australian citizens - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the phrase australian citizens was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
Are foreign born Australian citizens disadvantaged under Australian law as compared with locally born citizens. [More…]
Will the Government reconsider past refusals to enable Australian citizens to take their pensions with them wherever they may go and wherever they may settle. [More…]
Are there any restrictions based on skin colour on the entry of Australian citizens into New Zealand? [More…]
Does discrimination by other countries against Australian citizens on the basis of their colour meet with the approval of the Government; if not, why, does the Government apply discrimination against coloured citizens of New Zealand? [More…]
Does the Australian Government provide any form of legal assistance to Australian citizens who have unknowingly entered into bigamous relationships with persons who were married prior to coming to Australia. [More…]
Were any Australian citizens by naturalisation or registration among the 743 persons deported during 1970-71 as listed in ‘Migration Facts and Figures’ circulated by him in September 1971; if so, what was the reason in each case. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has not imposed any conditions on the consortium involved; however in relation to ventures of this nature the Government has made it clear that it would expect that Australians be given the opportunity to participate in the equity of the company and that Australian citizens also participate in its management. [More…]
As the greater number of persons of nonEuropean and mixed descent permanently resident in Australia are either naturalised or registered as Australian citizens, or are citizens of Commonwealth countries with the status ofBritish subjects under Australian citizenship law, they are not required to register with the Department. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
Will he follow the practice of past and present Ministers for Trade and Industry and ensure that officers posted overseas to represent Australia by his Department are Australian Citizens or have sufficient interest in the country they are repesenting to signify their intention to become citizens as soon as legally possible (question No.5581, Hansard, 15th August 1972). [More…]
ls he also able to say bow many honours were bestowed upon Australian citizens by other Governments in the same years and how many of the recipients were public servants. [More…]
In the years 1970, 1971 and 1972, 10 awards were made to Australian citizens on the recommendation of the United Kingdom Government. [More…]
From 3rd August 1969 to 3rd August 1972, 154 awards were made to Australian citizens by foreign Governments. [More…]
When Greek-bom Australian citizens, holding dual Australian and Greek nationality, enter Greek territory their Greek nationality predominates and accordingly they become subject to Greek law. [More…]
Since 1949, Australian citizenship has not been granted automatically to settlers from the United Kingdom or from any one of the other 30 countries which make. [More…]
So, at no time for the past 24 years has Australian citizenship been granted automatically to these people. [More…]
Conversely, Australian citizens migrating to the United Kingdom have not been granted automatically citizenship of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at any time in the period since the enactment of those laws in 1949. [More…]
Is the Minister for Immigration aware that many settlers from the United Kingdom believe that they automatically become Australian citizens upon taking up residence here? [More…]
Will the Minister take steps either to correct this wrong impression or to confirm that citizens of the United Kingdom receive Australian citizenship automatically upon migration to Australia? [More…]
If, as the Prime Minister has said, the Attorney-General did fail in his duty to inform him of Yugoslavia’s execution of Australian citizens, what action does he intend to take with respect to Senator Murphy? [More…]
When did he, as the Acting Prime Minister, first learn, and how did he learn, that Senator Murphy had been informed on 9 April of the intended Yugoslav Government’s statement of 12 April concerning the execution of 3 Australian citizens? [More…]
Is the Prime Minister satisfied that this man, and perhaps others, are not the victims of unsubstantiated allegations of terrorist activities against Australian citizens? [More…]
What action has the Prime Minister taken to try to establish the truth of the matter, the circumstances of this man’s trial, and the meaningfulness of Australian citizenship to the Communist Government of Yugoslavia, or is the Prime Minister prepared simply to accept the insults to Australia of a foreign government which has already been shown to have deliberately and flagrantly withheld the truth from his Government? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister asked Senator Murphy for an explanation as to why he did not pass on the information relating to the execution of 3 Australian citizens? [More…]
Today we are discussing the matter of a number of Australian citizens who have been subjected to arrest and harassment by the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
Are steps being taken to remedy this imbalance of rights which presently operates to the disadvantage of Australian citizens? [More…]
Will the Government actively encourage Australian citizens, either individually or acting in concert, to invest their savings in national enterprises, thereby receiving direct benefits from the development and growth of such enterprises? [More…]
I refer to Australian citizens who are stranded in Papua New [More…]
Are there separate immigration desks for returning Australian citizens so that they are not unnecessarily delayed by the more extended procedure necessary for migrants; if not, why not. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration whether it is a fact that a number of Australian citizens, of Czechoslovak origin are having difficulty in securing visas or visitor permits to return to Czechoslovakia to visit relatives. [More…]
Consultations are already proceeding at my request between my Department and the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Attorney-General’s on the desirability of having included in the ‘Notice to Australian Travellers’ - which my Department issues to all Australian passport holders - a reference to the fact that Australian citizens abroad are required to observe the laws of the countries in which they happen to be and that, should they encounter difficulties, they should immediately contact or request access to the appropriate Australian Government representative in that country. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to reports of Australian citizens travelling overseas being disadvantaged by lack of knowledge of their legal status in other countries. [More…]
If so, will he have published by his Department a concise summary sheet of the legal status of Australian citizens in other countries for issue with passports and at departure points from Australia. [More…]
Australian Citizens: Legal Status in other Countries (Question No. [More…]
How many Australian citizens have been refused a passport or other travel documents to enable them to travel outside Australia since 2 December 1972. [More…]
Since 2 December 1972, fourteen Australian citizens have been refused Australian passports. [More…]
Existing sub-clause (3) provides that Part II of the Act which prohibits racial discrimination, shall not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences between Australian citizens and persons who are not Australian citizens. [More…]
The Opposition does not believe that persons living in this country who are not legally Australian citizens should not be disentitled to the benefit which it is sought to give to [More…]
Australian citizens under this Act. [More…]
We can see no good reason why an act of discrimination against a person living in Australia who is not a naturalised Australian citizen should not attract the same provisions as acts of discrimination against persons who are Australian citizens. [More…]
The Australian Electoral Office strives to ensure that all eligible persons, not only those who become naturalised Australian citizens, apply for enrolment as soon as they become eligible to do so. [More…]
1 ) What action is taken by the Commonwealth Electoral Office to ensure that all persons who become naturalised Australian citizens apply for enrolment for the electoral division in which they reside. [More…]
1 ) How many Australian citizens were refused, or had withdrawn, an Australian passport in each of the years since 1970. [More…]
According to what criteria are passports refused to, or withdrawn from, Australian citizens. [More…]
1 ) What is the estimated total interest bill paid by Australian citizens and companies in each year since 1970. [More…]
Estimated gross interest paid and received by Australian citizens and companies since 1970 were: [More…]
The updated and revised information for estimated gross interest paid and received by Australian citizens and companies since July 1 972 is given below: [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security inform the House as to what progress has been made towards achieving a reciprocal social security agreement with West Germany particularly as the absence of such an agreement disqualifies former residents of Germany who are now Australian citizens from receiving West German pensions and, as a consequence, imposes an unnecessary burden upon Australian taxpayers? [More…]
What advertisements have been placed in ethnic newspapers and on ethnic radio to inform citizens of Cyprus and Malta and other Commonwealth countries that, after 6 months’ residence in Australia, they are not only eligible but also required to be enrolled as voters and that, under Australia ‘s system of compulsory enrolment and voting, they are subject to the same penalties as Australian citizens for failing to enrol and vote. [More…]
Will he take immediate action to assure the Australian public that the vast majority of the Greek community are worthy Australian citizens as my experience in the Electoral Division of Sydney clearly demonstrates. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that Germany has a contributory system of pensions and that these are not paid to German migrants to this country if they become naturalised Australian citizens? [More…]
Has the Government taken any steps to ensure the safety of Australian citizens in Iran? [More…]
1 ) Why does the Government insist that applicants for officer entry into the Royal Australian Navy be naturalised Australian citizens of at least 10 years standing if not Australian-born. [More…]
) The recommendations do not affect Australian residents from the countries cited who are Australian citizens. [More…]
It records the rights they enjoy and the obligations they undertake in common with Australian citizens and other migrants. [More…]
In fact, we oppose it and I hope it will not be long before the Government is able, by legislation, to remove that provision completely from the Agreement because we believe that that Act should be repealed as it applies to conscription not only of migrants but also of Australian citizens. [More…]
The second point to which I direct attention is the Attorney-General’s observation about the amendment of the Crimes Act in 1960 to validate the extraterritorial activities of Australian citizens. [More…]
As the law now stands, does it mean that any person who has reported adversely on Australian citizens or Australian soldiers in regard to the contest in Vietnam can be charged with treason? [More…]
Mr Speaker, the agreement in question is under review at the present moment, as part of the larger context of the general situation relating to Australian citizens who go back to their homeland. [More…]
Does it not reduce the value attached to an Australian passport by Australian citizens if entry and departure to Australia may be made without this document? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister also assure the House that uniform regulations will apply to all Australian citizens without passports and not only to those whom the Government wishes to keep out or desires to send into exile? [More…]
Present at this meeting were 4S0 decent, honest Australian citizens. [More…]
So I would commend to the Government the idea that savings accounts of Australian citizens and fixed deposits of Australian citizens at branches of Australian banks overseas should be regarded as acceptable savings for purposes of this Act. [More…]
Further, is it not a fact that the Australian Labor Party also required migrants to become Australian citizens before being eligible to receive age pensions and is it not a fact that it was this LiberalCountry Party Government which removed this bar to the receipt of pensions by migrants? [More…]
This applies equally, of course, to Australian citizens and other people. [More…]
Maltese citizens have always been eligible for age, invalid and widows’ pensions on the same basis as Australian citizens. [More…]
But we have applied philistinic indifference towards the development of an Australian film industry which would absorb Australian talent and allow it to revive itself and achieve a sense of expression, which would be in harmony wilh national aspirations and which would interpret the aims and the aspirations of Australian citizens. [More…]
There have been referendums which clearly indicate that Australian citizens will not tolerate the proscription of this political party. [More…]
It would be a simple matter for the Department to say as a matter of procedure: ‘We do not provide Australian citizenship to people who belong to this political party’. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch), the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) or any other Minister in the Government - not even that great democrat who looks after the Department of External Territories - has not a right to deprive a person of citizenship in this country if he meets normal requirements and standards which are not regarded as illegal if they are held by other Australian citizens. [More…]
It has always been the policy of the Commonwealth Government that migrants should become Australian citizens, not so much for the material benefits which this would confer upon them but rather because citizenship, once conferred, would enable them to play their full part as Australian citizens in the affairs of the community and to have the opportunity of total identification with the people of Australia. [More…]
It is not the policy of the Australian Government to cancel passports issued to Australian citizens of good character. [More…]
It is beyond my comprehension why people enjoying the privileges of being Australian citizens seek to transplant into this country that circumstance which we have seen exhibited in the United States of America. [More…]
Even if he were a member of the Communist Party I believe that the organisers of the Socialist Scholars Conference have a perfect right, as Australian citizens, to expect that he should be allowed into the country to present an academic paper. [More…]
I wish the House would understand what underlies the statement of a man like Ebia Olewale when he says: ‘Papuans are Australian citizens. [More…]
Papuans are not Australian citizens. [More…]
There are no Australian citizens under the Australian Constitution. [More…]
In our modern terminology we choose to call these ‘Australian citizens’. [More…]
When Papuans were called British subjects it was not assumed that the British subjects of Papua had rights in Australia any more than the British subjects of India but we changed the terminology for the sake of international window dressing and we called them ‘Australian citizens’. [More…]
The Australian citizens on the islands receive child endowment and other social service benefits as residents of Australia. [More…]
They say that they receive those benefits because they are Australian citizens. [More…]
The people opposite, who may be represented by Ebia Olewale, cannot understand why they do not get those benefits when they also are called Australian citizens. [More…]
It is we who are confusing them with impossible concepts of such creatures as Australian citizens who do not even have the right of residence in Australia. [More…]
It is time today to look at those who are behind the demonstrations which, quite often, bring violence in the streets and, as one of my colleagues can testify, violence even in the homes of Australian citizens. [More…]
What is the cost to this nation in terms of hard money as well as national self respect for the permanent degradation of Aboriginals and the loss of future Australian citizens through the world’s highest infant death rate? [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on ‘14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased’ - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance wilh the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance wilh the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in I he Melbourne Herald on 14 November 1969. the majority of Australian citizens Kant censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
Thai, in accordance wilh the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 1.4 November 1969. the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on ; 4th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance wilh the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14 th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14 th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969. the majority of Australian citizens warn censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian gallup poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian gallup poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian gallup poll, published in the Melbourne Herald’ on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
in view of the damaging effect that such a move could have on investment in Australian compan’e.s from both outside and inside Australia to the detriment of all Australian citizens, will the Prime Minister take all practical measures deemed advisable or necessary to ensure that investors know that they need have no fear that such a move could be successful under the present Government? [More…]
I can think of nothing more designed to damage Australia’s good name abroad or to prevent the inflow of that capital which is needed for the development of Australia itself or could hurt the individual Australian citizens more than this action, being as it is in full line with Labor Party policy. [More…]
Let us do something not just to appease certain pressure groups but to preserve the quality of life of all Australian citizens. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian gallup poll, published in the Melbourne Herald’ on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian gallup poll, published in the Melbourne Herald’ on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased. [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald’ on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14 November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
That, in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November, 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
We are against violence in Vietnam and we are against violence in the streets by Australian citizens. [More…]
accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald’ on 14th November, 1969 the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either main; tained or increased - [More…]
That in accordance with the findings of the Australian Gallup Poll, published in the Melbourne Herald on 14th November 1969, the majority of Australian citizens want censorship either maintained or increased - [More…]
The Prime Minister seeks to justify using a government department, using the police, using anyone else to go around with cameras and tape recorders to take evidence of ordinary Australian citizens in ordinary political activity. [More…]
The children and spouses of Australian citizens to bc entitled to Australian citizenship. [More…]
Can he state the differences between the laws and procedures of (a) Australia relating to the entry for residence or visits of the peoples of Papua, who are Australian citizens, and (b) New Zealand relating to the entry for residence or visits of the peoples of the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau Islands, who are New Zealand citizens (Hansard, 12 June 1970, page 3644). [More…]
Although Papuans are Australian citizens they do not, under Australian law, have right of entry to Australia. [More…]
These related generally to the arrangements under which New Zealand and Australian citizens may enter each other’s country. [More…]
That is a case in which 100-odd Australian citizens are overseas and cannot get back here. [More…]
This is being done at the expense of thousands and thousands of Australian citizens who use the services of the Post Office, as I will point out in a moment. [More…]
They make their homes here and many of them become Australian citizens, lt seems to be unreal that we should be shackled to any direction or request by the British Government as to what benefits should or should not be received by British migrants, especially those who have become Australian citizens. [More…]
Is he able to say whether naturalised Australian citizens from (a) Yugoslavia and (b) Greece are liable for national service when visiting their country of origin. [More…]
The position under Yugoslav and Greek law is that Yugoslav and Greek nationals retain their nationality upon becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
