child - hofreps - 1970

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

I ask the Minister for Social Services whether it is true that in Victoria alone the number of names on the waiting list of State residential centres for mentally retarded children stands at approximately 1,433 and is growing by 100 or more per year? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this state of affairs represents a desperate situation to the parents of these unfortunate children and other members of their families and places a tremendous strain on the health of the parents caring for the retarded? [More…]
Therefore, will he consider making available under the home health services such services as those of social workers, physiotherapists, teachers and speech therapists, and will he consider giving financial assistance to parents whose child requires these services? [More…]
and (3) The safety aspects of child restraints for use in motor vehicles were considered at the 31st meeting of the Australian Transport Advisory Council, held on 23rd February 1970. ft was noted that at the present time thereis no recognised standard for child restraints, but that the Standards Association of Australia has prepared a draft standard for public review. [More…]
The State Ministers at the meeting undertook to raise the question of appropriate legislation for child restraints which their respective State Governments. [More…]
Clause 4 amends the Act to make provision for divorced persons with dependent children. [More…]
The scheme is being extended to include divorced persons less than 36 years of age with 1 or more dependent children who have entered into a contract to buy or build a home on or after 27th October 1969. [More…]
The clause defines a dependent child and makes provisions with regard to traditional savings somewhat similar to those that apply in the case of widowed persons. [More…]
Acceptable savings will include an approved interest held in the name of the divorced person and any children of the dissolved marriage. [More…]
The legislation is now being further broadened to bring divorced persons with children within its scope. [More…]
What steps has the Government taken to correct the deficiency of child care centres for working mothers. [More…]
It says handicapped children, physically or mentally. [More…]
If someone has an autistic child- [More…]
What is the ‘Family Needs Allowance’ now paid to New Guinean public servants employed by the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in each part of the Territory in which a different rate applies in respect of family units of fa) man and wife, (b) man and wife and one child, (c) man and wife and two children, (d) man and wife and three children and (e) man and wife and more than three children. [More…]
The following table sets out the scales of ‘prescribed minimum pay’ from which family needs allowance is calculated in respect of family units of (a) man and wife, (b) man and wife and one child, (c) man and wife and two children and (d) man and wife and three children. [More…]
I think consideration should be given by all parties concerned with handicapped children to the proposal that children should be placed in schools far earlier than they are now. [More…]
Much of the damage is done to these children because they do not go to special schools early enough and naturally their parents lend to spoil them. [More…]
I heard of a child who could not feed himself even though he was 6 years of age. [More…]
That child’s treatment would have been so much better if he had received assistance at an earlier age. [More…]
The point is that it is not only a question of reaching the child but teaching the parent as well. [More…]
It affects every person in the Parliament just as it affects every man, woman and child in Australia and as it will affect future generations of Australians. [More…]
Are fees paid by working mothers to pre-school and child minding centres allowable as a tax deduction; if not, why not [More…]
The exit release was pulled by a child. [More…]
The child was unaware of any other incident involving the aircraft and it was pure chance that the two happenings were coincident. [More…]
Did a 6-year old child accidentally pull an exit lever and open an escape window on an Ansett DC9 aircraft at Sydney Airport on 14th May 1970. [More…]
If so, did the child or the parent pull the lever as a diversion during an incident on the aircraft. [More…]
Are these levers set so that a 6-year old child can open a window. [More…]
Onhow many occasions has a member of the Australian armed forces in Vietnam while driving a motor vehicle accidentally killed (a) a civilian man, woman or child and (b) a water buffalo. [More…]
Dr Kalokerinos’ findings are being considered as one aspect of the research programme which will examine Aboriginal children and endeavour to formulate a programme to combat infant mortality and child morbidity. [More…]
What percentage of the total population were the receipients of (a) child endowment and (b) age pensions in 1960-61 and 1969-70, respectively. [More…]
The full-year cost in 1970-71 of increasing the weekly rates of child endowment by $1 per child is estimated to be $216m. [More…]
What would be the cost of increasing child endowment by $1 for each child. [More…]
Since September 1968, the Commonwealth Government has paid to parents an annual subsidy of $100 for each child in the Northern Territory under the age of 12, who, because of distance from a school, studies at home under the supervision of a governess. [More…]
The subsidy is also paid if the child’s lessons are supervised by the mother and domestic help is employed to free the mother for this supervision. [More…]
child endowment for one child under 16 years of age; [More…]
child endowment for three children under 16 years of age; [More…]
What would be the estimated cost of (a) increasing the weekly allowance for the first child of civilian widows to $3.50 and (b) granting an education allowance to the children of civilian widows equal to that of repatriation widows for the year 1971-72. [More…]
Based on the number of pensions current at 29th March 1971, the estimated cost of increasing to S3.50 per week the additional pensions paid to civilian widow pensioners in respect of the eldest eligible child would be $2.4m per annum. [More…]
Allowances paid under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme vary in amount depending on the age of the child, whether the child resides at home or is living away from home and according to the type of education or training being undertaken. [More…]
As these details are not available in respect of the children of civilian widow pensioners it is not possible lo determine the cost of paying similar allowances in respect of such children. [More…]
Child Endowment - to $3.60 per week per child Maternity Allowance - to at least $117 for each child born. [More…]
The change in the total weekly amount payable when a child attains the age of 16 years, and endowment continues to be payable in respect of him as a student, is set out in the table below. [More…]
What is the total effect on payments received from his Department when the only child or eldest child turns 16 and becomes eligible for a student allowance, rather than child endowment, in the case of a family with (a) 1 child, (b) 2 children, (c) 3 children, (d) 4 children, (e) 5 children, (f) 6 children, (g) 7 children and (h) 8 children. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the complaint made at the 14th Annual Conference of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders that if a white child in the Northern Territory has diarrhoea, Medair is called immediately, but if uri Aboriginal child has diarrhoea, Medair ls not called until the child reached the critical stages. [More…]
Hunt, Minister for the Interior; the Honourable J. L. Waddy, Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare, New South Wales; the Honourable E. R. Meagher. [More…]
I have had the records checked, but no letter has been found from the Premiers written either to me or my predecessor as a result of discussions by the State Ministers concerned with child welfare at their meetings in March 1970. [More…]
Have the Premiers been in touch with him or his predecessor on matters discussed by, the State Ministers concerned with child welfare at their meeting in March 1970 (Hansard, 13th October 1970, page 2082 and 9th March 1971, page 750). [More…]
The table set out below expresses child endowment expenditure as a percentage of Gross National Expenditure for each financial year commencing 1960-61. [More…]
In calculating the percentages, expenditure on endowment for student children, which commenced in January 1964, has been taken into account. [More…]
What percentage of gross national expenditure was paid out in child endowmentin each financial year from 1960-61 to 1970-71 inclusive. [More…]
As some 20,000,000 refugees and dis placed persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation nutrition and child family problems ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: What action does the Government anticipate taking in response to hundreds of letters received by honourable members, including one I have received from a child which asks me to tell the Government that some people in Australia are starving themselves because the Government is not sending enough money to the refugees in Pakistan? [More…]
This clause allows for the dependant to be a spouse or a child over 16 and under 21 who is receiving full time education and is substantially dependent. [More…]
Section 91 refers to ‘Spouses and children under the age of 16’. [More…]
He explained also the effect on child patients of a lack of really adequate water supplies, which could cause increased dehydration and depression. [More…]
In addition, one child took correspondence lessons, but details of the education type and standard are not known. [More…]
When the unemployment and sickness benefits legislation was introduced in 1944 the Government of the day decided that the additional benefit for a child should cease at 16 years of age. [More…]
In what year did the Commonwealth first begin paying child endowment to Commonwealth Public Servants. [More…]
What was the amount paid in respect of each child. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to fulfil the promise of the former Prime Minister regarding the establishment of child minding centres for working mothers. [More…]
The relevant regulation provided for the payment of an allowance at the following rate: - to each married officer who has children under the age of fourteen years dependent upon him and who is in receipt of salary at a rate not exceeding 500 per annum- the sum of 13 per annum in respect of each such child so dependent: [More…]
Provided that the sum payable under this paragraph in respect of each child shall be reduced by 1 for every 16 by which the rate of salary exceeds 300 per annum.’ [More…]
In 1920 the allowance of 13 per annum for each dependent child under fourteen years of age represented 6.3% of the 1920 Federal basic wage. [More…]
As the honourable member is aware, the economic situation has altered since the child care proposal was announced. [More…]
In the meantime the issues relating to child care will continue to be examined by the Government in preparation for the time when the matter is further considered. [More…]
That it appears nothing has been done towards fulfillment of an important aspect of stated Government intention, namely, the establishment of child care centres of approved standard, and as a first step the provision of pre-school centres for children of working, or sick, mothers. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Immigration, has been largely responsible for pushing for programmes of assistance to child migrants. [More…]
It is my understanding that more than 200 teachers - I think that the figure is 230 or 240 - are actively engaged at the moment in teaching up to 20,000 children in special classes where there is a problem associated with the English language. [More…]
Can the Minister now say whether the Lady Gowrie child health centres are receiving the additional Government support which has been asked for? [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation nutrition and child family problems ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Zealand, did he study the system of capitalising a family’s child endowment as a grant towards the cost of a house? [More…]
Do post offices perform any services tor Commonwealth Government departments in addition to those connected with (a) electrical registration - Department of the Interior, (b) alien registration and application for naturalisation - Department of Immigration (e) registration for national service - Department of Labour and National Service, (d) War Service Homes loan repayments - Department of Housing, (c) taxation forms, lax stamps and tax books - Department of the Treasury, (f) applications for age, widow and invalid pensions, child endowment, supplementary, assistance, pre-natal allowance and pensioners reduced television and radio licence - Department of Social Services and (g) applications for war widows’ pensions and war widows’ reduced television and radio licence - Repatriation Department. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedentedscale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
According to a report by Mr Wallace Brown in the ‘Courier Mail’ of 25th June, it also decided to adopt as policy, free family planning clinics, free contraception, legal advertising of contraceptives, free child care centres and a public investigation to determine the best way to encourage small families. [More…]
Has any consideration been given to providing widow’s pensions to single mothers who retain the care and control of their young child or children. [More…]
Why were no Aboriginal leaders invited to the Minister’s opening of the Alice Springs Child Health Unit at the old Mount Gillen Motel on 7th February 1972. [More…]
Is it a fact that the unit will be used for convalescent Aboriginal children and to teach modern child nutrition to Aboriginal mothers. [More…]
What percentage of the total population was the recipient of (a) child endowment and (b) age pensions in 1961-62 and 1970-71, respectively. [More…]
A person who had attained the age of 21 years prior to commencing to receive approved training would not be a ‘handicapped child’ within the meaning of the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and would therefore not come within the provisions of that Act. [More…]
One application is at present under consideration involving a Vietnamese child whose entry for adoption has been sought. [More…]
Mr Ellis informed me of the circumstances surrounding one of Australia’s representatives at the Munich Olympic Games, Mr John Kinsela, who is a member of a big family and also has a wife and child to support, and said that when he went to the Games the family became destitute. [More…]
I should certainly like something in writing because in my own opinion I do not think that a request has ever been made by any other member for assistance for the wife and child and also family of any person who has been selected to go to the Olympic Games’. [More…]
5227 that a person who had attained the age of 21 years prior to commencing to receive approved training would not be a ‘handicapped child’ within the meaning of the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and would therefore not come within the provisions, of that Act (Hansard, 18th April 1972, page 1761). [More…]
The following State and Commonwealth Ministers attended the Conference of Child and Social Welfare Ministers held on 5th June 1972: [More…]
The Social Services Act 1947-72 provides the following benefits for the parents of sucha child: [More…]
Child endowment; [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers who attended the Conference of Child and Social Welfare Ministers held in Brisbane on 5th June 1972. [More…]
Has he received a request from the Taxpayers Association that concessional deductions for dependants be increased and/or child endowment be increased to restore fiscal relativity between taxpayers wilh and without dependants. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Labour and National Service and it concerns the proposed new legislation announced in the Treasurer’s Budget Speech relative to child care centres. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Will those firms be included in the assistance which are prepared to provide child care centres within their establishments for the benefit of employees, particularly women who are responsible for the sole support of their families? [More…]
This Bill amends the definition of ‘child’ in the principal Act in order to give effect to the extension of eligibility for war pensions to student children between the ages of 16 and 21 years. [More…]
2) 1972 of the definition of child’ in the Repatriation Act. [More…]
This Bill amends the definition of ‘child’ in the principal Act in order to give effect to the extension of eligibility for war pensions to student children between the ages of 16 and 21 years. [More…]
2) 1972 of the definition of ‘child’ in the Repatriation Act. [More…]
Statistics relating to income tax deductions allowed for education expenses per child for whom the deductions were allowed were last compiled in respect of the 1967-68 income year. [More…]
The income tax statistics for that year showed the number of children for whom the maximum deduction of $300 per child was allowed to taxable individuals as 124,046. [More…]
However, the total number of children for whom education deductions were allowed was not compiled in respect of the 1967-68 income year. [More…]
No other statistics are available of numbers of children classified by the size of the income tax deduction allowed for their education expenses. [More…]
As announced in my Budget Speech, the Government proposes to introduce legislation as soon as possible to assist in the establishment and running of child care centres operating on a nonprofit basis to benefit children from low income and other special need families. [More…]
It is envisaged that these centres will cater for the children of working parents, giving priority of admission to children in special need, such as those from single parent families, and to children of sick or incapacitated parents. [More…]
Has he received a request from the Taxpayers Association that consideration be given to allowing as a deduction under section51 of the Income Tax Assessment Act, or as a concessional deduction, some or all of any payments made for the care of a child where such payments are made directly or indirectly to enable the taxpayer to produce assessable income. [More…]
and (2) The reply to question 5100 of 30th May 1972 stated that the printed inserts would be included with child endowment cheques sent out by the Department of Social Services within the next few months. [More…]
5100 (Hansard, 30lh May 1972, pages 3293-4) which stated that arrangements were being made to post out, with child endowment cheques, notices outlining the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan and aimed to enrol more low income families in the Plan, were these notices only sent out on 1st, 15th and 29th August 1972. [More…]
Is a subsidy of up to $10 per week per child paid for the free school bus service. [More…]
What would be the cost to the Commonwealth of providing an allowance of $15 weekly for each isolated child to live and/or board away from home to attend school, with no means test applicable and irrespective of State allowances. [More…]
Is it a fact that with the proposed fiat rate Commonwealth and State per capita recurrent subsidies to pupils in non-state schools plus taxation concessions on educational expenses of up to $400 per child, student children of parents in the upper income group will be receiving up to 85 per cent of the equivalent costs of educating a child in a State government school. [More…]
By contrast, will private school student children of lower income parents- [More…]
To charge us specifically that, because we wish to establish a pre-school commission, we wish tocontrol this child care concept like some octopus or some Federal colossus is just sheer humbug. [More…]
The Child Migrant Education Program is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, and funds for the program are appropriated to his Department. [More…]
The first kind are those which are related to the centralist concept, that is, that the Commonwealth Government virtually should set up a socialised form of child care centres. [More…]
Under the legislation which has been brought forward by the Government the salaries of the people who will run the child care centres will not be paid by the Commonwealth and of course the Public Service Board in that sense is irrelevant; but is not irrelevant to the centralist concept put forward by the honourable member for Fremantle. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that the suggestions he has made in this second type of amendment will be brought to the attention of the Minister and they will be given careful attention during the setting up of the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
Did the Victorian Director of Education say on Wednesday that no additional teachers would be employed under the Child Migrant Education Program until general teaching requirements had been met? [More…]
Does he believe that the program can succeed in the face of this indifference to the needs of the migrant child? [More…]
Will he consider amending the Child Migrant Education Program so that where State governments refuse to employ English language teachers the Commonwealth Teaching Service will do so? [More…]
I have certainly become convinced of their importance, for instance, for the Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory and feel that in that area there needs to be total family education if a child is to be benefited. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report on the survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne. [More…]
I have arranged with my colleague the Minister for Education for talks between our 2 Departments on ways of improving the child migrant education program. [More…]
One of the matters that we will be looking at is the extent to which migrant children would benefit from the greater use of their ethnic languages in the normal school syllabuses. [More…]
The purport of a lot of those letters was that abortion was child murder. [More…]
I do not agree with that extreme description, but the honourable member for Hunter indicated tonight that there has been a lot of child murder going on for a great number of years. [More…]
There were 495 teachers employed in Victoria (447 in State schools, 48 in Catholic schools) under the Child Migrant Education Program as at the beginning of the 1973 school year. [More…]
How many teachers are employed in Victoria under the Child Migrant Education Program. [More…]
What is the estimated expenditure by the Government with respect to child care centres during (a) 1972-73, (b) 1973-74, and(c) 1974-75. [More…]
1 ) How many child care centres were in operation in each State and Territory as of 2 December 1972, and how many are operating now? [More…]
How many children were enrolled in child care centres as at 2 December 1972, and how many are enrolled now? [More…]
1 ) What was the criteria used to determine the composition of the Australian Pre-Schools Committee and the Child Care Standards Committee with regard to the qualifications of each member, both in terms of practical experience and academic training. [More…]
What organisations have received grants from the Commonwealth for the operation of child care centres. [More…]
(a) 119 for ‘land and/or buildings’ 20 for equipment; (b) 74 from currently operating child care centres 33 in respect of proposed new centres; (c) 73 from currently operating child care centres 33 in respect of proposed new centres; Cd) 139. [More…]
As at 25 May 1973 the following organisations and child care centres have been approved to receive recurrent grants. [More…]
How many applications concerning child care centres have been received for (a) capital grants, (b) recurrent grants in respect of qualified staff, (c) recurrent grants with respect to children in special need and (d) grants for research and evaluation of matters relating to child care. [More…]
I might mention also at the outset that the appropriations for the child care program appear in the Budget not under education but under the functional classification of social security and welfare. [More…]
Will he, in his plan to establish small child care centres in the Australian Capital Territory, make provision for the licensing of these centres and make arrangements for social workers and pre-school teachers to make regular visits to them. [More…]
The proposed system of neighbourhood child care is essentially an arrangement between the parent and the child minder. [More…]
A pre-school teacher and a welfare officer will visit the child care centres on a regular basis and instructive pamphlets will be distributed to parents and child minders. [More…]
Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs seen reports in the Press this morning about an Aboriginal child being returned to her natural parents at a Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement? [More…]
4 .ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs: Is he aware of the reports that the 7-year-old Aboriginal girl who was taken from her foster parents in Darwin has been speared as a form of tribal punishment and is to become the child bride of a middleaged man? [More…]
What has been the number of women supporting (a) one child, (b) two children, (c) three children and (d) four or more children while undertaking the course. [More…]
asked the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: <1) ‘Have the discussions which he arranged between his Department and the Department of Education on ways of improving child migrant education taken place. [More…]
Pursuant to the above the commission should report on the circumstances surrounding the removal of the child Nola Brown from the care of her foster parents with a view to determining whether an officer or officers of the Legal Aid Service acted, or advised action, contrary to law. [More…]
Can he say what are the current range of salaries in each State of the following staff of child care or pre-school centres: (a) trained nursing sister, (b) kindergarten teacher, (c) mothercraft nurse with and without pre-school qualifications, (d) pre-school teacher and (e) untrained assistant. [More…]
Child Care and Pre-school Centres: Staff Salaries (Question No. [More…]
Can be say what are the current building costs in each State to establish a child care centre for (a) 30 children, (b) 40 children, (c) SO children, (d) 60 children, (e) 70 children, (f) 80 children, (g) 90 children and (h) 100 children. [More…]
What action has been taken to assist Mrs Madonna Weber, an Australian citizen, to secure custody of her Australian child, Rudi, who was abducted by his Austrian father in July of this year? [More…]
Can he say what is the average annual cost in each State, excluding Government subsidy, of full-time care in a registered child care centre if the age of the child is (a) up to 1 year, (b) between 1 year and 2 years, (c) between 2 and 3 years, and (d) between 3 and 5 years. [More…]
There are 25Registered child care centres in the Northern Territory and 9 centres in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
One of the centres in the Australian Capital Territory is subsidised under the provisions of the Child Care Act. [More…]
The only child care centres registered by the Australian Government are those in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In all, 45 centres are approved for subsidy from the Australian Government under the recurrent grant provisions of the Child Care Act 1972. [More…]
In addition, Commonwealth Hostels ‘Ltd operates 11 child minding centres at various hostels for migrants. [More…]
Costs of centres vary significantly depending on the cost of land and on the age range of children to be catered for. [More…]
The honourable member may be interested in a recent tender of $139,000 for a new full day care centre in Sydney for 60 children aged 2-5 years and designed to the requirements of the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
How many child care centres are there in each State and Territory. [More…]
Can he say what is the average annual cost in each State, excluding Government subsidy, of education and care of a child in a pre-school centre. [More…]
Is he aware that the problem of the disadvantaged child is widespread among government and Catholic schools in some areas? [More…]
Does the establishment of such centres assist to reduce child deaths from genetic diseases. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of the nationwide concern which has been aroused by the delay in implementing the pre-school report despite promises that the Government would, as from 1 January, take over financial responsibility for establishing and operating pre-school centres and child care centres? [More…]
Every third person who is responsible for a child or children under 12 years of age in our community today is engaged in the labour force. [More…]
Of employed persons responsible for children under 6 years of age, nearly 45 per cent are usually absent from home for 8 hours or more on the days they work. [More…]
Of persons in the labour force responsible for school children- [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security whether his attention has been drawn to reports that child care centres could foster communism, indoctrinate children in Marxism and lead to immorality. [More…]
Would he agree that these observations are a gratuitous insult to thousands of dedicated decent Australian women whose sole aim is to serve the community and to provide an opportunity for these children to be cared for whilst one of the parents may be working? [More…]
The first covers the Government’s interim program for pre-school and child care services. [More…]
The second covers progress under the Child Care Act. [More…]
Mr Hurford, Mr Willis, Mrs Child and Mr Whan have been nominated by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Only Whitlam has a program for child care. [More…]
It continued: 500,000 children will benefit from Whitlam’s child care program by 1977. [More…]
In addition to its interim report (‘Goals and Strategies’) in December, 1973, the Staff has been specifically commissioned by the Government to provide -reports on child care and the allocation of FM and A’M broadcasting licences. [More…]
A report entitled ‘Early Childhood services’ was tabled by the Minister assisting the Prime Minister on 30 July 1974. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General intend to alter the family law legislation to take account of views expressed by State Ministers for Child Welfare that children continue to be supervised and advised by State welfare officers. [More…]
Will he support the establishment of a fully representative consultative committee on child care in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
the State in which the Centre is to be established, Nevertheless, the average cost of professional fees for a child care centre is about 8 per cent of the contract price. [More…]
The level of equipment grants for new centres varies depending upon such factors as the number and age range of children to be catered for. [More…]
In a centre for 60 children aged 2-5 years, equipment grants under the Child Care Act 1972 would normally be about $9,000. [More…]
There is no information available on the annual cost of rental of a 60 child centre. [More…]
The Child Care Act 1972 does not provide for subsidy in respect of rents. [More…]
Also a project team of consultant experts was set up to report to the Commission on child care policy. [More…]
The Government has so far received an interim report from the Committee of Enquiry into Aged Persons’ Housing which was tabled on 4 December, 1973 and the report on child care “Project Care: Children, Parents, Community “ which was tabled on 30 July, 1 974. [More…]
In relation to a young child, it is admitted that the child would be able to get a lump sum payment in a common law action. [More…]
But bear in mind that if the same child had been very seriously injured at home he would get nothing. [More…]
In addition, a handicapped child will be able to get all the additional facilities of aid. [More…]
-I claim that the ‘Joan Child’ who is mentioned in the article is not Joan Child, the member for Henty. [More…]
I would like the House to be quite clear on the fact that I am not the ‘Joan Child’ mentioned in the article. [More…]
An eligible organisation that provides approved residential accommodation for handicapped children is entitled to receive benefit in respect of each such handicapped child at the rate of $3.50 for each day after the commencement of this Pan on which the approved residential accommodation is provided Tor the child. [More…]
Benefit in respect of a particular child for a particular day is not payable both under this Pan and under Division 5a ofPartV of the National Health Act 1953-1974. [More…]
The simple reason for moving this amendment is that there is an amendment before the House to the National Health Act which will ensure that benefits are not paid under both that Act and under the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act to the same child. [More…]
It is not the intention that benefits should be paid for the one child under both Acts. [More…]
This work can relate to scientific programs as in the Australian Radiation Laboratory, National Acoustic Laboratories, Australian Dental Standards Laboratory, National Biological Standards Laboratory, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Institute of Child Health and the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission or to overall departmental policy formulation in relation to, for example, health delivery systems. [More…]
A range of child care facilities is planned by the Department of the Capital Territory. [More…]
1 ) Has an occasional child care centre been planned as an integral part of the development of Tuggeranong. [More…]
(a) Under the 1973-74 Interim Pre-School and Child Care Services Program, the Australian Government provided the following advances to the States to 30 June 1974. [More…]
The position is that we are endeavouring to provide an extension of assistance to parents when a child is sick and when the parent is not at home because of employment. [More…]
Of course, when the parent is at home there is obvious assistance to the child. [More…]
The real issue is to assist a sick child when the parent is not at home. [More…]
The court shall regard the welfare of the child as the paramount consideration. [More…]
The court should not give a damn about the parents when it comes to the welfare of the child. [More…]
But, of course, in the consideration of the welfare of the child the conduct of the parents is relevant. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Special Minister for State and I ask: Is he aware of any threat to the Government’s child care program? [More…]
Can he inform the House of the consequences to the children of Australia of obstructing this program? [More…]
Have they also been told that they must also guarantee their fares, at the rate of $400 for each adult and $200 for each child. [More…]
-Does the Prime Minister know of reports from apparently reliable sources that, as a result of the $9m cut in the budget of the Schools Commission, at least 30 child care centres in Victoria will have to close and that they could be kept open with additional funds of $1.5m? [More…]
If so, how many child care centres in Australia as a whole will have to be closed and what would be necessary to keep them going? [More…]
Will he guarantee to the House and to the people that sufficient funds will be provided to keep these child care centres operating? [More…]
And Training scheme; significantly cut back the level of progress under the child care program - [More…]
Are blind children under 16 years of age eligible for (a) handicapped child’s benefit when living away from home or (b) handicapped child’s allowance when living in the family home. [More…]
Is it a fact that an obstetrical account cannot be sent to Medibank by a doctor until after the child is delivered, and with the delay in payments it could be 12 months after a particular service before the rebate is paid. [More…]
Under this Bill it is proposed to increase payments to $3.50 a week for the first child, $5 a week for the second child. [More…]
$6 a week for the third and fourth children and $7 a week for each other child. [More…]
-by leave- In the absence of the shadow Minister, I was wondering whether the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) might at some appropriate time amplify the definition of ‘child’ within the meaning of what we are talking about here. [More…]
What effect would such changes have on revenue, on tax rates, on the Medibank levy and on child allowances? [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendation of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety that the Advisory Committee on Safety in Vehicle Design be asked to undertake research with a view to designing vehicles, particularly family type vehicles, to enable the fitting of approved child restraints. [More…]
Consideration is at present being given to introducing restrictions on the sale of unapproved child restraints and to the feasibility of legislation requiring the wearing of approved restraints where fitted. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety to ensure that (a) the Australian Capital Territory legislates to ban the sale and fitting of unapproved child restraints and (b) legislation is enacted to require the wearing of restraints by children in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Ban on Unapproved Child Restraints (Question No. [More…]
The child grew up normally. [More…]
The child was a little slow in walking but he showed great skill in crawling. [More…]
The child was named Marshall Baillieu. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety to ensure that (a) the Northern Territory legislates to ban the sale and fitting of unapproved child restraints and ( b ) legislation is enacted to require the wearing of restraints by children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
However, the following table sets out the position for each of the various categories of child care projects and shows expenditure in 1975-76 and broad estimates of expenditure for 1976-77 for each of the various child care categories. [More…]
1 ) Which child care projects received grants during the year 1975-76 and what sum did each receive. [More…]
Are children with below-the-elbow or below-the-knee amputations eligible for the Handicapped Child Allowance. [More…]
I do not believe that the electors of Australia have yet demonstrated that they wish to finance the honourable gentleman’s unborn child. [More…]
1 ) Did the United Nations designate 1977 as the Year of the Child. [More…]
The following types of benefits are not available by postcode districts: Sickness and special benefits, handicapped child’s allowances, double orphans’ pensions, maternity allowances and funeral benefits. [More…]
It relates to child abductions. [More…]
Under the old taxation system if a person had a child that person was entitled to claim him as a tax deduction. [More…]
Nobody can claim his children as a tax deduction now because he gets a family allowance payment for them. [More…]
The position is this: People with two children are today missing out on $1.95 a week; three children, $3.33 a week; four children, $4.71 a week; and five children, $6.32 a week. [More…]
1 ) and (2) While the exact nature of the Commonwealth Government’s involvement in Australia’s observance of the International Year of the Child in 1979 has yet to be finalised, an Inter-departmental Committee has met a number of times to discuss and co-ordinate the efforts of a number of Commonwealth Departments. [More…]
The Government has made a decision to work with both State governments and voluntary organisations in the celebrations of this Year of the Child. [More…]
Has the Government decided to make a contribution or pledge for the 1979 International Year of the Child through the United Nations Children’s Fund in accordance with the General Assembly resolution of 2 1 December 1 976. [More…]
International Year of the Child (Question No. [More…]
He is reducing the benefit for the first child from $226 to $50 and the benefit for the second and further children from, I think $170 to $50. [More…]
I leave aside some of the contentious recommendations and ask the Prime Minister: What action does the Government propose to take on some of the recommendations which would be deemed to be worthwhile and non-contentious, such as those concerning child abuse, discrimination against women, migrants, the handicapped, adoption and a national family policy? [More…]
The incidence of child abduction was one of the matters considered by the Committee. [More…]
1 ) Has an interdepartmental committee been established to review the procedure for the issue of passports taking into account the danger of child abduction (Hansard, 8 November 1977,page3133). [More…]
1 ) to (3) As free travel was not provided for either wife or child the questions are not relevant. [More…]
Are there any precedents for his action in allowing a foreign shipowner to provide free travel for a Minister’s child to accompany his wife to a foreign ship launching; if so, what are the details of these precedents. [More…]
It is also relevant to observe that a number of other important Commonwealth activities, in such fields as education, child care, Aboriginal affairs and the environment were first the responsibility of the Prime Minister of the day but are now in other portfolios. [More…]
International Year of the Child (Question No. [More…]
The interdepartmental committee will enable coordination of planning across relevant Commonwealth Departments in respect to the International Year of the Child and support the committee of Commonwealth Ministers. [More…]
1 ) Has a meeting yet been arranged between Federal and State Ministers to co-ordinate planning for the International Year of the Child, 1979, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly on 21 December 1976 (Question No. [More…]
In accordance with an undertaking given by the Prime Minister in the Policy Speech, a special non means tested grant of $100 in respect of each child who qualifies for a boarding allowance has been added to the benefits payable under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme in 1 978 to each beneficiary who resides in Tax Zone A or B. [More…]
A similar amount is provided, in respect of the first child only, to each beneficiary who resides in Tax Zone A or B and who qualifies for second home assistance. [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has provided the following table, which shows the amounts spent on pre-school and child care programs that can be identified from State Government Public Accounts; they should be regarded as approximate and may not be fully comparable between the States. [More…]
State outlays include grants to local authorities made from funds provided by the Commonwealth under its Preschools and Child Care Program. [More…]
Can the Australian Bureau of Statistics now provide figures for the identified outlay of State governments on preschool and child care programs for 1976-77 (Hansard, 8 November 1977, page 3 166). [More…]
Has the attention of the Treasurer been directed to criticism of the Budget decision to means-test payment of the family allowance, on the basis of” the child’s income? [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
Details regarding the sum paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods is not maintained by this Department. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each ofthe periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
Does the Government intend to proceed with the income means testing of family allowances based on the income of the child? [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
First child (born in 1977)-$4,470.75. [More…]
Second child (born in 1978)- $754.63 (to 31 July 1978). [More…]
The Department’s records do not show whether maternity leave taken by other officers was in respect of the first or subsequent child. [More…]
What was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Home Affairs aware of legislation recently introduced into the United Kingdom Parliament protecting children from the exploitation of child pornography? [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
Sum paid for maternity leave for the first child in 1976- $19,131; 1977-$11,807; 1978- $364 (till 31 May). [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first (b) second, and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
The Department has advised that there is no way of finding out from its official records which child it is in relation to whom a grant of maternity leave is made. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
and (2) The decision by the Government to subject family allowances to an income test based on the child’s net income has been rescinded, as the honourable member is aware. [More…]
That all words after ‘way’ (first occurring) be omitted, with a view to substituting the following words: or where either (a) the pregnancy was as a result of incest or rape, or (b) the mother has been subject to disease or physical conditions which could reasonably be expected to result in serious deformity to or retardation of the child ‘. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ (first occurring) be omitted, with a view to substituting the following words: this House expresses its deep concern that for every three live births in Australia there is one abortion, and therefore is of the opinion that the Government should take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that medical benefits shall not be provided by the Commonwealth for the termination of pregnancy unless the termination is performed to protect the mother when her life is endangered by a physical pathological condition or where either (a) the pregnancy was as a result of incest or rape, or ( b ) the mother has been subject to disease or physical conditions which could reasonably be expected to result in serious deformity to or retardation of the child ‘. [More…]
is of the opinion that medical benefits should not be provided by the Commonwealth for the termination of pregnancy (i) unless the termination is performed (A) to protect the mother when her life is endangered by a physical medical condition, or (B) where it is certified by 3 medical practitioners that her mental health would otherwise be seriously endangered, or (ii) unless the pregnancy was a result of incest or rape, or the mother has been subject to disease or physical conditions which could reasonably be expected to result in serious deformity to or retardation of the child; and [More…]
Could you imagine your mother watching you being smashed over your head when you were just born- this is barbaric Also this is the year of the child and I am just a child and so are these poor seals just animal children. [More…]
Is it a fact that allowing for the tax rebate and child endowment then applicable an average bloke- to use his new-found matey parlance- [More…]
This is the definition of ‘child bearing age’ adopted by the Bureau of Statistics for age specific fertility calculations. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present a report on provisions for child migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
International Year of the Child Sand Castle Competition (Question No. [More…]
1 ) What is the current dependant’s allowance in respect of the (a) spouse and ( b) child of a war pensioner. [More…]
What are the current poverty line incomes, calculated using the factors recommended in the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty (the Henderson Report), for households in which the head is (a) in the work force and (b) not working, for a (i) single person, (ii) married couple, (iii) couple plus one child, (iv) couple plus 2 children, (v) couple plus 3 children, (vi) couple plus 4 children, (vii) single parent plus one child, (viii) single parent plus 2 children, (ix) single parent plus 3 children and (x) single parent plus 4 children. [More…]
1 ) Clause 19, page 1 1, line 3, after ‘he’ insert ‘his spouse or a dependent child’. [More…]
If so, has the review resulted in any pensioner having his or her entitlement to a concession removed if a child or other resident is earning as little as $80 per week whether or not such a person makes any contribution to the cost of the telephone. [More…]
The only income he has with which to meet those debts in the first week of his sickness is $1.50 child endowment. [More…]
It is notorious that every second child in Canberra has the opportunity to attend a preschool centre, but outside Canberra only one child in 13 has this opportunity. [More…]
The distribution of child care centres is even worse. [More…]
I am not talking about child minding centres but rather about kindergarten centres at a recognised level. [More…]
Payments made to members of all Services in respect of which retrospectivity would be authorised include: Overseas outfit allowances; overseas allowances for short term duty; overseas transit allowances; overseas transit allowances; overseas living out allowances; child allowances, school expenses; overseas rental allowances; and representation and entertainment allowances. [More…]
I think the ping pong ball valve was associated with a much longer snorkel tube than is usual and this tended in the case of a small child for the child to be breathing the same air over and over again and thus affected by carbon dioxide. [More…]
It is claimed that one child has died as a result of this. [More…]
I will talk to the Minister for Health about this matter and see whether he can get some report, some expression of opinion, from the Professional Divers Association, from physiologists or whichever kind of medical practitioners would be interested in this subject, so that perhaps something more finite could be made known to those parents who may be worried about the safety of their children. [More…]
That is to Keravat gaol - was engaging in revolver practice during which a child was killed- [More…]
The District Commissioner said: ‘I withdraw, sir, but the child was injured. [More…]
We also talked with council officers, school teachers, local graziers, business people, police, a doctor, a Child Welfare officer, ministers of religion and publicans. [More…]
It appears that the average Aboriginal family has approximately 6 children to a white family’s 3 children. [More…]
Aboriginal mothers lack the training and knowledge to provide children with proper pre-natal and post-natal care and this results in an extreme danger period for infant mortality between the ages of 6 months and 4 years. [More…]
The medical officer at Collarenebri District Hospital, Dr Kalokerinos, put forward the theory that lack of proper nutritional diet, together with lack of immunity to European diseases and the appalling housing conditions that continually cause re-infection once a child has been brought back to health, were major factors in the high incidence of ill health and infant mortality among Aboriginal children. [More…]
Moreover, even if death did not occur at an early age - I stress this as a most important point - these constant illnesses of Aboriginal children caused by lack of proper nutritional diet were primary factors in Aboriginals in many instances having a mental development below that of their white counterparts. [More…]
By the time an Aboriginal child had reached school age it was often 2 or 3 years behind its white contemporaries. [More…]
1 venture to say that milk is the most important food item in India and in many of these other countries today, particularly insofar as the women and children are concerned, because there is just nothing to supplement the mother’s milk. [More…]
This is where the high mortality rate exists - not at the infant level, but after the child has been weaned, that is, between the ages of 1 and 5 years. [More…]
The facts of the first leg of the comparison are that the two Administration officers were admitted to bail to await their trial before the Supreme Court on a charge of unlawfully doing grievous bodily harm to a child. [More…]
There is no reason to believe that the child is dead. [More…]
He was told that the child was only wounded and was now virtually recovered, and also that the child came from Pomio. [More…]
Yet that very same day this man tried to stir up passions by alleging that the shooting was deliberate - hence he should have been refused bail - and that the child was killed. [More…]
Every Australian born child is a tremendous asset to this country. [More…]
Widows with children also require greater assistance. [More…]
Millions of the world’s children suffer from malnutrition; that the Aboriginal child is no exception is suggested by a series of reports describing the situation in our own country, published by G. M. Maxwell and R. B. Elliott in 1969, by E. S. Kettle in 1966 and by D. G. Jose and J. S. Welch in this issue. [More…]
Whatever the name given to the condition - ‘protein-calorie’ malnutrition, infantile marasmus, ‘postweaning’ growth failure, or what have you - the end result is the same: The child is substantially below expected levels of height and weight for age. [More…]
The parameter of age is important in the diagnosis, lt is not uncommon perhaps to see fairly well-covered children, who superficially look normal. [More…]
Whatever controversies there may be about the assimilation or integration of Aboriginals or about Aboriginal land rights, there ought to be no controversy about their health, especially the health of their children. [More…]
lt should accept as objectives the reduction of Aboriginal nec-natal infant, child and maternal mortality to the low levels of the community generally. [More…]
But you can ask: ‘What have you done to reduce infant mortality, neonatal mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality, to eliminate tuberculosis’ - from which Aboriginals are almost the only sufferers - ‘to lift levels of employment and of education, and to train adults who are illiterate?’ [More…]
Whosoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully administers to, or causes to be taken by, any woman, whether with child or not, any drug or noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully supplies or procures any drug or noxious thing, or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether with child or not, shall be liable to penal servitude for S years. [More…]
No doubt he spoke with great eloquence and sincerity, but the thought ran through my mind, as he gave statistics, whether, if a question were asked of the various people who admit to being victims of abortion, they would have carried the child had there been an adequate family income, had there been a suitable home, and had there been some sense of social security. [More…]
To put the matter on sordid economic grounds, we need every child that we can get in Australia. [More…]
If and when we get adequate child endowment payments and a just wage and security for every worker, I think we will be entitled to have a look at the matters raised by the honourable member for Maribyrnong. [More…]
It well behoves the nation to give assistance to those people who are prepared to produce children. [More…]
In this it was made quite clear that the District Commissioner had interjected to correct a statement made by the Leader of the Opposition in Rabaul that a native child had been killed during revolver practice. [More…]
One of the incidents mentioned then concerns an incident he refers to here in his statement - not the killing, thank goodness, of the indigenous child but, as he said, the injuring of the child. [More…]
The question at issue is not whether the statement I made was correct - whether the indigenous child was killed or caused grievous bodily harm or unlawfully wounded. [More…]
But the real point made by the Leader of the Opposition was this: Here was a young man who was out on bail after having been accused of shooting a native child. [More…]
The whole gravamen of the statement by the Leader of the Opposition was that no native would be out on bail and attached to our party as a photographer if he had shot a European child. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition went on, after stating how he came to be at this Council’s Executive, to say that he believed that the question before this House today was not whether what he had said there was correct - that the child was killed or that the child was maliciously wounded or that the child was unlawfully wounded; these were the 3 categories he posed as being the possible alternatives. [More…]
He did not use the words that the wounding had been accidental, that the revolver practice had been carried out negligently and that the child had been wounded completely accidentally. [More…]
He also said that a very different set of circumstances would have prevailed had it been a European child that he wounded. [More…]
Let us move on to the other point, the quibble about the wounding of a native child. [More…]
This is serious, that the native child was wounded. [More…]
1 am putting to the House that the Government is trying to make a serious issue out of this and a challenge on the basis that, to say that a child was killed is a critical allegation but to say that he was merely wounded is only insignificant. [More…]
For the information of honourable members in the Government’s ranks, the child who was wounded was very close to death. [More…]
A fraction of an inch one way or the other would have meant the death of the child, and the Government is trying to quibble that it was not important - the child was only wounded. [More…]
Government supporters find great humour in this, that a child missed death by a fraction of an inch. [More…]
They find cause for laughter and great levity in the fact that the child was not killed, that he missed death only by a fraction of an inch. [More…]
An aged pensioner is not paid a wife’s allowance if she is under the age of 60 unless she and her husband have at least one child under 16 in their care, or the husband is incapacitated or is 70 years of age and not fully employed. [More…]
Again, there is the case of a husband who is hospitalised and whose wife is under 60 years of age and is supporting young children. [More…]
For the purposes of this example we assume that she has two young children. [More…]
She may have nowhere to leave her children. [More…]
Only 1 child in 13 in Australia is able to attend a child welfare centre which is up to government standards. [More…]
According to a recent report from the Department of Labour and National Service there are only two child minding centres in Australia operated by employers, and they are in Melbourne. [More…]
So unless this woman has relatives or friends she will not be able to farm her children out during the day in working hours. [More…]
All she would have would be child endowment of $6.50 a week plus a pension allowance for her children making a total of about $7.50 a week. [More…]
This is made up of the standard rate pension, supplementary assistance, child endowment and pension allowances. [More…]
I am assuming that she has 2 children. [More…]
We will not have anyone, adult or child, being forced to live on less than the minimum. [More…]
Is this Government doing anything about child endowment? [More…]
We could have a system of subsidies paid to families on a sliding scale according to the number of childdren they have. [More…]
For example, on the birth of a fourth child $1,000 might be deducted from the mortgage on a home; $1,500 on the birth of a fifth child. [More…]
(a) Under the concessional deduction provisions of the income tax law, deductions for education expenses, including the cost of necessary books and fees, are allowable to a tax payer where the expenses are necessarily incurred by him for or in connection with the fulltime education of a person who is less than 21 years of age and is a child of the taxpayer or is a person for whom the taxpayer is entitled to a dependant’s deduction. [More…]
If we are setting out to give everybody an equal opportunity in life, we should bear in mind that, if we give a child from an underprivileged family the same education as a child who has an adequate home environment, the child from the underprivileged family will make less of that same education. [More…]
Therefore, to give both children the same opportunity in life, we must give additional educational assistance to the underprivileged one. [More…]
Why is the taxation deduction for student children only allowable whilst the child is under the age of 21 years? [More…]
Surely this is an unrealistic provision when a child, under our more advanced secondary school system, stays at school until 18 or 19 years of age before going to university. [More…]
Under present arrangements child welfare,, broadly speaking, is a function pf the States rather than of the Commonwealth. [More…]
There, are exceptions to this, of course - for example the $1.50 per day payment which the Commonwealth makes in respect of the accommodation away from home of certain handicapped children. [More…]
It is vital that help be given to these handicapped people early in life, because a child - even an infant - is easier to train than an adult. [More…]
The experts told me: ‘If only we could have started to train them in childhood how much more we could have done, and how much easier it would have been’. [More…]
There are few people who feel no compassion for the handicapped child - for the child who, because of severe physical disability or mental retardation, may be denied the joys of childhood, the .adventures of adolescence and the experience of taking his place in the society of his , fellow men. [More…]
This measure is designed to help these children - but not these children only. [More…]
Those honourable members who have had any contact with parents of handicapped children, and I am sure there are few who have not, will know something of the burden they bear - willingly - but nevertheless a burden that can change the whole pattern of their lives. [More…]
The weekly rate of compensation for an employee is being increased from 28.15 to $31.80 and will be supplemented by an additional $7.70 for a dependent wife or husband and $2.80 for each child. [More…]
The basic lump sum death benefit, to which other lump sum benefits are related, is being increased from $10,000 to $12,000 and the minimum payment for a dependent child increased from $200 to $280. [More…]
Allowances will now be paid for student children under the age of 21 years. [More…]
Payment of child’s allowance will also be made for a dependent child who is the issue of a marriage contracted or an ex-nuptial relationship formed after the date of injury to the employee. [More…]
I refer to the expenses incurred in educating children who must be sent to boarding schools. [More…]
The present allowable tax deduction of $300 for education expenses for each child is inadequate. [More…]
What is the compensation paid to the widow and each dependent child of a New Guineas plantation worker who is killed during or in the course of his employment, and who at the time of his death was being paid the minimum wage fixed by the relevant Labour Ordinance or Regulation. [More…]
Under the Papua and New Guinea Workers’ Compensation Ordinance 1958-1969 in the circumstances described, a lump sum payment of $2,700 would be made to a fully dependent widow and weekly amounts of 67 cents would be made for each dependent child under the age of 16 years. [More…]
Workers’ compensation payable to an employee who is permanently and totally incapacitated from injuries arising out of or in the course of employment would be $7.60 per week for the worker, $1.84 per week for the wife and 67 cents per week for each dependent child. [More…]
Under the Child Welfare Ordinance 1961-1968 of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea an allowance not exceeding Seven dollars per week may be granted by tha Director of Child Welfare where one or both of the parents of a child under the age of sixteen years is imprisoned. [More…]
Because of the developments in rubella, vaccine research and the grave consequences of infection with rubella to the unborn child, the Government has decided that the safe and effective rubella vaccine now available should be made available free of cost. [More…]
I include in the case of school children the use of propaganda photographs of the type just issued by the Moratorium movement. [More…]
It is of the standard of one or two others that I have seen and it depicts a child - if it is a child - or a woman killed quite probably by the Vietcong, lt follows the usual pattern. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) could be quite correct in saying that this is the sort of photograph that could be distributed in schools in Australia today to stir up emotional feelings in innocent children. [More…]
believe the Minister should have the power to determine, as mentioned in clause 4 of the Bill, when a child will be in custody, care and control of the divorced person’. [More…]
I think the matter is highlighted immediately by referring to the Consolidated Revenue Fund which shows that the amount extracted from every man, woman and child in New South Wales, and indeed in Australia, is $553 and that the reimbursment to New South Wales to carry on essential services is a mere $80 per head. [More…]
It is spending $300 for each child a year. [More…]
The amount expended there by the State of New South Wales - and this is no indictment of it because it has not sufficient funds to spend any more - is little more than the cost of supplying primary school children with a bottle of milk. [More…]
Statistics show that if a child is fortunate enough to have parents residing in a certain area his chances of going to the university are doubled when compared with a child who may not have the same affluent environment. [More…]
Unfortunately, due to a slight epedimic of german measles in 1 965, about 1 50 profoundly deaf children were born in New South Wales. [More…]
Such a child will probably follow the general pattern and leave school at the age of 16 years with at best a grade V or grade VI education - much the same as he or she would have had 20 or 25 years ago. [More…]
Of course, there are the isolated and admirable examples of deaf children achieving fame despite the substandard facilities offered to them, but our education system is not directed towards this minority group. [More…]
In the last 9 years 63 of the children in a school for profoundly deaf children in Missouri have graduated from formII at the school for the deaf to form III in schools for children who can hear. [More…]
Nine of those deaf children have proceeded to tertiary education. [More…]
Deafness is the most profound handicap a child may bear. [More…]
The impact of deafness on the communication process, the development of language and the acquisition of knowledge is difficult to estimate because language is the indispensable tool of: learning, acquired with very little effort by the child who can hear but acquired only after great effort and determination by deaf children. [More…]
Compared with the activities described by Josephus, many of Hitler’s works were child’s play. [More…]
Professor Sternglass has predicted that the employment of anti-ballistic missiles by the United States, even if successful against an enemy’s nuclear attack, would result in the death of all children. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and other members of the medical profession, as well as honourable members, will agree that some years ago the medical profession recommended that doctors refrain from X-raying pregnant women because of the effects that radiation might have on the unborn child. [More…]
In New Zealand the Government has a scheme which involves the capitalisation of child endowment for housing purposes. [More…]
I would like to know from the Minister why it is necessary for divorced people to have a dependent child to become eligible for this benefit. [More…]
It is not necessary for a widow or for other young couples to have a dependent child. [More…]
and (3) The Government has recently directed attention to the question of the adequacy of child care facilities in Australia for the children of working mothers. [More…]
My Department has published a report giving the results of an investigation into the extent of registered Child Care Centres providing full-day care for the pre-school age children of working mothers. [More…]
In addition, the Bureau of Census and Statistics conducted a survey covering the arrangements made by employed persons for the care, during working hours, of those children under the age of 12 for whom they are responsible. [More…]
At the time of the survey conducted by my Department of all registered full-day Child Care Centres in Australia, 2 were provided by employers for the children of their employees. [More…]
To alleviate this poverty, will he take steps immediately towards an increase of existing child endowment rates to $3.00 per week for the third child and to $4.00 per week for the fourth child and subsequent children. [More…]
(i) The annual school equipment fees were introduced in 1967; they have remained at the rate of $1 per child at primary schools and $3 per child for pupils at secondary schools. [More…]
Where more than1 child from a family attend a school, the total fee payable is $1 at primary and S3 at secondary schools, [More…]
On the Council’s advice the fee varies from sub-district to sub-district from $10 per child a year to a maximum of $30 depending upon the level of economic development. [More…]
By way of preface, may I refer to a statement made by the Minister some months ago with regard to the possibility of introducing a national child minding scheme. [More…]
He is a boilermaker by occupation, is married to an Australianborn girl and has an Australian-born child. [More…]
They have an Australian born child. [More…]
The Government has approved details of a comprehensive programme of migrant education which will strengthen existing provisions and give effect to the policy announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) on 8th October 1969 of Commonwealth financial support for new, improved and expanded facilities for the instruction of child and adult migrants in the English language. [More…]
The Minister’s statement that the Government will enlarge the child education programme and will extend it to include adults, both before and after entry, is something which all honourable members must welcome. [More…]
That is the child’s problem. [More…]
But the teacher has just as big a problem in endeavouring to convey his impressions or his knowledge to the child. [More…]
Whilst we deal with the problems of children and teachers and questions relating to the social and economic integration of migrants, at this stage there appears to be a much more lively interest being taken by the Government and organisations in the education of adult migrants. [More…]
Man and wife and one child; [More…]
So free insurance would go to each lower income earner with a wife and family of 2 children and on a wage of $45 gross per week. [More…]
For every child above the 2 children in the case of a man with a gross income of $45 an additional $3 could be earned without affecting entitlement. [More…]
This would mean that a family with 6 children could have a gross income of $57 and still get free insurance. [More…]
So our system would be based upon income of $45 per week for a man, wife and 2 children, allowing him an extra $3 income according to each child above those 2. [More…]
Under the Nimmo Committee’s proposals a low income earner with a wife and 2 children could earn the minimum wage of $42.50 and could then be allowed an extra $4 a week for each child. [More…]
The 80c charge in itself will be sufficient to cause a parent, particularly if he is in poor circumstances, to have second thoughts or to ponder whether it is really necessary to take his child to a doctor. [More…]
He may decide to wait until the next day to see how the child is, but the next day may be just too late or, at the very best, the sickness may have developed into something that is serious. [More…]
It points out that the increasing emphasis on individual teaching in primary schools means that resource facilities such as books, films, recordings, charts and autoinstructional programmes should be readily available in sufficient quantity to provide for the needs of each child. [More…]
It is vital to the development of the individual child that the necessary facilities be available, not only in secondary schools, but also during the formative years of primary schooling. [More…]
This is the provision of more, and more easily accessible, special classes and centres with the trained teachers and equipment necessary for the retarded and lower capacity child. [More…]
lt is a fact that the presence of these children in normal primary school classes makes their own progress almost impossible and makes the work of the teacher and the progress of the other children in the class extremely difficult. [More…]
This is a besetting problem in many primary schools in my own State and causes considerable concern among teachers and parents of retarded children. [More…]
The result is that many children in desperate need of urgent remedial treatment in one or another area of their learning life suffer grave injustices. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Services a question about the provision of assistance for child minding centres catering for the mentally retarded. [More…]
1 understand that his Department subsidises day training centres for mentally retarded children. [More…]
It has been suggested that assistance to child minding centres is the next logical extension of a programme to help these unfortunate members of our community. [More…]
As the honourable member will be aware, there is at present before the House the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill, under which the Commonwealth will provide a $2 for $1 capital subsidy to institutions giving training to handicapped children. [More…]
If training is given to children coming within the definition of handicapped, which includes mentally handicapped as well as physically handicapped, the institution will be eligible, upon the passage of the legislation, for a capital subsidy of $2 for $1. [More…]
The Government has been giving some consideration to helping child minding centres as well. [More…]
The weekly rate of compensation for a seaman is being increased from $28.15 to $31.80 and there is provision also for increases in weekly rates from $6.80 to $7.70 for a seaman’s wife and from $2.50 to $2.80 for each of a seaman’s children. [More…]
The basic lump sum death benefit, to which other lump sum benefits for various injuries are related, is being increased from $10,000 to $12,000, and the minimum total payment for a dependent child rises from $200 to $280. [More…]
For example, a widow with the actual income of $1,950 may be supporting a child and have other concessional deductions of $42 in which case her taxable income would be $1,700. [More…]
A matron in charge of a child minding centre could not possibly qualify for the male rate because mcn do not act as matrons in charge of child minding centres. [More…]
Men do not have the ability, as women have, to be in charge of child minding centres. [More…]
Let us consider the position of a family that unfortunately has a child with a squint. [More…]
The specialist examines the child, and it is as thorough an examination as that made by any other specialist in any part of the medical profession. [More…]
The common practice in this unfortunate ailment, commonly known as a squint - I am afraid 1 do not know the medical term - is for the child to be required to come back in 3 months time when the specialist will again examine him. [More…]
As we all know a significant number of females in Australia conceive their first child outside marriage. [More…]
She should not have to show that she was contributing to the fund at the family rate for 10 months before giving birth to a child. [More…]
Under these recommendations, a person with more than 2 children, on the minimum wage would be allowed an additional $4 a week per child- and would obtain cover for health insurance. [More…]
This would mean that a person with 6 children and earning $58.50 a week would be receiving some cover if those recommendations had been upheld. [More…]
On the basis put forward by the Nimmo Committee there was a clear case of want for a man, a wife and 6 children trying to exist on $58.50 a week. [More…]
It means that child-bearing and child-rearing are recognised as offences by the Government. [More…]
It is the case of a child whose life was at stake because there was only 1 antibiotic available for a case of pneumonia. [More…]
The child specialist in charge of the case, who was qualified and registered in the State of Queensland, had to make out a case for prescribing this drug. [More…]
The parents of the child, who could ill afford to pay for the drug and who really should have had their child in a public hospital if the specialist had been available there, had to pay several hundred dollars for this one drug to treat this fairly long and critical illness. [More…]
The child was saved and I have no doubt that the parents are very thankful that this happened and were willing to pay this money. [More…]
The Bill, Mr Speaker, relates to the total area of migrant education, which lor purposes of simplicity may be dealt with under 3 main headings - the adult programme, intensive courses and child migrant education. [More…]
The child migrant education programme represents a new area of Commonwealth participation. [More…]
The Government intends to finance the salaries of special teachers in both existing Government and independent schools to teach migrant children who are handicapped in varying degrees by some type of English language difficulty and the cost of special training courses for these teachers. [More…]
It will provide suitable teaching and learning materials not only to schools where special classes are formed but also to schools where there are insufficient numbers of migrant children with language problems to justify the appointment of a special teacher. [More…]
Because what is planned in the adult programme and with intensive courses is essentially an extension of existing programmes, the Bill is concerned largely with the area of the major new initiative in child migrant education. [More…]
Clause 5 relates to the proposed new arrangements for the child migrant education programme as well as to existing arrangements for adult migrants and for fulltime intensive courses of instruction. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science, which will be assisting in the development of the child migrant education programme in the States and will be responsible for producing appropriate teaching materials, will be establishing a committee to advise on the design and content and production of text books and other material for the child programme. [More…]
Full-scale production of material designed specifically for child migrants will possibly take two to three years. [More…]
In the meantime selected materials already used in the adult programme will be made available for use by migrant children. [More…]
I referred in my statement to the House on 23rd April to the need for research in the fields of both adult and child migrant education. [More…]
of clause 9 relates to certain types of payments, which it was thought desirable to refer to specifically, with respect to arrangements entered into with the government of a State - under both the adult programme and the child programme - as well as with an independent school authority under the child programme. [More…]
lt may be useful if I were to explain that schools which will qualify for financial assistance under the special programme for child migrants will be those where a special teacher is employed. [More…]
