entry into those lands and adjacent waters and in the handling of applications for land to meet the needs of Aborigines in towns and other areas where traditional claims cannot be established. [More…]
There will be full consultation with the Territory Assembly and between the Assembly and the Aborigines in preparing Territory legislation. [More…]
Some have expressed surprise that a Liberal-Country Party government should have made the decision to grant land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Securing land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory is a significant expression of this objective. [More…]
This Bill is a major step forward for Aborigines in the Northern Territory not only for this generation but also for future generations who will benefit from it. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth Government extended to these descendants of the Kanakas the same welfare rights given to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the areas of health, education, housing and legal aid. [More…]
14 and 15: These recommendations are under active consideration; it will also be appropriate for the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs to include questions such as this in its current examination of the question of alcohol and Aboriginals; I will await the outcome of the Standing Committee ‘s inquiry with interest 16: There has been an increase in the number of Aborigines undergoing training as nursing aides and health workers. [More…]
1 8 and 1 9: A range of adult education and training courses is available to Aborigines at Yirrkala. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to demands by the Queensland Government to have wages, earned by 200 Aborigines working as extras on a film being made in Queensland, paid to the Government of that State and not to those who have earned the money. [More…]
The total number of Aborigines registered for employment with the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations at 2 April 1976 was 10 335. [More…]
For a number of reasons, including the isolation of many Aboriginal communities, and the lack of awareness among Aborigines of their unemployment benefits entitlements, many Aborigines do not register for employment and the actual number unemployed may well be substantially greater. [More…]
My Department estimates, on the basis of 1971 Census data, that the number of Aborigines now in the labour force is a little under 35 000. [More…]
Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs seen a Press report stating that, as a result of the reductions in money to be appropriated for Aboriginal affairs, over 1000 Aborigines will be unemployed? [More…]
It is quite incorrect that one thousand or anywhere near that number of Aborigines will be unemployed as a result of the decisions announced by the Treasurer. [More…]
The former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), spoke at length about Aboriginal sites and deplored the fact that the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly may have some authority with regard to assisting the Aborigines in declaring and having declared sacred sites. [More…]
What does he know about the Northern Territory and what the Aborigines themselves know about their own law, whether it is their land law or their Aboriginal sites? [More…]
The Legislative Assembly has fought for the Aborigines. [More…]
Year after year the Liberal and Country Parties fought for the right of Aborigines to decide who went into these parts of the country. [More…]
I think it should be ‘Aborigines’. [More…]
That definition is not acceptable to Aborigines in the Northern Territory or in Western Australia. [More…]
It could cause great strife among traditional Aborigines when the matter of sacred sites or traditional land rights is dealt with. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
Aborigines are relegated to their colonial status of outcasts unworthy of a government’s attention. [More…]
Under a Liberal Country Pan Government Aborigines will be better not worse off. [More…]
Urge Aborigines to vote Liberal Country Party on 13 December. [More…]
All this talk about federalism goes by the board in the light of the expressed will of the people 9 years ago on the question of Aborigines. [More…]
Unlike many homes built previously for Aboriginal communities, these homes have been built according to the choice of the Aborigines, and they are proud of their achievement, and happy to live in them. [More…]
While the Budget takes $33m from Aborigines, it gives $50m in superphosphate bounties. [More…]
But the treatment of Aborigines is only one test of the inhumanity and dishonesty of this Budget. [More…]
In a year when the profits of Comalco Ltd doubled in 6 months that company becomes the recipient of tax concessions, whereas with one-third of all Australian Aborigines unemployed, the Budget allocation for Aborigines is cut by $33m. [More…]
Why is it that only one Government supporter has openly criticised the deal the Aborigines are getting? [More…]
When the money is allocated the Government wants to make sure that it will get to the Aboriginal people and do some good and not be frittered along the way in administrative costs or go to a contractor who will not provide any benefit at all to the Aborigines. [More…]
I think all honourable members would agree that many Aborigines would be most unlikely to be in income brackets where they would be able to obtain full benefit from the old family rebate scheme. [More…]
Thousands of Aborigines who had been employed on special working projects, many of which had already been suspended when this Liberal-Country Party Government came to power, were waiting for some indication that this Government cared for them. [More…]
Also, because of its relevance to these matters, I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a list of the monthly unemployment figures for Aborigines which indicate how Aboriginal unemployment rose month by month during the Whitlam years. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants . [More…]
Let us look at the situation with regard to Aborigines. [More…]
In 3 years Labor’s policies did more to upset Aborigines than did any other policies instituted by any government in Australia. [More…]
Labor’s policy on Aborigines- this was admitted by the Labor Minister for Aboriginal Affairswas a disaster and was seen to be a disaster. [More…]
The Labor Leader devoted 2V4 pages of his speech to the position of Aborigines. [More…]
He read it in support of his argument that there had been a leak from the Hay report which was investigating expenditures on housing committees and other instrumentalities which are supposed to be assisting Aborigines. [More…]
It is a report to the Government which will see that the money that is voted for Aborigines goes wholly to them so that they will get the greatest advantage. [More…]
We need people with knowledge, experience and sympathy to assist Aborigines and to see that the money is spent in the right way. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship, notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants; and [More…]
Spending on Aborigines is decimated; real overseas aid falls to a lower proportion of national income than that which has applied for over 10 years; the real value of family allowances is already falling; a decision about student allowances is still deferred. [More…]
Funds for Aborigines- mainly for Aboriginal housinghave been reduced by $10m, or $52m overall. [More…]
Yet the Australian people voted approximately 9 to 1 in favour of uplifting the conditions of Aborigines. [More…]
It is cutting back on finance made available to Aborigines. [More…]
Of course, the Government conducts an inquiry if it wants to cut money off programs for Aborigines, but it does not do that when it wants to grant concessions or largesse to mining companies. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
It also recognised the national government’s responsibilities on behalf of the Australian people to support the disadvantaged within our society, the aged, infirm, the women, Aborigines, the poor and the dispossessed. [More…]
The Canberra Press Gallery, of course, looks for controversy, but it is very interesting to see that it has found very little to criticise in the Budget except, I must admit, the question of funding for Aborigines. [More…]
I believe also that the Budget is persimonious to the point of being vicious in its treatment of those people such as Aborigines and the unemployed, and particularly the young unemployed, whose interests the Government ought to feel obliged to protect and to defend. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
I know the Government has said that possibly it will look at some things later on, but I know the great concern that is felt not only by the Aborigines themselves but also by those people who are concerned about the Aboriginal question. [More…]
Also, there has been a cut-back in the amount of finance available for the health services for Aborigines. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
Employment and training schemes will be urgently investigated with aim of increasing job opportunities for Aborigines throughout Australia. [More…]
Under a Liberal Country Party Government Aborigines will be better not worse off”. [More…]
Urge to vote Aborigines Liberal Country Party on December 13th. [More…]
Let me list the cuts in real terms which have been made in the appropriations for various Aboriginal programs: Support for Aboriginal sporting bodies has been reduced by 100 per cent; support for Aboriginal publications has been reduced by 100 per cent; support for Aboriginal land councils has been reduced by 13 per cent; support for enterprises- the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account- has been reduced by 77 per cent; support for town management and public utilities has been reduced by 36 per cent; support for recreational and cultural activities has been reduced by 37 per cent; payments to and for the States have been reduced by 37 per cent; Aboriginal study grants have been reduced by 22.6 per cent; funding for Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory has been reduced by 34.7 per cent; funds through the Department of Health have been reduced by 18.25 per cent; administrative expenses have been reduced by 13 per cent; funds for Aboriginal conferences have been reduced by 2 1 per cent; funds for investigations and research have been reduced by 30 per cent; support for Aborigines at government settlements has been reduced by 14 per cent; assistance to Aboriginal missions has been reduced by 12 per cent; support for ecological projects has been reduced by 12 per cent; support for Aboriginal hostels has been reduced by 10 per cent; support for Aboriginal enterprises has been reduced by 10 per cent; and support for Aboriginal housing through the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account has been reduced by 17 per cent. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman had read the Budget Papers and had understood the policies of the Government he would have realised that the provision of an increase of $1.56m in the expenditure under that item reflects the concern which this Government has for overcoming the unemployment problem amongst Aborigines. [More…]
The Government is also concerned to see that its programs are implemented on a basis which will provide training for Aborigines and a real prospect of permanent employment after the special works projects’ have, been completed. [More…]
It investigated, amongst other things, training programs, vocational training and general employment support for Aborigines. [More…]
I have gone out of my way to inform the organisations operating in both those fields that they will continue to function as autonomous services, run by Aborigines for Aborigines. [More…]
Honourable members will recall the inquiry that was instituted earlier this year, headed by an eminent anthropologist, Dr Les Hiatt, Chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, and supported by 3 Aborigines. [More…]
This is the first time, I believe, that such an inquiry about Aboriginal affairs has included among its membership a clear preponderance of Aborigines. [More…]
That in itself indicates the strength of the Government’s conviction that the success of Aboriginal programs will in the end result from the involvement and participation of Aborigines themselves, particularly in the making of recommendations to the Government on national policy. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country parties recognise that if a policy of self-management is to be effective, Aborigines must play a leading role in their affairs. [More…]
This will include Aborigines playing a significant role: [More…]
That, again, is in fulfilment of our philosophic belief that success in Aboriginal affairs will come about largely through involving Aborigines, Aboriginal organisations and Aboriginal communities in the activities of the Government. [More…]
He said that employment and training schemes will be urgently investigated with the aim of increasing job opportunities for Aborigines throughout Australia. [More…]
We feel that we should be aiming to get private employers to accept Aborigines on a basis on which they will train the Aborigines and give them a real opportunity of permanent employment at the end of the particular project. [More…]
Already we have seen quite exciting prospects for it and a readiness by private employers to embark upon this new field of employment support and training for Aborigines. [More…]
For the last ten or fifteen minutes we listened to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) explaining the inexplicable and trying to justify the fact that the Government has reduced the total expenditure on Aborigines by $33m or thereabouts at a time when, in the logic of inflation, it should have increased it by at least $20m and when it should have taken the programs that have been or were being launched and expanded them by providing for a further expenditure of perhaps another $20m or $30m. [More…]
Irrespective of whether it is in relation to infant welfare, the care of the aged or the supplying of hospitals and services, we still do not perform to the same standard in respect of Aborigines as we do in respect of the rest of the community. [More…]
Differences arise from the very nature of the communities in which Aborigines live. [More…]
The people there are not traditional Aborigines. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants, and [More…]
In regard to housing for Aborigines it means a 15 per cent reduction in cash terms; in regard to housing loans by the banks it means a 30 per cent reduction in cash terms; in regard to welfare housing payments to the States it means a 13 per cent reduction in real terms. [More…]
You will know that cuts in the expenditure of the 1976-77 Budget affect the little people- pensioners, women, children, Aborigines, migrants, the sick and the infirm. [More…]
They have promised that the wicked Government will cut expenditure on education, legal aid, Aborigines and on childhood, old people, and other welfare services. [More…]
Either directly or by inference, he said he would increase expenditure on schools, roads, health services, sewerage, environment, women and children, Aborigines, the unemployed, public works, construction, shipbuilding, Medibank, State funds, growth centres, pensions, supporting mothers, unemployed school leavers, aged persons homes, destitute and lonely men- that includes most of the Opposition- supporting fathers, migrants, defence, nursing homes, hospitals, school dental services, refuges for women, national highways and last but not least, women. [More…]
In answer to a question I placed on notice about unratified International Labour Organisation conventions, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations on the last sitting day told me that the Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, which is relevant to the land rights of Australian Aborigines, cannot yet be ratified by Australia because one State has not yet agreed. [More…]
The attitude of the Labor Party towards Aborigines at this very moment smaks of double standards. [More…]
We saw on Monday Conference last night the sort of stirring up that is going on by the intellectual Left with Aborigines. [More…]
Specifically, they seek to persuade them that, politically speaking, there are no poor, no aged, no sick, no Aborigines, no immigrants, no people seriously squeezed by inflation, not many for whom unemployment is a major issue, no one whose health, education, food, shelter, protection from economic abuse or exploitation, or even survival, depends on the services of Government. [More…]
it reduces the availability of services to the whole community but particularly to those most vulnerable to hardship notably Aborigines, the unemployed and migrants. [More…]
It is the only way in which we can make significant payments for foreign aid, for assistance to Aborigines and a number of other groups in the community. [More…]
It has done a tremendous amount to overcome some of the difficulties facing the disadvantaged and the Aborigines in particular. [More…]
The constantly maligned Aborigines are squeezed even further by a reduction in their health services. [More…]
What about health services for Aborigines? [More…]
Suffice to say that society in general has failed to adapt to the housing, information and language difficulties of migrants, Aborigines and locals and the shifting geographical pattern of demand for labour changing emphasis in rural production and outlets. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that from time to time unnecessary ill will is created in our society as a result of Aboriginal grants being made to persons who do not appear to be Aborigines? [More…]
But in response to this principle and any government’s endeavours to uplift Aborigines we want neither overindulgent idealism nor the over-zealous pursuit of economic efficiency. [More…]
Aborigines, also, are concerned that the funds available are being spent with greatest direct benefit to their people, and not lost along the way. [More…]
Mr Hay was appointed by the Government last January to inquire into the effectiveness of the delivery of services to Aborigines by my Department. [More…]
When I announced Mr Hay’s appointment to conduct this inquiry I said that the purpose of the examination was to ensure that the funds being made available for the Aboriginal community were being spent for the maximum benefit of Aborigines. [More…]
They were to assess the effectiveness of the services financed, to recommend improvements in the delivery of services and their financial arrangements in the interest of Aborigines and the community at large, and to establish whether there were any areas of waste and inefficiency. [More…]
The emphasis, it will be seen, is upon the effectiveness of services delivered and the interest of Aborigines, a conjunction which is of course deliberate and a reflection of the Government’s obligation towards the Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is understandable that the temporarily reduced funds for housing alarmed and worried many people, not least those Aborigines in need of housing, for without adequate housing there can be only limited improvements in health, limited opportunity for children to succeed at school and limited hope of gaining regular employment. [More…]
The link between education and employment is possibly of greater importance to Aborigines than others as formal education is brought more within then- reach. [More…]
I have seen a number of examples of Aboriginal community spirit matched by government funds producing just such self-esteem and a new sense of social involvement where previously Aborigines were out on the fringe. [More…]
It will also involve Aborigines in the budgetary process for mutual agreement on how funds are to be used. [More…]
These reviews will also ensure that funds allocated in this and future years will be used most effectively for direct benefit of Aborigines with as little administrative outlay as efficiency permits. [More…]
An extra $ 1.56m was provided for employment support programs which will enable funding support of a new initiative in placing Aborigines with private employers. [More…]
What is more important, I can assure you, is the intention of this Government to see that Aboriginal affairs programs directly relate to Aboriginal needs while increasing the involvement of Aborigines in the concept of selfmanagement. [More…]
The Aborigines at this mission are very well fed and complacent. [More…]
Unless something is done about it, the Aborigines in the Northern Territory and in the north of Australia will have no future at all. [More…]
The Aborigines wanted to slaughter the cattle to feed their own people at Yuendumu, Haasts Bluff and Papunya but were not allowed to do so because of some administrative bungle in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That is one of the reasons that the Aborigines in the Northern Territory and in the north of Australia are now going down hill at a rate which is without precedent. [More…]
I ask honourable members to compare that statement with a statement made by Senator Bonner in another place when speaking a short time ago on the Aborigines and Islanders (Admissibility of Confessions) Bill. [More…]
That despondency and confusion are a direct result of the policy of the Labor Party towards Aborigines. [More…]
A lot of Aborigines could receive plenty of money for doing nothing. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), who will be speaking next in the debate, led the van in demanding that Aborigines have grog rights when he was the Deputy Chairman of the parliamentary committee concerned with Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
It was something that was pushed on to Aborigines far too soon, just as so many other things were pushed on Aborigines by the Labor Government far too soon. [More…]
The policy should have been one of moving forward slowly and allowing Aborigines to develop at their own rate. [More…]
All of these things and all that money should not have been pushed on to the Aborigines before they could handle them. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) spent much of his Budget speech criticising the Government’s attitude towards Aborigines. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition made a speech which included a section on Aborigines covering about 2Vi pages of Hansard, which is a passage of considerable size. [More…]
This Government realised that there was very much waste and loss of financial benefit to Aborigines and that Aborigines themselves want to work rather than receive ‘sit down money’ or unemployment benefits, and we heard criticism this afternoon by a former Labor Minister of the fact that Aborigines were not being given work. [More…]
Many honourable members on the Opposition benches and certain sections of the Press were only too ready to accuse the Government of savage cuts in funds to Aborigines when the Budget was announced. [More…]
These homes are being constructed by Aborigines with regard for the special needs of the Aboriginal people who will occupy them. [More…]
In the various areas where building societies have been established and efforts made to provide housing for Aborigines, great concern has been expressed to me about what the future will hold. [More…]
It is an area where housing for Aborigines is extremely bad. [More…]
In many areas of my electorate, such as at Coober Pedy, Aborigines utilise this sort of accommodation. [More…]
The report of the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders dealt with the question of infant mortality. [More…]
I wish to make an observation, because it seems to me that there are too many hear, hears’ in this chamber whenever anybody suggests that some aspect of affairs, especially those related to Aborigines and mining projects in the Northern Territory, should be handed to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]
We have spoken about advancing Aborigines in civilisation. [More…]
We have spoken at various times about assimilating Aborigines. [More…]
We have spoken about integrating Aborigines. [More…]
We have spoken about all the decisions we will make on behalf of Aborigines at the drop of a hat. [More…]
But I believe that the reason for the emphatic decision of the Australian people was the plain view that Aborigines are entitled to a new basis of treatment, and that new basis of treatment is compensation. [More…]
Do not let us be mealy-mouthed about the fact that the Aborigines are a conquered people and have always been treated as a conquered people. [More…]
When I was Minister for Education the first decision that we made regarding Aborigines concerned their right, if Aboriginal parents nominated it, to an education in their own languages. [More…]
We said: ‘Oh dear, how dreadful’, quite failing to realise that in all our dealing with the Aborigines we had suppressed their languages, we had denied them their right to be considered as a distinctive people. [More…]
That is just as mystic as the idea that the Aborigines own it because of some possession in a dreamtime. [More…]
Now we know that we can devise a tribal title and that we can regard Aborigines as having some kind of collective ownership. [More…]
Some people say: Let them decide whether Aborigines have sacred sites or not’. [More…]
Whatever we are aiming to do for the Aborigines, we have to regard it as axiomatic that we owe them some compensation. [More…]
If one goes into the north of my State of Western Australia one sees rock paintings, which do not date back out of the lifetime of people now alive, of Aborigines chained together and being pushed into gorges. [More…]
There are some problems with which Aborigines cannot cope. [More…]
When the report on voting rights for Aborigines was being debated in this chamber I did not believe that the first thing that should happen to Aborigines was that drinking rights should be extended to them. [More…]
The Commonwealth and the States have been very much slower in giving Aborigines anything that would cost the Treasury anything or in acknowledging their title to the ownership of anything in Australia. [More…]
As I mentioned at the outset, it was for this reason that the matter of Aborigines was delegated to this Parliament. [More…]
I think that one other reason why the Australian people gave this Federal Parliament power to deal with Aborigines was that they believed that at the national level there could really be a scientific attack on Aboriginal needs. [More…]
I might also mention now for the information of honourable members, in view of a question asked of me some time ago, that the nutritional program for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, administered by my colleague the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), resulted in an expenditure last year of $200,000 and that it is to be continued. [More…]
In view of the statement I made to the House today about the additional $2 5 m to be provided for Aboriginal affairs in pursuance of the undertaking by the Treasurer, I think all Aborigines and others interested in their welfare can be well satisfied with the commitment of this Government to their advancement. [More…]
It is the kind of scheme that we are sponsoring throughout Australia in order to give Aborigines opportunities for employment in areas of this kind. [More…]
We want to see real opportunities for Aborigines in places where there was not opportunity previously. [More…]
-by leaveThe fact that the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs has chosen to produce this interim report on alcohol problems of Aborigines in the Northern Territory shows how seriously the problem is regarded by the Committee. [More…]
The Aborigines live in a hot, arid climate. [More…]
Northern Territory Aborigines are obviously influenced by the heavy drinking atmosphere around them. [More…]
Aboriginal drinking appears to reflect despondency arising from the loss of traditional land and life style; the breakdown of tribal law; the ineffectiveness of the white man’s law in remote regions; massive unemploymentAborigines account for probably more than SO per cent of the work force; and poor socioeconomic conditions. [More…]
We were told of a communityand I quote- ‘collapsing in a great, bloody, brawling, sprawling drunken heap’; that white men are selling flagons of wine to Aborigines at $20 a flagon; that one Aboriginal drunk pick-up service picks up 50 to 60 people a night; that one Northern Territory town has 52 liquor outlets; and we were told of a community rationing beer to 12 cans per adult per day and 24 cans on Saturdays. [More…]
-by leaveThe House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs would not have brought forward an interim report had it not believed that it was absolutely urgent to overcome this alcohol problem of Aborigines. [More…]
This report deals with something which is more the symptom than the cause of the problems of the Aborigines. [More…]
The final report of the Committee will have to deal with the more basic forces which have led to this problem arising, that is, the disintegration of the traditional way of life of Aborigines. [More…]
If we look specifically at the actual figures as outlined in the Budget we will see that there has been a reduction, for example, in the monetary allocation to Aborigines. [More…]
At this stage I would say only that the Government has done a great deal to prune the administrative elements in terms of the funds that are going to Aborigines. [More…]
We have done this to make sure that funds that are allocated by this Parliament to be spent get where they are needed to assist Aborigines. [More…]
We recently announced additional spending in relation to Aborigines and increases in the Tertiary Education Allowances Scheme. [More…]
He might be able to influence his colleagues to accept the view that an effective legal aid scheme ought to be on the basis that Aborigines get as much money as they need to run a proper legal aid service. [More…]
In the guidelines now suggested Aborigines are encouraged first to explore the other legal aid services available in the States. [More…]
The Aborigines are saying that to be dominated in this sense means that they lose their integrity, their individuality and their ability to run their own legal aid system. [More…]
If so, have the States agreed to pick up the cost of providing legal aid for Aborigines? [More…]
They were issued to the Aboriginal legal aid services about 2 months ago- not as a condition of funding by the Commonwealth but, as their name implies, as a guide to the services so that they might identify and respond to areas of priority in the provision of legal aid to Aborigines. [More…]
One of the reasons why it was not extended to the Aboriginal community was that if the European basic wage was given to Aborigines over many of the years since 1946, they would be receiving, as sufferers from tuberculosis, an amount far in advance of what they had been receiving over a great part of that time. [More…]
It is probable that because these strategies were not applied with the same resolution to the Aboriginal community in relation to tuberculosis, almost the only sufferers from tuberculosis in the Australian community are Aborigines. [More…]