Is it a fact that naturalised Australian citizens require a visa to enter New Zealand whilst British born Australians do not. [More…]
Neither Australian citizens by birth nor by naturalisation require visas (or passports) to travel from Australia to New Zealand. [More…]
However, Australian citizens by naturalisation may on arrival in New Zealand, or subsequently, be asked to confirm their citizenship and it is advisable that they carry appropriate evidence of it [More…]
Is Australia at present represented overseas by officers of his Department, who are not Australian citizens by either registration or naturalisation. [More…]
As at 31st October 1970 all Australia-based officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs serving overseas were Australian citizens by birth, residence, registration or naturalisation, with the exception of eight, two of whom were citizens of New Zealand and six citizens of the United Kingdom. [More…]
Migrants not becoming Australian citizens by or before .10 years to return to their own countries. [More…]
They suffer injustices because they are put into the community in Australia and they have to compete with Australian citizens. [More…]
Is Australia at present represented overseas by officers of his Department of various levels who are not Australian citizens by either registration or naturalisation. [More…]
In addition, trade commissioners employ some 480 locally engaged staff at overseas posts, who, for the most part, are not Australian citizens but local nationals. [More…]
Is it a fact that the vast majority of Australian citizens pay for their access roads by way of rates and charges which are allowable as taxation deductions. [More…]
No information is available to me from which to estimate what proportion of Australian citizens pay for their access roads by way of rales and charges which are allowable as taxation deduction. [More…]
The new Migration and Settlement Agreement has the following principal elements: lt describes the facilities for settlement of Maltese citizens, lt records the rights they enjoy and the obligations they undertake in common with Australian citizens and other citizens; it affirms that Maltese citizens resident in Australia will receive social service arid health benefits which Australia provides to Australian citizens, and that both Governments will make efforts towards reaching agreement on reciprocity in payment of each other’s corresponding social security benefits. [More…]
I am certain that the vast majority of Australian citizens support the preservation of law and order and that this Bill will be generally welcomed throughout the country. [More…]
Our attitude to the movement of Australian citizens and, for that matter, Chinese citizens to and from Australia has, I think, already been made clear by me in a statement made to the National Press Club one day last week. [More…]
We do not place any embargo on the movement of Australian citizens to the People’s Republic of China unless there are security considerations involved. [More…]
Against this background I believe that the Australian Labor Party during the course of the last few days has made an abominable mess of its attitude to the movement of Australian citizens. [More…]
Those who represent other countries have had the full protection for person and property that Australian citizens themselves enjoyed, and that has seemed enough. [More…]
It is not even impossible to imagine a deputation, large in size, of Australian citizens incensed by some such thing as aircraft noise being charged with offences under this Act. [More…]
Yet it is a Bill which involves the fundamental liberties of Australian citizens. [More…]
Will the Minister also indicate the policy of the Japanese Government in relation to the admittance of Australian citizens on a permanent or temporary basis? [More…]
The Australian High Commission in Colombo remains in close touch with the Ceylonese Government and will, of course, , act in what ways it can to protect Australian interests and Australian citizens in Ceylon. [More…]
minors over the age of sixteen years may become Australian citizens after two years residence provided their responsible parents, if resident in Australia, give their written consent. [More…]
Statistics showing occupation are not recorded by year of arrival and information is not available to show the number of persons with professional qualifications who arrived during the past five years, who have become Australian citizens by naturalization. [More…]
The February 1969 report of the National Council of the National Union of Australian University Students (now the Australian Union of Students) recognised that where restrictions on enrolments were necessary, Australian universities had a duty to the community to give priority to the education of Australian citizens, but it believed that the presence of substantial numbers of overseas students, particularly students from Asia, had in the past afforded opportunities for broadening of knowledge, interest and tolerance which it regarded as a necessary aspect of tertiary education and suggested that where there was the demand for it, 10 per cent of the total enrolment quota in each faculty in each university would be a minimum acceptable enrolment of overseas students. [More…]
Because of the protests by the editor of the Melbourne published anti-Communist weekly and by many naturalised Australian citizens of Polish origin against the alleged action of the Polish Consulate in Australia in forbidding Polish travel agents in Australia to advertise in their newspapers, will the Government consider compensating publications which are victimised for printing facts to the best of their ability, in order to offset loss due to international trade sanctions? [More…]
If so, does the provision in the Commonwealth Crimes Act whereby Australian citizens born outside Australia may be deported in certain circumstances violate this situation. [More…]
Does he realise that because of his Government’s continued, irresponsible attacks on both these bodies which constitute a wide representation of Australian opinion and which have backgrounds of all political followings the Government is destroying public confidence in the fabric of law and order which we as Australian citizens hold so dear, which we in the Australian Labor Party stand for? [More…]
What is the purpose of its continual attacks on the trade union movement which consists of normal, everyday Australian citizens of all political colours? [More…]
It is obvious that the majority of pensioners do not receive sufficient to permit them to live as normal Australian citizens. [More…]
Were these children Australian citizens. [More…]
How many Australian citizens have been deported under the provisions of the Crimes Act since World War 11? [More…]
Is it not appropriate to proceed with this decision, not only to accord with the position of all other high commissions in London but also in view of the change in status of Australian citizens in Britain and the change in trade relations between Australia and Britain both of which changes were made against views expressed by the Government? [More…]
My seventh consideration is this: How are our new settlers - new Australians - to know what manner of people we are, what is the ethos which guides and informs our attitudes and actions, and whether they wish to be naturalised as Australian citizens? [More…]
At that time some of the libraries did not possess a modern set of reference encyclopedias, others had a fair standard of stock, but none was in any way equal to what we would expect to be available to Australian citizens generally. [More…]
Indeed, they have become Australian citizens after a period of time. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Crimes Act provides that naturalised Australian citizens are liable to deportation despite long-term residence. [More…]
Will he confer again with his colleague, the Minister for Immigration, with a view to having this reciprocity implemented in the interest of both Australia and Australian citizens. [More…]
It is still a young nation with a sizable intake of new settlers, most of whom are eager to become good Australian citizens. [More…]
This Bill is yet another step being undertaken by the Government in an endeavour to prevent Australian citizens being exposed to this dreadful traffic. [More…]
Under a reciprocal arrangement of many years standing between Australia and New Zealand, Australian citizens whether naturalised or bom here do. [More…]
1’he New Zealand authorities advised in 1955 that naturalised Australian citizens were not treated as aliens in New Zealand or required to register as such.- However until -October 1957 the New Zealand regulations required all naturalised Australian citizens to obtain prior permission to enter New Zealand. [More…]
Any minor conditions from which they suffer, or disabilities which are contracted after arrival, would be treated through the ordinary medical facilities available to Australian citizens. [More…]
Guarantees of employment should be offered provided that they do not involve the displacement of those who are already Australian citizens. [More…]
We have members of the House of Assembly saying that Papua will or will not tolerate a particular policy, that Papua will secede, that Papua will form a seventh State, that the Papuans are Australian citizens and that the New Guineans are not. [More…]
12,650 were Australian citizens by naturalisation or registration and 11,820 had resident status. [More…]
No statistics are available as to the number of persons of mixed descent granted Australian citizenship by naturalisation or registration. [More…]
What action has been taken to protect the lives and interests of Australian citizens who may be endangered by the war? [More…]
The Government has throughout the crisis been paying attention to the need to ensure the safety of Australian citizens in India and Pakistan. [More…]
In East Pakistan, Australian citizens were advised to move out many months ago and most have done so. [More…]
Australian citizens who are still there have remained by choice. [More…]
In West Pakistan, Australian citizens were warned some days ago to move away from the border areas and were later informed that they would be well advised to consider leaving the country. [More…]
On Sunday the High Commissioner reported to the Government his view that all Australian citizens in the Karachi area should be evacuated. [More…]
In India, where the possible dangers to Australian citizens from involvement in the fighting are much less than in Pakistan, our High Commissioner has advised Australians known to be living near to affected borders to move further inland. [More…]
12 to present a Bill for an Act to amend the Social Services Act 1947-71 to make pensions payable to Australian citizens outside Australia. [More…]
by the Government in an endeavour to prevent Australian citizens being exposed to this dreadful traffic. [More…]
However it is known that migrants from some countries retain their original nationality, upon becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
Australian citizens, they also receive social services and other similar benefits. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with ail other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
That they believe that the Aborigine, in common with all other Australian citizens, have a right to assemble in any peaceful manner of their own choice. [More…]
We, as Australian citizens, should be proud, as the Minister pointed out, that 80 per cent of married age pensioners in Australia today own their own homes and that 50 per cent of single age pensioners also own their own homes, Many of the others are satisfactorily housed in aged persons homes under this Act or are living comfortably with their families as they choose. [More…]
In my view the pupils are all Australian citizens and the schools deserve help. [More…]
But the facts of the matter are that approximately one in seven people living in Australia today are not Australian citizens. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill, as indicated by its long title, is to make pensions payable to Australian citizens outside Australia. [More…]
That Australian citizens shall not cease to receive pensions because of residence abroad. [More…]
If we are going to give portability of Australian pensions overseas we should be negotiating a quid pro quo in the interests of Australian citizens who were migrants from those other countries. [More…]
In other words, it is important for us to try to protect, for example, the rights of certain German pensioners who, because they have become naturalised as Australian citizens, have lost their rights to German pensions. [More…]
I shall certainly try, in negotiating this with the German Government, as far as possible to preserve here in Australia the rights of former German nationals who have become Australian citizens and are resident in Australia. [More…]
The provisions of this Act relating to the qualifications of persons to receive age, invalid and widows’ pensions and the rate of, and payment of such pensions shall, subject to such exceptions, modifications and adaptions as are prescribed, apply to Australian citizens who are outside Australia. [More…]
In particular he may have forgotten 2 points: Firstly, that our qualifications for residence for pension purpose in Australia is very generous by world standards; secondly, that Australian pensions are paid to certain people who are not Australian citizens. [More…]
The first point is that the Bill applies only to Australian citizens. [More…]
Most of the migrants who would want to go abroad after they had qualified for an Australian pension are in point of fact not Australian citizens. [More…]
They are not Australian citizens. [More…]
They have not taken out Australian citizenship. [More…]
We do not require people to take out Australian citizenship in order to qualify for pensions and I think that this is right. [More…]
But we do not demand that these people should get Australian citizenship. [More…]
The groups of elderly migrants who would want to go abroad are predominantly those who have not applied for Australian citizenship and therefore this Bill will not help those who are really most in need of this kind of help. [More…]
The second point is that this Bill if accepted would give away entirely the bargaining position of the Australian Government to protect the pension rights of people who have acquired them overseas and who have subsequently come to Australia and become Australian citizens. [More…]
I am simply saying that if the Bill were adopted it would not put us in the position where we could bargain with overseas governments in order to protect the rights of Australian citizens who were formerly nationals of other countries. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party proposes paying pensions to Australian citizens living in Germany. [More…]
Why is it necessary to go through the pretence of working out treaties with other countries for the purpose of granting Australian citizens a right to their pensions? [More…]
Australian citizens who receive superannuation or other types of pension are now entitled to receive those pensions overseas; why not citizens who receive old age pensions? [More…]
The first is, as the Minister indicated, that this Bill applies only to Australian citizens. [More…]
I support the Bill, as 1 am sure will the overwhelming majority of Australian citizens. [More…]
How many officers of his Department who represent Australia overseas have not yet become Australian citizens by naturalisation or registration and where are they serving. [More…]
As at 28th February 1972 all Australian-based officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs serving overseas were Australian citizens by birth, residence, registration or naturalisation, with the exception of 6, all of whom were British subjects and citizens of the United Kingdom, serving in the following countries: [More…]
Will the Prime Minister cause an investigation to be made into the anomaly to which I have referred so that at least some sort of justice may at last come to the very oldest of Australian citizens who are being denied their proper entitlement to social welfare? [More…]
The people who come here will not return to America; they will become Australian citizens. [More…]
Persons qualified to own Australian ships should be Australian citizens, and bodies corporate should have their principal place of business where the Commonwealth of Australia has jurisdiction. [More…]
The Minister may waive the residence requirements for minors, the spouses of Australians, and former Australian citizens. [More…]
However, the funds of the local council and the Hunter District Water Board are so depleted that they cannot provide water to the homes of these worthy Australian citizens. [More…]
Mr O’Malley and I assured them that their interests and the rights of all Australian citizens and overseas visitors were best protected by a full disclosure of the facts so that the public can be fully informed of just what is going on in this country. [More…]
It would be appropriate to mention at this point that the Convention makes special provision regarding members of the consular post who are either Australian citizens or who are permanently resident in Australia. [More…]
Australian citizens or ordinarily resident in Australia. [More…]
Under the existing legislation private servants other than those serving the Head of Mission may be subject to the jurisdiction of the Australian courts in respect of acts performed in the course of their duties if they are foreign nationals or foreign residents but immune if they are Australian citizens or residents. [More…]
This earlier Bill had the purpose, as its long title showed, of amending the Social Services Act to make pensions payable to Australian citizens outside Australia. [More…]
The present Bill has the advantage over the Bill which I introduced on behalf of the Labor Party of making pensions payable to persons living overseas even if they have not been or become Australian citizens. [More…]
I have not dealt with the situation of people who are Australian citizens, who were born here, who have always lived here. [More…]
He has not chosen to answer today the charge that he brought into this House a Bill purporting to be in the interests of migrants, which sought to confine the granting or the portability of pensions to Australian citizens, thereby excluding a large number of very good migrants to this country who have made a substantial contribution to it. [More…]
They suddenly woke up to the fact that they have offended, and deeply offended, a large proportion of our migrant population, and that many of our migrant population, because they have chosen to become Australian citizens, have votes. [More…]
The Labor Party says: Australian citizens shall not cease to receive pensions because of residence abroad’. [More…]
That Australian citizens shall not cease to receive pensions because of residence abroad. [More…]
Indeed, it was a Bill in good but simplistic English, because it stated that people who are Australian citizens will be able to carry their pensions outside Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party, in its amendment to the Government’s Bill, is completely ignoring its previous proposition that portability of pensions should apply to Australian citizens. [More…]
Another absolutely fundamental proposition was advanced in the Opposition’s earlier Bill, and it was that pensions should be paid to Australian citizens who went abroad, no matter what period of residence they had had in Australia before either going to their homeland or to some other country. [More…]
There is no residence qualification required in regard to invalid and widow pensions, but I point out that the proposition which the Labor Party previously advanced contained the qualification that those who would benefit had to be Australian citizens. [More…]
The more the Government speaks out on this issue the more obvious it becomes that this Bill is merely a mirage intended to mislead our migrant community and other deserving Australian citizens who are thirsting in this Government’s dry, barren desert of social services. [More…]
The first was to ensure that the benefits of portability were available to all Australian pensioners, whether they were Australian citizens or not. [More…]
If this Bill is passed in its present state unamended there is no doubt that during the next few years the beneficiaries will be Australian citizens only. [More…]
The Bill now before this Parliament will enable the Minister to enter into an agreement with other countries, and pensions will then be paid to Australian citizens who go to reside overseas, whether permanently or temporarily. [More…]
Each agreement will be drawn up in terms of mutual relationship existing between Australia and the participating country, with a view to obtaining the best possible benefit for Australian citizens. [More…]
There are other reasons why migrants do not take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
The Bill recently introduced by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) would confine the benefits to Australian citizens and this would fail to help those very persons of whom I have just spoken. [More…]
This legislation is long overdue and I am sure it will be welcomed by all Australian citizens. [More…]
By limiting the provisions of his Bill to Australian citizens he invited this national Parliament to discriminate against a large section of our migrant community. [More…]
I feel that it would be far better for them to have second thoughts and to say: ‘Let us have an Australian pension for Australian citizens and Australian residents as a right that they may take with them wherever they desire to go in their retirement.’ [More…]