The appointment of a special teacher will in turn require, as a general rule, a minimum of 30 migrant children in the school in need of special instruction in the English language - though the children may be taught in smaller groups. [More…]
Administrative staff in the case of the child migrant programme will be concerned essentially with policy formulation, the control, training and development of teaching staff and the inspection and supervision of the programme at the local level. [More…]
of clause 9 is intended to provide for the situation where the State Education Department or independent school authority may wish to purchase teaching and learning materials which are not suitable for production under the arrangement referred to in clause 5 but which may be considered necessary to the effective implementation of the child programme. [More…]
We expect to spend $150,000 on intensive courses during 1969-70 and $250,000 on the child programme during the final quarter of the financial year. [More…]
So far as the Commonwealth Government is concerned, a benefit of $1.50 per child per day is payable to charitable and religious organisations conducting approved homes accommodating and caring for physically and mentally handicapped children under 16 years of age. [More…]
No doubt many retire because of marriage, but little is done to establish the best way of encouraging them back into the profession - for example, by the provision of re-training programmes at Government expense or child minding centres set up close to their employment. [More…]
Is it a fact that professional and other working women who require domestic help in the house, or for child minding purposes, are unable to claim such costs as a deduction against taxable income? [More…]
Will the Treasurer have a look at the implications of this question in relation to the drawing up of the next Budget, including the costs concerned in child minding centres? [More…]
1 addressed this House only recently on the subject of profoundly deaf children and return to it for 2 reasons: firstly, because of the general unawareness and ignorance that abound on the problem of deafness and secondly, because of the widespread, long-standing neglect of deaf children by Federal and State governments, and I might add, by society generally. [More…]
They would, I am sure, be stunned, as I was, by the realisation of the fact that the child born totally deaf - and otherwise normal - comes into the world with a burden of staggering proportions. [More…]
Consider this single fact: A child with normal hearing at the age of 4 or 5 years has all the basic structure of his native language without ever having been taught, solely by being communicated with. [More…]
How can a child who is born profoundly deaf learn his native language? [More…]
Further enlightenment might come to an outsider by considering that what 1 might term ‘the old fashioned deafness’ - cases when deafness was a single handicap - is giving way to the more complex problem of the growing population of the multiple handicapped deaf children. [More…]
I mentioned as my second reason for addressing honourable members on the problem of the profoundly deaf child the widespread and long-standing neglect by both Federal and State government We are, all of us, familiar with the thinking of not so many years ago that put ali these human problems into the dark backwaters of institutionalisation. [More…]
Although speaking as an outsider in this field I hope I am speaking for a society that is ashamed that it has looked the other way for so long when the problem of the profoundly deaf child has been mentioned. [More…]
The Australian citizens on the islands receive child endowment and other social service benefits as residents of Australia. [More…]
This is why a thoroughly intelligent man like Ebia Olewale is campaigning for social services, child endowment and what not for the people of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The best of all migrants to Australia is the Australian child born of Australian parents and reared in an Australian home. [More…]
An amount of $550 is taken from every man, woman and child in Australia, yet New South Wales receives back from the Commonwealth $90 per head of population to carry out all of its responsibities. [More…]
There are classes that are overcrowded by 30 or 40 at first form level, and it is simply impossible these days for those children to be taught. [More…]
When a matriculation class has 20 or 30 more students than it should have, the effect on the child being taught in that class is disastrous. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to say to the Australian people: ‘We need X qualified teachers if we are to give every young Australian child the full opportunuity to develop his innate potentiality’ and if it is prepared to argue this way for 3 years, the Australian people will not object to an increase in taxation if there are no other means of raising revenue. [More…]
It is my firm conviction that every child in those State schools is served worse with educational and teaching facilities than back in the 1930s. [More…]
Certainly each child is important, but without the trained and effective teacher the education system collapses. [More…]
Any school child with an atlas detailing the monthly variations of rainfalls in the different rainfall regions of Australia can demonstrate that there is no annual variation elsewhere in Australia like that which occurs in coastal Queensland. [More…]
What was the amount of child endowment payable for each child at the time endowment was introduced by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
What is the amount of child endowment payable for each child today. [More…]
Is the Government giving any consideration to increasing child endowment. [More…]
When child endowment was introduced on 1st July 1941 the rate for the second and each subsequent eligible child under 16 in a family was 50 cents per week. [More…]
No endowment was payable for the first child. [More…]
Today the first eligible child under 16 in a family attracts endowment of 50 cents per week, the second SI. [More…]
00 per week, the third, $1.50 per week, with cumulative increases of 25 cents per week for each subsequent child. [More…]
Endowment of $1.50 per week is payable in respect of each eligible student child between his 16th and 21st birthdays in a family. [More…]
The rates of child endowment will be considered at the appropriate time, in the Budget context [More…]
This Bill proposes certain grants towards capital costs on the basis of $2 for each $1 on the conditions outlined in the Bill and also towards the purchase of approved equipment for centres which are dedicated to the training and rehabilitation of handicapped children. [More…]
Because of an expansion in the definition of a handicapped child it not only includes a person under 21 years but in some cases it includes a person over 21 years, where that person has had continuous training in that centre. [More…]
Our casual attitude and quite inadequate approach to the needs of the physically, mentally and socially handicapped children is contrary to the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, principle 5, which states: [More…]
A child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]
The cruelty of this is the creation of unnecessary personality problems for the handicapped child. [More…]
There will be a variation between children in the extent to which this will develop. [More…]
These are the sorts of things that ought to be grappled with if we are to talk eulogistically and with self-praise about what is being done by the Federal Government for handicapped children and for the unfortunate parents who have tq bear the burden of handicapped children. [More…]
In my city of Ipswich in one case a father works during the day as a truck driver and the mother works at night in a woollen mill so that between them they can have enough money tn maintain all the services that are necessary for their child who is gravely handicapped to meet the costs of his transport to and from Brisbane and the cost of special equipment, special books and so on. [More…]
What about pre-school centres for these children, perhaps mixed pre-school centres? [More…]
Goodness only knows that normal children are not able to obtain sufficient pre-school training. [More…]
No provision has been made for the handicapped child. [More…]
Yet they are children, precisely because they tend to be slow learners, who must start earlier at school and who must obtain the special preliminary training which goes with a pre-school centre. [More…]
Everywhere I travel, and Australia has been no exception, there is plentiful evidence of the fact that all too many physicians do not inform parents at all that their child was at or soon after birth recognised to be mentally retarded. [More…]
Others inform parents that their child is backward but should grow out of it. [More…]
Some physicians go to the other extreme and, particularly in cases of mongolism, paint an entirely unjustifiable dark and dismal picture of the child as a total idiot, unable to function even in the simplest life tasks, and urge immediate and total separation from the mother and admission to an institution. [More…]
But once having achieved this, or concurrently anyway with such a programme, great virtues would be found in establishing a register in which handicapped children could be registered at birth. [More…]
Not only the mentally retarded but also other handicapped children would be registered and then handicaps identified. [More…]
The education of children is a society responsi bility and therefore a Government responsibility - whether the child happens to have an IQ of 40 or 140, and in this so-called age of enlightenment it should not be necessary to have to justify such a statement. [More…]
Suffice to say that at present, society, through its government is making provision for the education of subnormal children on the cheap. [More…]
Hitherto, child welfare has always been regarded as the responsibility of the States and the voluntary organisations, although the Commonwealth has been paying $1.50 per day as a subsidy towards the accommodation of certain handicapped children who are living away from home. [More…]
But the States and voluntary organisations have had to bear the bulk of the costs and responsibility of looking after the handicapped children. [More…]
The New South Wales Government has involved itself in a direct manner in assisting handicapped children, caring for State wards and providing school facilities and of course it will not be eligible to receive direct assistance. [More…]
We hope that this Bill will give a broad interpretation to the term ‘handicapped children’ so that it will include those mentally disabled because they are emotionally and socially maladjusted children. [More…]
It is desirable that every effort be made to provide special schooling and other forms of care and training for emotionally disturbed children who may not need inpatient care in psychiatric hospitals but who will become serious problems to all concerned if they are not given special assistance at an early age. [More…]
The prime objective has been to encourage regional development of social services throughout the State so that services for handicapped children are located where the children’s families are living or to assist within the immediate region so that family involvement can be maintained with the needs of the children. [More…]
There are 11 such regional advisory committees in New South Wales consisting of representatives of education and public health bodies and child and social welfare officers, to help guide and advise the New South Wales Government and local workers for the cause. [More…]
One of the objectives of the Westhaven Association in moving to extend the accommodation at the hostel is to qualify for the application of the Commonwealth handicapped children’s benefit. [More…]
Last year the association made representations, through myself, to the Commonwealth Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) about the restrictive criteria under which the Commonwealth Government’s benefit for handicapped children was granted. [More…]
Tn reply to these representations the Minister stated that the requirements for the application of this benefit had been eased and as a result the Westhaven Association is now confident that when the additions to the hostel are completed it will be eligible for the Commonwealth handicapped children’s benefit of $1.50 per day per child in residence at the hostel. [More…]
It is vital that this co-operation be maintained and even extended in the interests of the children concerned. [More…]
School facilities will be acceptable only if the schools receive certification under the Public Instruction Act, while residential facilities for children or pre-school kindergarten facilities require to be licensed under the Child Welfare Act of New South Wales. [More…]
Permanently handicapped children of past days were hidden in the back room and not brought out to the light of day, as though it was some blemish upon their character or something to be ashamed of for a child to be deformed or affected in some way. [More…]
This was the approach in many years past where the child was left in a back room, so to speak, not to be seen by people and not. [More…]
One has only to reflect - and I was Minister for the Army for 8 years - on the enormously high percentage of young men in this country who cannot pass an examination that a normal child of 10 could pass. [More…]
I have mentioned before in this Parliament the problem of the dyslectic child. [More…]
These children are intelligent - some are highly intelligent- but they are unable to learn to read. [More…]
As I have said, these children in the past were put at the bottom of the class and were looked down upon. [More…]
Great things can be done for these children to help them to lead normal (ives and contribute to the affairs of this country. [More…]
There is no doubt that in the past parents of these children have suffered tremendously and have borne the brunt without help of any kind from governments or anywhere else. [More…]
Parents have to give a great deal of time to assist the children in learning to read and speak. [More…]
It is doing much at the present time, but there is still a great need to find out exactly the extent of the problem, not only of handicapped children about whom we are talking in this Bill but also of handicapped people in all aspects and in all grades throughout Australia. [More…]
lt is called ‘Guidelines for State Plan Programmes for Education of Handicapped Children’. [More…]
In New South Wales we have the Specific Learning Difficulties Association, which is known as SPELD, dealing with the dyslexic child that I mentioned earlier in my speech. [More…]
This organisation is particularly for dyslectic children and it is doing a magnificent job. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the Minister for Child Welfare and the Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Hewitt, who is a personal friend of mine. [More…]
In the latter half of his speech the Minister expressed his sentiments about the families of handicapped children. [More…]
I know that his sentiments are very real but people with handicapped children or handicapped relatives say that eloquent words are of little help to (heir families or to the handicapped children and do nothing to assist them at the greatest point of need. [More…]
The greatest point of need is during the first years of the life of the handicapped child. [More…]
When speaking of handicapped children I mean children with physical as well as mental handicaps, lt is not possible to divorce the needs of the handicapped child from the needs of the family. [More…]
The needs of the family are the most urgent in the early years of the child’s life. [More…]
This Bill does nothing to assist the family or the child during this period. [More…]
Many parents, given assistance at this stage of the child’s life, could later cope with many of the problems which drive them to seek hospital placement as the only means of preventing a complete family breakdown. [More…]
Voluntary organisations have undertaken almost too willingly the care and education of, in particular, mentally handicapped children from the pre-school years through to the sheltered workshop. [More…]
However, no Government expects voluntary organisations to undertake the education of non-handicapped children. [More…]
A family with a handicapped child is a handicapped family. [More…]
Looking at it in its best light, this Bil) imposes an additional burden on the parents of handicapped children who, in the main, make up the voluntary organisations which will seek subsidies for the new day centres and residential referred to in it. [More…]
Normal children are held back and the health of the parents is undermined by the tremendous strain of caring for the retarded member. [More…]
The burdens carried by these families include high medical costs, high transport costs, special safety measures in the home, excessive laundry costs, costs of excessive clothing replacements and other excessive costs which may be incurred by the condition of a particular child. [More…]
Indeed, the need for residential accommodation for these people is very great, lt could be lessened if a range of community services were available to help these families to keep a child at home. [More…]
Such community services could include visiting social workers, physiotherapists, teacher and speech therapist services, financial assistance to the family whose child’s condition requires this, a home help service - especially with trained personnel - and a visiting nursing service for the very young and for the bedridden or almost totally dependent child. [More…]
Grants could be made to the States to help them run a correspondence course for the mothers of handicapped children not serviced by any facility. [More…]
This would enable mothers to start training their children along sound lines. [More…]
There should also be compulsory medical examinations under the national health service for all 4-year-olds to enable earlier assessment of children with special needs due to a disability and hostel accommodation for the aged, orphans, and others unable to live at home for any reason, such as illness, age of parent, distance from a facility, condition of handicapped person in relation to other members of the family, size of family, etc. [More…]
1 refer to those handicapped children at present being educated by State education departments. [More…]
These children have no certainty and no security for the future. [More…]
This presents financial hardships to the families or the parents of handicapped children. [More…]
Help is required in catering for the services that these children need or to assist mentally retarded children attending special schools. [More…]
A need exists for increased mental retardation content in training courses for medical practitioners, general nurses and, in particular, nurses taking positions in mothercraft and child care clinics. [More…]
It is vital that help be given to these handicapped people early in life, because a child - even an infant - is easier to train than an adult. [More…]
In all these cases the training must be given to the child at a very early age. [More…]
both the States and voluntary bodies have been making valiant efforts in this field of assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
I remind the Minister again of the particular category of handicapped persons which I discussed with him earlier in the week and which I understand will be regarded with a degree of flexibility in future interpretations of what is a ‘handicapped child’. [More…]
In clause 4 of the Bill the definition of a handicapped child covers children under 21 years of age in an institution 3S well as children over 21 years of agc who enter the institution before they reach that age. [More…]
The flexibility which I urge the Minister to consider concerns the child who has remained with his parents and sickness or death makes it impossible for the child to remain at home. [More…]
Minda Home has been accepting very large numbers of children in this category for the Christmas vacation and this experiment is appreciated by the children and by the parents who, of course, are able to have a rest. [More…]
Such persons are excluded from the definition of handicapped child. [More…]
I put it to the Minister that ‘ a mongoloid person, for example, whatever his or her age, is correctly defined as a handicapped child. [More…]
Those of us who are fortunate enough to have normal children can scarcely imagine the feelings of parents when- they take a decision regarding the future of their handicapped child. [More…]
They must decide whether to rear the child at home or place him in an institution. [More…]
There are many, such as the tireless workers for the Mentally Retarded Childrens Society of South Australia, who opt for keeping them at home. [More…]
The importance placed on early training and specialised education, and the Home’s success, in actually placing former mentally handicapped children in full employment, has meant that many children ultimately will be able to lead a normal life. [More…]
When there is even a possibility of eventual success the decision regarding the future of a handicapped child is perhaps slightly less difficult to make. [More…]
Apart from the effect on the lives of the other members in the family it seems absolutely certain that the secret of success is the commencement of the skilled training and education as a child. [More…]
Child 1959. [More…]
The child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]
A. Richardson in a forum known as the ‘New Frontier and headed The Provision of an Adequate Education, for the Handicapped Child’. [More…]
In many parts of Australia children scoring less than a 30 IQ are not eligible to participate in our free and compulsory education system. [More…]
The parents, through necessity, have to seek placement of their children in independent charity schools if they happen to have them in their area. [More…]
I know of one establishment where, if the parents of children do not turn up to a. sufficient number of meetings in a year, they are threatened with their children’s expulsion from that school. [More…]
If they have the misfortune to have a handicapped child by birth or as a result of some subsequent development their lives have to be devoted to the raising of funds. [More…]
We regard this assistance being provided to handicapped children as a matter of right. [More…]
Every single child in Australia has a right to an education that will develop all of its capacities no matter how extensive they are or how limited they are. [More…]
Indeed the more limited is the capacity the greater the need for that child’s rights to be recognised by this Government, by a State government or by somebody - just so long as somebody does recognise it. [More…]
At present everybody recognises that a normal child has a right to develop to a stage of education which will bring out all of his capacities. [More…]
But in theory it is admitted that A walls and a teacher will providethe education that will bring out the latent ca pacities of normal Victorian children: But. [More…]
you look beyond the normal child and ask yourself: What about the child that goes to the spastic centre, the one that goes to the school for the mentally retardedorthe one that goes to special school? [More…]
Their rights arenot comparable with the right, of a normal child. [More…]
How does this come about when it is the handi apped child especially who needs the special ist training, the physiotherapist, the speech therapist, the occupational therapist and the trained teacher? [More…]
That child’s parents probably need a social welfare worker. [More…]
The teacher probably also needs a psychologist to watch the child’s progress. [More…]
Set these things as the standard of what the handicapped child needs and you can guarantee that the child has not got them, This is simply because nobody in Australiais prepared to accept full responsibil ity for the education of handicapped children [More…]
The handicapped child is among the most underprivileged of Australian school children. [More…]
He ranks with the Aboriginal, the migrant child and the child of the working class family in the inner suburban areas. [More…]
That is where the handicapped child stands in Australia. [More…]
Once again, it is the country citizen who becomes the second class citizen because many of the advantages and many of the rights which the city handicapped ch id has the country handicapped child does not have. [More…]
Many handicapped children need hostel accommodation in my electorate. [More…]
This type of accommodation is necessary because, as many honourable members are already aware, one of the greatest worries of the parents of handicapped children is what will happen to the handicapped children if the mother or father becomes ill or dies. [More…]
From time to time there is also a need for the parents to have a holiday, and in that case it is essential for the child to have somewhere to stay while the parents are having a rest. [More…]
On those grounds alone it is essential that there should be hostel accommodation, and for the mentally retarded children in my electorate this is a great need. [More…]
One of the problems which confront the parents of handicapped children, whether they are handicapped physically or mentally or in both respects, is the problem that this disability creates in the home. [More…]
In areas such as the one I represent where large distances are involved the task of taking handicapped children from one place to another adds to the very great problems that confront parents. [More…]
To show how the problems of caring for these children affect parents I would like to quote from part of a letter I received recently on this matter. [More…]
This letter refers to a child who is attending The Chalet for Children at Stanthorpe in Queensland, which is in my electorate of Maranoa. [More…]
Our child has beenat The Chalet for 3 years and 4 months, and we are extremely satisfied with the way he is looked after. [More…]
Anyone who has not been personally involved in such a heart-breaking event as a young child with incurable brain damage, would not realise the tremendous feeling of gratitude and peace of mind that a home like The Chalet for Children offers. [More…]
At the time when our doctors told us that for the future of the rest of our family we must place our child in a home, we made inquiries throughout Queensland and in other States as to suitable institutions. [More…]
I can tell you, the decision to move our child from the family circle was not an easy one, and we fully examined alt aspects of his future well-being. [More…]
1 give full credit to all people who are associated with the care of handicapped children. [More…]
They also give very sympathetic and understanding care to children who need it. [More…]
aspect of handicapped children that has not been dealt with specifically by any honourable member this evening, as far as f know, and that is the problem of autistic children, f want to draw the attention of the House to a form of illness suffered by children which until recently was not known widely in Australia, or for that matter around the world. [More…]
It described the plight of the autistic child and also the suffering of all those associated with it, primarily the parents, brothers and sisters of autistic children. [More…]
He referred to it as infantile autism because he meant it occurred mainly in children under 3 years of age. [More…]
The cause of it is still a mystery; the symptoms of the illness are many and varied and not always applicable to all children. [More…]
As I said before, it is extremely difficult to diagnose because there are no set symptoms but a pattern of symptoms that exists and it can only be recognised in a child when a conglomeration of these symptoms occurs. [More…]
It appears that there are about 14 major manifestations of infantile autism and it is generally accepted that if a child shows 7 or more of these symptoms he is likely to be austistic. [More…]
Taken out of context these symptoms can occur in other diseases or in perfectly normal children. [More…]
I want to outline briefly the symptoms that do occur in an autistic child. [More…]
The child is not as cuddly as a baby and tends to hold itself, stiff or alternatively hangs rather limply. [More…]
One of the great problems with the autistic child is its inability to communicate. [More…]
They have great difficulty in playing with other children and they also look past or away from the person to whom they are talking or who is talking to them. [More…]
They are restless children, rushing from one thing to another ali the time and they often act as if deaf. [More…]
This final aspect is a great worry to parents who have to watch the children constantly as they may run out onto a street and under a car where there is heavy traffic passing. [More…]
There are many other dangers of which the child is not aware and with which it will become involved. [More…]
One other symptom of an autistic child is the swaying or rocking that occurs very often during the evening- for teng periods. [More…]
I have been attracted to the profoundly deaf who, along with the spastic children, offer the greatest’ potential in training and achievement. [More…]
All handicapped children require our attention, consideration and understanding. [More…]
The impact’ of profound congenital hearing loss on the processes of communication is difficult to overestimate, because language is the indispensable tool of learning which is acquired with very little effort by the hearing child but acquired in a minimal degree by the deaf child only after great effort and determination. [More…]
It has been estimated that deafness is the most profound handicap a child may have. [More…]
Deaf children in Australia have shared the treatment meted out to handicapped children generally. [More…]
The answer to the basic question: What do we have to do to ensure adequate provision for our deaf children?’ [More…]
Of prime importance is a programme of early attention to the deaf child. [More…]
Without such early attention it is doubtful whether a child who is born deaf will ever acquire his native language. [More…]
It is doubtful if even 1% of the cost of educating deaf children is spent on research. [More…]
I can recollect first coming into this field and becoming interested in it many, many years ago when a couple who had a mongoloid child approached me. [More…]
The child was 2 years of age and had not turned off its back. [More…]
The father approached me to try to get the child into a State home to be looked after because at that point of time his total wage- was 13 10s a week, and he was spending 6 a week having that child looked after in a private home. [More…]
I thought I could easily get that child into a home- how innocent I was- -where it would be looked after. [More…]
There was one State organisation where the child was finally admitted. [More…]
Having had 5 attacks of pneumonia the child had a sixth attack and died within a fortnight. [More…]
For that reason I became very vitally interested in this problem of handicapped children. [More…]
We have to look after these children. [More…]
This is our child. [More…]
But it does not have the same effect upon government instrumentalities, which should accept the responsibility for these children. [More…]
those people who are prepared, to volunteer to assist these children to raise, other finance. [More…]
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the ordinary family - group to meet its responsibilities to those children who are not physically handicapped. [More…]
Here they are being called upon to meet this colossal responsibility - this great liability of the child who is handicapped. [More…]
So many of these children need special vehicles to transport them to and from school. [More…]
There is a need to alleviate this problem and to assist not only those children under 16 years of age but those over 16 years of age. [More…]
Under State legislation the parents have to pay for the education, transport, etc., of a child in a school for handicapped children when that child is over 16 years of age. [More…]
This is the greatest problem troubling the parents of handicapped children. [More…]
There is always the thought in their minds: What is going to happen to our child when we are no longer here? [More…]
The deficiency of this Bill, as I see it, is that the benefits are restricted to capital assistance for the training - and training alone - of various types of handicapped children. [More…]
A handicapped child is defined in the Bill as a person suffering from a physical or mental disability. [More…]
Will organisations which look after severely mentally retarded children benefit from this legislation? [More…]
What is the position in regard to mongoloid children who are incapable of receiving vocational and educational training? [More…]
Are organisations which took after these severely handicapped children to be denied the benefits of this Bill? [More…]
One of those deficiencies which 1 think is applicable lo handicapped children is too restrictive an interpretation at the administrative level. [More…]
Approved nursing homes, including nursing homes which look after handicapped children, are paid $2 a day in respect of each patient. [More…]
There is an additional SUPplementary benefit of $3 a day paid where ti.e child receives what is known as intensive care. [More…]
I had a case relating to this from the Intellectually and Physically Handicapped Childrens Association of New South Wales. [More…]
Mongoloid children, particularly the severely affected mongoloid child, not only need to be looked after on a custodial basis but also to be cared for with a lot more patience and a good deal more tolerance than. [More…]
the child who is physically handicapped. [More…]
It has been held administratively that, unless a child is ill - physically ill - it is denied the benefit of $3 per day on the basis that it is not receiving intensive care. [More…]
This Association is the only association in New South Wales which looks after and cares for the multiple hand:capped child. [More…]
That is the child who is both crippled and mentally retarded. [More…]
Perhaps 1 should refer to the worst affected metally and physically retarded children. [More…]
This Association started these centres in 1962 to cater for these types of affected children. [More…]
The purpose of the Amour Park centre is to look after the child who is not capable of being educated. [More…]
To cater for the child who is capable of being educated, the Intellectually and Physically Handicapped Children’s Associationon of New South Wales started in 1964 to erect a building - this is now known as the Hoxton Park Centre - at a cost of $52,000. [More…]
That school for physically and mentally retarded children at the present time has an enrolment of 91. [More…]
Allow me to point out some of the costs which have been borne by this Association and by the parents of these children at the Amour Park Centre. [More…]
The cost per child is S50 per week to which at the present, time the Commonwealth contributes the ordinary’ benefit, as it is called through the Commonwealth Department of Health of S2 per day. [More…]
Provided a child is entitled to receive a supplementary benefit-this has been given a very restrictive application at the administrative level - a further $3 per day is paid. [More…]
That leaves $15 per day for the parents of each child to find, lt is in this regard that 1 feel the Bill falls down. [More…]
This Bill covers only the training of the child and the cost of cap’ lal improvements. [More…]
Does he not think that the stage has been reached when we must consider not only the child but also the parents? [More…]
I feel that consideration should be given to paying to (he parents of these severely mentally retarded and physically handicapped children some type of financial assistance simitar to the invalid pension, lt should be a figure which is capable of assist-ng the parents in the every day running costs of keeping such a child at a home such as those that I have mentioned and assisting them also to meet the incidental costs that crop up but about which nobody knows. [More…]
I feel that the parents of these children are bearing a big enough burden, lt is a mental burden to them when a child is born to them who, unfortunately, is physically or mentally retarded. [More…]
I request the Minister to give consideration to this proposal when the Budget is under consideration and to see whether or not some assistance could be given to parents of these children. [More…]
In general terms, training which is designed to teach a child the activities of daily living, or which is of a social, remedial, pre-vocational, or vocational nature, will be accepted. [More…]
It is always difficult to say, if a child is deaf or blind: Where is the dividing line? [More…]
If a child is mentally retarded it is difficult to say: Where is the dividing line in this case? [More…]
It is not always easy to decide, but if facilities are available the child who needs those facilities will be brought into them. [More…]
In these circumstances I do not think we will ever know accurately the numbers of people who need help until we have facilities available and until there is in these facilities a place for every child that needs help and can benefit by them. [More…]
Bui when you come to the child, generally speaking this is the province of the State, particularly since it is not always easy lo distinguish between the education of the partially retarded arid the education of the normal child, and education in the States is and remains a State matter at primary and secondary levels. [More…]
this and because child welfare is something which requires more individual application than the granting of the adult invalid pension it is reasonable to consider that this is primarily a State function. [More…]
in this area we have already done one th n. We have provided the $1.50 a day subsidy for the maintenance of children in residential institutions. [More…]
This we do because it is not normally the function of the Stale to provide boarding facilities for children, although it is normally the function of the State to provide day education for children. [More…]
As regards children it seems to me that it is probably better for the State to do this. [More…]
Milk is almost as essential to a growing child today as is the air he breathes. [More…]
When one sees children who are deficient in animal protein, it makes one realise how fortunate we are in this country where milk and milk products are in plentiful supply. [More…]
In many developing countries two-thirds of children die because of lack of animal protein. [More…]
As I have mentioned in this House previously, if you take 20 children in a developing country, 10 die in infancy and 7 out of the remaining 10 are stunted mentally and physically for life because of malnutrition in childhood. [More…]
ls the Minister aware of the utter external examinations from our education impracticality of the English visitor’s assertion - he is here on a government fellowship - that the teacher’s job is to find out what the child requires for his growth and to provide it rather than to teach to a denned body of knowledge usually known as a syllabus? [More…]
the time has now come when it is in the interests of society generally as well as the individual young people concerned to eradicate from our legal system any residual traces there may be of a legal age of majority imposed for the sole purpose of furthering the interests, or serving the convenience, of any persons or bodies of persons other than the child himself. [More…]
no child or young person is in any way restricted by his or her capacity or independence as a citizen solely for the benefit of any other person or persons [More…]
Under the Bill the basic lump sum benefit is being increased from 810,000 to $12,000 and the minimum payment for a dependent child of a deceased employee from $200 to $280. [More…]
The Bill provides for the weekly payment in incapacity cases to be increased from $28.15 to $31.80 for an adult employee without dependants and the weekly dependant supplements pf $6.80 and $2.50 for a dependent wife and each dependent child under 16 years of age to be increased to $7.70 and $2.80 respectively. [More…]
Each child (under 16) - $1.50 per week. [More…]
First child (under 16) - $2.50 per week [More…]
Each other child (under 16) - $3.50 per week. [More…]
Moderately mentally handicapped children receive their education at two special schools in Canberra. [More…]
Pre-school education for the moderately mentally handicapped child is provided at Malkara while special extension facilities for 16-18 year olds is provided at Koomarri School. [More…]
The Minister will appreciate that a taxpayer who has a dependent child up to 21 years of age engaged in full time studies is allowed a $300 deduction from his income tax return, but immediately the student becomes 21 the deduction is disallowed. [More…]
The figures I have just given are by way of illustration and are based on a family of husband and wife and would vary if the family included one or more dependent children, or consisted of one parent and a child A further relevant provision is in section 82u (1.) [More…]
They will see nothing wrong with interrupting a child’s schooling at the secondary level when the aim of the dead father was to give him the advantage of a tertiary education. [More…]
They will see no justification for a widow and her children indulging in such extravagances as going to the pictures, to the theatre or for a holiday or in buying toys at Christmas time. [More…]
Under the First Schedule of this Bill the weekly rate of compensation for an employee without dependants will be increased to S3 1.80, for a dependent female to $7.70 and for a child to $2.80- making a total of $45.10 a week for a man, his wife and 2 children. [More…]
1 ask the Treasurer to consider the case of a worker with a wife and 1 child who may be off duty with a hernia which has been accepted as compensable. [More…]
Under this legislation, this man, his wife and 1 child, would get S42.30 a week, so that over 13 weeks his loss in salary would be $396.50. [More…]
1 note too that in the case of the death of a worker the compensation payable to his children to age 16 or student children to age 21 is higher in New South Wales than is proposed in this new code. [More…]
In New South Wales the amount for a child in such circumstances is $5 a week. [More…]
I take the example of a wife and 3 dependent children aged 6, 10 and 12, and the total amount which is received until the children reach the age of 16 years. [More…]
The advantage under the New South Wales Act would be even greater in that example if the children remained at school after reaching 16 years and up to the age. [More…]
Both the New South Wales Act and the new Commonwealth code arc better in this respect than any other State Acts under which lump sums are payable for a child, ranging from $200 in the case of Victoria to $300 in the case of Queensland. [More…]
In order that premiums .paid on a life policy may qualify for deduction, the insurance is required to be effected on the life of the taxpayer himself (being a resident of Australia) or of his spouse or child. [More…]
Income tax deductions under the heading of education expenses are allowable to a parent if the child is receiving full-time education at a school. [More…]
This requirement is satisfied where the child is of an age to receive education of the kind furnished by a standard kindergarten and the establishment to which the fees are paid provides such educational facilities. [More…]
Payments made to a child minding centre solely for the purpose of providing for the care or supervision of a child do not qualify as education expenses and are outgoings of a private or domestic nature. [More…]
The question of amending the law to allow deductions for fees paid by working mothers to child minding centres will be considered during the preparation of the 1970-71 Budget. [More…]
Provided a scholar is receiving a living allowance, an allowance of up to $7 per week is payable for a dependent wife and an allowance of $2.50 per week for each dependent child under 16 years of age. [More…]
Unaffiliated’ non-government centres in category (ii) (b), a large proportion of which provide mainly child care facilities and cater for children under 3 years of age, do not normally receive financial assistance from governments. [More…]
There are also different types of centres catering to the needs of young children and it is difficult in some cases to determine which should be classified as ‘Pre-schools’ and which as other centres. [More…]
For example, in Victoria there is a significant number of ‘play centres’ conducted by pre-school play leaders who have less training than kindergarten teachers and are permitted to care for no more than 15 children at the one time. [More…]
By contrast the nursery schools and child-minding centres which have been set up in a number of Slates do not normally offer a recognised educational programme, and the children are normally left in the care of nurses rather than teachers. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth Statistician has given some attention to this matter since the dale of my predecessor’s answer and, from a limited investigation, has been ableto compile approximate figures of expenditure by the State Governments on preschools defined so as to exclude expenditure on day nurseries and child minding centres, but including expenditure on play centres. [More…]
In Western Australia the amount of time some school children would spend travelling each day would be equivalent to the amount which some honourable members are protesting about spending weekly. [More…]
No doubt, with this modern transport by which some of our members are travelling to the various States, they would return to their homes in the same time and with the same liability as the school child would experience in Western Australia. [More…]
Canadian entry standard is Grade Vlll, or the educational level reached by a child of 13 years. [More…]
Mrs Medlyn receives a fortnightly pension of $10.85 which incorporates the pension payable to the Medlyn’s remaining dependent child. [More…]
Shops (to provide day-to-day needs); play areas, infant health and pre-school child welfare centres; meeting hall; and schools. [More…]
I refer to a part Aboriginal child named Barry McKenzie who was taken out of Western Australia without his mother’s consent in April 1964. [More…]
Subsequently it was discovered that he had left the country under an assumed name by having had his name entered on a woman’s passport as the child of that woman although in fact he was not her child. [More…]
The average family man with a wife and 2 children with a taxable income of $3,000 receives a benefit of $32. [More…]
A Liberal Budget indeed - divisive, disruptive, sectional, the true child of the most divisive government this nation has had since the 1920s. [More…]
I intend to place a question on the notice paper about this matter because it is my view that a higher proportion of the population was in receipt of age pensions and child endowment in 1969-70 than in 1960-61 and yet the share of total Government expenditure last year was less than it was 10 years ago. [More…]
A second area where the present system of income tax deduction is unfair to people on lower and middle incomes is in the allowable deductions for children. [More…]
We give assistance for children in 2 ways* - child endowment and through income tax deductions. [More…]
I think it is common ground with everyone who has investigated the problem of poverty that probably the best way to reduce poverty would be by an increase in child endowment and we could, at no cost to the Treasury, nearly double the present level of child endowment by eliminating the income tax deduction for children. [More…]
This would of course make the assistance equal for everyone and eliminate the situation where the assistance - the sum of child endowment and income tax deduction - for a first child, for instance, is $1.29 for a man on a taxable income of $2,000 a year and $3.17- nearly 3 times as much - for a man on $20,000 a year. [More…]
Throughout the whole field of social services, no matter whether it is pensioners, child endowment, child allowance, guardians allowance, wife’s allowance, maternity allowance, unemployment payments and so on. [More…]
The allowance before the Budget for each child was $1.38 and the allowance has remained at $1.38. [More…]
One classic case that came to my attention recently related to something which is used by every child and goes into every home - ice cream. [More…]
At the moment, we have only one child, the second is due any day now. [More…]
I wish to refer now to a matter that is of concern to every man, woman, and child in this country. [More…]
This staggering financial burden being borne by local government is being transferred to the men, women and children in our community and is expressed in increased rates. [More…]
The cost of rearing a child in this country until the child has reached working age is, according to the statistics, about $10,000 which includes the provision of food, clothing and education. [More…]
However, child endowment, which is paid to mothers, is hopelessly, shockingly and scandalously inadequate. [More…]
In 1968-69 child endowment payments amounted to $l87.9m for 3.7 million children from 1.701 million families. [More…]
In regard to child endowment, that dark corner into which this Government refuses to shed any light, there has been no improvement. [More…]
The failure to increase child endowment payments has been taken by the parents of our children as an indication of the complete and utter disregard of the Government for their problems. [More…]
In 1954-55 the allowance for the first child was $156. [More…]
The allowance for the second and all subsequent children in 1954-55 was $104: today it is $156, an increase of 50%. [More…]
If such a person were on an income of $45 a week and had a child or two I do not know how he could live. [More…]
This Government and its fellow LiberalCountry Party administration in Queensland have allowed the Griffith University to become the unwanted child of tertiary, education in Queensland. [More…]
For example, it is my personal view that a woman should have sovereignty over her own body in matters concerning the birth of a child. [More…]
A person is not criminally responsible if he gives, in good faith, and with reasonable care and skill, surgical or medical treatment to any person for his benefit or performs a surgical operation upon or gives medical treatment to an unborn child for the preservation of the mother’s life, if the treatment is reasonable, having regard to (he patient’s state at the time and to all the circumstances of the case. [More…]
Whoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means; with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for ten years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully administers to, or causes to be taken by, any woman, whether with child or not, any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for ten years. [More…]
that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped. [More…]
Many of them, in the absence of any more sensible, sane and humane directive from the law, have performed abortions in cases where the child may reasonably be presumed to be abnormal, deformed or affected, for example, by rubella or german measles. [More…]
The rights of the head of a family to decide what his child shall eat. [More…]
what sort of medical attention he shall have, what sort of education he shall have and so on are curtailed - and rightfully so - by the laws which safeguard the rights of the child. [More…]
These laws are deficient, as has been made evident in medical circles recently by the incidence of the battered child syndrome. [More…]
Occasionally these cases get into the papers when a child dies. [More…]
3 on page 13 of the Budget Speech documents, under the heading ‘Payment to National Welfare Fund’, discloses a drop of $20,143,000 in the amount expected to be spent on child endowment during the current year - from an actual expenditure of $220,143,000 in 1969- 70 to an estimated $200m in 1970- 71. [More…]
Of course, there is also the question of child endowment which has not been increased. [More…]
One of them is by an increase in child endowment and another, of course, is an increase in the allowable deductions for wife and children. [More…]
The allowance of $208 for a child is a confidence trick. [More…]
A man who pays 50c in the $1 would get back through his income tax deduction a child endowment benefit of $104 compared with the poorer man’s benefit of $2.08. [More…]
Sir Arthur Fadden once admitted to me that if we abolished income tax deductions for children altogether we could double child endowment. [More…]
So while the wage has increased by 39 per cent over that period the tax burden has increased as follows: For a single man by 79 per cent; for a married man by 94 per cent; for a married man with 1 child by 105 per cent; for a married man with 2 children 114 per cent. [More…]
These remain at $312 for his spouse, parent, parent-in-law, or daughter-housekeeper; $208 for his first child, invalid relative or student child; and $1.56 for each other child. [More…]
Child endowment payments have also been shamefully neglected in this anti-family Budget. [More…]
She said that there was general agreement that the formative years were the spanning period when rapid physical growth and personal development enabled kindergarten teachers to foresee the type of adult that the child would become. [More…]
Let us take units of 3 people: A class A widow with 2 children under 16 years of age receives $27 per week; an invalid pensioner with a wife and a child receives $24.50 per week; and a person receiving sickness benefit who has a wife and child receives $19,50 per week. [More…]
If the Minister for Social Services speaks on social services he would make an impact if he indicated the Government’s policy on child endowment. [More…]
After all, the rate for the first child has remained unaltered for 18 years; the rate for the second child has remained unaltered for 20 years and the rate for the third child for 4 years In 1949 a couple with 3 children received endowment amounting to 11.5 per cent of average male earnings. [More…]
If the value of child endowment had been maintained they would now be getting $12 per week in endowment but in fact they receive $6.75 per week. [More…]
Alternatively, increases could have been made for the support of families through child endowment and maternity allowances, things that the Government has forgotten about years ago. [More…]
The amount of deduction that can be claimed for the first child has been increased from $156 to $208. [More…]
The deduction for other children has been increased from $104 to $156. [More…]
Let us examine where the children of Australia stand in relation to this Budget. [More…]
According to statistics, about 3,177,000 children are supported by the taxpayers. [More…]
That includes the first child, the student child and other children of a family. [More…]
We can add to that the 85,000 children of the aged, invalids and widows and reach a total of just over 3) million. [More…]
This is a very alarming social equation, because 658,000 are the children of persons in the over $5,000 a year income group. [More…]
In other words, 2,604,000 children are to be disadvantaged by this Budget As a result of this Budget 80 per cent of the children will be worse off; 20 per cent will gain because their parents will gain from the tax reduction so cunningly contrived in its incidence. [More…]
To compound the injury, need 1 remind honourable members that since 1949 there has been no increase in the endowment for the first child? [More…]
Since 1949 there has been no increase in the endowment for the second child either. [More…]
They happen to have 20 per cent of the children. [More…]
Child endowment has not been increased for 10 years. [More…]
No parent in New South Wales would insist that his child should stay at a school at which he did not want to stay. [More…]
Wife’s allowance: An allowance of $7 per week is paid for non-pensioner wives of all invalid pensioners, of all age pensioners who are permanently incapacitated for work or where there is a child under 16 years of age. [More…]
Guardian’s allowance: An allowance of $4 per week is paid to single and widowed pensioners where there is a child under 16 or a student child between 16 and 21. [More…]
Where the child is under 6 years of age, or an invalid, this is increased to $6 per week. [More…]
Additional pension for children: Pensioners receive an extra $2.50 per week for the first child under 16 (or between 16 and 21 if a student) in the family, and an extra $3.50 for each subsequent such child. [More…]
At present these allowances are being paid for 35,700 children at an estimated cost for 1970-71 of $5.6m. [More…]
Queensland: Supplementary benefit may be payable by the Department of Children’s Services to one-parent families receiving age pension, on the basis of $2.50 per week for each dependent child, subject, however, to a ceiling total income (child endowment being excluded) equal to the basic wage adjusted to take account of family size. [More…]
Western Australia: An additional allowance may be payable to age pensioners with children at the rate of $2.00 per week (in a one-child family) or $2.50 (where there is more than one dependent child). [More…]
The allowance is paid by the Child Welfare Department. [More…]
To the amounts mentioned in this table will be added the normal family endowment plus, where there is a child under 6 years of age or an invalid, a further $2. [More…]
The Third Schedule will be amended to provide increases of 60c per week for the first child of an ex-serviceman who dies from war causes and 75c for the second and subsequent children. [More…]
For a double orphan, that is a child who has also lost the other parent, the increase will be $1.85 per week. [More…]
Paragraph (b) of that clause provides, in respect of children whose father, having been an Australian mariner coming under the Act, is dead, for an increase of $1.20 in the fortnightly rate of pension for the first child, making the fortnightly rate $12 for that child, and for an increase of $1.50 to the rate of $10 for each other child. [More…]
Paragraph (c) of that clause provides for an increase of $3.70 in the fortnightly rate of pension payable for each child where the mother also is dead - the ‘double orphan’ - bringing that rate up to $24 per fortnight. [More…]
The best way to increase Australia’s population and to get a better kind of person would be to encourage bigger families through child endowment. [More…]
Included in the numerous overseas allowances are such allowances as living and child allowances, outfit allowance, rent allowance, entertainment allowance, representation allowance etc., but due to the variations in rates and conditions which may apply within a country, between countries and according to the particular circumstances of the member concerned, it will be appreciated that this is not an appropriate time to include the specific details. [More…]
The lowest figure covered funeral expenses for a child, and the highest was in respect of a father of seven children. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in Australia is entitled to receive these benefits and the patient has complete freedom of choice both as regards the doctor and chemist, there has been a continuing increase in the expenditure under the scheme and the Commonwealth expenditure has increased from $70.4m in 1961-62 to $ 136.7m in 1969-70. [More…]
He does not refer either to the wife’s allowance which was last set in 1968 at $7, or the dependent child’s allowance which was first set in 1968 and has not been adjusted since despite movements in the cost of living. [More…]
The maternity allowance was set in 1947 for the first child at $30. [More…]
For the second child it was set in 1947 at $32; it should be $91.70 now. [More…]
For the third child it was set in 1947 at $35; it should be $100.32 at the present time, if it were adjusted according to movements in costs over that period. [More…]
I do not believe that in the event of children being born into my family I should get the same amount of money by way of maternity allowance or even child endowment as the railway fettler who is on $40 a week or the factory worker who is probably on $50 or $60 a week. [More…]
Child endowment payments have not been adjusted. [More…]
In 1950 endowment was set at 50c a week for the first child; it should now be $1.13 if the Minister wants to apply the indices he produced in his second reading speech. [More…]
In 1948 it was set at $1 a child; it should be $2.56 a child now. [More…]
In 1964 it was set at $1.50 a child; it should be $1.84 a child now. [More…]
Quite clearly, if the Minister believes the indices he presented in the House are of such monumental importance he should explain why - because of his failure to adjust these payment rates according to those indices - he is cheating a family of 3 of $2.50 a week in child endowment to which it would otherwise be entitled. [More…]
If the Minister were to stand and say he wanted to introduce a new system of child endowment payments based upon a conception of need which would substantially increase these payments and treat them as taxable income, I for one would be very happy to support him because this obviously would give greatest benefit from the scheme to those with the greatest need. [More…]
Even on this basis according to my calculations, any A class widow with more than one child will be below the poverty “level. [More…]
Let us look at what this means for a widow with 3 children who will be receiving $34 a week including supplementary allowance and child endowment. [More…]
We can assume that she would be paying at least $10 a week in rent - and she would be lucky to obtain accommodation at that rate - and that food for herself and her children would cost her at least $12.50 a week. [More…]
This is not taking into calculation the cost of clothing, transport, kiddies school books and all the extra fees that are imposed upon children by our State school system which is allegedly a free school system but which has become intolerably expensive for too many people. [More…]
This system is too expensive not only for people in the poverty area but also for people on middle incomes and even people’ on average weekly earnings who have large families and who are confronted by the cost of books, uniforms and fees for sport and for the various other services associated with the facilities that are offered at the schools the children attend. [More…]
Let me illustrate: A man with a wife and 2 children will receive $24.50 including child endowment when he seeks sickness or unemployment benefits. [More…]
Even with the long term benefits the male head of a family with a wife and 2 children receives only $1 a week more than his wife would receive if she was widowed and was supporting the same number of children. [More…]
I believe in those days it was Mrs Blackburn - also referred to endowment of the first child. [More…]
Let me refer now to child endowment and the maternity allowance. [More…]
For 20 years there has been no increase in the rate of endowment paid for the first child despite spiralling inflation in that time. [More…]
The Government does little or nothing adequately to encourage families in the lower income bracket to bring children into the world. [More…]
Yet this Government pays an insignificant 50c a week towards the cost of rearing the first child. [More…]
As a child gets older the cost of keeping it increases, particularly the cost of clothing, footwear and education. [More…]
Surely irrefutable evidence such as this must convince the Government that the initial step in seeking to improve the birth rate is to increase child endowment and the maternity allowance. [More…]
It stands condemned for its failure to increase child endowment, for its failure to classify the class B widow in the same category as the single age or invalid pensioner, for its failure to increase the maternity allowance and for its failure to adjust pensioner funeral benefits. [More…]
I strongly support the raising .of the amount of child endowment. [More…]
I support the raising of child endowment firstly because it has not been raised for a long while and secondly because it would appear to be the one area foi which substantial help could be given to the man in the lower income group who has a large family. [More…]
It seems to me that child endowment is a practical, worthwhile and effective way of doing something for him. [More…]
I would like to draw the attention of the House to the inescapable fact that any increase in pensions and child endowment can give only temporary relief while there is a continual rise in the cost of living. [More…]
The same argument applies to child endowment. [More…]
Page 61 of the same report shows that in 1969 the number of endowed children was 1,050,357. [More…]
The amount, spent on child endowment increased from $57.4m in 1949 to $184m in 1969. [More…]
More is being spent on child endowment but less is being received in purchasing power by the endowed children. [More…]
In 1949 a man with a wife and 2 children on the minimum wage paid $1.60 a year in income tax. [More…]
In 1949 child endowment paid to a family of 3 children represented an amount of 11.3 per cent of the average male earnings. [More…]
A man, his wife and 3 children is close to the size of the average family. [More…]
The family with 3 children now gets S3 child endowment. [More…]
Therefore, the child endowment represents less than 5 per cent of the average male earnings. [More…]
A comparison with the minimum wage also shows how the value of child endowment has dropped over the years. [More…]
In 1948 with a minimum wage of $11.60 a family of 5 children received $4 a week in child endowment. [More…]
To retain the same relationship the child endowment should now be over $12 for a family of 5. [More…]
There was no increase in child endowment to make up for loss of purchasing power through inflation over the years. [More…]
However, from the inception of maternityallowances in 1912 until this Government came into office the allowance would always pay the expenses associated with the birth of a child. [More…]
Consequently married couples are putting off having children. [More…]
Both husband and wife have to go to work in most cases to get their home together before having children. [More…]
It extends federal sharing to include the following costs, which were not shared under the Unemployment Assistance Act: The cost of assistance to needy mothers with dependent children, maintenance of children in the care of provincially approved child welfare agencies, health care services to needy persons, and the extension of welfare services to prevent or remove causes of dependency or to assist recipients in achieving self-support. [More…]
This is not the fault of the child; it is not the fault of the parents. [More…]
When comparing pensions we might also compare child endowment rates. [More…]
In the campaign preceding the elections of 1949 the Liberal and Country Party promised, if elected, to grant child endowment in respect of the first child. [More…]
But since 1949 we have not seen the rate of child endowment increase to any great extent. [More…]
It has been increased marginally but the purchasing power of child endowment today cannot compare with its purchasing power in 1949. [More…]
Under certain conditions, such as if she has a child in her care, she is entitled only to a wife’s allowance. [More…]
One aspect with which I wish to deal specifically is the Government’s refusal to give any worthwhile assistance to the family within the framework of social services Child endowment is one of the best ways in which to assist the family because it is paid irrespective of the income earned by that family. [More…]
When child endowment was introduced in 1941 it was 50c for each child after the first child. [More…]
In 1941 a man with a wife and 3 children received child endowment of $1 a week. [More…]
That same couple with 3 children today would receive S3 a week. [More…]
Yet child endowment has only increased from Si to $3. [More…]
On the basis of no child endowment for the first child and child endowment for the second and third children, a person with 3 children should receive $4 a week today if (he rate had been kept up to a commensurate sum, plus further child endowment for the first child. [More…]
The Government apparently thinks that child endowment and the family today are old hat, and yet the family is the very basis of our community and these are the people whom we should be looking after. [More…]
There should be an increase of at least $1 a week for the second and third children plus a further increase to take account of the first child if child endowment is to be commensurate to when it was first introduced in this Parliament in 1941. [More…]
As a returned soldier with full cognisance of the position, 1 cannot see why a war widow with 3 children should receive $39.50 a week whilst a civilian widow with 3 children receives only $29 a week, and an extra $2 if 1 of the children is under the age of 6 years. [More…]
In other words, a war widow receives $10.50 a week more than a civilian widow, unless the latter has a child under the age of 6 years, in which case the difference is $8.50. [More…]
Both have lost their husbands, breadwinners or partners in helping them to bring up the children. [More…]
If a woman desires to stay at home with her children and help to bring them up, she should be able to do so; she should not be forced to go to work because of the inadequacy of the pension. [More…]
The present Government contribution for a single child is $30. [More…]
So it is best to have 1 child at a time. [More…]
I say again to the Minister that it is high time something was done for the deserted fathers and for married couples who have more than one child at a time. [More…]
I was rather intrigued to hear from such an eligible young bachelor the concern which he expressed about child endowment and the maternity allowance. [More…]
They are mindful of the fact, for instance, that child endowment, maternity allowances, child allowances, wife’s allowances and certain other benefits are very important and necessary for the welfare and reasonable living standard of a large number of families. [More…]
Those people should have received consideration from the Government by way of increased child endowment and certain other allowances. [More…]
Despite that, the Government has refused to make any adjustment to social service items such as wife’s allowances, child allowances, child endowment and other benefits. [More…]
Even where the latter couple have a child to keep the pension will still be only $25 a week, or $2.50 less than the amount received by other pensioner couples. [More…]
Surely if the Government honestly believes that $27.50 is adequate for a pensioner couple it should be prepared to pay the same amount at least to a couple with a child and where only one is a pensioner. [More…]
If this is the Government’s argument, it is pretty heartless, particularly in the case of a couple with a child, because surely in those circumstances the mother’s place is in the home. [More…]
The Government is prepared to make only the miserable increase of SOc in the pension of the widow and has refused to make any adjustment to the mother’s allowance and the child’s allowance. [More…]
Let us balance these things out and put them in the right perspective, lt is a very peculiar state of affairs for anyone to state that a widow and a child of a man who loses his life in the service of his country are not entitled to what we are giving them. [More…]
Guardian’s allowance: An allowance of $4 per week is paid to single and widowed pensioners where there is a child under 16 or a student child between 16 and 21. [More…]
Where the child is under 6 years of age, or an invalid, this is increased to $6 per week. [More…]
Additional pension for children: Pensioners receive an extra $2.50 per week for the first child under 16 (or between 16 and 21 if a student) in the family, and an extra $3.50 for each subsequent such child. [More…]
At present these allowances are being paid for 35,700 children at an estimated cost for 1970-71 of $5.6m. [More…]
These are widows who are under 50 years of age and who have dependent children. [More…]
A widow with one dependent child who may be 14, 15 or 16 years of age will receive a princely sum under this Bill of $22 a week for herself and her child. [More…]
She will also get a small increment in child endowment of 50c a week, the same as it has been since the 1940s. [More…]
She will receive $22 a week plus the 50c child endowment to maintain herself and her child unless of course she can go out to work, and even then her income will be limited. [More…]
Take the position of a widow who is unlucky enough to have been left with 4 dependent children. [More…]
I wonder what man in this House would want to be maintaining himself and 4 children on $32.50 a week. [More…]
Of all the A class widows to which 1 have referred 41.5 per cent are women with one child, 29.7 per cent of them have 2 children, 16 per cent have 3 children, 4 per cent have 4 children, and 5.1 per cent of widows have 5 or more children. [More…]
I can think of a fair bit of struggling that would have to go on to maintain my 3 school age children at school. [More…]
This Bill provides for no increase in the mother’s allowance that is paid to the mothers of dependent children. [More…]
There is no provision for an increase in child endowment, asI have already mentioned, and what is more there is no provision for an increase in the permissible earnings of a widow or other pensioner who may qualify under the means test. [More…]
There has been the flat 10 per cent reduction in tax for salaries up to $10,000 but there is no increase in the allowance for families, and what is more, there has not been lc increase in child endowment. [More…]
This subject of child endowment involves such a wearying and boring recital that I hardly dare bring it up again. [More…]
Child endowment for the first child has not been changed since 1950. [More…]
There has been no increase in endowment for the second child since 1948. [More…]
Endowment for the third child was increased 6 years ago. [More…]
He will receive an extra $2.50 for the first child and for the second and other children he will receive only $3.50. [More…]
We find that the widow’s pension is to be $15.50 per week, the domestic allowance for a widow $8 per week, the allowance for the first child $6 per week and for each subsequent child $5 per week, and the allowance in the case of a double orphan $12 per week. [More…]
The allowance for a first child was an equivalent of $1.75 in 1949 whereas today it is $6, an increase of $4.25. [More…]
The allowance payable to a guardian who has care of an invalid child has increased by $6 and the attendants allowance has been increased by $6.10. [More…]
The wife receives $4.05 and each child under 16 receives $1.38. [More…]
In 1967-68 the science laboratory grants was $63.50 for every child in a non-government secondary school and $29.70 for each child in a government secondary school. [More…]
Particularly does this apply to some of the wealthier schools and to children of the wealthiest people in our community. [More…]
A moderate income worker at Redfern on $2000-53000 receives none of these benefits for his child at the local State school. [More…]
An earner of $20,000 a year supporting a wife and a child boarding at Shore secondary school attracts cash benefits of $185.72 as an income tax saving on the cost of fees, plus $50 allowance. [More…]
That is, nearly $236 of the public’s money is provided to help educate his child. [More…]
The widespread defects of the State systems of education are so grave and apparent that not one Liberal Minister in 1969 allowed any of his children to attend a State secondary school. [More…]
These architects of generous direct aid to independent schools all ensured that their children of secondary school age attended an independent secondary school. [More…]
What is specially damnable about the Conservatives’ practice of excluding State schools from the direct assistance provided for independent schools is that this policy widens even further the great gap which exists between the opportunities which can be provided for a child attending State schools and those excellent opportunities provided for children attending independent non-Catholic schools. [More…]
The contribution to teacher education, preschool education, the child migrant education programme, student assistance by means of the expanded Commonwealth Scholarships schemes - we have already mentioned that this afternoon - and assistance for Aboriginal students are examples of this. [More…]
I would say that at the present moment nearly every child in Brunswick and Coburg is not as well served in education as were the children attending those schools in 1938. [More…]
New Guinea and I have seen the indigenous people - man, wife and little child - at work shelling coffee beans. [More…]
But to my mind this will be like a newly born child: If you do not allow it to toddle it will never learn to walk and if you do not teach it to walk it will never be able to run. [More…]
These children are, apart from their disability, otherwise normal having average or above average intelligence; but due to difficulties particularly associated with reading and writing the condition manifests itself firstly by the child failing to keep up with his classmates in his work. [More…]
After the first few years the child’s work indeed becomes impaired in all subjects because no subject can be handled if a child is unable to read properly. [More…]
Such teaching can result, therefore, in a dramatic improvement in relation to the child’s performance not only at his school work but in his personality and behaviour. [More…]
Essential needs for these children are adequate facilities for diagnosis, for training of remedial teachers and for other equipment for teaching purposes. [More…]
There is a recent precedent for this in that the Commonwealth Government has recently intervened in educating the child in another field of learning disability, that of those who cannot cope with the English language. [More…]
Here the Commonwealth has undertaken to finance the training of teachers of migrant children. [More…]
I hope that the Government will consider the provision of funds for capital works for these children with specific learning disabilities. [More…]
With regard to subnormals, for instance, there was a time when it was believed that there were only certain groups - the imbecile level and the moron level if you like, the higher grade, and the medium grade defective children who could in any sense be trained or educated. [More…]
But through the work that has been carried out at the Newcastle institution it is now realised that short of the actual vegetable - the child who is practically completely helpless and who has a mental age of 6 months or less - these people can be helped by a more positive and productive approach. [More…]
We do well to compare the progress of children who are taught in Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Malay or other languages which have more or less phonetic or logical spellings. [More…]
The child in the English speaking country has to spend between 1 and 2 years of his schooling in learning spelling as a subject. [More…]
While a child in an English speaking country is struggling agonisingly through his first year at school with sentences like the cat sat on the rag mat’, the Italian or Mexican child is reading fascinating stories that appeal to children. [More…]
That child can immediately pick them up because he knows his alphabet within 3 weeks. [More…]
The sooner we start assisting handicapped children the better because very often something can be done for a child if that child is treated at an early age and helped when it is young. [More…]