I remind the House that a select committee of the House of Representatives revolutionised the constitutional status of Aborigines. [More…]
I refer to the Select Committee on Voting Rights of Aborigines. [More…]
Referring to the Northern Territory- were delivering the same sort of health care to animals instead of to Aborigines, the RSPCA would prosecute them ‘, Professor Fred Hollows, the director of an eye-health survey and treatment team at present in Central Australia, says. [More…]
Tracoma- a curable eye disease also known as ‘sandy blight ‘-which can lead to blindness, was raging, more than half the Aborigines under 21 having active trachoma follicles. [More…]
The figures show central Australian Aborigines to be crippled by ill-health, with diseases and conditions of a sort almost eliminated in white Australia. [More…]
With adult Aborigines in these settlements, virtually all had trachoma scarring and the development of a pannus (a white band, actually a scar, spreading down the eye). [More…]
The report in the Canberra Times of 19 October goes on to say that it was one thing to put magnificent hospitals in places like Alice Springs and Katherine but Aborigines could not use those institutions. [More…]
If that is true of people of inadequate background, inadequate education and so on who are European, how much more is it true that Aborigines do not sense that they need to go in to report at clinics that they have such things as leprosy, serious as that is, let alone some of the lesser things, such as trachoma, which by slow development can cause blindness. [More…]
Many of the problems of Aborigines have developed because they do not have any tradition of stationary living. [More…]
He said that only immediate action by the Government would stop Northern Territory Aborigines from destroying themselves. [More…]
Government to budget adequately for Aborigines. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders presented a report entitled The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites. [More…]
The health and physical environment problems of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders were considered in depth- at page 79 of the report. [More…]
On the one hand there is to be, apparently, a continuation of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and on the other there is to be a new statutory committee which is to be composed predominantly of Aboriginal people- some 9 Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, five of whom will be delegates from a re-formed National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
We also acknowledge the very valuable service rendered by those distinguished people who were led by Dr Hiatt- all of whom are Aborigines. [More…]
There was once a large tribe of Aborigines on Fraser Island. [More…]
It promised to maintain federal funds for Aborigines; it has cut them. [More…]
In the Northern Territory there are 1501 Aborigines between the ages of 25 years and 29 years, 1849 Aborigines in the ,20 years to 24 years age group, 225 1 Aborigines in the 15 years to 19 years age group, 281 1 Aborigines in the 10 years to 14 years age group, 3348 Aborigines in the 5 years to 9 years age group, and 4029 Aborigines in the 4 years and under age group. [More…]
There is a tremendous need among Aborigines, apart from literacy in their own languages and in English, for special forms of education. [More…]
In our experience one feature of successful schemes for the education of Aborigines has been the recognition that a special approach is necessary. [More…]
On the other hand, the number of jobs available to Aborigines could be increased by vocational training of Aborigines in such fields as truck driving, mechanical maintenance, building construction and bookkeeping. [More…]
Of course it then became clear that this college might become basically a training college for Aborigines. [More…]
There have been a number of other investigations such as that by the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the migrant task force report. [More…]
It is abundantly clear that whatever vocational training is carried out must be tailored to the needs of the Aborigines in their own communities. [More…]
-The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) has developed a reputation, very justifiably, for careful and analytical statement and for the recognition of the fact that no political parties can stunt in this Parliament with any veracity on the subject of the position of the Aborigines. [More…]
If there was no vocational education for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, that was after 23 years of the previous Administration. [More…]
In many areas there are problems in getting any education at all to Aborigines. [More…]
It is not common for the Minister to try to score Party points on Aborigines. [More…]
Our puzzles about policies on Aborigines are likely to be such that those who attempt to will usually find very great disappointments as they try to find what is the best thing to be done for a community which has a background very different from our own. [More…]
-The Government has undertaken a program to treat trachoma and other eye diseases amongst Aborigines throughout Australia. [More…]
A surgical team from the Australian College will undertake a series of eye operations on Aborigines in remote areas of South Australia who come from the central region of that part of the inland. [More…]
To further ensure that the Aborigines with traditional rights in land guide the action of land councils, an amendment will provide that a land council should express the wishes as well as the opinions of Aborigines in its area. [More…]
In the light of representations received from Aborigines the Government has reconsidered its earlier decision that the councils should not handle land claims and that the Aboriginal Legal Aid Services instead should assist in the formulation and presentation of claims for recognition of traditional Aboriginal land. [More…]
To help ensure that the land councils administer land in conformity with the wishes of Aborigines with traditional interests in land, the power of a land council to delegate its powers to its members or its staff will be limited. [More…]
Amendments are proposed to those sections dealing with the membership of land trusts, land councils and the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account Advisory Committee to provide that Aborigines who are traditional owners of land in the relevant area are eligible for membership even if they live outside the area. [More…]
If, however, negotiations between the companies and Aborigines break down- which experience to date suggests will not occur- the Bill will provide that a lease of Aboriginal land may be granted on the recommendation of an arbitrator, if he determines that a land council has unreasonably refused to consent to the grant of a lease of land required to meet these commitments. [More…]
That situation will also apply in the case of the Ranger project where the Government is morally bound by an arrangement entered into by the previous Government, so that if the Ranger uranium deposits are developed in the light of the second report of the Fox Commission of Inquiry then the Ranger companies will be obliged by the Act to reach agreement with the Aborigines concerned if their pending Aboriginal land claim over part of the Ranger project area is successful. [More…]
Thus any agreement with Aborigines will take account of royalties payable to Government and to Aborigines and, should arbitration be necessary, those considerations would be taken into account by the arbitrator. [More…]
That the Senate accepts the fact that the indigenous people of Australia, now known as Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, were in possession of this entire nation prior to the 1 788 First Fleet landing at Botany Bay . [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard an extract from the first report of Mr Justice Woodward on Aboriginal land rights, entitled Aborigines and Their Land. [More…]
Issue entry permits to non-Aborigines visiting Aboriginal lands and arrange for Rangers and others to check the permit system is observed. [More…]
Honourable members and the public will have noticed the huge advertising campaign undertaken by the Australian Mining Industry Council, allegedly costing over $ lm, to put across its point of view that Aborigines should not retain the right to veto mining on their land. [More…]
The new Bill, however, provides that Aborigines - [More…]
Another matter of grave consequence is that the definition of ‘Aboriginals’ in the 1976 Bill is limited to Aborigines living within the Northern Territory. [More…]
Again, this smacks of paternalism and discrimination and portends perhaps the Minister’s fears of the articulate and educated Aborigines of the south influencing their northern brothers and sisters. [More…]
They will be the only people who will do so and Aborigines in the Northern Territory will quickly judge the motive behind their gutter campaigns. [More…]
I was pleased to note that one of the amendments which the Minister has moved and to which the Opposition has taken exception requires the land councils not only to ascertain and to express the opinion of Aborigines but also to obtain knowledge of the wishes of the Aborigines whom they represent. [More…]
People who have something on offer and who want to mine the land say to the Aborigines: ‘We will pay you this much money and we will do that much for you’. [More…]
The Aborigines have always found themselves in the sad position that their defenders often had to be the people who were also selling them out. [More…]
I recall that one of the missionaries in Yirrkala, when giving evidence to our Committee, said that the Aborigines do not use the land and that they do not have a sense of ownership. [More…]
I think that in the area of Aboriginal affairs, in which there has emerged in essence a bipartisan approach, an attempt to divide the nation or to divide parties against parties, persons against persons and Aborigines against Aborigines, is not a very good ploy and is quite unbecoming. [More…]
He then goes on to deal with other significant areas- land claimed by Aborigines, including vacant Crown land, and pastoral leases. [More…]
I want to say in response to the remarks by honourable members opposite that history will record that it was the Liberal and National Country Parties which pursued and brought to finality land rights for Aborigines, that it was a government of our persuasion which commissioned the Woodward report, and that it is a government of our persuasion which brought in this legislation that was enacted into law. [More…]
It makes clear and emphasises something which I see as important and which Mr Justice Woodward saw as important, and that is a recognition of a fundamental principle to Aboriginestheir sense of Aboriginality was their affinity with land. [More…]
If Aborigines know they have land as of right they will feel that special affinity with it. [More…]
It certainly will not help overcome some of the basic problems and deprivations which we know exist among Aborigines in certain circumstances. [More…]
The policy document is one that I would commend to people to read because it recognises the importance of Aborigines gaining their inalienable title to land. [More…]
the connection of the Aborigines with their land is timeless, commencing before birth and continuing after death … his connection with it is not broken by the fact he may have lived away from it for many years [More…]
I have so far come across no case in which ownership of land has been disputed among full blooded Aborigines. [More…]
They make clear the importance of traditional owners in the structure of these Bills, the importance of land rights to Aborigines and the importance of giving them a purpose in life and an understanding of living and achieving. [More…]
Clause 7 (6), which deals with the constitution of Aboriginal land trusts, emphasises that all members of a land trust shall be Aborigines living in the area of the land council in the area of which the land of the land trust is situated. [More…]
That provision is also important in relation to traditional Aborigines. [More…]
That sort of examination would only delay further the opportunity for us to be able to give land rights to Aborigines. [More…]
I saw an interesting program on This Day Tonight last week in which a couple of Australian Aborigines were shown landing at Dover in the English Channel and planting the Aboriginal flag. [More…]
For many years absolutely nothing was done for the Aborigines. [More…]
As a race we have not even had the decency to record the history of the Aborigines. [More…]
I am sure that those who have read the books written by Professor Rowley will remember that he made mention of how we have taken the Aborigines out of our history books. [More…]
There was a segment during a news program tonight about what some educationists have had to say about our attitude to Aborigines in our education system. [More…]
It has been claimed that if it had not been for the Aborigines during the early days when the white man was hugging the coast of Australia the white man never would have left the coast. [More…]
The early settlers who broke out from the coast did so mainly with the assistance of Aborigines. [More…]
The early settlers relied upon the Aborigines to find water holes and so forth. [More…]
The degradation of the Aborigines has continued right through to the present. [More…]
It has been claimed that in the early days of the settlement of the Eyre Peninsula, which is in my electorate, when the Aboriginal people were defending their rights and standing up to the settlers, the settlers had a big drive on horseback and drove a large group of Aborigines towards the cliffs and forced them over. [More…]
The Aborigines have been subjected to all the prejudice and hatred that the white man can muster. [More…]
At least the Americans recorded their history, whereas we in Australia have not recorded the history of our Aborigines. [More…]
We know what happened to the American Indians; so what chance did the Australian Aborigines have? [More…]
The Australian Aborigines were not mounted and the weapons they had were much more primitive than those of the American Indians. [More…]
The Aborigines’ tribal structures were much smaller. [More…]
The Aborigines became a completely dispossessed people. [More…]
For many years the attitude of the white population was to assimilate the Aborigines into white society or to let them die out peacefully- and sometimes not quite so peacefully. [More…]
However, with the dispossession that had taken place, the matter of land rights for Aborigines became of great importance. [More…]
It was a decision made within the very limited framework in which he had to work- the European law, the white man’s law, under which the rights of the Aborigines were given short shrift. [More…]
I also understand that under this Bill control over roads through Aboriginal areas will be taken away from the Aborigines. [More…]
provided however that … no ordinance shall have any effect so as to diminish any benefit conferred upon Aborigines by this Act or to restrict any Land Council, Land Trust or the Commission in the discharge of their respective functions. [More…]
The control by Aborigines of all roads passing through Aboriginal lands. [More…]
These are all people who have placed the views of Aborigines first- hot the views of the mining interests or of the pastoral interests. [More…]
Our first objective, surely, is to do what is best for the Aborigines and to look to their real advantage. [More…]
In addition, the Bill envisages acquisition of proper dwelling areas- sit down places is what the Aborigines call them- for other Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But this Bill is for the traditional Aborigines. [More…]
I think we have to remember that they are different from the Aborigines most people know. [More…]
Perhaps 90 per cent or 95 per cent of the Australian people come into contact with Aborigines in Redfern or Moree or perhaps as tourists in Alice Springs. [More…]
I am not saying for one moment that Aborigines, other than the traditional Aborigines, do not have needs and do not need, require and deserve benefits and help. [More…]
It is about traditional Aborigines and about maintaining their rights over traditional land. [More…]
I ask: What is best for these Aborigines? [More…]
We should be maintaining for the Aborigines the integrity of their traditional reserves. [More…]
They are not just little islands in a sea of European development, but something which can be traditionally Aboriginal until the Aborigines are ready to take the change. [More…]
No big mining venture in a reserve can be conducted without destroying the traditional Aboriginal society and the traditional Aborigines who are associated with it. [More…]
Indeed, I hope that things will improve, but on the last occasion I was at Groote Eylandt there was starvation among the Aborigines, for the first time in memory- starvation at a time when there was a flood of unaccustomed money coming in, but gambling and other things had taken away its impact for good. [More…]
I believe that this outstation movement which the Aborigines have chosen for themselves in these reserves illustrates the only real hope they have of coming successfully through the transition from thenway of life to our way of life. [More…]
We say that we must give to the Aborigines control over their own property and their own destiny, but if that means permission to barter it away then it will be bartered away. [More…]
Aborigines, in good faith perhaps, make bargains whose impact they do not understand, and we in good faith sometimes believe that they understand what they are doing. [More…]
Under this Bill there is not enough protection for the Aborigines, almost against themselves in a way. [More…]
I would Uke to have seen the Aborigines in the reserves having full mining rights, but I would not Uke to have seen them with the ability to barter those rights away in such a fashion as to bring in intensive industries and destroy their communities. [More…]
I fear the pressure that will come from other Aborigines, the people who come up into the Northern Territory from the south. [More…]
Pastor Paul Albrecht and his missionary colleagues, Mr Stoll and Mr Ziersch, base their opposition to Aboriginal land rights … on misconceptions and misreadings both of the legislation which has been proposed and the response to it by Aborigines. [More…]
Their opposition is also motivated by a well disguised self-interest and political conservatism which has allowed them to confuse their political support for the Country Party with their responsibilities to Aborigines. [More…]
Any national acquisition of land from Aborigines must bring with it fair compensation. [More…]
In circumstances where Aboriginal land is used to exploit natural resources the Aborigines receive continuing and realistic royalties, together with funding for housing, job and vocational training, employment, social development and cultural opportunities. [More…]
The Aborigines themselves place no store on such assurances. [More…]
Like the Aborigines, I am too cynical. [More…]
They should go up to Areyonga and some of the areas in which Aborigines are being treated like second class citizens. [More…]
It is too easy to see the NTLA engaging in shameful acts of paternalism and political censorship by refusing entry to people who it believes would be ‘bad’ for the Aborigines, such as people it deems to be stirrers. [More…]
It is generally regarded as the weakest such legislation in Australia, and not one site has been declared in the last 18 months despite constant requests from Aborigines. [More…]
They have no comprehension of the real meaning to Aborigines of sacred sites. [More…]
Again, it has been left to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, which has indicated that it intends insisting that Aborigines walk and only use traditional weapons when they hunt, whereas at present they use cars and rifles. [More…]
To tell Aborigines to hunt on foot with traditional weapons is therefore ludicrous. [More…]
I certainly would like to ask the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) to go to Areyonga and try to get the local Aborigines to show him their sacred sites. [More…]
I support the introduction of land rights for Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
This Bill, it is hoped, will give Northern Territory Aborigines the ability to practise their law and traditions on their own land in their own manner. [More…]
The 1975 Bill on the same matter, which was introduced by the Labor Party, would have been a disaster for Aborigines and Europeans in the Territory, had it got through the House. [More…]
Both Aborigines and Europeans in the Territory know that. [More…]
Much work has been done on behalf of the Aborigines and by the Aborigines to find out about the implications and the meaning of this Bill. [More…]
It is hoped that this Bill will satisfy the Aborigines’ traditional land aspirations. [More…]
Only very recently I heard a definition from a man who is not supporting me in what I as a Territorian am trying to do for traditional Aborigines. [More…]
The definition of Aborigine’, which I heard very recently was: Someone of Aboriginal descent who is accepted as an Aborigine by Aborigines in the community in which he lives’. [More…]
This Bill concerns the granting of traditional land in the Northern Territory for the benefit of Aborigines and for other purposes in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It is generally reported from various sources that the Aborigines support the Bill. [More…]
All Aborigines welcomed land rights; but they did not understand in the first place the land councils as envisaged in the Bill. [More…]
Hence the very real danger is that the setting up of a council or advisory group to decide land rights will bring bloodshed and decimation of Aborigines here. [More…]
LUTHER: That’s their idea, but Aborigines think this way: They should give us our land, helping us in various ways, and then someone should be here to assist and look after us. [More…]
But what Aborigines are thinking is, ‘Why do those people there want to have the say to kick out people (Mission) who are valuable to us?’ [More…]
That Aboriginal law does not permit an organisation or a body made up of Aborigines from different clans to speak on behalf of - [More…]
I have a letter here signed by a Mr Huey, the Assistant Director, southern branch of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, which is dated 3 November 1976 and in which he says that50 Aborigines representing communities- the sorts of ones that I have mentionedspoke with him. [More…]
Whether it is a matter of looking after Aborigines or whites, the Territory has to be financed, and we have the resources. [More…]
These developments, as has happened in the past, have supplied money and jobs for Aborigines as well as for whites. [More…]
So the hate we have heard poured out tonight by certain honourable members for mining companies and, needless to say, pastoralists is quite stupid, because when one gets into the Territory one finds that the Aborigines who might be working with the Yuendumu mining company, at Macarthur River or on a cattle station do not make these complaints. [More…]
They are made by people who are advising the Aborigines what to say. [More…]
I commend the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs on his tremendous efforts to meet all opinion- our opinion, on the one hand, and the opinion of others, on the other hand- in trying to see that Aborigines in the Northern Territory get control and correct management of what is theirs and that they do not get short changed on any mining deals. [More…]
I am in favour of that, and every mining company I have seen in the Northern Territory since I can remember has said: ‘We admit that there is a duty on our part to see that the Aborigines receive the correct royalty or the correct percentage of what should be their right with regard to their land ‘. [More…]
I do not want to join issue with the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) on anything that relates to Aborigines. [More…]
We are 127 people in this House and we all need to be very modest in assuming that any of us are speaking for Aborigines. [More…]
I do not believe that we get from that result an authority to start divesting ourselves of our responsibilities towards Aborigines. [More…]
None of these spokesmen were ever Aborigines. [More…]
As this question was asked at every place as we came down the coast later some of the organisations were shamed into putting Aborigines in the witness box, and then one realised why they had not done so before. [More…]
It was because the Aborigines never stuck to anybody’s policy line- not the policy line of the Communist Party, the Labor Party or the Liberal Party. [More…]
They said genuinely and authentically what they believed, and the authentic voice of the Aborigine as I have heard it through interpreters- many Aborigines are magnificent orators in their own languages- never, but never, utters the slogans of New York Black Power, nor the opinions of mining companies, or of any of the other voices that are presented to us here. [More…]
The land rights question on the whole brings to us the authentic voice of Aborigines because the people with a claim to land in reality tend to be authentically Aboriginal. [More…]
Both in this letter to the Minister and in the evidence given before the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders whose chairman is an Aboriginal, Senator Bonner, there seemed to be expressed a distrust of handing things over to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Rights of Aborigines to enter on pastoral leases. [More…]
That funds be provided to enable Aborigines to sustain themselves on any land which they are given. [More…]
Throughout our history we have not proved ourselves to be in any respect particularly sensitive towards the Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who recently cheered us with the statement that he made about the national trachoma and eye health program in relation to Aborigines, supported Fred Hollows, who I understand started his work under the Labor Government in the eye survey of Aboriginal people and others in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I think that one of the tactful aspects of the activities of the body conducting that program was that it recognised that all people in the Australian outback and not just Aborigines were in need of attention to their eyes. [More…]
I believe that the whole of this operation began not particularly with Aborigines in mind but with the situation in mind that there were 280 ophthalmologists in Sydney but not one in Wagga and various other places. [More…]
First of all, this body began thinking in terms of a country operation and, when it was suggested that the people most in need were Aborigines, there was agreement on that point. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government backed the action and this body began to develop the tact of not being divisive when it was on a station but of testing mum’s eyes, dad’s eyes and the children’s eyes and providing them with glasses and then having access to the Aborigines. [More…]
What depressed me in the accounts I heard of the operations was the number of Aborigines sitting about on stations who had pearly white eyes, which was simply indicative of cataracts. [More…]
I do not think that it was established by that expedition that all the people in the Northern Territory were particularly sensitive to the health needs of Aborigines, even when they were as completely obvious as that. [More…]
But there are large numbers of European people who do not have normal social associations with the Aborigines and therefore do not know what they think. [More…]
They do not have to be remote from Aborigines in cities for that to be the truth. [More…]
Aborigines at the present time need a great deal of discrimination in their favour, and we did establish a system of compensatory education. [More…]
I encountered in the Northern Territory the slogan that we were discriminating for Aborigines, and so we were. [More…]
I found that many people who attacked me in the Northern Territory- they might have been quite righthad no idea that there was any case for any sort of compensation for Aborigines. [More…]
Clause 66 gives Aborigines control of entry into Aboriginal land and hence control of existing roads other than the public access roads I have mentioned. [More…]
Great play was made, particularly by honourable members on my side of the House, of the concern of the Government and of individual members to protect the traditional interests of traditional Aborigines. [More…]
Bill entrenches in Australian domestic law for the first time the customary rights of Aborigines according to their traditional interests. [More…]
One might look at this legislation and the framework of it as creating within our framework of domestic law an umbrella’ underneath which the customary interests of Aborigines might prevail and be protected by Australian domestic law for the first time. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward was thoroughly conscious of the need to provide within Australia domestic law for the traditional interests of Aborigines. [More…]
I think that what His Honour Mr Justice Woodward has provided in his report and what is reflected in this legislation will do all that is required to provide for the traditional ownership rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It was pointed out to me tonight by traditional Aborigines from the top end of the Northern Territory that the Aboriginal concept of the custodian of their land has a close similarity to our notion within our law and according to our concept of a trustee of land for beneficiaries. [More…]
It was pointed out that there could be a conjunction of Aboriginal interest and Australian domestic legal interest through the identity of the Aboriginal who is the custodian and who might also be the trustee for the Aborigines of their land rights through membership of the land trust I feel that whatever might be said about the material provided to the House by the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) from those Aborigines around Hermannsburg, there will not be the friction they fear when this legislation is put into operation. [More…]
The honourable member for Mackellar always speaks from a depth of understanding and knowledge about Aborigines. [More…]
It perplexed many people as to how to balance the interests of Aborigines with the peculiar and unique nature of their interest in and and the demands of the whole Australian society for development where it is in the national interest. [More…]
It was proposed to Mr Justice Woodward that Aborigines should also have the rights to minerals within their land. [More…]
He was not prepared to accept that, but did see it as absolutely necessary that there be adequate protection for Aborigines through the veto power and the other protections which he indicated and which are written into this legislation to see that Aboriginal interests are provided. [More…]