A family of 5 - that is, with 3 children - have, in addition to the benefits and entitlements of all Australian citizens, an average expenditure on them of $1,850. [More…]
But we can legislate to protect our most valuable migrants - the children of Australian citizens. [More…]
Many Australian citizens would like to know the answers to those questions. [More…]
We all know that an Australian Government would not dare to proceed under cover of darkness in this way against any Australian citizens unless they were young ones or black ones. [More…]
No matter what colour a local government or a State government is, the Commonwealth must place itself above local politics and realise that if it is to be truly representative of all Australian citizens it must treat them all as equals. [More…]
Surely, however, the large numbers of children who leave after 3 years of high school are also still Australian citizens, but 1 do not think they come within the range of the sympathy or the interest of the last 4 Commonwealth Ministers for Education, including the present Minister. [More…]
Greek-born Australian Citizens: Military Service (Question No. [More…]
What has been the date, nature and outcome of representations to the Greek Government concerning the liability of Greek-born Australian citizens for military service in Greece? [More…]
After such a tremendous length of time Australian citizens are now free to invest their money at will, wherever they so choose. [More…]
I wish to raise a serious anomaly which exists in relation to Australian citizens who joined British forces - in this case I am referring to the British Air Force- in the 1930s. [More…]
I ask the responsible Minister to look at the probability of giving full recognition to these people who are Australian citizens, who have retained their citizenship right through and who have served the British Commonwealth and the British Commonwealth only.I can understand some reluctance, to extend this benefit to people who are European migrants. [More…]
But I feel that people who are Australian citizens and who have served with British forces should be given recognition. [More…]
Even from the brief description I have been able to give it will be apparent that we are working steadily towards creating the widest possible range of opportunities for all Australian citizens, young and not so young, male and female, to enable them to develop their talents to the full, to their own social and material benefit and that of the nation as a whole. [More…]
It is important that we remember that this is a proposal to take Australia away from the basic principle that has served Australia so well at least over the last 23 years, and that is that Australian citizens should have the opportunity to acquire - that is, to own - their own land and to build their own homes upon that land. [More…]
The first of them is that this proposal will act quite contrary to the efforts of those young Australian citizens who seek to pay off their own home - who seek to discharge a mortgage within 10 years. [More…]
In justice it is wrong for Australian citizens to be liable to be subjected to this kind of a situation. [More…]
But surely we have reached the stage in this country where we could move beyond the idea of workers’ compensation and start to think about compensating all Australian citizens when they are injured. [More…]
Foreign Awards: Wearing by Australian Citizens (Question No. [More…]
Has he checked that his predecessor wrote to me on 30th April 1970 that he proposed to recommend to Her Majesty The Queen the institution of Australian regulations relating to the acceptance and wearing of foreign awards by Australian citizens. [More…]
I believe that the Government is to be congratulated on the progress which has already been made to see that all Australian citizens have available to them a wide range of social security benefits when and if they need them. [More…]
I am sure that your appointment will have a great effect on the efficient functioning of the House and will have far reaching effects on many Australian citizens. [More…]
I welcome that because it is the intention of the Government to ensure that all Australian citizens will be equal in all ways before Australian law. [More…]
Six were Australian citizens and 3 others had previously lived in Australia. [More…]
As though the evidence I supplied were not enough to convict the last Government, through its Attorney-General, of misleading the Parliament and the nation, of deceiving a friendly foreign power, of imperilling the lives of Australian citizens by shutting its eyes to the evidence of organised terrorism, there is yet another perhaps more glaring example of the existence of a dangrous, violent Croatian revolutionary terrorist organisation in Australia. [More…]
Will he ensure that those Australian citizens who embrace the Jewish faith or who support the State of Israel are protected from acts of violence or an assault of propaganda based on racial hatreds? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister assure the House that good Australian citizens who have fled their homeland will not come under political charges on advice from a foreign power without such advice being weighed against information from Australia’s own security and police forces? [More…]
Will the committee protect our Australian citizens who may return for a visit to their homelands? [More…]
To the contrary its members would be failing in their duty if they did not fight with all their power to protect the limited rights of country people and to give them, to the maximum possible degree, something at least approaching equality of representation to which they, as Australian citizens are entitled. [More…]
It should be recalled that employees of ASIO make reports on a great number of people who, for instance, seek appointment or promotion in the Commonwealth Public Service, and on a great number of people who seek to be naturalised as Australian citizens. [More…]
If this was supposed to be a snide way of appealing to the sensitivities and the great pride of the Jewish people who are Australian citizens, I say to the Prime Minister that nobody could have, greater pride in the contribution to Australia that the Jewish people have made and nobody would be more anxious to respond to the protection of their position as free citizens of this country, totally free from any vestiges of anti-semitism, than members of the Opposition. [More…]
Today the Prime Minister in his statement had to undo the harm done by that statement when he talked about deportation not occurring to Australian citizens or there being no abridgement of the rights of Australian residents. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, of course, then referred to the rule of law, that is, the law of his Government which sets oat that, under the provisions of the Crimes Act, Australian citizens could be deported despite the fact that they held citizenship. [More…]
It was a bad law and we will change it in defence of the unity and indivisibility of Australian citizens. [More…]
Of 51 Australian citizens who came under notice first for violence, 11 are now reported to have died in violent circumstances^ - 8 shot in Yugoslavia last year, 2 others murdered in other European countries and one murdered in Australia. [More…]
Four of these Australian citizens are understood to be currently serving gaol sentences overseas for alleged involvement in violence. [More…]
Information brought to my notice concerning another 37 Australian citizens, some of whom have convictions for violence, indicates that they are implicated in criminal extremist activities. [More…]
The Commonwealth Police has brought to the attention of my Department the names of a further 134 Australian citizens who are suspected of association with criminal extremism. [More…]
I remind honourable members that Australian citizens are beyond the deportation provisions of the Migration Act. [More…]
The guiding principle for the Government in the vitally important matter of the grant of Australian citizenship is that there should not be discrimination between different groups of settlers seeking to join the family of the nation. [More…]
Wherever they were born, whatever their nationality, whatever the colour of their complexion, they should all be able to become Australian citizens under just the same conditions. [More…]
People from any of the Commonwealth countries - now numbering no fewer than 31 - have in the past been in a distinctive and in my view an anomalous position in regard to the conditions under which they could become Australian citizens. [More…]
It is important to end the confusion which has been permitted to continue since the Citizenship Act of 1 949 and the use of terminology which has given many Australians the mistaken impression they are not only Australian citizens but also citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [More…]
Australian citizens have, however, the additional right and description of possessing the common nationality of the Commonwealth of Nations, called in some [More…]
At this point let me make it perfectly clear that the Bill does not change the situation whereby citizens of the 31 Commonwealth countries, whether they become Australian citizens or not, continue to have the status of British or Commonwealth of Nations subjects and as such have privileges such as the vote and eligibility to be appointed to public services under Acts of Parliament not administered by me. [More…]
It is, however, recognised that citizens of these countries who have settled in Australia should be able to keep their present status under our law for a transitional period of 2 years during which they will be encouraged to become Australian citizens. [More…]
As far as Australian citizens are concerned, the reciprocal agreement is unnecessary. [More…]
Firstly, it applied only to Australian citizens and therefore ignored those people who had lived and worked in Australia for a long time but had not taken out naturalisation. [More…]
That Bill restricted the portability of pensions to Australian citizens. [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…]
Under the Christmas Island Act 1958, adults who were British subjects and ordinarily resident on the Island on 1st October 1958 could opt for Australian citizenship within 2 years of that date. [More…]
Those who were not 21 years on that date could opt for Australian citizenship on turning 21 years and up to 2 years thereafter. [More…]
People born on Christmas Island on or after 1st October 1958 are Australian citizens by birth. [More…]
At 30th June 1972, 497 Asian residents of Christmas Island were Australian citizens by birth or exercise of an option. [More…]
The remainder have Australian citizenship - about 500 - or undetermined citizenship - about 90. [More…]
Those Asian residents who are not contract - fixed term - workers and who are Australian citizens will be entitled to residence in Australia on application. [More…]
Those Asian residents who are not contract - fixed term - workers and who are not Australian citizens will be accepted for residence in Australia on application subject to availability of employment and accommodation and to health and character checks where deemed necessary. [More…]
Australia, where young migrants may become Australian citizens at 16 years with parents’ consent. [More…]
I have protested to the Yugoslav Government at the fact that these actions were taken by that Government without the Australian Government having been informed that the 3 Australian citizens had been arrested, were being held or were being tried. [More…]
The whole purport of the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders is to enable not just the Prime Minister, his Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition to be aware of the circumstances relating to the unforgiveable execution of 3 Australian citizens by a communist government, but also to let all members of this Parliament and the Australian community be aware of the nature of the trial, the circumstances of the judgment and the reason for and the manner of the execution of these 3 Australian citizens. [More…]
I ask: Was the information relevant to the Bosnian incident and the execution of 3 Australian citizens contained in any interdepartmental minutes? [More…]
It is anomalous and archaic for Australian citizens to litigate their differences in another country before judges appointed by the government of that other country. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister say, or will he find out, when the Australian Government first learned that 3 Australian citizens whom the Yugoslav Government had earlier indicated were dead, along with others, were in fact still alive? [More…]
The present Government had no knowledge, other than that inherited from its predecessors, about the 3 men whom Australia acknowledged as Australian citizens who were liquidated or destroyed according to the information given to the previous Government last year. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister consider the execution of Australian citizens in a foreign country a matter of great national interest? [More…]
Of course, execution differs in degree, but not in kind from these other matters with which the Australian Government believes it should be concerned where Australian citizens- [More…]
If so, will he advise whether the Federal Government intends to legislate within its powers to retain Australian land for Australian citizens? [More…]
to assert and protect the rights of Australian citizens in Yugoslavia; [More…]
The raising of this matter seeks to draw public attention to what I would describe as the supine attitude of the Government concerning the arrest, trial and execution of 3 Australian citizens. [More…]
It seems incredible to think that the Attorney-General of this Government can be informed unofficially about the execution of 3 Australian citizens. [More…]
The gravity of this matter goes to another area of activity - 3 Australian citizens arrested, tried and executed, and done in secret. [More…]
We are informed that 3 Australian citizens have been executed. [More…]
The previous Government did not ascertain the facts about the arrest, trial and execution of 3 persons in Yugoslavia who were claimed to be Australian citizens by Australia and Yugoslav citizens by Yugoslavia. [More…]
The whole of the present situation arises from the fact that last June there was an incursion into Yugoslavia by several persons, 3 of whom were claimed to be Australian citizens. [More…]
to assert and protect the rights of Australian citizens in Yugoslavia; [More…]
I pointed out that from the point of view of humanity, as well, we thought, as of law, the Australian Government was entitled to know what had happened to these persons whom it regarded as Australian citizens. [More…]
that these actions by the Yugoslav Government were taken without the Australian Government having been informed of the fact that the 3 Australian citizens had been arrested, were being held or were being tried. [More…]
On 19 April I directed that information be sought about the following 10 persons whom Australia regarded as Australian citizens: [More…]
The whole attitude of the Labor Party towards the execution of 3 Australian citizens in Yugoslavia is shameful. [More…]
These Australian citizens were stood before a communist firing squad - it amounts to that - and you are prepared to accept the matter as casually as you do. [More…]
It is shocking to hear an Australian Prime Minister adopt such a trifling attitude to the putting to death of 3 Australian citizens. [More…]
Above all he should be the protector and the guardian of Australian citizens. [More…]
I do so because I recognise that the honourable member for Moreton has in the past had to depart from the views of his colleagues when matters touching Australia’s independence and Australian citizenship had to be dealt with. [More…]
The whole emphasis of the present Government, led by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), and of my personal administration has been to give Australian citizenship a status and a recognition across the world which it has hitherto lacked. [More…]
The records show that in the past 24 years Australian citizens have been murdered, executed and imprisoned in various parts of the world without let or hindrance or apparent interest by successive Australian Governments. [More…]
An overseas administration that treats Australian citizenship with contempt in the future will have to confront a determined Australian Government dedicated to the care and protection of all Australian citizens - for the first time in this generation. [More…]
I have been very concerned within my portfolio to see to it that the embarrassments of the past are no longer experienced by Australian citizens proceeding to countries of their birth which recognise dual nationality. [More…]
So all that Australia did as a nation for many years was to warn Australian citizens who were proceeding to other countries in which they may have been born that Australia could do nothing for them. [More…]
The Government will put an end to the neglect of Australian citizenship which has existed for a whole generation. [More…]
In a case involving the lives of Australian citizens the representative of the Yugoslav Government did not go to the Prime Minister, did not go to the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister (Senator Willesee) and did not go. [More…]
What we ought to get from the Government, if it treats this seriously, is a firm statement that in the future if any Australian citizens are arrested in Yugoslavia, brought to trial in Yugoslavia, sought to be punished in Yugoslavia, this Government ought to be informed immediately that takes place so that it can take care of the rights of those people according to Australian law, so that they are properly represented, so that they are not railroaded to the kind of death to which these 3 men have been railroaded. [More…]
It was a complaint about the Government’s failure to assert and protect the rights of Australian citizens in Yugoslavia. [More…]
It is a matter of public Importance that people who are Australian citizens have been killed overseas in these circumstances, but the rest of the charges made by the honourable member for Moreton concerning the subordination of the Australian Government’s obligations to assert and protect the rights of its citizens overseas are appropriate and apt only in relation to the conduct, the reputation and behaviour of the previous Government. [More…]
Insofar as Australian citizens were concerned, that was being pursued through the Ambassador in Belgrade. [More…]
It has been revealed that there was a trial and execution of 3 Australian citizens on 17th March. [More…]
The first area is in the manipulation by the Government of the terms and conditions of employment of public servants, consequently aggravating the cost pressures on Australian citizens, and the second area is the aggravation in the private sector provided by the terms and conditions of this Bill. [More…]
This clause is to be read in relation to clause 8, by which Australian citizenship is to be granted under a new and uniform set of conditions. [More…]
British subjects who have been resident in Australia or New Guinea for 5 years - providing no crimes have been committed which render them liable to deportation - may merely notify their desire to become Australian citizens. [More…]
Having said something about the proposals in the Bill to make it more difficult for people from Britain to become citizens of Australia let me say something about the provisions designed to make it easier for migrants from every country other than Britain to become Australian citizens. [More…]
I will say little about the reduction in the period of residence except to make the point that we are about to make Australian citizenship cheaper than the citizenship of almost any other country. [More…]
I hope that the Minister is proud to be the architect of this act of cheapening Australian citizenship. [More…]
No possible objection can be made to the proposition that all Australian citizens, whether natural born Australians or immigrants, should be equal before the law. [More…]
However, the proposition is surely feasible and clearly logical that Australian citizenship is not granted merely for the asking. [More…]
I ask: Is Australian citizenship to be got on the cheap, on terms, as it were, or is it to be granted when worthiness is proved? [More…]
People from any of the Commonwealth countries - now numbering no less than 31 - have in the past been in a distinctive and, in my view, an anomalous position in regard to the conditions under which they would become Australian citizens. [More…]
I point out the anomalous position of Australian citizens. [More…]
It is clearly in the interest of Australia that our grant of citizenship be an exclusive one, that our political rights and obligations be the only ones to which naturalised Australian citizens are subject. [More…]
Steps are open to the Australian Government to try to ensure that our naturalised citizens enjoy the full rights that our other Australian citizens enjoy. [More…]
The Australian Government is able to conduct negotiations with all those nations whose laws on nationality work to the disadvantage of Australian citizens. [More…]
It may be possible to negotiate bilateral arrangements with those countries whereby the acquisition of Australian citizenship cancels the original citizenship. [More…]
We have heard of this preferment or alleged entitlement given by the United Kingdom to Australian citizens, but in fact under the present immigration laws of the United Kingdom Australian citizens do not have any automatic entitlement to United Kingdom citizenship. [More…]
It does not really mean anything to the Australian citizens here. [More…]