The capacity to help a child is lost if its treatment does not start until later in life. [More…]
The most dramatic case of this is the totally deaf child who can be helped to what is normal intelligence if it can be given by specialist training early in life, the power of conceptualisation and symbolisation through some medium other than the hearing that it has lost. [More…]
If such a child does not receive this training early in life its intelligence, as I think the honourable member for Kingston implied, can be impaired permanently. [More…]
The younger a child is treated the better because the better is that child able to be helped. [More…]
What sort of a life is it for a family with young children to live in a flat in a building of possibly 2 or 3 storeys? [More…]
According to some reports, flat living is responsible for the growth in child delinquency. [More…]
Wrong, in the personal sense, because age of arrival in Australia can determine whether a child will have a chance, or be a no-hoper. [More…]
For many of these children, migration to Australia meant only a door slammed on their future. [More…]
The only voice of realism that I have heard from the Government side on this matter has been that of the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) who was given this rather unwelcome foster child of the Treasurer. [More…]
What requests or suggestions were made by the Ministers concerned with child welfare at their meeting in March 1970 for legislative or administrative action by (a) the Commonwealth, (b) the Territories and (c) the States. [More…]
It was more than was allowed for all the children that were claimed as dependants. [More…]
It exceeded the child endowment bill for the vear. [More…]
This answer, which is in yesterday’s Hansard for those who are interested, shows that in 1969-70 child endowment was 0.73 per cent of the gross national expenditure whereas in 1960-61, 9 years earlier, it was 0.98 per cent of the gross national expenditure. [More…]
Another interesting point is that relative to the total number there was an increase in the proportion of children receiving child endowment in 1 969-70 compared to 1960-61. [More…]
This shows the deterioration that has taken place in the real value of child endowment payments. [More…]
As an example let us take 2 families each with 3 children under the age of 16 years. [More…]
Each family receives $3 per week in child endowment irrespective of the income of the family. [More…]
It is quite a feasible proposition that most of the taxpayers of Australia and most families would be better off if the Government did away with the taxation concessions for children and doubled the amount of child endowment which was payable. [More…]
I could never understand why the wife and child, say, of one taxpayer should attract a much higher, or, if you look at it another way. [More…]
a much lower tax reduction than does the wife and child of another taxpayer. [More…]
Further, 80 per cent of the 3i million children in Australia who are supported by the wage and salary earners are losers because they are maintained by the group with net taxable incomes of less than $5,000 per year. [More…]
And what is even worse is that this Government in its paltriness has not increased child endowment for the first child since 1949. [More…]
It is also still $1 per week for the second child, as it was in 1949. [More…]
Did it increase child endowment? [More…]
They relate to a widow with 8 children whose husband died suddenly about 12 months ago. [More…]
Five children of the family are attending school and another child is due to commence in the coming school year. [More…]
In Tasmania we have a new brain child. [More…]
Students who are really young men and women are required to attend a school as a kind of child minding centre, with no teachers to instruct them. [More…]
They believe that this stems from an artificial premise, that if you simply prevent a child from getting a hypodermic syringe that child will no longer take drugs. [More…]
The Minister as the brain child of the Australian Government’s participation in the overseas container consortium should accept some of the responsibility. [More…]
Has any honourable member opposite ever thought of the fact that there is the equivalent of 10 million tons of TNT stored up in nuclear weapons for every man, woman and child on this earth today. [More…]
What has actually happened is that there is now the school for Aboriginals on the old mission site and another shcool for European children at the township, 7 miles away. [More…]
The occasional European child in the area of the mission site needing schooling is taken to the European school, an expense the Queensland Government claimed was not warranted for Aboriginal children. [More…]
Although the Little Budget is ostensibly being asked for by high Anglican circles, it is nevertheless the brain child of Mrs Ellis. [More…]
I turn now to the subject of child endowment. [More…]
If there is one group in this community that is suffering at poverty level this group is in that area to which child endowment is paid. [More…]
To alleviate this poverty, will he take steps immediately towards an increase of existing child endowment rates to $3 per week for the third child and to $4 per week for the fourth child and subsequent children? [More…]
Let us consider the question of child endowment on the statistics available. [More…]
In fact, in 1950, child endowment was set at 50c per week for the first child. [More…]
If the Minister wishes to apply to that amount the indices that he used in his second reading speech in dealing wilh the subject of social services, that amount should now be $1.13 a child per week. [More…]
lt should be $2.56 a child per week now. [More…]
In 1964, the amount was set at S 1 .50 a child per week. [More…]
On the statistics presented, the amount should now be $1.84 a child per week. [More…]
Whilst he was in Australia his 4 children were under the care of the Child Welfare Department. [More…]
The service aims to examine and treat every school child each 6 months, at fixed surgeries and fixed and mobile clinics. [More…]
What is the position of the secondary school Aboriginal children? [More…]
It is almost impossible for the child who lives in bad housing to cope with secondary education. [More…]
Literally thousands of Australian people who happen to be Aboriginals are living in huts or shanties, and it is impossible for the children in these places to carry on with ordinary school work. [More…]
The 3,000 or 4,000 Aboriginal children are only a handful of those children at this level of education, and there are 3 million or 4 million people in a wealthy community who support such a programme. [More…]
The whole burden of work in this quarter of the State has now been given to an officer of the Child Welfare and Social Welfare Department who has already been called upon to cover a tremendous area and to tackle very many complex problems. [More…]
While he was in Australia his 4 children were under the care of the Child Welfare Department; so government departments had some knowledge of him. [More…]
He will remember that a year ago I undertook that a Labor government would ensure that every child would have the opportunity of 1 year’s preschool education, as every child in Canberra already has, and he will also remember that his predecessor promptly produced an estimate that such facilities would entail $160m capital cost and an annual recurrent cost rising to $32m, excluding the cost of training additional pre-school teachers. [More…]
I ask the honourable gentleman what he himself estimates to be the capital and recurrent cost of the modified kindergartencumchildminding centres which the Prime Minister has now proposed. [More…]
The Bill is not the lusty child of long nurturing in the expansive womb of Government that we had been told about; it is a sickly abortion that has tittle chance of thriving. [More…]
Can he bring up to date the estimates of Professor Ronald Henderson presented at the Australian Institute of Political Science Summer School on Poverty in Australia at Canberra on 25th to27th January 1969 in a paper entitled The Dimension of Poverty in Australia for (a) substantially increasing child endowment payments and having them treated as taxable income and (b) the elimination of tax concessions for children and the provision of this money for child endowment. [More…]
The Federal Government has indicated that it is to enter into the preschool-child minding centre scheme on the taxpayers’ money. [More…]
As 1 understand the situation, at least one shire has already expanded its services to include the provision of child minding centres. [More…]
In the 1963 elections we promised to give secondary scholarships to every child for the last 2 years of senior school. [More…]
We would not be interested if we had only scarce number of scholarships available in giving them to parents who could afford to buy extra tuition for their sons and daughters who could afford to get the best textbooks and reference books and to take their children on travels and to provide them with all the things to give extra advantage to those who are already advantaged. [More…]
We have said that we will give scholarships to every secondary school child in the last 2 years of school and we will make places in universities free. [More…]
I do point out that this country is very often compared with countries whose figures include such items as the following in their educational expenses: school meals, free milk, the nation’s cultural activities, scientific research, sport, youth activities, child welfare, armed services colleges, radio and television and so on. [More…]
We have a system which has encouraged the streaming of children in the sense of what might be called their aptitudes or their intelligence. [More…]
I can be contradicted in this, but it appears that if a child is classified too early - say at first form at the age of 12 or 13 - as being only of pass level, research shows that this child is not motivated any more to try very hard. [More…]
It has been proved that when a child has been classified as not being of the highest grade he thinks there is no need for him to make the application that others are making. [More…]
This is particularly so when a child is at a school with other children who are undertaking studies at a higher level. [More…]
Teachers, of course, are aware of the different intelligence levels of children. [More…]
It has been shown that by streaming children into what are deemed to be the brighter, the less bright and the dull, the bright certainly improve. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members 1 incorporate in Hansard a table headed ‘Achievement Quotients of Children in Different Streams at Various Stages of Schooling’. [More…]
Over a 2-year period the bright youngster between the ages of 8 and 10 years improved and the middle-of-the-road child did not show any change. [More…]
But the child who was not making the same progress as the child at the highest level in fact dropped back. [More…]
Mr Cross indicates that it is obviously not a good thing to stream or classify children too early because the one who is not so bright gets worse. [More…]
We suggest this because it seems to us that there is an extra burden on families in nonmetropolitan areas who send their children away to a tertiary institution. [More…]
This means that the percentage of income spent on sending a child to university is higher than it is for a city family on the same income. [More…]
I refer to the things that he has said and done in this House and been responsible for, such as, as the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) said, the Japanese Trade Agreement which has had an effect on the lives of every man, woman and child in this community. [More…]
The importance of education in the English language to the migrant - adult and child - has been stressed by responsible authorities and migrant organisations ever since the commencement of the scheme, and particularly in more recent years. [More…]
It is difficult for a teacher to transmit knowledge to a child who has very little, if any, understanding of the English language. [More…]
It is just as unfair to the children who, in many cases, while mentally more advanced that those who know and understand English are forced to languish in lower classes because of this disability. [More…]
First, there are children to be considered and, secondly, adults. [More…]
A few moments ago 1 quoted from a statement by Carolyn Dowling about migrant children. [More…]
It gives the child the opportunity in the right atmosphere to learn the means of communication and fulfil his educational desires according to his capacity as times goes on. [More…]
I think it is fair to ask the Minister how long it is expected that the classes will function until the child is competent in English. [More…]
Also, what will be the ages of the children who will attend these classes It is more essential than ever that some form of teaching be introduced to the school when it is considered that the New South Wales survey on this problem revealed that about 47 per cent of the children come from homes where no English is spoken lt is probably true to say that this form of planning, when expanded, must prove of benefit to the child, and particularly to the harassed teacher who is endeavouring to transmit knowledge to a percentage of the class who simply do not know what is being said. [More…]
It is an endeavour to offer a constructive approach to improving the education of adult and child migrants and to relieving the States of some of the responsibility for a national programme of immigration. [More…]
I offer this amendment as a constructive approach to improve the child and adult education of migrants brought to Australia in a scheme commenced 25 years ago which has always had the sympathy and support of honourable members on all sides of this Parliament. [More…]
There are the question of educating migrant children, the question of the extension and improvement of adult education in one or more parts of the world, and the question of an intensive language course for migrants better versed in some skill or other who possibly are already acquainted with the rudiments of the English language and are better able to comprehend an intensive course than are others. [More…]
So there would appear to be immediately a prima facie case for very considerable child education in the English language for migrant children. [More…]
Many of these children, of course, have come from homes and continue to come from homes where English is rarely if ever spoken. [More…]
She said that in New South Wales 32 per cent of migrant children - almost 1 in 3 - in the total school population have language problems. [More…]
Se pointed out that mildly intellectually handicapped children number some 30,000 but the next category of special needs in this country so far as education is concerned involves the 16,452 migrant children in New South Wales and a similar proportion of the school population in other States who have language problems. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Grayndler has mentioned how the circumstances of a migrant child affect him in his English speaking ability at school. [More…]
I think this underlines the importance of ensuring that migrant children and their parents are given the greatest possible encouragement to learn the English language. [More…]
Child Welfare Ordinance 1961-1968 [More…]
The development of the child migration education programme in particular was a new Commonwealth interest involving considerable expenditure of Commonwealth funds and therefore was most properly a matter which ought to be in the form of a Bill to come before the Parliament. [More…]
One of the biggest difficulties which teachers at the Dandenong technical school experienced was communicating with the parents of these migrant children, both from the simplest level of understanding why a child was absent from school to the matter of giving educational or vocational advice or counselling. [More…]
230 are children of migrant parents, and of those 230 students. [More…]
Speaking generally, the teachers at this school said that children of migrant parents measure up quite well academically with the Australian born child, but that many find their task made much harder by their struggle with English, particularly in some cases because of the habit, or insistence, of parents in speaking their native tongue in the home. [More…]
This imposes quite a handicap on these children as they have to cope with 2 languages - English at school and their native tongue at home. [More…]
At the Noble Park high school there are 300 migrant children out of a total enrolment of 1,000. [More…]
Mainly they are the southern European children who are having the most difficulty with English at this school. [More…]
Of a total enrolment of 450, approximately 130 are children of migrant parents. [More…]
The migrant children at this school do not encounter difficulties with English to any marked degree, although naturally there are exceptions. [More…]
Those of Italian extraction” generally seem to have more difficulty than the other migrant children.I have referred to secondary schools. [More…]
1 want to refer quickly to a few statistics regarding primary schools because these schools, in the main, encounter greater difficulties with migrant children speaking the English language than do the secondary schools. [More…]
In practically all of the schools that I have mentioned one of the most pressing problems with non-English speaking migrant children is that there is a complete lack of contact with their parents. [More…]
Children returning home from school have to communicate in their native tongue and this imposes great stress on a young child who has to cope with 2 languages. [More…]
Many of the non-English speaking migrant children are at a distinct disadvantage with their parents conversing only in their native tongues. [More…]
From my observations many Greeks, Italians, Yugoslavs and Turks are in need of intensive courses in English because, in the main, their children have to cope with 2 languages as little English is spoken in the home. [More…]
One of the greatest difficulties is to communicate with the parents from the simple level of understanding why the child was absent from school to the matter of giving educational and vocational advice or counselling. [More…]
We have to understand and meet the needs of migrant children. [More…]
This is the case anyway when a migrant child arrives here. [More…]
We have to understand that the home of a migrant child is different in many significant respects from that of his fellow students or teachers. [More…]
I do not think it is necessary for me to go into the general argument as to the special tensions which arise in migrant homes between the parents and the children because of 2 different sets of values, 2 languages, and so on. [More…]
I think it is an error to assume that all migrant children wanted to come here. [More…]
When we are talking about citizenship education in the context of migrant education one of the points that should be considered at least is the question of instructing Australian children in the same schools and certainly in schools in areas where a large proportion of the migrant children come from one country, be it Italy, Greece or Turkey. [More…]
Australian children in these schools should be instructed in the culture and history of the country from which the migrant children have come. [More…]
This should have a twofold effect - I hope it would have thai effect.. On the one hand it would make it possible for Australian kids to understand some of the attitudes of the other children. [More…]
Secondly - and I think that this is probably just as important - it would make the migrant child feel reason ably proud of his origin; it would not make him feel that he had a non-existent background. [More…]
I turn now to the question of establishing the abilities of children early in life-. [More…]
I think this sorting out process is wrong even from the point of view of the Australian child but certainly it is very wrong from the point of view of the migrant child. [More…]
It is wrong to sort the migrant child into some stream which will determine his or her later educational expectation on the basis of some test which is given soon after the arrival of that child in this country.IQ tests, aptitude tests and so on will give completely wrong readings in the case of the child who has arrived in Australia only recently. [More…]
The position of this child is completely different from that of an Australian child. [More…]
Two points of difference to be considered are the language barrier and the whole cultural background of the immigrant child. [More…]
Therefore, it is extremely difficult for the migrant child to obtain adequate marks in the first test of this type that he or she faces. [More…]
I hope that the Department of Immigration will strive to discourage State education departments from screening children with a migrant background too soon after their arrival in Australia. [More…]
Like other speakers, I find that migrant children suffer a serious disability in some of the schools in my electorate. [More…]
In those schools in the inner suburbs and in the older established areas there is a very high percentage of migrant children in all the classes. [More…]
But in at least one school in my electorate and in at least one class in this school every child is a migrant and none of them has a proper command of the English language. [More…]
I understand that 5 per cent of the school population are migrant children, but of course this percentage must be very much higher in many of the schools. [More…]
The influx into schools of migrant children with a language disability in English has created great problems not only for the children but also for the schools. [More…]
Although these children will gradually pick up meaningful words and phrases they are at a grave disadvantage in following normal lessons given in English. [More…]
It provides for an adult programme, a child education programme and an intensive course programme. [More…]
In the main these would be children who are immediately put into the school system. [More…]
At the annual prize-giving at any primary school it will be found that the child, who may be termed a new settler, of parents who obviously cannot speak English is at a disadvantage because he certainly never scores prizes in English. [More…]
Often he is regarded as being in the slow learner class, not because of any intellectual disability but because he is unable to keep up with the other children, particularly if he is at the age of 8, 9 or 10 years. [More…]
There are the primary school children whom I have mentioned. [More…]
We have the secondary school child who has even more difficulties because he comes into a higher category of education, where there is far more competition, with a basic defect of not being able to understand the English language. [More…]
He mentioned the recent experiences with Aboriginal children. [More…]
He says that if we were to apply the same methods to children in primary or secondary schools we could get a rapid result with those children who may be somewhat vague as to what a person is trying to tell them in English or when asked to repeat by rote some English word. [More…]
This opportunity should be available to every child. [More…]
Full-scale production of material designed specifically for child migrants will possibly take 2 to 3 years. [More…]
My child al school has not gol on at all or is not making any progress because he or she is unhappy or because he or she cannot understand the teacher. [More…]
We understand the education system and our children at least will have the same opportunity as any other child and nol be put in a secondary position where there is no opportunity. [More…]
We would ensure that the migrant child at school was not a dropout and had an opportunity to compete with other children. [More…]
Now, the migrant child of school age quite obviously is at a very distinct disadvantage on arrival in Australia and any new facilities that will give that child a better chance to proceed at a normal rate in the early periods of its education after arrival here will be welcome. [More…]
The migrant child of secondary school age has an almost impossible task because that child lacks the cultural and historical background to cope with our education system. [More…]
As that child has not passed through our primary school system he or she is in a very serious situation. [More…]
These children need help. [More…]
A child which gets to primary school without a basic knowledge of English and without a fairly good understanding ot our culture does not obtain a Commonwealth scholarship later in life. [More…]
It could be very effective at the pre-school level if English training of a primary nature could be given to children, f well remember the case of a young German child who lived near us. [More…]
Until he went to kindergarten where practically all children spoke English, his English language, to say the least, was somewhat mixed up. [More…]
In areas where there are large concentrations of migrants - there are areas where 70 per cent, 80 per cent and up to 90 per cent of the population are migrants - the ability to mix or the value of mixing with children who talk English does not exist, and therefore the migrant children are severely handicapped when they begin school. [More…]
When the children turn up at the school they will find that all the odds are against their learning English. [More…]
So the child starts miles behind. [More…]
1 want to say te the Minister that he should say to every migrant child under this system that he rejects such Goebbels-esque nonsense. [More…]
It relates to new initiatives in the area of adult migrant education, to the greater provision of fulltime intensive courses of instruction, and to the area of child migrant education. [More…]
In February 1960 a special committee of the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council submitted a report on the progress and assimilation of migrant children in Australia. [More…]
This involved a study of both pre-school children and children in primary and secondary schools, a survey of schools in which migrant children were enrolled and consultation with their teachers. [More…]
In late 1967 and early 1968 the Department initiated the planning of a major survey of the educational needs of both adult and child migrants, and this led to the report on the situation of migrant children in schools in New South Wales which has provided such an important basis for the new initiatives for child migrant education. [More…]
The rate at which the child migrant education programme has developed since it was announced in April of last year has in fact exceeded expectations. [More…]
Of the 84 permanent teachers, 69 had already been employed on instructing special groups of migrant children before the introduction of the Commonwealth programme. [More…]
One of the conditions under which the child migrant education programme operates is that preferably the special teachers should be additional to the normal teaching establishments so that the drain on normal teaching establishments will be avoided and, in the main, this has certainly been the pattern of developments to date. [More…]
Since childhood he has been forced to wear around his neck a tag indicating that he is allergic to penicillin, sulpha drugs and other antibiotic drugs. [More…]
While he was a child his mother, along with the rest of his family, suffered the anguish of worrying whether he would be able to leave hospital to lead a normal life after suffering the adverse effects of one of these drugs. [More…]
In the 1940s, a penny, for instance, bought a box of matches, some lollies or even an ice cream for a child. [More…]
In consultation with the New South Wales Minister for Child Welfare and Minister for Social Welfare, Mr Hewitt, I arranged for the Army to make available emergency tentage especially for the relief of these Aboriginals. [More…]
The payments were only amounts over and above existing allowances for overseas outfit allowances, overseas allowances for short term duty, overseas transit allowances, overseas living out allowances, child allowances, school expenses, overseas rental allowances, and representation and entertainment allowances. [More…]
We do not allow the children to see this part. [More…]
The result is that we have the children seeing before and after and observing that, within the context of the film, somehow or other the violence has solved some problem. [More…]
The child realises that the strong man on the side of the law and order has solved the problem by bashing somebody, but he has not seen violence or been subjected to the feeling of repugnance by witnessing the violence. [More…]
The authorities cannot say: ‘We can give this an R classification’, because a small child coming home from school can see it. [More…]
Nobody is there to blindfold the child before he walks past the porno shop. [More…]
The situation for child molesters was similar. [More…]
The rapists differed less from controls than the 2 pedophile groups - the child molesters; those who molest little girls and those who molest little boys - but even here there were significant differences. [More…]
The child molesters had seen less pornography of every kind than our normal group had. [More…]
Child molesters who seek out boys found talking about sex more uncomfortable than any other group. [More…]
There had been little tolerance of nudity in their childhood homes and no discussion of sex. [More…]
Child molesters who chose little girls reported little discussion of sex in their childhood homes. [More…]
A child under 6 years of age would be unaffected by such a film. [More…]
A mother might not be able to see a film if her 2-year old child could not sit on her lap and go to sleep while she was looking at it. [More…]
With all these films and books that we have been talking about, parents have never lived in a. more difficult age in trying to bring up a family because of all the temptations that are thrown at children when they leave school and often while they are at school. [More…]
I do not know what people who talk about abolishing censorship are going to tell their children. [More…]
It is hard enough to rear children today with the present form of censorship without having it removed altogether. [More…]
People who have no children have no right to talk about this subject at all. [More…]
What do they know if they have never had a child to rear? [More…]
Literate people expect everybody else to be equally literate and understanding and some corrupt deliberately, as happened in the case that I referred to of the university publication which was sent to me by a parent who picked it up from his secondary school child. [More…]
Naturally enough I have a lot of sympathy for this point of view but I would point out, as other honourable members have pointed out, that children cannot logically be considered to have this capacity. [More…]
If we accept this proposition it may be argued that it is the responsibility of the parent to direct or guide what his child shall see, hear or read or how the child will act. [More…]
Firstly, for a goodly proportion of his waking hours after he has reached school age, the child is largely outside the direct control of the parents. [More…]
If a section of that society has standards of a nature considered grossly undesirable by the rest of society, without some form of censorship the child can unwittingly be exposed to unwelcome material. [More…]
Most parents impose standards for their children - standards of action and standards relating to the material which they can see, read or hear - and I believe most parents would like their elected represen-tatives to help them to maintain these community standards. [More…]
It will prevent by law ‘children under the age of 18 from seeing material which in my view they should not see - material which the Film Censorship Board spends great lengths of time viewing and discussing from the point of view of its possible effects on impressionable children. [More…]
This means that after the Board has gone to all this trouble and the experts have said that this should not be seen by children of. [More…]
hundreds of thousands of young Australian children are seeing adults only films - material which has been classed by experts as being totally unsuitable for children. [More…]
I am sorry to say that a few, not many, exhibitors are wilfully and overtly wooing the young child to see material that has been classified as suitable for adults only. [More…]
The few who do that - I emphasise that it is a few - compound their evil by the spurious excuse that they are trying to keep children, out by charging adult prices for children to see ‘suitable for adults only’ movies. [More…]
The other matter 1 wish to deal with concerns a letter which I directed to the Minister for Social Services pointing out that the Act made no provision, as to sickness and unemployment benefits, for a fellow who was unfortunate enough to suffer an accident in his home - a private accident if I may use that term - and who had a child over 16 receiving education. [More…]
What I want to do in the remainder of the time allotted to me is to condemn the Government for being so lacking in proper understanding and for not recognising that there is no provision for children over 16 receiving education. [More…]
In a case in which a person is rendered unfit for work for a considerable time, embracing the greater part of a school year, the education of the child goes to the wall. [More…]
Was he not prepared to look at my letter in the light of the effect this would have on such a child’s life when his parents, through no fault of his, were unable to continue with his education? [More…]
Members were discussing election policy items and 1 had brought to the notice of Caucus an anomaly in the social welfare regulations in that aged widow and widower pensioners who had either a child or children living at home caring for their parent were being refused the Postmaster-General’s Department’s fringe benefits in those cases where the child was earning in excess of the permissible supplementary income a pensioner was allowed to have. [More…]
The seminar was attended by senior representatives of a number of professions - police, magistrates, probation and parole officers, child welfare officers, psychiatrists and other experts. [More…]
It may be thought that the non-payment of a benefit for one child for a few weeks would not mean much of a loss to a family if sickness is not retcurring. [More…]
but with the extension of the school leaving age it is not impossible for two or more children over 16 years of age in one family to be receiving full-time education, yet if sickness overtakes that family such students are not taken into account in determining the amount of benefit the family should receive. [More…]
Children of this age are virtually adults. [More…]
They eat as much as adults and it costs as much to clothe them as adults, but they are not recognised as dependants and this imposes a double penalty on the family because in calculating the amount of benefit payable in respect of children, those children’ above .16 years of age are not considered. [More…]
The benefit is paid on the basis of S2.50 a- week for the first child under 16 years of age and S3. [More…]
50 for other children under 16 years of age. [More…]
The quality and quantity of water available involve the life of every man, woman and child in the nation and decide the conditions of health and happiness in which they live in every town and village. [More…]
It transforms the prospects of children who are economically disadvantaged or culturally deprived. [More…]
The chances of any Australian child receiving a pre-school education are determined above all by the State in which he happens to live. [More…]
A recognised pre-school education is denied to all but 2.9 per cent of the eligible children in New South Wales, to all but 7.3 per cent in Queensland, 9.9 per cent in Western Australia, 14.3 per cent in Tasmania, 14.5 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria. [More…]
Compare and contrast pre-school education in each and any of those States and in Canberra, where 1 year of pre-school education is available to all children. [More…]
The former Prime Minister included proposals for child minding centres cum kindergartens’ in his speech opening the campaign for the Senate elections. [More…]
The Victorian Department of Education spends on library books an average of only 40c per child per year - less than 5 per cent of the amount required to maintain proper book stocks. [More…]
They have received no library grants with which to provide decent libraries for children who are learning library habits. [More…]
It is a bit late in the day to start introducing children to the proper use of libraries - books and references - in secondary schools. [More…]
This ought to be started well and truly in the early part of a child’s education in primary school. [More…]
In fact in New South Wales, of the people continually going through the prison system, 33 per cent have been before the Children’s Court at some time. [More…]
Perhaps better child endowment should be given in that particular case because if the youngster has talent he should be encouraged. [More…]
Hence this Bill, which is the child of an unusually harmonious Commonwealth and State relationship. [More…]
I would regard the report of tonight’s proceedings more as a book which could be titled: ‘Paddy’s Day, 1971- Advice from the Child of Federation to the States’. [More…]
My belief is that everyone should be getting an allowance which would be sufficient to enable every child to continue its education to the best of its ability in the education system. [More…]
We are wasting the talents of thousands of children in Victoria and we are rewarding people who, in many cases, simply do not need the money. [More…]
For example, they do not touch child endowment, guardians allowances, short term sickness benefits or unemployment benefits. [More…]
The other aspect I want to deal with is child endowment. [More…]
For some reason or other child endowment has been forgotten by this Parliament for some years. [More…]
Yet for some reason or other child endowment has been completely forgotten and is being completely ignored by the Government. [More…]
Taking the average weekly earnings as a basis and applying child endowment for 3 children as a percentage of average weekly earnings one finds that in 1950 a mother with 3 children received child endowment of 12.9 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
One of the most effective methods of doing this would be by increasing child endowment. [More…]
One could touch on many other areas, such as the inadequacy of the present pension, as I have mentioned; the inadequacy of the increase in pensions; the inadequacy of invalid, widows and deserted wives pensions; the inadequacy of child endowment; the inadequacy of maternity allowances and the inadequacy of units for age pensioners. [More…]
I wish to run through the list of payments to widows with children over the last few years. [More…]
There was no allowance whatsoever for children in 1949. [More…]
In 1956 the Liberal-Country Party Government increased the rate to $8.50 per week which included $1 per week for second and subsequent children. [More…]
In 1963 the rate had risen to $18 per week which included the mothers allowance of $4 a week and $1.50 for the first child. [More…]
An additional pension was introduced for student children aged, from 16 to 18 years. [More…]
In 1965 supplementary assistance was increased to $2 per week and the age for student children was extended to 21 years. [More…]
In 196S the additional pension for children was increased to $2.50 for all children, giving a total pension of $24 per week. [More…]
In 1969 the additional pension for second and subsequent children was increased to S3. [More…]
The mothers allowance was increased from $4 to $6 where the child was under 6 or an invalid. [More…]
In 1970 the rate for a widow with 2 children, if one was under 6, and with supplementary assistance included had risen to $29.50. [More…]
For example, there is no increase in child endowment, payments to pensioners’ dependent wives and their children, supplementary assistance or mothers’ allowances. [More…]
For example, in the case of a class A widow with 2 children, she receives $16 a week pension, 50c for the first child and $1 for the second child giving her a total income of $17.50 a week. [More…]
In the case of an invalid pensioner and his non-pensioner wife and 1 child, the husband receives $16, and his nonpensioner wife receives $7 and they receive for their first child $2.50, giving a total income of $25.50 a week. [More…]
A third group of 3 people can comprise a sickness pension beneficiary who receives $10 a week, his wife $7 and for their child they receive $2.50, making a weekly income of $19.50. [More…]
There is no mention of child endowment, which has remained unaltered for the first child for 18 years, for the second child for 20 years and for the third child for 4 years. [More…]
By heavens, I would not like to have been a widow with children when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
Luckily they received child endowment. [More…]
We find a similar position with respect to the eldest or only child of a pensioner. [More…]
Here again if the Government and the Minister are dinkum in their claim of improving social services above the 1949 situation, they should immediately increase the child allowance by at least$1 a week. [More…]
In the field of child endowment the situation is absolutely deplorable. [More…]
Today the amount for the eldest or only child is still 50c a week, which is exactly the same as it was in 1956. [More…]
The term ‘social service payments’ includes, as well as pensions, such things as wife’s allowance, child and guardian allowances, child endowment, maternity allowance, funeral benefit and unemployment and sickness benefit. [More…]
The guardian’s or mother’s allowance for single pensioners with children remains the same as it has been for the last 2 years. [More…]
The allowance of $2.50 for the first child remains at S2.50. [More…]
For subsequent children the paltry amount of S3. [More…]
He has one child 18 months of age and another child aged 6 weeks. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labour and National Service whether, following the previous Government’s statement that child minding centres would be set up or encouraged he has received any requests from industries for assistance in establishing child minding centres in association with those industries. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a letter from the Dowd organisation at Healesville, which operates one of the largest industries in this most important area, offering to donate land for the purpose of erecting a child minding centre to be made available to all in the Healesville area? [More…]
The honourable gentleman refers to the Government’s indication that it will introduce a scheme to assist in the establishment and operation of child care centres of approved standard. [More…]
I refer to the statement just made by the Minister for Labour and National Service with regard to child minding centres. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will bear in mind the interests not only of industry but also of the children concerned. [More…]
Finally, can he conceive of any’ need that industry may have for the mother of a child under 3 years of age that would be greater than the need of the child for its mother? [More…]
It is obvious that this was the brain child of the Chief of the General Staff at the time. [More…]
Further, how is it that another constituent of mine, who had completed 2 years national service training, including a year in Vietnam, was subsequently ruled medically unfit for the Regular Army because of his disclosure that as a child he used to sleepwalk? [More…]
Without Commonwealth participation Australians cannot overcome the situation where places in recognised pre-school centres are available to only 2.9 per cent of the eligible children in New South Wales, 7.3 per cent in Queensland, 9.9 per cent in Western Australia, 14.3 per cent in Tasmania, 14.4 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria, whereas a year’s pre-school education is provided in Canberra for every eligible child. [More…]
There are the Australian Forestry Council, the Australian Minerals Council, the Australian Water Resources Council, the Australian Fisheries Council, the Australian Agricultural Council, the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs, the Australian Transport Advisory Council, child and social welfare committees, the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General and the Australian Education Council. [More…]
On 6th May 1970, Miss Taylor indicated in a letter to an Australian desiring to adopt a Vietnamese child that she had more than enough prospective parents in Europe, England, America and Canada and did not have enough time to become involved in a whole new set of procedures. [More…]
The matter of adoption of foreign children in Australia is one which chiefly concerns Child Welfare Authorities in each of the Australian Slates. [More…]
The Vietnamese Ministry of Social Welfare and Refugees and the Ministry of Health have advised that, generally speaking, the Government of Vietnam does not favour the adoption of Vietnamese children in foreign countries. [More…]
Yet they will be a party to sending some other person’s child to be slaughtered in this filthy unwinnable war which is meeting with world disapproval and which will remain to the utter disgrace of the United States for centuries to come. [More…]
The background of the case is as follows: Mrs X is separated from her husband, there being one child of that marriage. [More…]
Her husband has custody of that child by an agreement reached out of court. [More…]
She had 2 children by her de facto husband, one of whom is now aged 5 years and the other 10 months. [More…]
First, it can apply a tremendous loading on to a property left by a deceased person, perhaps to 1 child, if the beneficiary is going to continue to have the benefit of his knowledge of that farm - a far greater knowledge than anyone else would have - and to carry on with the working of the farm as a viable operation. [More…]
The weekly rate of compensation for an employee without dependants is being increased from the old level of $31.80 to $35 and, if an employee has dependants, that amount will be supplemented by $8.50 for a dependent wife or husband and $5 for each child, in lieu of the existing dependants’ allowances of $7.70 and $2.80. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the very great increase for a child from $2.80 a week to the new level of $5 a week. [More…]
The basic lump sum death benefit, to which other lump sum benefits are related, is being increased from $12,000 to $13,500 and the minimum payment for a dependent child of a deceased employee increased from $280 to $500. [More…]
The weekly rate of compensation for a seaman is being increased from $31.80 to $35 and there is provision also for increases in weekly rates from $7.70 to $8.50 for a seaman’s wife and, proportionately, a particularly substantial increase from $2.80 to $5 for each of a seaman’s children. [More…]
The basic lump sum death benefit, to which other lump sum benefits for various injuries are related, is being increased from $12,000 to $13,500, and the minimum total payment for a dependant child, in death cases, is being very substantially increased, from $280 to $500. [More…]
For each white child contracting kwashiorkor, a disease caused by malnutrition, there are 1,400 cases among African children. [More…]
When will the Government implement the undertaking given 18 months ago at the opening of the Senate election campaign to establish pre-school child minding centres throughout Australia? [More…]
I can remember as a child that a box of matches similar to the one I hold in my hand was imported. [More…]
Air transport is, without any doubt, the pampered child of the transport industry; it certainly is one of the spoilt brats of the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]
The Commonwealth originally set up the Lady Gowrie child centres on very generous lines - generous, at any rate, for the days when they were set up - and the theory was to say to the States: ‘Well, there they are. [More…]
I think that the importance of pre-school education if of comparatively recent recognition insofar as it does condition a child’s future attitudes and those foundations that he acquires in his early years, particularly between the ages of 3 years and 5 years, which are so important [More…]
Today it is being said that the crucial educational years are the first 5 years of life and that if certain learning does not take place during this period, the child may never fully make up the loss. [More…]
Without labouring the point, it is important to remember that pre-school education is, above all, laying these firm foundations for the child’s subsequent educational experience. [More…]
It found that some 50 per cent of those children had received at least 1 year of pre-school education. [More…]
If pre-school education is recognised as being as important as it is then every effort should be made to provide adequate facilities so that every child has at least the opportunity, which its parents may or may not take up, to have that important educational experience. [More…]
He gave an indication of the results of a study of the pattern of child care centres throughout Australia. [More…]
For example, it revealed that 14,000 children attended 555 registered full time day centres in Australia. [More…]
The Minister said that this was consistent with the statistician’s findings that 18,500 children were in parttime or full-time centres. [More…]
The release went on further to say that 200,000 mothers in the work force had 250,000 children under 6 years of age. [More…]
Yet only 7 per cent of these children were in child minding centres. [More…]
lt often costs more in New South Wales to send a child to kindergarten than it does to send a student to university. [More…]
Many of these kindergartens are little more than child minding centres with hardly any educational content. [More…]
How can a woman with, say, 2 children find the incentive to go to work if she has to pay $20 a week for the care of her children at a pre-school education centre? [More…]
Nevertheless in many areas there are long waiting lists and many parents have to book children into various types of centres months and even years ahead if they want to get them accommodated. [More…]
What has happened to the announcement made by the Government in February last year that the Commonwealth would set up a network of child minding centres throughout Australia? [More…]
Will they be child minding centres or centres properly oriented to education? [More…]
In fact, according to the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), only 2 registered full day child care centres have been provided by employers in Australia. [More…]
It probably costs a minimum of $30,000 or $40,000 to set up a centre for some 25 children. [More…]
There is a change in emphasis from the social development of a child in kindergartens and pre-school centres to the intellectual development of children. [More…]
There is the development of the concept that disadvantaged children should receive compensatory pre-school training. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier the United Kingdom is giving effect to the Plowden report that pre-school training should be available to all children over 3 years of age. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Opposition stands for this: For Government responsibility for education, including the obligation to ensure that pre-school education is available for every child; The Commonwealth to establish an Australian preschool commission to define and examine regularly the aims of pre-school education and to recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to ensure that pre-school centres are located, staffed and equipped on the basis of needs and priorities. [More…]
It does, of course, raise the major social issue of just where children aged between 3 and 5 years can best be trained. [More…]
It is also well established - and probably increasingly so as time passes and educational psychology develops - that the mother is the central figure in a young child’s life and if she has the capacity to transmit not only love and affection but also something of a basically intellectual kind, so much the better. [More…]
But the plain fact remains that not all mothers are, at least in any formal sense, capable of transmitting, much less trained to transmit, in any sort of defined area in any meaningful, efficient or educational sense, a body of information equivalent to the capacity of her child, or for that matter somebody else’s child, to absorb. [More…]
The question at large of social attitudes and social influences in this area can, of course, open up a whole gamut of possibilities between the wholesale creches of the Soviet Union and our hitherto held concept of a young child’s place being in the home with the mother. [More…]
I must admit to some degree of agreement with the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) that on the question of a pre-school child the home is probably the best training place, but with the qualification that the home is economically and domestically stable. [More…]
These teachers may be used to staff creches which not only educate the children but care for them in other ways because there are special groups that require this help. [More…]
He is left not only with young children to care for but often with very high debts, hire purchase and so on which his wife has left behind. [More…]
Another group is the deserted wives, widows and unmarried mothers, all of whom often have to find sources of employment to be able to provide for their children and keep the family together. [More…]
At present in many cases they have to use the private child minding centres which, in the main, are expensive and do not have adequately trained personnel. [More…]
It will aim to provide a pre-school education for every child and to give early treatment to culturally disadvantaged children. [More…]
A pre-school education must be regarded as a right of every Australian child. [More…]
Its value is paramount for a society which is concerned with the social, emotional, aesthetic and intellectual growth of children. [More…]
In the environment of the pre-school the door is opened to a wider range of creative and imaginative activities than is provided in the homes and neighbourhoods of many children. [More…]
The pre-school provides both the outlet and the avenue for physical and intellectual growth which are essential to the healthy development of young children. [More…]
The foundations which the child’s home provides for growth as a social individual and for the development of reasoning and communication skills are reinforced in an atmosphere which makes learning a happy and rewarding experience. [More…]
Only about 3 per cent of the children of pre-school age in New South Wales are attending pre-schools, while the figure in Victoria is approximately 30 per cent. [More…]
By comparison the Commonwealth recognises the right of all children in the Australian Capital Territory to 1 year of pre-school education. [More…]
Thus the chances of a child’s educational opportunities are determined not in accordance with the principle of equality and the needs of the child but with the fortuitous circumstance of where he. [More…]
The subsidy system means that a child’s educational opportunities are determined not by his needs and not by the Government’s sense of responsibility, but by the accident of where he happens to live. [More…]
Thus we have the situation in Victoria referred to by the Maternal and Child Welfare Officer of South Melbourne Council, Doctor Dora Bialestock, who was quoted in the ‘Age’ of 14th November last year as saying that the largest portion of the Victorian Government’s subsidy for preschools was going to the more affluent suburbs. [More…]
She said that only 1 child in 7 in the working class suburb of Brunswick and only 1 in 5 in South Melbourne were receiving a pre-school education. [More…]
But even worse, the sheer materialism of she Commonwealth Government now threatens to build up a system of Commonwealth subsidised day care centres for children, which I believe will have little to do with the educational needs of children. [More…]
Many of such centres as exist at present ignore the personal, social and educational needs of children and are aimed principally at caring for children while mothers return to the work force. [More…]
Many of the existing child minding centres breed boredom, insecurity, poor intellectual development, sometimes poor health, frustration and conformity. [More…]
Only a Government which is concerned with profitability and productivity in the economy rather than the needs of children could finance the expansion of such a system. [More…]
This materialism must be replaced by concern for the needs of children which will produce a system of pre-schools for all children, and which will help develop creative self-reliant responsible and cooperative individuals. [More…]
At least the Government should ensure that if it does intend to subsidise child minding centres or day care centres - or whatever other terminology the Government cares to use - it will balance and co-ordinate the principal economic needs that it is catering for with the educational needs of the children. [More…]
However, the Labor Party’s Pre-School Commission will aim not only to ensure equal access for all children to a preschool education but also to discriminate in favour of those who are disadvantaged by the limitations of home environment. [More…]
Children from low income families, migrant children, Aboriginal children and handicapped children are unlikely to be equal to others in the level of intellectual and social skills which they have achieved by the time they reach the primary school. [More…]
The middle class Australian child has already received from his home environment the advantage of greater opportunities for communication, for social confidence, for creativity, for reasoning of the type required by the primary school, and for motivation to be successful. [More…]
By comparison, the migrant or Aboriginal child faces the massive obstacles of differences between his national and racial cultures and the culture of the white Australian school. [More…]
The physically, mentally or socially handicapped child faces specific disadvantages which will severely retard his educational growth unless identified and treated early. [More…]
The child from a family of low income, low education and low occupational status by comparison with the middle class Australian child will not have reached the same level of development of his basic skills of language and reasoning. [More…]
The disadvantages faced by all these groups of children will accentuate and accelerate throughout their school careers unless they are treated at an early stage. [More…]
The first few years of education are critical to the attitude which a child develops towards the school and to the abilities he acquires and develops. [More…]
It is essential that every child should be and feel successful, both at meeting the intellectual tasks set by the school and at being a self-confident individual and member of the school’s society. [More…]
Therefore, while catering for the child’s social and personal growth, the schools must strive to maximise every child’s ability to communicate, to understand, to concentrate, to create and to find pleasure and satisfaction in learning. [More…]
The pre-school level is clearly a strategic stage for identifying and starting to remedy the deficiencies of the disadvantaged child. [More…]
The Australian Pre-Schools Commission will treat the remedying of handicaps suffered by disadvantaged children as one of its principal tasks. [More…]
The traditional rofe of the pre-schools, according to Dr M. M. de Lemos, writing in the ‘Quarterly Review of Australian Education’ of June 1968, has been seen as ‘providing mainly for the social and emotional development of the child’. [More…]
The emphasis has been placed on creative and dramtatic play, and the schools’ task has been seen as educating the ‘whole child’. [More…]
The teacher’s role is seen as responding to the child’s needs rather than imposing guidance or instruction. [More…]
The value of this role in catering for largely middle class groups of children has been considerable. [More…]
The handicaps which the child’s cultural environment cause and in which the greatest retardation generally occurs are in the reasoning and language abilities. [More…]
It seems apparent, therefore, that the learning situation provided for the disadvantaged child by the preschool must be structured specifically to develop those skills. [More…]
But what does seem clear is that specialised teaching is required in the skills in which the disadvantaged child is deficient. [More…]
The alternative is to treat him as though he were equal to the more advantaged middle class Australian child and to keep the pre-school oriented towards the present combination of emotional and social development and self-directed learning. [More…]
This alternative, however, would ignore the already substantial advantages of the middle class child and is likely to leave the disadvantaged child with the same relative handicaps with which he entered the pre-school. [More…]
I believe that pre-school education is a vital stage of a child’s growth. [More…]
It serves particularly a strategic role in remedying the disadvantages of certain groups of Australian children. [More…]
I believe that the problem now can only be tackled by the Commonwealth Government and that Commonwealth assistance must be based according to the needs of children themselves. [More…]
One should like firstly to deal with the question of the cost-price squeeze, a matter which is affecting every man, woman and child in this country. [More…]
During the 1970 Senate election campaign the Government announced as a new Commonwealth initiative, as the honourable gentleman has mentioned - the introduction of a scheme to assist in the introduction and operation of child care centres of approved standard. [More…]
It did so, as I recall, against a background of concern that the care, development and welfare of children whose mothers worked should be safeguarded. [More…]
The Prime Minister was going to adopt this child of dubious paternity. [More…]
When his successor, the present Treasurer (Mr Snedden), at last was able to bring in such a Bill he had to accept responsibility for a much more puny child than numerous progress bulletins had led members of this Parliament and the community to expect. [More…]
So high was the rate of cross infection that, according to Sister Gilbertson, the cross infection rale resulted in a period that followed October 1969 in 116 children being cross infected with chickenpox. [More…]
All of us here would be alarmed and disturbed if this were to happen to our own children. [More…]
We would be alarmed if, when we sent a child to hospital for a tonsilectomy operation, an enormous incidence of cross infection occured at that hospital and that child became infected. [More…]
I regard that as being of great significance because, when a child gets the advantage of education in the pre-school period, it is a thing that compounds as he goes through his education, and the longer he goes to school the greater the value he derives. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine what would happen to a child of 12 years who went away from home for 5 years in order to receive the benefit of an education and then returned to a situation which had not evolved in a compatible way? [More…]
The gulf between the child and his parents would be widened. [More…]
Although I agree that there is a necessity for colleges like the Yirara College and the Kormilda College, in which a very good job is done by devoted and capable people, I still believe that we should not be adopting this attitude in such a switch-throwing way - taking these children away from their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters and their tribal background and sending them to Alice Springs and Darwin for education. [More…]
$43.50 for a married man and $48.50 for a married man with one child, plus another $5 for each additional child, or the employee’s average weekly earnings, whichever is the lesser; whereas under the Opposition’s amendment the weekly compensation payment to a person who is totally incapacitated is equal to the full earnings, whether he is married or single. [More…]
Let us take the case of a married man with one child. [More…]
He is a married man with a child to maintain, house payments to keep up, medical benefit subscriptions to pay and all the ordinary expenses to meet. [More…]
The new code increases weekly rates of compensation for an employee to $35, for a dependant female to $8.50 and for a child to $5, making a total of S48.50 for a family unit of that size. [More…]
far back as 1945 for the purposes of financing child endowment. [More…]
As I said earlier, honourable members on both sides of the House have had quite numerous representations made to them recently by local governing authorities suggesting that payments should be made directly from the Commonwealth to the local authorities to assist them in such works as the abatement of rates to people in receipt of age pen sions, the provision of certain social welfare services such as child minding centres and baby health centres, and the various kinds of relief work that local authorities are called upon to perform in the nature of social services but for which no direct payment is made to the local authorities and which has to be met out of their rates. [More…]
When it come to tax concessions, of course, if you allow a deduction of $300 for education and a man is a 50c in the $1 taxpayer, he is given an educational endowment of $150 for his child. [More…]
When it comes to the allowance for children - $200, shall we say, for the first child - the same thing applies. [More…]
A 50c in the $1 man gets back $100 for his child; a lc in the $1 man gets back $2 for his child. [More…]
I think we must use our commonsense and recognise that there is a real loss because of the inability of parents to afford the education which they would desire for their children. [More…]
In my book, a Catholic child at a convent school is as precious an Australian citizen as a child at a State school and, for that matter, a boy at Geelong Grammar is as valuable as somebody at Canberra High School. [More…]
I do not like the defence of Government Schools propaganda because it falsely suggests that the way to lift the children in the State schools is by tearing down children somewhere else. [More…]
of the Act in respect of a student child was increased to $313. [More…]
What would be the estimated cost to the Commonwealth if the definition of a student child under section 82b (5.) [More…]
What would be the estimated cost for each category in the previous question if the maintenance deduction for a student child was increased to $312. [More…]
The cost to income tax revenue of increasing the’ maximum deduction for the maintenance of student children to $312 per student child ls estimated at approximately $6m per annum. [More…]
A Territory representative attended a UNICEF Training Course in Child Health in December 1967. [More…]
maternal and child welfare, [More…]
Servicemen, who wish, to adopt Vietnamese children must comply with the adoption Jaws of the state where the child is to reside, Vietnamese law concerning adoption and make application to. [More…]
our Immigration authorities for entry of such children. [More…]
Advice was given by my department in May 1970 to the Service Departments setting out the procedures to be followed by servicemen wishing to adopt foreign children. [More…]
What were the names and portfolios of the Ministers who attended the Conference of Child Welfare Ministers in Hobart on 18th March 1971? [More…]
Furthermore, since the right honourable gentleman referred to the role of the States I ask him why it is that this year’s Budget, like last year’s Budget, has done nothing to fulfil Sir John McEwen’s undertaking, given at the last elections, that Commonwealth funds would be made available through the State governments as a contribution to the costs in the smaller centres of population of such amenities as swimming pools, child care centres, civic centres, showgrounds and playing fields. [More…]
One of the promises which the Government gave during the last Senate election campaign was that child minding centres would be established. [More…]
But honourable members opposite sneaked into the the Parliament hoping that the statement which they made, in which they said that they were not going on with the establishment of child minding centres, would not be heard by the Press gallery. [More…]
Child Endowment -to $3.60 per week per child [More…]
Maternity Allowance- to at least $117 for each child born. [More…]
Will this latest failure of his enter the great graveyard of unfulfilled Liberal Party promises to join, inter alia, the broken promise of 1971 on child minding centres? [More…]
One outstanding feature is the attention that has been paid to child endowment, which has not been increased for years. [More…]
The Labor Party says that a big problem in Australia is the attitude of the people that a woman will find ultimate satisfaction in housekeeping and child rearing. [More…]
The Labor Party says that housekeeping does not fill in the time so they have to have another child to keep reasonably busy. [More…]
Nevertheless, I am glad to see the rise in child endowment and in pensions although I should have liked to have seen some form of automatic cost of living adjustment for pensioners, for pensioners of all people have the least margin to absorb increases. [More…]
The Government has certainly granted increases in child endowment to families with more than 2 children but this increase can be completely absorbed by increased pharmaceutical benefit charges when sickness strikes, so it is another case of the Government giving with one hand and taking with the other. [More…]
To those families with fewer than 2 children it is not just another increased charge but a 100 per cent increase in a charge, an increase that the Government is asking the lower paid family man to bear. [More…]
Those who hold any consideration for Aboriginal people must be deeply concerned about reports on child mortality among these people in the centra] part of Australia, where the rate is many times the rate for white children. [More…]
It was estimated by one person I had met, who works amongst these people, that of 50 children bom 11 will die in childhood. [More…]
In the Alice Springs area the Aboriginal child mortality rate is apparently particularly high. [More…]
An inquiry is to be held into the mortality rate of Aboriginal children in the Alice Springs area. [More…]
This year in excess of 1 million people will benefit to some extent from the increases in pensions while, in addition, the increases in child endowment will be paid in respect of more than 1 million children. [More…]
I know that the Minister has always been very conscious of the problems faced by families with children, and I congratulate him on the provisions made for such families in this Budget. [More…]
I am sure that every family will appreciate the rise in the rate of child endowment for the third and subsequent children that this Budget provides. [More…]
A family of 4 children now receives $5.75 a week in child endowment, and it may be as well to remember that child endowment itself is one of the many innovations in the field of social services that was made originally by a Liberal government. [More…]
I am particularly delighted to note the great increase given in children’s allowances so as to provide the payment of $4.50 for each child. [More…]
This benefit will be of enormous assistance to all those pensioners and widows with dependent children, and indicates the concern of this Government to provide for their welfare and assistance. [More…]
During the Christmas session of Parliament in one of our State legislatures Sir Arthur Rylah asked, in a matter concerning cruelty to children: ‘How far must taxpayers be expected to go in looking after other people’s children’? [More…]
However, Sir Arthur Rylah’s question might be rephrased: ‘How far should working class taxpayers be expected to deny their own children primary education in order to subsidise the secondary and tertiary education of those who can afford to pay fees of $400 a year or more?’ [More…]
It is not news to us that for every man, woman and child in Australia 1 in 7 or 13 per cent of our population is receiving a pension of one sort or another. [More…]
Child Endowment - to $3.60 per week per child. [More…]
Maternity Allowance - to at least $1 1.7 for each child born. [More…]
Child Endowment - to $3.60 per week per child. [More…]
Maternity Allowance - to at least $117 for each child born. [More…]
The rate of child endowment for the third and each subsequent child under 16 years in a family is to be increased by 50c per week. [More…]
The rate of child endowment for each child under 16 years of age in an approved institution is to be increased by 50c per week. [More…]
Children’s allowances for age, invalid and widow pensioners and for unemployment and sickness beneficiaries will increase by $2 per week for the first child and by $1 per week for each other child. [More…]
This will bring the allowance to a uniform $4.50 per week for all these children. [More…]
The increase in child endowment will cost about $26.5m per year, and will benefit about 1,020,000 children, comprised in about 610,000 families. [More…]
The total annual cost of the benefits, that is, of pensions and child endowment, included in the present Bill is thus about $92m. [More…]
I now come to the provisions of the Bill which are specifically oriented towards the family and the welfare of children. [More…]
First let me deal with the child endowment provisions in this Bill. [More…]
At present child endowment is payable at the rate of 50c a week for the first child under 16 years in a family, $1 a week for the second child, $1.50 for the third child, with cumulative increases of 25c a week for each subsequent child. [More…]
Endowment in respect of children in institutions is paid at a flat rate of $1.50 a week. [More…]
Child endowment is now an accepted feature of family income and for some time the Government has been concerned that the larger family has been more adversely affected by wage and price increases than the smaller family with, say, one or two children. [More…]
This Government believes that at the present time an effective way of providing real benefits to the larger family is by way of increased child endowment payments. [More…]
Accordingly, the proposal in the Bill before the House is to increase endowment for the third and each subsequent child in a family by 50c a week. [More…]
This will mean that the rate of endowment in respect of the third child in a family will become $2 a week, in respect of the fourth child $2.25 a week and so on, increasing by 25c for each additional child. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the child endowment increases in the Bill will, as I have said, benefit more than one million children, spread in more than 600,000 families. [More…]
It must be remembered also that there are many other benefits and concessions provided by the Commonwealth that tend to offset the cost to parents of maintaining children. [More…]
The cost to revenue of providing Income tax concessional deductions for children, including deductions in respect of education, exceeds some $250m a year. [More…]
Assistance is given to families via the National Health Act where the family insurance rates for a family with children - however many children - are pegged at the rate applicable to a married couple without children; special assistance is also provided for handicapped children and children of pensioners, the last a matter which I shall deal with more fully in a moment. [More…]
All these exemplify the attitude of a responsible government, which is to provide benefits in respect of children in a way which will assist in making them better citizens of tomorrow. [More…]
Now let me come to a most significant part of the Bill - a massive increase in the child’s allowance payable to all pensioners - age, invalid and widows, as well as to the recipients of unemployment and sickness benefits. [More…]
The Government has examined their representations very carefully, and now proposes to increase the payment for the first child, which at present is $2.50 a week, by $2 a week, making it $4.50 a week. [More…]
The payment for children other than the first, which is at present $3.50 a week, will be increased to the same uniform level of $4.50 a week. [More…]
The child’s allowance was introduced in 1943, and when the Chifley Government went out of office in 1949 it was paid only in respect of the first child of invalid pensioners and age pensioners who were invalids, and only at the rate of 90c a week - equal to about $2.25 a week at today’s prices. [More…]
Widows under the Chifley Government received no child’s allowance at all, except for the 50c a week difference between the class A widow’s pension and age and invalid pension rates then current. [More…]
In 1961 the allowance payable for the first child of invalid pensioners and age pensioners who were invalids was increased to $1.50 a week, as also was the allowance for the second and subsequent children of widows. [More…]
In 1963 payments for the second and subsequent children of invalid pensioners and age pensioners who were invalids, were increased to $1.50 a week and a payment of $1.50 a week was introduced for the first child of widows. [More…]
For the first time widows with dependent children received a mother’s allowance of $4 a week. [More…]
Tn 1965 the children of all age pensioners were included, and a ‘guardian’s allowance’ of $4 a week was introduced for single pensioners who had the custody of a child. [More…]
In 1968 the rate for all children was increased to $2.50 a week. [More…]
dien was increased to $3.50 a week, and mothers’ and guardians’ allowances were increased to $6 a week where there was a child under 6 or an invalid child. [More…]
Now, in this present Budget, it is proposed to increase the rate for the first child from $2.50 a week to $4.50 a week, and the rate for the second and subsequent children from $3.50 a week to the same level of $4.50 a week. [More…]
In addition, as I have said, our social services programme for this year is child-oriented. [More…]
Increases, are also proposed in rates payable to war widows, to their children, and to those children who have lost both parents. [More…]
For the first child of an ex-serviceman whose death was related to war service, an increase of $1 a week will be payable, while the rate payable in respect of second and subsequent children will be increased by $2 a week. [More…]
The new rates for all these children will be $7 a week. [More…]
For a child who has lost both parents, the increase will be $2 and the new rate will be $14 a week. [More…]
Clause 3 also increases the pension rates in respect of the children of deceased seamen coming under the Act. [More…]
The weekly rate for the first child rises by $1 o $7, and the rate for each other child rises by $2 to $7, thus bringing the weekly rate of pension for each child of a deceased seaman to a uniform amount. [More…]
Where the mother is dead also, the rate rises by $2 to $14 per week for each child. [More…]
The time spent by members in Parliament is time given to the nation’s legislation which affects every man woman and child from Cape York to Hobart, from Sydney to Perth and from Brisbane to Geraldton. [More…]
Child Endowment - to $3.60 per week per child. [More…]
Maternity Allowance - to at least $117 for each child born. [More…]
I refer to the impact and the result of concessional deductions for the wife and children. [More…]