Of course, the Government against the background of those observations will see that the land councils, the body representing Aborigines, will be centrally located in the administration of the ordinances in all these areas. [More…]
Aboriginal councils can be formed where 10 adult Aborigines living in a particular area desire that an Aboriginal council be formed in respect of that area. [More…]
The necessity for that has been recognised by a great many people who have studied the deficiencies in the provision of legal aid to Aborigines in the past. [More…]
We do not want to put Aborigines in the positon that they must work to get unemployment benefit because, as the honourable gentleman will appreciate, that is really a non-sequitur. [More…]
What we want to do is to see that money goes into communities which will finance worthwhile projects and can employ those Aborigines who cannot obtain employment at the present time. [More…]
In the course of the ensuing debate my colleague, the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), expressed the Government’s concern at the health problems of Aborigines, particularly such diseases as trachoma and its incidence in central and northern Australia amongst the remote communities. [More…]
The Government’s total funding for health services to Aborigines for 1976-77 is $ 15.9m. [More…]
The Standing Committee already has in hand a study of alcohol problems amongst Aborigines in the course of which evidence on health factors has been given. [More…]
I expect that the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs will therefore find that report of value as well as the Senate Committee’s report on environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders which make some specific recommendations on Aboriginal health. [More…]
The number of Aborigines who suffer from them, I understand, is quite large. [More…]
Aborigines including traditional healers can participate in the development and delivery of health care services to their own communities, and in any modification of existing services. [More…]
The Aborigines have a great respect for their traditional healers. [More…]
We have tended to believe in the past that if we set up facilities for the whole community in the Northern Territory or elsewhere then they were accessible to Aborigines. [More…]
I understand that the medical service of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress has on its clinic books some 8600 Aborigines which shows that the Aborigines have confidence in the form of medicine which goes to them, and they are more diffident about approaching organisations like hospitals and so on at Alice Springs. [More…]
The honourable member expressed concern that the Legislative Assembly might legislate in some way to deprive Aborigines of the right of access to their own land. [More…]
He claimed that Aborigines had said that they did not want a remote land council deciding who went onto their land. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes went on to say that, by the same token, Aborigines would not welcome decisions being made on this matter by remote Darwin-based bureaucrats. [More…]
It was the Country-Liberal Party in the Northern Territory which defended the right of Aborigines to decide who went on to their land. [More…]
If honourable members look at sub-clause 24(a) of the Bill they will see that it enables Aborigines to make a register of people whom they consider to be Aborigines. [More…]
The people entitled to this land are traditional Aborigines. [More…]
I am worried always that people who have only a slight mixture of Aboriginal blood, because they are perhaps better educated in our European sense or because they are slicker, might go to the Territory and impose upon the true and traditional Aborigines to whom this Bill refers. [More…]
I believe that this Bill betrays the traditional Aborigines who could be overwhelmed or taken to the cleaners by the part-Aborigines who could come up from the south and who are without traditional ties. [More…]
The people who are entitled to those lands are the traditional Aborigines, not blow-ins from the south or blow-ins from another area, whether they be full-blood or part-blood. [More…]
But I hope at any rate that I have been talking sincerely about the spiritual ties of Aborigines with their land. [More…]
If we mean anything, if we are in any way sincere when we speak about the spiritual tie between an Aboriginal and his land- it is there- we will maintain that position by allowing only traditional Aborigines to be concerned in the administration of their traditional land. [More…]
One would imagine that it would concern traditional Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Since Dr Peterson has played such a part in this matter and, as an anthropologist, is a man who claims to have an extensive experience and knowledge of Aborigines, I think that we should at least look at his definition. [More…]
Someone of Aboriginal descent who is accepted as an Aborigine by Aborigines in the community in which he lives. [More…]
The definition of a traditional Aboriginal owner will overcome the objections which have been made, save that one that nontraditional Aborigines may find their way onto the land councils. [More…]
But there is a need for non-traditional Aborigines on those councils. [More…]
He used a similar kind of language when debating the second reading speech, and here he is again using the same words, such as betrayal and defrauding of the traditional birthright of Aborigines. [More…]
His amendment would limit the operation of the Bill to those Aborigines who are traditional owners. [More…]
What neither honourable gentleman knows or acknowledges is that many Aborigines are not traditional owners but they have a traditional interest in the land. [More…]
Traditional owners form a special and very small class of Aborigines within the clan group and who by reason of Aboriginal law and by Aboriginal custom, one might say by inheritance or by choice according to Aboriginal law or custom, are the owners of the land. [More…]
They are the owners for all Aborigines who, by reason of their clan grouping, have a traditional interest of one kind or another in that land, to live on it, to use it, to pass through it or to attend ceremonies upon it. [More…]
Therefore, if the amendment of the honourable gentleman were accepted he would exclude from the protection and the benefit of this Bill all those Aborigines who have traditional interests in the land. [More…]
These are sacred to Aborigines and they consider them in quite a different category from any other category. [More…]
Anybody who really knows how Aborigines think and behave and what they believe to be really sacrosanct will, I think, agree with my contention. [More…]
The Minister said that my amendment was too restrictive in that it would- I think this was what he impliedconfine the definition of Aborigines to owners. [More…]
This is something which Aborigines will follow absolutely meticulously, absolutely honestly and without question. [More…]
It enables anybody who is recognised by the Aborigines, in accordance with their own strict laws which they preserve quite meticulously, in a clan relationship or group relationship, to be registered. [More…]
In view of its importance for maintaining for traditional Aborigines the traditional land and traditional rights which this Bill describes in its title, I ask that the amendment be seriously considered, if not here at least in another place. [More…]
In relation to amendments 2, 3 and 4, the Opposition is very concerned that the intentions of His Honour, Mr Justice Woodward, to include Aborigines who live in towns as being capable of having land granted to them have been circumvented by the provisions of this legislation. [More…]
He recommended specifically in sub-paragraphs (v) and (vi) that Land Councils should make submissions to town planners and the Land Commissioners who, after investigation, should report to the Government on acquisition of necessary land for Aborigines in towns. [More…]
It is quite clear that in other clauses of this BUI there are many guarantees as to the negotiating rights of Aborigines through the land councils and the deed-holding body, the Land Trust, in respect of the mining interests. [More…]
They would react ultimately to the very great detriment of the Aborigines. [More…]
They would not even allow the rights of Aborigines with respect to rnining interests to be protected because there would be none being renewed from which Aborigines would need to be protected or from which they could obtain payment in terms of negotiated settlements and so on. [More…]
I believe that the minerals on these lands should belong to the Aboriginal people and, therefore, that we have to find some formula by which the Aborigines can develop these lands if they wish to do so in their name, in their right and under their ownership. [More…]
It might have been all right to ride roughshod over the Aborigines in bygone times but the whole purpose of this legislation is to grant land rights. [More…]
The Opposition is moving amendments to delete a number of words which would have the effect of giving Aborigines rights in this particular matter. [More…]
When the understandable expectations of these companies that they would be able to continue exploration under the rules which governed them to begin with, are weighed against the equally reasonable expectation of Aborigines that their wishes about reserve lands will now be respected, I have no doubt in my mind which expectation must be disappointed. [More…]
He used very strong words concerning the Legislative Assembly and the powers that are given to it in this Bill He has insinuated that the Assembly will control these rnining interests and the land on which Aborigines will have mineral rights. [More…]
I do not know whether the people involved took into account the real beliefs and traditions of the traditional Aborigines to whom this Bill after all refers. [More…]
In the recent Gove Land Rights case, Yirrkala Aborigines made the point that members of the particular mada - which is the same as mala- own their land because their linked mala had association which were . [More…]
The land councils were set up by Europeans and they tended not to take into consideration the feelings, beliefs and land laws of the traditional Aborigines. [More…]
Yesterday at a public meeting Dr Gavranic, who has spent some years at Gove amongst Aborigines, described to us with diagrams why the whole concept of these councils and this land ownership as it is now envisaged is incorrect. [More…]
Our original concept with respect to the needs of these people was that there was a whole mob of blacks out in the bush- we did not determine whether they were clans or tribes- and we ‘white fellows’ or ‘balandas’, as they are known at the Top End had the task of providing something there for these Aborigines. [More…]
We did not understand that we were mixing together Aborigines from such tribes as the Pintubi, the Walbri, Aranda, the Iluawa and the like. [More…]
It is rather odd that people, some of whom have had quite a long experience with Aborigines in the Northern Territory, have expressed their concern that some of the matters in the Bill have been left to the legislative powers of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I am sure that they would be free of political bias, but they can see a possibility of the Aborigines not getting the fair go to which they are entitled if the Legislative Assembly has these powers. [More…]
His Honour Mr Justice Woodward, when speaking of town claims, clearly indicated that the tenure of any land in towns by Aborigines should be the same kind of tenure as that for all other persons and that any requests for such land should go through the normal town planning procedures of the Northern Territory. [More…]
As I indicated in my initial second reading speech and subsequent statements, and with particular reference here to Alice Springs, the Government is committed to satisfying the requirements of Aborigines for land in towns such as camping areas and other areas of land for residential use. [More…]
The deletion of the reference to communities is designed to bring the clause into line with other provisions to the effect that the land is held for the benefit of groups of Aborigines entitled by tradition to its use and occupation. [More…]
Aborigines should have the right to prevent exploration for them - [More…]
He said that the Aborigines at Yirrkala were not consulted. [More…]
In his first report the Commissioner suggested that local Aboriginal land be held on a community basis, a suggestion which was based on what the Commissioner felt to be a fairly clear consensus of Aboriginal opinion and because the Commission represented the basic political and social drift of Aborigines in modern society. [More…]
the type of employment proposed to be available for Aborigines in connexion with the activities which the applicant for the grant proposes to carry out upon the land; [More…]
This Bill is designed supposedly to help the traditional owners, the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But, if there is not some time decided upon after which claims cannot be made for areas- whether they be mining areas, pastoral areas, or what ever- we will not have development such as that carried out by the Gemco company on Groote Eylandt, at Gove, or at any other place, from which the Aborigines might derive considerable income. [More…]
If we wish the Territory to be developed and the Aborigines to gain from that development, which is their right and of which we all are in favour, there should be some arrangement in this Bill which will give people investing risk capital in the Territory-most of the money invested in the Territory is risk capitalsome confidence that they will have security of their leases, whether they be pastoral, mining or whatever. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders recently reported on this matter and recommended, in particular, that this matter remain the responsibility of the Australian Par.liament and Government. [More…]
In many cases Aborigines are unwilling to reveal the location of such sites. [More…]
It was to oversee the establishment of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs; to advise the Government upon the formation of national policies to give effect to the new obligations imposed on the Commonwealth by the 1967 referendum in respect of Aborigines; to consult directly with Aboriginal people and organisations about their wishes and felt needs; to become the avenue of Aboriginal approaches to Government; to establish and ensure good working relationships at the official level between Commonwealth and State instrumentalities in the Aboriginal field; and as far as practicable to co-ordinate the working out of the then highly variable policies and administrative practices throughout Aboriginal Australia. [More…]
I would attribute largely to the Council’s tireless efforts to go to the Aborigines and to listen to their own statement of their viewpoint and wishes the present healthy fact that everywhere within Australia Aborigines now approach Government without inhibition or hesitation, speak up for themselves in no uncertain way, and are quick to demand the full measure of their constitutional rights. [More…]
It could well set a pattern of health care delivery to Aborigines living in remote areas of Australia and also to white people living in difficult circumstances and suffering from ill health in remote areas of Australia. [More…]
How is it envisaged that the nutritional and health problems of our Aborigines can be tackled under such circumstances. [More…]
(ba) The effect of mining operations, including exploration and prospecting operations, on aboriginal land or land which is claimed by Aborigines, and*. [More…]
We will not build up the greatest of goodwill or sense with respect to Aboriginal affairs if we seek continually from here to create a barrier between Aborigines and those who are exercising legitimate authority. [More…]
The amendment to clause 43, subclause 2 is consequential upon the amendment which I have just mentioned so as to ensure that where additional leases are granted at Groote Eylandt, pursuant to the agreement into which the Commonwealth has entered, they will be subject to the negotiation of fair terms and conditions with the Aborigines. [More…]
The financial interests of Aborigines would be well served by the appropriation of the 10 per cent royalty payment for their benefit. [More…]
But I think I can say of the debates in this House and in the other place that the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia has shown a consistent dedication to the passage of legislation to fulfil commitments made by all political parties to the granting of land rights to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But an even greater task hes ahead for the Government and for all members and that is to put the new law into practice so that it may fulfil the aspirations of the Aborigines of the Northern Territory. [More…]
In the further task of putting the legislation into practice there must be the most complete consultation and participation with the Aborigines. [More…]
The other matter of very great concern is the fact that the Government has rejected amendments which would have made.possible grants of land to Aborigines on the basis of need. [More…]
We say again that this will deprive those Aborigines described as fringe dwellers and those of mixed ancestry of the possibility of occupying or owning their own land. [More…]
The answer is: When it is made for or with Aborigines. [More…]
We have to consider also what we should do about providing land for Aborigines beyond providing such places as the existing Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
I should like to warn the Government that if these amendments are accepted it is quite possible that the position of the Aborigines ideologically in relation to land could be more significant in respect of this country’s position in the world than are the rights of mining companies or miners. [More…]
I am not sentimental about land never being developed and I do not think the Aborigines are so deluded. [More…]
I have very great respect for him but I think that these amendments are unfortunate if they again represent as a result of pressures that have come from mining elements, an insensitivity to what Aborigines feel about their land. [More…]
If these elements are able to influence and control the Government, there will be a situation like that in Queensland and the Aborigines will get nothing at all. [More…]
Most Aborigines who are working for their rights think it is unfortunate that these sentiments have developed in the Federal Parliament about the Northern Territory. [More…]
They work with the State governments to try to ensure that this does not happen in States which have significant numbers of Aborigines and potentially significant land questions. [More…]
It is presumed therefore that people coming ashore from any ship would be allowed by the Aborigines to work in peace. [More…]
When I was on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies we received information from Paris that the journals of that French expedition, which had been cast to the four winds for reasons which I will explain in a moment, had very important references to Aborigines. [More…]
As D ‘Entrecasteaux sailed up the east coast of Tasmania he met Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines stood around a pile of dried faggots. [More…]
A French-Canadian lady who had been studying Australian Aborigines went to Paris to look at this material. [More…]
There have been about 30 applicants for the course for 1977, including 4 Aborigines from as far away as Roper River in the Northern Territory. [More…]
A committee has recently been looking at matters concerning Aborigines. [More…]
They merely indicated that the Government was proposing to give financial assistance to aborigines. [More…]
It has done it similarly with the unemployed among Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines in that town need all the encouragement they can get and no doubt they appreciated the visit. [More…]
Whether we like it or not much of the funds allocated for Aboriginal advancement is not used for that purpose; it merely makes alcoholics out of some of the Aborigines. [More…]
I emphasise that this is not always the Aborigines’ fault. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to continue their interest in the Aborigines in my electorate and not to allow any interference to the transport and feeding policies which are doing so much for the advancement of Aboriginal children. [More…]
Probably the most ironical aspect of the denial of the right of a referendum vote to citizens of the Territories is that many of the descendants of the original citizens of this country, the Aborigines, reside in those Territories and these people are being denied a vote in referenda. [More…]
There was a overwhelming yes vote, I think, of 90 per cent on the queston of Aborigines. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs assured me that he would be following this matter up because he regarded it as of considerable importance, not only to the operations of the Commission but also to the Aborigines on whose behalf the property was to be purchased. [More…]
It may be that a conscientious member would find that Aborigines as individuals or families also present a greater work load than Australians of European ancestry or birth. [More…]
In electoral justice, one has to discard all such considerations of population movement, Aborigines and aliens. [More…]
I played a very active part in the referendum concerning Aborigines which was held in 1967. [More…]
If the Department’s whole budget was simply paid to the Aborigines, each man, women and child would get $1,800. [More…]
Instead, each Aborigines received an average of $96. [More…]
In 1957 a co-operative for Aborigines was registered in New South Wales under the Cooperative Act of New South Wales. [More…]
One result of the formation of the co-operative for Aborigines was the establishment of Tranby Co-operative College at Glebe. [More…]
The college became a focal point of the movement to establish Aborigines’ cooperatives throughout Australia. [More…]
Like most emergent races throughout the world the Aborigines, with few exceptions, have found themselves admirably suited to participation in an enterprise which is structured along co-operative lines. [More…]
I received correspondence written by the Reverend Alf Clint, the General Secretary of Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd. [More…]
It is a very time consuming activity to belong to the Joint Select Committee on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, particularly because members of the House of Representatives who are involved also have responsibilities in regard to inquiries concerning Aboriginal health and alcoholism among Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines in Queensland are to be struck off the lists of unemployed unless they move from their missions and tribal settlements. [More…]
It promised to maintain federal funds for Aborigines; it has cut them. [More…]
He said that the granting of land rights for Aborigines in the Northern Territory would make the Northern Territory into a black state. [More…]
I refer to minority groups like Aborigines, who still have to be represented whether they are enrolled or not, or ethnic minority groups in the community. [More…]
Over the last 2 years Australians have become more aware through the bitter comments of Aborigines in the media that a new government cannot overnight solve problems which have been festering for more than a century. [More…]
It is still possible for the National Population Inquiry Report to note in 1975 that ‘in every conceivable comparison, the Aborigines and Islanders . [More…]
It promised to maintain Federal funds for Aborigines, and it has cut them. [More…]
We have always treated Aborigines as a conquered people. [More…]
It caved in to the Aborigines. [More…]
Queensland office of his own Department last January restore the requirement which had been eliminated in 1973 that Aborigines who are fulltime residents of church missions and government settlements must accept work away from those communities in order to qualify for unemployment benefits? [More…]
How many Aborigines in Queensland are now regarded as lapsed from the register, to use the terms of the directive, as a result of this change of policy? [More…]
I think that the Aborigines themselves now fully realise how hollow that promise was because we have seen cutbacks in special works projects. [More…]
We have seen cutbacks in finance made available to provide housing for Aborigines. [More…]
In my own electorate of Grey which has a large Aboriginal population the number of homes which were to have been provided for Aborigines this year has been halved. [More…]
In Port Augusta where I live, an area in which a lot of Aborigines require homes, there was a scheme to provide 53 homes. [More…]
On the question of land rights for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, the Labor Government introduced its legislation but because of what happened in December 1975 the legislation did not come before the Parliament for a decision. [More…]
Some will recall that in the 1968 referendum, which virtually concerned the Territory in that the referendum was in regard to Aborigines, those most concerned were denied a vote. [More…]
The wishes of Aborigines and territorians in respect of land councils and advisers have been ignored. [More…]
There has been a complete lack of understanding of the Territory situation and of the Aborigines themselves, their claims and their background. [More…]
My advice is that in years gone by the Aborigines have not had a real affinity with the sea. [More…]
I am sure no one would deny the Aborigines rights to fish off Maningrida, Croker Island, Goulburn Island or Elcho Island. [More…]
I was the campaign director for the referendum on Aborigines in 1967. [More…]
I was a foundation member of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
Aboriginal advancement, as distinct from the administration of Aborigines is a virgin field. [More…]
There are large communities judged by Australian outback standards in Arnhem Land which consist almost entirely of Aborigines. [More…]
That which results from Aborigines not know their own rights or having the power to apply them, so that in the courts of the North many more Aborigines are arrested and charged with drunkenness and appear before the courts without adequate legal representatives, say, than is the case with the white community. [More…]
For long enough there nave been definitions of Aborigines in order to bring people under the restrictive provisions of the various acts. [More…]
The number of families of Aborigines in Australia is unknown. [More…]
There should be an immediate attack upon the housing of Aborigines, upon pastoral properties, and there should be immediate pressure brought to bear upon housing commissions throughout the country to make houses readily available in the metropolitan area. [More…]
It is unfortunate that it is hardly relevant to talk of tertiary education of Aborigines. [More…]
In the Northern Territory just under 50 per cent of the people in the 500 000 square miles are Aborigines. [More…]
Government Departments will have to be more adventurous in appointing Aborigines to executive positions and in appointing Aborigines to managerial positions on reserves, ensuring Aboriginal families do have the opportunity to live in houses in the same standard of living as the rest of us. [More…]
It would be arrogant and mistaken to devise policies for women in the way that special policies are needed, say for migrants or Aborigines or pensioners or other deprived minorities. [More…]
However, he overlooked the fact that the Aboriginal Land Rights Bill, which was initiated by the Labor Government when it was in office, gives rise to a potential claim for that area by the Aborigines. [More…]
That industry also would give a tremendous fillip to the Aborigines in the area in that they could work in such a tremendous commercial setup which would have the effect of rehabilitating the port of Darwin and the city of Darwin, as well as the whole economy of the Northern Territory. [More…]
In actual fact, it was a very important referendum for Territorians because it concerned the Constitutional change which gave the Commonwealth Government the right to make laws for all races in Australia, which of course, included Aborigines. [More…]
Has he noted that Professor Fred Hollows, the leader of the national trachoma and eye health program, whose work has been mentioned during previous question times by the Minister for Health, whose birthday we celebrate today, reported to the Annual Scientific Congress sponsored this week by the Australian College of Ophthalmologists that trachoma had declined dramatically among the 1800 Aborigines at Moree in the last 10 years since they began to get houses with hot and cold running water? [More…]
A previous recommendation of the Committee was that the Aborigines should be involved to as great an extent as possible. [More…]
This comprehensive management must involve the local population, particularly the Aborigines whose traditions and association with this region contribute to its cultural quality and its unique features. [More…]
For the information of the House I wish to relate an incident which commenced on 9 February this year when I claimed in Brisbane that a group of Aborigines had formed a cooperative to steal pension and social security cheques from letterboxes. [More…]
He claimed that because I had said that a group of Aborigines had formed a co-operative or a group I had insulted an entire race. [More…]
I was not saying for a moment that the increase in the number of cheques stolen from 6912 cheques to 10 450 cheques, could be attributed to the actions of Aborigines; far from it. [More…]
This Senator Colston of the Australian Labor Party from the other House continued to whip up political feelings in Queensland under the guise of being concerned that Aborigines had been gravely insulted. [More…]
They happen to be Aborigines. [More…]
In entering a debate on Australia’s immigration policies and population it strikes me as rather odd that the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron), who preceded me in this debate, spent all his time talking about Aborigines. [More…]
If we are to regard Aborigines as immigrants we really are going to have an absurd debate. [More…]
In February I made public a minute from the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations showing that the Government had instructed CES managers in Queensland to take unemployment benefits away from Aborigines on church missions and government settlements. [More…]
Similarly, reports which the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs of the former Labor Government made, tabled on 30 October 1975, and reports which the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders made on the question of Aboriginal employment, tabled on 26 August 1976, have not yet been considered. [More…]
I am not being uncharitable in this, but I ask: How much of that money went to the Aboriginal children and to the schools for Aborigines? [More…]