This act is distasteful and unpleasant to persons who used to be required to make it, as is evidenced by the fact that there has been an increase in the number of applicants for Australian citizenship since the proposed amendments to the Act were announced. [More…]
For all practicality, here in Australia it makes no difference to their relationship with the Australian government or with other Australian citizens. [More…]
lt is a most important day and a most important event in the lives of all our new Australian citizens when they take their citizenship oath. [More…]
I believe that the amendments proposed to the Act will assist materially in making those persons who were not born here and who want to avail themselves of Australian citizenship more readily and more strongly able to feel that they are going to become members of the Austraiian family and that they are able to identify with all other Australians. [More…]
At the present time British subjects may apply for Australian citizenship by notification after having resided in Australia for one year. [More…]
The Electoral Act provides that they should enrol for voting after 6 months, and they are entitled to vote whether or not they choose to become Australian citizens. [More…]
I believe that some Australian citizens could be placed at a disadvantage if they should return to the countries from which they came without having renounced their former allegiance. [More…]
I believe that they ought to be able to go to those countries as Australian citizens on an Australian passport having made it quite clear that they have renounced their citizenship. [More…]
They have adopted Australia as their country and they are happy to become Australian citizens. [More…]
I think we ought to be encouraging migrants if we want them to become Australian citizens. [More…]
I think the best way for us to encourage migrants to take out Australian citizenship is to point out to them the advantages of becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
Migrants cannot really become part of a community unless they participate on a level with their fellow Australian citizens. [More…]
When migrants become Australian citizens they have the advantage of being able to choose the Government of the country in which they live. [More…]
In becoming Australian citizens, migrants have just as much say in choosing the government as anyone else. [More…]
It will make the oath of allegiance more practical and simpler and will bring uniformity to the processes through which migrants must go to become Australian citizens. [More…]
overwhelming majority of Australian citizens. [More…]
At the momet we are all horrified by the execution of 3 Australian citizens in Yugoslavia. [More…]
At the same time it kept on the statute book the provision in the Crimes Act which permitted Australian citizens to be deported. [More…]
We will wipe out this disgraceful provision and thus ensure that no Australian Government, now or in the future, can deport Australian citizens. [More…]
We also hold the view that wherever our citizens are, there should be equal access of Australian citizens to Australian consular and diplomatic missions whenever there is a need for them. [More…]
I say in summation that the Government hopes for the support of the House in this sincere bid to wipe out discriminations and to bring to Australian citizenship a new status for the future. [More…]
The first relates to the general attitude to and care of Australian citizens by the Government while they are overseas, or wherever they may be. [More…]
We as a government were shocked to discover what had happened to some Australian citizens. [More…]
No doubt in our negotiations with other countries to remove the concept, and sometimes the burden, of dual citizenship from those who take Australian nationality we will be putting this point and I hope that in the negotiations the Minister, who should have learned a lesson from the tragic events in Yugoslavia, will put this point strongly and it will help him in those negotiations if he can say that Australian citizens have personally renounced. [More…]
I agree with the Minister’s statement that we should be endeavouring to get rid of this burden of dual citizenship for those Australian citizens who do not wish to maintain it, and to include in the form of the ceremony the formal renunciation may strengthen his hand in any negotiations. [More…]
Again I say to him: Considering what has happened in respect not only of the humiliation that Australian citizens have undergone but also at their death in their countries of origin, anything that strengthens our hand in negotiation is worth having. [More…]
The petition also requested payment of $6 billion to enable Aboriginals to achieve economic parity with other Australian citizens, and associated this claim with a claim for land rights. [More…]
It is necessary that we preserve to the maximum Australia’s energy resources for the benefit of Australian citizens. [More…]
Minister he knew all the time that 3 Australian citizens had been murdered in Yugoslavia. [More…]
Unregulated and spiralling prices cause severe hardship to most Australian citizens. [More…]
It was prepared to act nationally insofar as the preservation of the rights of Queensland and Australian citizens was concerned. [More…]
We regard it as anomalous and, in fact, objectionable that legal matters between Australian citizens should be determined by a court sitting in another country, composed of judges appointed by the government of that other country and delivering its judgments in the form of advice to the head of state of that other country. [More…]
As well as being Australian citizens, Vlasnovic and his colleagues were also nationals of Yugoslavia. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to repeal those provisions of the Crimes Act 1914-1966 which permit Australian citizens to be deported from Australia. [More…]
The Government has in recent weeks given a number of assurances that Australian citizens will not be deported. [More…]
It is quite clear that, whatever might have been the merit of these provisions in the 1920s when they were introduced, they are inconsistent with the view which we have of Australian citizenship today. [More…]
We have the view that all Australian citizens, whether bom in Australia or coming here and becoming naturalised, should be treated in an evenhanded and equal way by the law. [More…]
We recognise that it is necessary, in view of the climate of fear which has arisen, that these fears should be allayed amongst Australian citizens. [More…]
The House may recall that even before the Attorney-General made his statement in the Senate I took the opportunity to ask the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) to give an undertaking, firstly, that no naturalised Australian citizen would be deported, and secondly, that even nonnaturalised Australian citizens convicted of some crime would not be deported to any totalitarian country if they had some political reasons to fear a return to that country. [More…]
(2) of the Bill applies to offences committed by Australian citizens anywhere in the world and to offences involving either Australian Government or visiting government aircraft. [More…]
I ask this individualist laissez-faire Liberal Party which pays such tribute to the rights and privileges of Australian citizens: Where is this great thing tonight? [More…]
One of the worst features of this whole episode was that the Attorney-General had knowledge of 3 Australian citizens having been shot in Yugoslavia but refused to convey it to the Prime Minister and so embarrassed the Prime Minister of Australia by refusing to act in a responsible way. [More…]
Apart from the question which inevitably arises in view of the recent difficulties with Yugoslavia over the incident of the execution of 3 Australian citizens in that country, about having that country as our sponsor, 2 other questions arise. [More…]
It is that the High Court of Australia must become the highest court of the land in all matters pertaining to Australia and to the legal rights and obligations, in Australia, of Australian citizens. [More…]
It is no longer appropriate that any possibility should still remain of any government in Australia taking legal questions to, or of Australian citizens litigating their differences before, the courts of another country. [More…]
If these honours were of the type correctly rejected by the Australian Government as no longer fitting for Australian citizens, can he tell honourable members what action the Government has taken to introduce an Australian honours system and when he expects to make an announcement of its introduction? [More…]
If we are to take what has happened in this field in Western Australia as an indication of What would be acceptable to the Commonwealth, then I believe that this House should not give such a b ank cheque because I believe that what has happened in this field in Western Australia is an infringement on the proper and just rights of individual Australian citizens and is completely bad in principle. [More…]
I remind the Leader of the Country Party that nothing is surer than when a vote is taken in this Parliament tonight a majority of members will stand on the side of true democracy - will stand for equality of rights for all Australian citizens. [More…]
Seeing that the Opposition has taken the trouble to draw the attention of its repleted ranks to what we are discussing I think it worth my while to repeat the figures that I was quoting from the gallup poll conducted in 1973 relating to the Government’s proposals to require prospective Australian citizens in future to actually stand up for Australia. [More…]
Now it is suggested that the present Opposition should defy the expressed view of the majority of Australian citizens, ignore the distinguished representatives of so many organisations, including the Returned Services League, and take us back to the past and to a hurtful imposition which seems to be required by some either to deter people from joining the family of the nation because they do not want them or to impose hurt for hurt’s sake. [More…]
I compliment the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for exposing the rather cavalier remarks of the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) in his references to Australian citizens. [More…]
Australian citizens are not being asked in this plan to leave it to the Government. [More…]
There is no general restriction on private travel to Taiwan by Australian citizens travelling on ordinary passports and, in the case of members of the armed services, travelling in civilian clothes. [More…]
The entitlement of Australian citizens to passports is a basic right. [More…]
It was said that the Minister would use his undoubted - as he would believe - persuasive abilities in order to persuade certain countries where there are real problems of dual nationality, notably the Government’s new-found friends in Yugoslavia, to overcome the problems which dual nationality causes a significant number of Australian citizens. [More…]
I ask him to overcome the problem of dual allegiance for Greek citizens and other Australian citizens who have chosen to make Australia their home and the place to which they give their loyalty. [More…]
All of these people are Australian citizens and are entitled to share equally in the national benefits with their city cousins and people involved in the rural industries. [More…]
I turn now to those areas of the Budget that affect the Australian citizens I represent, the rural people. [More…]
The 5c excise on petrol will affect all Australian citizens but an extra 2c per gallon represents discrimination against those people who are living further from metropolitan areas. [More…]
At last this country is being managed in a manner that will benefit the great majority of Australian citizens. [More…]
The way to reduce Government expenditure is left for Australian citizens to ponder. [More…]
They wanted to become Australian citizens, and the Operation Refugee from East Africa reflects credit on Australia generally and on both sides of this Parliament. [More…]
If the Leader of the House is consistent in wanting to provide equal opportunities for Australian citizens, whether they live in the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory, to be represented in the Senate, the basis of their representation should be the same as for those citizens who reside in States. [More…]
When Australian citizens seek, passports they do not have to state the purpose for which they seek them, and I do not propose to institute any system of requiring information about the purpose for which a passport is about to be used. [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…]
The services of the Australian Post Office should be available to all Australian citizens wherever they live. [More…]
The list of addresses comprised a broadly representative group of Australian citizens, associations and institutions which in the judgment and experience of the Government Publicity Office and the Australian Government Publishing Service might be interested in subscribing to the proposed publication. [More…]
His parents, as Australian citizens and taxpayers, are entitled to be treated equally with other citizens and taxpayers. [More…]
They will not allow contractors to employ expatriates - this is the point that the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) raised earlier - and all people employed on the pipeline should be Australian citizens or people who have resided in Australia for the past 2 years. [More…]
Honourable members will be pleased to know that an understanding in principle was reached between the 2 sides on travel from China to Australia by relatives of Australian citizens of Chinese descent and Chinese citizens residing in Australia. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman is prepared to say that there are Australian citizens who would perjure themselves and who would accept high office on a tribunal such as the Trade Practices Tribunal and would then deliberately prostitute that office, he has an obligation to stand now and name in advance those persons so that if they are to be appointed the Government will be able to have the benefit of his knowledge. [More…]
Therefore, it is the task of government to see that in this respect the reasonable demands of the Australian citizens are met. [More…]
I refer to those men, Australian citizens, who served with the United States Army small ships in the New Guinea war zone. [More…]
Those men were civilian employees, Australian citizens, paying Australian taxes. [More…]
During all this period we accepted such persons as Australian citizens, imposed our laws on them and exacted taxation from them. [More…]
It is designed to remove the anomaly that Australian citizens in our mainland Territories have no voice or vote in constitutional referendums. [More…]
There are 264,000 Australian citizens in the two Territories^ - the Australian Capital Territory, including Jervis Bay, and the Northern Territory - of whom 130,700 are voters. [More…]
There have been great difficulties in this respect; there are scattered across the world in a number of countries separated parents and children who are presently the subject of international litigation in which my Department is involved because the parents, being Australian citizens, turn to the Department and request help from it. [More…]
The Opposition supports this proposal for the good and sufficient reason that all Australian citizens qualified under the laws of this country should be able to do so. [More…]
Certainly, it would not have been their intention to disenfranchise at this date 130,700 Australian citizens and, in later years, thousands more. [More…]
Surely issues such as the rights of individuals, or the nature of parliamentary government, are of vital concern to all Australian citizens. [More…]
They have the same interests in the working of the Australian Constitution as other Australian citizens. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder), who has already spoken in this debate, has since his election to this chamber expressed his concern that the same opportunities should be provided for Territorians, whether they be in the north or here in the Australian Capital Territory, to express a view on matters that affect all other Australian citizens, for those that affect all other Australian citizens must equally affect them because they too are Australian citizens. [More…]
I do not see that there is any validity any longer in our preserving a circumstance whereby those who are qualified electors in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are denied the opportunity to speak on referenda referred to other Australian citizens. [More…]
He continued that whatever steps were necessary - whether by amendment of the taxation law or otherwise - would be taken to protect the interests of the general body of Australian citizens, to whom the use of these devices was abhorrent. [More…]
It is not good enough to do this and I dare say that our Australian citizens who have come from overseas will agree with me that this is not good enough and that this kind of loophole should not be open. [More…]
Looking at the issues contained in the debate - issues incidentally which have stirred Australian citizens from all walks of life and of all political persuasions - I believe we can agree on some points. [More…]
We say that the Australian citizens - all of them - ought to be consulted if a change is to be made and that they ought to be given the option of saying that they want ‘God Save the Queen’ retained as our national anthem. [More…]
The question involved is: Are these people as Australian citizens to receive this payment as a right, because a special additional tax is to be levied on them as on everybody else, or is the payment to be made only in those States which have reached an agreement with the Commonwealth? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration is aware of my repeated representations deploring the action of the Hungarian Government regarding two Australian citizens, Alfred and Anna Gardos, and their son and daughter, who are being held prisoner in Hungary following the confiscation of their Australian passports. [More…]
Will the Minister take urgent action to see that the Australian citizenship of these people is respected and that they are allowed to return home? [More…]
They are all Australian citizens. [More…]
Certainly, I give the honourable member and the House the assurance that wherever an Australian citizen anywhere in the world is unjustly treated - or appears tq be so - the Australian Government will take ‘it as an insult to Australian citizenship and to Australia itself. [More…]
We will probe it to the end with a view to ensuring that justice is done and that Australian citizenship is recognised wherever Australians go. [More…]
Qantas inflight cabin staff are almost exclusively Australian citizens and although it is true that Fijians are not employed in this category, neither are Indonesians, Hawaiians, etc. [More…]
It is proposed to provide, for all time, a direct guarantee of the suffrage to all Australian citizens over the age of 18 years - subject, of course, to the usual restrictions relating to persons of unsound mind, etc. [More…]
Not only do we seek a constitutional guarantee that State Houses of Parliament shall be directly elected by the people, but also it is proposed to guarantee the suffrage in State elections to Australian citizens on terms and conditions analogous to those operating for electors to this Parliament. [More…]
Certainly in Australia the rights of the mother are sacrosanct, and we would hope that this would also apply generally to Australian citizens around the world. [More…]
What has happened lends impetus to the efforts that are being made by the Government to achieve some agreement with overseas countries that court orders made in Australia should be recognised in other countries and that the rights of Australian citizens in relation to children of dual nationality should be properly appreciated. [More…]
This was an occasion which gave great pleasure to all members of the Parliament and to all Australian citizens. [More…]
The Australian citizens who look at their Government will see confidence in the future. [More…]
The first point I should like to make in relation to Fiji is that we have some 4,000 residents from Fiji and a good percentage of them have settled so successfully and so well they have joined the family of the nation as Australian citizens. [More…]
We have seen Government ineptitude when Australian citizens have been summarily executed by a foreign country without trial or without Government action prior to their execution. [More…]
Never before has there been such cooperation between State and Federal authorities, with the State Government standing up for the rights of its Western Australian citizens in no uncertain manner. [More…]
He is, of course, doing what he is paid for and one would be disappointed if he failed to earn the money he is so paid - paid in many cases to hide the facts of the previous Government’s policies, to hide the fact that the last Liberal Government sadly neglected the State’s rights of Western Australian citizens and that past Western Australian Liberal Governments failed to stand up to their Federal counterparts to gain just recognition of the rights of Western Australian citizens. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that whether the Opposition likes it or not, or whether a majority of people in another place like it or not, Australian citizens - the residents of this great free land - will not become tenants in their own homes. [More…]
That the proposed scheme is discriminatory and a further erosion of the civil liberties of Australian citizens, particularly working wives and single persons. [More…]