Of course, the minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came out of his seat like an angry hornet today at a question which was directed to him by a South Australian member concerning the tax rebate of $400 for the education expenses of one child. [More…]
A further most significant measure was the increases granted in the additional pensions payable where a pensioner has dependent children. [More…]
In addition, we have increased child endowment by 50c a week for each child under the age of 16 in excess of 2 in a family. [More…]
These increases in pensions, child endowment and other social welfare and repatriation benefits should ensure a welcome improvement in the standard of living of those dependent on them, even after allowing for the faster rate of price rises. [More…]
woman and child in this country. [More…]
Married scholarship holders also qualify to receive a wife allowance of up to $7 a week ($3.90 a week 1965-1969) and an allowance of $2.50 a week for each dependent child ($1 a week 1965-67, $1.50 a week 1968 and 1969). [More…]
The Social Services Bill before the House includes provisions for increases of $1 per week in the allowance for the dependent spouse of an unemployment or sickness beneficiary, $2 per week for the first child of such beneficiary and SI per week for each subsequent child. [More…]
Provision to increase child endowment for third and subsequent children in families and for children in institutions by 50c per week is contained in the Social Services Bill before the House. [More…]
Only if the child concerned was in the custody, care and control of a widow when she became a widow for the purposes of the Social Services Act 1947-1971. [More…]
Although it was always difficult to be sure exactly what was meant by the then Prime Minister when he used that term there is no doubt that the reference he made during the Senate election campaign late last year to the establishment of child care cum kindergarten centres did indicate his Government’s intention to make some financial grants to this level of the State’s education system. [More…]
A recent survey has indicated that no more than 10 per cent of Queensland children are receiving the benefits of kindergarten training. [More…]
The sad fact is that this 10 per cent represents children from what may be described as middle class homes. [More…]
Through the ability of their parents to send them to kindergartens and to pay the fees which often amount to $1 a day, these lucky children have an advantage denied to the great majority of youngsters in either the less affluent or newly developing suburbs or towns. [More…]
In recent weeks I have received numerous letters from people and organisations within my electorate requesting my support to get the Federal Government to accept some measure of responsibility for the provision of pre-school education for all who wish their children to participate in this essential level of a complete education programme. [More…]
These letters point out that while the child of the writeris . [More…]
The letters go on to point out the obvious fact that by the Federal and State governments accepting additional responsibility for preschool education all children will be able to benefit and, furthermore, the current heavy burden on parents will be greatly relieved. [More…]
In the period from 1961 to 1970 concessional deductions for a man’s spouse, his first child and subsequent children have each been increased by $26. [More…]
Over the same period the tax paid by a married man with no children has increased by 1 1 6 per cent. [More…]
The average wage earner with a wife and one child now pays 128 per cent more tax and the average wage earner who has a wife and 2 children now pays 137 per cent more tax than he did in 1961. [More…]
I agree that the Budget - rather belatedly and begrudgingly - gives increases in child endowment of 50c a week for each child under 16 after the second child. [More…]
The Government has reversed the election promise to reduce taxation; it has ignored the pledge to pay special attention to the chronically ill; it has sabotaged the undertaking to establish a national system of kindergarten child minding” centres; it has failed in its social welfare programme to make adequate provision for those most in need; it has forgotten its indication to act on the report of the nation-wide survey on education. [More…]
Nearly every child in those schools was better served in 1938 than he would be in 1971. [More…]
In 1971 every building that the children occupy is nearly 40 years older than those the children occupied in 1938. [More…]
It is interesting to note that a husband and his wife and one child would have needed to earn on these criteria $42.68 a week in the June quarter. [More…]
The figure for the family group of a husband, wife and 2 children was given as $49.91 a week. [More…]
The family group of a husband, wife and 3 children would need to have an income of $52.56 a week to be on a very stringent poverty line. [More…]
The family group in Victoria of a husband, wife and 4 children would need $59.86 a week. [More…]
The family group of a husband, wife and 5 children on $67.44 would have no hope of qualifying under this scheme, nor would the family group of a husband, wife and 6 children on $74.97 a week. [More…]
It can be seen that any family group in Victoria of a husband, wife and 3 or more children would be receiving such income that they would not be eligible for assistance under this subsidised medical scheme. [More…]
A family could then be allowed to earn $4 a week for every child after the second child. [More…]
T turn to child endowment. [More…]
Of course, for one child there has been a long term run down of purchasing power relative to average weekly earnings because child endowment for the first child has not been increased for very many years. [More…]
Let me refer to the case of child endowment for 3 children under 16 years. [More…]
There has been an improvement to 30.4 per cent of average weekly earnings, but by the end of this financial year there will be a slump to 27-9 per cent of average weekly earnings in the pension for a widow supporting a dependent child over 6 years of age. [More…]
If we take the case of unemployment and sickness benefits for a man with a spouse and 2 children on short term benefits he is more than $21.50 below the poverty level. [More…]
All widows except class A who are supporting one child under the age of 6 are at present below the updated poverty level. [More…]
For instance the Melbourne survey showed that one child in 10 lives in poverty in that city; that one aged person in 4 lives in poverty; and that 3 out of 10 widows are poor and one invalid in 4 is also poor. [More…]
As a further indication of what I mean I point out that only one child in 4 at a Government school completes the full period of secondary schooling whereas 8 out of 10 children at non-Catholic private schools complete their full period of secondary schooling. [More…]
Fewer than 3 out of 100 children of pre-school age attend an approved pre-school in New South Wales. [More…]
But in the Australian Capital Territory every second child of pre-school age is attending a qualified pre-school training centre. [More…]
In the case of the child deductibility allowance, where there is a family of a man, his wife and 3 children, and he receives a salary of $2,700 a year, he will gain a tax saving of about $99; whereas the man with a salary of $16,000 a year will gain a saving of $406 on his tax payment. [More…]
However, perhaps the most significant part of the Bill is the $2 increase in child allowance payable to all age, invalid and widow pensioners, as well as to recipients of unemployment and sickness benefits. [More…]
There will also be an increase of 50c in child endowment for the third and subsequent children. [More…]
Coming back to the substantial increase of $2 in child allowance, no doubt all honourable members have had experience with one-parent families. [More…]
Unfortunately, many widows have to go out to work to supplement their income, with the result that their children are neglected or have to fend for themselves. [More…]
Many a widow has to send her children off to school before 8 a.m. and, as she does not arrive home before 5 p.m., the young children have to look after themselves. [More…]
Under the new provisions in this Bill a widow with 4 children could receive social service payments amounting to $45 a week. [More…]
It is made up as follows: The basic pension of $17.25, a mother’s allowance of $4, children’s allowance - that is tor 4 children- of $18 and child endowment of $5.75. [More…]
I am sure that there are many widows who are not aware of their entitlements under this Bill; it will enable many widows who can supplement their income to stay at home and look after their children. [More…]
There is the question of child care for working mothers and working widows, which was a feature of the Government’s platform in the last Senate election campaign but which has been let slip since. [More…]
There have been very substantial increases in children’s and guardians’ allowances. [More…]
Increases have been granted to widows over 50 years and over 45 years with a dependent child. [More…]
Child endowment is designed to help the family - to encourage Australians to have larger families and to populate our country with the best migrants we can have. [More…]
I believe that what the Government has done in respect of child endowment alone is deserving of great commendation. [More…]
If there is one thing that people in trouble, invalids, old people and handicapped children need, it is sympathy and understanding. [More…]
Many a child whose future looked bleak has been given new independence and a new outlook on life because of the training he has received in a sheltered workshop. [More…]
2) which is now before the House provides for increases in age, invalid and widows pensions, in certain allowances and in child endowment. [More…]
It would appear that the Government is showing little concern about assisting mothers to bring children into this world. [More…]
Let us examine child endowment. [More…]
Before commenting on this section of the legislation, I should first like to trace the history of child endowment, which I submit is most interesting. [More…]
In 1926 a New South Wales Labor Government introduced child endowment for the first time in Australia. [More…]
The payment at that time was 50c for each child. [More…]
One of its first deeds was to abolish the payment of 50c for the first child. [More…]
Later in 1941 the Menzies Government introduced child endowment throughout Australia. [More…]
The payment at that time was 50c for each child except the first child. [More…]
In 1941 the federal basic wage was based on an amount deemed to be sufficient for a man, his wife and 3 children. [More…]
The judge in his wisdom said that he considered the basic wage was sufficient only for a man, wife and one child. [More…]
increase in the basic wage unless child endowment was introduced. [More…]
So it can be readily seen that over a period of 7 years from 1941 to 1948 during the war years and early post-war era 2 Labor governments were responsible for doubling child endowment despite the fact that the basic wage had increased by only $4 over that period. [More…]
In 1950 the Menzies Government introduced the payment of 50c for the first child. [More…]
In January 1964 the Menzies Government’ increased the payment for the third child by 50c from $1 to $1.50 and the payment for each successive child by the same amount. [More…]
In 1967 the Holt Government increased the payment by 25c from $1.50 to $1.75 for the fourth child and by 50c from $1.50 to $2 for the fifth child with a further 25c added for each successive addition to the number of children. [More…]
Yet the endowment of 50c for the first child has not been adjusted for 21 years and the endowment for the second child of $1 for 23 years. [More…]
Despite the increases in this legislation, 85 per cent of endowed families, that is, in the first child and 2 children categories, will not receive any increase at all. [More…]
In most cases the increases to those familes with 3 or more children will be a welcome benefit. [More…]
The major cause of this decline has been the failure of the Government to increase the rates for the first and second children. [More…]
As Commonwealth statistics show, those families in the lower income brackets have the highest number of children, but many parents today are hesitant about having larger families simply because they cannot afford to do so. [More…]
I re-emphasise that the initial step is to increase the payments for the first child arid second child. [More…]
Child endowment, a measure first introduced by the Liberal-Country Party Government as was generously recognised by the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope), has been increased for third and subsequent children, so that a family with 3 children receives a total income supplement of $2.50 a week while a family with 4 children receives $5.75. [More…]
On this side of the House we have always believed that particular help should be given to families with children. [More…]
Increases in child endowment for the third and subsequent children will [More…]
In the Budget there were great increases in the child’s allowance so that $4.50 a week will be paid for each child, representing an increase of $2 for the first and $1 for subsequent children. [More…]
For instance, a widow with 3 dependant children will receive a total payment of $38.25, or $45 if she had 4 dependant children. [More…]
The special attention that is being given to assistance to families with children stands as a key feature of the social services programme. [More…]
Even if we do not increase any pensions, unemployment benefits, maternity benefits or child endowment, each year we would see an increase in the expenditure on social welfare simply because our population is forever increasing and because the number of people who are eligible for those benefits is increasing, So it is just futile and fatuous to talk about record expenditures. [More…]
Fifthly, the rate of child endowment for the third and each subsequent child under 16 years of age in a family is to be increased by 50c per week. [More…]
Sixthly, the rate of child endowment for each child under 16 years of age in an approved institution is to be increased by 50c per week. [More…]
Finally, children’s allowances for age, invalid and widow pensioners and for unemployment and sickness beneficiaries will increase by $2 per week for the first child and by $1 per week for each other child. [More…]
This will bring the allowance to a uniform $4.50 per week for all these children. [More…]
There are 683,000 age pensioners who will receive $40,300,000; 119,000 invalid pensioners who will receive $7,300,000; 76,000 widow pensioners who will receive $4,400,000; 5,000 long term sickness pensioners who will receive $300,000; 31,000 in the classification of wives of pensioners and beneficiaries who will receive $1,700,000; and 155,000 children of pensioners and beneficiaries who will receive $12m. [More…]
The increase in child endowment will cost about $26,500,000 and will benefit 1,020,000 children in about 610,000 families. [More…]
The Government has neglected its responsibility in regard to child endowment for the first child; also the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Other items in the Social Services Act such as the wife’s allowance and allowances for the first child of pensioners have gone as long as 9 years without any increase, with a total increase of only $2.35 over a period of 20 years, or an average of 12c a year. [More…]
As for child endowment for the first child and the second child, the maternity allowance and the funeral benefit, it is anybody’s guess as to how many years will elapse before we see any alteration in those items. [More…]
Child endowment for the first child has not increased during the past 21 years. [More…]
This obviously means, if we look at past performances, that pensioners can forget about any further increases in child allowance for at least the next 3 years, or even perhaps for the next 7 years. [More…]
Mothers can forget about any further increase in child endowment for at least 5 years, and perhaps 8 years. [More…]
They can forget altogether, about the possibility of any increase for the first and second child. [More…]
I say this because the Minister referred to an overall plan and because the last increase for the first child of a pensioner was in 1968, and before that in 1961. [More…]
For the second, and other children the last increase was in 1969, and there was a period between 1963 and 1968 when there were no increases given at all. [More…]
With regard to child endowment the increase now proposed for the third child is the first since 1964 and, for the fourth child, since 1967. [More…]
As the increase in child endowment this time applies only in cases where there are more than 2 children in a family and as the amount is only 50c, at a time when the Government places emphasis on children’s needs, it must be pretty obvious that any increase daring the next 4 years or so will be very small indeed, if there is any increase at all. [More…]
In 1949 child endowment paid to a family with 3 children - which is close to the number of children in the average family - represented 11.3 per cent of the average male earnings. [More…]
Under this Budget, a family with 3 children will receive $3.50 a week in child endowment. [More…]
Average male earnings are now $88.50 a week, so child endowment represents less than 3.95 per cent of average male earnings. [More…]
A comparison with the minimum wage also shows how the value of child endowment has dropped over the years. [More…]
In 1948 when the minimum wage was $11.60 a week, a family with 5 children received $4 a week in child endowment. [More…]
To retain the same relationship child endowment now should be over $11 for a family with 5 children. [More…]
The increase in child endowment does not make up for the loss Of purchasing power through inflation over the years, .lust recently Professor Ehrlich criticised the increase in child endowment not because the amount was insufficient but because the increase might result in more children. [More…]
If a couple had more children as a result of this miserable increase in child endowment, they would be gluttons for punishment. [More…]
lt is interesting to analyse how the family income shrinks as extra children come along. [More…]
A married man without children pays $4.15 a week in income tax. [More…]
The first child arrives and the tax is reduced to $3.40 a week. [More…]
The couple receive 50c a week child endowment, which gives the family $43.40 a week, or $14.47 each. [More…]
The second child comes along, the tax is reduced to $2.85 and they get $1.50 a week child endowment. [More…]
With the third child, tax paid weekly is $2.40 and child endowment is $3.50 a week, leaving the family income at $47.40, or $9.48 for each unit. [More…]
With the fourth child taxation is reduced to $1.95 each week and child endowment is $5.75 a week, making the family income $50.10, or $8.35 for each unit. [More…]
The examples that I have given deal with the big majority of families, because 75 per cent of all families have less than 4 children, leaving 25 per cent with 4 children or more. [More…]
The Government’s failure to increase child endowment for the first and second child is to be deplored. [More…]
The effect on the family budget when the first child reaches the age of 16 years is most noticeable. [More…]
The 50c a week child endowment for the first child is taken away, and the endowment for the second child is reduced to 50c a week, from $1 a week, making a loss of $1 a week in child endowment. [More…]
The payment to the third child is reduced from $2 to $1 a week making a loss of income of $2 a week. [More…]
Funeral benefits for pensioners amounts to $40 where a pensioner is responsible for the funeral costs of a spouse, a child or another pensioner. [More…]
From the inception of maternity allowance in 1912 until this Government came into office, the allowance would always pay the expenses associated with the birth of a child. [More…]
Consequently, married couples are putting off having children. [More…]
Both parents have to go to work in most cases in order to get their home together before having a child. [More…]
Child endowment for the first child was the basis of great election programmes and promises by the Liberal Party in 1949. [More…]
Child endowment for 3 children under 16 years of age represented 11.3 per cent of average male earnings in 1949. [More…]
I want to deal briefly with the position of pensioners’ children. [More…]
There is at the moment no way in which a pensioner’s children can adequately be provided with a norma) education. [More…]
1 believe that if a person qualifies for a pension, especially an invalid pension, and has young children, some scheme should be evolved whereby his children can be provided with the wherewithal to obtain the education to which they are entitled and which is within their capacity to receive. [More…]
We prolong the poverty cycle by forcing children to become self-conscious of the fact that they cannot participate in a normal manner in the affairs of their school because of the incomes of their parents. [More…]
We prolong the cycle by creating a second class student in denying children of pensioners the normal opportunities. [More…]
1 wonder what a pensioner’s child thinks when the rest of the school, especially if it is a high school, is coming to Canberra to have a look at Parliament House, which I would hope would be a part of their education, but because of the costs involved the child cannot have that part of his education. [More…]
It is also true to say that in most oases the children of pensioners are forced to leave school at an earlier age, unless they are extremely lucky, because of the incomes of their families and the economic circumstances in which they find themselves. [More…]
They are in fact denied the normal opportunities of other children in the community because of the economic circumstances of their parents. [More…]
I believe it should be a high priority item on any government’s agenda to ensure that these children are given the same opportunities as other children. [More…]
I would not seek to answer the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) in detail, but I will take up one of the last points he made in relation to the children of pensioners. [More…]
If there is anything which this Budget has done and if there is anything which the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) has sought to do it is to increase very significantly the children’s allowance. [More…]
The children’s allowance which is appropriate to the children of pensioners has been increased by $2 for the first child, $1 for the second child and, taking into account concomitant alterations in child endowment for the third and later children, for the third child of a pensioner the allowance has been increased by $1.50 a week. [More…]
But children have always been a necessity of life, and this is something of which this Government has continuously taken account. [More…]
I do not make any apology for the fact that the Bill now before us is child oriented. [More…]
It enables me to remind the House that in Chifley’s time virtually no allowance was made for children at all. [More…]
The children of widows received nothing extra at all. [More…]
Also, there was only a meagre allowance for the first child of age and invalid pensioners and none for the others; and then an allowance was given only when the age pensioner was an invalid. [More…]
We have given an allowance of $4.50 for every child in this category. [More…]
Furthermore, we have put on for the first child in the shape of a mother’s allowance an extra pension of S4 if the child is over 6 years of age and $6 if there is a child under 6 years of age. [More…]
If we look at the family endowment and mothers allowance together, for the first child there is an extra payment of $9 and if there is more than one child it is about $7 per child. [More…]
The Labor Party has said that children have not got votes. [More…]
We know that children do not have votes but we do think in terms of the children. [More…]
I want to address the House tonight on a matter which I consider to be of the utmost importance to every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Labour and National Service relating to the continued inactivity by the Government on its undertaking given during the Senate election campaign to establish or assist child minding centres. [More…]
The honourable gentleman refers to a proposal in relation to child minding centres made during the Senate election campaign. [More…]
The children’s allowance will be $7 a week; an orphan child - when both the father and the mother have died - will be paid $14 a week. [More…]
For the purposes of the survey, which was carried out in the June Quarter 1966, the poverty line for a standard family comprising husband, wife and two dependent children was arbitrarily set at $33 per week, that being equivalent to the then Victorian basic wage of $30.70 per week plus child endowment for two children plus a loading of 80 cents. [More…]
Under a third proposal a concessional deduction will be available for legal expenses and fees incurred by taxpayers in adopting children. [More…]
It it proposed that a taxpayer who adopts a child will be allowed an income tax deduction for amounts expended in connection with the adoption by way of solicitors’ or barristers’ fees, fees paid to a court granting the adoption order and fees paid to a Government department or authority or to an approved adoption agency through which the adoption is arranged. [More…]
When your child is born you will put his name down so that he can be on the telephone when he turns 21.’ [More…]
that no child is precluded from attending school or university because of the financial circumstances of its parents. [More…]
In country areas today, people are experiencing the greatest difficulty in maintaining children at schools and universities away from home. [More…]
Government given any consideration to the family man with a chronically ill child. [More…]
The couple have one child, a married son who is serving in the RAAF. [More…]
Is the right honourable gentleman aware that the unemployment benefit for a man with a dependent wife and one child is only 22 per cent of average weekly earnings? [More…]
With a substantial rise in unemployment expected because of the Government’s budgetary policies, will the Prime Minister consider an immediate increase in the present benefits of $10 for a single man and $19.50 for a man with a dependent wife and one child? [More…]
In his second reading speech the Treasurer announced that part of the Budget proposals consists of a decision by the Government to increase from $300 to $400 per annum the maximum deduction allowable to a taxpayer for the education expenses of a dependent full time student child. [More…]
The idea originated in the Budget of 19S2 when, for the first time, a concessional deduction was allowed for education expenses of dependent children. [More…]
At that time it related to payment of child endowment for the second and subsequent children. [More…]
As child endowment payments and social service payments generally have been extended there is no longer a direct connection between payroll tax and the payment of child endowment. [More…]
Payroll tax was introduced to Australia in 1941 specifically to provide the funds required for the payment of child endowment to the families of wage and salary’ earners. [More…]
Another of the reasons why 1 am so against payroll tax being transferred to the States is that I believe this son of taxation should be used specifically for other social welfare measures - indeed, let us include child endowment. [More…]
Whatever is given in increases in pensions and child endowment will be more than swallowed up in increased costs. [More…]
It gives the very minimum in the way of benefits in respect of child endowment, pensions and assistance to rural industry and education. [More…]
Let me relate to the Minister the case of a widow with 8 children, 6 of whom were going to school. [More…]
The eldest child who was 19 years of age was selected out of the barrel for national service. [More…]
I made strong representations on behalf of this distressed woman who was losing the eldest child of her family under the National Service Act. [More…]
The establishment of Maternal and Child Health Centres throughout Papua New Guinea to advise mothers on health matters including nutrition. [More…]
It is not unusual, however, for Aborigines themselves to choose European names which they use in conjunction with a subsection name and a mother will usually choose a European name for her child for birth registration purposes; nursing sisters frequently assist the mother in this by providing a panel of names from which she may choose. [More…]
If a senior member of an Aboriginal family or the eldest child chooses a European name as a surname, junior members of the family are encouraged to use that name. [More…]
The Government announced its desire to introduce a scheme to assist with child-care centres in November last year against a background of concern that the care and welfare of the children of working parents should be adequately safeguarded and that such children should have every opportunity for the fullest development, intellectually, socially and physically. [More…]
The Government continues to hold this view, and continues to regard its intended initiative on child care as a most valuable and important one. [More…]
It was because of its appreciation of the importance of restraining the inflationary, pressures which are currently evident in the community that the Government adopted a deliberate policy of curtailing Commonwealth expenditure and it was in the light of that policy that the decision was taken to defer any proposal on child care for the time being. [More…]
Child care assistance in the case of single parent families is part of the considerations underway with respect to the whole initiative. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems- ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale- the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
It is only in the Territories that every child has at least one year of preschool education. [More…]
I quote the percentages of children who can have pre-school education. [More…]
I would hope that we will not again have a ministerial statement on education without mentioning the opportunity for pre-school education which, in the interest of future equality, every child in the States should have. [More…]
In approximate terms, this means a husband supporting a wife and one child on actual income of $2,250 would be fully covered by our programme. [More…]
An allowance of actual annual income of $156 would be allowed for each additional child. [More…]
The Government decided finally that health insurance should not be used as the vehicle for assistance to large families because other welfare measures such as taxation concessions and child endowment currently provide assistance of this nature. [More…]
I noticed another very worthwhile provision that many people here have requested; that is a provision relating to a working wife who has to place a child in a day nursery, play centre, creche or kindergarten, or who has to employ somebody to come into the home to look after the child. [More…]
I cannot help thinking, of course, that it would be infinitely better if they could place their children in a free kindergarten or creche as many people in this capital city, Canberra, are able to do. [More…]
The same would apply to the deduction which is presently allowable for children. [More…]
At the present time the estimated loss of revenue if the deduction were disallowed is $88m for the first child, $12m for the student child, and $76m for the other children. [More…]
I would prefer to see that deduction disallowed and the amount paid out in additional child endowment where it is needed most. [More…]
I have with me tonight a child’s apron and frock which were manufactured in Hong Kong. [More…]
These women are able to get their children off to school, go to work and return home in time to attend to the children after school and to prepare their husbands’ meals. [More…]
For example, until recently payroll tax was the sole means of paying for child endowment in Australia. [More…]
Hardly one penny has been contributed by the primary industries by way of payroll tax to keep child endowment going. [More…]
So, for example, the allocations to independent schools might be a percentage of the cost of educating an average child in the State system. [More…]
It is in my view a requirement that the educational facilities available to a child should be of roughly comparable standard whether that child is born in Western Australia or New South Wales or Queensland or wherever it may be. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure on the child migrant education programme has increased from $109,000 in 1969-70 to $2,610,000 this year. [More…]
To foster these skills and desires, a child needs to have access to a wide range of literature at varying levels of interest, reading ability and also covering many topics. [More…]
We must bring the libraries into the area of children - into the schools. [More…]
This is, of course, understandable because this ministry, which was created in 1966 out of political expediency, has, since its establishment, been somewhat the neglected child of successive coalition governments. [More…]
So on the pure issue of justice in a country where education is compulsory no-one can deny the right of a parent to send his child to the school of his choice provided that the standard of education is met. [More…]
One of the great things in this country, I believe, is freedom of religion and a parent therefore has the right to give his child a basic moral and religious education if he so chooses. [More…]
The Commonwealth grants are $35 for each primary school child and $50 for each secondary school child, which averages out at something under $40 for each child per annum. [More…]
Direct expenditure on education by the Commonwealth today amounts to an average of $125 for each child in Australia. [More…]
Less than $40 for each child is going to the independent schools, so it can be seen that the independent schools are at a very great disadvantage at the present time. [More…]
The churches, and the friends and the parents of children going to independent schools pay at least an additional $300 a child to educate children in independent schools so this amount is a saving to the States and to the country. [More…]
I believe that a system could be worked out whereby a contribution for education could be made to every child in Australia as a right, with the States making up the balance in the State education systems and the parents and friends making up the difference for the independent schools’ requirements. [More…]
But in my opinion all children are entitled equally to a share of assistance in education. [More…]
Children have a right to be given the kind of education that their parents desire for them. [More…]
The Commonwealth could assist the schools by means of per capita payments in respect of each school child whether at a government or an independent school. [More…]
It is completely phoney to say that when parents are taxed to the hilt, and they do not have large incomes anyhow, they have the right to pay fees to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
So the true position is that children who come from a background which is not conducive to extra curricular assistance are sent to schools which are ill equipped with facilities and on occasions staffed with teachers who are only marking time until a vacancy occurs at a school in a more affluent area. [More…]
The best way to ensure that this happens is to see that every child, irrespective of background or the financial standing of the family, is assured of the opportunity to be educated to the capacity of his intellect. [More…]
Another matters that bugs me quite a bit is the question of the pre-school education of Australian children. [More…]
I am interested in pre-school education because I firmly believe that a sound education for our children and .young people is a necessary requirement for Australia’s future security. [More…]
In the technical age in which we live far more has to be learned and absorbed in a shorter time, consequently in my view pre-school education does much to assist the child. [More…]
Aspects of pre-school education which concern me greatly are that not every child has the opportunity of receiving such education, mainly because there are far too few preschool centres; there is great difficulty in obtaining the requisite staff to increase the number of centres; attendance frequently is on a roster basis and the cost of maintaining a child at a centre in some circumstances [More…]
stances precludes the parent from permitting a child to take advantage of such education. [More…]
For instance, when a child is enrolled his parents should automatically become members of the parents association. [More…]
It is also extremely difficult to give a child motivation, but it can be done through the education system. [More…]
At the moment deprivation in the home - that is, in the homes of low income earners, in migrant homes, in Aboriginal homes, in the homes of unskilled workers and in broken homes - and the lack of a proper cultural environment retards children from this background and perpetuates inequality. [More…]
At present the Government grants $55 a head for primary students, $80 for each child in forms 1 and 2, $90 for each child in forms 3 and 4 and $95 for each child in forms 5 and 6. [More…]
It seems to me that if the church has difficulty - and I am quite concerned that people should have freedom to give their children the education which they want to give them - one of the solutions may well be that those Catholics who are part of the State school teaching staff should be free to teach in church schools. [More…]
Other schools - I do not say this as a criticism but as a statement of fact - from other churches in the main have not attempted to reach every child with their form of religious education. [More…]
I believe that from the point of view of meeting the needs of children we should look at the needs of the children and the needs of the schools and give priority to those who are in greatest need and not to those who are in schools which, because they can charge high fees, can provide adequate facilities. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
I refer to an announcement by the Minister for Health concerning the Government’s decision to purchase a motel to be used as a child care centre for Aboriginal children at Alice Springs. [More…]
Very often a mother will bring along to the doctor a child with a bit of a cold, sore throat and bad chest, and the doctor will say: ‘We will have an antibiotic’. [More…]
It grieves me to think that such a mean and contemptible attitude should be adopted in the case of this child who was only a few days old and who had to return to hospital with its mother. [More…]
I understand that the child had gastric trouble and was admitted on the basis of the letter and on the advice of the family’s medical practitioner. [More…]
The specialist anaesthetist is highly trained in a number, of specialised tasks, such as the administration of anaesthetics, supervision of patients in the post-operative recovery ward, intensive care of patients with life threatening respiratory and circulatory conditions, the management of unconscious patients, and the relief of pain such as that associated with the early post-operative period, with certain chronic diseases or with child birth. [More…]
if we believe it to be true that the range of experience of the doctor-in-training should be broadened, then we should be creating elective attachments and a teaching atmosphere in a spectrum of institutions which have not hitherto been regarded as being worthy of affiliation with medical schools - industrial health clinics, geriatric day-centres, rehabilitation centres, psychiatric clinics and day-centres, clinics for drug addicts, child guidance centres, and remedial centres for autistic and dyslexic children. [More…]
I should like to read a contribution of a 14- year old child to a school magazine. [More…]
Her original aims were to cut down the infant mortality rate and admissions to hospital by raising the standard of child care. [More…]
After almost 12 months treatment with eye drops the 100 per cent activity amongst the preschool children remained the same but at. [More…]
the United Aborigines Mission school where the children were housed in dormitories and had regular balanced meals, fruit and vegetables, and their own towels and face washers, there was an approximately 80 per cent cure, which shows what proper living conditions can mean. [More…]
The remarks of the Army Minister, Mr Peacock, on the matter did not impress me - rather like handing a sweet to a crying child. [More…]
What is the (a) number and (b) percentage of employees in the Australian work force who are (i) unmarried, (ii) married without children and (iii) married with (A) one dependent child, (B) two dependent children, (C) three dependent children and (D) more than three dependent children. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Does every eligible child throughout the nation receive free milk on every school day? [More…]
Have any comprehensive surveys of child nutrition been carried out to evaluate the existing scheme or establish whether any new programmes should be developed with Commonwealth assistance? [More…]
Where and when have there been meetings of Ministers concerned with child welfare since March 1970 (Hansard, 13th October 1970, page 2082, 9th March 1971, page 750 and 29th September 1971 page 1698). [More…]
The State Ministers concerned with Child Welfare held their Second Annual Conference in Hobart from 15th to 18th March 1971. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that any claim by a medical practitioner for health insurance reimbursement in respect of treatment given to his own child is disallowed under a ruling of the Department of Health? [More…]
I remember having lengthy discussions with the matron of a hospital which was dealing with maternal and child welfare in the Alice Springs area. [More…]
The Aboriginal women had a natural ability to learn maternal and child welfare. [More…]
That includes all pensions, child endowment, etc. [More…]
I was called to the labour ward because a child born some hour and a half before I arrived had had breathing difficulties at birth. [More…]
When I had a look al the child there were other child patients crawling around the floor where the baby was lying. [More…]
An oxygen cylinder was lying on the floor and one of the children was playing with the tap and adjusting or maladjusting the oxygen supply to the baby. [More…]
After I had looked at the baby the sister asked me to have a look at another child. [More…]
A 6 months old child had been brought in by the mother because the mother was worried. [More…]
The child had gastroenteritis plus something else, possibly suspected meningitis. [More…]
The only place where one could examine that child was in the labour ward on the 1 bed on which the other child had been delivered some H hour? [More…]
I ordered that 6 months old child- [More…]
The baby died and the other child was admitted to the Alice Springs hospital. [More…]
We have these huge mortality figures and these Aboriginal children have a tremendously decreased potential. [More…]
Dr Kirk in his thesis, which I would recommend to anybody, points out that some 50 per cent of Aboriginal children never reach the health parameters - the height and weight, etc.- which are normal or average for less than only 2 per cent of the Australian population. [More…]
There is no future even if the children are doing reasonably well at school, and I understood from the teachers there that a significant number were able to do well. [More…]
The children finished up as labourers or cleaners. [More…]
What possible hope is there for those Aboriginal children to get keen on education or to see anything worth while in education? [More…]
The whole education system is aimed at the children. [More…]
The children spend only very few hours at school and then they go back into the surroundings of the adult people in their own tribes. [More…]
Although constantly there have been rising expenditures on Aboriginal affairs, nevertheless it is always possible, it seems to me, for someone like the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) to point out that Aboriginal infant mortality is rising, Aboriginal neo-natal mortality is rising and Aboriginal child mortality is rising. [More…]
Then let us actually commit ourselves to reducing their infant child and neo-natal mortality to the European levels, even if we have no other objectives than that. [More…]
American Journal of Child Nutrition, June 1969, pp. [More…]
I do not believe, and I do not think any genuine Australian patriot could believe, that the Australianborn child should be discouraged while uncontrolled migration is encouraged. [More…]
When I first arrived in Australia as a child before the Second World War admission to this country was considered to be a great privilege. [More…]
I do not believe, and I do not think any genuine Australian patriot could believe, that the Australianbom child should be discouraged while uncontrolled migration be encouraged. [More…]
I think we all agree that the Australianborn child is the best migrant we could possible have. [More…]
The largest increase is in relation to child migrant education programmes. [More…]
A ministerial statement of 23rd April 1970 set out details of improved and expanded measures for the education of child and adult migrants following a survey of schools and discussions with State education authorities. [More…]
This substantial stepping up of child migrant education will, I am sure, pay handsome dividends for Australia in the years to come. [More…]
2, As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
There were 135,000 children involved in claims by taxpayers whose incomes were within that range. [More…]
The average claim was $60 a child. [More…]
This covered 1,174,000 children. [More…]
The average claim was $80 a child. [More…]
For those taxpayers whose income exceeded $4,000 the nominal value of education expenses claimed was $132m and the number of children covered was 1,265,000. [More…]
The average claim was $100 a child. [More…]
We simply ask at this point: Who is it that benefits when this Government increases, as it does ‘.n this Bill, the concessional claim from $300 to $400 for each child for education expenses, which broadly cover fees, fares, books, uniforms, when by far the greatest number of claims now made for children barely average more than $100 a child? [More…]
By contrast to the $ 1, 000m to which I have referred and which is distributed in this rather regressive way - 1 repeat, this is for the year ended 30th June 1969 - is an item which appears in the Budget for the same year described as cash benefits to persons, namely, amounts paid by reason of social services, child endowment, medical and pharmaceutical benefits and so on. [More…]
Child endowment is paid irrespective of the income of the parents, but the higher the income of the taxpayer, the more the taxation concession is worth. [More…]
I have made the suggestion before as a sort of rough improvement in equity that if the concessions for dependants - that is, wives and children - were doubled for everybody - I accept the fact that they would be doubled for the wealthy as well as for the poor - and if all other deductions were eliminated the saving to revenue would be about $200m as a consequence and the majority of taxpayers were dependants, particularly those families where there there is only one breadwinner, would be advantaged if that were the case. [More…]
There would be additional deductions for children. [More…]
If there were a proper medical benefits scheme and a proper child endowment scheme there would be no need to worry about whether a taxpayer is allowed concessions for children or for medical items and so on. [More…]
Take the new education concession, which in this Budget has gone from $300 to $400 per child: For a man on a taxable income of $20,000 this is worth to him $266 in rough terms. [More…]
By giving a rebate of so much per child the money can in effect be paid straight to the parent from the Commonwealth Government and not through the other mechanism. [More…]
The fact is that while education expenses under the Act include those for uniforms, fares, fees, books, etc., the fares alone with regard to children travelling long distances and who go home during the year - surely they are entitled to do that - would be very close to the allowable maximum deduction. [More…]
So even if the child went home only once during the school year it would mean that at least half the maximum amount would be used up on fares. [More…]
In giving consideration to these amendments it must be borne in mind also that like every other form of concessional deduction such as for spouse, medical costs, children, etc., the amount of deduction is not a direct deduction from taxation itself but simply a reduction in actual income for the purpose of arriving at the income upon which tax will be imposed. [More…]
The fact that deductions apply to actual incomes and not to the tax itself means, for instance, that this proposed SI CO addition to the education allowance will give to a taxpayer with one child attending school and on an otherwise taxable income of $1,500 - that is, of course, if he can afford to spend $400 on the education of his child - an actual tax reduction of approximately $16 while another taxpayer with a taxable income of $15,000 and with one child at school could gain a tax saving of approximately $58 - $16 in one case and $58 in the other. [More…]
This could be a fact even though both taxpayers live in the same street and meet exactly the same education expenses for children attending the same school. [More…]
Of course when there are 2 children in each family, or 3 or 4, then the man with a higher income gets an even greater advantage. [More…]
As a matter of fact it is obvious from taxation statistics that the great bulk of the taxpayers obtain very little real help from the existing allowance of $300, and those same taxpayers will receive no benefit at all from any increase whether it be $100 or $1,000, for the very simple reason that the low income earner cannot afford to pay out $6 or $8 a week for the education of a child, or twice or three times that amount if he has 2 or 3 children. [More…]
This is a very big problem in distant areas, this cost of giving the children a good education. [More…]
million to 4i million taxpayers with incomes of less than that amount, while taxpayers with incomes above $6,000 total only approximately 660,000, which proves, as I said earlier, that the great bulk of the taxpayers will gain very little from the additional $100 and that where any benefit is gained it will go largely to those who actually do not require it and in fact are well situated to meet the cost of their children’s education. [More…]
For instance, that group of taxpayers whose incomes ranged from $417 to $1,599 in 1968-69 claimed an average amount of approximately $57 a child for some 64,500 children of over one million taxpayers. [More…]
It is quite clear from those figures that those taxpayers and those children will derive no benefit at all from this increase of $100, and they would in most instances be stretching the purse even to reach the $57. [More…]
Then we have the group whose incomes range from $2,400 to $2,599, a group comprising approximately 252,000 taxpayers and 89,000-odd children with an average claim of $75. [More…]
This group comprises 282,500 taxpayers and 293,000 children with an average claim of $96 for each child. [More…]
There are something like 320,000 taxpayers in the income group up to $6,000 who have 3 or more children and it is quite obvious that those taxpayers, except in a few instances, would find it very difficult and in fact impossible to pay out more than perhaps $50 or $60 towards each of their children’s education. [More…]
Therefore the children’s education suffers and the best this Government can do is to increase the concessional deduction which does absolutely nothing for these taxpayers. [More…]
The first taxpayer can receive $137 tax relief for a child and the second taxpayer only $15. [More…]
For some reason or other, whilst it is recognised that I can receive the benefit of taxation deductions for educational expenses incurred through my child being at university, the student who is bearing his own costs of education cannot receive that necessary taxation deduction. [More…]
Over the years workers have fought for and gained many benefits, including the 8-hour day, the right to form unions, the right to vote, workers’ compensation, paid leave for recreation and illness, the abolition of child labour and many other things. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
When I was a child I lived in the area where Qantas was born. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced person are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced person are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Is it a fact that the grant from his Department upon which Melbourne’s Lady Gowrie Child Centre is chiefly dependent has not been increased over the last two years while kindergarten teachers’ salaries have risen in Victoria over the same period on 7 occasions? [More…]
Is the Lady Gowrie Child Centre a model of the sort of kinder-Gorton which the right honourable member for Higgins said in his 1970 Senate election opening speech would be established oy the Government as a matter of ‘very high priority’? [More…]
A copy of that conference ought to be framed and given to every school child in this country to reveal to these people, who might live in an age when they will need to be defended, the type of situation which confronts this country today as a result of this Government’s policies - a government that is absolutely divided on this issue. [More…]
A handicapped child already suffers in its education and training because of the time taken in treatment. [More…]
So the handicapped child becomes further handicapped because of longer time gaps in his or her education because of the preposterous legislation. [More…]
Child endowment has remained unaltered for the first child for about 18 years, for the second child for 20 years and for the third child for 4 years. [More…]
In 1949 families with 3 children received endowment of 11.5 per cent of average male earnings but a family with 3 children now receives 5 per cent. [More…]
Taking similar figures, based once again on the estimate for the year ended June 1972, in 1950 the amount paid in child endowment for one child under 16 years of age was 2.6 per cent of the average weekly earnings; in 1967 the figure was .8 per cent; in 1971 it was .6 per cent; and in 1972 it will be .5 per cent. [More…]
The same thing applies in respect of child endowment for 3 children under 16 years of age. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems- ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death oh an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Also they handle the payment of pensions and child endowment and the collection of customs duty. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
At question time this morning I told the House that if my recollection of the figures concerning the number of students and teachers in the programme of assistance to child migrants was not correct I would advise the House. [More…]
I think I said that up to 20.000 migrant children are involved; I am advised that the figure is more than 20,000. [More…]
Whether the doctor was right or wrong, he signed the child into the hospital. [More…]
The benefit fund to which the family subscribed referred the matter to its legal advisers who adjudged that the child was not entitled to the payment of a benefit. [More…]
The child was signed in by a medical practitioner. [More…]
I want to say a few words about handicapped children. [More…]
The 1959 United Nations Declaration of the Rights of a Child lays down a criterion in this regard. [More…]
The child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]
It always seems to me that there is something wrong with any society which treats as lavishly as we treat - though insufficiently in my view - the educational needs of ordinary, healthy, wholesome Australian children and then puts right at the end of the queue the child who has a need for special care, the mentally and physically handicapped child. [More…]
That is to say, we relegate to charity, to a very considerable degree, the care of the physically and mentally handicapped people in this country: We have a long way to go to measure up to the criteria expressed in, for example, the Australian Public Instruction Act, the effect of which is to make the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) responsible for the provision of education services for all children on a free and compulsory basis. [More…]
But when it comes to the handicapped child we abandon this principle. [More…]
It concerns the special pharmaceutical needs of handicapped children. [More…]
Recently the parents of children who were accommodated by the New South Wales Handicapped Children’s Centre, which is located in my electorate at Kirrawee, circulated questionnaires. [More…]
The costs run as high as $1,100 for a 2-year period for a handicapped child. [More…]
Maybe the Minister could arrange for prescriptions issued in respect to a handicapped child to be paid for by the Commonwealth in the same way as the pensioner medical service meets the needs of pensioners. [More…]
Finally I would like to make one plea in regard to the cost of artificial limbs, especially for children. [More…]
A parent of a child needing artificial limbs often has to meet the bill on many occasions during the life of that child. [More…]
As the child grows up he or she will need more artificial legs or arms. [More…]
I have personal knowledge of the enormous burden which is placed on the families of these children. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition- and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
We have read in the Press recently that the Government intends to capitalise child endowment. [More…]
What it reveals is that at a time when some great powers are leaving the area and at a time when our regional neighbours are calling for them to go and welcoming their departure, Australia is still acting like a child at pre-school calling for its mother to come back. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition .ind child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
Local government councils are continually pressed to provide child welfare establishments and associated social requirements. [More…]
Professor McDonald, of the Faculty of Child Health at the University of Western Australia, has stated that an Aboriginal baby has 6 times more chance of dying before age 1 than a white baby. [More…]
What sort of life is it for a family with young children having to live in a flat? [More…]
Living like that is responsible for some of the growth in child delinquency. [More…]
We will reduce home mortgages by granting S200 for each child born during the period of mortgage. [More…]
Is the honourable gentleman aware that if the child of a totally and permanently incapacitated pensioner is treated in a private hospital rather than a public one, the pensioner’s entitlement card is inoperative and the pensioner must pay? [More…]
lt is a logical objective for almost any Australian with a child capable of handling academic activities at all to see the university as the goal. [More…]
For the purposes of determining the eligibility of low income families, ‘income’ includes the income of the claimant and members of his family, other than child endowment and certain allowances specified in regulation 20A of the National Health Regulations. [More…]
Underwhat circumstances would a woman in these circumstances have an entitlement to a dependent child’s allowance. [More…]
Does a widow who conceives an illegitimate child after widowhood have any right to a widow’s’ pension and any right to a dependent child’s allowance. [More…]
Does a woman in receipt of an invalid pension who bears an illegitimate child have any right to a dependent child’s allowance; if so is there any limit on the numberof illegitimate children for whom she can obtain this allowance. [More…]
Where a widow pensioner has custody, care and control of a child as defined by section 59 or 59a of the Act. [More…]
Not in respect of the illegitimate child but she could have a right to a Class A widow’s pension through other children or, by age, to a Class B widow’s pension. [More…]
Where an invalid pensioner has custody, care and control of a chid or chidren under the age of 16 years (including a student deemed under section 18a of the Act, to be a child under the age of 16 years) additional pension is payable in respect of each such child. [More…]
1 am sure there are many parents listening to this broadcast at the moment who have had the experience of going to see the principal of a school to consult him about their child only to find that the principal is in class and they have had to wait until the principal has come out of the class or else he has had to leave the class to come and talk with the parents about the problem concerning their child. [More…]
But I do know that such a change throws a much greater dependence upon the customer, the client, the child, the student in school and the ultimate adult and that is what we are discussing here tonight. [More…]
There is no way one can argue that the people of Geelong College could not have put up with the inconvenience of doing their science teaching at the parent school if it meant that the children at Norlane High School were going to get some assistance. [More…]
In areas of cultural underprivilege where children normally are not exposed to fairly well educated parents the problems that these children face are infinitely greater than those of other children, even leaving out totally the economic aspects and dealing only with the educational opportunities and probabilities of the child. [More…]
To start a library programme at secondary level, especially in areas where general library facilities are not available to children, is to start too late for those children. [More…]
As I said before, it is not much good providing a child with a library in a secondary school if that child has not had the opportunity of access to a library in a primary school, particularly a child who comes from a largely uneducated parent background where there is no encouragement of learning. [More…]
Once that child reaches secondary school he will have lost th s educational opportunity, so I support the amendment because I am sure any inquiry would bring out the absolute need for children to receive assistance - especially assistance in learning - and to be exposed to good literature long before they go to secondary school. [More…]
I trust that honourable members opposite - after hearing his speech, I am sure the honourable member for Maranoa would support the amendment - will support the amendment because I think it provides machinery whereby we can at least find out where the real needs of the community are and I hope that at some time some effort will be made to provide children in underprivileged areas - underprivileged culturally not economically - with an educational opportunity which will enable a greater percentage of them to obtain the level of education which is available almost as a right to other sections of the community. [More…]
As some 20 million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and dis placed persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutritionand child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to (heir assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
My personal experience is that on occasions my office has had to organise child welfare assistance and the assistance of charitable bodies, and in fact we ourselves have provided furniture and money on occasions. [More…]
These people are refused permission to come to Australia on the grounds that their child has a serious medical disability. [More…]
The disability of the child, whose appearance is that of a normal, healthy, funloving child, is that of being a slow learner. [More…]
This businessman is denied family assistance in his business, the child is denied a happier future in Western Australia, and the slow learning children’s group in Western Australia, which has made excellent steps forward in educating these people, misses the opportunity of giving this child an education which would be perhaps better than it could receive in the country where it is now. [More…]
T instance the case of a lady who was refused permission to come here to marry a gentleman who wished to sponsor her and a child. [More…]
1 have pointed out on other occasions, and I want to stress this again, that we should try to do all that we can to help these children who are so much in need of education if we are genuine and sincere in our endeavours to provide equal opportunities for all children. [More…]
The time that is lost in the early stages of a child’s education cannot be picked up later on when the child is in need of education, but television is one way of assisting in this direction. [More…]
We must continue to try to provide children with a foundation in education which will enable them to take full advantage of the money which is being expended on education by both State governments and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I spend a good deal of time discussing the problems confronting Aborigines both with the Aborigines and with the people who are concerned with their welfare, such as welfare workers and child welfare officers.. [More…]
Many of the others have done a kindercraft course and the organisations that they run would be more properly described as child minding centres than as pre-schools. [More…]
There has been a failure to train staff in all the positions they occupy on these reserves, whether they be policemen, justices of the peace or the lass working in the maternal and child welfare centre. [More…]
Income tax deductions under the heading of educational expenses are allowed in respect of expenditure incurred by a taxpayer for or in connection with the full-time education of his child at school, college or university or from a tutor. [More…]
The question whether an asphasic child is receiving fulltime education at school would depend upon the facts of the particular case, but where this condition is satisfied, a parent would be entitled to a deduction for the cost of special equipment provided by the parent for the purpose of his child’* education at the school. [More…]
As announced in the recent Budget, it is proposed to increase the maximum permissible deduction for education expenses for each child from $300 per annum to 8400 per annum. [More…]
Under the income tax law, a taxpayer who is a resident may be entitled to a concessional deduction if he contributes to the maintenance of any of the following dependants who are residents of Australian, namely, the spouse of the taxpayer, a daughter-housekeeper, a child less than 16 years of age, a student child, an invalid relative and a parent of the taxpayer or of his spouse. [More…]
Child Endowment - to $3.60 per week per child. [More…]
Maternity Allowance - to at least $117 for each child born. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
We do not allow pacifists to opt out of paying any taxation that goes towards defence; or allow single people and childless couples to opt out of paying taxation used to finance child endowment and education; or permit a man who is healthy to opt out of paying taxation to meet the cost of the health scheme. [More…]
But this is a proposal that is equivalent to allowing all who benefit from defence, child endowment, education and health to opt out of meeting their share of the cost of these benefits simply by expressing their disapproval of paying compulsory taxation. [More…]
As some twenty million refugees and displaced persons are today facing acute problems of hunger and privation - nutrition and child family problems - ultimate famine and death on an unprecedented scale - the Commonwealth Government must plan to come to their assistance in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
What will happen now is that if a person is caught redhanded and admits to having sold 10 Pethedine tablets to a small child, a young school girl or, to to make it even more harrowing, a young pregnant school girl- [More…]
But if the same person is caught redhanded handing over 10 Pethedine tablets or selling them to a young child he cannot be treated as a trafficker. [More…]
The last speaker mentioned the specific case of the effects on the unborn child. [More…]
If one talks to the parents of a child who has been destroyed by being introduced to drug addiction one finds that they would virtually destroy any person who they found endeavouring to peddle drugs to young people. [More…]
Since 1969 running costs of government schools have risen by at least 30 per cent to 40 per cent and even more in some cases and it is now costing over $300 a year to educate a child in a government primary school and over $500 a year to educate a child in a government secondary school. [More…]
controls over the possession, use, storage and labelling of drugs and poisons; industrial hygiene and occupational health; maternal and child health; dental health; environmental factors which may affect health; prevention and control of mental illness, and the care and rehabilitation of patients with menial illness; traffic injuries; health education; recruitment and training of nurses, and the practice of nursing; matters relating to ionising radiation; the promotion and preservation of health in the tropics; and medical statistics on human morbidity and mortality. [More…]
South Australia - fares approximating child rates apply to travel on trains, trams and Government buses and on authorised privately operated bus services. [More…]
respect of children attending. [More…]
There is considerable variation in the levels set as between schools and the figures given below represent an estimate of the average contribution per child paid at pre-schools, primary and secondary schools, (a) Parents committees of pre-schools seek a contribution from parents which is used mainly to provide and maintain equipment at the pre-school. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory this contribution averages about $8.50 per term for each child; in the Northern Territory the average is a little higher, reflecting the fact that in the Northern Territory most children attending pre-school do so for more sessions per week than do children in the Australian Capita’ Territory. [More…]
In primary schools the annual contribution payable to the parent or school commi tee averages between $8 and $10 per year per child. [More…]
The cost of capitalising a family’s child endowment would vary with the size of the family, the rates of endowment and the ages of the children. [More…]
It will be recalled that, in the last Budget, the wife’s allowance was increased from S7 per week to $8 per week; allowance for the first child was increased from S2.50 per week to $4.50 per week; and the allowance for each child after the first was increased from $3.50 per week to $4.50 per week. [More…]
After the increases which the Minister is proposing, a man with a wife and 2 children will be receiving an unemployment benefit rate which is 30 per cent or more than $14.50 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
This amount includes child endowment allowances. [More…]
There is no supplementary assistance for rent in the case of a single man who goes on to unemployment benefit nor is there any increase in the wife’s allowance or the children’s allowance. [More…]
We must eliminate anomalies, such as a dependent student child being excluded from any benefit once he is 16 years of age no matter how great the needs of his parents. [More…]
These children are excluded from receiving assistance, but the Minister does nothing to ameliorate the serious economic stress of these families. [More…]
The allowance for the wife remains at $8 and $4.50 for each child. [More…]
Here we are, at a time when the poverty line, which was recently set by the Melbourne University Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, is $50 a week, and even with the increase provided under this Bill, confronting a man, wife and 2 children with the task of living on $34 a week plus the little extra they get in child endowment. [More…]
There should have been a substantial increase for the dependent children of the family. [More…]
The Government is going on with child’s play. [More…]
The first thing is that he has a drop in income of possibly from $70 a week to $29.50 if he has one child, and that is at the amended rate. [More…]
The regular commitments of sending his children to school and the other amounts he has to pay do not drop. [More…]
He has to clothe his children and pay their fares to school and pay his fares to the unemployment bureau in order to get a job. [More…]
The wife’s allowance remains at $8 a week as does the allowance of $4.50 a week for each child. [More…]
The allowance for each child was increased from $2.50 to $4.50 a week in the last Budget. [More…]
Another newspaper heading reads ‘Anger at Child Death Figures’. [More…]
The article under that heading stated that the odds against an Aboriginal child reaching maturity were 6 to 1. [More…]
In particular I should like io hear about his saving the life of an Aboriginal child. [More…]
We discovered that in Alice Springs hospital there were 4 people to an oxygen tent and 2 Aboriginal children to a bed. [More…]
We discovered that one child was admitted with chickenpox and because of overcrowding 116 children were cross infected with chickenpox. [More…]
Recent figures have shown that out of every 50 Aboriginal children born in Alice Springs, 11 will die in early childhood. [More…]
For the purpose of the Convention the term woman’ means any female person, irrespective of age, nationality, race on creed, whether married or unmarried, and the term ‘child’ means any child whether born of marriage or not. [More…]
The rates of cash benefit are to be sufficient for the full and healthy maintenance of the woman and her child in accordance with a suitable standard of living. [More…]
Other provisions are that while a woman is absent on maternity leave in accordance with the conditions set out above it shall not be lawful for her employer to give her notice of dismissal during such absence or to give her notice of dismissal at such time that the notice would expire during such absence, that a woman nursing her child is to be entitled to interrupt her work for this purpose at prescribed times and that interruptions of work for the purpose of nursing are to be counted as working hours and are to be remunerated according to the applicable laws, regulations or agreements. [More…]
A lump sum maternity benefit is available to residents of Australia and persons accepted as intending to remain in Australia who give birth to a child in Australia or on board a ship proceeding to Australia or travelling between ports in Australia (including a Territory). [More…]
He was married with one child and his wife was expecting another child. [More…]
He, his wife and child were living in a garage which, fortunately, was in the backyard of his parents’ home. [More…]
This 20-year-old man, married with his wife expecting their second child and living in a garage in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, suddenly was faced with a bill for $70. [More…]
A young lady 16 years of age, unmarried and pregnant - she is expecting her child shortly - came to me. [More…]
That young girl who is only 2 or 3 weeks away from having her child came to see me at 8 o’clock this morning in a state of considerable distress. [More…]
They are making that sacrifice so that their children will have the opportunity that every Australian child should have, that is, a reasonable education. [More…]
In 1947 a man with a wife and child received as unemployment benefit 33.8 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Should we not have another steel industry to compete against this giant monopoly which markets the basic commodities that we require to enable us to provide a decent standard of living for every man, woman and child who wants to work and who has a right to work? [More…]
This recommendation was accepted and a provision was included in the regulations authorising the Minister to refund to the parent or guardian of a school child the whole or part of the fares in respect of the child’s bus travel between his home and school where payment of the fares has caused hardship. [More…]
But we saw this as a genuine way of trying to relieve any hardship that may have been caused to parents in the Australian Capital Territory by this essential increase in fares from 2c to 5c per child. [More…]
As I understand it any child who travels more than one mile to school in New South Wales - and perhaps the Minister has built a special school in the A.C.T. [More…]
Whilst I was waiting, another case came on in regard to an Italian who has a wife and 4 children and who has been in this country for 51/2 years. [More…]
His home was searched and 4 bottles of liqueur which he had made to celebrate the birth of his last child were found. [More…]
The war was over while he was still a child. [More…]
There are some Catholic schools such as Nudgee in Queensland which could be rated as greater public schools, but by and large the Catholic church has made an effort to reach the poorest child. [More…]
The first 100 sites receive an extra capitation allowance of 25p per child on the roll. [More…]
Rather it is overcrowding and for this reason the criterion of floor space per child was used. [More…]
Schools where there is a lack of parental interest have a more difficult task and the best measure of this which is readily available is the presence or not of a parent at the first medical inspection when a child starts school. [More…]
We want the underprivileged child, whether in the private sector or in the public sector of education, to have a greater equality of educational opportunity with those from more favoured sections of society. [More…]
One merely misrepresents the position that we are advancing if, as the Government constantly does, one says: You me.an you are against Geelong Grammar’ or ‘You are trying to call some children privileged’. [More…]
in my philosophy a child is privileged today if he comes from a stable home, if his parents are really interested in him, if they have love for him and if they have discipline in their own lives, all of which give him a rational environment. [More…]
I recently spoke at one of the most privileged schools in Australia and about 15 per cent of- the children there were from wealthy broken homes. [More…]
I do not regard them as privileged children at all. [More…]
1 do not make the financial criterion the sole criterion of whether a child is fortunate or not. [More…]
He recognised that children at all schools had to receive support from the Government merely because those children went to authorised and recognised schools. [More…]
What he acknowledged was simply this: A child goes to a school which is recognised as being part of the legitimate education system of Australia. [More…]
That child has the right to assistance in education from public sources. [More…]
If you deny assistance to children at a non-government school, for every child so prevented from attending a nongovernment school you prevent S400 being spent at the secondary level on an appropriate child at the government level. [More…]
At the primary level for every child you deny in the non-government system you deny between $200 and S250 to an equivalent child at the government level. [More…]
It needs to be said that for every child who is disadvantaged in the government or non-government system of education the total system is disadvantaged. [More…]