One of the most distressing things I saw was that, whilst there were beautiful buildings like the Kormilda College where the ratio of teachers to pupils was excellent in every way, there was a lack of facilities in the outback area and at the stations where the Aborigines were really being taught. [More…]
For expenditure on allowances and other expenses for the purpose of employment training and re-training (including the training and re-training of widow and repatriation pensioners, migrants, Aborigines, and ex-members of the Defence Force) to meet the needs of the labour market. [More…]
I shall enumerate them again: Widows- and the Government is very good at bashing widows and the widows mite; it has a reputation for that not only in Australia but around the world- repatriation pensioners, migrants, Aborigines and exmembers of the Defence force. [More…]
Again, another matter concerns a private members’ Bill in the Senate which deals with Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and which gives a very good definition of them in the legal sense. [More…]
There are special provisions for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
The expedition has made comments from time to time about deafness and other ill health among Aborigines. [More…]
It probably has been one of the best organised health programs in the remote areas of Australia and certainly will be responsible for overcoming a lot of the illnesses that presently are afflicting Aborigines and some white people in the remote areas of Australia. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs whether he was informed on 1 1 March last that an estimated 80 per cent of Aborigines at Maningrida in the Northern Territory had contracted syphilis. [More…]
Can he also assure the House that the national trachoma and eye health program sponsored by the Australian College of Ophthalmologists will not be obstructed by the Queensland Government in attempting to reduce the very high incidence of eye diseases amongst Aborigines? [More…]
It effectively took unemployment benefits away from unemployed Aborigines who were living on church missions and Government settlements and who were not prepared to leave their traditional homes to find employment. [More…]
14) Which (a) Ministers and (b) departments have considered (i) that report and (ii) Chapter 9 Employment of the report of the Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Senate Hansard, 26 August 1976, page 355). [More…]
Stung by the public’s outrage at this breach of election promises to Aborigines, the Government resorted to a diversionary tactic. [More…]
In answering to pre-arranged questions in the House, the Prime Minister twice took the cheap and nasty course of trying to blame the Australian Labor Party Government for an increase in the number of Aborigines unemployed. [More…]
In November 1972 about 3700 were unemployed; in December 1973 there were 9900 Aborigines unemployed as a direct result of the policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The Prime Minister, after his first answer on 26 August last year, tabled statistics which showed the number of unemployed Aborigines at the end of July last year as 9667. [More…]
The Minister now states that at the end of February this year there were 12 218 Aborigines unemployed. [More…]
The Parliamentary Library Statistics Group has prepared a table which shows that at the end of March there were 12 293 Aborigines unemployed. [More…]
In 1973 the work test which determines eligibility for unemployment benefits was modified so that Aborigines on missions and reserves did not have to move to stations and towns in order to make themselves available for employment. [More…]
An increase in the number of Aborigines registered as unemployed- not the number of unemployed Aborigines- was thus inevitable. [More…]
If Labor had not come to power in 1972, it is possible that the number of Aborigines registered as unemployed would still be under 4000 while untold thousands of Aborigines would have continued to be denied assistance in gaining employment and income security. [More…]
Innovative employment programs, including special works projects, specific grants to Aboriginal communities for enterprises, housing and town management, and the Regional Employment Development and National Employment and Training schemes were introduced to assist Aborigines to tackle the unemployment problem. [More…]
Unfortunately for the thousands of unemployed Aborigines, the Minister’s statement will have little effect on the problem of Aboriginal unemployment. [More…]
It provides little hope that the Government intends to reduce the growing number of Aborigines who have been thrown out of work by this Government ‘s economic policies. [More…]
These reports recommended major amendments to the procedures governing the payment of unemployment benefits to Aborigines, the extension of the very successful vocational officer service, further development of Aboriginal employment schemes, and the implementation of anti-discrimination legislation. [More…]
In August last year a Senate Select Committee reported on the environmental conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and presented detailed comment and recommendations to alleviate the problem of Aboriginal unemployment. [More…]
Instead of extending the vocational officer service of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Government applied severe staff and travel restrictions which effectively denied many Aborigines income, support and assistance in obtaining employment. [More…]
He brings to the attention of the House a very notable event, that is, the tenth anniversary of the 1967 referendum which gave to the Commonwealth, through an amendment to the Constitution, the power to make special laws with regard to Aboriginal citizens of Australia and also to treat Aborigines as full citizens by including them in the census. [More…]
I think perhaps the greatest achievement is the fact that today more and more Aborigines- both men and womenare standing up and speaking for their own people, not simply in national forums but in their local communities and areas of activity. [More…]
When Aborigines come forward to take positions of leadership and speak for themselves in that way I think that really is the hallmark of great progress. [More…]
What additional funding will be allocated to the National Employment and Training scheme to assist employers in providing on the job training for Aborigines? [More…]
Can the Minister explain why the numbers of Aborigines registered with the CES in March increased over the February figures when the normal seasonal pattern is for these numbers to decline? [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s policy of self-management by Aborigines, the Aboriginal Legal Aid Services will continue to operate separately. [More…]
It was not only the Labor Government but also the Labor zealots going back to the mid-1950s who encouraged the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to gather together with people like Faith Bandler and Joe McGinnis. [More…]
It was soon after the appointment of Mr Bryant as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs- a ministry with an exclusive prerogative and which was a significant development, as the Minister readily acknowledges- he invited 80 representatives of the Aboriginal people to come to Canberra under the chairmanship of Mr Joe McGinnis who had been the leader of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. [More…]
-The Minister for Administrative Services has supplied me with the following information in answer to the honourable gentleman’s question: Since January 1977, Commonwealth Police in Brisbane have been investigating information received by them that a group of Aborigines had been committing crimes by stealing Government cheques from letter boxes and forging and uttering. [More…]
On 6 April 1977, 5 Aborigines in the Brisbane area were arrested by Police for the stealing, forging and uttering of stolen cheques. [More…]
The second Fox report deals not with the general problem of export but with the specific problems of the Northern Territory and has drawn attention to very serious and difficult problems concerning environmental control, respect of the rights of Aborigines and national parks. [More…]
The other factors which we have to consider in the second Fox report in respect of our mining and milling concern the environment, national parks and Aborigines. [More…]
In the planned uranium mining area in the Alligator River zone there are about 1000 Aborigines. [More…]
Deliberate strategies strongly recommended by the Commission are the immediate creation of the Kakadu National Park in the same region which would protect for all time lands that are of great traditional significance to the Aborigine, and the direct involvement of Aborigines, in the demarcation and subsequent management of the Park. [More…]
In our tour of Western Australia and of this East Alligator River area we did not see any Aborigines. [More…]
We saw Aborigines when we got to the main towns but in these mining areas we did not see any Aborigines. [More…]
Apparently the do-gooders and perhaps Friends of the Earth are inciting Aborigines to go out into the mining areas, camp there and suggest that the areas are sacred Aboriginal land. [More…]
Mr Grassby is reported in the Brisbane Telegraph of 20 April 1977 as claiming that generations of Japanese had been led to believe that “Australians were racists”, and that they, the Japanese, had “been brought up on textbooks critical of the White Australia policy and our treatment of Aborigines.” [More…]
When did the Queensland Minister for Lands inform him that the Queensland Government does not view favourably the acquisition of lands for development by Aborigines or by Aboriginal groups in isolation (Hansard, 7 December 1976, p. 3370; Queensland Hansard 8 December 1976, p. 2208). [More…]
But it should be remembered equally in Australia that those conditions are not as bad as some of the conditions under which our own Aborigines live. [More…]
In this respect the Committee noted that at present fishing and other seafood gathering by Aborigines was not adversely affected by nonAborigines. [More…]
The Committee noted that because of the isolation of the area few non-Aborigines would enter the seas adjoining Aboriginal land anyway. [More…]
It seems to me that the legitimate interests of Aborigines will be protected if their traditional fishing rights are preserved and their right to the privacy of their land is clearly recognised by the establishment of a buffer zone of sea which cannot legally be entered by commercial fishermen or holiday makers. [More…]
There has been a lot of criticism of the legislation introduced by the people who live in the Northern Territory, but the people who introduced the original legislation and those who now criticise do not live in the Territory and do not know what is involved in Aborigines and Europeans living side by side. [More…]
Let me say that if the 2 kilometres off-shore had been handed over, not necessarily to the Aborigines but to the people who advise them and speak for them to a great extent, those people would have seen to it that there was division amongst the whites and blacks who live in the Territory. [More…]
So the Aborigines have the right to use that water anyhow but if they want it closed to someone they have to apply to the Commissioner. [More…]
Such a provision would undermine the very good relations which have been built up over the years between the Aborigines and the Europeans who live in the Territory. [More…]
It seems to me that the legitimate interests of Aborigines will be protected- [More…]
The Northern Land Council was set up by the previous Government to advise Woodward on how to distribute land among the Aborigines but the Central Land Council soil has not got away from being completely dominated by its white advisers. [More…]
I doubt whether it would have been the traditional Aborigines but the Northern Land Council. [More…]
By the same token we can see that people in the land councils could be acting in a manner which will get Aborigines off side with the other people who live in the country and lead to a completely unfair approach being taken to the seas around the coast of Austrafia. [More…]
In other words, 40 per cent of land and 80 per cent of the Northern Territory coastline could be under the control of Aborigines if the decision were taken to have a 2 kilometre sea zone and to make any interested party other than the Aboriginal people apply for permission to use those waters. [More…]
I think that the Committee’s report is very sound in that it gives Aborigines the right to use any part of the sea and the right to apply for use of any specific part. [More…]
We want to live alongside the Aborigines and to develop the country together with them. [More…]
Above all, it took no account of the impact of economic decisions on the lives and well-being of human beings- the thousands of young people whose prospects in life have been blasted on the very threshold of their working lives, the migrants who came here for better opportunites and whose opportunities are being destroyed, the small businessmen being forced to close down, the families being deprived of a second or even first earned income, the people paying off a home mortgage or wanting to buy their own home, the Aborigines whose hopes for a decent place in their own country have yet again been deferred and denied. [More…]
If the safeguards to the environment are contemptible; the respect for the rights of Aborigines is beneath contempt. [More…]
The Ranger mine will come right to the base of Mount Brockman which is the most important sacred site of the Arnhem Land Aborigines. [More…]
It is accepted that the mining and milling of uranium, particularly given the location of the main known deposits, pose major issues to be resolved in relation to the physical environment and in relation to the Aborigines in the areas concerned. [More…]
Development of these deposits therefore must be handled with extreme care and sensitivity, not only in relation to the physical environment but, more importantly, in relation to the social and cultural wellbeing of the up to 800 Aborigines who are involved. [More…]
It will reduce the Territory’s financial dependence on the rest of Australia and will provide significant direct and indirect employment opportunities for the people of the Territory, including the Aborigines. [More…]
What consideration did he give then to the Aborigines than to impose on them the most divisive piece of legislation ever inflicted on people in the Northern Territory, either black or white? [More…]
However, I am talking about Aborigines. [More…]
Honourable members opposite need not try to tell me that the establishment of a township in the Jabiru area will do any more harm to the Aborigines who live on the Arnhem Land escarpment or the Arnhem Land plateau than the alcohol which was introduced to them some years ago. [More…]
The title he used was not correct, but the National Country Party seems to have little regard for Aborigines. [More…]
Uranium mining in the Northern Territory, commonly referred to as the Top End of Australia, will destroy the physical environment on which the Aborigines depend for the survival of their culture. [More…]
It took 10 years to get going in 1967 the referendum concerning Aborigines, in which I took an active part, even though for the last five years everybody was in complete agreement. [More…]
Which (a) Ministers and (b) departments have considered (i) that report and (ii) Chapter 9- Employment of the report of the Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Senate Hansard, 26 August 1976, page 355). [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal affairs aware that some 60 Aborigines staged a protest march to the office of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Alice Springs on Monday, 12 September 1977? [More…]
It has cut back on education, on welfare housing for Aborigines, on child minding centres and on a host of other things on which it cannot properly justify cutting back. [More…]
I quote from the Liberal and National Country Parties Aboriginal Affairs Policy of November 1975: the life style of Aborigines will, of necessity, vary between those living in a more tribalised state on or near their traditional lands and those living in or near towns and cities. [More…]
We recognise the fundamental right of Aborigines to retain their racial identify and traditional life style . [More…]
Did the Whitlam Government agree to plans to establish a new housing estate for Aborigines at Davenport, adjacent to Port Augusta, South Australia. [More…]
Eighty per cent of our own indigenous people, the Aborigines, are unemployed in many areas. [More…]
Surely we have to look at that matter in the context of our present capacity to serve individuals, youth, disadvantaged groups, migrant groups and Aborigines in this country. [More…]
But let this be understood: If this land has failed, as it has in recent history, to solve its own problems- to wit, the Aborigines- what right have we to start demanding that other peoples should agree with us. [More…]
Nevertheless, I would like to see this Government not rush headlong into it in the way in which the Labor Government, and also the LiberalNational Country Party Government when it came to power, did with the Aboriginal land rights legislation without getting to the grass roots and taking notice of the opinions of those people whom that legislation is supposed to benefit, the Aborigines in the spinifex and in the bough shade miles away in the sticks. [More…]
There are disputes in Australia now over the Aborigines’ claim on their original land, in the Northern Territory particularly, which was taken over by large property owners, in the main from Great Britain. [More…]
These cuts have not only affected the provision of basic amenities- housing, education and health services- they have also thrown thousands of Aborigines out of work. [More…]
Many of these programs employed Aborigines in the construction of homes, the development of enterprises and the provision of public utilities in isolated communities. [More…]
The Government’s response to the problem has been to slash expenditure, to throw at least 4,000 Aborigines out of work, and then to offer employment opportunities to approximately 500 Aboriginal men and women through its inadequate community development employment program. [More…]
The Government has above all failed to pursue the interests of Aborigines in a matter they consider to be basic to their self respect, to the preservation of their cultural heritage, to their ability to cope with our society and its pressurestheir land claims. [More…]
In an answer on 2 June 1977 to a question on notice from me he stated that the Queensland Minister for Lands had written to him on 10 December 1976 informing him that the Queensland Government does not view favourably the acquisition of land for development by Aborigines or by Aboriginal groups in isolation. [More…]
The interests and rights of Queensland’s Aborigines have been sacrificed for that purpose. [More…]
It seems that Cabinet decided to oppose the land claims of Aborigines at Borroloola in the Northern Territory without consulting the Minister. [More…]
The Prime Minister also demonstrated his total disinterest in the welfare of Aborigines when he announced that the Government would not insist on sequential development of uranium mines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Even the legislation which the Government has introduced has not yet benefited Aborigines. [More…]
At the election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Aborigines were among the first Australians to pass judgment on the Fraser Government. [More…]
Because of the new uranium discoveries the Aborigines no longer can call this barren land their own. [More…]
Whilst the rate of inflation has increased by 25 per cent in two years, assistance to Aborigines is going in the opposite direction. [More…]
Surely the Aborigines had to wait long enough for this $100m which was provided in the 1975-76 Budget. [More…]
We must remember that following the 1967 referendum which decided that Aborigines would be counted in a census it was considered by most Australians that Aborigines would take their place on an equal basis with the rest of the community in the social structure of our society. [More…]
As I have mentioned, in the 1975-76 Budget we provided $ 100m for Aborigines. [More…]
Why was it that so soon after the recognition of the Aboriginal population, after we agreed that we would count Aborigines as one of us, we have seen this downward adjustment in their living standards? [More…]
This is why the barren land has been taken from Aborigines. [More…]
What about the rip-off that the State and Federal governments are getting out of the development of all the mining ventures in this country for which the Aborigines are suffering? [More…]
Surely that would warrant the Government spending more money on Aborigines. [More…]
Perhaps there would be some justification for this policy of cutting back funds for the Aboriginal population if Aborigines were to be brought up to somewhere near an equal basis with the rest of the Australian population. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has pointed out already that unemployment of Aborigines increased this year by 45 per cent and now embraces nearly 50 per cent of the Aboriginal population. [More…]
In addition to that, about 2 per cent of Aborigines are educated above the level of half way through secondary school. [More…]
Why make the Aborigines carry such a cruel, unfair penalty just because the Government refuses to take guidance on how the country should be run? [More…]
We were not to assimilate Aborigines into the white community; we were to integrate them. [More…]
As the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren) noted in his speech a little earlier, only recently the last known traditional tribal Aborigines were brought from the desert into a community which has come under the influence of Western ways. [More…]
We took first of all the advisory committee that the previous Minister had established, then prominent Aboriginal people such as the late Harold Blair, Pastor Sir Douglas Nicholls and so on, members of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, and other people who represented their communities. [More…]
It could well be an even worse representative of Aborigines than was the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee. [More…]
I support the honourable member’s request that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) should speak directly to the traditional Aborigines. [More…]
We have heard much about grants-in-aid and money for housing, health, education, employment, welfare and so on for Aborigines. [More…]
So this Government is taking very seriously indeed the matter of aid, help and assistance in every direction to Aborigines. [More…]
The national employment strategy of this Government is to raise effective levels of employment for Aborigines. [More…]
This program is in keeping with the Government’s national employment strategy to raise the level of employment among Aborigines. [More…]
We have heard the Minister say that Aborigines want to work. [More…]
But it is far more soul destroying to Aborigines to be paid to sit down and not work than it is to pay social security benefits to white people. [More…]
But for most Aborigines the payment of what is called ‘sit-down money’ is not in their best interests and they know it. [More…]
Why do we inflict these unwanted organisations and people upon the real Aborigines? [More…]
Overall expenditure on programs of direct assistance to Aborigines in 1977-78 is estimated to be about $ 176m compared with $ 1 6 1 m in 1 976-77. [More…]
Under a Liberal-Country Party Government Aborigines will be better not worse off Urge Aborigines to vote LiberalCountry Party on December 13. [More…]
In August 1973, the number of Aborigines registered as unemployed was 3,053; in August 1974, the number was 5,080. [More…]
In August 1977- these are the latest figures available- the number of Aborigines registered as unemployed was 12,224. [More…]
My colleague has already mentioned a matter that concerns me greatly and that is the large increase in the number of Aborigines who are unemployed. [More…]
The amount of money allocated to the number of special works projects which provide employment for Aborigines in various country areas, of course, has been cut drastically with the result that town councils, district councils and so on that were able to make use of these special works projects now find these doors closed to them and the direct result is that large increase in Aboriginal unemployment which my colleague mentioned. [More…]
In the statement which he issued some months ago on the employment of Aborigines, the Minister said: [More…]
I said in an address to the National Press Club on 7 July of this year, which was very close to National Aborigines Day: [More…]
So, when this Government came to office and was given the responsibility of funding special assistance for Aborigines, one of the first things that we were concerned to do was to get control of the administrative base upon which programs were implemented because we were convinced that we would get real value only if we had well planned, well thought-out and soundly administered programs. [More…]
Migrants are the most savagely affected group, apart from Aborigines, in Australia and are particularly affected by this unemployment crisis. [More…]
I wish to deal with the drinking problems of Aborigines. [More…]
I regret that some positive steps have not been taken already to create proper drinking facilities for the Aborigines in the Northern Territory, particularly on a non-profit basis. [More…]
It does the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) no credit to try to make a joke out of a very serious problem that affects Aborigines. [More…]
The article which was headed ‘Aborigines die in parks ‘states: [More…]
The article goes on to talk about the reckless drinking by Aborigines. [More…]
I expect the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), who is to be the next speaker in this debate, to inform the chamber and me in particular- he would know more about this than I would- about what a great success the purchase of the hotel at Finke outside Alice Springs to cater for civilised drinking by the Aborigines has been. [More…]
He has brought up the problem of drinking by Aborigines. [More…]
Let me say here and now that some of the worst offenders in supplying alcohol to Aborigines are the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
These services have been requested by the Aboriginal people themselves to try to overcome the alcohol problem amongst Aborigines. [More…]
This Government also is supporting the purchase of the Daly River licence to assist in overcoming the alcohol problem amongst Aborigines in the Daly River, Pepimanarti and Port Keats area. [More…]
So we were associated not only with the grog problem of Aborigines but also with the implementation of further constitutional development for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, education has joined the long list of broken promises by the Fraser Government, but unlike the broken pledges about employment, Medibank, hospitals, wage indexation, growth centres, water projects, Aborigines, legal aid, migrant welfare, urban transport, which were given under the pressures of the last election campaign, education has suffered a double breach of undertaking. [More…]
Is the Minister for Health aware of the growing incidence of glue sniffing among young people m the country, m particular among Aborigines in the inner suburban areas of the major cities? [More…]
We will maintain present levels of assistance to Aborigines. [More…]
Cabinet has decided to oppose the land rights of Aborigines at Borroloola in the Northern Territory without consulting the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Further educational disadvantage is suffered by many other children, such as country students, Aborigines, migrants and girls. [More…]
According to the report of the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, the school system has failed Aborigines very badly by its inappropriateness and inadequacy. [More…]
This is the Prime Minister who said: ‘A Liberal National Country Party Government will initiate a new deal for migrants ‘; who said: ‘We will maintain present levels of assistance to Aborigines’; who said: ‘We shall ensure no person is denied legal aid because of lack of means’; and who said: ‘Only under a Liberal-National Country Party Government will there be a return to business confidence’. [More…]
If, however, Aborigines in Western Australia were encouraged to enrol, as distinct from being deterred from enrolling, it would have an enrolment in excess of the 10 per cent margin- in fact, in excess of the 20 per cent margin. [More…]
The Western Australian redistribution enshrines the most serious and deliberate discrimination against Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
As a result of this discrimination against Aborigines, the new electorate of Kalgoorlie is larger in size and larger in population than it need be if all eligible Abongines were enrolled. [More…]
Discrimination against Aborigines has diluted the vote of all other Australians in the Kalgoorlie electorate. [More…]
Further, the Federal Government is failing in its obligation to encourage Aborigines to enrol and exercise their democratic rights. [More…]
It is clear that the Liberal Party has engaged in a deliberate campaign to discourage and deter Aborigines from enrolling and from voting. [More…]
The extent of discrimination against and intimidation of Aborigines has been fully disclosed in the Court of Disputed Returns over the last few months. [More…]
If this is not done I would anticipate that by the next election there could be in the order of 3,000 to 4,000 Aborigines on the roll and under such circumstances the Liberal Party would be doomed to failure. [More…]
Evidence was given that 34 Aborigines had been deprived of their right to vote at that polling booth alone by this ‘trick’. [More…]
Only Aborigines were asked these questions. [More…]
One of the five Liberal lawyers, Mr Haydn Wesley Dixon, told the judge that he had decided that ‘any lawful means could be used to stop illiterate Aborigines from voting’. [More…]
He said that ‘he had regarded illiterate Aborigines as being invalid potential voters because of the pressure he was told was being applied to them’. [More…]
It would enable the wholesale disfranchisement not only of Aborigines but also of migrants and indeed scores of thousands of handicapped Australians. [More…]
Not all forms of discrimination are so blatant as that practised against Aborigines in Western Australia. [More…]
The question we can legitimately ask now is: If in Kalgoorlie, the largest electorate in the world, the electorate in Western Australia which already has the largest population but the smallest enrolment, we find that Aborigines who have exercised their option to enrol are being deterred from voting might we not assume that they have also been deterred from enrolling? [More…]