Australian citizens who have not previously received assistance to migrate to this country in their own right and who have settled abroad for a reasonable period of time may apply for an assisted passage under the Returning Australians Scheme. [More…]
I preface it by saying that I wish to express the feelings of thousands of decent Australian citizens defrauded by professional crook company directors and others who seem to have commenced a yearly migratory flight to Brazil because of the absence of any extradition treaty between Australia and Brazil. [More…]
Will the Minister make urgent representations to the Brazilian Government with a view to negotiating a reciprocal extradition treaty to bring to justice reputed swindlers such as Barton, Sommers and a well-known Sydney solicitor who are reported to be living in Brazil on the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains from Australian citizens, and to see that they are returned and are tried according to Australian law? [More…]
In 20 months the Australian Labor Party has behaved like an octopus spreading its tentacles to clamp down on the freedoms that have been our rights as Australian citizens. [More…]
I conclude on this note: If the States had been able to implement effective legislation for consumer affairs, it would not have been necessary for legislation to be before this House at this time to bring benefits to Australian citizens. [More…]
For the reasons I have given, in spite of the fact that this can be an instrument of socialism, I still support the Bill because I believe that this organisation can be a significant part of the process of returning the equity ownership of businesses and property in Australia to the hands of Australian citizens. [More…]
However, the members of that Committee, when the Committee is meeting, act as a group of Australian citizens looking after the interests of other Australian citizens. [More…]
The effect of the legislation will be to enable the present Government to destroy the opportunity now available to Australian citizens to insure for a standard of medical and hospital care above that of the minimum standard provided by the Hayden scheme or any other scheme. [More…]
If they want to insure to go to a private hospital or to attend a private doctor, they should be permitted to do so and there should be no legislation which enables a Minister to prevent Australian citizens from having that opportunity merely because he wants to force them into his nationalised health scheme. [More…]
The Labor Party could not care less about the democratic rights of Australian citizens to enjoy equality of representation in this Parliament. [More…]
We of the Australian Country Party would be failing in our duty if we did not fight with all our power to protect the limited rights of country people and to fight to secure for country people something approaching the equality of representation to which they, as Australian citizens, are entitled. [More…]
The people of Norfolk Island, who are also Australian citizens, are going to petition the United Nations because of the Government’s maladministration. [More…]
It is impossible for members of this Parliament, or any Australian citizens, to predict with certainty what will happen next in Australia when 43,000 people have been on strike every single working day so far this year. [More…]
As I understand it, officials of the Commonwealth Government, the Queensland Government- I do not know about representatives of the Torres Strait Islanders, although they are Australian citizens and ought to be involved- and officials of the Papua New Guinea Government have been meeting to talk about the border. [More…]
I believe the Minister himself- knowing him well as I do- must be concerned, along with many other members of this Parliament, and indeed with a great many other Australian citizens, representing virtually all shades of political opinion except the extreme left wing unions and those who support the revolutionary socialist left which, as we all know, is dedicated to the complete overthrow of our present social order. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the tragic situation in Western Australia with respect to the proposed provisions of the Fuel and Energy Bill now before the Western Australian State Liberal Government’s Parliament which, it is alleged by the Law Society of Western Australia, State politicians and community leaders in that State, will remove civil liberties of Australian citizens? [More…]
Will the Minister clarify how the provisions of this Bill affect the civil liberties of Australian citizens? [More…]
Will the Minister clarify what protection is afforded the legal and civil rights of Australian citizens acting in Western Australia in disputes under direction by Federal organisations in respect of national decisions which cause the invoking of the penal provisions of that Fuel and Energy Bill? [More…]
What protection can be offered to Australian citizens who go to Western Australia to carry out duties on behalf of a national body from the threat of the application of the provisions of the West Australian Act arising from the duties which they perform? [More…]
I rise to draw attention further to the tragic circumstances in Western Australia where legislation which has been sent from the Lower House to the Upper House proposes to take from Australian citizens their basic freedoms at law and to give to an elected government powers which were not mentioned during that government’s election manifesto. [More…]
Today I asked the Minister for Manufacturing Industry (Mr Enderby) who represents the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) in this chamber, what protection could be offered to Australian citizens who go to Western Australia to act on national decisions? [More…]
I raise the issue here, for the disgrace is that the funds for the dilapidated buildings, the branch maintenance funds, originally were allocated by the Parliament to the State on the trust that it would look after the welfare of the State citizens- all Australian citizens. [More…]
All Australian citizens should be treated equally and the Western Australian citizen should receive as much consideration as a citizen in another State. [More…]
We seek this because we believe that we cannot fundamentally change the rights of the Australian citizenry without permitting those who are the elected representatives of those Australian citizens to deliberate adequately upon the measures which are provided in this Bill. [More…]
These include: optional preferential marking of ballot-paper; printing of party affiliations of candidates on ballot-papers; registration of political parties for purposes of identification and printing of affiliations on ballot-papers; introduction of mobile polling booths at hospitals and similar institutions; drawing for positions of candidates on House of Representatives ballot-papers; closing of the polls at 6 p.m. rather than 8 p.m.; requiring a candidate changing his name within 12 months prior to nominations to declare the change, and providing for the former name to be included on the ballotpaper; prevention of persons enrolling or nominating for election under changed names in certain circumstances; an earlier deadline for the return of postal votes and for the return of postal votes direct to respective returning officers; restricting postal vote application forms to be used at an election or referendum to those specified by notice in the Gazette; prohibiting the listing of names of persons who apply for postal votes, except in certain specified circumstances; providing postal voting facilities for prisoners who have retained their franchise entitlements; increasing the amount of deposit required with nomination and varying the conditions under which deposits may be saved; preservation of the voting entitlement of Australian citizens posted overseas in the service of the Crown, and retention on the roll of the name of an elector temporarily absent from his address; precluding nomination for election to the Australian Parliament of a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory; prevention of a person from nominating as a candidate for more than one Federal election held on the same day; protection of candidates against the issue of misleading how-to-vote cards; change in qualifications for enrolment, voting and candidature from ‘British subject’ to ‘status of a British subject’; eliminating the need to state the address of author in the case of broadcasting or telecasting of political matters; the manner of announcing the name of an author of political matter on radio or television; responsibility for publication of matter or comment of a political nature in the Press between issue of the writ and the close of the poll; removal of the restriction on exhibition of electoral posters within a hall or room being used for political party meetings; provision of support staff for Distribution Commissioners; authority for alterations to the roll when a street is renamed or renumbered; lowering the permissible age of presiding officers or assisting presiding officers to 18 years; appointment of substitute assistant returning officer at places outside Australia in certain circumstances; increases in penalties for failure to enrol; the provision of fines as an alternative to imprisonment where relevant; amounts of monetary penalties to match imprisonment terms; amendment of questions to be put to voters by presiding officers; conversion of distances to metric measurements; use of ‘given names’ in lieu of ‘Christian names’; candidates making gifts, donations, etc., prior to an election; retitling of the Act. [More…]
He showed no concern for the people who were running the industries, the people who were providing employment for Australian citizens. [More…]
Mr FitzPATRICK (Darling) (4.38)- I support the Local Government Grants Bill 1974 because I believe in the principle of reducing the inequalities of the living conditions of Australian citizens regardless of whether they live in Canberra or in an isolated town in my electorate in the far west of New South Wales. [More…]
Without grants from the Grants Commission local government bodies in my electorate would never and will never have sufficient funds to provide a decent range of municipal services which every Australian citizens by right should receive. [More…]
Three weeks after Australian citizens had cast their votes nobody knew which Party would govern or which Party had the majority in the Senate. [More…]
There is an obligation on Australian citizens to vote, and the right to vote should be a right which is easy to exercise. [More…]
Among the amendments which should be approved are the printing of party affiliations on ballot papers, the introduction of mobile polling booths at hospitals, the drawing of the positions of House of Representatives candidates on ballot papers and the preservation of the voting entitlements of Australian citizens. [More…]
Prior to the recognition of the U.S.S.R. as the effective government of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, what arrangements existed between those countries and Australia for (a) extradition, (b) travel to those countries by Australian citizens and (c) application for residence in Australia. [More…]
Prior to the recognition of the incorporation of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union as de jure incorporation, there was no extradition treaty in force between Australia and the U.S.S.R. Australian citizens wishing to visit the three Baltic States had to apply to a Soviet Embassy or Consulate for a visa, and a person residing in one of the three Baltic States who wished to enter Australia as a migrant had to comply with the relevant provisions of Soviet law regarding exit permits and had to apply to the Australian Embassy in Moscow for a migrant visa. [More…]
I do not think that they ought to be taxed any differently from Australian citizens in terms of their earnings. [More…]
Did he state in a letter, dated 26 June 1974, to the Premier of Queensland that his Government’s view is that the inhabited islands should remain with Australia and the Islanders should retain their present status as Australian citizens. [More…]
My Government’s view is that the inhabited islands should remain with Australia and the Islanders should retain their present status as Australian citizens. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Northern Territory: What progress has been made in the receipt and disbursement by the Darwin Cyclone Tracy Relief Trust Fund of the millions of dollars most generously given by Australian citizens to assist victims of the cyclone disaster of last December? [More…]
The Federal platform of the Liberal Party, as approved by the Federal Council in October 1974, includes proposals for the implementation and enforcement of legislation to promote equality of rights between all Australian citizens and to remove any form of discrimination against Aboriginals. [More…]
It does not believe that any group of Australian citizens should be subject to laws that are inconsistent with fundamental rights. [More…]
Many of these countries are vital in terms of our trade and as the source of a number of our Australian citizens from overseas. [More…]
I would not like to be a member of a generation of Australian citizens which, whilst not destroying those time honoured and respected concepts, sought to break down the golden rules which have served us well, by adopting a policy of straddling the issues, being over sympathetic to the point of view- no matter how honestly held- that man or woman is licensed as it were to be absolutely free without any responsibilities to society. [More…]
The view is now taken by the great majority of Australian citizens that it is no longer consonant with the independent status of Australia as a nation that there should be any resort to courts outside Australia in adjudicating on legal disputes that arise within Australia. [More…]
We believe that much of this legislation will give the AIDC a considerable amount of power which in the future could well be inimical to the individual interests of Australian citizens, although it may well act in the overall interests of a specific Australian government. [More…]
It is important to have a national fund to which Australian citizens who want to contribute to the development of their own nation can freely contribute. [More…]
The time has come to bring that same capacity, that same resourcefulness which has enabled the old war service homes scheme to bring homes to more than 323 000 veterans down the years, to meet the housing needs of a broader range of Australian citizens. [More…]
The Government believes it is an important step towards the goal of improving the enjoyment of civil liberties by Australian citizens and towards better administration in Australia. [More…]
We are going to be able to encourage people to take a different view of the rights of individuals because all Australian citizens should have equal rights. [More…]
This Part does not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences between Australian citizens and persons who are not Australian citizens. [More…]
It does not matter that they are Australian citizens. [More…]
There are Australian citizens in these places. [More…]
It is an utter denial of the right of Australian citizens to cast a vote. [More…]
I would say that nine out of ten Australian citizens, if they faced that question, would not agree to cut growth by restricting the money supply or by any other course of action in order to deal with inflation. [More…]
In the 10 years ended December 1973, 34 000 good Australian citizens were killed and over 850 000 were injured in road accidents on Australian roads. [More…]
But the time has come for Australian citizens to be protected. [More…]
It has been decided to allow the entry into Australia for temporary residence of the following categories of persons having Vietnamese citizenship: Firstly, the spouse and children of Vietnamese students at present living in Australia and, secondly, the spouses and the under 2 1 -year old children of Australian citizens subject to completion of Australian citizenship formalities, instructions on which have been telegraphed to the Australian Embassy in Saigon which will allow the issue of Australian passports to such persons. [More…]
To eliminate Carrowbrook could mean that 33 good Australian citizens who would have to travel to town over 19 river crossings were disfranchised. [More…]
Under what legislative authority does the Organisation purport to direct the movement of Australian citizens. [More…]
Those votes are from Australian citizens. [More…]
As honourable members will know, the Government shortly will announce the names of the first Australian citizens who are to be admitted to the Order of Australia- Australia ‘s own honours system and one which, as honourable members will know, has the full approval of Her Majesty the Queen. [More…]
The 10 per cent discrepancy, which was part of the terms of reference given to the CommissionersCommissioners who were not appointed from political parties, but from among Australian citizens to bring down a fair and equitable redistributionought to be agreed to by this Parliament. [More…]
Yet here in 1975 the Opposition- the Liberal Party and the National Country Party- is able to say that a situation should exist by which the Privy Council located in England should rule on what is the law in, say, New South Wales, or what is the correct legal solution to a problem between 2 Australian citizens living in Hobart or Perth, merely because the Australian Government, according to one view, does not have the constitutional power to say what the Canadian Government said back in about 1933. [More…]
How many of each group in part (2) are not Australian citizens. [More…]
Does this undertaking mean that the South Vietnamese can never be granted Australian citizenship or, if they can, they will not have the same civil rights as all other Australian citizens have? [More…]
Does he believe that, as a result of the undertaking given by those of whom he has required that there should be no political involvement, they will be second rate Australian citizens in that apparently they are not to be allowed to participate in political affairs in the same way as every other Australian citizen is? [More…]
If in due course they wish to become Australian citizens, then of course they will be able to become Australian citizens like anybody else who lives in the country. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Prime Minister, deals with the plight of Australian citizens in strife-torn Portuguese Timor. [More…]
-I raise this matter of public importance again today- it was gagged last week- because I believe that the special requirement imposed on 9 South Vietnamese refugees seeking entry into Australia carries implications for all Australian citizens and all those who may seek citizenship in the future. [More…]
The Australian Legal Aid Office, in the time it has been in operation, has provided assistance to 130 000 Australian citizens. [More…]
They are 130 000 Australian citizens who would not have got legal advice or assistance otherwise. [More…]
I know that the Opposition, when it comes to government, will not and could not treat this section of Australian citizens with such callous disregard. [More…]
Due to the many representations we have received on this matter I ask the Minister to ensure when such a Bill is introduced- I hope it will be soon because the amalgamation the Australia Police Force has no legislative backing- that we will have ample time to study it, that he might consider laying the Bill on the table for a reasonable period so that we can adequately consider it, so that the States and the police forces of the States can adequately consider it and indeed so that the Australian citizens can have a look at it. [More…]
But I believe that it should be regarded by the Government as a matter of urgency that this one area of discrimination against newly arrived migrants should be eliminated by the positive action of the Government to give equal employment opportunities in the Public Service to all Australian citizens regardless of their ability to handle effectively the English language. [More…]
It has been clear from the outset that the Torres Strait Islanders shared with the Government of Queensland a general reluctance to see any change in the present location of the border, in the status and rights of Torres Strait Islanders as Australian citizens, but that in addition they attached great, perhaps even over-riding, importance to the protection of the total environment of the Torres Strait which they saw not merely as the basis of their livelihood but of their characteristic and independent way of life [More…]
We would not expect to participate in those meetings, but equally I reserve the right of the Australian Government or its officials to hold whatever consultations it thinks fit with any Australian citizens. [More…]
The matter I wish to raise in this debate concerns many Australian citizens and in particular those citizens who are the foundations for our future society. [More…]
I expect that as these schemes are consolidated and further developed, the community generally will see their benefit in the number of Aboriginals who are taking their place alongside other Australian citizens in well paid, stable employment. [More…]
Australian citizens travelling abroad whose passage and accommodation have been booked by travel agents in Australia sometimes find themselves unable to get on the aircraft because the seats have been taken by somebody who made a prior booking. [More…]
The Australian Embassy in Beirut is now suggesting to Australian citizens in Lebanon who seek the Embassy’s advice that they consider leaving Beirut unless they have overriding reasons for remaining. [More…]