The tragedy is that to the extent that one system is disadvantaged, each equivalent child in a government school is disadvantaged at the secondary level $400 and at the primary level between $200 and $250. [More…]
He might then explain how a child at school, who would be subject to normal discipline, would react were he to take the advice and copy the practice of the honourable member’s own Leader - the gentleman whom he hopes will be Prime Minister. [More…]
If so, how many (a) dental clinics in relation to child population, (b). [More…]
What is the estimated annual cost per child, including operating costs and capital repayment, of a comprehensive school dental service in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The annual operating cost of a comprehensive school denial service in the Australian Capital Territory in 1970-71 was $12.66 for each child examined. [More…]
It also includes central stores, central purchasing, archival storage of hospital and medical records, central food, services, including preparation and distribution, computer facilities, a central workshop for hospital maintenance services, additional transport facilities and a child minding centre. [More…]
Increasing a child’s pension from $4 to $8 a week and the minimum pension for an orphan from $10 to $15 a week would increase the liabilities by $2. [More…]
The former Prime Minister promised to pay special attention to the needs of low income families with young children. [More…]
the establishment of child care centres for children of a pre-school age. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Health whether he is aware of a report that the Drug Evaluation Committee has reversed the attitude of the Director-General of Health to have the anti-depressant drug imipramine withdrawn from sale, on the ground that only one mother has given birth to a physically deformed child and not 3 mothers, as was originally believed. [More…]
Will the Minister express an opinion as to how many incidents of physically deformed children being born should occur as a result of the use of this drug before the drug should be withdrawn from sale? [More…]
If we do not do this we will have the problem of key kids, the children who have a key tied around their neck and who have to let themselves into their homes in the evenings when they get home from school and spend a few hours at loose ends totally undirected while mum and dad are away at work. [More…]
Other arguments about child care centres and after school care are not immediately relevant here. [More…]
Above all, the parents who send children to these wealthy schools get the most by way of taxation concessions. [More…]
Children who attend these great private schools gain the great bulk of Commonwealth scholarships both at secondary level and tertiary level. [More…]
The ordinary person who sends his child to a local Catholic school gets paltry little by way of taxation concessions. [More…]
The person who has sufficient money to be able to send his children to one of the greater public schools, or socalled public schools which are private in many cases, enjoys immeasurably greater taxation concessions. [More…]
After all, each child can have only one set of education at a time. [More…]
The quality of the education a child receives is determined not by his own capacity to learn by by his family’s capacity to earn. [More…]
Their deprivation extends back even into the first 5 years of life within which more than half the development of a child’s intelligence takes place. [More…]
I emphasise that this is the position in the capital of Victoria, a State where 27 per cent of all eligible children find places in pre-school centres, and not in New South Wales, where only 3 per cent do so. [More…]
It is to develop a voucher system under which the parents can opt to receive from governments the amount which is spent in educating a child in a government school and to spend that amount on the education of their own child where and how they themselves wish. [More…]
It is well-established, and everybody accedes to it, that parents have a right to decide the kind of education they want for their child. [More…]
But there are additional standards sought by parents of children is independent schools. [More…]
Surely it is fair and just that a child sent to an independent school should share on an equal basis with a child sent to a State school money allocated by the Government to help meet the cost of education. [More…]
One might go so far as to say that everything near and dear to us is an integral part of education, as it all begins with the education of the young child in the home. [More…]
In the absence of such assistance it is most unfair to imply that parents supporting independent schools were more concerned with their children’s education than were parents of children in government schools. [More…]
Even the most passionate involvement with a child’s education matters little if the cash is not there to provide further education. [More…]
The 3 challenges were: Firstly, to affirm the right of every child to assistance. [More…]
It is an important challenge because I would suggest that Opposition members who are taking part in this debate should make up their minds as to whether they accept the principle that every child in Australia has a right to be assisted by the Government in his education. [More…]
If honourable members opposite accept that right then I ask them: ‘How dare you seek to derogate from that right by diminishing the amount that any child in Australia may receive from the Government? [More…]
If you end up giving them no assistance you will deny the right entirely and to the extent to which you diminish the amount paid with respect to any child in Australia so too you will correspondingly diminish your recognition of that right.’ [More…]
Capital expenditure on education at government schools per child population in South Australia is in fact the highest in Australia. [More…]
How many parents of State school children can afford to take advantage of that by spending more than $300 on a child’s education. [More…]
The real beneficiaries are the parents of children at the wealthy private schools, the people whom the Liberals represent. [More…]
These are the wealthy schools that were attended by the Cabinet Ministers and now are being attended by their children. [More…]
It cannot be argued, as the Minister sometimes has done, that this taxation deduction is a help to children in the depressed rural areas. [More…]
If the Government wanted to provide equitable and real help to farmers children, it would do what the South Australian Government has done, namely, provide a direct grant at a level assessed according to needs. [More…]
If one wants to compensate a child from a poor family to provide an equal opportunity in life, one must discriminate in his favour. [More…]
With an equal grant to all, the rich child at the well-off private school will finish up still further in front of the deprived child. [More…]
The point I made, I believe, was that in a case where one child’s parents may be less concerned than another’s about their children’s education, the Minister has clearly stated he believes that the Government should not intervene. [More…]
A more correct version would be to say that education is paid for by the taxpayers, irrespective of whether they have children or not. [More…]
But if education is to be free, it should be free to all Australian children as a right, irrespective of the school of their choice, provided that the school maintains required standards and the exercising of that choice does not cost the taxpayer more than if the child were educated at a government school. [More…]
At the present time only about 75 per cent of children are educated at government schools and something like 25 per cent are, by their parents’ choice, educated at other schools. [More…]
In other words, government schools have the facilities to cater for only three-quarters of the number of school children in this country. [More…]
So parents of children attending government primary schools have fees of $333 paid by the Government for their children, and parents of children attending government secondary schools have fees of $607 paid. [More…]
But if we add together the per capita grant of the Commonwealth and the grant of the State Government in Victoria we find that children attending independent schools have fees paid by the Government of only $90 at primary level and $108 at secondary level. [More…]
Surely all Australian children should be treated equally. [More…]
Provided that children go to a school of a required standard they should be entitled to equal assistance from the Government for the cost of their education. [More…]
If their parents choose to send them to a school which offers something extra, then that is their choice and they should pay any additional fees involved over and above what the cost would be to the Government of educating these children in a government school. [More…]
It would treat every child equally, it would retain our dual system of education and it would give parents the choice of where their children were educated. [More…]
It would cost the taxpayer no more than if all children were compulsorily educated in government schools. [More…]
If these grants did not exist, the parents would be forced to pay that extra amount in added fees or to take their children away and send them to a government school. [More…]
It is ridiculous to assume that all parents who send their children to independent and church schools are wealthy. [More…]
It is certainly not true of the Catholic parish schools and it is not true of those who make great sacrifices to send their children to the larger church schools. [More…]
At the larger church schools the fees for one child alone, would amount to something like $1,100 a year, yet by sending a child to such a school that parent, who is also a taxpayer, is saving the Government - on the figures of Mr Lindsay Thompson, the Victorian Minister for Education- $607. [More…]
Surely the position we should be working towards - one realises that it cannot happen overnight - is the situation where each child is entitled to and allotted the $607 towards his education. [More…]
Mr FitzPATRICK (Darling) (11.13)- I would like to present a case for assistance to those children who cannot go to school. [More…]
I am referring to the children of parents who live in isolated areas. [More…]
Most of the parents in these areas have formed themselves into an association known as the Isolated Children Parents Association which represents the most educationally isolated districts in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The purpose of the Association is to bring to the attention of the public and the Government the isolated rural child’s lack of educational opportunities and how children beyond daily reach of school are grossly neglected educationally. [More…]
Living away means an added expense of between $400 and $1,000 and more per annum per child and, of course, some parents have 4 or 5 children of school age. [More…]
However, their taxation allowance for education is the same as that of parents whose children do not incur any accommodation fee. [More…]
It is claimed that the cost for parents with 3 children living away while attending secondary school would amount to $1,200 to $5,400 a year, and this does not include books, uniforms or fares. [More…]
Then he suggested sending the children to NSW schools. [More…]
Yes, we have 2 children at NSW schools and let’s face iti The marvellous subsidy we receive a mere $117 per year, we can only alford to send 2 children away as to get down to bare facts, we have to find another seven hundred dollars for each child per year. [More…]
Or does he not realise that to send an isolated child to school boarding fees are anywhere from $20 to $30 per week without extras and our children do not have any unnecessary extras as we just have not the cash. [More…]
A child who has daily access to school is eligible for free transport and schooling regardless of its parents’ income. [More…]
The children who live beyond daily reach of school - they represent a fraction of the nation’s school children - are not granted free travel and what assistance is granted is subject to a means test. [More…]
To prevent these children joining the ranks of unemployed and those nearly unemployable because of their low educational standard, immediate assurance of aid must be given to parents, to schools and to hostels to ensure that these children can complete their education. [More…]
It is not right that children of parents who are financially destitute should be condemned to face fife educationally destitute. [More…]
This position will not ease until financial responsibility for education is taken by governments and until they acknowledge their educational obligations and provide for education for all school children. [More…]
The average rural family is larger than its urban counterpart and this again places a heavier burden on the isolated parent who must find finance for boarding children in order to give them access to school. [More…]
In most cases these parents have from 2 to 4 children living away from home simultaneously in order to attend school and have to meet fees ranging from $400 to $800 per annum per child. [More…]
It is not a matter of whether the child has capacity; it is a matter of whether the child has opportunity. [More…]
A child from a culturally under-privileged family has less starting opportunity than have normal children and therefore requires greater encouragement. [More…]
There is a need for those children who do not get a head start, as it is commonly termed in the United States, to be given the additional facilities which are necessary to assist them to overcome the gap that separates them from more fortunate children at their starting-out point. [More…]
1 believe that it is placing the cart before the horse to provide secondary school libraries without giving serious consideration to the position of primary schools and, even more importantly in areas in which the basic educational standards of parents is low - these areas are fairly well known to all of us - without taking the necessary action to provide a satisfactory level of pre-school education, which can be vital to a young child starting out. [More…]
So we have a situation where a child of 16, 17 or 18 years who is starting to become a very expensive luxury for any family is trying to cope with an adolescent life with the normal costs of living at that age and obtaining an education on a basic income available to his family of something less than $40 a week and, quite often, something substantially less than $30 a week. [More…]
lt should look into the problems which are faced by people who receive social service benefits from the Commonwealth, because their children are just as entitled to the so-called free education which is supposedly available as is any other group of children in the community, but the Government chooses to pass sentence on them. [More…]
Because their parents are not able to earn an adequate income these children arc sentenced to a lesser existence than other children. [More…]
The parents of children attending older schools, and the children themselves, have far greater problems than do those children who are fortunate enough to go to a newly completed school. [More…]
Modern design has its advantages, even though I understand studies have shown that many children in the older schools are more aware of and thankful for their conditions than are some of the children in the newer areas. [More…]
This excellent publication referred, for example, to the following items: School meals; free milk; health services; national cultural activities - in this country they are subject to another department; scientific research and development - again financed separately through the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and other such bodies; sport; leisure activities; civil education; youth activities; child welfare; public libraries: in-service industrial training; basic nursing training; armed Services colleges; rehabilitation and repatriation training; sponsored foreign students - for instance, the entire implications of the Colombo Plan - radio and television, and interest payments on loans used for school buildings. [More…]
It now costs more than $300 a year to educate a child in a government primary school and more than $500 a year - up to $600 a year - to educate a child in a government secondary school. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston said that capital expenditure on education per child in government schools in South Australia is in fact the highest in Australia. [More…]
We also believe that if there are disabilities for the child or the woman after the birth of the child the leave should be longer than is at present proposed. [More…]
So we propose extensions of leave beyond the bureaucratic rigidity of this clause when we propose that nothing contained in or done under this clause prevents the grant of leave of absence with pay on the production of a medical certificate relating to herself or to the child in support of an extension of leave to an officer in respect of the period in excess of the 26 weeks referred to in sub-clause (1.) [More…]
Where is the maturity that one would surely expect the teacher to possess when we treat him like a child and say: We will whip you, cane you, suspend you, fine you*? [More…]
Four months ago I asked the honourable gentleman whether he had studied the New Zealand system of capitalising a family’s child endowment as a grant towards the cost of a house and whether he had calculated the annual cost of making a similar provision in Australia. [More…]
I am a little surprised that the Leader of the Opposition should continue to ask questions concerning a child endowment scheme in view of his proposals for matters, such as child endowment, which are intimately concerned with the Australian population and Australian families. [More…]
I would ask him to look a little more closely at his own proposals and attitudes towards the Australian population, the people involved in its development and his proposals for immigration, Australian families, the numbers of children born in Australia and the rights of Australian children, old, young and even unborn. [More…]
We want to avoid the, problems that have arisen in Britain and the United States in recent times because of strikes which are very damaging not only to the general economy but also to every man, woman and child in the country. [More…]
It is a war of a thousand My Lais for which no-one is responsible for there is no Lieutenant Calley pointing his rifle at a woman or a child. [More…]
This household sample survey, conducted quarterly by the Bureau of Census and Statistics, supplies regular information about the labour force and from time to time includes supplementary surveys on topics such as child care; education; chronic illnesses; injuries and impairments; journey to work; multiple jobholding; and superannuation. [More…]
Nothing contained in, or done under, this section prevents the grant of leave of absence with pay, on the production of a medical certificate, relating to herself or the child, in support of an extension of leave, to an officer in respect of a period in excess of the 26 weeks referred to in sub-section (1.) [More…]
Our next proposal is: (S.) Nothing contained in, or done under, this section prevents the grant of leave of absence with pay, on the production of a medical certificate, relating to herself or the child, in support of an extension of leave, to an officer in, respect of a period in excess of the 26 weeks referred to in sub-section (1) of this section. [More…]
When I was trained as a teacher one principle stressed was that the teachers relationship with a child in a class must be absolutely antiseptic. [More…]
The teacher was not entitled to put a hand on a child, not entitled to put a hand on a child’s head, not entitled physically with the hand to hit a child. [More…]
It might not be a bad thing if teachers made an undertaking along the lines that I have mentioned concerning respect for the child, for the dignity of the child, and undertaking to devote themselves to the well being of the child. [More…]
At the time the Australian Honey Board was created Tasmania was a problem child in this industry. [More…]
The amounts shown comprise direct recurrent expenditure on primary and secondary schools, transportation of school children, and, administration. [More…]
They do not include Commonwealth direct recurrent funds provided under the Child Migrant Education Programme which commenced in April 1970; funds provided for government schools to 30 June 1970 totalled $109,000. [More…]
Studies on aspects of child health are being under taken in various areas of Australia, some on a longitudinal basis. [More…]
When this is put on a flat basis one could say that on Government reasoning the child attending the non-Catholic private school needs twice as much as a child attending a government school. [More…]
What happens to their children? [More…]
Down here in Canberra practically every mother can send her child to a pre-school kindergarten; out in these areas they are virtually non-existent. [More…]
The Labor Government also acted to increase the supervision allowance, to which I referred earlier, which is paid to parents who are required to employ a person to supervise their children’s lessons. [More…]
Labor quickly increased it to $300 to parents with one child and $400 to parents with more than one child. [More…]
What number and percentage of the widows accepted for training (a) had (i) no children, (ii) one child, (iii) 2, (iv) 3, (v) 4 and (vi) 5 or more children and (b) were receiving supplementary assistance. [More…]
The child migrant programme, under which over 20,000 children have been given special assistance with English, and the Aboriginal study grant programme are 2 specific examples of measures designed to assist under-privileged groups in the “community. [More…]
A Class ‘A’ widow with one child and with no property affecting will now be able to receive income of up to $67.50 before losing her pension entitlement, or up to $71.50 if her child is under 6 years of age or is an invalid. [More…]
If she has no income, a Class A widow with one child may own property to the value of $30,340 or $32,420 if her child is under 6 or an invalid, before her pension entitlement is extinguished. [More…]
Let us take child endowment. [More…]
Of every $100 we had available in total wealth in this community in 1961-62 we set aside 90c for the young children in the community. [More…]
Yet in that period the average number of endowed children. [More…]
According to the latest report of the Repatriation Commission, these pensions are paid to wives of incapacitated exservicemen and to children under the age of 16 years. [More…]
The weekly rates for the wife and each child of any ex-serviceman receiving a pension at the 100 per cent general rate are $4.05 and $1.38 a week respectively. [More…]
Neglect of pensions for children is even more reprehensible; the last increase of 23c a week was made almost 20 years ago, in October 1952. [More…]
In October 1952 the pension for children of ex-servicemen was lifted from $1.15 a week to the princely level of $1.38 a week. [More…]
consequently, that a man on this income supporting a wife and 6 children has a total income, including child endowment, of $16.35 a week below the updated poverty line when one applies the basic formula used in the 1966 poverty survey of Melbourne University? [More…]
Is it a fact that the unemployment benefit plus child endowment for this man would provide him with nearly $4 a week more than he would earn under the Government sponsored relief programme as an unskilled worker - [More…]
Tran Huu, a 54-year-old North Vietnamese, holds a small child as he sits with other wounded. [More…]
There may be important issues such as education, hospitals and social services, but the most basic important issue which every man, woman and child who has any concern for Australia has to consider is where do we go in the future? [More…]
Since its Inception in April 1970, the Child Migrant Education Programme has included provision for short training courses in the method of teaching English as a second language for special teachers for whose salaries my Department is responsible. [More…]
The Commonwealth requires that special teachers whose salaries are reimbursed by my Department under the child migrant education programme should be employed exclusively in the teaching of English to migrant children and be additional to the normal staff of schools. [More…]
Generally teachers who have undertaken a special training course arranged under this programme continue to be engaged solely In teaching migrant children in special classes, though some wastage must be expected particularly among those who are temporarily employed or engaged on a part-time basis only. [More…]
I am aware of only one instance in one State where such a teacher was appointed to teach other subjects, and I have been informed that the teacher concerned has now been transferred to the teaching of migrant children in special classes. [More…]
This has resulted in the formation of the Isolated Childrens Parents Association, members of which have made great sacrifices and have travelled hundreds of miles to try to prepare a case for State and Federal governments to examine with the object of obtaining assistance. [More…]
J hope that this matter also will be given serious consideration by the Government and that the Government will help to provide these people with the assistance which will enable them to have what should be the birthright of every Australian child, namely, a reasonable education. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party went out of office in 1949 the child endowment bill in Australia was li per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
In 1971, 22 years later, when a higher proportion of the population was under the age of 16 years than was the case in 1949 and remembering that endowment was now paid for student children over the age of 16 years, the child endowment bill represented only 0.6 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
If, in 1949, this affluent nation could afford to provide 1.5 per cent of its total resources for child endowment payments, why is it now providing only 0.6 per cent for child endowment payments? [More…]
married man who has to support a wife, who is not working, and 2 children. [More…]
Probably the reason his wife is not working is that she thinks it is proper to stay at home and look after the young children. [More…]
By reason of the Government’s failure to look at the tax structure over the years, the same family is getting now, in real terms, only 40 per cent of the child endowment which it received in 1949. [More…]
I do not think anybody can say that the Government willed the fact that child endowment, should be a memorial to the past rather than a payment to the living citizens, which is surely what it is supposed to be. [More…]
We are simply letting the value of child endowment run down. [More…]
The areas of research are many and varied, but no research is needed to know that the pre-school stage is a time when the child has a great potential for learning. [More…]
The population of South Australia, including every man, woman and child, is just over one million. [More…]
Does this mean that in the view of his Department it is no concern of the Commonwealth to help children in the States to secure a pre-school education as every child in tha Australian Capital Territory and most children in the Northern Territory already enjoy? [More…]
Jennifer is a deserted wife whose husband left her when the youngest of their four children proved to be mentally retarded, lt was six months before she received the deserted wife’s pension. [More…]
Andrew was interviewed by the Child Welfare Department because of truancy. [More…]
She has not been able to do this and the child has been moved from one institution to another. [More…]
We have universal child endowment, age pensions subject to a means test and health benefits disbursed through voluntary insurance funds on a flat rate contributory basis. [More…]
Endowment for the first child has not been increased for 22 years, and endowment for the second child for 24 years. [More…]
Families with 3 children in 1949 received in child endowment 11.5 per cent of the average man’s weekly earnings and now receive 4 per cent. [More…]
In 1948 the Australian Commonwealth basic wage was $11.60 and a family with 5 children received in child endowment $4.00. [More…]
Child endowment constituted 1.28 per cent of Australia’s gross national product in 1950-51 and in 1970-71 it represented only 0.6 per cent. [More…]
I think, for example, of the position of the widow with children. [More…]
Today the widow with children not only has a higher basic pension but in addition she receives child allowances which were only nominal under the Labor Government or virtually did not exist. [More…]
I think the allowance is $6 a week for one child under 6, S4 otherwise, and $4.50 for every other child. [More…]
I think it was something like $1.50 for the first child and nothing for any other children. [More…]
For instance, take the case of a pensioner with a child. [More…]
Today assistance is given for all children of pensioners. [More…]
The Government has recognised the special needs of widows and divorced persons and has introduced a guardian’s allowance where they have children. [More…]
In many cases widows or pensioners are responsible for children, and this has helped immeasurably. [More…]
Not only are wool prices ruling at that level at the moment but the Australian Wool Commission, the child of the Liberal-Country Party coalition Government, has been largely responsible for achieving that. [More…]
Qualifications for registration as a midwife, as a child welfare nurse or as a mental nurse are similar to those referred to above, but with the appropriate term used in place of ‘general nursing’. [More…]
These grants should be expressed in per capita terms and be set at a nominated percentage of the assessed cost of educating a child in government schools. [More…]
After careful consideration of the level of support which would be appropriate in all the circumstancses, the government has decided to recommend to each State that it join with the Commonwealth in sharing equally the cost of making per capita grants to independent schools at a rate equivalent to 40 per cent of the assessed Australia-wide cost of educating a child in the government primary and secondary schools. [More…]
Putting it another way, the present rates of Commonwealth and State assistance are equivalent to about 29 per cent of the cost of educating a child in a government primary school and 23 per cent for a government secondary school compared with the 40 per cent for both primary and secondary schools the Government now proposes. [More…]
child labour laws were introduced in Great Britain and children were brought out of the mines and factories. [More…]
Child endowment This is paid to families who enter for permanent residence from the beginning of the first 4-weekly period after arrival in Australia. [More…]
Without committing himself to any attitude, will he undertake to have the question of Commonwealth responsibility for the welfare of a single mother and her child included on the agenda for the forthcoming meeting of State and Commonwealth Ministers for Social Services and Welfare. [More…]
Under arrangements with the States, provision is made for assistance up to the rate of widow’s pension to be given to a single mother caring for her child. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the plight of a Romanian migrant couple, Mr and Mrs Placintar, who claim that their child has been refused permission to leave Romania. [More…]
If the claim is confirmed, will he ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to use our new Ambassador to Romania to make urgent representations to release the child. [More…]
An application for the admission of Gioni Placintar was lodged by the child’s father with my Department on 7th May 1971. [More…]
It is understood that some time elapsed between the date on which the child was approved for entry and the date on which he was given an exit permit and passport by the Romanian authorities. [More…]
The child arrived in Australia on 8th May 1972. [More…]
The policy of education authorities to locate schools in large country centres and in various parts of metropolitan areas requires many children to travel great distances, sometimes hundreds of miles, to receive their schooling. [More…]
1 believe that these children should have the same opportunity of travelling to school for their education as other children have. [More…]
I do not believe that a child who lives within an area of a high school, or adjacent to or within travelling distance to that establishment, should have any advantage over a child who lives hundreds of miles away from a high school. [More…]
I believe the Government should pick up this problem and do something about it and in this way help the children concerned to receive the same type of education as is enjoyed by their brothers and sisters in other areas of Australia. [More…]
We have sought to establish a situation in which they can plan ahead for the future, giving them a programme which, if the States joined with us - and Queensland already has - will give independent schools 40 per cent of what it costs to educate a child in an equivalent government primary or secondary school. [More…]
Of course, the whole contention of the Opposition in this matter is that governments have an obligation for children in government schools but no obligation for children outside government schools. [More…]
single and (c) all women accepted for training in the- Commonwealth had (i) no dependent children, (ii) one child, (iii) two, (iv) three, (v) four and (vi) five or more dependent children at the time of being accepted. [More…]
What has been the living-away-from-home allowance for tertiary education for (a) a single person, and (b) a married man with a wife and one child, under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme, in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
Since June 1969 Aborigines in New South Wales have been the responsibility of the Directorate of Aboriginal Welfare in the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare and separate records are not maintained. [More…]
Was this offer withdrawn after representations through the Country Party State Member for the area and the appointment offered to a housewife who had earlier declined the appointment and who has a pre-school child and a husband in full-time employment elsewhere and whose only qualification was that she has relieved the former exchange keeper. [More…]
What does the Minister intend to do about the situation in most state high schools in Victoria, such as Kew High School, where, I have been informed in a note brought home by my 12-year-old daughter who attends that school, the Form I children may have to make do with a 4-day school week, just as many of the senior forms already have had to do? [More…]
I ask this question as an outraged parent of a state school child, and I resent the suggestions the Minister has made in the past, that if I were more concerned, I would be prepared to pay more. [More…]
This Government has done nothing to lift the standard of the welfare structure, including child endowment. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labour and National Service aware of the impending study by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners to find what mental harm may be caused to young children deposited in child minding centres and thereby repeatedly deprived of their mothers’ company? [More…]
Has the suspicion that the deprivation of maternal association for 3 to 5-year old children may give rise to later personality defects been a factor in the Government’s recent inclination not to increase expenditure in this quarter? [More…]
It has been assumed that the 2 dependants maintained by the taxpayer are a wife and a child for whom the taxpayer would be entitled to a deduction from assessable income of $520 for a full year. [More…]
I also attended a Conference of Child and Social Welfare Ministers held in Tasmania in March 1971 for which the particulars sought were given in my answer to Question No. [More…]
and (3) Statistics of deductions allowed for education expenses are not classified by type of school or other educational institutions attended by the child or dependent in respect of whom the expenses were incurred. [More…]
He was the first distinguished person who brought to my notice as a school child the fact that it was immoral, and in Canberra illegal, to chop down trees. [More…]
John, a part Aborigine, is one of a big family that he helps to support and also has a wife and 9-weeks old baby living with his mother and family, but owing to John’s being in Munich his wife, child, mother and younger members of the family are now in straitened circumstances. [More…]
Similarly, deductions available for maintenance of a student, an invalid relative and for one child under 16 years of age will each move up from $208 to $260. [More…]
For other children under 16 the deduction will be increased from $156 to $208. [More…]
It has been sending Out with child endowment cheques posted through the mail a small notice informing the mothers receiving the cheques that they may be eligible for the subsidised health benefits plan, as it is now called. [More…]
It has taken 3 months since I was notified of the plan to advertise it through these notices and to send out these notices with the child endowment cheques. [More…]
Approximately 1,060 adults and 1,570 children live in Army married quarters in Puckapunyal while approximately 540 adult and 530 child members of Army families live in married quarters in the environs of the town of Seymour. [More…]
The Commonwealth will provide to independent schools per capita grants for recurrent expenses equal to 20 per cent of the assessed Australia wide cost of educating a child in government primary and secondary schools; it has invited each State to match this assistance from the resources available to it. [More…]
Similarly, residence in Canada is not a pre-requisite for the allowance of a deduction in respect of a child, grandchild, brother, sister, or parent or grandparent dependent on the taxpayer by reason of mental oi physical infirmity. [More…]
What is the ratio between the number of pre-school or child minding centres in Canberra and the population of Canberra. [More…]
How many (a) Government operated and (b) privately operated child-minding and preschool centres are there in Canberra. [More…]
The ratio of pre-schools and child minding centres in Canberra to the population of Canberra is1 to 2,381. [More…]
Number of licensed child-minding centres in Canberra as at May 1972 - 9 [More…]
Total of pre-schools and child-minding centres in Canberra as at May 1972-63 [More…]
The Department of the Interior has provided the information relating to child minding centres in Canberra. [More…]
Using projected population estimates, the Department endeavours to provide a pre-school place for all four-year-old children in the year prior to attending infants school, and whose parents wish them to have pre-school experience. [More…]
It is not always possible to provide a place for each child in his/her neighbourhood, particularly in developing areas of Canberra, but places are normally available providing parents are prepared to transport their children to established preschools. [More…]
Any vacancies remaining after fouryearolds are accommodated are then made available to three-year-old children. [More…]
The Government is not involved in the provision of child minding centres in the A.C.T. [More…]
other than requiring them, under the conditions of the Child Welfare Ordinance, to be licensed with the Department of the Interior. [More…]
I did see statements by a Professor Goldman from, I think, the La Trobe University to the effect that he had removed a child from University High, which is one of the best schools in Victoria, and had placed her in a private school because he believed that government schools were inadequate in quality. [More…]
I would only like to suggest that if this is an accurate report, if this is what Professor Goldman has done, he will probably nave run the risk of placing his child in a school of academic quality inferior to that of the one from which he has removed the child, because University High is a school of high reputation and high standard; that, I think, would be undeniable. [More…]
I would like to add that if Professor Goldman is critical of the Australian system and if, for example, he were using the government system in Britain or Sweden, he would find that if his child were 16 years of age she would have a much greater chance of still being at school in Australia than in Sweden or the United Kingdom. [More…]
If his child were a student in the United Kingdom she would have precisely half the opportunity of getting into a university or tertiary institution that she would have in Australia. [More…]
This man who held the nation in chaos day in, day out - the man who said: ‘When I am ready we can send the men back’ and forgot completely the inconvenience that was being caused every man, woman and child in the nation - went to the nation on Television. [More…]
Women that under the National Health Act a qualified hospital benefit is not deemed to include a newly born child for the first 10 days. [More…]
For the purposes of the above definition a newly born child’ is taken to be 10 days or less old. [More…]
In these circumstances Commonwealth benefit wouldnot be payable in respect of your child . [More…]
Honourable members will already be familiar with the details of this, from the statements made by the right honourable the Prime Minister in December last year and May this year, and will know that the aim of the Government is to give independent schools an assurance that they will receive assistance on a basis that is continuing and that bears a relation to the cost of educating a child in a government school. [More…]
Grants of this kind are given to the Australian Association for Adult Education, the Current Affairs Bulletin, the Australian Pre-School Association, the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Lady Gowrie Child Centres. [More…]
In the calculation of the family income a deduction of $450 for each dependent child other than the scholar will be allowed. [More…]
This deduction will now also be allowed for dependent student children up to age 25. [More…]
As a further measure of support for married students, the allowances for dependent wives and children will be raised from $7 to $8 a week and from $2.50 to $4.50 a week respectively. [More…]
In addition more liberal dependants’ allowances will be paid to married postgraduate students with children. [More…]
The new rates will be $650 a year for a dependent wife and child and a further $234 a- year for the second and each subsequent child. [More…]
In this whole system there is no conception of assisting the child facing disaster because the breadwinner of the family is dead, or ill, or has deserted the family, or is an alcoholic or the family is large or disadvantaged for any reason. [More…]
But let us examine the intention declared by Sir Robert Menzies that the scheme would enable children ‘to stay at school for a longer period than they might otherwise have done’. [More…]
My comment on the field of education which we have just been discussing is that the whole of the scholarship system, which is a powerful determinant of economic assistance - unfortunately to those who need it least - is geared to the intellectual and verbal skills, and a child who does not possess verbal skills will appear to be unintelligent when intrinsically he is not unin telligent. [More…]
It pointed out that pre-school education in the Australian Capital Territory is available to all children 3 years of age and over and the aim is to give each child at least 1 year pre-school experience. [More…]
When a child becomes eligible for enrolment, his name is placed on a waiting list unless there is a vacancy at the centre. [More…]
In all cases children are enrolled in waiting list order with preference being given to 4 year olds. [More…]
The Federation mentioned a pre-school mobile travelling unit and pre-school education for physically handicapped children in the [More…]
Between them 200,000 working women have 271,000 preschool children in Australia and only 19,000 of these 271,000 children are in pre-schools. [More…]
In New South Wales where government interest in pre-school education is all but non-existent, the cost to parents of pre-schooling is between $12 and $16 per week per child, rising to $30 per week in well-to-do suburbs. [More…]
The absence from the wonderfully stimulating environment of pre-school education of so many children is a tragedy. [More…]
Disadvantaged children, especially linguistically .disadvantaged children, face an accumulating disadvantage. [More…]
Abroad they have carried out schemes whereby they have used preschool education successfully to eliminate this disadvantage from the child, [More…]
The language difficulties of disadvantaged children were seen to consist not of deficiencies in vocabulary and grammar as such, but of failure to master certain use of language. [More…]
The disadvantaged child masters a language which is adequate for maintaining social relationships and for meeting his social and material needs, but he does not learn to use language for obtaining and transmitting information, for monitoring his own behaviour and for carrying on verbal reasoning. [More…]
In certain other fields of education, for instance, the Labor Party wishes to see adopted in both government and non government schools in this country a system which exists in the Inner London Education Authority whereby special assistance can be given to poor children. [More…]
We speak very often about assisting poorer schools but there is a problem of poorer children. [More…]
Therefore, on this reasoning, there are good grounds for assisting any poor child, not merely Aboriginal poor children. [More…]
I believe that the children, of widows, the children of deserted wives, all those children whose parents have to receive assistance from Departments of Child Weir fare, should receive direct assistance from the Commonwealth for books, fees if they attend private schools, uniforms - all their educational needs. [More…]
A survey conducted on pre-school attendance in Melbourne by Dr Marion de Lemos, of the Australian Council of Educational Research, showed that the higher the socio-economic status of the suburb, the more likely a child is to attend a preschool. [More…]
The survey showed that the children of fathers in professional, higher administrative and managerial positions were far more likely to go to pre-schools than the children of unskilled workers. [More…]
“The pre-school,’ says Dr De Lemos, ‘clearly does not provide a service for the children of working mothers. [More…]
The results confirm claims that pre-school facilities are not equitably distributed, and serve mainly to confer advantages on already advantaged middle class children rather than to equalise educational opportunities for children from less privileged backgrounds. [More…]
Kindergartens, if widely available and backed by adequate medical and psychological services, can provide opportunities for the early identification and treatment of handicaps of all types at a period in the child’s life when corrective measures are likely to be most effective. [More…]
Apart from the more serious handicaps such as severe speech defects which may require specialist treatment, the kindergarten teacher as a skilled observer of children is able to detect areas in which individual children may need special help. [More…]
She may provide opportunities within the kindergarten and co-operate with parents in an attempt to provide suitable conditions for each child to achieve a level of functioning regarded as normal for his age in social, emotional and cognitive spheres. [More…]
Contact with the kindergarten and active participation in its work will help many parents to modify their child-rearing practices in ways that will benefit their children. [More…]
Not every mother in Australia wants her child to go off to pre-school, yet clearly there are other mothers, and some fathers, who have no choice, for economic reasons, than to go to employment and leave young children in the care of others or alone. [More…]
What of the latch-key children who can be found in their thousands in the great cities who are virtually locked away in the sanctuary of the television room by devoted but necessarily employed parents? [More…]
We do not relish the realisation of the fact that there are such parents who have to find this kind of secure sanctuary for their children. [More…]
How does inadequacy of care, love, guidance, training and sense of security affect a growing child? [More…]
What will be the consequences to the child and the community in the future? [More…]
He indicated that there are in the work force 200,000 mothers with 250,000 children of pre-school age. [More…]
Only 7 per cent of that quarter of a million children were accommodated in competent kindergarten or child care centres. [More…]
The work of Fitzgerald and Crosher entitled Pre-School Education of Australia’, published by the Australian Council for Education Research, claims that in a recent survey there were 63,000 women not of the work force with one or more children under 6 years of age who stated that they would go into the work force if suitable child care facilities were available. [More…]
Not every woman wishes to go into the work force and to leave her children behind. [More…]
That is, the establishment of child care centres for children of pre-school age. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) implied that the only people who are unaware of the apparent value of education for children under the age of 5 years are the people on this side of the House and that those clairvoyants opposite have long been in possession of the educational information which has recently come to hand. [More…]
It is only in very recent times that it has been shown, to any noticeable effect, that the capacity of the child of under 5 years, or even of 3 years, is greater than it was previously thought to be. [More…]
I feel that there was a certain degree of confusion - again on the part of the honourable member for Hughes - about child minding centres and pre-schools. [More…]
Undertakings made in respect of child minding centres as an adjunct to or even as a consequence of or a response to an increasing proportion of females in the work force are not the same as the establishment of or the responsibility to establish pre-school education on the part of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The response to that is to have somebody other than the mothers to look after the children at these low ages. [More…]
What I am saying is that despite the great works that we may find in pre-schools, a great deal of what is offered, socially and educationally, could well be found in a good home environment between mother and child. [More…]
Nevertheless we should recognise the possibilities - or even the fact - that some people higher up the educational scale prefer to teach their children and have them close to them as much as possible at that early age rather than send them to pre-school. [More…]
That may be right or it may be wrong but they are certainly exercising a parental preference which is available to parents under this system in contrast to the system in the Soviet Union where a great proportion of females work and State child-minding centres in which there are children in great numbers, are found in profusion. [More…]
Assistance presently available under the Child Care Act will be integrated into this new program. [More…]
A child receiving 3years of secon dary education has expended on him about $525 a year, or $1,575 over the 3 years of his secondary education. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party recognises the importance of the first 5 years of a child’s life on the road to intellectual and cultural development. [More…]
It is over 200 years since Johann Oberlin in Germany launched into pre-school education and nursery centres for the children of his village and surrounding districts. [More…]
It is interesting that it is in this area that the first ideas of the free flow of the child’s thought and activity inside the school takes place, but that increasingly, as he passes through the education system, he becomes more restricted and inhibited. [More…]
There has not been the acceptance of the fact that pre-school training could play the important part in the total education of a child which is now quite clearly demonstrated that it does. [More…]
We realise and accept the fact that quite young children can absorb information quite effectively. [More…]
It is particularly important that teachers receive specialist training in this field if the full advantage of this type of education is to be provided for our children attending pre-schools. [More…]
I commend the Minister and the Government on the great progress that is being made, but I hope that very close consultation between the State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science will be maintained to ensure that the combined efforts of the Commonwealth Government and the State governments will be directed most effec tively towards achieving the common goal of providing the best possible standard of education for every Australian child. [More…]
First of all, there is a greater community awareness and appreciation of the educability of children in these early, tender years. [More…]
It is not just a case of the intellectual development of the 2-year old, the 3-year old, the 4-year old or the 5-year old; equally important - some would rate it as even more important - is the emotional and social development of young children at this tender age. [More…]
I suppose this applies particularly to those children in a one-child family - the only child or the first child. [More…]
But psychologists tell us that it is very important that even subsequent children should have this social and emotional development. [More…]
We in this country have been rather backward in acknowledging the educability of children in these early years. [More…]
It is not so many years ago, most of us will probably remember, that we used to sneer at what was done in countries such as Russia and certain European countries which put young children into pre-schools. [More…]
This was supposed to be State indoctrination in the early, tender years of a child’s life. [More…]
We have come to recognise that this attitude is idiotic and that in fact there is much to gain by young children having educational opportunities from about the age of 3 onwards. [More…]
A recent survey of applications for child care conducted by the Sydney Day Nursery Schools Association showed that 40 per cent of all applications were from oneparent families - usually a divorced mother, a widowed mother or a deserted wife - in which the mother had to work to support herself and the children, and that 47 per cent of 2-parent applications were from families in economic difficulties because of high rents, hire purchase debts or debts arising from illness or accident necessitating hospital and/or medical care. [More…]
A survey conducted in 1970 - of course, the figures have escalated since then - showed that the number of children in our Australian community between the ages of 3 and 5 was 699,000, of whom 203,000 were enrolled in schools, usually at the age of 5 years, and 74,000 were enrolled in pre-schools. [More…]
The very important point I want to highlight is that, in round figures, 200,000 children of working mothers were unable to get into schools or pre-schools. [More…]
Many other mothers of young children said that if they could get a place for their child in a preschool or child care centre they would like to go into employment. [More…]
In New South Wales only 3 per cent of pre-school age children are in affiliated pre-schools. [More…]
If all kinds of child care centres, many of which are unregistered, are taken into consideration, only 6 per cent of pre-school age children in New South Wales have the opportunity to go to a kindergarten or some other kind of pre-school facility. [More…]
By contrast, 95 per cent of children of that age in the Australian Capital Territory have that opportunity. [More…]
What the Australian Labor Party is urging in its amendment is that all children in Australia should have the same privilege, if I may put it that way, as that enjoyed by the parents and their children who reside in the Australian Capital Territory, In New South Wales the Government pays only $935 a year towards a kindergarten teacher’s salary, but in the Australian Capital Territory and in some other States the full cost is borne by the government. [More…]
Sometimes it costs up to $12 or $14 a week for a parent to place a child in a pre-school kindergarten. [More…]
I have talked about the necessity for providing pre-school kindergarten facilities, but there are a good many people who urge that we ought to consider making some grant or payment to mothers of very young children,, particularly those below the age of 3 years, not to enable mothers to send their children to some child care centre but to enable them to stay at home and mind their children. [More…]
It is very important that the young child should be cared for by his mother from birth to about 3. years of age. [More…]
I think a darn good case can be made out for making this possible by allowing the mother to stay at home with the child. [More…]
As I said before, I think these early mothering moments, if I may put it that way, when emotional ties are established and when the early development of the child in its social setting in relation to the family is taking place, are very important indeed. [More…]
We must think of the young children born into families of great economic and social deprivation. [More…]
For the last 15 months this Government has had before it the report of a Senate inquiry into the welfare of mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
It is a standing disgrace that 15 months after that report was tabled nothing has been done about these children. [More…]
If it is necessary for the ordinary, normal child to have pre-school education opportunities I say categorically that it is even more urgent and demanding that intellectually and physically handicapped children should have that opportunity, not only for the sake of the children but also for the mental health of their unfortunate parents. [More…]
Hungary, for instance, for the first 3 years of a baby’s life a mother is paid to stay at home if she wishes to look after her child. [More…]
In Austria a mother is paid to look after her child for the first year after its birth. [More…]
This is a comprehensive, early childhood education programme for disadvantaged pre-school children and their families. [More…]
It is a comprehensive programme to look after children and their families in deprived areas. [More…]
The average assistance as at October 1970 was $1,050 per child in a full year. [More…]
When we start providing that kind of help for disadvantaged pre-school aged children in Australia we will have a social revolution. [More…]
America provides $1,050 per child in each full year. [More…]
Since 1964 in the United States, more than 3.5 million preschool children have had the opportunity of education simply because of that ‘head start’ programme. [More…]
Victoria can also be congratulated on the commendable percentage of children attending pre-schools in that State compared with every other State in Australia with the exception el Tasmania. [More…]
In February of this year Victoria also instituted an inquiry into preschool child development. [More…]
These existing levels cater for something slightly in excess of one-sixth of the children who should be attending pre-school centres. [More…]
The council is subsidising kindergartens to the extent of $1 to $1.50 per head, and the children’s parents are paying fees ranging from $12.50 to $14 a quarter for their children to attend kindergarten. [More…]
I have had personal experience of it costing parents more to send a child to kindergarten than it did to send a child to the first year at State school. [More…]
We should have been told that Australia can and must eliminate poverty in the midst of plenty, can and must give every Australian child an equal start in life by providing proper pre-schooling and raising the standards in the State and parish schools to some sort of equality with the wealthiest schools and by training the teachers we need. [More…]
Take pre-schools - in this Budget there is a paltry effort to redeem in 1972 the promise made by the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), for kindergartencumchildminding centres. [More…]
Because of its refusal a whole generation of Australian children is growing up without the enormous benefits that pre-school education brings. [More…]
Yet only in Canberra, where the Commonwealth cannot escape its responsibility, can every child enjoy at least 1 year’s pre-school training at properly equipped, properly staffed centres. [More…]
This was the time to start the expanded programme of pre-school teacher training required to give every Australian child proper pre-schooling - the time to open a new world to a whole generation of Australian children. [More…]
Australia possesses only 28 per cent of the number of qualified pre-school teachers required to give every child in every State the same start as every child in Canberra has long enjoyed. [More…]
This was the time to put purchasing power in the hands of Australian families by restoring the value of child endowment or introducing family endowment. [More…]
Whether a family includes one young child or 4 young children, it is still a one-income family. [More…]
We have as a prime objective the; eradication of poverty, and in heading in that direction we have record spending increases in housing, health, pensions, child care, and repatriation. [More…]
On current rates of unemployment benefit, a single adult person receives only $17 a week, a married couple receives $25 a week, and $4.50 is added for each dependent child. [More…]
Accordingly, assuming the payment of rent in each case, an unemployed man, his wife and 2 children are together expected to live on $4.50 a week less than a married pensioner couple alone. [More…]
A man, his wife and 3 children are together expected to live on exactly the same amount. [More…]
Let us examine the question of child endowment. [More…]
There are 4 million children in Australia today who will be receiving child endowment. [More…]
The average endowed family represents 2.18 children. [More…]
Endowment for the first child was introduced at 50c in 1950. [More…]
Endowment for the second child was introduced in 1948 at $1 and those figures have not been changed since that time. [More…]
My point - let any Government supporter contradict me if he can - is that only one child in 11 has benefited by the marginal, minimal paltry increases that have been given over the last 20 years. [More…]
In 1949, the average amount of child endowment paid to a family was $90; today it is $104. [More…]
This is a time when the Government is denying elementary justice to pensioners and to children in the form of child endowment, when it is denying responsibility for the system of education other than paltry, arbitrary subsidies given to the wealthy private schools and a time when it is denying proper responsibility for hospitalisation. [More…]
But who has had to look after the children while she has been working? [More…]
They are being looked after by one of the child minding centres in Canberra - the Christopher Robin Centre. [More…]
There is no harm in naming it That centre looked after her children for $25 a week. [More…]
That amount out of this young couple’s income went on child minding expenses. [More…]
But they should also have cheap housing and proper public transport so that they could live and at the very least have those child minding expenses which are incurred so that she can go to work allowed as a taxation deduction. [More…]
This year the Government will spend $53m in direct aid to 144,000 Aborigines, which amounts to about $370 a head, .man, woman and child. [More…]
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…]
In the Northern Territory, 75 per cent of Aboriginal children of preschool age are in such schools. [More…]
Over 90 per cent of Aboriginal children of primary school age are so enrolled. [More…]
A $1 a week increase in the rates of child endowment would have been of much more value to the families of Australia than the increase of $52 a year in the allowable deduction for each dependant of the taxpayer. [More…]
The essential point is: What is the true policy of the Australian Labor Party and how will it affect every man, woman and child in this country in the future? [More…]
I am pleased to note that the Minister has seen the need to give special attention to married women wishing to re-enter the work force after having passed their most fertile child bearing period so that they can come back into a work force which has changed very much from what it was 10 years earlier when they left to commence their child bearing activities. [More…]
There are major improvements also in relation to health, housing, child care, social services and repatriation. [More…]
The child allowance for a civilian widow is $4.50 and for a war widow it is $7.35. [More…]
This means that the civilian widow receives, including the allowance for one child, a total of $28.50 and the war widow receives a total of $35.85. [More…]
It costs as much to feed, clothe and educate the children of civilian widows as it does in the case of the children of war widows. [More…]
Unemployment benefits remain at $17 for a male plus $8 if he has a wife and $4.50 if he has a child. [More…]
A married man with 2 children would receive $13 below the recognised poverty line under this arrangement. [More…]
Maternity allowances have remained unaltered for 29 years although costs associated with the birth of a child have risen 500 per cent. [More…]
Child endowment for the first child has remained unaltered for 22 years and for the second child for 24 years. [More…]
Families with 3 children in 1949 secured in child endowment a sum equal to 11.5 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Today a family of the same size receives in child endowment a sum which is less than 4 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
In 1948 the basic wage was $11.60 and a family with 5 children received in child endowment $4 a week. [More…]
In 1949 a man with a wife and 2 children, On the minimum wage, paid $1.60 a year in income tax. [More…]
This financial year the Commonwealth will collect from each man, woman and child in Australia about $59 in sales tax, which is more than $1 each a week. [More…]
Sales tax more than swallows up the 50c child endowment for the first child and $1 for the second child. [More…]
I believe that the acceptance of the principle of child minding centres does the Government great credit. [More…]
The proposal is that working mothers will have places where their children can be properly cared for while they work. [More…]
The child minding centres proposal was part of a policy speech during the 1970 Senate election campaign. [More…]
I will have no time to say anything about the education or the repatriation proposals, the child care proposals or the housing proposals. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) this afternoon was quite elated that there was a provision in this Budget for child care centres. [More…]
How many children will that look after? [More…]
The fact is that mothers who go to work have been most anxious and demanding that they should be allowed the cost of accommodating their children in child care centres, $8, $10 or $12 a week - as a taxation deduction. [More…]
For example, a person with a wife and one child receiving $4,000 a year will have his tax reduced by $104.15. [More…]
The same is true of concessional deductions for a wife and child. [More…]
I refer to civilian widows with children. [More…]
Also, one should keep in mind that nearly half the women on the A class widow’s pensions - that is, civilian widows with children - are deserted wives. [More…]
Yet the Government has given an A class widow an increase in pension of only $1.75 a week without any increase for her children, let alone an increase in child endowment. [More…]
In other words, a woman could have 6 children but, under this Budget, the only increase she will receive will be $1.75 a week. [More…]
The Budget also does nothing to help the family by way of increases in child endowment. [More…]
As I have said before in this House, my electorate contains more young children than any other electorate in New South Wales, and probably, Australia. [More…]
Couples with young families are struggling to raise their families and I know that their main demand in social welfare is an increase in child endowment. [More…]
This is the only way in which mothers who wish to stay home to tend to their children can do so and not be forced to go out to work when they do not want to. [More…]
Why has this injustice - the refusal of the Government to update the value of child endowment - been perpetuated? [More…]
The Budget provides $5m for child care centres which mainly is to be allocated to centres catering for one parent families. [More…]
Most children in the Australian Capital Territory can obtain pre-school education, whilst those in the various States cannot, except in a few centres run by voluntary organisations which are operating at present. [More…]
As I said before, my electorate has more children in it than any other area of the State of New South Wales. [More…]
Pre-school education - a great necessity to fit a child psychologically for the adventure of primary school - is not available to the vast majority of children in my electorate. [More…]
In view of the background I have given I ask the Minister responsible to provide in the Mount Druitt Housing Commission area the first child care centre to be established by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I turn to child care. [More…]
In this Budget $5m is appropriated to provide accommodation and training for specialised staff to deal with the children of low income and special need families as well as the children of working parents who must leave their child ren, sometimes in the care of friends or relations or sometimes without care at all. [More…]
Very often these children get into real trouble. [More…]
My attention was directed to one gang of these children aged between 7 and 11 years who, roaming around on their own, robbed an old man who was lying on the grass of more than $100. [More…]
On another occasion, at the other end of my electorate, a similar gang of children used a shanghai to kill a prize cat in someone’s back yard. [More…]
On another occasion, another gang of children speared some fowls through a fence. [More…]
These children were roaming around with nothing to do and had no-one to take care of them. [More…]
This has been an increasing social problem and I look to this scheme to be of great assistance in the bringing up of these children. [More…]
It is the family man who suffers most from increases in the cost of living, and the larger his family the more he suffers - not only financially but also in a general way, because it is a great strain and worry to him if he is unable to provide his children with the start in life to which every child should be entitled. [More…]
He could be helped by way of increased child endowment, which is real money and which is not taxable. [More…]
Then there is assistance in regard to the education of his children. [More…]
The burden of providing an adequate education for their children is a greater burden to those taxpayers in the far flung and remote areas of the Commonwealth than for families resident in the city. [More…]
This is quite natural, because of transport and accommodation costs which are involved when the child is obliged to attend a school in the metropolitan area or in some city or town some distance from his real place of residence. [More…]
The Commonwealth should be making specific grants to the States for the specific purpose of assisting the parents in distant places who have children who are obliged to obtain an education away from home or if the parent decides to provide the education by way of a governess. [More…]
But it must be remembered that before a child can sit for a scholarship or attend a university he must have a solid basic teaching. [More…]
Here again we have the situation where children in distant and remote areas are at a considerable disadvantage and will continue in such a situation until the Commonwealth is prepared to allocate specific amounts of money to help them. [More…]
Two of the children have now left school but the woman still has one child at school. [More…]
She had to take a job to assist her to give her children a decent standard of living. [More…]
Legislation was enacted in 1950 to provide endowment of 50c for the first child. [More…]
The endowment of $1 for the second child has remained unaltered for 24 years. [More…]
Even a child in a kindergarten knows that he can assemble more blocks in half and hour than his playmate can assemble in 10 minutes. [More…]
The child care policy of this Budget is a very carefully thought out policy. [More…]
The child care policy of this Budget entails the proposition that the community will control the child care centres. [More…]
and supporting a wife and one child that tax cut represents a rise of 1.56 per cent in after tax income and to a man on $15,000 a year it represents a rise of 4.9 per cent. [More…]
One last matter before I wind off is the question of child endowment. [More…]
There has been no meaningful increase in child endowment since 1949. [More…]
In the latest report of the Director-General of Social Services we find that the average number of children in each family receiving child endowment is 2.18. [More…]
For the first child there is a payment of SOc; that has not changed since 19S0. [More…]
For the .second child there is a payment of $1; that has not been changed since 1950. [More…]
So in 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government there has been not le increase in the child endowment payments for the first and second children. [More…]
It says: ‘Oh, yes, but the Government has put in a payment of 50c for the third child’. [More…]
But the report of the Commonwealth’s Director-General of Social Services says that the number of children per family endowed is 2.18. and in only one out of 12 families is money coming from the Commonwealth for the third child. [More…]
There has been no increase in the endowment for the first and second children. [More…]
In fact, the value of child endowment has dropped dramatically in that period. [More…]
If genuine concern had been felt, immediate taxation relief by way of tax deduction for money expended on child minding in day care and family care centres would have been provided; These mothers’ efforts to maintain themselves and their families should be rewarded. [More…]
Many of these people are Working for a subsistence wage because of the charges which they must pay to child minding centres. [More…]
This restricts and retards the future of the children of both families. [More…]
With the lesser amount of money to be distributed between so many, what chance is there for the children of either family to go on to higher education and to enjoy future prosperity. [More…]
But we can legislate to protect our most valuable migrants - the children of Australian citizens. [More…]
A fixed child endowment without a means test was introduced in 1941 by a Labor government. [More…]
Paltry sums received in endownment are promptly absorbed by child minding fees or by necessities. [More…]
In the field of child care, $5m is to be spent on child minding centres. [More…]
In the brief time that I have left to me I refer to pensions and to the need for increased child endowment. [More…]
The Budget contains other very advantageous increments to the provisions for housing, health, education, child care and, not the least important, death duty which will benefit the interests of family people both in the primary industry sector and otherwise to a very remarkable extent. [More…]
The Budget will provide for taxation reductions, pension increases, social services, the lifting of the means test, housing, health, education, child welfare, estate duty, Aborigines, defence, shipping, airlines, gift duty, nursing homes, special grants and fares for the unemployed. [More…]
Child endowment remains unchanged after 24 years. [More…]
Municipal libraries should be financed by the Commonwealth as part of the general education programme, as should preschool centres and child minding centres. [More…]
In this debate various references have been made to the days of the Chifley and Curtin governments and to the child endowment paid before the Chifley Government was defeated. [More…]
In purchasing power the child endowment then paid would be worth much more than it is today. [More…]
In 1949 the Menzies Government promised child endowment for the first child. [More…]
That factor helped to defeat the Chifley Government but since that time Liberal and Country Party governments have not given the same consideration to people receiving child endowment. [More…]
He misses out not only on child endowment increases to assist him in maintaining his wife and family at a decent standard but also on taxation remissions. [More…]
They are actually subsidies to keep the fees of these schools within the reach of the average citizen if he is prepared to make the large financial sacrifice necessary to ha- a choice of the school which his child will attend. [More…]
If, due to rising teachers’ salaries and other costs, the fees of these schools were to increase to such an extent that only the children of those on high salaries could attend them, they would indeed become the province of the wealthy. [More…]
The gain on a taxable income of $2,000 would be 1.54 per cent for a single man, 1.56 per cent for a man with a wife and child and 3.57 per cent for a man with a wife and 3 children. [More…]
However, in respect of an income of $15,000 the percentage rise in income after tax would be 4.62 per cent for a single person, 4.90 per cent for a married man with one child and 5.30 per cent for a married man with 3 children. [More…]
The payment of 50c which was granted in 1950 for the first child has not been altered. [More…]
The $1 which was granted in 1948 for the second child remains the same today despite the staggering increase in the cost of living which has occurred since then. [More…]
At that time 5 shillings a week was granted to children under 14 years of age. [More…]
Today this Government has failed to take any action to increase the endowment given to the first child which still remains at 50c. [More…]
He spoke of the 5 shillings for each child other than the first under 16 years of age. [More…]
by leave - It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Commonwealth Department of Social Services with the full support and cooperation of the State departments concerned with social and child welfare has commissioned a family research project. [More…]
Social Services, Mr W. C. Langshaw, Under Secretary of the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare, who will also be representing equivalent departments from other States, and Mr A. S. Colliver, senior lecturer, School of Social Work in the University of New South Wales. [More…]
This Budget gives to every child throughout Australia basis, in collaboration with the States. [More…]
We are offering help for child care centres. [More…]
The hide of him to stand in this House this afternoon and talk about the workers of Australia and his concern for their security, and to talk about the young families in Australia when all this Government is prepared to do for young families in regard to such an item as child minding centres is to offer them as much as it is prepared to offer the farmers to pull out trees which a few years ago it encouraged them to plant. [More…]