That is why this electorate is being made still largerbecause Liberal lawyers and other Liberals have deterred Aborigines from exercising their right to vote as Australian electors. [More…]
It is certainly not the view of this Committee based on the evidence it received, or of the Senate Select Committee on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in its report ‘The Environmental Conditions of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and the Preservation of their Sacred Sites’, and the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare in its recent report ‘Drug Problems in Australia- An Intoxicated Society?’ [More…]
The Labor Party said: ‘We must help the Australian Aborigines. [More…]
We called it the Special Broadcasting Service because it may well prove desirable for the Government, in the years ahead, if there is a request, to provide some special broadcasting service for example, to the Aborigines throughout Australia or to the social welfare area. [More…]
We are very critical of the situation, particularly that pertaining to Kalgoorlie where Aborigines, for example, are not deemed to be part of the population because they cannot be put on the electoral roll. [More…]
Mr Speaker, it must impress you to know that there are at least 22,000 Aborigines in Western Australia, a large concentration of them being in the electorate of Kalgoorlie. [More…]
Would any political action by any employee be allowed by the Commonwealth to impede a vital health program for whites, as it apparently has allowed a program for Aborigines to be impeded? [More…]
I do not know whether they are full blood Aborigines or half blood Aborigines, but they are regarded by some Queensland people as being political activists in north Queensland. [More…]
In respect of (a) the Central Australian Aboriginal Medical Service, (b) the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, (c) the Central Australian Aborigines Congress and (d) the Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, (i) how many persons are employed by each organisation, (ii) what titles, remuneration and other employment benefits are given to or received by employees of each organisation, (iii) who is responsible for the hiring and firing of employees, (iv) are each organisation’s financial records and expenditure subject to any audit requirements, if so, what are the requirements, and (v) are vehicle records and logbooks kept; if so, who is responsible for keeping the records and logbooks. [More…]
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, $260,000; Central Australian Aborigines Congress (including Medical Service), $512,500; Aboriginal Hostels Limited, $477,000 (including $244,000 capital works). [More…]
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, 1 1; Central Australian Aborigines Congress (including Medical Service), 50; Aboriginal Hostels Limited, 18. [More…]
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Yes- Quarterly certified returns and annual audited statements; Central Australian Aborigines Congress (including Medical Service), Yes- Quarterly certified returns and annual audited statements; Aboriginal Hostels Limited, Yes- Quarterly certified returns and annual audited statements. [More…]
Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Yes; Central Australian Aborigines Congress (including Medical Service), Yes; Aboriginal Hostels Limited, Yes. [More…]
What sum has the Commonwealth spent on all aid to Aborigines in Tasmania in each of the years from 1972-73 to 1976- 77, inclusive, and how much is it proposed so spend in 1977- 78. [More…]
How did the Government protect and enhance the rights of Aborigines in Queensland suffering from trachoma when it co-operated meekly in depriving them of urgently needed treatment to feed the paranoia of the Queensland Premier? [More…]
How did the Government protect and enhance the rights of Aborigines in Western Australia to vote without being subjected to degrading public tests of their literacy? [More…]
Two hundred years ago- six or seven generations backbefore Australia was taken from the Aborigines, our ancestors lived in a ‘pre-industrial society ‘ in which 90 per cent of the work force were involved in agriculture. [More…]
The truth is that recent arrivals in this country- that is, those who have been here for up to 15 years- are very much worse off in terms of employment possibilities than any group in Australia other than the only true Australians, the Aborigines, whose employment situation is an utter disgrace to all of the nonAboriginal invaders and colonisers of this continent. [More…]
The people who are that way inclined mentally may try to stir the Aborigines into taking action to prevent that. [More…]
Aborigines in that area served during the Second World War. [More…]
A ready job force, including the often forgotten unemployed Aborigines of the Channel Country and the isolated outback is waiting. [More…]
The main beneficiary of Labor voting will very often be non-voters- migrants, Aborigines, the sick, the poor and the ignorant- and not necessarily the voter and his or her children. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Will the Government take steps to take over Aurukun and Mornington Island Missions before the Queensland Government does so on the pretext of improving services to Aborigines? [More…]
These conditions related to proliferation, terrorism, safeguards in relation to nuclear weapons, the existence of proven safe ways of disposal and/or storage of radioactive wastes, environmental concerns and the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
The emphasis is to the effect that safeguards are effective, that the problems of disposal have been solved, that the environment is safeguarded and that the rights of Aborigines are protected. [More…]
He probably will travel to the Northern Territory now that he is a member of a committee dealing with Aborigines. [More…]
The thrust of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act is now being felt and it is now becoming apparent that it cuts across the understanding of the traditional Aborigines about their land rights. [More…]
Briefly, traditional Aborigines do not comprehend and do not accept large land councils such as the Northern Land Council and the Central Land Council. [More…]
The traditional Aborigines now are demanding separate land councils. [More…]
Capricornia went on to say that Aborigines should be allowed to run their own affairs. [More…]
But he criticised the Minister for sacking from Maningrida the people who were working for the Aborigines. [More…]
It is very strange that in only two instances the honourable member represented entirely the wrong stories about people who were working for Aborigines. [More…]
We should realise that there are people who are sincere about doing things for Aborigines and seeing that they are done right. [More…]
The people who are speaking for the Uniting Church in Australia are convinced, the people who represent the Queensland Council- it is not recognised by the State Government- are convinced, the Australian Labor Party supporters are convinced and I believe that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, who is sitting at the table, is convinced in his heart that this takeover is a move by the Queensland Government to ensure that it has maximum control over the spokesmen for Aborigines so that it can push forward to fulfilment its agreements with the mining interests which want to mine bauxite on part of the Aboriginal reserve at Aurukun. [More…]
We recognise the fundamental right of Aborigines to retain their racial identity and traditional lifestyle or, where desired, to adopt partially or wholly a European lifestyle. [More…]
The reference I made about the recognition of the fundamental rights of Aborigines to retain their racial identity and traditional lifestyle also affects another situation at Aurukun. [More…]
Queensland is the only State not to have handed over its responsibilities for Aborigines to the Federal Government in terms of the 1967 referendum. [More…]
I think the Minister was unwise to use the expression he used when talking about how other State governments have been co-operative in entering into agreements whereby the Commonwealth Government could administer the problems related to Aborigines. [More…]
Let us remind the Minister, who is a quite capable Minister and one whom we consider understands the problems of Aborigines, that it is no good quoting letters written by Mr Porter or resolutions passed by the people concerned if the Government limits its actions to that. [More…]
The Queensland Aborigines Act of 1971 clearly defines that a reserve is ‘land reserved and set apart for the benefit of Aborigines’. [More…]
We are dealing with land reserved and set apart for the benefit of Aborigines, not for the multi-national mining companies. [More…]
Under the terms of that Act a reserve refers to any land that is for the time being reserved for the purpose of the Aborigines Act 1971 of [More…]
So, under the power that has been exercised already, rights are vested in the Aborigines. [More…]
As honourable gentlemen would be aware, the Commonwealth is concerned that there should have been adequate consultation with the Aborigines of the Aurukun community concerning the proposal and the arrangements between the Queensland Government and the consortium in question. [More…]
They were Aborigines and were for all practical purposes destitute, without shelter and without future. [More…]
I have seen Aborigines themselves leaving the house to ring the police. [More…]
The Aborigines own the properties. [More…]
When will this decision be reviewed in accordance with Government policy as expressed in the GovernorGeneral’s speech of 2 1 February 1978 which stated that emphasis will be given to assisting Aborigines to become more self-sufficient and acquire the skills to manage their own affairs. [More…]
Consideration was given and is being given to a way in which the two factors could be brought together so as to maintain the Government’s commitment to purchases for Aboriginals through the Land Fund Commission and the Government’s commitment in its policy statement to recognising the past dispossession and dispersal of Aborigines by the establishment of such a capital account. [More…]
It is much more pertinent to note that over the last two or three months the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and I have had a number of discussions about various aspects of Commonwealth policies in relation to Aborigines with a view to getting greater expedition into the pursuit of those policies in the State of Queensland. [More…]
Omit the definition of ‘Aboriginal Community’, substitute the following definition: ‘Aboriginal Community’ means a community of persons that, on 3 1 March 1 978, was a community for Aborigines for the purposes of the Aborigines Act; ‘. [More…]
Omit the definition of ‘Aboriginal Reserve’, substitute the following definition: ‘ “Aboriginal Reserve” means any land that, on 3 1 March 1978, was a reserve for the purposes of the Aborigines Act; ‘. [More…]
The honourable member is the chairman of an all-party parliamentary committee and he moves around Australia saying that he is concerned about the plight and the problems of the Aborigines. [More…]
The Queensland legislation- the Aborigines Act and the Torres Strait Islanders Act and the regulations and by-laws made under themprovide that officials, as well as Aboriginal and Island councils, manage the affairs of reserve communities and the officials have the overriding power and responsibility. [More…]
The Minister in his second reading speech, and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when addressing the inaugural National Aboriginal Conference, have said that the Liberal Party and the Government want Aborigines and Islanders to be as free as other Australians to determine their own future. [More…]
We want time to see whether we cannot persuade the Government at least to listen to the many voices of Aborigines over the years which have asked for acquisition of reserves. [More…]
But I am afraid that the Aboriginal lands trust legislation enacted in Western Australia represented a pretty hollow victory for the Aborigines. [More…]
Instead of the Aborigines having the power that I referred to earlier to restrict entry to their land, the Western Australian Government is having second thoughts and is looking at the possibility of taking that right away from the Aboriginal communities so that various mining interests will be allowed onto Aboriginal land at the behest of the State Government. [More…]
But it is not the only one that is of concern to Aborigines. [More…]
Yet the Opposition members of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs were in favour of going to Aurukun in the course of the Committee’s normal investigations of the health of Aborigines and at the same time to get our views on the facts as they occurred. [More…]
The Aborigines have been swamped with visitors from the media and the Parliament over the last few weeks. [More…]
Many actions are taken in the name of the Queensland Government on State reserves ostensibly for the benefit of Aborigines and Islanders which, nevertheless, they do not see as being for their benefit at all. [More…]
Surely the record must demonstrate to the Minister that when Aborigines ask for this right and when it is granted to them they exercise it with great responsibility and effect. [More…]
Under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 we gave Aborigines rights over their properties, we ended wage discrimination, we established their rights to have legal representation in courts and we ended the odious permanent entry system onto reserves. [More…]
The legislation seeks to give to the Aborigines the right of self-determination- an ability of the people themselves to be able to make decisions in their own communities. [More…]
In relation to the programs that the Commonwealth has a responsibility to provide, it is important that the Commonwealth acts responsibly for all Aboriginal people, not just some Aborigines. [More…]
Does this legislation guarantee the personal security of Aborigines? [More…]
As this debate has proceeded over the past few weeks, I have become increasingly concerned that the welfare of the people who are caught up in the middle of the wrangle that is going on between the Commonwealth and the State- that is, the Aborigines- is in some danger. [More…]
The welfare of the Aborigines is of paramount importance. [More…]
The Aborigines of Australia have come a long way in the past 30-odd years, from the days when I knew some of them and went to school with them, when they lived on the fringe of Cooktown in shanties and communities that were known as ‘blacks camps’. [More…]
So the welfare of the Aborigines is of paramount importance. [More…]
Eleven years ago, in 1967, the people of the Commonwealth of Australia by an overwhelming majority voted in favour of amending the Constitution so that the Commonwealth could provide for Aborigines throughout the nation. [More…]
Indeed I do not doubt their loyalty because over a period a great deal of guidance has been given to them and a great deal of money has been spent in their community, but one could hardly compare Cherbourg, a Europeanised community five kilometres from the sizable township of Murgon, nestling amongst a number of communities with some farmers and graziers- a community in which I found it impossible to distinguish any full-blood Aborigines- with Aurukun and Mornington Island with 80 per cent or more of their populations being full-blood Aborigines. [More…]
In my view the Uniting Church in Australia and its predecessor, the Presbyterian church, have done an extremely good job with the Aborigines there. [More…]
That simply means that the companies and the Government will talk to Aborigines but will not listen or, if they listen, will not take any notice. [More…]
The Bill is capable of conceding certain rights and prerogatives to communities established under the Queensland Aborigines Act of 1 97 1 . [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to ‘empower’ Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, who live on reserves in Queensland, to manage and control their own affairs. [More…]
Essentially in proposed clause 5, in which there are four subclauses, each of which the Opposition seeks to amend, the proposal is that where a council for an Aboriginal reserve or an Islander reserve requests the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to make a declaration or even where the Minister is satisfied that a substantial majority of the adult Islanders or Aborigines want the Commonwealth to take action, the Minister may take action. [More…]
there is not in force under the Aborigines Act or Torres Strait Islanders Act in respect of a person a permit authorizing the person to reside on, or visit, a Reserve to which this Act applies, being a person who is not otherwise entitled to reside on, or visit, the Reserve; and [More…]
A person in respect of whom there is in force an authority under sub-section ( 1 ) to reside on, or visit, a Reserve shall not be prevented from entering and residing on, or visiting, as the case may be, and shall not be ejected from, the Reserve by reason that a permit authorizing him to reside on, or visit, the Reserve is not in force in respect of him under the Aborigines Act or the Torres Strait Islanders Act, and it shall not, for that reason, be unlawful for the person to be on the Reserve. [More…]
there is not in force under the Aborigines Act or Torres Strait Islanders Act in respect of a person a permit authorizing the person to reside on, or visit, a Reserve to which this Act applies, being a person who is not otherwise entitled to reside on, or visit, the Reserve; and [More…]
A person in respect of whom there is in force an authority under sub-section (3) to reside on, or visit, a pan of a Reserve shall not be prevented from entering and residing on, or visiting, as the case may be, and shall not be ejected from, that part of the Reserve, by reason that a permit authorizing him to reside on, or visit, the Reserve is not in force in respect of him under the Aborigines Act or the Torres Strait Islanders Act, and it shall not, for that reason, be unlawful for the person to be on that part of the Reserve. [More…]
His attitude on Aborigines is well known. [More…]
We agree that all the services that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) has suggested Aborigines should provide for themselves should be arranged by them. [More…]
But what will happen if they seek to provide these services in a way in which the Aborigines do not approve and the Minister does not approve? [More…]
It is simply that the Federal Government as well as, of course, the Aboriginal community should be happy that what is being done is what is required to be done in the fashion in which the Aborigines want it to be done. [More…]
After all, the whole argument is about whether Aborigines should have the right to decide for themselves, not that they have to do it all themselves. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment to clause 9 (2) does not take anything away from Aborigines. [More…]
It will allow the Federal Government to be sure that what the Queensland Government is doing is acceptable to the Federal Government and presumably to the Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines are entitled to know by virtue of a positive action taken by the Parliament. [More…]
Surely what the Government is saying is that if Aborigines are to be allowed to control their reserves in their own way anyone who enters those reserves should be expected to abide by the by-laws. [More…]
Clause 12 as it is framed is a long, involved attempt to get around the capacity of the Queensland Government to prohibit people, Aborigines or Islanders, from going onto reserves. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment is a simpler statement, The reason for wording it in that way is that the clause as it is framed at the moment does not provide for Aborigines or the Islanders to control non-Aborigines and nonIslanders, hence the Opposition’s proposed new clause 12(1), which reads: [More…]
Because of the way in which the clause is framed at the moment the only power the legislation gives to Aborigines is the power to allow onto reserves Aborigines who have been prohibited from entering reserves by the Queensland Government. [More…]
It seeks to add a power which the legislation has not given to the Aborigines. [More…]
The Government has not allowed them any right to control non-Aborigines. [More…]
Finally, I suggest that the legislation should allow the Aborigines and Islanders the right to admit Aborigines and Islanders and the right to admit or exclude nonAborigines or Islanders. [More…]
What procedures are adopted in the Northern Territory and in each State to advise Aborigines of their right to enrol as electors and to assist them to enrol. [More…]
The management plan prepared by the Director and approved by Parliament will ensure environmental protection, and that appropriate management practices are employed, taking into account the interests of the traditional Aborigines owners. [More…]
The principal Act provides for the closing of the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund which was established under section 21 of the Northern Territory Administration Act and for it to be replaced by an Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account to be established under section 63 of the Land Rights Act. [More…]
As a result of this report, entitled ‘Emergency Accommodation in Perth and its Availability to Aborigines’, the Western Australian Advisory Committee on Homeless Persons, which includes two members directly involved with Aboriginal needs, is investigating the problems of homeless Aborigines; [More…]
But at the same time we believe that the interests of the Aborigines can be best preserved through cooperation rather than by an act of acquisition which could, of itself - [More…]
The powers that were spelt out in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Reserves and Communities Self-Management) Act, which was passed last week ostensibly for the purpose of overcoming the intrusion of the State into the legitimate rights of Aborigines to determine their own rate of acculturation into the western culture, are identical to those spelt out in the 1976 Act which deals with Aboriginal councils. [More…]
-The nine days from 3 to 11 April will forever be remembered by Aborigines in Australia with despair and total disappointment as nine days in which they were again abandoned. [More…]
The least important people in the whole dismal exercise were the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The Aborigines now find that they are firmly back in the grasp of the State Government, imprisoned by the Government from which they were trying to escape. [More…]
This is a totally unsatisfactory aspect of this agreement and it will be seen by all Australians as yet another defeat for the Aborigines. [More…]
It would put on a completely new footing the relationship between Aborigines and the rest of Australians. [More…]
It gives no security to the Aborigines. [More…]
I can see some disadvantages in having centralised control of certain matters concerning Aborigines, but the fact remains that the prime responsibility for Aboriginal affairs rests squarely with the Federal Government. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, provision is made for entry permits to be granted by the local people, the traditional owners of the land, for persons other than Aborigines, as well as for Aborigines. [More…]
So does anyone wonder that Aborigines and the Federal Opposition are uneasy about these amendments to the legislation. [More…]
I believe in selfmanagement by the Aborigines, not by the Mareeba Shire Council asking the State Government to take over, to set the rents and to evict people at its behest. [More…]
The Northern Territory Legislative Assembly seemed to think that it was quite all right for Aborigines in the Northern Territory to have inalienable tenure of their land. [More…]
I believe that that is the way to go about giving Aborigines self-management and what was in the minds of the Australian people when they voted in the referendum in 1 967. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that 10 Aboriginals, say, in Redfern in Sydney, in one of the areas of land that Aborigines occupy, could apply to form a council in the area of the South Sydney Council. [More…]
We can imagine what sort of a system there might be in the middle of Sydney if a group of 10 Aborigines took it upon themselves to provide those services and to opt out of any other regulation which may apply. [More…]
Aborigines are waiting for it. [More…]
His second reading speech might be summed up by saying that it claims that the legislation is designed implement land rights for Aborigines and to tidy up a few machinery matters. [More…]
It protects the power of corporate secrecy and makes Aborigines impotent to challenge a company if it considers that disclosing its technical information might tend to incriminate it in regard to the protection of the environment. [More…]
This trend is not so dangerous in this Bill that all Aborigines will rise up in indignation as they certainly did, for example, concerning the recent shameful legislation introduced by the Queensland Government concerning Aurukun and Mornington Island which firmly denies land ownership and mineral and quarrying rights to Aboriginal shires. [More…]
In effect, Aborigines are to be tolerated and trusted to a very limited extent. [More…]
The Government has moved with reasonable and commendable promptness on this, as it did in relation to the original Land Rights Act, to see that land rights are given to Aborigines. [More…]
I refer particularly to the important provisions which will enable the creation of original trusts to enable Aborigines to hold the title to land. [More…]
Aborigines: Training as School Dental Therapists (Question No. [More…]
On 19 October 1961 the House of Representatives ordered the printing of a report of its then select committee inquiring into the voting rights of Aborigines. [More…]
One important conclusion reached was that tribal Aborigines would soon become integrated into one Australian society and that the Government should assist this to occur smoothly by providing more access to free post-primary education, including a knowledge of political and civic functions and structures, social integration of schooling and employment, and decent housing. [More…]
There have been disturbing developments, particularly in the States of Western Australia and Queensland, which indicate the urgency of the need to assist Aborigines to integrate as full citizens with respect to voting. [More…]
The 1961 report estimated that there were 26,000 full blood and 4,000 predominantly Aboriginal-blood Aborigines disenfranchised, except for those who were serving in or who had served in the armed forces. [More…]
Queensland at that time had the most backward provisions for voting by Aborigines which I will outline briefly. [More…]
Most New South Wales Aborigines were exercising their long-established voting rights. [More…]
Queensland had no franchise for persons of half or more Aboriginal blood although half castes not living with Aborigines could, if they applied, get exemption. [More…]
It did not extend even to those Aborigines who had been exempted from the highly paternal Aboriginal Preservation and Protection Act, popularly known then by Aborigines as the Dog Act. [More…]
The franchise had been there since 1926, but only 487 of the 1,042 Aborigines who were on stations were enrolled. [More…]
That is, in the State of New South Wales less than half of those Aborigines were enrolled, because the enrolment requirement for them was not enforced. [More…]
This meant that something like 1 7,000 Northern Territory Aborigines had been declared, by reason of their manner of living, personal associations, standard of social habits and behaviour or inability to manage their own affairs unaided, in need of special care or assistance. [More…]
Only 89 out of roughly 17,000 Aborigines had not been declared wards or had been removed from the register of wards. [More…]
The Committee recommended voluntary enrolment for Aborigines and Torres Strait [More…]
It wanted specially qualified electoral officers to be provided- this has never been followed up; no government has done this- to receive enrolment applications at places accessible to Aborigines and help to be provided to them to enrol upon expression of a wish to enrol. [More…]
The Committee recommended penalties for duress or undue influence on Aborigines in the exercise of their franchise and an explanation of voting and Parliament, using well prepared visual aids and publications, to Aborigines at settlements and other centres. [More…]
We have by and large provided for voluntary enrolment for Aborigines who, when enrolled, are subject to the same compulsory voting as the rest of us, but outstandingly we have not provided for official means to facilitate enrolment and voting. [More…]
If Western Australia had done so we would not have had the disgraceful spectacle last year of a Western Australian Minister being found by a court of disputed returns to have been responsible for putting pressure on illiterate Aborigines not to enrol or not to vote, his expressed justification being that many of them had been brainwashed by his Australian Labor Party opponents while he personally found it distasteful to campaign among illiterates. [More…]
Aboriginal field workers were persuading Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, whose languages they understood in many cases, to enrol. [More…]
That Committee was set up after I placed this matter on the Notice Paper, But in whatever way it is done, I think that the matter should come to a vote and that a decision should be arrived at today so that we can demonstrate our concern to enable Aborigines to become full citizens and eventually to justify compulsory enrolment as for other citizens. [More…]
It is known that the Aborigines do not have to enrol, but once they are enrolled they are supposed to vote, even though many of them do not. [More…]
I agree with the views of the Reverend Sheperdson, who was the Aborigines’ guiding force in the Elcho Island area and across the northern coast of Australia, or at least in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Despite the fact that at that time he had 800-odd Aborigines on Elcho Island- there are now 1,000- he would not pressure them to enrol because he considered that they did not fully understand what it was all about. [More…]
Far more education should be given to Aborigines on how to vote and the reasons for voting, explaining who the people are and so on. [More…]
Referring to preferential voting, the mover and seconder of the motion suggested that there should be optional voting for Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines are confused by having optional voting in their own elections and then having a preferential system. [More…]