I hope that Australian citizens in Lebanon will give heed to the Embassy’s advice. [More…]
While the Embassy will do what it can to assist Australian citizens in whatever circumstances may develop, and we have been looking at possible arrangements for some time, it is clearly better for Australians to make their own plans in good time and while circumstances allow. [More…]
Was a circular distributed in the Department of Foreign Affairs recently asking officers to indicate whether or not they are Australian citizens. [More…]
2747 on 19 August 197S, has there been an amendment to the Citizenship Act so that Foreign Affairs officers who are not Australian citizens are not precluded, by virtue of the nature of their duties, from becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
The Department wished to know how many officers who are not Australian citizens might have their opportunity to become so affected by their service in the Department. [More…]
It has become clear that, while officers who are not Australian citizens and wish to apply for citizenship must have resided in Australia continuously for one year immediately preceding the date of being granted a certificate of citizenship, the further two years of residence in Australia required for the grant of citizenship may be fulfilled while serving overseas as a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Under these conditions officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs who are not Australian citizens- and the Department naturally expects the few officers who are not yet Australian citizens to become so as soon as practicablewill normally meet the residential qualifications while pursuing their career in the normal manner. [More…]
There remains one anomaly, members of the armed forces and Merchant Navy who are not Australian citizens but apply to become so are catered for by a specific exemption contained in the legislation. [More…]
The new procedures in no way lessen the protection afforded to the general Australian population because in fact those people who travel overseas and who are residents of Australia but who do not have Australian citizenship will be in exactly the same situation as they would have been if they had been required to obtain re-entry visas before they left. [More…]
Rather there is an easing of movement for people who are resident in Australia but who are not yet Australian citizens. [More…]
This particularly assists those people who have not seen fit to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
I do not think Australian citizenship should be forced upon anyone. [More…]
I believe that the re-entry requirements introduced by the previous Government did have that effect upon people who were not yet Australian citizens. [More…]
If the honourable member is serious about what he has said he should make a wholehearted effort to encourage people who come within the ambit of the amnesty offer to come forward and, as he has said, regularise their legality in Australia, make certain that they can live a full and active life, and in time become full Australian citizens. [More…]
The position at present is what it has been for a long time and that is that Australian citizens who formerly had German nationality do not receive social service payments from Germany to which they would otherwise have become entitled. [More…]
If such a person accepts Australian citizenship he no longer is entitled to those payments. [More…]
The so-called right to property is central to the program of the Workers Party and its supporters characterise the rights of Australian citizens to education, health care and equal opportunity as privileges. [More…]
During March 19S1 whilst in London I wrote to the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies complaining that there were no facilities at Australia House, London for registering Australian citizens in Britain for postal votes. [More…]
1 also endeavoured to impress on the Prime Minister the need for such work to be done as there were an estimated 60,000 Australian citizens in Britain as 1951 was Festival of Britain Year. [More…]
These people who were Australian citizens experienced great difficulties. [More…]
Those countries have many more citizens and corporations investing in our country than we have Australian citizens and companies - investing in those countries. [More…]
I think that the members of the Committee should be able to see Canberra as having 3 distinct rolesits role as the seat of government and the home of the national Parliament, its role as the national capital, which is a very different role, and its role as a community of 200 000 Australian citizens who until recently have been discriminated against in terms of representation. [More…]
In regard to the fourth part of the question, I would advise that a general warning has been issued continuously to Australian citizens in the Lebanon since December last year. [More…]
But when we talk about Australian ownership we talk about ownership by Australian citizens, not ownership by a bureaucracy or ownership by the government. [More…]
We are a long way away, even though so many of the Polish refugees from Imperialist communism have come to Australia and are now living among us as Australian citizens. [More…]
Added employment of Australian citizens, particularly during the present unemployment crisis, the royalties and taxes extracted, together with the foreign exchange generated by exports, are all benefits to Australia and far exceed the profits enjoyed by foreign investors, no matter what is the amount of their equity. [More…]
With respect to other aid- a number of institutions in Australia is seeking to send aid; it is not only the Australian trade union movement that has an interest in despatching assistance to the people of East Timor- the position remains that the Australian Government is not prepared to permit Australian citizens to go into a position of total uncertainty as to whether they will be able to land their vessel or take their vessel into the waters of East Timor. [More…]
Medibank- intended as a full, automatic free service for all Australians, the birthright of all Australian citizens, the entitlement of every migrant to Australia- will become a second-best welfare scheme for a minority only. [More…]
They all show nationality as Yugoslavian or that they are persons who came from Yugoslavia and are Australian citizens. [More…]
The fact is that Canberra residents pay more per head in tax than Australian citizens in any State. [More…]
Canberra people have always paid their way in the same way as other Australian citizens do. [More…]
Is it a fact that many Australian citizens formerly of German nationality have been greatly disadvantaged because of the present position where Germans lose their entitlement to their contributory social security system when opting for Australian citizenship. [More…]
If so, (a) what are the circumstances, (b) what rules govern the level of pension which may then be payable, (c) is the faa that the applicant for a pension has been paying Australian income tax while overseas taken into account in deciding whether to grant a pension to a person residing overseas, (d) is a distinction made between Australian citizens and residents and (e) if so, what distinction is made. [More…]
and (e) No distinction is made between Australian citizens and non-citizens. [More…]
the United Suites Central Intelligence Agency in other countries, do not impinge on the right of privacy of Australian citizens either in Australia or overseas. [More…]
What proportion of the funds generously contributed by a large number of Australian citizens to the Darwin Disaster Fund has been spent. [More…]
That, of course, includes Australian citizens who travel outside this country. [More…]
That is consistent with this Government’s attitude to all members of our society or all persons who are Australian citizens even though they are outside the country at any particular time. [More…]
But they come here and foment strike after strike, wrecking the jobs of decent, honest Australian citizens in the shipyards of our nation. [More…]
Many hundreds of thousands of those Australian citizens who were waiting for this Budget were already victims of the broken promises of the LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]
Also underneath that tremendous weight is Australia’s future as a credible nation and the freedom of Australian citizens, especially those living outside the city and suburban areas of the great southern capitals. [More…]
The new Home Savings Grants Scheme will provide for grants to all persons whether married or single who are Australian citizens or have the right to permanent residence in Australia, and who are acquiring their first home. [More…]
It has to be realised that there is little the Australian Government can do, other than to check on the welfare of these people and their well-being within the prisons or wherever they may be incarcerated, when Australian citizens are apprehended overseas on drug charges; just as there is little that foreign governments can do within Australia if any of their nationals are arrested in Australia on similar charges. [More…]
to meet the circumstances of Australian citizens who desire to adopt a child from an overseas country; [More…]
It is now easier for residents who are not Australian citizens to depart from Australia and return than it was in the days of the Labor Government. [More…]
We are not 2-faced about our policies, and I believe that the migrant community of Australia and all Australian citizens recognise the real concern that this Government and the Minister and my colleagues on this side of the Chamber have for the Immigration and Ethnic Affairs portfolio. [More…]
Might I remind honourable members opposite and those Lebanese people in this country who are listening to this debate and indeed the Australian citizens who are listening, that every application that has come forward has been given compassionate consideration and has been expedited in a manner that is becoming to an efficient Department and an efficient Minister. [More…]
One only has to see the extent to which community an in many areas is spreading throughout the country towns, the villages and the suburbs of the cities to know that art is widely understood and appreciated by hundreds of thousands of Australian citizens. [More…]
As a shorter-term objective, high priority should be accorded to entering into bilateral agreements between Australia and those countries whose nationality laws cause Australian citizens to be dual nationals and who suffer disadvantages because of this circumstance. [More…]
They do not then add up the cost of their proposals and publicly say to the Australian taxpayer that they would like that money taken out of the pockets of the Australian citizens. [More…]
(a) Australian citizens on the Islands in possession of valid passports are entitled to enter Australia without restriction and no statistics are kept of their arrivals. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Will he consider making an appropriate response to what I consider a gratuitous insult to Australia and to tens of thousands of Australian citizens who have lived and worked for many years in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I point out that 417 of these long term residents are Australian citizens already. [More…]
The others are eligible to apply for Australian citizenship. [More…]
1 ) Are any records kept of the number of migrants who become Australian citizens. [More…]
These people of the Pilbara produce a huge percentage of the export income of Australia- proportionately far more than any other group of Australian citizens. [More…]
There is no doubt now that the Torres Strait Islanders will remain Australian citizens and that the Torres Strait Islands will remain Australian territory. [More…]
It will apply to acts done by Australian citizens outside Australia and the external territories, as dealt with in clause S. Clause 6 provides that the Act binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth or of a State. [More…]
To be eligible for a grant, each of the applicants must be Australian citizens, or have permanent resident status. [More…]
Our own Trade Practices Act does, of course, apply extra-territorially where relevant conduct is engaged in by bodies corporate incorporated or carrying on business within Australia or by Australian citizens or persons ordinarily resident within Australia. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill are directed at the protection of documents that are located in this country and with the conduct, in certain circumstances, of persons who are Australian citizens or residents. [More…]
The second point made by the Attorney-General is that we ought to be supporting this Bill because, if I understood him correctly, it will protect Australian citizens from being exposed to foreign legislation. [More…]
As he rightly pointed out, conceding in this area affects all Australian citizens because of the increased cost of goods coming into and going out of the country. [More…]
It deals with acts that are to be done or which are omitted to be done by Australian citizens whether they are in Australia or outside Australia, and it applies to external territories. [More…]
The third point, which I raised at the Constitutional Convention, concerns Australian citizens in the overseas Territories of Norfolk Island, Cocos Island and Christmas Island. [More…]
I speculated that Sir John Nimmo as Royal Commissioner on Norfolk Island might recommend that the Australian citizens of Norfolk Island should be given a vote for this House. [More…]
This Bill, if carried by electors of the States, will permit the Australian citizens in those overseas Territories-I imagine honourable members and honourable senators and the great majority of Australian citizens everywhere, including in those Territories, would wish them to remain Territories of this country-to vote in any future referendums. [More…]
To that extent surely there can be no maintenance of a position that those who are residents of the Territories are given something less than the full status of Australian citizens. [More…]
I must commend the Speaker on the very wise ruling he made yesterday and express our appreciation for it, even though we have been elected by people and we represent people who are regarded by the High Court as something less than Australian citizens. [More…]
The first 3 issues have a direct interest for all Australian citizens. [More…]
I am confident that most Australian citizens will see Canberra not only as the seat of the Commonwealth Parliament and the national capital but also as a community of 200 000 people, many of whom have moved here from other States. [More…]
Finally, if any Australian citizens are in peril let us take the appropriate action before the International Court of Justice on thenbehalf. [More…]
It is a fact- a fact beyond disputethat most Australian citizens believe that it is proper that these disparate areas have some additional assistance from their member. [More…]
Members of the National Country Party would be failing in their duty if they did not fight with all their power to protect the limited rights of country people and to secure for country people something approaching the equality of representation to which they are entitled as Australian citizens. [More…]
The securities should be available only to enrolled Australian citizens; [More…]
Let us return to the gang of four which went to Japan and threatened the withdrawal of port facilities to Japanese fishing vessels, and took the opportunity while abroad to denigrate Australian citizens and the performance of Australians. [More…]
Among the many benefits which we have as Australian citizens is the fact that this whole continent belongs to one nation alone. [More…]
He is dealing with the relatives of Australian citizens who form a significant ethnic group in Australia and who have made an important social, cultural and commercial contribution to Australian society for generations. [More…]
This Government ensures that Australian citizens are protected where it is within the Government’s capacity so to protect and that citizens have the right of comment in this country on any matters within the law. [More…]
This is a very difficult problem, and it must be resolved so that the people of the Torres Strait remain Australian citizens and the islands and the territorial seas around them remain Australian and Queensland territory and seas. [More…]
These actions are concerned with discovering the truth of what went on in Timor, including the truth as to how 6 Australian citizens met a brutal death there. [More…]
This clause will apply to Australian citizens, persons ordinarily resident in Australia and persons who at any time during the period of one year immediately preceding the commission of the offence were present in Australia for a purpose connected with the offence. [More…]
About a month ago I was privileged to be present when the Lithuanian immigrants of Western Australia, now Australian citizens, observed their national day on Sunday, 20 February. [More…]
Where is there any precision in regard to what is needed to meet the fundamental needs of migrants, ethnic groups and many other groups of alienated Australian citizens? [More…]
However, as they involve a reduction in resources available to Australian citizens, the Government must regard proposals for overseas aid expenditure in a similar light to proposals for other government expenditure. [More…]
At this stage I indicate that we shall suggest that the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to prevent hostile incursions by Australians into foreign countries, preparations for such incursions and the recruitment in Australia of Australian citizens for those purposes. [More…]
The concept that we are endeavouring to put in the amendment is that hostile incursions by Australians into foreign countries be banned, that preparations for such incursions be banned and that the recruitment in Australia of Australian citizens for these purposes be banned. [More…]
I reiterate that the Government is opposed to the service of Australian citizens as mercenaries . [More…]
recruitment in Australia of Australian citizens for these purposes’. [More…]
It applies not only to Australian citizens but also to people who are ordinarily resident in Australia and persons who were present in Australia within a year immediately before the offence was committed. [More…]
I reiterate that the Government is opposed to the service of Australian citizens as mercenaries in the armed forces of other countries. [More…]
As has been mentioned, in his reply the Prime Minister reiterates the Government’s attitude to the service of Australian citizens as mercenaries. [More…]
There are Australian citizens who are in exactly this situation. [More…]
If he has taken out Australian citizenship he would find himself in the situation of being in breach of this legislation by carrying out an obligation for which, if he fails to carry it out, he would be imprisoned in that country. [More…]
I find it really hard to believe that, after responsible government has been in existence for so long in this country and after the democratic battles of the past, which went on for so long in this country and in other countries, we now have to start all over again and start fighting for the same basic democratic rights involving something like 300 000 Australian citizens. [More…]
There is now a group of people whom I can only describe as political troglodytes or power hungry legal eagles who seek to turn the clock back and play petty politics with people’s basic rights, people who for the sake of some cheap political advantage, for the sake of influencing a referendum result are prepared to deny basic rights to or disenfranchise 300 000 Australian citizens. [More…]
I have already urged them to do so in a speech in this place on 23 March during the Address-in-Reply debate when I pointed out that Territorians are normal Australian citizens. [More…]
We in the Northern Territory seem to have been fighting, certainly ever since I have been a member of this House and since Jock Nelson, the former member, was in this House, a continual battle to obtain the rights which we should have as Australian citizens and which I believe we did have in the years from 1907 to 191 1. [More…]
It constitutes at least an indirect threat to Australian citizens. [More…]
We are not talking about Angola, but in the case of the Lebanon we have concrete examples of Australian citizens, many of whom have been in their early teens, who have gone from Australia to fight in that war- not against the foreign government, not against the government of Lebanon at all, but for one faction or another in that country. [More…]
There is no doubt but that that would inhibit Australian citizens from doing many things that they might want to do in difficult parts of the world. [More…]
That is not to suggest that armed conflict does not exist, but I do not think that Australian citizens ought to be permitted to be involved in them. [More…]
If the Government is sincere in its endeavours to prevent Australian citizens or residents of Australia or people who have been in Australia for 12 months- the classes mentioned in the Bill- from engaging in hostile activity it should accept the amendment. [More…]
If that is done, action breeds reaction, and the reaction would be against Australian citizens. [More…]
On the other hand, pensions should be payable to those who are permanent residents in Australia and who have been here long enough to be entitled to become Australian citizens if they are otherwise qualified. [More…]