Press reports suggest - leaks from Cabinet and ministerial discussions no less - that the Government is planning to announce the introduction of a scheme of capitalisation of child endowment for housing purposes similar to a scheme in operation in New Zealand since 1959. [More…]
This is a Budget for every man, every woman and every child in this nation. [More…]
In addition I draw the attention of the House to the provisions in the Budget relating to child care centres, to nursing home benefits, for more hostel accommodation for elderly citizens, for young couples building their first homes and for relief from estate duties which have been unchanged for years. [More…]
Earlier today the honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Luchetti) devoted a certain portion of his speech to family allowances and child endowment. [More…]
He traced the history of child endowment since it was introduced by a Labor government in New South Wales in 1927. [More…]
Children are needed and children should be given the happiness that the Prime Minister said that all Australians deserve. [More…]
I am simply asking this House as a democratically elected body how it justifies allowing a sum of $1,200 per annum whilst it allows deductions of $364 for a wife, $208 for the first child and $156 for other children? [More…]
2), which is the other Bill before the House, provides, as taxpayers will be interested to learn, for an increase in tfr* deduction allowable for a spouse from $312 to $364 a year, from $208 to $260 for the first child under 16 years and from $156 to $208 for other children under 16 years. [More…]
Up to about the $4,000 a year range everybody claims between $72 and $82 per child per year. [More…]
I suspect the reason for that is that as people get out of the $5,000 a year bracket they tend more and more to send their children to fee paying schools and they spend more and more money on education. [More…]
If we go back to our $60 per week man again, we find that he claims $79 per child per year, but the bloke on $10,000 to $12,000 a year claims $155 per child per year, which is almost twice as much. [More…]
Everybody now can deduct $260 for the first child, irrespective of income. [More…]
The person with one child and earning $60 a week - that is, $2,800 to $3,000 a year - will receive a tax saving of $52. [More…]
The man in the $10,000 to $12,000 a year range with one child will receive a tax saving of $125. [More…]
For instance, concessional deductions for children cost the revenue SI 70m a year. [More…]
At that marginal rate of tax concessional deductions represented a tax saving of $41.57 for the first child and $29.94 for subsequent children. [More…]
We could make a payment to large families where mothers have young children and are unable to work. [More…]
These mothers could be paid a small wage so that they could stay at home and look after their young children or, if they preferred, they could go out to work. [More…]
We might be able to provide selective benefits to the low income families so that their children could be sent to proper child minding centres, not just somewhere where the children are plonked in front of a television set all day. [More…]
They had a child during the period of the marriage and the child was 18 months old as at last May when he was abducted. [More…]
The father visited the child regularly and returned it early in the evenings. [More…]
On 31st May this year he collected the child as normal but, unbeknown to the mother, he took the child on a Qantas flight on Maltese passport No. [More…]
He was able to do this because the child was endorsed on his Maltese passport. [More…]
We have permitted a Maltese national to abduct an Australian child with impunity. [More…]
The child was not subject to any court order in Australia but, had it been, our court order would have been nullified in deference to the immigration laws of another country. [More…]
Because of this we have the situation where an Australian child, born to an Australian mother, was taken from Australia on a Maltese passport, without her consent, and she is left in Australia with her 18-month old child in Malta. [More…]
If they are not so loose as that, the Commonwealth has acted at least negligently in permitting the child to be taken from Australia. [More…]
Even in many cases where the mother has been a woman of ill fame the court still has given custody of the child to the mother. [More…]
But we find in this case, regardless of the mother’s character, the child has been taken from the country. [More…]
I ask the Minister to investigate this matter and take whatever steps are necessary to have Mrs Carbonaro flown to Malta at the Commonwealth’s expense and to provide her with legal assistance to enable her to secure a court order in that country for the custody of the child so that she may bring him back to Australia. [More…]
If the Australian immigration laws have no provision which will prevent a Maltese national registering a child on his passport without the permission of his wife or the child’s mother, that loophole should be closed. [More…]
Otherwise any Maltese who took a liking to an Australian child could falsify documents to prove that it was his own child, go to the Maltese High Commission and have the child’s name endorsed on his passport, and take him from Australia with impunity. [More…]
What was the estimated annual loss to Commonwealth revenue of the standard deduction from taxable income for a first child of $208 and subsequent children of $156 for the latest year for which figures are available. [More…]
Using these statistics, it has been estimated that the loss to Commonwealth revenue from deductions allowed for the maintenance of children under 16 years of age in assessments of taxable individuals for the 1970-71 income year was approximately $l70m. [More…]
This estimate takes account of the cost of all deductions for maintenance of child dependants under 16 years of age allowed to taxable individuals, not only the cost in respect of children for whom the maximum deductions of $208 and $156 were allowed. [More…]
Assuming that all taxpayers who were allowed concessional deductions of any amount in respect of dependent children under 16 years of age for the 1970-71 income year had been allowed a standard reduction in tax payable of $41.57 for each first child under 16 years of age and $29.94 for each other child under 16 years of age, the revenue loss would have been approximately $II5m [More…]
On that occasion the honourable member pointed out so rightly - I think I am quoting him correctly from memory - that a man on $55 a week with a wife and a child and sometimes 2 child’ ren or more- [More…]
Similarly the dependant’s allowance of $208, the most common being for the eldest child, has been increased by $52 to $260. [More…]
The dependant’s allowance for the second child and additional children equally has been increased by $52 from $156 to $208. [More…]
In fact, I am one who commends people such as the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) for drawing attention to the fact that the committee of inquiry, for instance, that has now been appointed to look into the whole taxation structure should have a close look at the greater equity that could and probably will toe brought about by converting dependant’s allowances into a rebate or child endowment system. [More…]
Similarly, deductions available for the maintenance of a student, an invalid relative and for one child under 16 years of age will each move from $208 to $260. [More…]
As one of my colleagues pointed out recently, when the aggregate of the sales tax revenue is divided by the total population of Australia it emerges that every man, woman and child bears a burden of about $60 in sales tax. [More…]
I pay $2,000 a year to Nipperville for the child minding expenses of volunteers. [More…]
We all know, or should know, about the growth of child delinquency throughout our country. [More…]
The Parliament has an obligation to reduce this shocking social evil, and what is a better way of reducing child delinquincy than by the Government creating a ministry of sport? [More…]
I can see nothing that would be more effective in reducing the problem of child delinquency than the Parliament creating a ministry of sport and subsidising sporting bodies, particularly for the first 5 years of their existence. [More…]
With the shorter working week and for the purpose of reducing child delinquency it would play a most important part. [More…]
These related to the need for child care facilities at a cost to parents which would not impose hardship; vacation centres for the care of children of working mothers; the provision of a much extended system of occupational training for women whose employment has been interrupted by the raising of a family; the provision of incentives to private employers able and willing to employ women on a part time and/ or tandem basis. [More…]
It covers also the Workmen’s Compensation Ordinance, Hire Purchase Ordinance, Advisory Council Ordinance, Child Welfare Ordinance, Maintenance Ordinance, Compensation (Fatal Injuries) Ordinance, Coroners Ordinance, Sale of Goods Ordinance and Lay-by Sales Agreements Ordinance. [More…]
The rights of the individual are tremendously important to every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
It is necessary to take the child by car or train as the local doctor in most cases does not consider the use of any ambulance justified and, as in the main there are numerous conferences with the surgeon, it is not practical for the parent to return home. [More…]
Our attitude in this matter is based on more than a belief that every child has a right to a basic level of support from governments in education. [More…]
I should add that it is very difficult for the parent of a child at a nongovernment school to accept the argument that everyone has the right to a complete Government-provided education in a government school, but that they lose any right the moment they decide to send their children to a non-government school whether it be for religious, geographic or any other reason. [More…]
In future the Commonwealth will make annual per capita grants on the basis of 20 per cent of an amount assessed as the estimated average cost of educating a child in government schools throughout Australia. [More…]
To illustrate, the per capita grants for 1973 will be at rates of 20 per cent of the estimated cost of educating children in government primary and secondary schools throughout Australia during the financial year 1972-73. [More…]
The New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare has advised that at the same date State assistance was being paid to 1,257 deserted wives with children. [More…]
The New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare has advised that at the same date State assistance was being paid to 197 wives of prison inmates with children. [More…]
As the House is aware, the Government has appropriated some $5m to assist in the development and maintenance of child care centres. [More…]
As I recall the figures, at the present time some 200,000 children are required to be cared for because their mothers or fathers work. [More…]
That is, of course, on the basis of need and not on the basis of providing child care centres purely for the children of persons who are working in particular factories. [More…]
They will need to establish some form of non-profit trust, but these children certainly will be not excluded. [More…]
… No child can take full advantage of whatever education is offered unless that child is healthy. [More…]
If each of those families had one child it would mean that three-quarters of a million people in Australia have benefited from this legislation in the short period of 8 years. [More…]
It is possible, especially in the case of a young couple, that in the second year of this savings period the wife will have a child and not be able to work. [More…]
As the honourable member for Reid applies the description ‘a bribe’ to the scheme, I ask him whether he considers the payment of social services, child endowment, age and repatriation pensions and payments for education or other fields in which the Government is involved as simply bribes. [More…]
Who would not be tempted to buy it as a gift for, say, an aged mother or a young child? [More…]
He is not a bad child, but because of the difficulties the family is having he is now in Mittagong boys home. [More…]
I realise, and I think she does too, that when one of the children becomes a ward of the State it is normal for a reduction to take place, in the pension. [More…]
Apparently why this woman has had her pension reduced is that the husband, who deserted her, left about a year after the first child was born, and the second child is the product of another relationshipcasual or otherwise, I do not know - and certainly not of the father of the first child, who deserted her. [More…]
So because this woman has a second child born outside wedlock, or however the Department likes to describe it, she is now being told that her pension will be reduced from $57.50 to $36. [More…]
Surely this woman, who already has a family, who is a mother, a housewife and a deserted wife to boot, should not be penalised in such a way on the basis that the child was not of the legal marriage. [More…]
I would rather not for the sake of the child and the sake of the woman. [More…]
I realise that from a humanitarian point of view we must look primarily at the interests of the child. [More…]
Do we look always to the child or do we look to some extent to the genera] structure of society? [More…]
The amount up to which the computation of a pensioner’s income may be reduced for means test purposes for each dependent child is to be increased by $2 to $6 per week [More…]
A widow with one child whose property does not exceed $4,500 may have income from other sources of up to S20 a week, or up to $26 a week if she receives no income for the child, and still receive the full pension. [More…]
In the latter case, some pension will be payable until her income reaches $83 a week or $87 a week if the child is under 6 or an invalid child requiring full-time care. [More…]
If income does not affect the pension she may have property to the value of $12,400 and still receive a full pension; pension cease* to be payable when the value of her property reaches $37,360 or $39,440 if she has a child under 6 or an invalid child. [More…]
The income limits for widows with more than one child are, of course, correspondingly higher. [More…]
A widow without children whose property is less than $420 in value may have income of up to $20 a week and still receive the full pension of $17.25 a week; some pension will be payable until her income reaches $54.50 a week. [More…]
Put the other way, where her means consist entirely of property a widow without children may have assets to the value of $10,800 and still receive a full pension; some pension will be payable until her property reaches $28,740 in value. [More…]
A widow with one child is $1 above the mean, austere poverty line. [More…]
A widow with 2 children will receive $2.50 below the poverty line. [More…]
A widow with 3 children will be $3.80 below the poverty line and a widow with 4 children will be $5.25 below the poverty line. [More…]
It has not touched child endowment, the unemployment benefit or the funeral benefit. [More…]
For a widow with one child the poverty line is $29.34; the actual social service benefit received is $35. [More…]
For a widow with 2 children the poverty line is $38.79; and the social services pension $40.50. [More…]
For a widow with 3 children the poverty line is $45.49; the actual social service receipt is $47. [More…]
The only case where there is a discrepancy is for a widow with no children - the poverty line is $23 and the actual social service receipt is $21.25. [More…]
The social service pension in every case except that of a widow with no children - who could probably go to work anyway - is well over the poverty line. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the guardian’s allowance payable to a pensioner with a child under 6 years or an invalid child requiring full-time care remains at $6 a week. [More…]
There has been no extra consideration for these people, who are denied the right to work and so to take advantage of the easing of the means test because they have to stay at home and look after the little child or invalid child. [More…]
The widow’s children’s allowances remain the same - $6 in some cases. [More…]
The mother’s allowance for children apart from the very young ones or the invalid ones remains unchanged at $4. [More…]
The allowance for each dependant child stays at $4.50. [More…]
The allowance for each child remains unchanged at $4.50. [More…]
The rates of benefit are $17 a week for an adult or married minor, $8 for a spouse, $4.50 for each child under 16 years, and so they go on through the range of social service benefits affecting the family. [More…]
The maternity allowance for the first child is $30. [More…]
The allowance is $32 for the second child and $35 for subsequent children. [More…]
Child endowment has been ignored. [More…]
Back in 1949-50 child endowment was paid at the rate of $2.50 for 3 children, which represented 18.05 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
We have seen the allowance for each dependent child rise from $1.15 to the present amount of $4.50 a week. [More…]
The age at which student children may still be regarded as dependent has been increased from 16 to 21 years. [More…]
The assistance provided for handicapped children will be increased by the same type of $2 for $1 subsidy as is used for capital development. [More…]
No extra payment is to be made for their dependent children. [More…]
As to child endowment, no increases are to be paid. [More…]
The payment for the first child remains at 50c a week, for the second child $1 and for the third child $2. [More…]
I simply raise this point especially in relation to child endowment. [More…]
When the Labor Party went out of office in 1949 child endowment payments represented 1.5 per cent of the then gross national product. [More…]
In 1972, despite the fact that there is a greater proportion of children in the total population than there was in 1949, and despite the fact that we have extended the provision of endowment to student children over 16 years of age, the child endowment bill expressed as a proportion, of the gross national product has fallen from 1.5 per cent to 0.6 per cent. [More…]
Or, to put it another way, if we were paying the same proportion of our so-called affluent resources in 1972 as we were paying in 1949, child endowment today would be 2i times what it is. [More…]
It is collecting more and more in taxes in aggregate in terms of the gross national product than it was previously but does not give priority to families by way of child endowment. [More…]
Child endowment in the Government’s mind is a memorial to the past rather than a realistic recognition of the problems of the present. [More…]
If anything indicates this, it is the real proportion of child endowment in terms of the gross national product. [More…]
The Bill also increases the pension rates in respect of the children of deceased seamen coming under the Act. [More…]
The weekly rate for each child rises to S7.35. [More…]
Where the mother is dead also, the rate rises to $14.70 for each child. [More…]
Under the Repatriation Bill, as previously explained, in the case of certain children receiving full time education, amendments are being made in respect of the continuation of their pensions until the age of 21 years is reached. [More…]
If the war widow is unable to work because of invalidity, is aged 50 or more or has a child in her care she receives a supplementary domestic allowance. [More…]
Children’s pensions also are paid on a compensatory basis. [More…]
What this means is, allowing also for means tested pensions, that a war widow without children wit now receive up to $44.25 a week and a war widow with one child will receive up to $63.10 a week. [More…]
There are no increases in child endowment or in the amounts paid in respect of children of social service pensioners and civilian widow pensioners. [More…]
Perhaps the Government has neglected the children because children have no votes. [More…]
Government supporters cannot show me one direction in which the Government has done anything for the children of families, apart from the 75 cents which is granted in respect of the children of war widows, the benefits relating to orphans and a couple of little things like that. [More…]
So I say that children have no votes, and this entire Budget is a political Budget. [More…]
With regard to the children of deceased servicemen, who died as a result of war service, for the first child there has been an increase of 36.1 per cent and 1 am glad to see that for the second child and subsequent children the increase has been 72.9 per cent. [More…]
For children who have lost the support of both parents there has been an increase over the last 3 years, the life of this Parliament, of 44.8 per cent. [More…]
However, I believe there are many areas of the system which ought to be expanded - for instance, the education scheme for the children of soldiers. [More…]
I think we could look at the question of pensions applying to children of school age. [More…]
The idea of cutting off a pension when a child turns 16 is irrelevant in the society in which we live. [More…]
There were 3 important proposals in relation to repatriation allowances for children included in this year’s Budget. [More…]
Firstly, the living allowances payable to children eligible for benefits under the soldiers’ children’s education scheme will be increased. [More…]
Secondly, and this is a major improvement which will be available to all children whose parents receive war pensions but do not receive substantial Commonwealth assistance specifically related to the maintenance of a child doing full-time education, the Repatriation Act will be amended to allow the war pensions of those children undergoing full time education to continue until the children reach ?.l years of age. [More…]
In these days of technological change there is an increasing need for children to undertake higher education to fit them for their future roles as citizens and anything that can be done to assist them to that end should be done. [More…]
Such assistance is already being given by way of Commonwealth scholarships but since not every child receives such a scholarship, the proposal to continue the payment of war pensions to children undergoing full-time education but not receiving other substantial Commonwealth assistance towards riving costs until they reach 21 years of age is a very commendable step forward. [More…]
Thirdly, the war pensions payable to those children who have lost their father as a result of war service and to those who have lost their mother have been increased again so that now the former group will receive $7.35 a week and the latter group $14.70 a week. [More…]
He has now reached the stage where he wishes to bring his sister and her husband and their child from England to Australia. [More…]
The irony of the situation is that had they, as a young couple, migrated to Australia without a child and subsequently had a slow learning child, no thought would now be given to deporting the family. [More…]
If they had migrated to Australia while the wife was pregnant or the affected child was a babe in arms no-one would have protested. [More…]
These are not people who will come here to swell the ranks of the unemployed or to take some opportunity of government housing assistance from another person; they are people who are assured of a home, an income, a future and a place in the sun for their child who will, I am sure, grow to be a useful Australian citizen. [More…]
its indifference to indefensible levels of neonatal, infant and child mortality, malnutrition and disease; [More…]
Those who have done work on population statistics since 1966 point out the rapid rate of population increase, the high birth rate which prevails, the survival rate, which is high despite the extraordinarily high rates of those who suffer from disease and the quite indefensible levels of neonatal infant and child mortality to which the amendment ls directed. [More…]
For a long time, for instance, at Hermannsburg Mission the Aboriginal children obtained a primary education in the Arunta tongue, and they learnt English as a second language later on. [More…]
The mission took the point of view that a mother tongue is the language of the heart; it is the best way to speak to a young child, and I believe that in many more areas we ought to be encouraging the survival of Aboriginal languages by giving a primary education to Aboriginal children in their own tongue. [More…]
infant and child mortality to the European levels’? [More…]
If we say boldly: ‘We will eliminate the diseases of yaws, hook worm, tuberculosis and leprosy from the Aboriginal community as well as reduce the neonatal, infant and child mortality’, we will have nailed our flag to the mast; we will have adopted goals and all our expenditure and all our policies will be forced to conform. [More…]
The Minister suggests that the only reasons why people send their children to a greater public school, for instance, would be religious or geographical. [More…]
They should exist if parents want to send their children to them. [More…]
But if a class has 24 students and every parent pays for each child in that class $1,000 a year, the recurring revenue for that class is $24,000. [More…]
For some of the more privileged greater public schools to paint through their classrooms, it might be an adequate sum, but for an organisation like the Catholic schools which are trying to provide aa education for the poorest parish child, $700,000 a year is simply pathetic. [More…]
The appropriation of money for science laboratories, important as it has been, is professionally oriented; it is for the child who will become skilled in research in chemistry, physics and so on. [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…]
The school system is not adapted to the needs of the non-academic child who is greatly in need of basic trade training and training in the manual arts. [More…]
It is time the Commonwealth Government considered in both the private and the public sector a diversification of education for the nonacademic child. [More…]
Church wishes to reach the working class child who cannot pay high fees and also wishes to diversify its education to meet his needs. [More…]
It is therefore tragic that there is no equivalent appropriation being made for the development of the manual arts for the non-academic child - equivalent to science grants. [More…]
Give a child the chance to master tools and machines and whilst you cannot give him in school the trade training that would exactly equip him for a life job, you give him sympathy for a set towards the whole subject which can be used as the basis for his later development into a highly skilled artisan. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has exercised this power in the case of Aboriginal children. [More…]
There is a need to assist poor children. [More…]
It knows how many children they have. [More…]
It can ascertain from the States the number of people in receipt of child welfare assistance. [More…]
It has all this information at its disposal and it is time that there was associated with our social services structure a system of educational endowments and financial grants to enable poor parents to have assistance in meeting school uniform expenses, school fees, school books and assistance to meet all the other aspects of educational cost in which poorer children are disadvantaged. [More…]
This has been done too late at the age of 14 in the case of Aboriginal children. [More…]
There is no reason for giving educational grants to Aboriginal children on the ground of their colour. [More…]
Assume that the amount to educate a child in a State school at secondary level is $600. [More…]
But unfortunately, from my observations and from the actions of the young people who sat on the grass opposite Parliament House recently partly on strike and partly I suppose because it was a nice day, children in the schools of Canberra seem to find themselves in a very restrictive system. [More…]
A child from a basic wage home had a much less chance of getting a good education than a child from a home with greater means. [More…]
There is no evidence anywhere that the child from the home with greater means is brighter on the average than the child from the working class homes. [More…]
In fact, as the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) has just reminded me, about 50 per cent of bright children are the children of working class people, the tradesmen, but only a relatively small proportion, perhaps onesixth or one-seventh of them, get to university. [More…]
Speakers have pointed out again and again that the cost of educating a child in the State sector is $600. [More…]
In fact, it gives much more to the children in the most affluent schools than it does to those in the less affluent schools, simply because not only are they given an equal per capita grant but also very generous taxation rebates are given to parents who are able to spend $400 a year on the education of their children. [More…]
Supposing that a parent in receipt of a taxable income of $4,000 a year was able to spend $400 a year on the education of his or her child at one of these least affluent schools, he would receive $107.20 by way of taxation rebate. [More…]
I repeat that: A person with a taxable income of $4,000, under the current taxation schedule, would receive a taxation rebate of $107.20; but a person with a taxable income of $9,000 who is able to spend $400 a year on the education of his or her child will receive a taxation rebate of not $107 but $171, which is 61 per cent more. [More…]
If you happen to be one of the very affluent people who can send their children to the very best schools - a person with a taxable income of $20,000 a year - you receive back $241 out of $400 by way of taxation rebate. [More…]
So the position we finish up with is that the higher the income bracket of the parents the greater the percentage of help they receive in the education of their children. [More…]
If we accept the Government’s figure that it costs about S560 per annum to educate a child in a government school, this is what will happen under this Bill. [More…]
If a person with a taxable income of $4,000 spends $150 - which is the more likely amount that he will be able to spend - that is, $50 a term for the education of his child, he will receive a tax rebate of $40 and also have the benefit of the $224 which the Government is promising him under the per capita subsidy. [More…]
What I am really putting to the House is that the person in receipt of the low income that I have cited will get back 47 per cent of what it costs to educate a child in a government secondary school. [More…]
In other words, the person in receipt of $20,000 will receive 83 per cent of all the costs to educate a child in a government school if we accept the figure of S560. [More…]
But it ought to be pretty obvious that the wealthier you are the more assistance you get from this Government to educate your child in a private school. [More…]
Not only do the rich receive that kind of assistance to send their children through secondary school but also the vast majority of Commonwealth secondary school scholarships go disproportionately to children in the most affluent schools simply because they have greater facilities. [More…]
They will be children who have a lack of environmental stimulus in their home and a lack of community environment. [More…]
Surely the education of Australia’s children is a matter of national necessity and importance, and surely it must then naturally follow that the major responsibility rests not with the individual State governments but fairly and squarely upon the Commonwealth Government to ensure that every child, irrespective of whether he lives in the city or in the far north, has the opportunity of gaining an education not limited by the financial circumstances of the parents, not limited by the financial resources of the State in which he lives, but limited only by his own ability to learn. [More…]
But the Government obviously does not accept that view because in all States of Australia today there are hundreds of children whose chances of gaining a good education are very remote. [More…]
Indeed, it goes further than the child. [More…]
The parents of children in isolated areas have certain alternatives which can be boiled down to 3 choices. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s proposal to change over from double side band to single side band radio the cost of replacing sets could be beyond the financial capacity of many parents, and unless some assistance is given in that regard we will see ourselves in a situation where the School of the Air will not be available to some of these children. [More…]
The third and certainly the best choice as far as the child’s education is concerned is to send the child to the metropolitan area or elsewhere where good schooling facilities and accommodation are available. [More…]
Air or train fares are expensive items, particularly if the child is to return home at the end of each term or during school holidays - and surely it must be in the best interests of the children if they are allowed to do so. [More…]
One frequently hears complaints from city dwellers in relation to the cost of education, and I think they are genuine in their complaints, but how much greater must be the complaint and how much more is it justified from people in the country and outback areas as compared with the city people, and how much greater is the worry of the parents in remote areas as to the adequacy of their child’s education? [More…]
In other words, a child who is born and lives in the city areas has about a 50 per cent greater chance of completing his secondary education than the child who lives in one of the country areas. [More…]
If we look at the central suburbs of Melbourne, we find that 50 per cent of the children who began their first year of secondary education were still enrolled in 1970 for their final year of secondary education. [More…]
So it can be seen that children who happen to be born in the Bendigo, Maldon and Castlemaine regions of Victoria have less than half the chance of continuing on to their final secondary year of education that the children born and educated in the central suburbs of Melbourne have. [More…]
Looking at the new Commonwealth secondary scholarships scheme, the fact that for the first time since 1965 a means test has now been introduced into this scheme is in itself a condemnation of a consistent policy of discrimination in favour of the children from more affluent families. [More…]
But it will not make a scrap of difference by bringing in a means test after a child has sat for an examination. [More…]
It will not make a scrap of difference to the child in the country school, the child from the working class family, the child from the migrant family and all those whom we regard as being in the low income section of the community. [More…]
It will not make a scrap of difference because the means test is applied through this scheme itself which has been convincingly proved over and over again to be discriminatory against a child who happens to be born into a lower income family. [More…]
Those children will not win a scholarship now. [More…]
One thing that caused me a bit of disappointment was that the Budget did not approve funds to assist the Isolated Childrens Parents Association, but as the Minister pointed out, by the Commonwealth Government’s action in providing financial assistance for the States to undertake educational work, which has been their special responsibility down through the years, the States should be able to assist people in remote areas. [More…]
I feel very confident that the States concerned with the problem of educating isolated children will be able to do that. [More…]
I am hoping that as a result of the Commonwealth assistance to the States the States will be in a position to assist the Isolated Children’s Parents Association so that parents in isolated areas will be able to provide for their children what is the birthright of every child, a reasonable standard of education. [More…]
1 have received letters suggesting that anybody who favours pre-school education favours latch-key parents and latch-key children and that it is only a question of parents wanting to evade their obligations. [More…]
Pre-school education can be very vital in establishing a child’s mental, nervous and moral stability. [More…]
It can also be compensatory education for under-privileged children, as anybody who has travelled through the Northern Territory and seen Aboriginal children in the pre-schools of the Northern Territory will testify. [More…]
What is more, preschool education may be educationally very significant in that disabilities from which children suffer may be detected early. [More…]
Children who are dyslectic and have extremely high intelligence can conceal from their teachers for a long period the fact that they are not really reading. [More…]
The existence of the pre-school system of education enables quite a lot of the disabilities of children to be detected. [More…]
They have endeavoured to escape from the Scylla of cramming - it is not an examination in the ordinary sense - but they have not escaped the Charybdis of the sociological and family condition of a child. [More…]
A child with verbal manipulative skills, with a family background of developed conversation, approaches an examination which diagnoses those verbal skills with a great advantage. [More…]
Another area is the child migrant education programme. [More…]
It now employs over 800 teachers and more than 30,000 children are benefiting under the programme. [More…]
What is the position of schools in my electorate where 70 per cent of the children are immigrants? [More…]
A child who goes to a school like this and is stuck with the problem of a language difficulty for the first 2 or 3 years at school is disadvantaged for the whole of his life. [More…]
The important thing is that at least we have an opportunity of choice of education for our children. [More…]
What child has an opportunity to go somewhere else? [More…]
Would I be happy to send my children to that school? [More…]
If a headmaster has the same views as the honourable member for Prospect and you have to send your child there, what is your attitude? [More…]
The important thing is that parents should have a choice, so that they may send their children where they believe they will acquire the values they have been taught at home. [More…]
I have been associated with church schools and people who strive, save and mortgage their homes to send their child to a church school because they do not want them to be corrupted. [More…]
The important thing is that parents have a responsibility for their children and they will not hand them over to the Government to be brought up in any old way and filled with strange views. [More…]
These advertisements will appear at tremendous expense and they must appear , because the Government has told these schools that for every child they have at . [More…]
For every 20 of those children, they will, be paid $4,200 and for every 30 of them, they will be paid $6,300. [More…]
The assistance given for each child to remain at non-government high schools would enable $450 to be spent at present on an equivalent child at a government school. [More…]
For each child who is assisted to remain at a non-government primary school through assistance such as this Government is giving and through assistance such as State governments are giving - the Labor State governments are always the most pasimonious in this respect - there is between $200 and $250 available to be spent from public funds on an equivalent child at a government primary school. [More…]
In the process there is a denial of the basic right of a child to assistance merely because that child goes to school. [More…]
It is given because that child goes to a school. [More…]
Judge whether the parents of a child at a parochial school would accept the Leader of the Opposition with his permissive policies as being appropriate for them. [More…]
We could not judge that he would have any sympathy concerning their children or the other children of Australia. [More…]
Yet Government supporters then say: ‘Is this not a good thing because the poor underprivileged children in those Catholic schools will be encouraged to go on in this inadequate situation and thereby save the Government money.’ [More…]
It is the worst thing for any government to suggest that it will exploit children on the basis of religious adherence and that it will thus save itself some money. [More…]
We are saving the Government money by keeping these children in the other schools’. [More…]
It would be far better and more honest to say that if the children are in these schools, they should get what they need. [More…]
Nearly every child who is going to a parish or regional Catholic school suffers a basic disadvantage because he is in an over-crowded classroom and the facilities are inadequate. [More…]
What clause 13 means as it stands at the present moment is that for many of the very wealthy private schools this will provide another fillip by which they can increase their standards over the standards enjoyed by the children at the least wealthy private schools and those children who are attending government schools. [More…]
Education in Australia takes place in a very competitive context, and every dollar of assistance that is provided to one school as opposed to another gives a very distinct advantage to the child who goes to that school over the other. [More…]
Let us just think about how well accommodated, well staffed, well equipped and well endowed schools such as Sydney Grammar School, Melbourne Grammar School, Geelong Grammar School, Xavier College and some of the other wealthier schools are already and how well placed their children are to get the maximum benefit out of the nation’s education resources. [More…]
Under Placitum (xxiia): Maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, unemployment . [More…]
During this initial period of 6 months, assistance is a State matter and is also closely related to child welfare responsibilities and functions which are solely a prerogative of the States. [More…]
This Bill gives effect to the announcement by the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) in his Budget Speech on 15th August last of the Government’s intention to bring down legislation concerning child care centres. [More…]
This Government initiative is a tangible expression of its very real and proper concern for the welfare of children. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation is to ensure the development of child day care facilities of good quality throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
Included in the concept good quality’ are both the physical arrangements and the professional staffing, in the provision of which the overriding consideration will be the emotional, intellectual and physical development of children in child care centres. [More…]
Its work has included an investigation relating to needs in child care, particularly the needs of working mothers. [More…]
Its studies covered developments in the field of child day care in most other industrialised countries. [More…]
Further research programmes instigated in my Department and elsewhere subsequently indicated the parameters of the problem of child day care. [More…]
Most importantly, they revealed that child care facilities had not kept pace with the rapid growth in the female labour force during the 1960s, and that, as a consequence, existing child care facilities were inadequate, qualitatively and quantitively, for the growing numbers of children needing them. [More…]
Not only were there too few centres but in many cases the provision was only for child minding and not for the quality of child care appropriate to the educational, emotional and developmental needs of the young children involved. [More…]
During this examination the committee had the benefit of consultations with State government departments and with representatives from a wide range of local government, professional and voluntary groups and organisations throughout Australia concerned wilh day care arrangements for children. [More…]
These consultations revealed among other things, that child care which was beneficial to the child’s overall development was prohibitively costly for the large body of parents, and secondly, that the childminding arrangements that most parents could afford fell far short of the quality that was required in the interests of child welfare. [More…]
While many working mothers were able to make satisfactory arrangements for their children during working hours, a substantial number were not, partly because of a shortage of child care facilities and partly because of the cost. [More…]
It became evident that only through Government action could the problems that had developed in relation to child care be met within an appropriate time scale. [More…]
In summary, the Government decided that action was urgently needed; action to ensure sufficient good quality child care facilities in the community for the proper care and development of pre-school aged children whose parents or guardians are unable, for a variety of reasons, to make other suitable arrangements. [More…]
These facilities should be available at a cost that is not prohibitive to parents, especially to parents of children in special need. [More…]
It is important to acknowledge that this initiative comprehends assistance at 3 levels - that of the child, of the family, and of the community. [More…]
For that reason there will be no static approach to the concept of child care. [More…]
The scheme is forwardlooking and includes provision to stimulate research into all factors relating to the needs of the community in relation to the care of children, and for experiments in various child day care methods. [More…]
First, it is the view of authorities concerned with child care - for example the Child Psychiatry Section of the Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists - that alternate care, provided for young children while their mothers are working, which is inadequate and unsatisfactory, can contribute to emotional disturbance in the child’s later years. [More…]
Of particular concern is the situation where young children are left in the care of untrained and unsupervised child minders who do not have the facilities conducive to the social and emotional development of young children. [More…]
Unfortunately, many young children are being taken care of in just such circumstances. [More…]
Second, the Government’s initiative springs from its concern for the welfare of children of working mothers. [More…]
It is also a fact that at present 25 per cent of mothers with children under 6 years of age are in the labour force. [More…]
That a substantial number of such mothers cannot make satisfactory arrangements for the care of their preschool aged children is yet another fact. [More…]
The purpose of the scheme is to meet this existing problem - to help the children of working and other parents insofar as they are deprived of proper child care either because good quality facilities are not available or because the cost is presently too high. [More…]
In summary, the Bill provides for assistance to non-profit organisations, including local governing bodies, to establish and operate centres which provide day care for children of working and sick parents and which give priority of admission to children in special need. [More…]
For this purpose children in special need are defined in clause 20 of the Bill. [More…]
The proposed scheme has 4 main elements, as follows: (i) capital grants; (ii) recurrent grants in respect of qualified staff; (iii) recurrent grants with respect to children in special need; and (iv) grants for research and evaluation of matters relating to child care. [More…]
In summary, unmatched capital grants will be provided and made payable direct to eligible organisations for: (i) the purchase, erection, extension or alteration of buildings, including necessary fixtures, and land cost, for use as a child care centre; and (ii) the purchase and installation of equipment for use in child care centres. [More…]
The Government regards unmatched grants as the most effective method of ensuring that sufficient new child care centres will be built where they are needed most, particularly in areas of greatest social need. [More…]
Provision in the Budget of funds for capital grants in this financial year should enable a substantial expansion of the number of child care places in the community. [More…]
It is hoped to establish some 50 new centres catering for some 3,000 child care places in the first full year of the scheme. [More…]
This would provide an increase of about 20 per cent in the number of child care places available in Australia, lt is a significant first step, and the Government intends that at least this rate of growth will be sustained in subsequent years. [More…]
For its application for an unmatched capital grant to succeed, a claimant organisation will be required to demonstrate that it is capable of efficiently managing a child care centre, and that it can bear the responsibility of ensuring the centre’s financial viability. [More…]
In all cases, the acceptance of a capital grant will automatically involve responsibility for running the child care centre in accordance with the required conditions which I shall deal with later. [More…]
There is provision for recurrent grants to eligible organisations to encourage the employment of certain types of qualified staff in specified numbers in child care centres. [More…]
Where there are 15 or more children 3 years of age or over enrolled full-time, the grant will be in respect of one pre-school teacher. [More…]
After the first 20 children 3 years of age or over, the grant will be in respect of one qualified nurse for every 20 children or part thereof. [More…]
There is provision for grants in respect of additional pre-school teachers in child care centres accommodating more than a prescribed number of children. [More…]
Younger children under 3 years of age have other and more demanding needs. [More…]
The grant will be available for a qualified nurse employed in a centre for every 10 such children or part thereof for which the centre has enrolments. [More…]
The number of children in this context refers to children enrolled for 8 hours during the day in a centre. [More…]
The Bill includes provision for the calculation of the grant to be made in such a way as to take into account the varying hours that different children might attend centres. [More…]
Thus, under the scheme opportunities will exist for children aged between 3 and 5 years in child care centres to receive pre-school education. [More…]
Firstly, setting of standards for the employment of qualified persons in child care centres is a function of State or local governments. [More…]
The Bill provides for special recurrent grants to enable centres to offer reduced fees in respect of enrolled children from low income and other families in financial need. [More…]
There have been suggestions from time to time thai attendance at child care centres should be free. [More…]
The fees normally charged to parents of children not in financial need will bc of the order presently being charged in the community. [More…]
For these fees, however, children will enjoy in government-assisted centres a quality of care superior to that otherwise available because of the nature of the facilities and the qualified staff provided. [More…]
The basis of the method will be that an organisation operating a centre will receive payments with respect to children in special need. [More…]
For this purpose, ‘children in special need’ is defined in the Bill - Clause 12 - as children of one parent families, of families in the first 3 years of settlement in Australia, of families where one of the parents is sick or incapacitated, and of families eligible to receive assistance under the subsidised health benefits scheme. [More…]
The level of the grant paid to organisations operating centres in respect of each child in special need may be up to some $8 per week per child under 3, and some $6 per week per child 3 years of age and over. [More…]
The maximum rate per hour of attendance per child that may be paid to an organisation will be prescribed by regulation. [More…]
The circumstances of families placing children in child care centres cannot be predicted in advance. [More…]
In a scheme of this nature, that relates to the development and care of children, every opportunity must be made to ensure that organisations assisted can operate their child care centres with compassion and with the capacity to assist the most needy cases as they arise from time to time. [More…]
At the same time, it will be the responsibility of organisations operating centres to balance their own financial budgets, taking into account the recurrent grants that will be made available - both in respect of staffing and with respect to children in special need - the fees they can collect, and their other sources of income, if any, against their outgoings for salaries, maintenance of equipment and buildings and other current expenditure. [More…]
At present in Australia there are some 80 child care centres operated on a nonprofit basis. [More…]
In respect of these grants the scheme will come into operation when the Child Care Act receives royal assent. [More…]
to provide child care on such days and during such hours as the Minister determines. [More…]
The intention of the first of these conditions is to ensure that preference in admission is given to those in greatest need of child day care. [More…]
Organisations Li receipt of grants will be required to operate the child care centres concerned for the benefit of the community in which they are located and generally to the satisfaction of the Minister. [More…]
It will, of course, be obvious to honourable members that organisations seeking capital grants will have to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Minister that a need for the new or additional child day care facilities exists. [More…]
The Bill provides for a child care standards committee to be established to advise the Minister on the range of facilities that will be covered by the unmatched capital grants to organisations, on the standard of these facilities and on the service provided in child care centres in receipt of grant. [More…]
In considering appropriate facilities and their standard the committee will, of course, have regard to the standards for child care centres required by State legislation. [More…]
The committee may also be asked to advise on other matters referred to it in connection with the child care scheme. [More…]
The child care standards committee wil! [More…]
I hope that it will be possible to include officers of relevant State government departments who can advise on the facilities that should be provided, on the best approach to the development of children in centres, and as to the geographical areas that are in greatest need of additional child care facilities. [More…]
The Government intends to ensure that developments in its provision for child care continue to have regard to the wide variety of views that are known to exist in the community on the subject. [More…]
One practical application of this proposition will be studies to review how the scheme provided for in this legislation is meeting the needs of the child, the family and the community, and to identify inadequacies, if any. [More…]
The second expression of the Government’s concern about future developments is the provision for research to explore the very large field of child care, particularly as it relates to day care, and related areas such as after-school and holi-day care for school-aged children. [More…]
The Government is uncommitted as to the eventual directions in which its assistance towards child day care nay develop. [More…]
One area that will inevitably attract investigation is alternative forms of child day care such as family day care centres. [More…]
Also worthy of study is the motivation for mothers of young children to continue to care for their own children in their own homes rather than to enter paid employment. [More…]
For example, in this regard what is the persuasive influence of appropriate family counselling on mothers of young children? [More…]
Another area that will need development is the form by which the evaluation of child care arrangements may proceed. [More…]
It may be possible to involve, say, professionally qualified social workers or sociologists experienced in the child care field to work in and around the Government assisted child care centres. [More…]
Another important avenue for research relates to the training of staff for child care centres. [More…]
There is a view, for example, that new forms of training are required to meet the needs of children in child care centres. [More…]
The research would need to concern itself with whether such courses might range from professional to short part-time training arrangements applicable to child care personnel. [More…]
lt is proposed that this committee be called the ‘Child Care Research Committee’. [More…]
The functions the Government envisages for this committee are to make recommendations regarding applications for grant; to evaluate the direction of the Government’s child care scheme when requested and to advise accordingly; to recommend measures for the training of child care personnel; to recommend areas for research and experimentation into important aspects of child care; and to advise on the application of research findings. [More…]
Children of pre school age should not be deprived of proper care and the opportunity for the fullest possible development because their parents are not looking after them at home during the day. [More…]
It was confirmed again and again during the consultations which the committee of officers undertook during its examination of the child care problem and to which I have already referred. [More…]
The attitude of the working mother is that her presence in the community is a fact and that assistance with the care of her children is a pressing need. [More…]
Its intention is to ensure that the development of its assistance for child day care is kept under close review. [More…]
It is not the Government’s intention to help additional child care centres into existence and then forget about them. [More…]
Child care centres will be community oriented. [More…]
It is basic, therefore, that the physical conditions in the centres facilitate and encourage the participation and involvement of parents in the care and development of their children at the centres. [More…]
One responsibility of the Child Care Standards Committee will be to examine designs for centres to ensure that they incorporate physical features which parents placing their children in a centre can use as a community service. [More…]
More precisely, parents will be encouraged to see the centre as a place to which they can come to discuss the development of their children with other parents, with the staff in the centre and with qualified professional people. [More…]
The Government envisages that if a beginning can be made to turn this legislation into reality quickly, we can look forward to an increase of at least 20 per cent per annum over the next 3 years in the number of places for pre-school children that will be available in child care centres. [More…]
This is worth achieving while research into related developments is being evaluated, lt is very important for honourable members to appreciate that significant though the increase in physical accommodation is, of much greater importance is the provision for improving the quality of child care that will be available to the community in future years. [More…]
Under it a scheme is being provided for child care centres of good quality. [More…]
The quality of child care is important not only to parents who, for one reason or another, choose to work, but also to all parents because in today’s mobile society, with families living apart from grandparents and other relatives, there are many who have nowhere to turn when they are ill or in need of assistance with their children during the day. [More…]
Child care centres have to be seen in their proper perspective; they are supportive of the family unit and in extreme cases are the alternative to placing children in residential institutions. [More…]
Because of the number of variables involved it is not possible to assign an upper limit to the cost to governments of transporting a particular child. [More…]
In the latest year for which official information is available (1970-71) State governments spent $37m on providing transport services or over $13 for every child attending government and non-government schools. [More…]
Costs in respect of individual children in rural areas are likely to considerably exceed the average cost. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s decision to attempt to publicise the existence of the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan through posting out notices on the scheme with child endowment cheques, what measures have been planned to study the effectiveness of this move. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) As indicated in the reply to question 5100 of 30th May 19.72, the posting of notices with child endowment chequeswas one of a number of measures designed to further publicise the Subsidised Health BenefitsPlan. [More…]
It was considered that most low-income -families receiving child endowment would be contacted in this way, but the lodgment of applications is a matter for action by those families. [More…]
It means that unemployed people in rural areas will receive between $50 and $60 a week on work subsidised by the Government while the unemployed in the city will receive the miserable unemployment benefit of $17 plus $8 for a wife and $4.50 for a child. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service has been studying and promoting from time to time particular initiatives, such as the one relating to child care centres, in regard to the female work force. [More…]
One facet of this operation has been to make available Commonwealth funds for a development which will enable the children of working mothers to be reasonably looked after, probably to be productively and constructively looked after, while their mothers are at work. [More…]
I think that in the terms of the child care centres and other things it is thoroughly within the province of the Minister - not my personal problem but the problem of the unemployment of women who are available for employment. [More…]
If, in fact, we are doing the sort of thing that was projected yesterday in this chamber in relation to child care centres, then clearly there are measures being taken to make it possible for women to make themselves available for various forms of work. [More…]
They prepared a budget for a family of 5, comprising a husband, wife and 3 children on the minimum wage paid in Queensland - the lowest wage would be $46.80 - and this budget showed that at the end of the week, if they did not run into expenses, the family could have 50c left for luxuries. [More…]
These nurses, who work mainly in maternal and child welfare clinics, said that their survey showed that it was not practical for a family to try to live on one low income. [More…]
My child endowment, of course, comes in handy to pay the medical benefit. [More…]
The Association instances what a 2 per cent subsidy could mean to a taxpayer with a wife and one child who receives a loan of $12,000 for a term of 25 years. [More…]
We are entitled to know what is in that thesis, just as we are entitled to know what is in the report of the inter-departmental committee on the question of child care centres. [More…]
This Parliament has no right to be called upon to debate a Bill for an Act to deal with child care centres and at the same time have withheld from it vital, crucial information prepared by a special committee which would tell us whether the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) has introduced a Bill that coincides with the facts and whether the Bill introduced by the Minister is a Bill that should have been introduced, having regard to the findings of the inter-departmental committee. [More…]
We have to ask ourselves why we are debating this legislation at this late stage in the life of this Parliament and why this legislation appears on the notice paper with such other Bills and statements as the Child Care Bill, the National Urban and Regional Development Authority Bill, the Restrictive Trade Practices Bill and the statement on foreign ownership? [More…]
The High Court ruled that the expense of keeping a child in a day nursery was neither relevant nor incidental to Miss Lodge’s work. [More…]
In this Budget the Government has eroded the means test; it has increased pensions; it has increased the homes savings grant; it has made a number of concessions in its new involvement in the provision of hostels and child care - you name it - and it has decreased taxes. [More…]
A further $5 a week remains payable for each dependent child. [More…]
This new promise, and the proposals on foreign investment and child care centres involve a reversal of a 3-year process: We are now experiencing the Government’s re-Gortonisation. [More…]
One sees it in regard to the proposition over child care centres and one sees it here again in the proposition for the establishment of a national urban and regional development authority. [More…]
Let us not be in 2 minds about the Labor Party’s intention for the Authority which will be the child of this Bill. [More…]
The allowance for a dependent spouse is $8 a week and for each child under 16 it is $4.50 a week. [More…]
Thus, taking the example of a family of 5 members with the married man getting $17 a week, the dependent spouse $8 a week, and 3 children under 16 getting $13.50 a week, the total income of that family in this day and age would be $38.50 a week. [More…]
The most that a man with a dependent spouse and 3 children under 16 years of age can bring into his household would be $44.50 a week. [More…]
The fact is that if a child of one of these unfortunate families in these circumstances turns 16, and if the child has ability and his family and the community generally want that child to stay at school and perhaps go forward to university, the allowance payable for that child ceases immedi ately. [More…]
The particular case I raise is that of a woman who had children by a previous marriage and then further children in a de facto relationship. [More…]
She receives child welfare assistance but no medical subsidies, which are so essential for any person with young children. [More…]
If she were over 50 years of age she could qualify for a B class widow’s pension, but the ludicrous situation is that the B class pension is less than what would be paid to her in child welfare assistance. [More…]
I refer to capitalisation of child endowment. [More…]
It is obvious by the way in which the build-up propaganda is being released from informed sources’ that these ‘informed sources’ are inferring strongly that the public - that great collective mass of all the public - will be able to capitalise child endowment for home purchase purposes, to pay off mortgages and possibly, if we look at the New Zealand scheme, also pay for extension and maintenance to existing homes. [More…]
The Government could not allow all those people entitled to child endowment to capitalise it so that they could spend it on anything, let alone, housing. [More…]
It does not take much mathematical ability to work out, using last year’s figures and from the latest annual report of the Department of Social Services, what it would cost if everyone entitled to child endowment were to capitalise their future entitlement over a 12- monthly period. [More…]
The cost of totally capitalised child endowment entitlements to the end of last financial year would be $l,700m, yet all that the Government is proposing to expend - 1 use the word ‘all’ in a comparative sense to the $l,700m - this financial year on child endowment is $256m. [More…]
The Government was so damned miserable that it could provide no increase at all in child endowment. [More…]
It is quite clear that if the Government has in mind any proposal to capitalise child endowment it will be done on an extremely restricted basis. [More…]
In New Zealand the recipients of family benefits, as they are called there, who wish to capitalise child endowment have to pay a penalty for doing so. [More…]
This would mean that a family with 6 children whose ages ranged from below 12 months to 5 years would pay a penalty of about $438. [More…]
these people if there are increases of child endowment during the period when their children ar: entitled to regular payments of endowment. [More…]
Let us assume that some sort of unusual whim struck the Government and child endowment was increased 50c for each child. [More…]
This would mean that the family of whom I have just spoken, with children whose ages ranged from under 12 months to 5 years, would’ forfeit over $2,000 for the term of these children’s entitlement to child endowment by capitalising at this early stage of which 1 have already spoken. [More…]
We do not want bland statements in a policy speech that child endowment can be capitalised. [More…]
At a total cost of $ 1,700m not everyone is going to be able to capitalise child endowment. [More…]
For instance, if a mother and children leave the father in occupancy of the family home - the reason does not matter - and the house has been purchased with a deposit funded by capitalised child endowment the mother and children will forfeit their equity in the home. [More…]
They forfeit their right to regular child endowment payments. [More…]
Given the fact that the supplemental income in the form of child endowment has been forgone, they are in a worse situation. [More…]
The benefit for the first child now is $4.50- [More…]
The rate for the first child now is $4.50 and under the last beneficient Labor Government it was 50 cents. [More…]
For every child after the first child the benefit now is $4.50 and under that last beneficient Labor Government it was nothing at all. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House, while not refusing a second reading lo the Bill, is of the opinion: (a) that the Commonwealth Government should take the initiative to establish Child Care Centres to meet the needs of working mothers, and should do this on a basis of priorities, to give maximum advantage to a maximum number of families, rather than leave the provision of this service to the chance interest of employers and local authorities, and (b) that Child Care Centres should be within the province of the Department of Education and Science, and should be part of a pre-school system developed progressively throughout the nation’. [More…]
Nobody would want to oppose the development of these sorts of ad hoc child care centres attached to industries where the employers perhaps are enlightened enough to want them or are competing for the labour of married women and want to create this as an additional attraction. [More…]
But, in the words of our amendment, the Opposition feels that the Commonwealth should be taking the initiative to establish child care centres to meet the needs of working mothers and should do this on a basis of priorities, instead of leaving it to the chance enlightenment of various employers or local authorities. [More…]
The rate of a grant payable under this section in respect of a child care centre is an amount per quarter equal to the sum of the following amounts: [More…]
The rate of a grant payable under this section in respect of a child care centre is an amount necessary to staff centres at standards acceptable to the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
In other words, we want to make this Child Care Standards Committee really authoritative in the legislation. [More…]
We believe that this Child Care Standards Committee should also meet certain requirements. [More…]
The Minister may establish a committee, to be known as the Child Care Standards Committee, which shall consist of such number of members as the Minister thinks fit. [More…]
The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]
Members of the Child Care Standards Committee shall be appointed for 3 years and be eligible for re-appointment. [More…]
Members of committees established under section 16 of this Act - which sets up various subcommittees - which sets up various sub-committees- shall be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Child Care Standards Committee and shall hold office for a period to be iciermined by the Minister on the advice of the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
We have taken the trouble to specify the qualifications of the members of the Child Care Standards Committee - the professions from which they will come - whereas the proposals of the Government do not specify them, because we are very concerned about the quality of any Commonwealth action in this field. [More…]
In our view, a child care centre is not an industrial convenience; it is part of a national education system. [More…]
This legislation represents a Commonwealth incursion into what we regard as a field of education as well as child care. [More…]
Here is an emerging problem - the problem of women working in industry - and the Commonwealth has to take the initiative to establish child care centres where there is the greatest need. [More…]
Suppose somebody employing a great number of married women or a local government authority does not happen to be interested in developing child care centres. [More…]
A child care centre run by an employer or factory would not be necessarily ineligible for assistance under this legislation, but the terms of the legislation make it unlikely that any employers in fact would be prepared to comply with the criteria applying to eligibility for assistance. [More…]
In the first place a trust would have to be set up to run the child care centre. [More…]
In the second place the child care centre would have to be opened to children other than those of employees at the factory. [More…]
The third criterion, of course, is that it would have to grant priority of entry to those children in special need, ‘special need’ being defined in the Bill. [More…]
The Government takes the view that we aim to maintain the maximum amount of local interest, community interest and interest of organisations which in many cases have dedicated themselves to this form of child care. [More…]
It is not our policy to set up a large, purely government run series of institutions for child care.. That is a basic matter of difference in philosophy between us on this side of the House and the Opposition. [More…]
The provision of child day care, centres of an approved standard is a major Government initiative, and the Government is prepared to allocate significant funds to meet this end. [More…]
It is envisaged that in the first 3 years of this scheme at least $23m will be expended on capital and recurrent grants, and at least another Sim will be expended on grants for the purpose of research and evaluation in the area of child care. [More…]
The proposed scheme is concerned with the welfare of children, with particular emphasis on the welfare of those children in special need of alternative care while their parents are working, sick or otherwise unable to care for them. [More…]
As the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) said in the second reading speech, the Bill provides a number of grants in the child care area. [More…]
The recurrent grants are towards the salaries of staff and in respect of children in special need. [More…]
The recurrent grants side of the scheme provides for recurrent grants of 2 types to be paid to eligible organisations operating child care centres on a non-profit basis and meeting the other conditions of the grant. [More…]
One type of recurrent grant is in respect of the employment of certain qualified staff in child care centres. [More…]
The other type of recurrent grant is in respect of children in special need of such care, such as children of single parents, of migrants in the early settlement stages, of parents eligible for assistance under the subsidised health benefits scheme and of parents who are sick or incapacitated. [More…]
The grant will be calculated according to the number of hours the children in special need are cared for in the centres. [More…]
The capital grants side of the scheme provides for unmatched capital grants to be paid direct to eligible organisations for, firstly, the purchase, erection, extension or alteration of buildings, including necessary fixtures and land cost, for use as a child care centre; and. [More…]
secondly, the purchase and installation of equipment for use in child care centres. [More…]
The purpose of capital grants is to ensure that sufficient child care facilities of good quality are available where they are needed most. [More…]
The research grants side of the scheme provides for the grant to be made to any person for the purposes of research in child care and related matters and for the initiation and development of methods of child care. [More…]
The main conditions of grant are that centres must be operated on a non-profit basis; that centres must accept applications for the enrolment of children in special need in priority to other children; and that centres should be operated for sufficient hours and in such a way as to meet the needs for child day care in the community in which they are situated. [More…]
Firstly, for children being placed in child care centres there is the direct advantage of better quality care and better facilities. [More…]
It is hoped that the very introduction of the Government’s scheme will contribute significantly to the upgrading of standards generally in the child care area. [More…]
Secondly, for parents to whom child care fees are a hardship there will be direct financial relief in that reduced fees will apply where they place their children in the assisted centres. [More…]
It is the Government’s intention to establish the Child Care Standards Committee referred to in the legislation as soon as possible after the legislation is passed by this Parliament. [More…]
I emphasise again that it is directed towards the welfare of children, especially those who face disabilities which could affect their full development as individuals. [More…]
(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears - child care’ means the care of pre-school aged children at a time or times during the day when they are not being cared for in their own homes or in the homes of other persons; child care centre’ means a place where child care is provided for only those children who are residing in their own homes; eligible organisation’ means - [More…]
(1) The Minister may, in his discretion, on behalf of the Commonwealth, make a grant of moneys to an eligible organisation, in respect of each child care centre operated by the organisation at the rate ascertained in accordance with this section. [More…]
The rate of a grant payable under this section in respect of a child care centre is an amount per quarter equal to the sum of the following amounts: [More…]
in respect of each 10 places or part of 10 places at that child care centre filled on the specified day in that quarter by children under the age of 3 years - an amount equal to the prescribed proportion of the amount of salary or wages payable during that quarter to one nurse who is employed at that child care centre and is specified by that child care centre for the purposes of this paragraph; [More…]
in respect of each 20 places, or part of 20 places, in excess of the first 20 places at that child care centrefilled on the specified day in that quarter by children of or above the age of 3 years - an amount equal to the prescribed proportion of the amount of salary or wages payable during that quarter to one nurse who is employed at that child care centre and is specified by that child care centre for the purposes of this paragraph; [More…]