One settlement had more inhabitants than another and one candidate got all the votes in the larger settlement whilst the man who would probably have done a far better job for the Aborigines- certainly the Aboriginal community considered that he would have- was not elected because he came from a settlement that did not have the same number of inhabitants. [More…]
In conclusion, I should say that the select committee would be just another bind for the Aborigines. [More…]
I mean, part of the purpose of the exercise, quite apart from just protecting Aborigines, is to know more about what goes on. [More…]
A research institute is being set up specifically to look into the problems of Aborigines. [More…]
Why should it be excluded when much of what goes on may have an effect on the Aborigines? [More…]
But, taken together, they deal with the need to make an early start on the mining and development of our uranium resources, whilst at the same time ensuring adequate protection of the environment of the Alligator Rivers Region, protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the Aborigines in the region, protection of the safety of persons engaged in the uranium industry, and the development of adequate safeguards to prevent proliferation of the nuclear armament industry. [More…]
The mechanism for doing this will be by the grant of a long-term lease by the Aborigines to the Director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [More…]
Some examples of this intrusion contained in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill include: Firstly, that the national park is to be proclaimed under a Federal Act; and, secondly, that negotiations for the lease from the Aborigines are in the hands of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife. [More…]
The Bill requires consultation with Aborigines- that is fine and it is only natural- but nowhere does it recognise the existence of the proposed new Northern Territory Government, even though the national park is nominally within the boundaries of the Territory. [More…]
Honourable members will appreciate that we are dealing with procedures for the establishment of management policies and arrangements for the use of land to which Aborigines will hold title. [More…]
We also have a responsibility in respect of Aborigines but we have failed to do anything in that area as well. [More…]
The honourable member knows very well that it is left to the State of Queensland to look after the rights of Aborigines. [More…]
In view of the number of Aboriginal communities in these areas and having regard to their traditional fishing activities in surrounding waters, what involvement is planned for Aborigines in the area in any surveillance program? [More…]
Should we destroy the records of the ‘black drive ‘ against the Tasmanian Aborigines? [More…]
Should we suppress the records of shooting and poisoning of Aborigines in Western Australia in the nineteenth century? [More…]
We do not want to see any weak-kneed approach to the position as to what are alleged to be Queensland’s rights because we are concerned about what has happened already in Queensland in two areas- Aborigines and human rights. [More…]
Some of the kids in my electorate of Melbourne, aborigines, women who would like to enter the workforce and disadvantaged groups could become as job motivated as the Government likes but there still will not be jobs available for them unless we have a concerted manpower policy which creates jobs and which runs parallel with the schemes which are envisaged. [More…]
Under the Queensland Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Act 1971 all persons employed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island reserves are paid a training allowance. [More…]
Of course, many Aborigines are pensioners and hold pensioner health benefit cards. [More…]
Yet the adversaries at law of the Aborigines are protected from the public gaze and the Press will probably do nothing about this but respectfully doff its cap and lower its eyes as befits a loyal serf. [More…]
But the Minister will be aware that the pastoral land is the choicest part of the Aborigines’ claim to both the pastoral lease and the unalienated land. [More…]
It is central to their traditional land, and to that of other Aborigines. [More…]
It is used by one of the widest networks of traditionally associated Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
Mount Isa Mines, and the Aborigines, even earlier, both indicated their interest to the Government. [More…]
It is a coastal region which separates the islands, considered by the Commissioner, and which the Minister now accepts as being, land to which Aboriginals are entitled, from the Borroloola town common, which is the other part of the land acceded to Aborigines by the Minister’s statement and by the report. [More…]
The Bing Bong area is the land used most intensively by Aborigines in the region. [More…]
I think the Minister would concede, if he reads the Aborigines’ case, that without Bing Bong they have less than half a loaf. [More…]
The Yanyula and Mara Aborigines living at Borroloola, Ngukurr and Numbulwar have been interested in acquiring Bing Bong station since at least 1975. [More…]
John Avery, who has been living in this area with the Aborigines for some years- he is an anthropology student- believes people have died as a result. [More…]
Obviously it is the Aborigines’ choice for a settlement. [More…]
These uses have been keenly advanced by Aborigines. [More…]
Obviously these problems are not going to get any less while the Aborigines feel constrained to stay in the Borroloola town area, subsisting all too often on store food, with no access to their traditional nutritious food and active way of life. [More…]
Living in the town, the Aborigines feel there are unwarranted intrusions in that Europeans have interrupted ceremonies, entered their camps at night and even their dwellings, and molested women at times. [More…]
The tourists in the area have a subtle and unpleasant effect on the lives of the Aborigines which surely could be better controlled if the Aborigines felt that they were masters of their own destiny and of tourist entry to the area. [More…]
The acquisition of Bing Bong for local Aborigines would have farreaching and beneficial significance to Aborigines in western Queensland, the Barkly Tablelands and an area to the east, including southeast Arnhem Land. [More…]
They are not subject to the surveillance of the station caretaker and are some of the few sites the Aborigines feel safe to occupy while there is a caretaker on the pastoral lease. [More…]
John Avery has called it, the position of women in the community would deteriorate, and the assimilation of local Aborigines to the position of wage labourers would be advanced at the cost of a breakdown of community life. [More…]
The relocation of Aborigines at Bing Bong would allow a more even, flexible and ecologically sound use of the land. [More…]
What the Minister argued in reply to a question yesterday from the honourable member for Dundas (Mr Ruddock) about Aborigines and in reply to another question today is that the doctors will render accounts. [More…]
The same applies for Aborigines and many migrants. [More…]
Let me refer to the Aurukun and Mornington Island problem in which we are anxious to promote the cause of the Aborigines of that region. [More…]
As one concerned for the environment, concerned for the Aborigines and concerned for the relevant government instrumentalities I indict the Minister as being ministerially responsible at least for the most inadequate legislation that has come into this Parliament for many years. [More…]
The Aborigines and the Territorians, should have the right to administer and control those lands. [More…]
The whole essence of the Government’s claims was that it would provide strong, tough codes of practice so that Australians- people who were working in the mining industry, people who were living near mining operations, Aborigines and people who were in any way affected by the transportation of yellowcake- would be carefully covered so that both their health, and the environment, would not be impaired in any way. [More…]
We rarely see Aborigines with skin cancer. [More…]
The scheme was originally set up with these high sounding ideals: ( 1 ) preserving the natural resource; (2) providing useful employment for Aborigines; and (3) conserving the soil, water and wildlife. [More…]
The fact that one-third of the Territory’s population is Aboriginal in itself places an enormous burden on the planning and administration of the Territory although, of course, the responsibility for providing services to the Aborigines will remain with this Government. [More…]
It is not possible to package and compartment the population of the Northern Territory into Aborigines and non-Aborigines and to say that these are the health, education, welfare, transport and other services for Aboriginal people, and those are the services for nonAboriginals. [More…]
They are perfectly entitled to regard that Territory as their own, just as the Aborigines who may have an ancestry going back thousands of years. [More…]
The misconceptions relate to the rights of Aborigines overriding those of whites. [More…]
This surely is not a very big claim when one looks at the fact that one-third of the people are Aborigines and when one look at the fact that nearly all of these claims are for land that is unalienated Crown land. [More…]
I am sure they will agree also that this myth that 50 per cent of the land is being claimed by Aborigines ought to be vigorously exposed and the legitimate claims of the Aboriginal people spelt out in a way in which white people can understand and not feel threatened by it. [More…]
In the Northern Territory many Aborigines are not on the voting rolls. [More…]
In a referendum in 1967, over 90 per cent of the people gave the Federal Government reponsibility for Aborigines. [More…]
It is true that there was a claim, in one instance, for 36 per cent of gross profits of uranium mining carried out on Aboriginal land to be paid to Aborigines. [More…]
It is also true that the Aborigines have no right to enforce such a payment. [More…]
That will be determined by other than Aborigines. [More…]
It is almost certain that the Aborigines will not get that 36 per cent. [More…]
Here again we see this distorted view that the Aborigines have the best pieces of the country. [More…]
The Aborigines have been driven off those pieces of the country that white men wanted. [More…]
In fact, when it suited some of those white settlers, squatters, developers or miners, the Aborigines were not only driven off, they were put to death. [More…]
Honourable members know that there is a percentage, however small- in fact it is shamefully small; around 30 per cent in many parts of Australia- of Aborigines who are employed. [More…]
This applies also to most Aborigines. [More…]
There is a very high incidence of alcoholism amongst Aborigines, but it is found in those who are unemployed and the depressed people who do not have this work facility. [More…]
Perhaps we need to say that they are not to have any authority with regard to Aborigines, although it must be remembered, as I would point out to the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham), that the Commonwealth now has power with regard to Aborigines. [More…]
Maybe the Commonwealth should pass section SI legislation affecting the Aborigines of Australialegislating in a non-discriminatory way. [More…]
I think he probably overlooked the fact that somewhere between one-fifth and one-sixth of the Territory is Aboriginal land anyhow under the reserves which were transferred to the Aborigines as Aboriginal land under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act. [More…]
Paul Everingham has taken a very sound, commonsense and broadminded view about Aborigines and Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
He has been around the Territory, probably as much as most people, visiting Aborigines, explaining the situation to them, getting their confidence and generally playing the part of a well-briefed and understanding Minister. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs been drawn to Press reports concerning the establishment in Australia of an extremist and racist organisation known as the National Front which is calling for a policy of apartheid or separate development for Aborigines? [More…]
-I thank the honourable gentleman for his question because it affords me an opportunity to deny in the most unequivocal terms that the present Government- indeed I expect this would be so of any government in Australiawill have a policy of apartheid or separate development for Aborigines. [More…]
I have noticed from Press reports that the National Front representatives in Australia have said that they propose to give a better deal to Aborigines. [More…]
Our policy in that area is not one of separatism; it is a policy which recognises the particular and special relationship which Aborigines have for land which has been their traditional land. [More…]
I think that when the land rights policy of the present Government, as shown through the land rights legislation, is properly understood it will be seen that it not only acknowledges the Aborigines traditional relationship with land but also can provide the Aborigines, on a basis of equality, with a firm economic foundation for their future development. [More…]
As the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the honourable member for Wills brought about his selfdestruction by instituting overnight selfdetermination for Aborigines. [More…]
I remind the Committee that on Australia Day 1972 the then Prime Minister, Mr McMahon, announced that his government would not recognise the claims of Aborigines to ownership of land in the Northern Territory. [More…]
the type of employment proposed to be available for Aborigines in connexion with the activities which the applicant for the grant proposes to carry out upon the land; [More…]
The Opposition still feels the need, as it did at that time, to establish more definitely and more securely the rights of Aborigines to their traditional land. [More…]
It makes it possible for him to take the initiative to gazette land for a particular purpose for Aborigines. [More…]
The present Act, or the Viner Act, makes no provision for the grant of interest to Aborigines in towns or for the grant of land to Aborigines where they already have an interest, such as the Gurindji at Wattie Creek. [More…]
Under the present Act, there is no specific provision, as was recommended by Mr Justice Woodward, which would expand the rights of Aborigines to enter upon pastoral leases for traditional purposes. [More…]
This was directly contrary to paragraph 474 (iv) of the Woodward report which was implemented by the Labor Bill and which made it impossible for roads to be built over Aboriginal land contrary to the wishes of Aborigines. [More…]
Mr Justice Woodward recommended that Aborigines themselves should control entry to Aboriginal lands- a power traditionally exercised by the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
The Labor Bill gave this power to the land councils and exempted any Aborigines from the need to have an entry permit. [More…]
The Viner Act expands the right of entry of non-Aborigines and limits those exempt from the permit requirement to Aboriginals living in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Under the existing Act, land councils no longer have- as they did under the Labor Bill- the duty to pursue on behalf of Aborigines claims to land. [More…]
The Mining Industry Council said that claims on behalf of Aborigines for a share of mining royalties are unjustified. [More…]
It objects also to Aborigines seeking access to company books and records, including company projections and sales. [More…]
Land is full of significance for Aborigines. [More…]
Other commitments were that Aborigines should also determine how their land rights are to be used and that they should have the same rights as any other land owner to determine who enters the land. [More…]
In some respects that is inadequate as I think Aborigines ought to have more right than other people have to determine who enters their land as Aborigines view their land as being communally owned. [More…]
Nevertheless, when we are looking at the concept which Aborigines have of land rightsnamely, a communal, traditional and perpetual ownership of land by a group of people- I believe that there is a case for going beyond that provision which was adopted by the parties opposite. [More…]
I believe that the Aborigines ought to have more than just the same rights as any other landowner to determine who enters their land. [More…]
We are concerned that Aborigines should be recognised as having prime ownership of and prime claims to their land and the prime right to determine the utilisation of their land. [More…]
We believe that priority ought to be given to what the Aborigines want before plans for streets and towns start to be laid down. [More…]
We believe that priority ought to be given to consulting Aborigines before a Minister makes a decision or before a commissioner makes a decision. [More…]
We propose some fairly innocuous amendments here and there to the effect that not only should consultation occur but also should the Minister have regard to the opinions of the Aborigines consulted. [More…]
They have determined at a referendum that matters concerning Aborigines ought to be matters of Federal concern and responsibility. [More…]
In addition, I think that in a mere theoretical approach to this subject one ought to be able to see that a Federal government is more likely to succeed in achieving justice for Aborigines for the very reason of our Federal structure. [More…]
Until this division occurred, anyone who travelled from Groote Eylandt to Arnhem Land and down through the centre would have seen how the blacks and whites were getting on together and moving together to see that the Aborigines received recognition and their fair share of the development that took place. [More…]
What we must do- I think I mentioned this earlier- is look out for the political and legal pressures from either side which are telling the Aborigines various things which, in many cases, are not true. [More…]
I point out to those honourable members who have made so much of the recommendations of Mr Justice Woodward, on whose report the whole land rights legislation was based, that he was instructed, as the shadow Minister said, to determine how to allocate the land to Aborigines, not whether it should be allocated. [More…]
The situation was that Mr Justice Woodward ‘s report was about how to grant the lands to Aborigines, not whether it should be or not, and that report was not debated. [More…]
This person goes on to say that he knows for a fact that the claim that this man Toby Gangali is the traditional owner in this area was made by an anthropologist from the University of Queensland who did a six months’ genealogical history of Aborigines in western Arnhem Land and six weeks on the mudguard of a Landrover. [More…]
We have seen Aborigines in various areas demand their own representations instead of having one large land council. [More…]
Probably it was accepted because there was not enough evidence on the other side from traditional Aborigines saying what they really wanted. [More…]
We should not be listening to the advisers who are telling us, telling the newspapers, telling the Opposition, telling the Government, what the Aborigines want. [More…]
We must go there and find out what the Aborigines themselves want. [More…]
But we should all be trying to get the Aborigines and the Europeans to live and work together to develop the Northern Territory. [More…]
Aborigines: hard hit by loss of medical services. [More…]
1) I am aware of the article, and of the considerable demands on the resources of the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service (Queensland) Limited in the provision of an adequate service to the Cape York Peninsula and Torres Strait Island areas. [More…]
The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service (Qld) has been allocated $880,000 in the current financial year. [More…]
An example of that is the status of Aborigines in Australia in 1978. [More…]
I think it is time that we had another look at the position of Aborigines generally in this country. [More…]
What effect will the cost changes in regard to health insurance have on Aborigines? [More…]
Many Aborigines live in the electorate of the Deputy [More…]
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald entitled Health services for Aborigines fear effects of cost changes ‘states: [More…]
I am pleased to say that the Minister has stated that he will examine the effect on Aborigines of cost changes. [More…]
We have seen repeatedly in the care of Aborigines, in the care of North American Indians, in the care of groups of people of all ages who are disadvantaged in North America and elsewhere, that the provision of more of the same, when health costs are going through the ceiling due to modern technology, does nothing to improve health. [More…]
It points to those who will be badly hit- migrants, large families, Aborigines and the unemployed. [More…]
Why, then, make life much harder for the unemployed, Aborigines, migrants and large families? [More…]
1 ) Can he say whether recent Queensland legislation (a) excludes (i) from Aurukun Shire, traditional Aurukun tribal land to the south of the former reserve, and (ii) from Mornington Shire, Bentinck Islands and Sweers Island, thus reflecting the State Government’s concern with the phosphate and bauxite industries rather than with Aboriginal sacred land and traditional land ownership, (b) fails to enable Aborigines or the Church to own or set up buildings or business projects within the leased Shires or the Council to acquire property anywhere, (c) fails to define who is to fill vacancies on the Councils, (d) provides administration under a complicated Local Government Act thus ensuring that Aborigines cannot manage their affairs and enables the State Minister for Local Government to appoint an administrator in place of the Councils, (e) provides for an externally appointed committee to assist the State Government in control and management of the communities which are supposedly run by Aboriginal representatives according to published statements, (f) excludes Church representatives from providing services other than religious instruction by persons ordinarily employed by the Church for that purpose and (g) gives the State Minister veto power over Council decisions to advise or exclude persons from their Shires and to appoint the Shire Clerk, who need not be qualified and is to be assisted in financial matters by the appointed committee. [More…]
Did the meeting also complain of the extensive social damage and sparse benefits to Aborigines from mining which has been undertaken without consulting them. [More…]
1 ) and (2) The Government was committed to recognise the rights of Aborigines to the lands located within the reserves in the Northern Territory’ and gave effect to that commitment by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976. [More…]
The Government is also committed to ‘make lands available, either by grant or through the provision of funds, to tribal Aboriginals living on or near their traditional areas which are not on reserves and to detribalised Aborigines in rural or urban areas’, by making regular allocations to the Aboriginal Land Fund. [More…]
In addition, the Government ‘s continued support for the education and welfare of Aborigines and migrants is contributing significantly to combating learning difficulties within those groups. [More…]
Aborigines: Purchase of Land in Queensland (Question No. [More…]
3 ) How do State interests including mineral rights in land acquired by the Federal Government for Aborigines differ from their interests in land acquired in the States for other purposes, such as Shoalwater Bay Training Reserve. [More…]
The net effect of that has been the continuing decimation of Aborigines and, in latter times, the cultural genocide we see progressing at an accelerating rate, if anything, under the present Administration in Queensland. [More…]
The legal adviser to the Aborigines, who was not named for ethical reasons, referred to allegations about the takeover making access to the bauxite deposits easier. [More…]
It is what the Aborigines want. [More…]
Members of the Opposition said that there is confusion in the minds of Aborigines, that they are concerned about their future, that they do not know where they are going and that there are real problems besetting the Aborigines. [More…]
The Opposition said that there is one answer to that, that is, the immediate acquisition by the Commonwealth of the land that the Aborigines are occupying in order that we may assert what all of us would acknowledge is in fact a responsibility that we have and perhaps a privilege that we have under the Constitution. [More…]
He promised to support wage indexation, to retain Medibank, to abolish the means test, to maintain an expanded child-care program and to maintain present levels of assistance to Aborigines. [More…]
If the Prime Minister believes the core of his Government’s policy regarding Aboriginal advancement is summed up in the term ‘self-management’ then let him tell that to the Aborigines of Woorabinda who ask for Federal Government takeover when delegates go to Aboriginal conferences and other organisations but are too frightened even to allow their elected representative, a Labor senator, to go there in fear of political repercussions. [More…]
Let the Prime Minister tell that to the Aborigines at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
That Act does not allow for Aborigines to withhold consent for the development of uranium mines. [More…]
As the Ranger uranium environmental inquiry pointed out, Aborigines have never before been confronted with such important matters requiring a knowledge of a negotiating system utterly foreign to their traditional methods of consultation. [More…]
All this has happened in less than nine months, while the Aborigines have constantly been reminded by the media, the Government and the uranium developer that mining will get the go-ahead this year, that the Federal Government controls the uranium-bearing land, that rnining will go ahead no matter what the traditional land owners want, and that negotiations must conclude and will conclude before the wet season this year. [More…]
The Government thrusts the Chairman of the Northern Land Council and an executive member of the Council into a room with the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister and their hatchet man, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, and insists on definitive discussions about what the Aborigines see as the apocalyptic destruction of their land. [More…]
I wrote to you on 24 August, drawing your attention to the fact that, unless Aboriginal communities deeply affected were given the opportunity quietly to discuss the issues involved in the proposed agreement between the Government and the Northern Land Council, and to reach a consensus about them, any so-called agreement would command no sense of commitment to it from the Aborigines affected. [More…]
The Ranger geologist says that the Aborigines could take another two years to make up their minds. [More…]
The Aborigines have been hurled into one of the most acrimonious debates this country has ever seen and they’re not equipped to cope. [More…]
I want to say that the Government has acted in a way in which the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill was originally drafted and proposed to allow the Aborigines to negotiate on the terms and conditions. [More…]
In the course of these negotiations- although not precisely part of them but a part of the overall package- there were lengthy discussions relating to the National Park, the involvement of Aborigines in the National Park and an agreement with the Northern Land Council as to the administration of that park. [More…]
Dr Zorn yesterday agreed the Ranger deal did not pay royalties as high as those received by American indians but, in the long term, the Aborigines would catch up. [More…]
Let us bear in mind that many of us, especially those from the Territory, at the time said that these large land councils- there were then two of them- were the wrong concept and that they were unkown and unappreciated by Aborigines under their traditional land law. [More…]
What do we know about the people of the Uniting Church who produce propaganda of this sort to try to influence Aborigines in a lying and underhand way? [More…]
The Age of 8 March 1 976 discusses people who work among the Aborigines. [More…]
That is the aspect about which I am concerned because I do not think that provision is being made for the long-term continuation of a reasonable policy in relation to Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Before we allow to pass out of the control of this Parliament the determination of the rights and privileges of Aborigines, including the right of Aborigines to live their own lives, I think proper and carefully set out legislation which deals with the tribal Aborigines and their rights to live in the manner in which they wish to live in the Northern Territory should be established. [More…]
I think it would be a tragedy if we were to adopt policies such as those being espoused in Queensland, for instance, where the aim of the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement in that State is the assimilation of Aborigines. [More…]
It is something which the Aborigines in Australia should not be obliged to accept. [More…]
The obligations to Aborigines rest on this Parliament quite clearly. [More…]
It is absolutely essential that we should assert the rights of Aborigines to be Aborigines. [More…]
At the moment, all the evidence indicates that both this Government and the existing State Governments which have under their control large numbers of Aborigines are allowing a similar situation to develop. [More…]
In the last week, the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony) has been saying that if certain mining contracts were not signed then the land rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory could be in jeopardy. [More…]
It does not mean that Aborigines should become part of the white community. [More…]
The point about the whole business of Aborigines and the whites, or Ballanda, as they say on the North Coast, is that they live in the Northern Territory and so do we. [More…]
It is important to realise- and I have discussed this at great length with Galarrwuy Yunupingu, who agrees with me- that if the Aborigines were to get all the money in the world from royalties, or all the power in the world through the land rights legislation, it still would not do them the slightest good if the rapport between blacks and whites were destroyed. [More…]
As I see it in this place, and from the comments made by people in the South, it strikes me that the intention is to destroy that rapport between Aborigines and Europeans and others in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We hear them talking about the traditional rights of Aborigines and of the pressures being placed on them. [More…]
They are coming from amongst the Aborigines themselves. [More…]
They should instead be examining the real beliefs of the traditional Aborigines. [More…]