This is an opportunity for us, not only the members of this Parliament but also Australian citizens, to meet students from other countries, learn something of their way of life and at the same time help them, not so much with their studies here, which obviously they will do themselves, but more importantly with meeting the people of this country. [More…]
On 17 March 1977 there were no applications from Australian citizens seeking employment in the community store. [More…]
In this way we could avoid the situation in which 31 -year-old Australian citizens who have been naturalised for 8 years obtain temporary residence permits and find themselves in an army in which they have no desire to be. [More…]
The decision to save or not to save must always remain a decision to be made by each individual for himself, but, until we realise that we have to adjust our public policy to the collective savings decisions of individual Australian citizens, we are unlikely to find any way out of the present economic morass. [More…]
Do Ministers who answered questions today seriously believe there is a conspiracy of journalists and editors, union leaders and authors and American and Australian citizens to manufacture news simply to damage the Fraser Government? [More…]
It seeks to promote understanding of the issues of world development and to encourage Australian citizens to take appropriate action for a more just world. [More…]
It was being sustained by the proxies of the Opposition at that time in the Parliament, and for that purpose he was seeking to postpone the granting of legal assistance to Australian citizens. [More…]
Coburg and Brunswick became Australian citizens in each year since1945. [More…]
What specific provisions exist within the framework of Australian law to protect Australian citizens from breaches of their privacy by the activities of United States corporations which operate in Australia, either directly or through subsidiaries or in association with other companies, and who have admitted having acted in collaboration with or as agents for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]
In cases of alleged invasions of privacy, from whatever source, Australian citizens can have recourse to the law currently applicable. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs would consider any request for repatriation of an Australian child under the rules which are laid down for repatriation of Australian citizens. [More…]
The conditions of repatriation of Australian citizens require that the funds expended be repaid by the individual. [More…]
He strongly implied that Australian citizens of British origin who get themselves mixed up in strikes should be deported. [More…]
I should like to make one thing perfectly clear to the Opposition, to listeners to the broadcast of these proceedings, to migrants in this country and to the House: The Migration Act 1958 confers power for the deportation of persons who have not become Australian citizens in certain defined circumstances. [More…]
In short, I am concerned that certain Australian citizens who originally came from Yugoslavia are being intimidated and have had their individual freedoms interfered with by a consular representative from another country. [More…]
I bring them to the attention of the House because I find it incredible that Australian citizens living in Australia and ostensibly enjoying the individual freedoms which that citizenship conveys, including the right of free association, the right of assembly and the right to practise one’s religion, are having their rights interfered with by the consular officials of another country. [More…]
It seems that the objectives and obligations referred to by Mr Dolanc are being directed against those former citizens of Yugoslavia who live in Australia and who wish to renounce their former citizenship and become Australian citizens. [More…]
But I do suggest that those who express the wish to become and who do become solely Australian citizens should not be intimidated or in any way have their individual freedoms interfered with by any consular official from any country. [More…]
Not only did they inconvenience people in Tasmania and isolate those people in the island State, but they left Australian citizens stranded all over the world. [More…]
That fact was pointed out in an article in the Sydney Sun which said that Australian citizens in other parts of the world were absolutely destitute because they had run out of money and could not get home because people here in Australia- a militant minority- were too jolly greedy. [More…]
Are we as Australian citizens prepared to bow to the overbearing demands of a militant minority in the trade union movement? [More…]
It recognises that there must be a fair sharing of the burdens by all Australian citizens and that they must all be prepared to accept the responsibilities as well as the ultimate rewards. [More…]
Will the Government make it known that Commonwealth nationals are not only eligible to be enrolled as voters but are also required to be enrolled and that, under Australia’s system of compulsory enrolment and voting, they are subject to the same penalties as Australian citizens for failing to enrol and vote? [More…]
It does not want to take the responsibility for the cold-blooded slaughter of Australian citizens. [More…]
Australian officials from a wide variety of government departments and instrumentalities are desperately needed at posts abroad, not only to protect Australia’s bilateral interests and the rights of Australian citizens but also to ensure that Australia’s views are represented fully, and occasionally even forcefully, at the ever-growing range of international conferences which take decisions affecting so many aspects of Australia’s prosperity and way of life. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, when Prime Minister, chartered Qantas Airways Ltd jets at prodigious cost and forced the cancellation of the flights of hundreds of Australian citizens. [More…]
But if they become naturalised Australian citizens they lose that entitlement, and I think that is a great pity. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar)- I am sure he agrees with me that such a disincentive should not exist for former citizens of Germany to become Australian citizens- to initiate discussions again with the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
Overwhelmingly, migrants to Australia quickly see themselves as Australians, and this is how we, as members of this Parliament, should always regard migrants, no more and certainly no less than all Australianborn Australian citizens. [More…]
They have suddenly found out that they are not Australian citizens. [More…]
I think it would do no harm if some effort were made to inform these people that if they wish to become Australian citizens they have to take more steps than merely placing their names on the electoral roll. [More…]
I believe that Australian citizenship is something to be prized very greatly. [More…]
I do not believe that it is in the best interests of people coming to Australia for them to feel somehow that they are expected to become Australian citizens. [More…]
In saying that I make the point again that I am very very pleased when people do make the decision to become Australian citizens. [More…]
People have said that somehow I am against people seeking to become Australian citizens. [More…]
I am very sorry to hear that people try to put around this mis-statement that the Government is in some way attempting to discourage people from becoming Australian citizens. [More…]
What we do say, though, is that Australian citizenship is something to be prized and not something to be taken lightly. [More…]
What steps have been taken to obtain payments of contributory pensions for Australian citizens who formerly worked in Germany. [More…]
Will the Government make it known that Commonwealth nationals are not only eligible to be enrolled as voters but also required to be enrolled and that, under Australia’s system of compulsory enrolment and voting, they are subject to the same penalties as Australian citizens for failing to enrol and vote? [More…]
They are all Australian citizens. [More…]
Therefore we should look at all the children in State schools or in private schools, church schools, in terms of need, and as Australian citizens. [More…]
The Government has made it clear that in meeting the terms of this resolution legislation will be drafted so as to avoid infringing the civil liberties of Australian citizens. [More…]
The Australian Government has constitutional power to enact a Bill of Rights to give the Australian citizens judicial protection. [More…]
Thirdly, let them urge their Ministers to support us in our call for putting more resources into social security so that the dreary queues may be shortened, the delays in payment removed and the unemployed served as Australian citizens should be served. [More…]
The full employment pledge of 1 945, and accepted for 30 years by all political parties as the right of all Australian citizens, was abandoned by this Government in 1976. [More…]
The Prime Minister, the man who on Australia Day talked of unifying this nation, referred to the 42 per cent of Australian citizens who disagreed with him as rabble. [More…]
For the first time in the fields of education and health care there was the view that these were matters of right for all Australian citizens. [More…]
We talk about restructuring industry as if we were not talking about the lives of Australian citizens. [More…]
This clause will apply to Australian citizens, persons ordinarily resident in [More…]
They felt that it was their responsibility as Australian citizens to try to facilitate the assimilation of those Aboriginal people. [More…]
The stock answer is that these Aboriginal people are Australian citizens, they are residents of Maryborough and they are answerable to the laws, the ordinances and the norms, just as any other citizen might be. [More…]
All I know is that a potential and possibly an actual serious problem is being caused to relatives of Australian citizens. [More…]
I am advised from information available to the Foreign Investment Review Board, that of the 20 principal mining companies in Australia with majority foreign ownership, seven have a majority of Australian citizens on their boards. [More…]
A further three companies have boards on which Australian citizens have an equal number of positions with foreign nationals, with the remaining ten companies having a majority of foreign nationals on their boards. [More…]
It is a highly responsible and proper request from a group of Australian citizens whose future is being determined by this legislation. [More…]
Aboriginals have the same right as other Australian citizens to determine what is best for them. [More…]
Those Australians would not be treated very kindly just because they are deemed to be Australian citizens. [More…]
There can be no doubt that the activities in my community during the period of the Yom Kippur war were such that all those young people who were involved publicly and openly as Australian citizens in signing forms on television, making it perfectly clear that they were recruiting for the armed forces of Israel, would have come within that provision. [More…]
It is something which in my view should not take up much of the time of this House, but given the multicultural and ethnic background of Australia and given the problems that arise in the international arena, it is not unlikely that Australian citizens with ethnic backgrounds will find themselves in situations where they will want, not because of money but by virtue of deep social and political convictions which go back to the land of their origin, to involve themselves in the armed forces of that country. [More…]
Young people, who were in all respects very fine Australian citizens, were saying as a matter of fundamental political commitment: ‘We have to go to Israel because this state which is so important to us is under threat’. [More…]
Secondly, it is penal legislation, and clause 9 ought to be reviewed because the fact that it is penal legislation will provide very harsh penalties for most Australian citizens. [More…]
The Australian Government and the Australian people do not object to the free expression of political ideas, but it is offensive to this country if individual persons purport to be representatives of a non-existent foreign state and seek to represent Australian citizens of a specific ethnic origin. [More…]
The Torres Strait Islanders will, of course, remain Australian citizens. [More…]
Let us make it clear that the Torres Strait Islanders are Australian citizens and we have a national responsibility to represent them. [More…]
The three inhabited islands of Boigu, Saibai and Dauan (which may be left north of the new seabed boundary) remaining Australian and their people Australian citizens. [More…]
That preserves the integrity of those who are now Australian citizens on its inhabited islands, giving them a full entitlement to the three miles of territorial waters. [More…]
Broadly speaking, they fall into two parts: The provision of notarial and documentation services, and the protection of Australian citizens. [More…]
An important consular duty is to ensure that Australian citizens arrested overseas are treated with due process in accordance with the laws of the state where the offence may have occurred and that they receive the same benefits of the law which the foreign state affords to its own subjects. [More…]
This assistance includes: Inquiries relating to the welfare and whereabouts of Australians; repatriation and financial relief of distressed Australians in the form of a repayable loan as already mentioned; welfare visits to persons in gaol, hospital or in an asylum; assistance in natural disasters or emergencies; and making available to Australian citizens who have been arrested a list of local lawyers who may be able to assist them. [More…]
We must have the means to respond to an anxious parent in search of a missing child, to a pensioner whose social security benefits have been erroneously held up or in the aftermath of a disaster involving Australian citizens overseas. [More…]
For this reason permanent residents in Australia, Commonwealth and State public servants overseas whose conditions of remuneration adequately cover their position and Australian citizens overseas who are employed as locally engaged staff at Australian establishments outside Australia and entitled to the provision of health care reimbursement of expenses as part of the employment conditions, are excluded from the concession. [More…]
How long would it be before it moved to close down any group of Australian citizens who wanted to exercise their democratic right to stand up and say: ‘We are opposed to the government of the country of our origin ‘? [More…]
a minimum 25 per cent Australian equity; secondly, amendment of its articles of association to provide for a board a majority of which are Australian citizens; and thirdly, a public commitment to increase Australian equity to 5 1 per cent subject to agreed understandings between the company, major shareholder interests and the Government, and regular discussions with the Foreign Investment Review Board on progress towards achieving 51 per cent Australian ownership. [More…]
The second point made on the sixth page of the statement refers to the amendment of the articles of association of a company to provide for a board of which the majority are Australian citizens. [More…]
I want once again to commend the Minister for providing that freedom of choice, which I believe should be there for those Australian citizens who do not believe in the provision of medical benefits for abortion, to opt out of paying for it. [More…]
I am advised that the Government has taken all necessary steps to ensure that all Australian citizens (including Aboriginals), working in employment to which Commonwealth industrial legislation applies, are employed at wage rates and under conditions which are prescribed in the relevant awards. [More…]
1 ) How many permanent residents of Australia are not Australian citizens. [More…]
In view of the fact that the families of some of my constituents have lost their lives in bombardment by the Syrian forces in Lebanon and in view of the fact that three relatives of my constituents are in Lebanon and cannot get to the international airport to fly back to Australia, despite their being Australian citizens, will the Minister inform the House of the situation in Lebanon and advise what these Australian citizens should do to get to the airport? [More…]
by court martial or civilian court) and who constituted the courts and their qualifications, (b) the length of each trial, (c) the nature of the prosecution evidence and how it was evaluated, (d) the language in which the trials were conducted, (e) whether the accused were given legal representation, (f) whether the accused understood the nature of the offences with which they were charged, (g) whether the trial procedures would have been identical if the accused had been Australian citizens, (h) why the trial proceedings were not referred to Canberra for advice, (i) whether the commutation of 50 to 60 death sentences in 1 945 had an adverse effect on the prosecution of the war effort, and (j ) why the incidents have been unrecorded by historians and other writers on the period. [More…]
On the figures given by the Treasurer, up to 533,000 Australian citizens wanting to work will be unable to do so. [More…]
To refuse to do so would be, as Dr Coombs rightly points out: a confession that the Ranger agreement has indeed been concluded under duress, and that the Australian Government rates the immediate profits of mining companies more highly than the deeply-felt anxieties for their ancient way of life of those Australian citizens whom we have, over the last 200 years, continuously robbed of what was theirs by plain and sacred right [More…]
On the other hand this Government reintroduced the Department of Immigration and expanded it to include ethnic affairs, a recognition of the fact that the Government does not see migrants as being just workers but rather as people with a unique and cultural heritage which we should encourage them to foster as they become Australian citizens. [More…]
There ought to be a standard means of recording every artefact which presently exists in historical societies or local museums on a national register and that those people who are so surely amateurs and who would concede that they are amateurs have some body of expertise to whom they can turn to ensure that the artefacts which are presented to them usually by old families in the community, will be preserved for the future benefit of Australian citizens. [More…]
Is it also a fact that, at the time this sales tax was imposed, Australian citizens were not forced to hand in to the Reserve Bank of Australia stocks of gold sovereigns or half sovereigns over and above a certain prescribed ownership level. [More…]
By imposing the sales tax of 15 per cent on overseas gold coins, did the Government anticipate or intend any interference with the rights of Australian citizens to use freely gold coins minted in Australia for any purpose seen fit by the owners of those coins. [More…]
There are serious questions concerning the health of Australian citizens, especially Aboriginals, concerning Australia’s sovereignty and whether the Australian Government always has been kept informed of events on Australian soil, concerning the hazards of waste which remains at Maralinga and the cost to Australian taxpayers of policing the nuclear waste for 300,000 years, the time it will take before it loses its toxicity. [More…]
We as responsible Australian citizens have an obligation to hold a balance between our rights and responsibilities. [More…]
I am concerned about the way we are dealing with a piece of legislation which affects the living standards of hundreds of thousands of Australian citizens, all of whom through no fault of their own are living at the lower end of the socio-economic scale. [More…]
The Government has introduced a major piece of social legislation which, as I have said, affects the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of Australian citizens and all it can do is list three speakers- and each of those speakers spoke against the legislation. [More…]
I commend that thought to the simple souls that he now leads as a sentiment which, if it would do nothing else short of indexing the unemployment benefit I think that is the course that ought to be followed would provide some measure of economic relief to those hundreds of thousands of decent Australian citizens who want to work, who will not be able to get work and who, if we vote for this legislation in this form, will be forced to live below the poverty level in Australia in 1978. [More…]
1 ) Has he had any reports from the Commonwealth Employment Service that some employers and companies refuse to employ persons who have come to Australia from particular countries, i.e., Lebanon and Yugoslavia, even when they are Australian citizens. [More…]
I was distressed to read in the Melbourne Age the story that Qantas had acted in this manner and had imposed limitations, apparently on a religious basis, on the carriage of Australian citizens. [More…]
There can be discrimination against Australian citizens of a particular faith, and that is of concern to the Government. [More…]
When our own national airline offers a service to the people of Australia or any person wanting to fly overseas, we are not going to be stood over, intimidated or forced to accept the principle that Australian citizens will be refused the right to transit on our own international airline by virtue of their religion or place of origin. [More…]
The personal links between Australian citizens of many decades standing and the people of Lebanon ought to be considered by the Government when making a statement such as this. [More…]