if fifteen or more places at that child care centre are filled on the specified day in that quarter by children of or above the age of 3 years - an amount equal to the prescribed proportion of the amount of salary or wages payable during that quarter to one teacher who is employed at that child care centre and is specified by that child care centre for the purposes of this paragraph; [More…]
if more than the prescribed number of places at that child care centre are filled on the specified day in that quarter by children of or above the age of 3 years and the Minister, in his discretion, determines that an amount should be payable under this paragraph - an amount equal to the prescribed proportion of the amount of salary or wages payable during that quarter to so many of the teachers who are employed at that child care centre as the Minister determines. [More…]
For the purposes of this section, the number of places at a child care centre filled by children on a day shall be calculated by ascertaining the number of hours during which each of those children attends at that child care centre on that day, by adding together the numbers so ascertained and by dividing the result by 8. [More…]
In this section - child in -.pedal need’ means - [More…]
a child other than a child who normally resides with both parents in the same household; [More…]
a child either of whose parents commenced to reside permanently in Australia for the first time within three years before the date of the application for the enrolment of the child at the child care centre concerned; [More…]
a child either of whose parents is a contributor in respect of whom section 82s of the National Health Act 1953-1971 applies or is a person in respect of whom a determination under section 82u of that Act is in force; or [More…]
a child either of whose parents is sick or incapacitated; (2.) [More…]
The Minister may, in his discretion, on behalf of the Commonwealth, make a grant of moneys to an eligible organisation, in respect of each child care centre operated by that organisa tion, at the rate of an amount per week ascertained in accordance with the formula ab -f cd, where - a is an amount determined by the Minister in relation to children who have not attained the age of 3 years, not exceeding the prescribed amount; b is a number calculated by ascertaining the number of hours during which each child in special need, being a child who has not attained the age of 3 years, attends at the child care centre during that week and by adding together the numbers so ascertained: c is an amount determined by the Minister in relation to children who have attained the age of 3 years, not exceeding the prescribed amount; and [More…]
(lj The Minister may establish a committee, to be known as the Child Care Standards Committee, which shall consist of such number of members as the Minister thinks fit. [More…]
shall include a condition that the child care centre in respect of which the grant is payable - [More…]
children whose circumstances are such that, in the opinion of the Minister, the children are in special need of child care, in priority to applications relating to other children; and [More…]
shall provide child care on such days and during such hours as the Minister determines. [More…]
In clause 4, in the definition ‘child care’, omit ‘in their own homes or in the homes of other persons’, insert ‘in their ordinary place of residence’. [More…]
The rate of a grant payable under this section in respect of a child care centre is an amount necessary to staff centres at standards acceptable to the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
), omit ‘ascertaining the number of hours during which each of those children attends at that child care centre on that day, by adding together the numbers so ascertained and by dividing the result by eight’, insert ‘a formula specified by the Child Care Standards Committee and approved by the Minister’. [More…]
in paragraph (b) of the definition ‘nurse’, omit ‘in the opinion of the Minister, are equivalent to the qualifications and experience so prescribed’, insert ‘are acceptable to the Child Care Standards Committee and approved by the Minister’. [More…]
a child who suffers from physical or mental handicap or other disability;’. [More…]
), page 7, omit Minister’ (twice occurring), insert ‘Child Care Standards Committee’. [More…]
The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]
Members of the Child Care Standards Committee shall be appointed for 3 years and be eligible for re-appointment. [More…]
Members of committees established under section 16 of this Act shall be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Child Care Standards Committee and shall hold office for a period to be determined by the Minister on the advice of the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
), omit ‘as the Minister thinks fit’, insert ‘as the Minister determines upon the recommendations of the Child Care Standards Committee’. [More…]
Upon the closure of a child care centre such property as has been provided by the Commonwealth shall remain the property of the Commonwealth. [More…]
A minor amendment, but nevertheless an important one, which I have moved is for the provision that upon the closure of a child care centre such property as has been provided by the Commonwealth shall remain the property of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Various committees will do work presumably for the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
The Opposition wishes to specify that members of committees established under section 16 of the Act shall be appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Child Care Standards Committee - which, as I have mentioned, we will ensure is a scientific and qualified body - and that they shall hold office for a period to be determined by the Minister on the advice of the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
We want to safeguard the standards of concern for the children. [More…]
The Minister may establish a committee, to be known as the Child Care Standards Committee, which shall consist of such number of members as the Minister thinks fit. [More…]
to give advice to the Minister and to eligible organizations in relation to standards to be maintained in the construction and equipment of child care centres and in the service provided in child care centres; and [More…]
We believe this must be spelt out in a way which will safeguard the interests of the children much more clearly than that. [More…]
The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]
Members of the Child Care Standards Committee shall be appointed for three years and be eligible for re-appointment. [More…]
We believe that our amendment if accepted, will safeguard the standards of the Child Care Standards Committee and will ensure that the standards that it adopts are likely to be educationally sound and scientifically valid. [More…]
where - a is an amount determined by the Minister in relation to children who have not attained the age of three years . [More…]
b is a number calculated by ascertaining the number of hours during which each child in special need . [More…]
attends at the child care centre . [More…]
c is an amount determined by the Minister in relation to children who have attained the age of 3 years . [More…]
d is a number calculated by ascertaining the number of hours during which each child in special need, being a child who has attained the age of 3 years, attends at the child care centre . [More…]
a child who suffers from physical or mental handicap or other disability; [More…]
These children need to be considered. [More…]
So we have spelt out this type of child as being one who comes within the need of special care. [More…]
In clause 11, between lines 27 to 30, we believe that the following words should be omitted: ascertaining the number of hours during which each of those children attends at that child care centre on that day, by adding together the numbers so ascertained and by dividing the rate by eight’. [More…]
Our amendment proposes to insert the words: a formula specified by the Child Care Standards Committee and approved by the Minister.’ [More…]
We would rather have the human decision about the standard to be determined by the Child Care Standards Committee and approved by the Minister, [More…]
The rale of a grant payable under this section in respect of a child care centre is an amount necessary to staff centres at standards acceptable to the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
It is readily recognised in all forms of modern psychology and psychiatry that a child’s early years are very important in its emotional character and personality development. [More…]
This gives the Commonwealth the opportunity either to take the initiative in setting up pre-school educational facilities and child care facilities - and I would hope after-care school facilities as well - or to empower other organisations such as State governments to take on this type of responsibility as well. [More…]
It opts out of giving any authority or assistance to the State governments to provide for child care facilities. [More…]
Unfortunately we have not the time or the opportunity in this debate to discuss whether it is such a good thing anyway for mothers to go to work, especially when a child is in the first couple of years of its life. [More…]
There is no provision in the legislation for alternative arrangements in regard to proper child care facilities. [More…]
There is no provision, for example, for helping in an informal way in private homes, where trained people could go in and look after a number of children in a professional but rather informal way. [More…]
The Bill also stipulates ever so rigidly what the formula will be in regard to what the child-teacher or child-nurse ratio shall be. [More…]
The simple fact is, of course, that some of the people who will be most needful of pre-school education and care will be mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
The Government says that the Minister may set up the child care standards committee but it does not say that he shall. [More…]
The Labor Party wants to see the Government at least come up with a proposal to give real power to the child care standards committee. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton said that the Bill is restricted to the children of working mothers. [More…]
In fact, it is not so restricted at all, and alternative methods of child care are not excluded. [More…]
It is all very well to have some theoretically perfect system in our minds, such as presumably the honourable member for Barton has in his mind, and then to proceed on this basis to set up a child care standards committee. [More…]
I am rather appalled by the idea that some universal department of education should be established forever after to have vague control over every child of 3, or whatever the minimum age should be, and be their mentors rather than the control being exercised by the Department of Labour and National Service which has practical experience of the dreadful problems faced by mothers. [More…]
The Minister specified that these amendments, which related to the standards of the Child Care Standards Committee - the educational qualifications of its members - were worthy of respect and would be considered and could be implemented under the existing legislation. [More…]
It is a Government action and, by the standards of Cobden which are probably similar to those of the honourable member for Wentworth, it is socialism if the Government does anything at all especially in relation to children in the factories. [More…]
It was one of his charges against Shaftesbury when Shaftesbury had some provisions about protecting children in the factories that it was socialism. [More…]
However, we are not suggesting that every staff member at kindergartens, pre-schools and child care centres should have a Ph.D. [More…]
The point is that we desire the standards of the child care committee which is to determine how these places are nin to be set by experts in the education of young children - psychiatrists and paediatricians, who I understand have medical qualifications. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton gave the impression that the Bill is concerned only with children of working mothers. [More…]
It is a Government initiative to improve and extend child day care facilities for mothers who for a variety of reasons may need care for their children during the day. [More…]
These people will have a particular need for such child care facilities. [More…]
The scheme is not confined to the children of working mothers but the emphasis is in that direction. [More…]
Not only mothers are involved in the implications of the scheme but also many fathers who for one reason or another have the responsibility of bringing up their children will welcome opportunities for the worthwhile care of their children during the day. [More…]
The Government is providing a basic community service concerned with the proper care of children and the needs of the family and the community generally. [More…]
Like my colleague the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) I reject the concept that the Commonwealth should take over the whole area of provision of child care centres. [More…]
I believe it is correct and appropriate that we should provide opportunities for interested groups to build the types of child care centres which they see as their real need, containing the sorts of facilities that they want. [More…]
When I first heard about the child care si-heme some time ago I had some very real misgivings about whether it should be proceeded with simply because I was tremendously concerned that the facilities should go to more than just child care, that they should have a very real educative function as well. [More…]
I am very pleased to know that the Government has consulted the College of Psychiatrists on the possible effect on children who will be looked after in these facilities. [More…]
It is also pleasing to know that trained nurses and educators will be present, although I am somewhat concerned that the age at which children will be allowed to attend the centres should be very closely assessed. [More…]
It may be just a personal idio- syncracy, but I have very much in mind that a very young child should remain for as long as possible with his mother. [More…]
I do not like to think of very young children having to be set aside from their mothers. [More…]
Obviously the relationship between mother and child should be encouraged to develop. [More…]
Like the Government, I acknowledge that the problem does occur in which mothers of very young children in certain circumstances inevitably go out to work. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) said that the scheme had been left to chance and that in areas of great need it could be that there would be no applicants or organisations willing to run the child care centres. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that in the very substantial sum set aside for research precisely that sort of question will be considered when viewing alternative forms of child care. [More…]
I am sure he did not mean that experts as such would not be acceptable on the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
The honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) raised the question of very young children. [More…]
I am sure that everybody would agree that the best place for a very young child is with its mother. [More…]
But the plain fact is that in many instances the lack of high standard child care is disadvantaging many young children. [More…]
This legislation is designed not to take very young children away from their mothers but to provide a high standard of care for those who, for one reason or another, are denied that normal right of young children. [More…]
It seems quite absurd to me that a government which can recognise the justice of full wages during compensation for incapacity up to 26 weeks should say that once a person has suffered 26 weeks of incapacity, beyond that point he can go no further but must revert to ordinary weekly wages which, even with the amendments proposed by the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), will amount to only $43 a week for a single man and $54 for a man with a wife with an additional $5 a week for each child. [More…]
The Opposition will seek to change the definition of ‘child’ so that the definition will be broader than is now provided in the Act. [More…]
The Opposition believes that there is a moral obligation to provide for the widow of a worker who is killed in the course of his work and her children as though the worker were still alive. [More…]
The Opposition completely rejects the concept of a total lump sum amount in the case of death and will propose that where a widow is left with dependent children she will continue to receive the same weekly pay week by week that she would have had coming into the home had her late husband remained alive. [More…]
This will go on so long as she has dependent children. [More…]
As soon as she no longer has dependent children it is proposed that she should receive a weekly amount equal to 75 per cent of the amount which her husband would have earned had he remained alive. [More…]
Our proposal is that a widow who is left with children relying upon her should continue to receive the same weekly payment, while those children are dependent upon her, as she would have received from the breadwinner but for his accident. [More…]
‘Dependant’ will mean a child who is dependent on the mother for its education or who is not self-supporting. [More…]
So, if a child were going to university, its university education would not have to be interrupted just because its father was killed in an accident at work. [More…]
But, in addition to that, in order that the man she marne:; does not have to maintain the children of her first marriage, we would provide that weekly payments must continue to be paid in respect of each child at a rate equal to not less than one-sixth of the amount which the widow would have been receiving but for her remarriage. [More…]
The weekly payments have been increased so that a man can get $43, with another $11 for his wife and another $5 for each child. [More…]
the definition of ‘child in relation to whom this Act applies’ and inserting in its stead the following definition: - “child” means a son, daughter, grandson or grand-daughter, whether legitimate or illegitimate, or child by adoption, or other child in the custody, care or control of the employee, who is not self-supporting, and includes a son or daughter, whether legitimate or illegitimate, who is born after the employee’s death;’; [More…]
in a case to which paragraph (b) of this sub-section applies - to the widow or widower, or, if the Commissioner so determines, to the widow or widower and dependent children in such shares as the Commissioner determines. [More…]
If the deceased employee leaves one or more dependent children, but no other dependants, a weekly payment or payments of such amount or amounts, not exceeding in the total the maximum weekly payment prescribed by subsection (2.) [More…]
of this section, as is reasonably necessary to ensure the proper maintenance and education of the child or children is payable to the Commissioner for the benefit of the child or children. [More…]
the widow or dependent widower of the deceased employee or another person caring for the child or children marries or dies; or [More…]
the Commissioner considers that circumstances have arisen that affect the proper maintenance and education of the child or children; [More…]
), of this section, as the case requires, vary the amount of, or cancel, weekly payments that are the subject of a determination under any preceding provision of this section, but where the widow, dependent widower or another person caring for the child or children marries or dies, the weekly payments payable to each child shall not be less than one-sixth of the compensation that would have been paid to the deceased employee had he survived and been totally incapacitated. [More…]
the Commissioner may, in respect of a child of a deceased employee who is nol self-supporting, authorize the continuation of weekly payments until the education of the child is completed; [More…]
where two or more employees die as the result of injury at or about the same time, and al the time of injury they were contributing towards the support of the same dependant or dependants, nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the Commissioner from determining that those dependants were dependent upon the earnings of each or all of the deceased employees; and (c) the amount of any child endowment paid under Part VI. [More…]
Child endowment under Part VI. [More…]
of the Social Services Act 1947-1972, a pension or allowance in respect of a child dependant upon the earnings of the employee, a payment other than that part of a pension not attributable to contributions for the pension paid by the employee under the Superannuation Act 1922-1971, the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act 1948-1971 or the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1968, deferred pay, a payment under section 74 of the Public Service Act 1922-1972 or under section 8 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1968, and payments for public holidays, annual leave or long service leave under any other law, award, determination or agreement, are not payments, allowances or benefits to which regard shall be had under sub-section (1.) [More…]
of and inserting in their stead the words ‘in respect of a child under’.”. [More…]
of and inserting in their stead the words ‘in respect of a child under’.”. [More…]
There is a complete lack of passion on the part of the Government to get the underprivileged child anywhere through a secondary education or to get him an opportunity at the university level and in this respect we contrast with the position in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Now that the Government has entered into the field of pre-school and child minding centres, will it allow income tax deductions for expense incurred by single mothers, widows and widowers who wish to earn their living and not be dependent on pensions and who wish to send their children to a pre-school of their choice or make their own provision for the care of those children? [More…]
Is it a fact that with the proposed flat rate per capita subsidies to students in non-State schools together with generous taxation concessions and also a high proportion of Commonwealth senior secondary scholarships, many children of parents in upper income groups will be receiving more than 100 per cent of the equivalent costs of educating a child in a government school? [More…]
By contrast, will many more children of parents in lower income groups in non-State schools receive 47 per cent or less of such costs? [More…]
Let me take a low income family which sends a child to a government secondary school. [More…]
I am aware that Commonwealth legislation does not provide for the payment of pensions to a deserted wife with children before 6 months has elapsed from the time of desertion. [More…]
I am also aware that the New South Wales Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare relentlessly has opposed the granting of maintenance payments to widows who have received consent orders from a court. [More…]
She now has a baby one week old as well as the other child 2 years old. [More…]
The lady of whom the Minister spoke lived with her husband for 3 years and had one child. [More…]
The terms of the order required her husband to pay SIO a week for her and $6 a week for the child. [More…]
I would like to follow up a few of the comments made by the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) and express my outrage at the proposal to eliminate the television programme ‘Adventure Island’ and also to request that this programme not only be continued but that all children’s programmes in this country receive extra financial support from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
One of the interesting things about the campaign that our committee has noticed is the tremendous enthusiasm that children have for this show. [More…]
I should like to quote a few of the things that some of the children have said. [More…]
They show a terrific commitment by the children. [More…]
Here is a lovely letter by a young child. [More…]
The parents want their children to grow in imagination and to have spiritual, mental, aesthetic, social and moral development. [More…]
They are suggesting in the letters to us that it is only such a programme that is capable of creating this sort of ethos by which children can be influenced. [More…]
The parents and the children who have, written have expressed concern that what commercial television is producing are ‘basically passive consumers who are being bombarded with advertising and dull, stupid, unimaginative, boring, repetitive and in many cases American imported cartoons and films that are 20 to 30 years old. [More…]
Such programmes are quite unimaginative for children and they are stupefying and evoke no response or development in the child whatever. [More…]
From the response that I have seen, I would regard it as being a tragedy for the young children of this country. [More…]
Rather than cutting back on current affairs programmes it is cutting back on children’s programmes. [More…]
1 think that has an artistry and an integrity not matched by any other children’s programme in Australia. [More…]
Did a survey conducted by his Department in 1969 estimate that an additional 100,000 women would join the work force if adequate child-minding centres were available. [More…]
Does he expect the Child Care Bill to provide these facilities. [More…]
According to the survey 102,800 females who were not in the labour force but who had children in their care indicated that they would have worked if suitable child care arrangements had been available. [More…]
and (3) The Child Care Scheme is not intended to encourage mothers to enter paid employment, nor to discourage them from doing so. [More…]
Rather it is aimed at meeting an existing problem, that is to help the children of working and other parents insofar as they are deprived of proper child care either because good quality facilities are not available or because the cost is presently too high. [More…]
Do some Aboriginal men in the Northern Territory pursue a custom of taking promised girls as child brides. [More…]
What carnal knowledge prosecutions have been preferred against Aboriginal males practising the child bride custom during each of the last 5 years. [More…]
What are the legal obligations of an Aboriginal male whose relationship with a young Aboriginal girl results in the birth of a child. [More…]
Is the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration taking any action to discourage the child bride practice; if so, what are the details and when will the Administration invoke the appropriate laws against offenders. [More…]
indicate that the leniency of this sentence was influenced by the fact that the child may have been promised in marriage to the defendant. [More…]
Is the practice of taking promised girls as child brides still practised by the . [More…]
Child health. [More…]
Maternal and child health Preventive and social medicine. [More…]
Handicapped children are eligible for assistance under the isolated children’s scheme if they have to attend schools for the handicapped. [More…]
An isolated child is one who because of the geographical isolation of his home does not have reasonable daily access to a government school offering courses at the appropriate level, namely secondary school if he is a secondary school child and primary school if he is a primary school child. [More…]
The allowance for all children is $350 a year regardless of any means test, and that allowance is also made to a child who does not leave home but is having tuition as an isolated child at home. [More…]
The adjusted family income at which the means test commences to operate is $4,200 a year, but that rises by $450 a year for every other dependent child. [More…]
So if there is another dependent child the means test would not begin to operate until $4,650. [More…]
If there were another 2 children it would not begin to operate until $5,100. [More…]
Above that is a discretionary allowance which is actually taken from a similar allowance constructed in relation to allowances for the education of Aborigines under certain circumstances - that is, $150 for clothing, $50 for books and between $26 and $104 for pocket money according to the age of the child concerned. [More…]
A man supporting a wife and 2 children, drawing unemployment benefit and even after allowing for child endowment, has been paid a benefit rate some $17 a week below the updated Melbourne University poverty line. [More…]
The standard rate of pension for aged persons, invalids and widows with children is to be. [More…]
As I have just mentioned, the standard rate will also apply to widow pensioners without children in future, which means that these women will receive increases of $4.25 a week. [More…]
The age limit of 21 years for the payment of additional age, invalid or widow’s pension for full-time student children as well as the additional guardian’s or mother’s allowance, as appropriate where the standard rate applies, will be removed. [More…]
Payment of additional pension for full-time students together with mother’s or guardian’s allowance, if applicable, will continue without regard to the child’s age until either eligibility for pension ceases or the child’s studies cease. [More…]
The age limit of 16 years for the payment of additional unemployment or sickness benefit in respect of a child will be removed where the child is engaged in full-time studies. [More…]
Payment will therefore be continued without regard to the child’s age until either eligibility for benefit ceases or the child’s studies cease. [More…]
A widow with one child and no property affecting will now be able, to receive income of up to $86 a week before losing her entitlement to widow’s pension, or up to $90 if her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid child requiring fulltime care. [More…]
If she has no income affecting, a widow with one child may have property to the value of $38,920, or $41,000 if her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid requiring full-time care, before her entitlement to widow’s pension is extinguished. [More…]
In relation to children of service pensioners, the Bill also reflects the Government’s policy that a child should continue to be recognised for service pension purposes irrespective of age, for as long as the child continues to undertake full-time education. [More…]
A defacto wife or widow who has lived continuously with an ex-serviceman on a bone fide domestic basis for at least 3 years preceding consideration of her status, or the member’s death, as the case may be, if she is or was wholly or partly dependent on him and any ex-nuptial child of an ex-serviceman. [More…]
The Bill also recognises for service pension purposes a de facto wife who has lived with an ex-serviceman on a bona fide domestic basis for at least 3 years preceding consideration of her status and any ex-nuptial child, foster child or ward in the custody, care and control of an ex-serviceman. [More…]
As has also been indicated in connection with the Repatriation Bill, whilst some de facto wives and some ex-nuptial children are recognised for war pension purposes, the Government considers the present provisions too restrictive and in need of being brought into line with the recognition now afforded such persons under other Commonwealth Acts. [More…]
The Bill therefore includes, in clause 3, amendments which will recognise for war pension and associated benefits purposes any ex-nuptial child of a seaman coming under the Acts. [More…]
The other night I inquired at the motel where quite a number of us live and evidently here in the Australian Capital Territory a parent can take his child to a Government pre-school kindergarten 3 mornings a week, 3 hours each morning, for a cost of only $24 per annum - less than SOc a week. [More…]
But having this type of amenity or facility in a capital city is very little consolation for the mother of a sick child who cannot even contact another person for assistance. [More…]
A schools and a pre-schools commission will soon be evaluating the needs of education in both the private and public sector so that genuine equality of opportunity is available to every Australian child, irrespective of colour, nationality, heritage or religion. [More…]
This House can make a significant contribution to rights for women by, among other things, passing legislation to provide much better adult education facilities, to establish equal pay for work of equal value, to provide for family planning clinics, to build child care centres and to reform those laws which discriminate against women both socially and financially. [More…]
It seems almost trite to commence by affirming the essential difference of every child and the worth of every individual student. [More…]
The child of today is too often manipulated by ineffective and inefficient structures, disadvantaged by often haphazard and totally inequitable distribution of Commonwealth grants and financial assistance, misunderstood and pressured by ambitious and confused parents and de-humanised and depersonalised by hungry labour markets. [More…]
It is the task of every school to strive to develop fully the personality of the child; it must assist the child to develop into the sort of person who can cope with rapid and often far reaching change. [More…]
In particular, we must provide a framework whereby we encourage the child to rate himself against himself. [More…]
The teacher must be seen, in any progressive education program, not as a fact distributor but as a guide, an encourager and an organiser of situations in which the child can learn most effectively for himself. [More…]
It is my conviction, and that of my Party, that the birthright of every child in a prosperous and affluent Australia is to receive an education of quality - and, in time, of equality as well. [More…]
I would see the extension of the counselling service as underlining the concept of education in relation to the child’s total experience both inside the school and out of it. [More…]
Following an urgent request for action regarding a serious speech defect, I was informed that the child could be placed on the long waiting list. [More…]
When every child is able to take advantage of his full time at secondary school; when all underprivileged children are cared for; when physical education facilities are available to all students; when the dyslectic and autistic child has the specialist treatment he needs; when counsellors are trained, available and appointed to our schools; when remedial treatment of children with learning difficulties is adequate; when all migrant children, with their particular language difficulties, are catered for; then, if we have an excess of financial resources, and only then, will I be happy for thousands of dollars to be poured into wealthy, elitist schools and institutions. [More…]
This seems very much litre a policy of starving the child and then in the name of humanity providing it with succour and thereafter seeking the plaudits of the crowd for a great and generous act of charity. [More…]
But here 1 am already slipping under the influence of the Government’s thinking of the States as children and Canberra as the fatherhead. [More…]
If the Government wants to give equal opportunity in schooling to every child in Australia, it should concentrate on the primary field because it is there that the child takes his first steps up the education ladder. [More…]
It is a well known statistical fact that 20 per cent of all primary school children have some specific learning defect, whether it is an inability to learn to read or an inability to do sums. [More…]
So, if these children are diagnosed early enough in primary school, they can be brought into the mainstream of education. [More…]
Remedial teachers in primary school are vitally necessary if the Government is to implement its proposal to give genuine equality of opportunity to all children. [More…]
If these children are diagnosed at that level of schooling they can proceed and learn as they move into the higher grades. [More…]
If they are not diagnosed, it will be found that children will drop out of the educational stream because they just cannot cope with the information that is being thrust at them. [More…]
In the case of a dependant other than a widow, a wholly dependent widower or a dependent child or grandchild, the Commissioner is also to have regard to the extent to which the dependant was dependent upon the deceased employee. [More…]
The Commissioner will be required to make such a review in cases where there is a widow or wholly dependent widower and one or more dependent children or grandchildren and the widow or widower dies. [More…]
In other respects, a re-allocation of existing welfare expenditure could well be helpful - for example, from tax deductibility for dependent children to increased, child endowment, or from the current housing component of pension requirements to an accelerated program of pensioner housing construction. [More…]
The second group, which is perhaps of even greater importance because so many people are involved, are the children - people under the age of 21. [More…]
Every parent with children in this age group will agree with me. [More…]
These children will be able to bring into the home large incomes through unemployment benefit because there is no expense for a child who is being maintained at home, as most children of 16 and 17 are. [More…]
I think of the introduction of age and invalid pensions, child endowment, homes for the aged, the national health scheme, the easing of the means test and, of course, the foreshadowed abolition of the means test. [More…]
Does he seriously stand in this House and say that he upholds the right for the employment of child labour by sub-contractors who utilise their families, including their children, because of a gap in the arbitration laws whereby families are excluded from those laws? [More…]
It happens in this industry; under age children are employed by their families. [More…]
The Opposition supports the policy of war pensions for student children as provided in the Bill and agrees that they should be continued until completion of the full time education of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance, living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowance payable under the Repatriation Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme. [More…]
The Bill also provides that a child of a service pensioner be recognised for service pension purposes, irrespective of age, for as long as the child continues to undertake full time education. [More…]
Thirdly, at present some de facto wives and some ex-nuptial children are recognised under repatriation legislation. [More…]
The Bill, therefore, embodies proposals to recognise for war pensions and associated benefits a de facto wife or widow who has lived with an ex-serviceman on a bona fide domestic basis for at least 3 years preceding consideration of her status, or the member’s death, as the case may be, if she is or was wholly or partly dependent on him, and any ex-nuptial child of an ex-serviceman. [More…]
The Bill also recognises for service pension purposes a de facto wife who has lived with an exserviceman on a bona fide domestic basis for at least 3 years preceding consideration of her status and any ex-nuptial child, foster child or ward in the custody, care and control of an ex-serviceman. [More…]
Student children are being recognised as dependants, similarly to the children of persons who are the recipients of social security benefits. [More…]
It has been a matter of concern to many parents in receipt of sickness or unemployment benefits that student children over the age of 16 years have not been regarded as dependants. [More…]
Provision will be made for a payment until such time as the child either completes his studies or is able to obtain a position. [More…]
Children will be recognised as dependants of -war pensioners as are the children of recipients of social security benefits. [More…]
One of the cruellest things I have seen is ex-nuptial children not being recognised by the former Department of Social Services. [More…]
It was agreed that the Commonwealth pay money to the States, to be allocated through the child welfare departments to provide some assistance to women with children born Outside marriage. [More…]
These children would not normally be recognised as dependants. [More…]
I know a case of a widow who had 3 children. [More…]
This child was not considered in any circumstances to be a dependant. [More…]
The woman had to make separate application to the Queensland Department of Children’s Services to receive money for the child. [More…]
The remaining ones are child minding centres which operate mostly in converted buildings or houses. [More…]
Deserted wives and husbands and working parents have to pay exorbitant fees to send their children to these centres. [More…]
The ever diminishing playgrounds cause a general lack of recreational and sporting facilities for the ever increasing number of children who attend. [More…]
The proposal is to provide a free school dental service to every primary school child in Australia. [More…]
It must be remembered that the Government is not just providing a service for children with bad teeth; it is a preventive program to prevent and completely eradicate dental disease. [More…]
They consistently have refused to recognise local government as other than a child of the States and something that should be the responsibility of the States. [More…]
To go on with, the sort of warfare we have nowadays ls quite as likely to compel a child of 3 to ‘die for his country’ as his elder brother in the army. [More…]
There was a statement two or three months before that from the Leader of the Democratic Labor Party to this effect: Radical teachers were now being placed in positions where they could brainwash impressionable children. [More…]
I think it was Saint Ignatius of Loyola who expressed the view that if he, representing the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, had a child from the age of 7 he could bend him in the direction in which he would go for the rest of his life. [More…]
Child endowment was being paid through official channels rather than directly to the mother. [More…]
I would hope in future to see more child minding centres for daytime care and more experiments on part time work. [More…]
Ninety per cent of Australia’s married women of child-bearing age practise family planning but only 63 per cent of those who do so use reliable methods such as oral contraceptives and intra-uterine devices, or exercise an informed preference for the ovulation method associated with the Catholic faith. [More…]
Surveys show that 11 per cent of the mothers of 2-child families, 28 per cent of the mothers of 3-child families, 41 per cent of the mothers of 4-child families and 45 per cent of the mothers of 5-chiId families would rather not have had their last-born child. [More…]
A recent Swedish study reveals that children born after their mothers have been refused abortions were far more likely than other children to become members of broken families, inmates of public institutions and recipients of welfare benefits. [More…]
Cost benefit studies which were carried out in 1972 by Political and Economic Planning for the British Family Planning Association established that averting the birth of an unwanted child saved in public health and welfare services alone $1,350 in the case of a child born fourth in its family, $1,510 in the case of a child born fifth in its family and $8,728 in the case of the illegitimate child. [More…]
It is a mark of our backwardness in matters of family planning that comparable studies on the cost of unwanted children to Australia do not exist. [More…]
The increasing frequency with which women are being aborted, unwanted children are being brought into the world and couples are marrying for no other reason than to legitimatise a pregnancy confronts Australians with a challenge. [More…]
We must ensure as far as possible that decisions about pregnancy are made before rather than after conception, and that every child born in this country is wanted and loved. [More…]
One matter which is very important - the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) spoke about it - is unwanted children. [More…]
If I heard the honourable member correctly - he is not here at the moment, but he will correct me later, or other honourable members who heard him more directly will correct me if I am wrong - he seemed to attribute a great deal of the blame to single mothers for what he termed ‘unwanted children’. [More…]
He was referring to young girls in the community who become pregnant and have an unwanted child. [More…]
Another aspect is that many of these young women have a natural motherly instinct and want to keep their children. [More…]
There is no doubt that there is a growing incidence of young unmarried mothers keeping their children. [More…]
The single mother is taking the risk that she and the children she bears and keeps will be a less privileged family. [More…]
It creates a dilemma as to whether it is proper to encourage the natural mother to keep the child or whether the child should be adopted by another family. [More…]
Families who adopt children are screened by profes sional social welfare workers and in most cases are more adequately equipped for parenthood than the natural mother and father. [More…]
I take this opportunity to speak about something on which I have not heard a word from the Government, and that is child care centres. [More…]
A child care centre is a very important area of the development of our social attitudes in our community- [More…]
When I was Minister for Labour and National Service I initiated the concept of child care centres, a concept which showed our concern for the role of women in the work force. [More…]
As Treasurer I allocated a sum of money in the last Budget for the purposes of providing child care centres. [More…]
When we were in government we heard a great amount from the then Opposition about child care centres. [More…]
This means that the study of reproduction should be an essential part of a child’s schooling and should begin at an early age - not just secondary school, not even primary school, but a natural and gradually developing awareness and understanding right from pre-school days. [More…]
sales tax from contraceptives is because the tax discriminates against women and their choice to bear a child. [More…]
I pose this question to the Treasurer: Would not the cost involved in placing the pill on the pharmaceutical benefits list have better served the community, particularly that section of the community which is being discussed in this House today, if the money had been spent on more family planning clinics and child care centres? [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition raised the question of child care centres. [More…]
I will be most desperately disappointed if this Government does not do a great deal more about child care centres in the future. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was discussing the need for more child care centres and the remarks made previously in the debate by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden). [More…]
It is important that, in considering child care centres, we think of them as providing a service not only to those women who work but to the whole community. [More…]
In my mind there is no reason why women who care for children at home should not, on occasions on which it can be justified - that would be on many occasions, I would imagine - leave the children in a properly staffed child care centre so that they can do some shopping, visit an art gallery, go to the pictures or do any of the other things which many women, because they have to care for their children on a 24-hour basis, find it difficult to do. [More…]
I happen to be the eldest child. [More…]
This is the philosophy upon which the Labor Party is basing its health policy the control of the natural increase of Australian children. [More…]
It is ironical to learn that the Treasurer (Mr Crean) shortly proposes to double child endownment. [More…]
In the same way, I would like to see some of this money and other money being used to establish child minding centres and for the expansion of such organisations as the Mothers and Babies Health Association Incorporated of South Australia. [More…]
We would get value from expenditure on family planning, counselling advice and child minding centres. [More…]
So, the position is that the protection of the foetus is subject to financial penalty, quite apart from the cost of rearing a child, while prevention of conception and, therefore, prevention of the natural increase of Australian born children is subsidised by the taxpayer. [More…]
I do not think women, or even men, in our society have any more right to tell other women that they should have children than they have to tell them that they should not have children. [More…]
I strongly objected to the proposition which was current in this country and which certainly was current in places such as pre-war Germany where the state itself encouraged women to have children and where it insisted that it was in the national interest for them to do so. [More…]
In countries such as Germany women were told that they should have children for the sake of the state. [More…]
This type of thinking comes into exactly the same category as telling women to have children. [More…]
I think it is purely a personal matter for a woman to decide whether she is to have a child. [More…]
Only last year I read in a document available to honourable members in the Parliamentary Library of a survey which was conducted by Swedish authorities into the cause of child delinquency. [More…]
The Swedish research into child delinquency showed that 80 per cent of child delinquents in Sweden had been unwanted babies. [More…]
I know from experience in my previous calling that a tremendous number of delinquents who ultimately become professional criminals come from large families and in all probability were unwanted children who did not receive warmth or affection. [More…]
I believe that whilst this measure will be of great benefit at this time in our history I certainly would not like to see a decline in the family unit in Australia because I believe that the family unit, with devoted parents showing proper and true affection to the number of children that they want, is the richest asset any country can possess. [More…]
My experience is that married couples who are childless, perhaps through no fault of their own, sometimes develop a form of selfishness and are more concerned with leading a poodle along the street than showing affection to young children. [More…]
Many women in our society suffer mental disturbances or breakdowns because they cannot have a child. [More…]
In Queensland an additional $866,000 is to be expended, partly as follows: $60,000 on food assistance for children under 6 years; $250,000 for child health clinic at Bamaga; $240,000 for water supply and sewerage works at 5 places in Queensland; and $1.55,000 for hospital facilities at Normanton. [More…]
I agree that there must be an association in the mind of a young child with the family situation and the transition which all children have to undertake from a purely family situation to one of the wider community. [More…]
This means that provided a child did not consume more than 840 millirads of iodine 131 per year in its milk its health would not be endangered. [More…]
Tests were taken in 9 major population centres, covering about 75 per cent of the total Australian population, following the French tests, and the results indicated that the radiation doses to thyroids of young children consuming fresh cow’s milk ranged from 4 to 62 millirads per year, and this is, of course, well below the safety limits. [More…]
It is a matter of principle and causes concern to the parents whom it affects, lt is a case where country parents are disadvantaged by our child endowment policy. [More…]
A family of 3 children with the eldest a spastic child receives only $18 per quarter instead of $36, which is the normal amount. [More…]
The reason that this happens to the country parents is that the spastic child has to be boarded at a registered spastic centre. [More…]
Normally $6 for the first child is allocated for this purpose. [More…]
The second child is then classified as the first child and the third child is classified as the second child. [More…]
City parents who take their spastic children to the spastic centre daily receive the full $36 per quarter. [More…]
Surely parents in the country who have 3 children are entitled to be recognised as such and should receive the same payment of $36 as do city parents. [More…]
The cost of boarding a child at a centre is borne by the country parents. [More…]
Yet, if the children in those families were admitted to State care, the cost to the State would be $60 per child per week, minimum. [More…]
Further, under the existing provisions of the National Health Act a handicapped children’s benefit of $1.50 a day is payable to eligible non-profit organisations conducting approved handicapped persons homes in respect of each handicapped child under 16 years who is accommodated and cared for in the home. [More…]
Further, under the existing provisions of the National Health Act, a handicapped children’s benefit of$1.50 a day is payable to eligible non-profit organisations conducting approved handicapped persons homes in respect of each handicapped child under 16 years who is accommodated and cared for in the home. [More…]
In Sydney there is the Archibald Fountain which has not merely one but, to my memory, 3 naked male figures for everybody in the park - man, woman and child - to see. [More…]
Other matters provided for in the Bill are minor amendments to: Re-draft the definition of ‘child’ in section 83 to clarify the intention that a child who has attained the age of 16 years must be undertaking full-time education and be wholly or substantially dependent upon the pensioner parent before being recognised for Service pension purposes; authorise the extension of benefits under the repatriation regulations to student children over the age of 21 years - Parliament has given its approval in the Repatriation Act 1973 to the recognition of these children in the Repatriation Act itself and this amendment will enable the relevant provisions of the repatriation regulations to be extended to them; and apply to the principal Act new drafting principles which are being introduced by the Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]
The child migrant education program was mounted in April 1970 with the intention of providing special English instruction to enable migrant children with English language difficulties to achieve a sufficient command of English for them to join fully in normal classroom activities. [More…]
Altogether throughout Australia there are now over 1,000 teachers giving special instruction to more than 37,000 migrant children. [More…]
The Child Migrant Education Program, as I have said, provides teachers, equipment and materials. [More…]
As a consequence, far too few migrant children are receiving sufficient help. [More…]
The provisions of the Child Migrant Education Program must be reviewed including the earlier decision to make the provision of classroom accommodation for migrant children the sole financial responsibility of State and independent authorities. [More…]
Child migrant education must always remain a co-operative venture between the Australian Government and state and independent education authorities However, I believe that the Australian Government can and must assume a greater financial role in this venture especially in providing assistance to state and private authorities to overcome accommodation problems. [More…]
To achieve this and to prevent many migrant children from growing up to become secondclass citizens, I propose to consult my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, on ways and means of reviewing the Child Migrant Education Program in conjunction with State and independent school authorities, so that it will fully meet the needs of migrant children. [More…]
Survey of Child Migrant Education - Ministerial Statement, 5th April 1973. [More…]
He will know and the House will know that the survey of child migrant education was initiated by the previous Minister for Immigration and myself because we were concerned about many of the problems that had been revealed in the report. [More…]
I think he also knows that the departmental officers conducting the survey had an open hand in pointing to the deficiencies and the shortcomings of the program that had been initiated which, the Minister said, now involves over 1,000 teachers and 37 000 migrant children. [More…]
If a child comes from a migrant family it may have bad only 2, 3 or 4 years of schooling in its own language. [More…]
The child will be taught English at school and will then return to a home environment in which a language foreign to us is spoken. [More…]
lt is one of the reasons why a certain professor from La Trobe University, who had never been a political supporter of the previous Government, was given research funds to help examine the needs of children in the inner cityareas and of underprivileged groups. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will not extend the laws governing abortion and will uphold the right to life of the unborn child. [More…]
Whatever the outcome - and all the omens seem favourable - I wanted to tell you tonight how grateful I shall always be for your encouragement and guidance, your self-effacing generosity in giving prominence to me - as with the Child Endowment and Housing Bills - when it would have been entirely appropriate for you to have occupied the centre of the stage, and my appreciation for all the years of warm friendship between us. [More…]
Young married couples who have been accustomed perhaps to 2 incomes in the family find that this state of affairs will not or at any rate should not continue following the birth of the first child. [More…]
I hope very shortly to introduce into this House a Bill aimed at this problem of helping the young married couples particularly in respect of housing difficulties which they must face on the birth of the first child which prevents the continuance of the earning of 2 incomes in the family. [More…]
I hope that the Government will not look on it purely as something with which it can score political points but instead as something that it can support because this problem faced by young married couples of financing their house in difficult circumstances which can be aggravated by the birth of the first child is one which the Australian people as a whole have to face. [More…]
Will the recently appointed Pre-Schools Committee consider the special problems of the subnormal child in making its report. [More…]
The Committee will make recommendations for financial measures to be taken by the Government towards the establishment and operation of approved pre-school centres and child care centres. [More…]
Wife and child left Yugoslavia under instructions on 11 August and returned to Australia. [More…]
For example, a legitimate child born in Australia whose father is a Netherlands national automatically acquires Australian citizenship. [More…]
A legitimate child born in the Netherlands whose father is an Australian, or an illegitimate child born in the Netherlands whose mother is an Australian, automatically becomes an Australian citizen if its birth is registered with the Australian Consulate. [More…]
By contrast an illegitimate child born in Australia automatically acquires Australian citizenship. [More…]
If it is subsequently legitimated by its Dutch father, the child would acquire Netherlands nationality as well. [More…]
Cash sustenance of up to $16 per week plus an amount of up to $4.50 per week for each eligible child may be paid. [More…]
Some forms of income, e.g., child endowment, are disregarded. [More…]
Where appropriate the mother is required to take legal action for maintenance from the father of her child or children. [More…]
Surely it is natural that a young child or a woman would wish to keep this matter secret. [More…]
The sufferers of baldness, particularly the children and the women’s experience, as one can imagine, countless frustrations. [More…]
In the area of high rise housing the Victorian Government has been forced to adopt the policy of the Labor Party, which is to oppose the construction of huge concrete jungles which leads to the destruction to the fabric of people’s life, the creation of enormous social problems and a breeding ground for child delinquency. [More…]
The provision of more tertiary opportunities in country areas, the provision of hostels for students travelling excessive distances and a scheme of guidance into educational and vocational opportunities, which are of so much more value to a country child than to a city child who has a variety of facilities close at hand, will all help to alleviate these difficulties. [More…]
To name but a few, social workers are required for work in hospitals, in the field of geriatrics, in child care, among the migrant community, in local municipalities and in Commonwealth and State Government departments. [More…]
We owe it to society to give every child a chance within the limits of his ability to make the most of what facilities are available to perhaps the greater portion of the community. [More…]
It may be necessary for the Government to consider more active encouragement to the secondary schools, both government and independent, to prepare children for technical careers as well as for tertiary studies. [More…]
Not every child wishes to attend university or a college of advanced education. [More…]
It is a significant gap in our present system of secondary schooling that thousands of children who wish to follow technical careers receive no preparation for those careers during their school years. [More…]
Reading is a complex cognitive process requiring visual, auditory and motor skills to enable a child to recognise words and symbols, to associate them with the appropriate sounds and to invest them with meaning derived from previous experience. [More…]
When a child has not fully developed one or more of these abilities he is likely to be unusually slow in learning to read. [More…]
The same term also applies to children who have severe reading retardation and have never been competent readers. [More…]
It has been found that dyslexia has no common symptoms because some children who have all the characteristic features of dyslexia are in fact good readers while others who read badly have no such signs. [More…]
For this to be a workable project there would have to be an assessment of the child’s reading skills and an examination of the functions that underline them - visual and auditory perception, association processes, language development and visuo-motor skills such as handwriting. [More…]
It is necessary that a child with specific learning difficulties be identified as early as possible so that remedial measures can be begun without delay. [More…]
So that a child with specific reading difficulties will not have his intelligence based solely on this, 2 assessments must be made, one for reading attainment, the other for general ability, the results of which can be compared to reveal inconsistent performance. [More…]
Therefore the aim of Speld is to advance the education and general welfare of children and others who are handicapped by specific learning difficulties. [More…]
This term refers to a lack of a particular skill which seriously retards a child’s educational progress. [More…]
This object can be achieved only by a greater public awareness of the problem and needs of children who have these problems. [More…]
This is hoped to relieve some of the emotional strain placed on the family when a child has these difficulties. [More…]
It is also hoped to have included in the teacher training scheme a course of instruction to equip teachers for early recognition of children with difficulties. [More…]
woman or child - being deprived of a right of relief in the civil courts of- this land. [More…]
The claims of Yugoslavia extend even to the children of foreign nationals of Yugoslav origin. [More…]
A child born of parents who are Yugoslav citizens automatically acquires Yugoslav citizenship. [More…]
A child born in a foreign country whose one parent at the moment of its birth is a Yugoslav citizen by origin shall acquire Yugoslav citizenship if, by the time the child completes 18 years of age, it is reported for registration as a Yugoslav citizen with the responsible Yugoslav organ in the country or abroad, or if the child permanently settles down in Yugoslavia. [More…]
has reasonablec ause to believe and does, in fact, believe that the woman has been adequately and carefully advised concerning procedures alternative to termination open to her and concerning any institution or person of a public or private character including government departments and social agencies which may be willing to offer the woman, and if she bears a child, the woman and her child, financial and other assistance; [More…]
Whosoever, being a woman with child, unlawfully administers to herself any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
Whosoever unlawfully administers to, or causes to be taken by, any woman, whether with child or not, any drug or noxious thing; or unlawfully uses any instrument or other means, with intent in any such case to procure her miscarriage, shall be liable to penal servitude for 10 years. [More…]
When the foetus becomes ‘viable’, that is when it could exist outside the woman, that state has an interest in protecting the unborn child and ‘may go so far as to prohibit abortion during that period, except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother’. [More…]
They know that single and married women are at times so threatened by the thought of bearing a child that their own welfare - possibly the welfare of a family- is seriously threatened. [More…]
Consider the hypocrisy of a society that expects a woman to bear children against her will and then does little to support those children if in need or even suggests adoption so that other women can be happy at her expense. [More…]
Most unwanted pregnancies result in an unwanted child - a child subjected to emotional and material deprivation and one more likely to develop into a deprived and unwanted adult. [More…]
Social workers inform us that every child who is born unwanted is more likely to swell the ranks of the social misfits. [More…]
Who would argue with the moral slogan ‘Every child has the right to life’. [More…]
But who would look beyond the rhetoric of what is implied in that slogan by anti-reformers and ask what is meant by ‘child’ and what is meant by life without quality? [More…]
That same moral slogan can be better and more accurately expressed as Every child has the right to be wanted’. [More…]
I warn those who oppose reform that they must show beyond doubt how they will enforce the law and charge those whom they consider as thousands of murderers, how they will prevent the tragedies of illegal abortions and how they will demonstrate their concern for the child batterings that result from unwanted children. [More…]
But to confine one’s thinking to this single absolutist principle is to ignore the many other rights inherent in the situation, such as the rights to health and welfare of the mother and her existing family, the rights to choose whether to bear children or not and the right of the child to be wanted. [More…]
It will place the responsibility on the government to provide all clinical, medical and social and financial assistance possible to the woman so that she may bear her child whether that pregnancy was planned or not. [More…]
There is also the myth, restated here, that legal abortion will dispose of the unwanted and illegitimate child problem. [More…]
When evaluated with the risk of subsequent pregnancies, and with the incidence of incapacity for a woman to have a child or retain a pregnancy, the complication rate rose to between 30 per cent and 40 per cent. [More…]
It is a matter of concern in an age of advanced technology and achievement where modern medicine has accomplished such wonders in curative and preventative control of disease and illness, that the best we can do as a society for the expectant mother and her child is to bring the force of that technology and medical achievement to destroy human life in the womb. [More…]
If we agree to invoke the legal approval for the breakdown of the unborn child’s right to life, then we are beginning to break down that basic right to life which we all possess. [More…]
It authorises the intentional destruction, ultimately on simple request, of unborn children in the first 12 weeks of their existence. [More…]
The mother may be healthy and wealthy and the child in perfect development. [More…]
As this campaign for abortion has proceeded, it is notable that concern for child endowment, maternity welfare, reduction of neo-natal, infant and child mortality of Aborigines have all been played off the stage. [More…]
This emanates from Professor Ehrlich, whose intellect was admired by some Australians recently when he visited the country, and his stated aim is compulsory abortion after the second child. [More…]
The question then arises: Should the medical officer take measures to resuscitate the child or just let it die? [More…]
If the child should survive, is a birth certificate to be written out, and if the child dies what is the cause of death to be inserted in the death certificate? [More…]
Admittedly this procedure sweeps away all pretences of a humane concern for the child. [More…]
Such concern would be to find why people are pressured towards abortion; how unwed mothers might have proper care and hospital attention to give natural birth to their children; the procedures of adoption; the provision of government subsidised day care and after school centres for children of working parents; payment of equal tax rebates for dependants, rather than the present system of concessional deductions; increased welfare benefits for deserted and/ or unmarried mothers; removal of legislative discrimination and positive action to suppress social and commercial discrimination against unwed mothers, de facto wives and illegitimate children. [More…]
There are a number of disastrous consequences arising from legalising the slaying of unborn children. [More…]
The more developed the unborn child the more certain laboratories seek the child’s body for experiment. [More…]
I am currently trying to speed the development of child care centres. [More…]
In the Northern Territory these can mean the saving of Aboriginal child life, for children in such centres are seen by infant welfare sisters and, as a consequence, their health problems are treated. [More…]
Otherwise Aboriginal neo-natal infant and child mortality is as much as 10 times that of Europeans. [More…]
Recently Mr Bob Hawke on television said that the whole of the French trade was not worth the life of one Australian unborn child. [More…]
The whole of the French trade is worth $197m, so Mr Bob Hawke has certainly valued - and I think very rightly - every unborn Australian as a royal soul and I cannot imagine that anybody could justify the destruction of children of that value nor justify their use in experiments where they are regarded merely as human tissue. [More…]
We need a major effort to reduce Aboriginal neo-natal infant and child mortality. [More…]
We need a major effort to help handicapped children. [More…]
We need a new concern for assistance to children in poor families. [More…]
We need realistic assistance for unmarried mothers - not merely the assistance of social security payments but advice about their children, advice about employment, advice about child care centres, advice about the education of their children. [More…]
We need the development of community services to help the child who is battered or harmed in unsatisfactory homes. [More…]
In short, we need a total program on the sanctity of child life. [More…]
It is a tragedy, I think, that our attention is being diverted to how children can be eliminated when the attention of this Parliament is very much needed to how they can be advanced. [More…]
There is nothing in the Bill to say that a doctor, faced with a request from a girl of say 12, 13 or 14, need consult the child’s parents. [More…]
I can see no provision for the father of the unborn child to exercise his responsibilities or his rights. [More…]
In fact, the father is denied any legal right in determining the fate of the unborn child. [More…]
There is at least one other life involved - that of the unborn child. [More…]
I know there is a lot of argument about the point at which an unborn child becomes a person in the legal sense, but my own view is that when we are considering abortion we cannot leave out of that consideration the unborn child, no matter what stage of development it has reached. [More…]
I see the fundamental right as that which has been described as the right to life of the unborn child. [More…]
If we look for some legal guidance on the status of the unborn child, we find that in the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1971, in the case of Watt v. Rama, it was held that where a child had suffered injuries in an accident or had suffered grave disabilities as the result of her mother’s injury, the defendant had owed a duty of care not to cause injury to the child. [More…]
The child in this case was bom on 4th January 1968 and the motor accident in which the injuries were suffered occurred on 15th May 1967 - almost 8 months before the child was born. [More…]
It seems that the court had no doubt that this child - although only a matter of a few weeks past conception at the time of the accident - certainly had the legal rights of other members of the community. [More…]
I think all of us would agree that there are circumstances in which the judgment has to be made as to whether first consideration must be given to the life, or health of the mother or that of the unborn child. [More…]
However the flexibility of the present legal system in Canberra would permit a gynaecologist, after consideration of these and other factors, and after proper consultation, to terminate pregnancy when he considered it to be in the best interests of a woman and her potential child. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a real question to be dealt with here - whether the right to life of the unborn child can be subordinated to the quality of life of the existing family or the community. [More…]
Again, we are told that there are many children born who are unwanted and because they are unwanted they suffer. [More…]
It seems to me that if a child is not going to be wanted, there is a very heavy responsibility resting on those who have the power to set the life process in train to take steps to prevent conception. [More…]
We must ask ourselves whether the attitude represented by this Bill could lead to a lessening respect for life not only of the unborn child but also of people who have far less potential for usefulness in society. [More…]
Should we not be seeing to it that mothers of young children are given the help they need in caring for them? [More…]
Should we not examine our attitudes, both as individuals and as a community, to the unmarried mother, to the illegitimate child and to the deserted wife? [More…]
What are the courses open to women who carry through unwanted pregnancies and what are the consequences of each course for the mother and for the child. [More…]
We will not begin to reduce the frequency with which women are aborted until we establish clearly in the public mind that there is a connection between abortion and the inadequacy of arrangements under which sex education is provided in our schools; between abortion and our shortage of family planning clinics, pregnancy support agencies and adoption agencies; and between abortion and our tradition of treating as outcasts from society the unmarried mother and her child. [More…]
Is it because of poverty, because they are not married and a child would cause them embarrassments or because they are married and have too many children? [More…]
Thirdly, what are the courses open to women who carry through unwanted pregnancies and what are the consequences of each course for the mother and for the child? [More…]
The woman may be married or unmarried, but she keeps the child. [More…]
She could have the child adopted. [More…]
Does she forever afterwards feel a sense of guilt that she has not kept the child or is she quite happy about it. [More…]
Supposing the child happens to be a child of mixed race and nobody wants to adopt it and it goes into an institution and the mother has to think of what happens to an unloved child in an institution. [More…]
Are we going to pass a Bill dealing purely with abortion and not consider all these related subjects which might induce a girl to keep or not to keep her child? [More…]
If she is forced to carry the child because of some specious argument that it can be adopted out, what sort of penalty is that to impose on her, that she has to carry this foetus, to use a word, until it becomes viable and is born and then give it to someone else? [More…]
Essentially that amounts to balancing the health or life of the mother against that of the unborn child. [More…]
An additional reason why I would not want by my vote to pass this Bill is that I would not want to contribute to a situation in which young men and women may take a decision which could haunt them with guilt for the rest of their lives when a chance event brought back to their recollection the decision which they took many years ago and which deprived them of the opportunity of a child - stifled a life at a time when there were on them great pressures which they could not withstand at the time. [More…]
My attitude is consistent when carried through to capital punishment, sex education, access to professional social welfare workers, child care centres, community assistance programs and so on. [More…]
Thus unborn children have been recognised as acquiring rights or interests by way of inheritance or other devolution of property, but the existence of these rights is contingent upon the child being born alive; that is, these rights are retrospective rights. [More…]
The only justification offered for this claim is that the development of a foetus from conception through birth into childhood and thence to adulthood is continuous. [More…]
Our society recognises that there is a difference between the foetus, the young child and the adult human being. [More…]
(c) there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped; and [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19730510_reps_28_hor83/#subdebate-21-0)
I submit that the fundamental issue in this debate is whether an unborn child has a right to life. [More…]
I contend that the unborn child has that right. [More…]
Under the law at present the life of a mother is given preference over the life of an unborn child. [More…]
While thelaw provides for protection of a mother’s life, under these circumstances the rights of an unborn child normally would still remain. [More…]
That an unborn child has rights is widely recognised despite comments that have been made in the debate. [More…]
I repeat that the fundamental question before the House is whether the rights of an unborn child should be recognised during the whole or only part of a pregnancy. [More…]
It is true that an unborn child is at an advanced stage at the period suggested in the Bill as the time when the rights of the unborn child are acknowledged by the honourable members who are proposing the Bill. [More…]
The issue is generally described as abortion on demand, or, in other words, where an abortion for any reason is made legal on request without any regard to the rights of the unborn child. [More…]