If you go and sit down in the scrub in the shade under a mulga, or a whitewood tree somewhere and discuss with the traditional Aborigines- to whom I would not mind betting these people have never even spoken- you would be told that the Aborigines did not want to embrace these concepts; that they wanted to deal with a proper hospital in Alice Springs. [More…]
So I just do not know where the honourable member’s Party stands in regard to the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, in respect of which it has two differing policies; or in its policy concerning Aborigines, in respect of which it is espousing something which is completely wrong. [More…]
The last Labor Government brought total spending on Aboriginal affairs to a level proportionate with the percentage of Aborigines in the population. [More…]
The Department of Construction will have to start from tors to achieve, we hope, some sort of communication with Aborigines in this field. [More…]
I acknowledge that there are particularly needy groups of people in the community- Dr Podder referred to them- such as Aborigines and the unemployable as distinct from the unemployed who need to be looked at as unique groups in the community. [More…]
-The last Labor Budget in 1975-76 brought total spending on Aboriginal affairs to a level proportionate with the percentage of Aborigines in the population- about 1 per cent. [More…]
Not only have funds not been restored since the dramatic cuts of the first Liberal-Country Party Budget but also recently this Government has resorted to trickery and manipulation of the Budget figures to make things appear better for Aborigines than they really are. [More…]
It is a rarely published fact that under the Community Development Employment Project scheme of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Aborigines in remote areas are actually working for the bare unemployment benefit. [More…]
The International Labour Organisation has condemned the situation in which we have placed Aborigines. [More…]
In the majority of these cases the Aborigines want to work because they want to earn their social security moneys. [More…]
This gives a falsely bloated idea of the dwindling amounts of money paid out in respect of Aborigines. [More…]
The Government’s treatment of Aborigines living on reserves in New South Wales is also dishonest. [More…]
-The opening paragraph of the introduction to the document Aborigines- A Statement of Concern, prepared by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace for the Catholic Bishops of Australia, reads as follows: [More…]
The injustices responsible for the present condition of Aborigines in Australia are an urgent, concrete local issue, presenting all of us with a challenge. [More…]
All the time we must remember that the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, under which the Northern Land Council, Dr Stephen Zorn and the Chairman of the Council, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, are forced to work, does not allow Aborigines to withhold consent for uranium mining. [More…]
That is as it should be, considering that the Northern Territory is moving to statehood and that such a large percentage of its citizens are Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines are encouraged to work and not to receive social service paymentssit down money as they call it. [More…]
Most Aborigines support these schemes. [More…]
Mr Yunupingu imagined that he had considered those land owners when he discussed the matter with the Aborigines of the Alligator Rivers Region. [More…]
This was a truly historic event for Northern Territory Aborigines. [More…]
This has been done so that the separate allocation can be identified and shown to be the commencement of a special effort in this area to equip Aborigines with the management and other skills necessary to underwrite the Government’s policy of self-management. [More…]
Almost $7m will be provided for the employment of Aborigines, particularly those in remote areas. [More…]
This will bring to 776 the total number of Aborigines employed under the scheme. [More…]
In addition, nearly half of the total allocation for employment activities will provide additional employment opportunities for 650 Aborigines through special work projects in all States. [More…]
I want to comment on some of the problems that will face the Government in the future in respect of the provision of employment opportunities for Aborigines. [More…]
It is a long term problem because in many of the more isolated rural areas where Aborigines traditionally live there has been a decline in recent years in traditional forms of employment. [More…]
In particular I refer to the situation with respect to employment on pastoral properties, a standard form of employment for Aborigines in years gone by. [More…]
This is particularly perplexing for us and something that we have to scrutinise all the more diligently, because we know at least that the Premier of Queensland is opposed- he is prepared to take his opposition to extraordinary extremes- to the granting of any sort of real, permanent land rights to the Aborigines of that State. [More…]
It is only a few weeks ago that in a well publicised trip the Minister toured the Northern Territory and gave the actual titles of thousands of square kilometres of land to the tribal Aborigines who had successfully claimed that it had been their traditional tribal land. [More…]
This is especially true when he talks of paying unemployment benefits to Aborigines, or ‘sit down money ‘ as they call it. [More…]
Unfortunately, while the Labor Party was in power it fostered this feeling among Aborigines and we can see its terrible effects, if only in the alcohol problem and in their health. [More…]
Having travelled through many Aboriginal communities, he must surely realise that we cannot put tribal Aborigines straight into white man’s houses. [More…]
Again, one must be disappointed to find the Opposition using the Aborigines as pawns in its misguided and unsuccessful anti-uranium campaign. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the Queensland Ombudsman, Mr David Longland, reported to the Queensland Parliament on 6 April 1 976, that ( a) the Aurukun people were in fear and angry because promises of consultation had been broken twice with regard to prospecting and mining and entry permission had not been sought and (b) associated Church dignitaries intervened to suggest that Aborigines should not in retaliation break their promises, but be prepared to negotiate if the chance was finally offered to them to do so adequately. [More…]
We would never have had this outmoded method of waste disposal whereby we expect the people of South Australia, particularly the Aborigines who move across the area, to put up with the situation from the point of view of hazards. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid has talked about the effects of radiation on the health of Aborigines, the policemen and other personnel who have been working in this area and so forth. [More…]
I can understandyour feeling that the ALP maybe using Aborigines for their own vested interests. [More…]
It is true that some people, most of them on the Labor side of politics, care more about stopping uranium mining or changing the Government in Darwin or Canberra than they do about Aborigines or land rights. [More…]
I have heard that many Aborigines have a mind to remove you on 2 1 December 1 978 from your Chairman ‘s job. [More…]
may be using Aborigines for their own vested interests. [More…]
I can understand your feeling that the ALP may be using Aborigines for their own vested interests. [More…]
He said that the ALP may be using Aborigines. [More…]
It is true that some people, most of them on the Labor side of politics, care more about stopping uranium mining or changing the Government in Darwin or Canberra than they do about Aborigines or land rights. [More…]
A few minutes ago the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) asserted that I had stated that he cares less for Aborigines than he does for mining development. [More…]
I might say that before I went to Oenpelli this Minister who represents the Government’s policy on Aborigines had not even been to talk to the people of Oenpelli. [More…]
It is likely that the migrants, the Aborigines and the large families who are unaware of the possibility of finding a doctor who will bulk bill them will be deterred from seeking early treatment and thus will need hospital treatment later on, at even greater expense. [More…]
I have no doubt but that if the Aborigines were to turn round tomorrow and announce that they welcome uranium exploration, these very champions would do a volte-face and insist with equal vehemence that the indigenous people have no prescriptive claim over unalienated Crown lands. [More…]
As all these programs of the Department develop, measured merely in money or through the activities of the National Aboriginal Conference, the Council for Aboriginal Development or the Government’s land rights policies and other policies that honourable members will see in time to come, this Government will be able to look back upon its period of administration of Aboriginal affairs and say that it has given Aborigines a new look at the future- something for which they have been waiting for years and years but which has never been provided. [More…]
I have been misrepresented because the Minister has been attributing to me the statement of Mr Datta-Ray who said that Mr Muller, a member of the staff of the honourable member for Reid, organised young people in Canberra who in his opinion would turn against Aborigines if Aborigines favoured mining. [More…]
I know that in recent times certain parts off the ocean waters of the coast of the Northern Territory have more or less been made exclusive for fishing by Aborigines. [More…]
When one takes into consideration the fact that our Aborigines would probably have to be subsidised or government money would have to be made available to equip them with suitable boats to fish the oceans off the Northern Territory and that our Aborigines would probably lack the adapability to do mechanical repairs to their boats, together with the possible losses of boats in tropical storms that suddenly envelop the northern part of Australia, it could well be that it would be safer to engage the Aborigines in this sort of enterprise. [More…]
That information should be in a reasonable form and if possible in the Aborigines’ own language and not the complex legal language which was reported in this week’s National Times newspaper. [More…]
How else does the Labor Party explain the presence of Mr Waters, an executive member of the Northern Territory Labor Party, and Mr James, a member of the Labor Party, who are both solicitors, at Oenpelli a day before they were due to act as legal advisers to the meeting at which the Aborigines were to decide their views on mining uranium. [More…]
I suppose those two members of the Labor Party were not trying to influence the Aborigines; they were just down there to look at the scenery. [More…]
He then goes on to state that the profession should not be allowed to fall to the literacy level of its clients and that, in particular, if we are to admit into the profession Aborigines and migrants, there will be a need for an elaborate course of indoctrination of those persons before they will be properly able to put into practice the ethics of the profession. [More…]
He is saying that we do not have Aborigines and migrants in any great numbers in the law now and yet the law is struggling ineffectually against the evils of a type of morality in our society brought forth by some classes of big business and by some classes of trade unionists. [More…]
If the problem is already with us, then it is with us not because of Aborigines and migrants but because of pre-existing difficulties in our society arising from improper behaviour among various people. [More…]
The Minister has answered a question of mine recently by saying that the Aborigines agreed to a six months trial of local government. [More…]
The Minister’s statement is in Une with the Government’s practice of saying that it will do something and then consulting with Aborigines after the event. [More…]
The Opposition acknowledges that these principles have been put forward, to a large extent, by Aborigines. [More…]
The feedback from the grass roots level should be heeded and should have effect because if it does not Aborigines will continue to cop out of the decision-making processes as has been their traditional role, taught to them by bitter experience over the years. [More…]
The Northern Territory News has been giving the Minister about half a page at a time to explain his attitude to and sympathy with Aborigines. [More…]
In view of the success of the trachoma program and the continuing government concern for the health of Aborigines, has any consideration been given to similar programs? [More…]
But since his Government took office it has been noted for fine words and not for inspiring actions to promote the rights of the original trustees of his own country, its own Aborigines. [More…]
Nor has the drafting of the lease ever remotely involved Aborigines. [More…]
The Aborigines would rather have spent that money on their outstations. [More…]
There may be a good reason for spending the money on a new airstrip but it is a secret to the Aborigines. [More…]
The great champions of the underdog sell out the Aborigines to State lighters and miners for 30 million pieces of silver or in some cases a lot less. [More…]
Time and again Aborigines are denied the things that white Australians take for granted. [More…]
The Aborigines have struggled for the right to see a lease taken out on their own land, the right to build on it, to decide who enters their homes, whether they can collect the rent. [More…]
The Aborigines want the right to manage their own affairs. [More…]
Just as the Territory Aborigines had begun to reach a stage of feeling that they had some influence in determining their future, the Fraser Government heavies came in and seduced, sabotaged, destroyed and enslaved what organisation they had. [More…]
It was a smokescreen to wear down fair criticism, a Goebbels technique to turn Australia into a Third Reich for Aborigines. [More…]
He may not know- he certainly would not give any credit for it- that the policy which Queensland is about to introduce will give the Aborigines of those two areas, Aurukun and Mornington Island, 50-year leases. [More…]
The man who will go to Aurukun as shire clerk has had vast experience with Aborigines. [More…]
It is very disappointing to hear the honourable member for Capricornia, who is a former Minister, speak about the Aborigines in the Northern Territory as he did. [More…]
He described the treatment of the Aborigines in signing the uranium mining agreement in the Northern Territory as sordid and shabby and said that they were under tremendous pressure from the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner). [More…]
I would like to know why Galarrwuy Yunupingu made the statement that he wished the white solicitors who were members of the Australian Labor Party would get off the place and allow the Aborigines to make their own decisions. [More…]
It is well known there amongst Europeans and Aborigines that the ALP has done nothing at all for the Aborigines other than to try to manipulate them to its own political ends. [More…]
Originally some sections of the Government and even some sections of the Labor Party considered giving to Aborigines what might be called basic human rights. [More…]
It concerns land rights legislation for the Aborigines. [More…]
It concerns the fact that Aboriginal people and European people have to live together in harmony in Australia, something which the Labor Party in its policies has never realised or, it may have realised it, but its policies are directed to separatism and to building up ill feeling between Aborigines and other Australians. [More…]
In the land rights legislation which was introduced in 1975 there was some hint of endeavouring to do for Aborigines some of the things which were recommended by the Woodward report which, incidentally, was never debated or discussed in any parliamentary forum in this land. [More…]
What did it think or care about Aborigines and what has it thought or cared about Aborigines since? [More…]
These are the material matters which have been put to Aborigines. [More…]
Money is a means of being able to do the things which this country should be doing for Aborigines. [More…]
I am not talking about Aborigines by definition. [More…]
No one could really define it so a blanket definition was given for all the Aborigines in Australia. [More…]
Of course the problems of Aborigines differ from Hobart to Snake Bay. [More…]
There are the fringe dwellers, the Torres Strait Islanders and the traditional Aborigines. [More…]
It is the traditional Aborigines about whom there has been the greatest misconception. [More…]
On that pretext most of the legislation concerning Aborigines has come into being. [More…]
These people have failed to do the things which the Aborigines would have wished them to have done. [More…]
Some Aborigines, we are told, do not want mining but others, such as those on Groote Eylandt, want mining. [More…]
At Yuendumu the Aborigines want uranium mining. [More…]
It is the antiuranium people who have tried to use the Aborigines to suit their own ends. [More…]
We should realise the mistakes we have made with regard to the basic rights of Aborigines to be able to make their own decisions, to be able to live together with us and to have mutual respect. [More…]
Since the Labor Party introduced its land rights legislation in 1975 it has been approaching Aborigines for purely political purposes. [More…]
He is trying to drive a wedge between Europeans and Aborigines. [More…]
The Labor Party stood back and let the Aborigines go when they should have had a helping hand and strength alongside them. [More…]
Some enterprises which should have been successful were pushed on to the Aborigines without any real consideration of how they would be run. [More…]
Even the views of the Aborigines on schools were not taken into consideration. [More…]
What the Aborigines really want is only coming through now. [More…]
They do not want the divisive sort of attitude which was introduced by the Labor Party in order to try to stir up trouble, whether over Aborigines, uranium, land or whatever. [More…]
The mandate policy speech continues in respect of Aborigines: [More…]
We are acting to end the offensive paternalism of past policies towards Aborigines. [More…]
We have since had the Aurukun and Mornington Island situation, and what a tragedy that was from the point of view of Aborigines being entitled to manage their own affairs. [More…]
When the Government introduced legislation relating to land tenure on the basis of the description of the sort of land it was going to try to protect in Queensland, the Opposition put an amendment stating very clearly that the land described by the Queensland statute as being trust land for Aborigines would remain their land. [More…]
The Government has done nothing for the Aborigines in Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
It has been left solely to the likes of Hinze and others to dictate what will be done in respect of Aborigines. [More…]
Despite the imposition of external pressures on the negotiations, particularly on the Aborigines, by people who were pushing their own barrow and who had no interest whatsoever in the welfare of Aborigines but only in their own hysterical opposition to uranium mining, I think it certainly says a great deal for all sides that the negotiations were successfully completed. [More…]
If therefore the Government proceeds to act on the basis of an agreement made under duress, by the Northern Land Council or by an arbitrator, without it being subjected to the processes required to develop a consensus, the Government and its partners in the ventures are likely to encounter situations in which individual Aborigines or groups of Aborigines who feel their rights are being infringed will, in all good conscience, act in conflict with the terms of that agreement Such situations can be productive of grievance, hostility, and, potentially, violence and will damage further the already eroded confidence of Aborigines and their friends among white Australians in the Government’s expressed concern for Aboriginal welfare and undertakings to protect their interests. [More…]
Further, I would join with the member for Macarthur in condemning the members of the Opposition for their stirring of the Aborigines in the Northern Territory against the mining of uranium. [More…]
The environmentalists, the Friends of the Earth, the Aborigines and the Austraiian Labor Party have conducted a vendetta against the mining of uranium in Australia. [More…]
Aborigines are jailed out of all proportion to their numbers. [More…]
Let him tell the Maningrida people, whose chosen advisers he personally sacked after consultation not with the Aborigines but with the white cronies of those the Aboriginals did not want. [More…]
I do not want to knock those communities, but I must stress that wherever the Minister steps in personally to proclaim government initiatives for self-management, Aborigines have learned to watch out for a new act of betrayal and dispossession to help a State, a mining company, or an exploiting European. [More…]
It was within the capacity of the Minister to make the funds available to purchase it, but the Aborigines heard of the purchase of Mount Isa Mines only after the event A white caretaker sits there and the traditional owners retreat to the wooded outskirts. [More…]
They were hoping for a draft lease for Aurukun, or an acknowledgement by the Northern Land Council that it would consult with Aborigines on their ground in their style and time scale, or perhaps an undertaking that there will be a tightening up of mistakes, such as those made in the appointment of the NAC secretary or in the Stawell Timber Industries deals. [More…]
The Gorge Reserve was established in the first instance as a transitional situation for Aborigines wishing to eventually settle in either Mossman or the Cairns and Hinterland areas. [More…]
We do not suppress the native population- our Aborigines. [More…]
One would think that nobody would make that suggestion, but the Minister for Aboriginal and Islander Advancement in Queensland, Mr Porter, has warned us that that is what is coming, that if we keep giving land to Aborigines the black power will come and get us. [More…]
1 ) I am informed that my Department received a copy of a research proposal entitled ( Causes of Otitis Media in Aboriginal Children of the Northern Territory from the Secretary of the Medical Research in Aborigines Sub-committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH and MRC) on 28 October 1976. [More…]
The proposal was discussed between representatives of my Department, the Chairman and Secretary of the Medical Research in Aborigines Sub-committee of the National Health and Medical research Council and the principal investigator mentioned above in Canberra on 17 December 1976. [More…]
Like him, I stress that one of the major glaring deficiencies in the field of Aboriginal health is the physical environment- so much so that, as the Chairman pointed out, the figures collected in Western Australia indicate that the incidence of conditions related to the physical environment treated in hospital is eight times higher for Aborigines than for non-Aborigines. [More…]
Aborigines that is required today. [More…]
I am most disappointed in recent statements from the Department and from the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Senator Chaney) which indicate that the priorities remain not in favour of Aborigines but in favour of mining. [More…]
While mining is important to Australia, some consideration should be given to the Aborigines, who have been kicked around for so long. [More…]
Almost daily, and certainly weekly, objections are coming on to my desk, and I have no doubt on to the Minister’s desk, about how Aborigines are being required to tolerate more bureaucratic interference, not from Aboriginal organisations but from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Department of Health and others. [More…]
We have to start putting consumers in charge of health services, not only for Aborigines but for everyone. [More…]
Whilst in the body of the report there is stress on the need for land rights and the central importance of land rights for Aborigines to regain their self-identity, which is essential to achieving a healthy life, a healthy community and a healthy individual, that was not listed among the principal recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
I want to put on record, and I believe that this view is shared by the other members of the Committee, that we see land rights as being essential to the ability of Aborigines to return to their source of spiritual refreshment and social cohesion, that is, the land with which they identify in a very complex and important manner. [More…]
It must be appreciated that the report, however long, cannot cover fully the subject of the health of Aborigines. [More…]
It it felt that the health of Aborigines would not be as bad as it is if all Federal and State departments and authorities had accepted over the years their full responsibility and seen Aborigines as part of a total community, albeit a disadvantaged group. [More…]
The Committee has recommended that the Federal Government make very clear its commitment to Aborigines and make extra efforts to ensure that all Federal and State departments and authorities accept their full responsibility. [More…]
Make no mistake, there is a backlash against the Aborigines, or more particularly against the payment to them of large sums of money. [More…]
The fact that another department or authority is not doing its job well enough in relation to Aborigines is not a reason for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to take over that function. [More…]
It should be the ombudsman of the Aborigines to ensure that they get a fair go from all authorities. [More…]
We must look to co-operation with the States to ensure the proper use of federal money given to the States for the welfare of the Aborigines. [More…]
This lack of assessment applied to all areas in which money was spent on Aborigines. [More…]
One could easily arrive at an opinion that more and more money is spent on Aborigines, with the feeling that money must help. [More…]
There are a number of recommendations which commend themselves, some of which are the recommendations for increased funding of research to universities; a rational transfer of credits between institutions; return to full triennium funding; better labour statistics and facilities for manpower planning; the need for a special effort to increase numbers of Aborigines in skilled trades; the endorsement of migrant education; wide access of skilled trades to women; special efforts to improve numeracy and literacy skills; greater flexibility in staffing of universities; special attention to the needs of the handicapped and arrangements to be negotiated with the civil services, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, industry and other universities for exchange and secondment of staff. [More…]
On the subject of Aborigines, it states: [More…]
-The Council of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in South Australia recently announced that, due to insufficient funds being made available by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, it is no longer able to provide legal aid to all Aborigines for all matters requiring legal assistance. [More…]
The Council of the Movement considers that, at its present level of funding, it is inevitable that legal aid for Aborigines will become inferior by comparison with legal aid provided to non-Aborigines. [More…]
The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement was founded in 1970 in response to a situation in which a majority of Aborigines appearing before the courts had no legal representation at all. [More…]
The Movement first applied to the Federal Government in 1972 for financial assistance to provide legal assistance to Aborigines and received a grant of $22,000. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power in December 1972, it further funded Aboriginal legal services throughout Australia on an expanded basis such that the Aboriginal legal services could provide legal assistance to all Aborigines in all matters where assistance was required. [More…]
-In raising this matter of public importance the Opposition is condemning the Government for its failure to fulfil its obligations to protect the human rights and the right to self-determination of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
In recent weeks we have been inundated with complaints by Aborigines as to what is wrong with their treatment in Queensland. [More…]
Every other State is able to satisfy the claims, the needs and demands of Aborigines, but not Queensland. [More…]
In a referendum the Australian people were asked: ‘Should the Commonwealth Government have the authority to look after people such as the Aborigines or the Torres Strait islanders’. [More…]
The reason why we must discuss this subject as a matter of public importance is that we have not only the power to legislate in respect of Aborigines but also an international obligation to protect their rights. [More…]
Aborigines have the right to own property, they have the right to defend themselves and they have the right to legal aid. [More…]
But this is not so for the Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
How can we possibly hold our head up in the United Nations or anywhere else when people from other lands can talk about the indictment of Australians by fellow Australians, namely, the Aborigines? [More…]
Aborigines in some areas tell us: ‘We have got some people who purport to help us’. [More…]
He started to talk about the rights of Aborigines and about international obligations. [More…]
In his own submission, which has never been disclosed to this Parliament, he spoke of what should be done by the Queensland Government to help Aborigines in accordance with our obligations. [More…]
The honourable gentleman’s own government in 1975, when it was in office, passed the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975. [More…]
When will the units be made available for the homeless Aborigines sleeping daily in Rockhampton. [More…]
1 ) How many Aboriginal youths in the Electoral Division of Grey have received apprenticeships under the National Employment Scheme for Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Has infant mortality among Northern Territory Aborigines risen to 75 per 1000 live births since 1 975. [More…]
1 ) What have been the results of programs initiated by his Depanment to educate Aborigines on their voting rights and how to use them. [More…]
With respect, I put it to the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner), who represents the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in this chamber, that it is his Government that is unaware of the political realities in the Aborigines’ fight to regain their land. [More…]