I ask the Minister to explain to the House the current status of the Australian Embassy in Lebanon, firstly, in respect of the provision of assistance to Australian citizens and, secondly, in respect of refugees from Lebanon, both within and outside that country? [More…]
Consular officers are still operating in the Australian Embassy in Beirut and assisting those Australian citizens who seek such assistance. [More…]
Persons born in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands after 23 November 1955 are automatically Australian citizens. [More…]
I assure the Committee that I propose to pursue this matter because, like many other honourable members in this place, I am far from satisfied that we as Australian citizens are getting the best value for our dollar in terms of this country’s defence preparedness. [More…]
It means that thousands of Australian citizens are currently being denied their legal rights. [More…]
In conclusion, I would submit that the legal system as it operates today in Canberra, and I think in many other parts of Australia, serves the property and vested interests much more effectively than it serves the interests of individual citizens, particularly if those citizens happen to be people who have limited financial resources, if they happen to be new Australians or Australian citizens who may have language difficulties. [More…]
We have received no reports to suggest that there is any more danger for Australian citizens than there is for other foreigners at this time but the situation could change rapidly and the Embassy is advising resident Australians that it would be prudent at the very least for them to remain at home until the position clarifies. [More…]
I was also called a communist by people such as the honourable member for Tangney when I and thousands of other decent Australian citizens said that we were opposed to the war in Vietnam, we were opposed to Australia being in a situation of supporting and trying to uphold a corrupt and decadent regime. [More…]
However, I point out to the House that it provides that where a company has a 25 per cent Australian equity and where a majority of directors on the board are Australian citizens, if that company commits itself to achieve a 5 1 per cent Australian ownership, then it can act as a company which is 5 1 per cent Australian owned. [More…]
-On 24 October 1978 (Hansard, page 2174) the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) asked me a question, without notice, concerning pensions from the Federal Republic of Germany for German immigrants to this country who have become naturalised Australian citizens. [More…]
Were the five people who were arrested Australian citizens and, if so, when were they first referred to as Croatians and why? [More…]
You are free Australian citizens and you ‘ve got a right to manage your own affairs or be managed by people who are acceptable to you. [More…]
Government to approve this takeover followed earlier rejection of a proposal which would have resulted in a 100 per cent acquisition of the shares in Bushells Investments Ltd. As a result of that rejection, the Brooke Bond Liebig company submitted a revised offer which involved an immediate 25 per cent equity by the Australian Mutual Provident Society, together with an undertaking to move towards 5 1 per cent Australian ownership over a period of three to five years and a situation whereby the majority of the board of directors of the company were Australian citizens. [More…]
I think that despite all the blustering we hear from members opposite, the vast majority of Australian citizens would agree with that proposition. [More…]
It is no answer to the many Australian citizens who believe in principle that Australian uranium ought not to be mined until we have solved the problems of nuclear proliferation. [More…]
The treaty settlement which has now been achieved is one which protects the interests of Australia and all Australian citizens, while being, at the same time, a fair and equitable settlement between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A fundamentally important part of the treaty is that all Australian islands remain Australian, and all Australian citizens remain Australian citizens. [More…]
The Treaty settlement which has now been achieved is one which protects the interests of Australia and of all Australian citizens, while being, at the same time, a fair and equitable settlement between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We can put at rest also the suggestion that the people of those islands will not have the protection of Australian citizenship. [More…]
They will be Australian citizens. [More…]
The people themselves will be accepted as Australian citizens. [More…]
I believe that the proposal now before the House, which strengthens the recently amended National Health Act, goes a long way to guaranteeing that all Australian citizens should be given a degree of choice in terms of the medical services that they may want and did not have under Medibank No. [More…]
(b) The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires all Australian citizens and other British subjects to enrol and vote for federal elections. [More…]
When the question of unemployment and the plight of thousands of Australian citizens who are seeking jobs were raised in this House by Opposition spokesmen and when the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs was given an opportunity in this Parliament to answer allegations which ascribe to him statements which indicate that he clearly believes that the first group of people to be blamed for the unemployment situation is the unemployed themselves it is unfortunate that the Minister chose not to answer those allegations. [More…]
Anyone who votes against this motion today is voting to place and to keep many decent Australian citizens below the poverty line, the line defined as that level of income necessary for the basic requirement for food and shelter. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government received a request from the Australian Services Council that Australian repatriation and allied rights be made available to British and allied exservicemen who are not Australian citizens resident in Australia. [More…]
Clause 7 is not limited to Australian citizens and applies in relation to acts committed on the high seas on or from a foreign ship in the course of a voyage to a place in Australia or an external Territory, or which is fishing or is licensed to fish in the Australian fishing zone. [More…]
Clause 1 1 enables the application of criminal laws to other acts by Australian citizens or residents in offshore areas outside the territorial sea, for example, within the 200-mile zone. [More…]
The Fraser Government’s primary concern is for the protection of the interests of foreign shareholders, not Australian citizens. [More…]
There are detailed provisions in the Bill relating to offences committed on foreign ships, both by Australian citizens and by foreign citizens. [More…]
The possible point of contention is in relation to the first situation, that is, by non-Australian citizens on foreign ships when they are on voyages to Australia. [More…]
The ground for deciding that the ship was British was that it was owned by Australian citizens, who were considered to be British subjects within the meaning of the Merchant Shipping Act. [More…]
Has his Department issued directives or guidelines in each year since 1 970 that Australian citizens of certain ethnic backgrounds are not to be issued Australian passports or other travel documents without a security clearance. [More…]
If so, (a) what ethnic backgrounds are the subject of such directives or guidelines, (b) how many Australian citizens have not been issued with an Australian passport because of their failure to obtain a security clearance, and (c) what procedures exist for an Australian citizen to appeal against or seek a review of such a decision. [More…]
I did have discussions with Yugoslav Ministers during a visit to Yugoslavia just prior to Christmas and I did raise the question of the problems experienced by Australian citizens of Yugoslav origin. [More…]
It is a fact that, despite taking out Australian citizenship, people from Yugoslavia do not automatically relinquish their Yugoslav citizenship and all that that entails, including the obligation to undertake military service. [More…]
As I have already mentioned, this is a problem for Australian citizens of Yugoslav origin visiting that country. [More…]
I raised with Ministers in Yugoslavia the question of Australian citizens who were undergoing military service. [More…]
I am very pleased to be able to say that three Australian citizens who were undergoing military service have had that obligation reviewed and at the very highest level two have had their obligations set aside. [More…]
I am very pleased that the discussions with the Yugoslav Government have resulted in this understanding of Australian citizens’ points of view and I am very hopeful that the discussions which will continue with the Yugoslav Government, relating to the question of dual nationality, will have a mutually acceptable result. [More…]
A matter which requires special attention regarding Australian citizens of Baltic origin travelling abroad is the information contained in Australian passports issued to such travellers. [More…]
But those people who live in Australia and who want to be Australian citizens are not protected by this Government and no attempt has been made to do so. [More…]
A very large number of Australian citizens were born overseas and they demand exactly the same protection from this country and this Government as those who are Australian born. [More…]
I think that all Australian citizens voluntarily submitting to having their thumb prints put on their passports, in the latter part of the twentieth century, would be an onward step towards minimising the illegal use of passports by criminals, would-be criminals and drug traffickers. [More…]
The Government has restricted officer entry to the Royal Australian Navy to Australian born or to naturalised Australian citizens of at least 10 years standing in order to protect the confidentiality of communications systems, traffic and cryptographic equipment used in the Service and to which Naval officers would inevitably have access by virtue of their service at sea. [More…]
that Norfolk Island be incorporated into an appropriate electoral division of the Commonwealth of Australia, and that Australian citizens resident on the island be enrolled in that electoral division’. [More…]
Every other citizen is entitled to an age pension, to a family allowance, to unemployment benefit and to the full range of Australian social welfare benefits; but that is not the case for those Australian citizens who are unfortunate enough to live on Norfolk Island. [More…]
These people have been Australian citizens since 1913 but still have not a vote in the Parliament. [More…]
that Norfolk Island be incorporated into an appropriate electoral division of the Commonwealth of Australia, and that Australian citizens resident on the island be enrolled in that electoral division. [More…]
The Government has responded to that fact in accepting that these Australian citizens in this Australian Territory should not be treated as all other Australians. [More…]
The Opposition rejects the statement and the Government’s decision as unsupported and not in the best interests of the mass of Australian citizens and workers. [More…]
It is not good enough for those many thousands of Australian citizens who are living below the poverty line and who are to be kept below the poverty line because this is a government which believes in economic sacrifice. [More…]
Has his Department considered the possibility of issuing Australian citizens with an optional travel document to alleviate the fear of losing passports. [More…]
1 ) The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs advises that 793,086 Australian citizens departed during 1975-76, 814.060 during 1976-77, and 836,586 during 1977-78. [More…]
I emphasise for the information of honourable members that Australian citizens travelling on Australian passports will not require visas or return endorsements. [More…]
We are talking about the confiscation of property of Australian citizens. [More…]
1 ) With reference to the current trial in Bangkok in which 3 Australian citizens have been charged with possession of heroin is he able to state one of the accused had in his possession 3 passports under 3 different names when arrested. [More…]
At what time(s) are Vietnamese refugees entitled to the full range of social security benefits normally available to Australian citizens. [More…]
What provisions normally applying to Australian citizens are waived with respect to the provision of benefits to Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
Are Vietnamese refugees treated differently to Australian citizens by the Commonwealth Employment Service with respect to any aspect of job placement, work test or training programs, if so, in what ways does the Service discriminate in favour of Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service does not discriminate between migrants (including refugees) and Australian citizens with respect to any aspect of job placement, work test or training programs. [More…]
How many British subjects who are not Australian citizens are employed by the Public Service. [More…]
The charges will be mainly incurred by people who are not Australian citizens and will place those persons resident in Australia in a position similar to Australian citizens who must pay for passports in order to travel overseas. [More…]
The first, and by far the most important, is to identify people who may represent a terrorist threat, whether to Australian citizens or to foreign visitors. [More…]
For all these reasons, despite all the boasts by the Government, in my view far too little effort is being given to providing for the needs of these people, who are now Australian citizens, members of this community. [More…]
As I have already pointed out, the actions- often they are illegal- of the security forces adversely affected and caused loss and disadvantage to thousands of Australian citizens who had no redress by way of judicial scrutiny and no opportunity to right the real wrong that was done to them. [More…]
We want to know the extent to which this kind of practice becomes the order of the day under a government that seems to treat so indifferently the civil liberties and rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
I will not take up the time of the House by debating this motion, but I would point out that significant inroads into the liberties of Australian citizens are involved in this legislation. [More…]
These honourable members, to mention only a few, have shown that they are true and honourable Australians who are genuinely concerned for the welfare of all Australian citizens. [More…]
Looking at the background of ASIO, no member of Parliament can say that in the past it has not abused its prerogatives and has not- in many cases wrongly, on a number of occasions illegally- jeopardised the fundamental rights of many thousands of Australian citizens. [More…]
I do so because people listening to this debate might think that neither this Government, Mr Justice Hope, nor ASIO itself, has any regard for the individual rights and freedoms of Australian citizens. [More…]
I think the difference between the honourable member for Dundas (Mr Ruddock), the Government and the Opposition on this matter really comes back to an approach to the responsibilities- as supporters of the government see them- and the role of the security forces and our approach in balancing that role with the rights and liberties of Australian citizens. [More…]
But they are now Australian citizens or, at least, Australian residents. [More…]
Its supporters have said: ‘We will let the unions run riot and we are not prepared to step in and act on behalf of Australian citizens’. [More…]
1 ) Do foreign governments represented in Australia have the consent ofthe Australian Government to maintain dossiers on Australian citizens resident in Australia. [More…]
If so, can he say (a) under what circumstances and conditions this activity is permitted, (b) what safeguards exist to protect Australian citizens from infringements of their privacy and other civil liberties and (c) whether the Australian Government or any of its agencies assist foreign governments with this activity. [More…]
The Australian Government may exchange information relating to Australian citizens with some foreign Governments pursuant to international conventions, such as those dealing with narcotics and hijacking, and under Australian law. [More…]
All these children were born in this country and are Australian citizens. [More…]
The issue for this national Parliament is to look at its responsibilities in respect of legislation to protect the rights of Australian citizens. [More…]
Not only are immigrants now asked to pay for the administrative costs they incur at a time when they are least able to pay for them, but they are the ones from whom money is to be taken to pay for the supporting programs designed as immigrant welfare- the props and supports designed to give immigrants greater equality with other Australian citizens. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has pointed out that the charges will apply, for the most part, to persons who are Australian residents but not Australian citizens. [More…]
The Minister omitted to say that once people are accepted as Australian citizens they will have to bear the burden of paying for a passport when they intend to travel, because, as Australian citizens, they will need a passport to travel. [More…]
They would become Australian citizens. [More…]
Another matter that occurs to me is that in many respects there are very few incentives for people to become Australian citizens. [More…]
While there may be a very small incentive contained in this Bill, the fact that the charges by and large fall on people who are not Australian citizens, may just be one extra factor- I will not make much of it- which will encourage people to think about the advantages of taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
By and large, in our system we do not have anything that people can recognise as a substantial inducement to taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
Refugees who are quite stateless are very anxious to take out Australian citizenship. [More…]
But for people who are still held in good repute by their home countries overseas, are entitled to return there and have passports issued by their home countries, there are quite often few incentives to encourage them to take out citizenship in Australia unless, of course they are particularly interested in any public employment or in taking any public office in Australia that would require their taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
So for that reason I hope that the amendments contained in this Bill will act as some small additional incentive to get people to think about taking out Australian citizenship. [More…]
It is precisely because there is that difference of approach, that different perception of tasks, that the rights and liberties of Australian citizens would be made more secure if we adopted the phraseology and the standard set by the Attorney-General when he said that he was prepared to make as much detail as possible available to the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The difficulties that arise for Australian citizens from their dual nationality are however of continuing concern to the Government. [More…]
While speaking about this question of dual nationality I should mention that the Government is keenly aware of the concern felt by certain Australian citizens about the new Soviet law on citizenship which came into force on 1 July this year. [More…]
In the meantime I can give an assurance that nobody will lose Australian citizenship through the operation of a law of another country. [More…]
We have only to look at the situation at Tweed Heads on the border of New South Wales and Queensland to see that half of the Australian citizens in that community can use one-armed bandits while the other half cannot conduct a street march in support of onearmed bandits even if they wanted to do so. [More…]
Australian citizens should realise that our airport development policy ought not to be in the hands of either TAA or Ansett. [More…]
This Government does not understand moderation; it does not understand the concept of the national interest; it does not understand loyalty to fellow Australian citizens; it is subservient to big international money. [More…]
There should be no need to suggest in this House that the power to place listening devices in the homes of Australian citizens, the power to wire-tap, to telephone tap the conversations of Australian citizens, are very great powers indeed. [More…]
They involve a major intrusion into the privacy of the lives of Australian citizens. [More…]
All we are saying is that for the moment, in response to this hurried legislation, let us have a sunset clause and let us put in, albeit inadequately, the best protection we can give Australian citizens until this matter is more fully debated by this Parliament. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s general approach is to secure for Aboriginals access to Government services equal to that accorded other Australian citizens, together with additional services appropriate to their state of extreme disadvantage. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that Australian citizens who have worked in Italy for a total of 15 years and for whom employers have made contributions to pension funds on their behalf are entitled to receive Italian pensions, even if they are resident in Australia. [More…]