Nor do I need to point out the political and judicial reality of illegal actions by the Western Australian Liberal Party to deny an equal voice to Aborigines in an election for the seat of the Kimberleys. [More…]
But how can this happen when we force on them local government administrations which have no relationship to the activities that the Aborigines see themselves as performing as Aborigines and in deciding and correlating in Aboriginal ways. [More…]
The Fraser Government has refused to fund those land councils which Aborigines themselves set up because it argues that the Aboriginal Land Fund Commission and the National Aboriginal Conference have the necessary funds to do the job. [More…]
He shows how Aborigines and their culture are destroyed by white economy, white industries and white social customs introduced on a cold cash and contact basis. [More…]
The Opposition is not opposed to Aborigines agreeing to mining on their land as such. [More…]
Mr Galarrwuy Yunupingu said he wonders why Aborigines are the first people to have their compensation payments taxed. [More…]
After costly negotiations, which incidentally used up a great deal of such royalties that accrued to the Northern Land Council, and after months of delay caused by the mining companies, which were cheeky enough to blame these delays on the Aborigines, the Ranger royalties were set at a much higher level. [More…]
Of course, environmental protection is not just for Aborigines and the royalties paid will still be far short of some of those paid in other countries. [More…]
I have no doubt that the amount spent on Aboriginal affairs will be whittled away further, as has happened in the past three years, depending upon how much the Aborigines get in royalties. [More…]
It would be well within the capacity of existing budgets for the total amount which the Aborigines will receive in royalties- about $12 a week a head- to be cut out entirely from Aboriginal funding. [More…]
If the Government is to force that tax on those people who mostly subsist below the poverty line, let those taxes be used to provide some backup expertise to advise the Aborigines on how to get the best long term result from that money. [More…]
As much of it will benefit the Aborigines as does now when most of the money allocated to Aboriginal affairs goes to white bureaucrats. [More…]
But eventually, slowly, it will effectively be administered for Aborigines by Aborigines. [More…]
But as Mr Shann Turnbull pointed out- the businessman engaged by the Minister to talk about the impact of those royalties- it will not be long before the money is in the pockets of the white people anyway because all of those consumer goods and capital goods which I have mentioned will not be provided by Aborigines paying other Aborigines for the goods, but mainly by Aborigines paying white people for the goods. [More…]
Unfortunately the people who will determine some of that spending are not interested in seeing that Aborigines are protected from the profit-seeking of people who go there to sell plonk, to pressurise people into the consumer society and to buy some of the items which I mentioned, which they can live without, whether it be cordials, or cornflakes or the charter flights. [More…]
Let us be ready to help and to protect the Aborigines and to put some curbs on the exploiters. [More…]
We should not only conclude treaties of commitment to compensate conquered Aborigines, but also we should ensure that compensation paid is lasting in its effect and not a mere fireworks display for a part of one generation. [More…]
The Northern Territory government, having blackmailed the Federal Government into getting a 1 Va per cent royalty on uranium, ought to do its share, as its economy receives a boost from Aborigines’ mineral royalties which it hopes, as Mr Shann Turnbull has predicted, will make it the richest, lowest taxed region in Australia. [More…]
There is no more widespread myth among know-it-all old hands in the Territory than the myth that illiterate Aborigines average bigger incomes than do unemployed whites. [More…]
The Territory built its wealth mainly, perhaps, on cattle, using Aborigines as slave labour and turning their abundant land into grazing leases. [More…]
These include the closure of store and health facilities for Aborigines, a refusal to employ Aborigines on station work, a refusal to sell them petrol or to cash welfare cheques, threats to close roads to Aborigines and to drive them from the station. [More…]
Finally, what does the Government intend to do to enforce a proper respect for the rights of Aborigines at Lake Nash and to restore the credibility of its Aboriginal Affairs policy which has been sadly tarnished by its neglect of the intolerant attitudes of King Ranch? [More…]
Mr Shann Turnbull advocated in his report that the Aborigines should not pay taxation on the royalties, but he went on to advocate that the Commonwealth Government should not provide funds for health or education services. [More…]
He suggests that on the figures available to him- the mining of 3,000 to 6,000 tonnes of uranium ore at $30 to $40 a tonne- the Aborigines of the Northern Territory could expect to receive between $160 and $600 each per annum, which is less- [More…]
I believe that the amount involved will be far below the sum that is presently provided in the Northern Territory for services to Aborigines. [More…]
I suggested last night, in the course of the debate, that if the Government felt so disposed it would be possible for it to eliminate a corresponding proportion of the money that it now spends on services for Aborigines, as Aboriginal organisations will be getting royalties. [More…]
Aborigines now receive let alone, as Mr Turnbull would suggest, all of the other public services provided in the Northern Territory. [More…]
If these royalties, in themselves, provided good and sufficient compensation for all of the suffering of Aborigines at the hands of the Western commercialised society of whites, we would not be quibbling about 6.4 per cent of it being taken away for taxes. [More…]
I wonder how many submissions he has made on behalf of the Aborigines. [More…]
I consider it would be adequate if the Aborigines were allowed to make decisions for themselves as to what they need. [More…]
That suggestion was rejected, not by Aborigines, not by the Northern Land Council, not by any of their legal advisers, not by the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account, or any of the organisations that will be collecting royalties on their behalf; it was rejected by white bureaucrats- administrators- and the Government whose members sit opposite. [More…]
That was one of the propositions that would have been acceptable to Aborigines, but the cost was too much for the white people. [More…]
The Government bought Ranger and sold out the Aborigines. [More…]
The thing to realise is that a lot of these claims and counter-claims on behalf of the Aborigines are not doing the Aboriginal cause any good at all. [More…]
As I have told honourable members for the last 12 or 13 years- ever since I have been in this House- it is a matter of getting the right people to work with Aborigines so that they will develop alongside the whites, in the Northern Territory or anywhere in Australia. [More…]
Magellen Petroleum has laid out $19m, and it is still battling with the urgers who are trying to tell the Aborigines that they do not want that oil explored and brought into production, as do the Yuendumu miners. [More…]
Tonight we have heard that the Aborigines do not want mining. [More…]
The Hermannsburg Aborigines want the Magellan Palm Valley oil and gas field opened. [More…]
It is the Aborigines in the north who have been pressured by the Labor Party - [More…]
Its purpose was to give permanent rights to the Aborigines and to establish absolute, unqualified obligations on the part of the Australian people. [More…]
Honourable members opposite suggest that the Aborigines are going to be rolling in wealth. [More…]
That the House accepts the fact that the indigenous people of Australia, now known as Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, were in possession of this entire nation prior to the 1788 First Fleet landing at Botany Bay and urges the Australian Government to admit prior ownership by the said indigenous people and introduce legislation to compensate the people now known as Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders for dispossession of their land. [More…]
On the one hand the honourable member for Fremantle was trying to argue that Aborigines would have absolutely nothing and that it is unconscionable to charge this 6.4 per cent tax. [More…]
Most of the money will be disposed of in a way that is at least as responsible as the way that government departments have disposed of it because it will be disposed of primarily by Aboriginal organisations, which, by and large, get better value per dollar for Aborigines and put less into white administration. [More…]
The Prime Minister promised in 1975 to maintain present levels of assistance to Aborigines. [More…]
If so, why are Aborigines singled out for such taxes contrary to international conventions, British custom and Australian precedents. [More…]
Secondly, the report stated that there was inadequate provision of library services for ethnic communities, for the aged, for the handicapped and for Aborigines. [More…]
Thirdly, it set down explicit programs to develop library resources for Aborigines, for the blind particularly- neglected groups in the community. [More…]
Aborigines: Alleged Racism in Queensland (Question No. [More…]
The scheme was originally set up with three high-sounding ideals; preserving the natural resource, providing youthful employment for Aborigines and conserving the soil, water and wildlife. [More…]
A decision to continue planting would rank with the decision to spend millions of dollars on resource inventory in the hope of a woodchip export, for which there never has been any possibility because of the constant burning of forests by the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
He was talking to the Minister because the Aborigines were surprised that they had been called together. [More…]
The Aborigines have the right to consult. [More…]
He said also that uranium development will rape the lifestyle of the Aborigines. [More…]
When the Ranger consortium first went to that area there were few, if any, Aborigines at that site. [More…]
Of each dollar spent on Aboriginal Affairs in the last 6 years, how many cents have been paid as (a) wages, (b) salaries, (c) allowances or personal benefits, (i) directly or (ii) through other administrations to Aborigines. [More…]
) If so, does this confirm that in the Council ‘s view funding cuts in real terms over the last 3 budgets have disadvantaged Aborigines in all of these aspects of need. [More…]
The Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service has advised that Mr Ware is eligible for assistance, but that to date the Service has not been approached by him. [More…]
(a) and (b) My Department provides financial assistance to the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders Legal Service which is well situated to represent indigenous people in such situations. [More…]
Aborigines in Queensland (Question No. [More…]
If so, what progress has been made and what targets have been set for the elimination of discrimination which leads to degradation of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
Were funds refused the Aborigines Advancement League of Victoria for a Victorian Aboriginal Women’s Refuge during 1 978-79; if so, on what grounds. [More…]
A women’s refuge primarily for Aboriginal women and operated by the Aborigines Advancement League, Northcote, is included in the Victorian program of women’s refuges approved for funding under the Community Health Program. [More…]
I refer particularly, for example, to the agreement with New South Wales- the previous speaker referred to New South Wales- signed in 1975 by the Federal Government, that the Federal Government would pick up the tab for all services to Aborigines. [More…]
This has not been done and there is still grave deficiency in the services to Aborigines in all States and Territories. [More…]
I know that in many instances Aborigines would prefer other kinds of commitments, particularly quicker moves towards self-management, which is something that is being eroded. [More…]
In many areas white bureaucracy is increasingly taking over functions from Aborigines who are thought in Public Service terms not to be responsible in their bookkeeping, their auditing or whatever. [More…]
Assistance to Aborigines is reduced in real terms. [More…]
The same people who tell stories about the unemployed, used to recite how they knew someone who knew someone else who knew someone else who had lived amongst Aborigines and how, when a government or council authority had built them houses, they would chop up the doors for firewood. [More…]
At the rate of spending in this Budget it would take 30 years to accommodate those Aborigines who are at present on the waiting list. [More…]
These are deprived people and yet we hear complaints from the white population- particularly in areas where they are aware of the existence of high Aboriginal populations within their community- that Aborigines are getting preference for housing. [More…]
In regard to health, another area of wellknown deprivation where Aborigines are far behind the rest of the community, spending is down on last year by 1 lh per cent. [More…]
Virtually every Aboriginal health program around Australia- run by Aborigines more efficiently than by government departments or private enterprise- is complaining about the cuts and the need to restore the sorts of services that they want to give Aborigines. [More…]
If one goes to any Aboriginal health service in Australia, which is run by Aborigines, one will find that it is in modest surroundings. [More…]
Yet the position is that with only one in every 50 Aboriginal children, representing 2 per cent, going beyond grade 9, as compared with nearly one in four white children, representing 24 per cent, going beyond grade 9, there are cuts in this most needy area of education, the education of Aborigines. [More…]
It is almost as though Aborigines do not have votes or the Government does not want them to have votes. [More…]
Probably more Aborigines would be willing and able to register if they were assisted. [More…]
Ninety per cent of all employed Aborigines are unskilled. [More…]
This is an area where there should be encouragement to Aborigines to manage their own affairs, to become independent and self-reliant. [More…]
This Commission is the only means open to Aborigines to purchase land in the States. [More…]
In most cases Aborigines have to be much more desperate than white people before they will appeal for legal help. [More…]
In the short time remaining I should like to refer to some of the aspects that do not bear particularly on the Budget but on what I see, and on what increasing numbers of Aborigines see, as the inhumane priorities of this Government in contemplating Aboriginal concerns. [More…]
Aborigines were brushed completely aside and ordered to sign something that they did not understand. [More…]
If there is any priority or concern left or any need to salvage some of the Government’s credibility against the outrage of the public and the Aborigines, the Aborigines come after all those other commercial priorities and political Federal-State relations priorities. [More…]
That is the real point behind these figures of neglect and betrayal of promises and duties to Aboriginal people by a Federal government which was given a mandate in every polling booth in Australia, at a referendum in 1967, to look after Aborigines. [More…]
I wish to draw attention to the position of Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
We know the record of Queensland Government surveys of what Aborigines want and should have. [More…]
He is supposed to be a member of the Liberal Party but obviously he is one of the totalitarians who has the ultimate say in what happens to Aborigines in Queensland. [More…]
If so, have Aborigines been excluded from these negotiations. [More…]
Does the book concur with these investigations and policy in insisting that constant and sympathetic contact with Aborigines is required to prevent squandering of funds on the European-devised programs now entrusted to officials with little opportunity to achieve such contact: if so, is any action being taken to correct the position. [More…]
We have had no report in detail to this Parliament as to how these tapes were distributed, what facilities the Aborigines had for listening to them, whether the proposal was discussed with them after they had heard these tapes and, if they heard them, whether they were told that this would be the basis of the ultimatum that was being offered to them. [More…]
It may be that we can negotiate a single agreement with a body that speaks for all of the Aborigines of this country, but that is a matter for them to determine and to negotiate. [More…]
I think that the land rights issue has been expressed in the policies and platforms of all the major parties as a matter which is vital to the preservation of Aboriginal culture and to the recognition of the right of Aborigines to their identity and to selfmanagement. [More…]
If the Aborigines do not have some guarantee of land that they can call their own, of some permanent economic structure to replace that land in cases where they cannot be permanently identified with it, then we are condemning them to an inferior status which should not be tolerated in this day and age. [More…]
Again, if one were to offer a mere $ 12,000- such people are probably worth more than that, but let us choose a modest sum- the magnificant number of 78 people, in all, could be employed to serve the whole of Australia, including Aborigines and all members of the ethnic community. [More…]
Will the Minister support any proposal by Aborigines that back pay, due to them for the 6 months before proof of underpayment, might be given to their community in the form of land titles to the whole of their gazetted and/or traditional land. [More…]
Will the government give adequate self-development funds to genuinely autonomous Queensland communities and deduct corresponding amounts from Federal grants to Queensland over a period of years corresponding to the period during which Aborigines have been underpaid by Queensland. [More…]
How many (a) Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and (b) others were employed at each level in (i) the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and (ii) organisations deriving their major public funding from the Department in (A) 1972-73, (B) 1975-76 and (C) 1978-79. [More…]
What steps has the Minister taken to ensure that (a) Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders are trained to take over management of their communities in Queensland without inhibitions due to control by others of their domiciles, movements, transport, communications, employment, political activity or equal access to public amenities, ( b ) Aboriginal and Islander communities have similarly unfettered rights to (i) negotiate terms of entry to their land by mining interests, (ii) expand Federal Government grants with responsibility to Federal sources of State intervention and (iii) acquire joint ownership of pastoral or other leases or freehold land directly or through a Land Council or Federal authority as freely as other Australian or foreign interests do or to have reasons for refusal given to them or Federal authorities and (c) those aspects of Queensland law which breach Federal laws or international conventions on human rights are overridden and State Officials who breach these laws or conventions are punished. [More…]
It is essential that this be done not only because of present industrial matters in Western Australia but also because it would help in Queensland in regard to street marches, and it would help in Western Australia from the point of view of Aborigines having equal voting rights. [More…]
These areas included child care, assistance to Aborigines and care for the disabled and aged persons. [More…]
1 ) Has an employee of the Commonwealth Employment Service in Townsville, Queensland, been transferred as a result of findings by the Commonwealth Ombudsman that unemployment figures of Aborigines and Islanders have been falsified. [More…]
If so, did the report call for legal anthropological assistance if necessary to help Aborigines prepare a case for compulsory State acquisition of land on their behalf, with other interests providing opposing views. [More…]
Aborigines in Aurukun Shire (Question No. [More…]
Have Aborigines been expelled from Aurukun Shire for possession of liquor; if so, was this done by specific decision of the Aurukun Council or on the initiative of a paid official. [More…]
In fact I go so far as to say that some of those wishing to promote them as tourist sites ought to be discouraged so that no person, apart from the Aborigines themselves and genuine students of Aboriginal art works and rock paintings in particular, is able to visit those sites. [More…]
Implementation of Aboriginal training programs is required to enable Aborigines to assist in management and control. [More…]
Commission ever looks at the legislation in Western Australia or Queensland relating to trade unionists and to Aborigines, it will find that we have failed miserably. [More…]
The report, prepared by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, relates to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders on Queensland reserves. [More…]
This particular report was of great social and political importance not only to the Aborigines who were the subject matter of the inquiry but also to Aborigines throughout Australia who are entitled to proper treatment on the basis of the referendum result carried by the Australian people. [More…]
Aborigines throughout Australia will determine the attitude of this Government in terms of its preparedness to stand up to the Government of Queensland. [More…]
Surely that is on the basis that the police are trying to protect themselves from the Aborigines. [More…]
Where is the opportunity for the Aborigines in this area to start their own programs and develop their own community? [More…]
But under that Act the community council, which comprises the Aborigines themselves, can request the Minister to give the community autonomy. [More…]
The same issue is involved when it comes to the question of award rates for Aborigines. [More…]
It is because the Queensland Government says in respect of Aborigines: ‘We cannot afford to pay them full award wages so we will pay them only half wages’. [More…]
They have a system called the trainee system where Aborigines are paid half wages as trainees. [More…]
This came to light in particular at the time when the Aurukun and Mornington Island communities were seeking to have self-management of their own communities and of their own reserve lands free of domination by the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement under the Queensland Aborigines legislation. [More…]
To mention some salient positions, he was chairman of the Australian Universities Commission, Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Department, Secretary to the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, a member of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Council, and Secretary to the Department of Minerals and Energy. [More…]
On the other hand, what would be the position if we were to have some other country decide to carry out investigations into some occurrences here in our own country in respect of Aborigines; in respect of some happenings in the States of Queensland and Western Australia? [More…]
I do not know whether it includes Aborigines, but it certainly ought to. [More…]
A purist might argue that when the Aborigines came to Australia a long time ago they came across land and did not have to swim. [More…]
Did Mr Kolsky also describe Bourke and Broken Hill regional funding conferences as irrevalent to problems of Aborigines, providing no contact with them to determine their needs. [More…]
It is also proposed that the provision whereby loans were made available from the Aborigines Benefits Trust Fund should continue to apply in respect of the Aboriginals Benefit Trust Account. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: whilst not opposing the Bill, the House is of the opinion that the Government as soon as possible should extend by legislation the rights of Aborigines in the Northern Territory to Aborigines in the Australian Capital Territory ‘. [More…]
What this amendment amounts to is that Aborigines at Wreck Bay have had their reserve land progressively whittled away in the interests of the sort of economic exploitation that has occurred in relation to Aboriginal land from the day of white settlement in this country. [More…]
The whole aim and spirit of land rights legislation indicates that this land should be dealt with on the same basis as any other land which is assigned, recognised and reserved for Aborigines as their traditional land. [More…]
The Aboriginal Benefit Trust Account formula is for 40 per cent of the royalty payments for minerals extracted from the land to be paid to land councils, 30 per cent to be paid to the local traditional owners of the land concerned, and the remaining 30 per cent to be paid towards the general welfare of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That formula is to be departed from by taking some money out of the 30 per cent for the general welfare of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and giving it to the land councils to cover extra administrative costs. [More…]
Certainly, that is not laid down in the terms of the Ranger agreement, but there is an understanding which the Aborigines are entitled to have honoured in the 40:30:30 formula. [More…]
There is also provision in the Bill for legal aid to be given to persons other than Aborigines who appear before the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. [More…]
Secondly, his discussion of the move to have the Wreck Bay settlement and the Aborigines in the Australian Capital Territory included in these considerations was completely out of order. [More…]
I represent the Aborigines and the other people who live in the Northern Territory. [More…]
They were lined up against the Commonwealth Government and the Department of the Northern Territory, and all the legal aid which was bought and paid for by the Commonwealth Government, was on the side of the Aborigines. [More…]
As one who has lived and worked with Aborigines for 40 years, I know that they are a very fair and understanding people. [More…]
In the face of what has been perpetrated in what one might call the Utopia land case, and this all pertains to this Act and the remarks that were made at great length in the Senate- 45 minutes a throw; good heavens!- the Aborigines said: ‘We would like to be the same as white people of Central Australia. [More…]
I bring up this matter because of the misrepresentation by the Australian Labor Party, the media, and by other people, who consider that they are the ones who should interpret what Aborigines wish. [More…]
The Borroloola land claim once again was objected to by the advisers and urgers who were trying to get the Aborigines to block access across the Borrolooa common, which runs from the hinterland to the McArthur River. [More…]
That brings the Aborigines into conflict with the other people, whites or whoever they may be in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Once again, that is something which the Aborigines themselves do not wish, and they say that over and over again. [More…]
I address my remarks not just to members of the Labor Party but also to anyone who deals with Aborigines. [More…]
Let us face the fact that all members of the Labor Party imagine that they are doing something for the Aborigines. [More…]
They imagine they are doing something for the Aborigines. [More…]
This is the point I am making to the members of not just the Labor Party but also my own party and anyone who is interested or thinks he is interested or tries to be interested or, if I may say so, tries to bluff other people that he is interested in the welfare of Aborigines. [More…]
It indicates to me that the honourable member knows nothing and cares nothing about Aborigines. [More…]
But I would not expect to hear it from the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham), a former Labor Minister who is sitting at the table because he understands the plight of the Aborigines. [More…]
This Bill aims to help Aborigines and whites- claimants and defendants- to live together. [More…]
That means that Aborigines cannot get control of their burial grounds which are of great significance to them. [More…]
Land to Aborigines is their religion. [More…]
1 ) How many Aborigines have been recruited as welfare officers in the Department of the Northern Territory Development Branch and its successors in each year since 1 970. [More…]
Are non-Aboriginals preferred as foster parents for Aborigines. [More…]
Does the Minister recognise Federal Government undertakings in 1975 to relieve the NSW Government of financial responsibility for essential public funding of services for Aborigines. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the Northern Territory News of 4 September 1979, claiming that ( a ) Mr Solomon Nayilibity, employed for some years by Queensland Mines as an Aboriginal Liaison Officer, lived with his family for about 6 months in a core shed belonging to the company, (b) the shed and a nearby tank containing radioactive samples were marked as radioactive, (c) the company has claimed that (i) unmineralised dust samples only were in the shed and were not dangerous and (ii) Mr Nayilibity did not mention any fears of radiation to a company spokesman who saw him during August 1979, (d) the company has not replied to Mr Nayilibity ‘s request for a medical test, (e) the test would be unlikely to disclose irradiation effects which might take decades to appear, (f) uranium samples were spilt from a split bag over a former company exploration camp site and registered more than the maximum 5000 microrems/hour on a counter, 85 times the safe public exposure limit and (g) Aborigines hunt and camp in the area but the company has no commission to re-enter the area. [More…]
Are official domination, intimidation and paternalism for Aboriginal people in Queensland substantially worse than those for Aborigines in other States and Territories. [More…]
Were private companies required, as their part of the bargain, to keep an equivalent number of Aborigines employed with their own funds for an equivalent period of time after the Department of Aboriginal Affairs’ grant had been spent. [More…]
Will he confer with the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs and, as recently suggested by me, set up a programme to train men and women so that a team of experienced practical people may be brought into being in order to undertake the long and hard job of leading and teaching the Aborigines in the Northern Territory to develop their own vast resources for their own benefit. [More…]
I do not think that the Aborigines will think very much of us and very much of our politics if we start playing any further with their anguish, sorrow and distress. [More…]