We, in this Parliament today, have the opportunity to decide where we stand on national moral values and in protecting the unborn, helpless child. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security has disregarded statements that have been made all round the world by leaders, both civil and religious, about the rights of the unborn child. [More…]
The unborn child is worthy of the same protection the law gives to the infant after birth. [More…]
Some of the statements that have been ma:e about the rights of the unborn child appear in the Declaration of the Rights of a Child, United Nations General Assembly, 20th November 1959, which reads: [More…]
The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth. [More…]
I believe that a child when conceived is a human being and I have a great regard and respect for human life. [More…]
I would say only this in reply to K. Shaw of Carlton: There is someone whom this Bill concerns and will affect far more than the woman, and that is the child who will have his or her life denied under the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
It is his child equally with the mother. [More…]
What about the child who may be a mother or father one day if allowed to live out the span of her or his natural life? [More…]
However, for the information of the House, in view of the great interest that there has been in this matter of dual citizenship, I think I should let the House and the honourable member know that article 4 of the Yugoslav Citizenship Law Act of 1964 provides for Yugoslav citizenship to be acquired by a child on 3 bases: If both parents are Yugoslav citizens at the moment of the child’s birth; if one parent at the moment of the child’s birth is a Yugoslav citizen, and the child is born in Yugoslavia; or if one parent at the moment of the child’s birth is a Yugoslav citizen, the other parent without a citizenship, and the child is born in a foreign country. [More…]
More particularly related to this Bill is the fact that the area is deprived of a great number of other community facilities such as roads, libraries, child care centres, recreational centres, social welfare services and all the facilities which are provided by local governments. [More…]
Such social institutions must set out to avoid mistakes of other large housing projects and must include very basic human amenities such as corner shops, shopping centres, transport nodes and child care centres open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to care for the children of working mothers. [More…]
In May 1969 there were 413,900 families in Australia with children under 12 without a parent during working hours. [More…]
There is also need for special facilities for handicapped children. [More…]
With the promise of pre-school education for every child aged over 4 years, one of the Association’s long sought after goals has been achieved. [More…]
As there is a changing emphasis, however, to the 3 and 4-year-olds its aim will continue to be to ensure that pre-school education to higher standards is available to all children in the wider age group of 3 to 5 years and, in addition, to be a leader in the field in Queensland in the area of full-day child care. [More…]
Psychologists infer that a child’s basic motivation and disposition are formed at that time. [More…]
This is the age when a child’s character is formed and his ideals moulded. [More…]
Secondly, will he accept my assurance - I am sure that I speak for all honourable members who, out of a strong conviction on the basic principles involved, voted against the Bill and the amendment - that the House will co-operate to the fullest possible extent in helping the Government expedite the development of measures such as family planning clinics, child care centres and education programs which will make an important and constructive contribution to the solving of the serious personal problems which abortion raises for many people? [More…]
As always, it is the child who bears the brunt of shortcomings in the public sector. [More…]
Parents with well-based fears of disease are denying their families access to the creeks and rivers which once played such an important part in the experience of an Australian childhood. [More…]
The problem that the Association poses to the Minister - I will try to make this as brief as possible - is that in order to adopt a war orphan from Vietnam, a child of varied race, which the members of the Association wish -o do, they have to apply for adoption by proxy through a Vietnamese lawyer once the children have been located for adoption purposes. [More…]
At some subsequent stage they are :hen in a position perhaps to bring a child to Australia. [More…]
They wish to ask the Minister 2 questions: Firstly, if the children are under 2 years of age and if they come in as a group, will the Commonwealth bear the cost of the fare of an escort to look after them? [More…]
Secondly, would these children be eligible to enter Australia on an assisted passage? [More…]
They then go on to point out that the United States Government has an agreement with the Vietnamese Government whereby a release form is sent to Vietnam and the child can then leave for its new home within 6 weeks of its being located, during Which time the legal adoption process is conducted and completed in Vietnam. [More…]
My information is that it costs $25 a month while the child is being cared for in Vietnam, and that it takes sometimes 8 to 9 months to complete, the proxy adoption. [More…]
I want to reply to the honourable member very specifically on one point, namely, that the Department of Immigration of the Australian Government is advised in the basic principle relating to this matter by the various State Departments of child welfare. [More…]
The biggest problem faced by these families, or at least the individuals, who wish to adopt the children, the dispossessed, the orphans of Vietnam is to validate the adoption through the State authorities. [More…]
In the first instance, these children must be adopted according to Vietnamese law. [More…]
If the various State departments approve the adoption and when proper clearance has been secured I will give every support - I want to pledge my co-operation in this - to getting the child united with its parents of adoption in Australia. [More…]
The remaining proposals in the Bill are a result of the introduction by the Commonwealth of schemes to assist with the education of children living in isolated areas and for the payment of a domiciliary nursing care benefit to persons taking care of invalid aged relations in their homes. [More…]
The amendments proposed in relation to the isolated children’s education scheme will ensure that allowances paid under the scheme will receive the same exemption from income tax as payments under the Commonwealth secondary and technical scholarship schemes. [More…]
Like the scholarship schemes, however, amounts payable for the maintenance or accommodation of isolated children are to be taken into account for the purposes of the concessional deductions for maintenance of dependants, while allowances paid in respect of education costs are to be taken into account in calculating the concessional deduction for a child’s education expenses. [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by State housing authorities with our advances will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main bread-winner - exclusive of any overtime and child endowment payments - does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as defined in the Agreement. [More…]
Where the family includes more than 2 children, this will be increased by $2 per week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
In line with our policy of ensuring that our housing advances for welfare purposes benefit the more needy, applicants eligible to receive home builders’ account advances will be families consisting of a married or engaged couple, or a single parent or guardian with one or more children, where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner, inclusive of overtime but excluding child endowment payments, does not exceed about 93 per cent of average weekly earnings, plus $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
We all realise that even though recommendations are known to be possible of implementation at a future time, sometimes the actual availability to the child being educated at the school is dependent upon some money being available during the planning stages. [More…]
It may be that in some of the areas the State authorities will themselves be prepared to commit their own money to ensure that the planning takes place so that ‘the money available for 1974 can quicklly be converted into facilities available for the education of the children. [More…]
But there are many areas in which, if money were immediately available, additional educational facilities could be provided for children in schools where there is now a considerable need for improvement of facilities. [More…]
For example, the Bill did not provide for, say, a 13-year-old child who is pregnant to have reference to her parents before an abortion is carried out. [More…]
Even though, as a liberal, one could get oneself to the view that a woman has every right to do with her body as she pleases - that could be a liberal view - once one overcomes, if one can, the hurdle that a foetus has a right to life, I was finally persuaded by a report by Dr and Mrs Wynn who had some evidence that once a woman had had 3 or 4 abortions and then decided to have a child the chances of that child suffering some serious pre-natal or perinatal handicap were increased considerably. [More…]
As a liberal who cares for human beings, if this evidence is right and I do not know whether it is, I must be concerned that there is a possibility, where there is abortion on request or demand, of a child being born seriously handicapped. [More…]
The classes of women to whom the new benefit will be payable under this Bill are (a) unmarried mothers, including deserted de facto wives and de facto wives of prisoners; and (b) married women not living with their husbands (deserting wives) or wives who have been separated for various other reasons, provided that the women be living with, and have the custody, care and control of a child (or children) of whom they are the mothers. [More…]
These women are those who are not at present eligible for a widow’s pension under the Social Services Act and who, with their children, have been subject to discrimination in the level of assistance available to them in the past. [More…]
The new benefit will become payable 6 months after the date of the event which gives rise to eligibility - for example, the birth of a child or separation. [More…]
Returning now to the Bill, the rate of supporting mother’s benefit will be the same as the rate of class ‘A’ widow’s pension, including mother’s allowance, additional pension for children and, where applicable, supplementary assistance for those mothers who are paying rent. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that these rates in weekly amounts are: pensions, $21.50; mother’s allowance, $4, or $6 if the child is under 6 or an invalid; additional pension, $4.50 for each child; and supplementary assistance, $4. [More…]
The means test and other conditions for payment will be broadly the same as those applying to class ‘A’ widow pensioners; for example, the residence qualifications will be the same and it will also be a responsibility of the supporting mother to seek maintenance from the father of the child if, in the circumstances of her case, it would be reasonable to expect her to do this. [More…]
I understand that in Tasmania a deserted de facto wife of 12 months’ standing may sue for maintenance for herself and children, but in the other States she may claim maintenance for children only. [More…]
A word about children: The Government believes that when a mother gives birth to a child she should not be discriminated against merely because conception may have occurred after she became a widow or after she became separated from her husband. [More…]
In future, both for widow’s pension purposes and for supporting mother’s benefit, a widow’s own child or a supporting mother’s own child will qualify them for the respective pension or benefit, irrespective or whether their child was conceived before or after the date of widowhood, desertion or separation. [More…]
This Bill therefore amends the old definition of ‘child’ which has remained in the legislation since 1942 and introduces a new definition, which defines a ‘child’ as any child born of the mother or a child of whom she had the care prior to the date on which she became a widow or a supporting mother, including a child who was an adopted child at that time. [More…]
A further advance made by the Bill is that the additional pension of $4.50 a week for children will be payable for all other children in the care of the widow or supporting mother, whether those other children are qualifying children or not. [More…]
A deduction of $6 a week for each dependent child will continue to be made from the widow’s income and will also be made from the supporting mother’s income before the means test is applied. [More…]
This, in effect, gaves a class ‘A’ widow or supporting mother with one child a permissible income of $26 a week plus a further $6 for each other child dependent on her. [More…]
A child will also be accepted as being in the custody, care and control of a widow or supporting mother where that child is not living with the widow - for example, where it is living away from home to attend school, provided the widow is making a reasonable contribution towards the child’s maintenance. [More…]
This Bill amends the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act in 5 ways: It makes provision for special superannuation arrangements for New South Wales and South Australian teachers now teaching in Commonwealth schools; it provides benefits by way of book and equipment allowance to Commonwealth Teaching Service scholars; it provides benefits by way of special financial assistance for Commonwealth Teaching Service scholars; it repeals existing provisions for officers absent from duty in relation to child birth; and it enables the Commissioner to provide, and the authorities to use, members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service for special educational duties. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service carries responsibility for the education of a significant proportion of the Aboriginal child population of Australia, some of these children being taught in their own languages. [More…]
It must work to give equality of opportunity to all children in the Northern Territory - children who live under some factors of disadvantage in their schooling. [More…]
The Prime Minister, in his Election Policy Speech, announced a proposal to allow income tax deductions in respect of payments to a recognised child care centre, up to a maximum of $260 per annum. [More…]
What are the courses open to women who carry through unwanted pregnancies and what are the consequences of each course for the mother and for the child. [More…]
Clause 13 of the Bill removes as far as possible the distinction between children born in wedlock and those born out of wedlock by substituting a new Part I in the Schedule to replace the existing Parts I and II, which deal with legitimate and illegitimate children respectively. [More…]
The consent of a child’s father who is not married to the mother will now be required where the father is living with the mother, and in cases where the parents are separated and the minor is living with him. [More…]
I believe that, in addition to ending the legislative distinction between children born in and out of wedlock for the purpose of consent to marry, the new table will be more in keeping generally with modern requirements. [More…]
The second, and a deeply disturbing one, is that removing the requirement of parental consent would have the effect of undermining parental authority still further; and even of encouraging bad parents to wash their hands of their children at the first signs of teenage trouble. [More…]
Good parents do not cease to be such when the sun rises on a 21st birthday; indeed their continuing care and concern is confidently gambled upon by the government when it requires a financial contribution to a child’s further and further education even up to the age of 25. [More…]
I want to refer to a case in my electorate of a very young unmarried Aborigine who now has given birth to her eighth child. [More…]
I rise to support this legislation because of my concern about the need to provide adequate benefits to the children who, in other contexts, are sometimes described as fatherless children. [More…]
The young mother, in the circumstances under which this Bill will provide a benefit, has had difficult choices to make as to how she would care for her children and give that child the proper mothering it deserved. [More…]
Should she go out to work in a full time capacity or should she stay at home and live under extreme financial difficulties in order to provide the mother care that she thought her child deserved? [More…]
These days a young married woman usually works until she has her first child. [More…]
When the first child arrives the young mother is faced with an extraordinarily difficult choice. [More…]
Should she continue to work to provide her husband and her child with the financial resources that 2 incomes will bring into the household or should she stop working and provide mother care to her child. [More…]
Whilst I support this legislation for what it will do for the children of fatherless families, I do urge the Government to look into the establishment of a far more comprehensive family benefits scheme whereby young mothers with very young children can, in effect, be paid to be at home providing the care that they wish to give to their children so that, instead of the community having to pay for substitute mothers, the natural mother of the child can provide care at home, certainly during the infant and pre-school days. [More…]
We will find that by tackling in a piecemeal fashion the problems concerning the provision of benefits for children we will impose great pressures on the normal family in the community and that by putting those pressures on that family we will cause greater difficulties in the future because of the inability of the normal family to face the financial burdens that are imposed upon it when the first and second children come along and the mother chooses to stay at home and care for those children. [More…]
We now have a situation where a widow or a person in receipt of this supporting mothers benefit will receive an income considerably more in excess of the acknowledged poverty levels than similar 2-parent single income families with dependent children. [More…]
1 believe that we need to review our assessment of the period of dependency of children. [More…]
We have thought in the past that a child is dependent for a period of 16 years and we have tended to adjust all our benefits on the basis that having started at birth they should continue throughout that period. [More…]
I think we need to look at them in a more sensible fashion and to adjust the benefits at levels according to the needs of the families to enable them to spread their earning capacity in a way which permits them to provide their children with a reasonable standard of living at all stages of the family’s development. [More…]
But I do want to place on record today the need for us to examine the deserving demand of the families of the nation in order to place them in a position where they too can have financial benefits to provide their children with the home care and mother care which are so essential to their educational development. [More…]
by omitting from the definition of ‘child’ in sub-section (1) all the words after the words sixteen years’; and [More…]
For the purposes of this Part, a child who is being maintained by a widow shall be deemed to be a child of whom the widow has, and had at any time when she was maintaining the child, the custody, care and control. [More…]
by omitting from the definition of “child” in sub-section (1) all the words after the words “sixteen years,”; “widow” in sub-section (1) the following paragraph: “(f) a man who has the care and custody of his dependent child or children and - [More…]
For the purposes of this Part, a child who is being maintained by a widow shall be deemed to be a child of whom the widow has, and had at any time when she was maintaining the child, the custody, care and control. [More…]
If the councils want to establish a child care centre, a senior citizens centre, a swimming pool or a park, who decides it? [More…]
I refer particularly to the young married couples and especially to the position of young married couples on the birth of the first child. [More…]
But honourable members will realise that because of many causes - and I do not want to say that these are good or bad, but simply to record what has happened - over recent decades the position of the young married couple with a child has deteriorated in the community. [More…]
I do not want to suggest for one moment that we should tolerate economic circumstances in which a wife with a young child is compelled against her will to take paid employment away from the home. [More…]
For example, parents might well buy them for their children. [More…]
If parents decided to invest on behalf of their child $100 every year from birth, at the age of 22 or 23 years that child would be able to buy a house absolutely, without putting up any other money or having any debt on the house, because the value of the certificates would have thus accumulated. [More…]
It is true that the parent would not get an income tax deduction in respect of those purchases because the income tax deduction could be taken out only in the child’s name. [More…]
But by a comparatively modest investment yearly a child’s future could be assured. [More…]
If the wage system is insensitive to family size, how then do we equalise the burden of child rearing? [More…]
How do we equalise the opportunity of the children being reared? [More…]
It is important that we take steps to ensure that the standard of living of a man with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly, with that of a single man or a single woman. [More…]
It is important also that we take steps to ensure that the standard of a living of a 2 parent family where, the mother, iu the interests of her children, stays at home to care for them, compares favourably with such a family where the mother, due to the age of her children, feels that she can go out to work without prejudice to their welfare. [More…]
If we fail to do this we will attain a situation which puts pressure on the young mother who wishes in the interests of her child to remain at home, forcing her out to work for economic reasons and economic reasons alone. [More…]
Each had left work when her first child was about to be born. [More…]
For each of them her child now was past the baby stage yet still under school age. [More…]
She felt guilty as to whether she was doing the right thing by her child. [More…]
She also justified her decision to take full time employment on the ground that when the child was going to school the child would have greater opportunities available to it because of the economic resources then available to the family. [More…]
A friend of hers with whom I was also speaking had a child of the same age. [More…]
That young mother had decided in the interests of her child to stay at home and not take employment until the child was at least of school age. [More…]
She and her husband prior to the birth of the child had both been working. [More…]
She felt that the best interests of her child would be served by her staying at home and she had decided to do this. [More…]
One mother was continuously concerned about whether, in the light of her own maternal instinct and in the light of expert information about the importance of a mother’s providing mother care for her child at home, she was doing the right thing in providing substitute mothering in child care centres and leaving her child for the long periods that were necessary if she were to retain her full time employment. [More…]
But she, having decided to stay at home to look after her child, did not have that opportunity because the financial resources were not available. [More…]
As more and more young mothers feel that the economic pressures upon them are such that against their better judgment they must go out to work even when their young children need them at home, more and more young mothers will do so because the contrasts between the 2 alternatives of being a 2 income family and a single income one will be so marked. [More…]
We need to tackle the question afresh and not to assume that child endowment over the period from birth to the age of 16 or throughout dependency is necessarily the right answer whereby we can achieve equal opportunities for the children of the nation. [More…]
At the same time they want to do the best for their children, and they cannot do the best for their children if one of the heaviest burdens upon them is the burden of maintaining the home within which they wish to bring up their young families. [More…]
If the councils want to establish a child care centre, a senior citizens centre, a swimming pool or a park … the Commonwealth Minister, on the advice of the Grants Commission, will now decide it. [More…]
In this affluent and successful country Australians are entitled not only to adequate roads, water and drainage and sewerage but also to libraries, recreation facilities, community centres, child care centres and cultural centres. [More…]
Comparatively, the western suburbs are deprived in that they lack a great number of community services such as roads, libraries, child care centres, recreational centres and social welfare services. [More…]
The Bill also makes provision for an officer or employee who is the father or a person accepting responsibility for the care and maintenance of the child to take up to 1 week’s leave, with pay, around the time of the birth of a child where he requires the leave to take care of the mother of a child or of a child. [More…]
The Government, therefore, is introducing the new benefits and leave entitlements in respect of its own female officers and employees - I suppose it is not necessary to say ‘female’ officers - to enable each person concerned to fulfil the role of mother and, if she wishes, to continue her career after the birth of her child. [More…]
The provision in this Bill for up to one week’s leave for the father or other person responsible should help that person meet the increased domestic responsibilities that arise at the time of the birth of a child. [More…]
This would mean that that man who became the legal father or custodian or one responsible for the care of the unborn child at the time of marriage would be entitled, upon the confinement of the wife, to have a week’s parental leave, notwithstanding the fact that the child Was not his own child. [More…]
No less than 85 per cent of the family homes to be built by the State Housing Authorities with our advances will be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinners will not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings per employed male unit as defined in the agreement and, where the family includes 2 or more children, this will be increased by $2 a week for each child beyond the second. [More…]
This was to be an addition, a topping up of the assistance to isolated children given by the States. [More…]
The Western Australian State Government immediately this year dropped its grants to isolated children. [More…]
I am sure that any one of us here who received an application form telling us that we would receive $350 per child would ensure that the application form was sent off in the next mail, affluent as we may be in comparison with the people concerned in this issue. [More…]
In Tasmania a child who lives near a high school normally speaking is ineligible for an isolated child’s grant. [More…]
But, although he may be next to a quite significant high school, if he wants to be a matriculation student he is in fact an isolated child. [More…]
So we have had to adjust the scheme in Tasmania for children who want to go to matriculation colleges and we have had to assess them as isolated children on their proximity to or distance from matriculation colleges. [More…]
In Tasmania 657 children so far have been paid grants. [More…]
I wish that Mr Withers in his statement would emphasise that any isolated child is eligible to receive $350 if he meets the definition of an isolated child. [More…]
We are virtually a new nation now because shortly half of the population will be under 25 years and one Australian in every three ii the product of post-war migration, either by coming to this country or by being a child oi grandchild of migrant parents. [More…]
How every Australian-born child shall not be denied adequate opportunity nor the necessities of life however unfortunate the circumstances of their birth. [More…]
Provisionand improvement of creche, kindergarten and child minding facilities for working mothers. [More…]
The discharging ears of these children have a terrible smell, too. [More…]
Children are avoided at school because of this smell. [More…]
I spent Australia Day at the hospital waiting for a child with maggots in his ears to be treated. [More…]
Public hospital services for Nowa Nowa and Lake Tyers are situated at Bairnsdale and Aboriginal mothers are expected to get children to the outpatients department at that hospital for treatment. [More…]
Mothers with up to 7 sick children and no income other than social security benefits have been told by departmental health educators to make this journey. [More…]
The mother took the child to the health educator, who happened to be on (She spot; but, in conformity with the policy of (She Department by which she is employed, [More…]
The mother asked the educator whether the child should be. [More…]
I was told at Nowa Nowa about a young mother of 4 children who was sick at Bruthen and had an appointment for treatment at Bairnsdale. [More…]
We should remember that as long ago as 1968-69 expenditure on food was $272 per head or in excess of $5 per week per man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
For the purpose of this Convention, the term woman’ means any female person, irrespective of age, nationality, race or creed, whether married or unmarried, and the term ‘child’ means any child whether born of marriage or not. [More…]
The rates of cash benefit shall be fixed by national laws or regulations so as to ensure benefits sufficient for the full and healthy maintenance of herself and her child in accordance with a suitable standard of living. [More…]
If a woman is nursing her child she shall be entitled to interrupt her work for this purpose at a time or times to be prescribed by, national laws or regulations. [More…]
The Convention provides for a woman to interrupt her work after the termination of her maternity leave for the purpose of nursing her child. [More…]
The Opposition believes that society has a direct responsibility to ensure that the dual role of the working woman who becomes pregnant does not affect her health or that of her child. [More…]
The Bill also discriminates in favour of those women who are able to return to work and against those who need to return but are unable to do so because of the unavailability of satisfactory child care arrangements. [More…]
The child care scheme introduced by the former Government was designed specifically to provide assistance to working women. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned that the child care program is not progressing to the time-table which was contemplated at its inception. [More…]
After all, it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that scientists demonstrated that both parents made equivalent conributions to a child’s biological inheritance. [More…]
Yet women’s child bearing functions undoubtedly have served as the basis of restrictions and discrimination. [More…]
Based on the research initiatives of the Bureau, the previous Government introduced substantial measures in such important areas as employment training and, not least, the child care facilities program. [More…]
It must also be made clear that the former Government made social provisions for all women in respect of childbirth in the forms of a maternity allowance and child endowment. [More…]
He put it that the former Government had been very concerned to assist women in employment in respect of their training and child care. [More…]
It made only passing reference to and expressed only passing concern for the payment of child endowment. [More…]
The absence of adequate child minding facilities is a major problem in itself. [More…]
In a survey conducted by the Bureau of Census and Statistics in 1969 it was found that 400,000 working mothers had responsibility for children under 12 years of age. [More…]
Of 270,000 children of working mothers who were under 6 years of age only 7 per cent were placed in child care centres. [More…]
The results showed that 91,500 women with children under 6 years of age said that they would work if suitable child minding facilities were available. [More…]
The mother is able to leave work and after making alternative arrangements for the care of her child may return to employment without the economic losses which used to be involved. [More…]
It recognises that the birth of an Australian child is something to be encouraged. [More…]
The Australian Country Party accepts the position as outlined by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch), when he spoke on behalf of the Opposition, that these benefits are provided for Commonwealth employees to enable them to prepare on full pay for confinement and to have some 6 weeks on full pay following the birth of the child to make satisfactory arrangements for a return to work. [More…]
An extremely important adjunct to maternity allowances for those mothers who want to resume work is the provision of more child minding centres. [More…]
The Government should be looking at other measures, such as increasing child endowment to enable all children to have as near as possible equal opportunities to utilise whatever talents he or she may possess. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Dr Gaha) suggested that, instead of augmenting the family income by the payment of child endowment, we should provide for the sale of houses at lower prices and that it should be possible to use the money now paid in child endowment to amortise the cost of such an undertaking. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I am privileged that you are sitting in the chair at the moment because I know you had a very difficult task, probably one of the most difficult tasks, on King Island and that was to minister to the population which at that time consumed 5.5 pints of beer per week for each man, woman and child. [More…]
In my statement to the press on 11 March 1973 I said that my Department would be seeking approval (from the Public Service Board) to appoint 48 multi lingual welfare officers, some of whom it was proposed would work with migrant children in schools and between the schools and migrants’ homes. [More…]
The intention to make such appointments was first discussed however at a meeting with State education authorities on 12 January 1970, and there is reference to my Department’s intention to assess the need to extend its normal integration services, through the provision of interpreters and welfare officers to meet the requirements of the child migrant education program, in the Ministerial Statement made to Parliament on 23 April 1970 by the then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
New and larger premises are planned for Melbourne to accommodate the increased faculties which we are now providing under both the child and adult migrant education programs. [More…]
They are special superannuation arrangements, book and equipment allowance to Commonwealth Teaching Service students, the repeal of regulations affecting female officers’ absence from duty due to pregnancy and child birth and finally the provision of special educational duties in respect of members of the Commonwealth [More…]
On both those occasions I sought to make a plea for the student as a whole person and to recognise the child’s total existence inside the school and out of it. [More…]
Furthermore, the general needs of our native people- in particular, the Aboriginal child- have, I believe, at long last made their claims upon the consciousness and sense of justice of all progressive Australians. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service is responsible for the education of large numbers of Aboriginal children. [More…]
The Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics first surveyed Child Care in May 1969 and more recently in May 1 973. [More…]
The members of the Australian Pre-Schools Committee and the Child Care Standards Committee were selected on the basis of the contribution they could make to the work of the respective Committees in the fields of pre-school education and child care. [More…]
The Australian Pre-Schools Committee has two qualified pre-school teachers, two educationists with experience in administering pre-school education systems (one of whom was formerly a senior lecturer at a Kindergarten teachers college), an authority in child development and special education, an eminent paediatrician, and an educationist who has specialised in teacher education, particularly in the preparation of programs in early child development. [More…]
The Child Care Standards Committee has five educationists qualified as pre-school teachers, an authority on child psychology who was a principal of a Kindergarten Teachers Training College, one eminent psychiatrist, one social worker with special experience in child care and a senior administrator in a State welfare depanment. [More…]
Two members of the Australian Pre-Schools Committee and six members of the Child Care Standards Committee include amongst their qualifications a Diploma of a Kindergarten Teachers’ College or an equivalent qualification in preschool education. [More…]
Australian Pre-Schools Committee, 3; Child Care Standards Committee, 6. [More…]
One thing that is happening as a result of the program of education in the vernacular for Aboriginal children is a new identity of parents with the schools, and the coming into being of Aboriginal parents councils in association with schools. [More…]
After the school at Papunya was damaged the headmaster asked some of the Aboriginal artists to illustrate Aboriginal child stories and about 12 of them did so. [More…]
Each artist told the children the story of the painting. [More…]
I do not see any great benefits in the general run of the mill fizzy drinks for the average Australian child or adult so we cannot properly argue that the exemption resulted in nutritional benefits for the country. [More…]
It said that it was not its responsibility and that local government was the child of the States. [More…]
Pre-Schools and Child Care [More…]
Detailed programs will then be developed to implement the Government’s objectives that all children are given the opportunity of one year of preschool and that child care facilities are established to meet the needs of the children of working parents and under-privileged families. [More…]
Meanwhile grants are being made under the Child Care Act 1972 to assist, establish and operate child care centres. [More…]
An estimated 1,600 new child care places should result. [More…]
Child care research grants will be financed by a further appropriation of $200,000. [More…]
Organisations and local authorities in other areas of need are being encouraged to seek grants for the establishment of child care centres. [More…]
The appropriations for the child care program do not appear in the Budget Speech under ‘Education’ but under the functional classification of Social Security and Welfare’. [More…]
I have already said that the Opposition applauds the expansion of the child migrant education program flowing from a survey which was commissioned last year. [More…]
At this stage I have no quarrel with that proposition - in fact I support it - ‘because it also gives support for isolated children. [More…]
I believe that there would have been too great a discrimination in favour of one area if the Aboriginal study grant scheme had been extended to cover the full area of secondary education and special provision for isolated children had not been made at the same time. [More…]
The child from such a family is now in an Australian school. [More…]
The father learns some English at work but when the child goes back to the home environment there is probably often tension and difficulty if there is an attempt to speak English because the mother does not understand and does not want to be left out. [More…]
We agree with his somewhat courageous statement that the Commonwealth ought to accept and indentify an interest with the educa tion of every child. [More…]
This clarion call to women in the community hardly fits the absence of any tax deduction for child care centres in this Budget - a preelection promise which has been broken. [More…]
Where is the increase in child endowment that the ALP has demanded with regularity each Budget time from the previous Government? [More…]
If it believed that child endowment should have been increased in the past couple of years what has happened since 2 December last year to make this no longer urgent? [More…]
South Australia: All children are under compulsion in this State. [More…]
These cases are considered on merits, bearing in mind the circumstances in which the child lives, especially with regard to Aboriginals living in tribal areas. [More…]
Thus all Aboriginal children who are six years of age or more, and less than school leaving age, are required to attend school. [More…]
Such requirements are subject only to Education Department Regulations regarding distance of child’s home from school. [More…]
The allocation amounts to about 50c for every man, woman and child in Australia, compared with $3.24 a head in Holland, $2.40 in France, and $2.3 1 in West Germany. [More…]
It will disadvantage lower income families by failing to lower income tax scales in the face of Government induced inflation and by failing to offer assistance by way of tax concessions or additional child endowment. [More…]
We believe that the most important place to start is with our school children. [More…]
We believe that by 1980 we will be providing a comprehensive school dental care treatment for every primary school child within Aus; tralia. [More…]
When an ambulance called to take a child to hospital for regular treatment, the driver refused to take Mr Carter as well, and only grudgingly agreed to arrange for another ambulance to be sent out for him. [More…]
The new arrangements following the Karmel report discriminate against parents because there is no correlation between the wealth of a parent and the school that his child attends. [More…]
If there is any difference between a well endowed or so-called elite school and an ordinary non-government school it is in the provision of buildings and other capital facilities, not in the children who attend those schools. [More…]
What about the election promise of this Government to allow a tax deduction for child car centres? [More…]
Many working mothers are finding it very difficult to understand why on the one hand they have to pay expenses to send their children to child care centres but are not allowed to claim them as a taxation deduction and on the other hand when their children get a little older and go to a state school these expenses can be claimed. [More…]
They would be able to bring something of the background of migrants not only to migrant children here but also to our own children in the schools. [More…]
This would broaden the whole of the system of teaching English and also bring integration into the schools from all points of view, the point of view of the Australain child as well as the migrant child. [More…]
He has endeavoured to hold a line in justice to and in the interests of the education of children attending these schools. [More…]
Of course on 30 May 1973 he made the statement that ‘every school in Australia, including Geelong Grammar School, should receive a basic grant from the Commonwealth and that the Commonwealth should have an identity with the education of every child’. [More…]
A further pertinent point is that some Press reports prior to the Budget predicted that the maximum tax deductions for a child’s education expenses was to be severely cut. [More…]
In effect there is a blatant denial of the child’s right to a meaningful and fulfilling educational experience. [More…]
One would hope that the Minister for Education could be persuasive enough of his own colleagues to induce them to honour a commitment that he made on their behalf while he was shadow Minister for Education to continue proportionate aid at the rate of 20 per cent of the cost of educating children in the state system. [More…]
The parent of every child in every independent school is looking down the barrel of a gun. [More…]
They are schools whose educational resource comes about very often by the supreme sacrifice of parents in the belief that they should give their children an opportunity that they want them to have. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s decision to withdraw aid from certain schools these parents will be forced to send their children to the state school system, thus adding to the cost burden of that system. [More…]
It is to be hoped that when the Minister for Education takes this matter to the Caucus he will be able to persuade the Caucus to honour his election promise so that every child can receive the grants which they were assured by the Minister and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in the month leading up to the last Federal election, would be available to them. [More…]
These schools have this money while children exist in disgraceful conditions in many of our other schools. [More…]
Those children were not receiving the sort of education to which every Australian child is entitled. [More…]
For instance, adequate homemaker services are important to the middle income father with a sick wife and children and a home to be cared for, just as these services are vital to a modest and low income earning father confronted with a similar situation. [More…]
Middle income and modest and low income working mothers all have a keen interest to see there is adequate provision of child care facilities. [More…]
This is considerably less than the annual cost of many other programs such as child endowment - $210,835,000 in 1972- although more than the 1972 Australian Government expenditure on aged persons housing - $19m in the same year. [More…]
However, the range of services which may be covered by the proposed expenditure is wide and the anticipated preventive value great, if we consider the cost of providing services such as children’s homes, deserted wives pensions and so forth. [More…]
People were living in slums and a computer or some boffin suggested that the cheapest, most efficient way to solve that problem was to tear the slums down and erect high rise flats in their place without thinking for one moment of the impact of that on the individual concerned and without thinking about the kind of environment, both social and other, of the child living on the 31st storey of a 32-storey high rise flat. [More…]
Why in the name of fortune it is necessary for education departments, for example, with respect to the English literature course to set a teenage child 14 books to read, to absorb and to understand, and another 10 books dealing with English expression passes beyond my comprehension. [More…]
In family dialogue this has 2 results: The child feels superior and is therefore patronising and the parents feel inferior and are therefore aggressive. [More…]
It is rather significant that members of the Opposition give no credit at all to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) with respect to the polices he has advanced for children in rural areas which will provide $304 un-means tested for each child 10 miles away from an appropriate school, the same amount if living more than 4 miles away from transport to a school and up to $1,000 a year for isolated children. [More…]
The Minister for Housing interjects to say that the promise about child care centres is designed for a 3-year term. [More…]
A married couple with 2 children - they are the ones who I suggest comprise the family unit and the people against whom this Budget is directed - who seek non-public hospital accommodation after the Government has nationalised medicine, as it proposes to do on 1 July next will pay more than they do at present. [More…]
A man earning $80 a week who seeks to send his wife or child to a private hospital now pays $1.66 a week. [More…]
Under the proposed national scheme he will pay the same but he will not have any choice of where to send his wife or child. [More…]
It is not freedom of choice of a doctor; it is freedom of choice as to whether a man will send his child or wife to a public or private hospital. [More…]
I hope that the Country Party, particularly the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) who has mentioned this matter on many occasions, will give the Government credit for the provision it has made to assist in the education of isolated children. [More…]
Not long after taking office, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) allocated Commonwealth money to provide for the first time for assistance in the education of isolated children. [More…]
The amount of SI 2m has been allocated in such a way that, depending on the circumstances of a child’s parents, a payment of $350 completely free of a means test and a further allowance of S350 subject to a means test may be provided in respect of each child who qualifies for this payment. [More…]
I was quite pleased to see the increase granted with respect to handicapped children. [More…]
This matter is of particular concern to mc as I have a personal involvement with the Mimimooka Mentally Handicapped Children’s Hostel in Whyalla. [More…]
That hostel provides accommodation for retarded children from the Eyre Peninsula area. [More…]
50 a day per child, it has still run into financial difficulties in trying to maintain the hostel and in providing a hostel situated close to a special school. [More…]
50 a day for each child will certainly give it a boost. [More…]
I cannot refer to all of the injustices of Black Tuesday but I would like to read a letter which was written by a child. [More…]
No concern is shown on the other side of the House for poor Catholic children. [More…]
But it has stopped because the Karmel Committee has fixed economic criteria and priorities for schools not on the basis of religion, not on the basis of income but on the basis of need for the child that goes there. [More…]
From what I have said about education it can be seen that Australian children will get a better deal this year and so will the Australian people in general. [More…]
I refer to the written promise by the present Prime Minister as given to the Australian Federation of Credit Unions in a letter dated 24 October 1972 which stated that a Labor government would (1) grant exemption from taxation on credit union incomes and (2) allow child endowment, social service and repatriation payments to be credited to the savings accounts of members of credit unions. [More…]
Additional payments for children of pensioners and supporting mothers are to be increased by 50c per week to $5 per week for each child. [More…]
The rate of additional unemployment or sickness benefit payable for children is to be increased by 50c per week to $5 per week for each child. [More…]
Increases are proposed in the payments made to the widows of those ex-servicemen who died from war-related causes, and to the children and certain other dependants of those servicemen. [More…]
The pensions payable to the children of deceased ex-servicemen will also be increased. [More…]
Where the child is in the care of his or her mother, the Bill provides for an increase of $1.90, lifting the pension to $9.25. [More…]
The pension payable to a child who has lost both parents will be increased by $3.80 to $18.50 a week. [More…]
Approximately 3,200 children are involved, of which about 130 fall into the latter category. [More…]
Another relatively small group of dependants are the widowed mothers of deceased unmarried ex-servicemen and the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and invalid children of deceased ex-servicemen. [More…]
The Bill also increases the pension rates in respect of the children of deceased seamen coming under the Act. [More…]
The weekly rate for each child is increased from $7.35 to $9.25 a week. [More…]
It is also suggested that the Government tax child endowment. [More…]
It has allocated a further $8m for child care. [More…]
It has allocated $10m towards pre-school education with the object within 6 years of giving every child who requires pre-school education one year’s preschool education. [More…]
Much more care needs to be taken in the study than appears to have been taken by the Coombs task force in its rather superficial examination of such questions as the degree to which social security payments by way of child endowment and existing concessional deductions such as those for dependants, education expenses and others, achieve their social objective. [More…]
Under the present inflationary pressure growing numbers of families find themselves unable to reconcile the financial difference between the childless 2-income situation of early married life and the single income situation that comes with parenthood. [More…]
There is a case for paying child care allowances to mothers of young children as there is a case for restructuring the tax system in order to achieve equity for the normal family. [More…]
This would be like one person giving a bag of lollies to a child and another charged with the task of taking back half. [More…]
We do not want to take it over, but the Government has decided in its wisdom to make a financial contribution to education to provide every child with an opportunity for learning to a proper and acceptable standard. [More…]
In co-operation with the State governments it is anticipated that by 1980 all primary and pre-school children will be covered by the scheme and later it will be extended to provide for all secondary school children under fi 5 years of age. [More…]
At present it would be unusual to find a child in Australia who did not need some form of dental care. [More…]
That will result in a much needed improvement in the dental health of the children of this country, a matter which has hitherto been sadly neglected by previous governments. [More…]
The service wai offer free dental care and treatment to each child at least once a year and dental health education would be provided to ail school children. [More…]
One child in every 5 is conceived out of wedlock and each week up to 1,000 children are subjected to cruelty of a criminal kind. [More…]
It is reflected in human tragedies such as that of the father who plunged the feet of his 9-month-old baby into boiling water; the mother who murdered her 3-year-old child by beating him, sitting on him, and finally putting him in an electric oven; and the couple who pulled out by the roots the fingernails of their 5-year-old child. [More…]
We should be no less appalled by the frequency with which unplanned pregnancies and unwanted births occur, by the disproportionate share of this burden which falls on those sections of the community which are least able to carry it and by its tragic consequences for many an unwelcome child. [More…]
Whereas 5 out of every 10 Australian children are born as a result of unplanned pregnancies, among low income families 6 out of every 10 children are unplanned. [More…]
Whereas only 11 per cent of the mothers of 2-child families would rather not have had their last-born child, 28 per cent of the mothers of 3-child families, 41 per cent of the mothers of 4-child families and 45 per cent of the mothers of 5-child families would rather not have done so. [More…]
Whereas one in every 10 Australian children is born outside marriage, among women under the age of 21 one birth in every 3 occurs outside marriage and among Women aged under 21 years 2 out of every 3 children are born less than 9 months after marriage. [More…]
Any amendment which seeks to insert into the terms of reference matters such as housing, child minding facilities, pre-school facilities, domestic assistance for families and working mothers, the social status of women in the community and other assistance to women employed in industry will be seen as an attempt to replace an investigation of specific, pressing and practical problems with an inquiry into the whole human condition. [More…]
Such pressures should be examined having regard to the adequacy of (i) housing, (ii) child-minding facilities, (iii) pre-school facilities, (iv) disabilities of families with handicapped children and the means of assisting them, (v) domestic assistance for families and working mothers, (vi) adoption procedures, (vii) assistance to single parent families, (viii) social status of -women in the community and (bt) other assistance to mothers employed in industry. [More…]
the United Nations declaration of the rights of a child which states that the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth, and [More…]
The more important factor in regard to the outcome for the child is its upbringing after birth rather than whether it was planned or unplanned. [More…]
It said that there is a general cultural failure to relate the emotional and physical aspects of sex and to see them in the context of moral and social responsibility, that all the evidence emphasises that environmental factors, especially in the home, are far more important in regard to the ultimate outcome for the child than whether the pregnancy was planned or unplanned. [More…]
The pressures of inadequate housing, as I have mentioned, child minding facilities, adoption methods, the social status of women, the problems and attitudes of parents who might already have had a handicapped child and their attitude to another pregnancy, surely are matters that ought to be encompassed within an inquiry that is to give this Parliament some realistic evidence and advice in these matters. [More…]
What the libertine proponents of abortion on demand may refuse to regard as an important side issue is: how far should abortion be a matter of serious concern to people other than the woman herself, and how are the lives of her parents, husband or future husband and past or future children affected? [More…]
Firm evidence can be produced that abortion frequently reduces a woman’s future reproductive capability and subsequent children come at a. higher risk. [More…]
It can also be shown that a man is more likely to have a sterile wife or a stillborn, premature or defective child if he marries a girl who has had an induced abortion. [More…]
Is not it important that once an unwanted, unplanned child is born the Government should have a responsibility for ensuring that that human life can be adopted into a good home? [More…]
I would have thought that the opponents of abortion who demand that if a woman is pregnant she has that child have a great responsibility to ensure that once that unwanted child is born the utmost in adoptive facilities and counselling facilities should be provided to help that mother have that child adopted. [More…]
What I would like to see is an inquiry into the circumstances which cause an abortion; the consequences of it; the action required to assist women in avoiding it; the action required to deter people from aiding and abetting it; the adequacy and effectiveness of family planning techniques; the action required to ensure that medical practitioners always act in the interests of the woman’s health; the action required to ensure that all services are available free of cost; the action required to establish the necessary supportive services; and, generally, the action required to ensure the preservation of the lives of the mother and her unborn child. [More…]
The commissioners should have access to the records of all Federal authorities, including health, social security, matrimonial causes and income tax authorities, and should have power to seek the cooperation of the respective State authorities in these jurisdictions, including the State law enforcement and child welfare agencies; as far as practicable, the commissioners should comprise a mother who is experienced in social welfare work, a medical practitioner and a criminologist; and the commissioners should be assisted by senior counsel and have power to sit in camera. [More…]
I do not at all deny the rights and the problems of the mother but 1 refuse to ignore the rights of the child. [More…]
In clearly making that provision it recognises the sanctity of life and the rights of the child. [More…]
It seeks facilities and adequate opportunities for every Australian-born child, whatever his estate, whatever the circumstances of his conception. [More…]
The unborn child is part of the least privileged group in our society. [More…]
These children have life but no voice. [More…]
There also should be provision for adequate family allowances, particularly the provision of appropriate child minding centres. [More…]
We should be concerned with the United Nations declaration on the rights of a child, which is set out in the amendment, and which states: [More…]
that the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth, . [More…]
Paragraph (d) refers to the question of housing and whether some particular assistance ought to be given to families; the question of the ability of the parent, whether single or married, to provide shelter for the child; the question of child minding facilities to which I have already referred; to pre-school facilities; the question of disabilities of families with handicapped children and the means of assisting them; and the question of domestic assistance for families and working mothers. [More…]
That the Commissioners have access to all Federal authorities’ records relating to health, social security, matrimonial causes and income tax and have power to seek the co-operation of the respective State authorities in these jurisdictions and including the State Law Enforcement and Child Welfare agencies. [More…]
If this Bill goes through - of course it will - and capital punishment is abolished, the community must be protected from certain types of criminals such as the psychopathic criminal who goes out and rapes and kills a child. [More…]
I wished to ask: How does the Prime Minister or anybody else in this chamber who supports his view rationalise his enthusiastic support for abortion on request with his equally enthusiastic support for the abolition of the death penalty for any crime including child murder, hijacking, treason and so on?’ [More…]
On the one hand he enthusiastically supports the destruction of the life of an unborn child not knowing whether it would be an hour, a day or a week before it would be born. [More…]
As I said, I do not want to emphasise this too much or emphasise the fact that the supportive services, such as supplementary assistance and child allowances, have not been adequately increased. [More…]
Applying the same exercise to a class A widow with a child over 6 years of age, accounting for these price increases her pension should have risen from $28.50 as it was under the previous Government last October up to $30.42. [More…]
Any school child knows that land is expensive because not enough of it is on the market. [More…]
If the honourable member had listened to me from the beginning of my speech he surely would have realised - even an infant or a kindergarten child could understand - that I was saying that prices policies have not been successful all around the world. [More…]
We members of the Country Party are concerned with every man, woman and child living in this country. [More…]
I heard about the situation of the child on, I think, 27 August. [More…]
At the same time I was informed by my Department that a critical situation was developing because of the demands of her natural father for the child to go back. [More…]
The situation has unfortunately developed over the last 5 years because of the hesitancy - a reasonable hesitancy - of officials in the past to return the child when the parents wanted her back. [More…]
As far as I could determine the actual custody of the child is a civil matter. [More…]
As to the actual facts of the return of the child, I have not received full details yet. [More…]
She is in the custody of her natural parents and as far as I can determine we as the Government have a moral duty to see that the ordinary services of the Australian community are available to them but we have no legal right to intervene between the parents and the child. [More…]
This incident is the end result of an unfortunate system that has developed over many years of taking children from their parents and then not making a final and real determination about the actual custody. [More…]
As far as I can see, the welfare of the child is of paramount importance but we must make sure that this sort of thing does not happen again. [More…]
If the authorities intervene between the child and the tribal customs in situations such as this we are likely to create a position where the girl is an outcast in both societies. [More…]
The aspects of Aboriginal marriage arrangements which offend Europeans seem to be polygamy - or to give its correct name, so my experts tell me, polygyny - so called child marriage and what is often called the promise system. [More…]
It certainly runs counter to some of our most cherished ideas, but many people who worry themselves about so-called child marriage do not realise the extent to which this misrepresents the Aboriginal custom, and even insults the Aborigines, who in some ways could teach us a lesson or two about the care of children. [More…]
The Aboriginal tradition of child care was at least as solicitous as ours; it was less authoritarian; and in practical psychology it was possibly more perceptive. [More…]
There was no bashed child syndrome amongst them. [More…]
I have had inquiries made about the movement of the child Nola Banbiaga from her foster parents’ home in Darwin to her parents’ home at Maningrida. [More…]
Nola is one of many Aboriginal children who, because there were no essential medical, educational or other facilities available at their parents’ normal place of residence, have been taken from their natural parents and reared in missions, orphanages, hospitals, institutions or private foster homes. [More…]
The grief that this policy has caused the Aboriginal parents is equalled only by the grief of the foster parents who have been called upon later to surrender a child they have reared as their own. [More…]
The effect of this policy on the child can only be guessed at, but there are outstanding examples of young Aboriginal men and women in our society who have overcome this trauma without loss of their cultural identity. [More…]
But we should not impose this burden on any more children or parents or foster parents. [More…]
New procedures must be developed to care for children found in this situation. [More…]
It would be easy for me to claim that the custody of Nola is a civil matter as indeed it is; but as the Australian Minister for Aboriginal Affairs I accept the responsibility of putting right the wrongs of history and ensuring, by a vigorous policy of developing educational, medical and similar services in remote Aboriginal communities, that the practice of separating mothers from their children ceases. [More…]
There are perhaps hundreds of children in orphanages and such institutions throughout Australia, as well as those with foster parents, who should be reconciled with their parents. [More…]
First of all, some of the leading articles in newspapers for whose views I often have respect even if I disagree with them, carried racist assumptions that the child, in going back to her parents, inevitably was in the wrong place and would be ill-treated. [More…]
The life that Aborigines lead might well be austere, but to assume that they ill-treat children is quite wrong. [More…]
This is my own view: First of all, the child’s welfare is paramount. [More…]
I said: ‘First of all, the child’s welfare is paramount, but I cannot possibly be asked to solve that sort of question in this sort of situation’. [More…]
I do not blame anybody for not solving it in the past, except that I believe social workers as a profession should have taken much more effective steps to bring about a reconciliation between the foster parents, the parents and the child, and taken steps to make sure that what occurred in this case does not occur again. [More…]
The absolute authority, unless it can be proved in accordance with the law that- the child” is neglected, is in the hands of the parents. [More…]
In such cases the Director of Social Welfare operated within the bounds of the Child Welfare Ordinance and in particular, part V of the Ordinance. [More…]
If the proper course had been followed in regard to Nola’s case a children’s court would have granted an order under section 36 (1) (b) of the Child Welfare Ordinance, which would have placed the child under the care of the Director as in paragraph (i), or in the hands of the foster parents as in paragraph (ii). [More…]
If this had been done, the taking of the child back to Maningrida would be wrong under section 37(2)<c). [More…]
So the parents and indeed the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service which advises them could always apply to the same court to revoke an order under the Child Welfare Ordinance. [More…]
Thirdly, was Nola Brown a child in respect of whom an order had been made under section 36 (1) (b) of the Child Welfare Ordinance committing her to the care of either the Director of Social Welfare and Child Welfare in the Northern Territory or foster parents? [More…]
Were the foster parents entitled to the care of the child under the ordinance? [More…]
Our real concern should be for the welfare of the child and the right of the court to make a decision in such a matter. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister in the light of the circumstances that surround this case that both he and his Government consider throwing the whole issue of foster parents and the system that is operating in the Northern Territory and under Commonwealth jurisdiction open to a full scale public inquiry in the hope that no other child is victimised in the way that Nola Brown has been victimised. [More…]
It is a vitally important matter for the children of Australia today. [More…]
The Aboriginal child is just as important as the white child. [More…]
I could mention another dozen or two organisations which are involved in pre-school education in different ways and which are not doing the child a bit of good. [More…]
He is sincere and genuine in things of this nature and I am certain that he will go to great lengths to try to get to the bottom of it and to see that the child Nola receives the best possible deal. [More…]
There have been many cases of foster children, and this case has probably damaged the whole concept of the foster children scheme. [More…]
Many people in the Northern Territory and no doubt in other parts of Australia were influenced to take children away from the circumstances which applied in this case. [More…]
I think that when the investigation is carried out it will be found that the health situation of the child and the actual feelings of the parents for the child at the time were discussed between the foster parents and the Welfare Branch as it then was, of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
This Branch decided where children were placed and what they did. [More…]
It is a pity if, after an Aboriginal child grows up with a white family, its parents, for some reason or other, say that they want the child returned to them. [More…]
I think the Aborigines are missing a chance for their children to get a better start in life, especially if they do not wish to care for them in their early years. [More…]
The opportunity is there for their children to be well looked after and reared. [More…]
These children can be used as bridgeheads into the European society to assist the Aboriginal cause. [More…]
Quite often over weekends, Aboriginal children would stay at my home in Alice Springs. [More…]
They came from the Aboriginal hostel in Alice Springs to my home and played with my children. [More…]
We treated them as we treated our own children. [More…]
The Commonwealth has acted against the interests of every family and of every man, woman and child in the State of New South Wales and in Australia. [More…]
It arose out of the then Government’s concern that both adult and child migrants should have every assistance and every opportunity and in fact should get specialised assistance to acquire facility in the English language rapidly. [More…]
In the debate on 16 February 1971 it was mentioned that a joint CommonwealthNew South Wales Department of Education survey showed that, of 7,700 migrant children surveyed, English was spoken at home all or most of the time in only 15 per cent of the households. [More…]
there has been a substantial development in the child program. [More…]
I was interested in the reference by the Minister for Immigration to a survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne. [More…]
As a result of this investigation, as the Minister has said, Cabinet has approved a joint submission by the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Education to extend the child migration education program to include provision for supplementary accommodation. [More…]
I am very sorry that the Minister did not grant this application earlier this year because, as I am sure he would appreciate and endorse, pre-school education is of immense importance in the total education of any child. [More…]
If, as is suggested by this report, we could reduce in particular the difficulties faced by migrant children at this early stage of their development more costly educational programs later in their educational experience might be avoided. [More…]
The present child migrant education program has been operating for approximately 2 years and the State education authorities are anxious to learn whether the agreement will be renewed at the end of the 4-year term. [More…]
This Bill enables the Australian Government to provide funds under the child migrant, program, to help State and independent schools provide emergency accommodation, where ‘this is necessary, and to allow adequate special instruction of migrant children to take place. [More…]
Effectively only 20 per .cent of the children in the schools surveyed who need English tuition are receiving enough of it, and the largest single concentration of disadvantaged schools is located in and about Melbourne, where there are very high proportions of migrants from non-English speaking countries. [More…]
In effect .there is a blatant denial of the child’s right to a meaningful and fulfilling educational experience. [More…]
Like so many children in Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs, the migrant child, in the present situation, needs more than intelligence, initiative, and determination. [More…]
While the situation is bad for educationally deprived children, it is ironical that every child learns something at school. [More…]
No child, however, fails to learn from school. [More…]
When we consider the problems that face us in the area of migrant education we cannot escape the conclusion that Australia’s post war immigration program has been irresponsibly administered in the area of migrant child education, in the area of migrant adult education, and in the area of migrant integration. [More…]
For example, there is a misunderstanding in the community that migrant children are naturally bi-lingual. [More…]
They say that the child educates himself with the help of the family, the peer group, the community at large. [More…]
They say that a child can be influenced, brainwashed, indoctrinated by another person, but he cannot be educated by another person. [More…]
Most migrant children are usually completely exposed to a new environment amongst people who are unaware of these difficulties. [More…]
The migrant child has the compounded problem and stress of having to live between 2 different cultures. [More…]
Migrant children have first of all to bridge the gap between the beliefs and the duties of their own family and the quite different ways of thinking and behaving in the life they are experiencing in and out of school. [More…]
If these children reach adolescence experiencing these same stresses, at a time when they are struggling to establish their own identity as persons, the shock of finding themselves unable to communicate even at the simplest level must be a traumatic experience. [More…]
Under these conditions only children with specific language aptitude have any chance of reaching their academic potential. [More…]
The Minister stated in his second reading speech that up to 60,000 children will be receiving instruction in special classes this year. [More…]
The initiatives of the previous Federal Government has resulted in advances in migrant child education by providing the funds for salaries of special teachers; the purchase of capital equipment of the language laboratory type; the provision of suitable teaching and learning materials; and funds to cover the cost of training courses for special teachers. [More…]
Nowhere has this shown up better than in the recent statement from the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, ‘ tossing a few random extra dollars to the Good Neighbour Councils here, pumping a little more into child migrant education there, setting up a few infactory language courses for new settlers, and grandly announcing a whole new approach to selection and counselling. [More…]
It was revealed to a large extent by the survey conducted into the needs of child migrants in the schools in the high density migrant areas of Melbourne. [More…]
He said that part of the discontent among migrant children sprang from the inadequacy of school premises to house the number of special classes that were warranted by the children in attendance. [More…]
There was no provision under the Child Migrant Education Program for accommodation of classes. [More…]
That meant that the teachers and children were working in sub-standard .accommodation. [More…]
As has already been pointed out in this debate, there are a number of methods used in teaching children English and integrating them into the general educational program of the schools. [More…]
One method, of course, is the withdrawal method of taking the children away from the classes to a special English class, giving them special tuition and then returning them to their ordinary classes. [More…]
As has already been pointed out by one of my colleagues, this has its problems because it withdraws the child from the standard classroom curriculum in which he or she would otherwise be involved. [More…]
Other schools - and there is one in my own electorate - have made specially trained migrant teachers responsible for the whole education program of a class of migrant children. [More…]
I hope that given adequate lapse of time an assessment will be made of the relative advancement of the withdrawal of children into a migrant English class and their grouping together in one class where the whole normal education program is supplemented by the special English training. [More…]
The honourable member referred also to the report of the Queensland Task Force and specifically mentioned the application to the Department of Immigration for pre-school or child care centre assistance. [More…]
I am delighted to help these applications in any way that I can but I should explain that there is a Government policy for the development first of child-care centres. [More…]
The Australian Department of Education at present is responsible for receiving applications from organisations in the community for financial assistance towards the cost of establishment and operation of child-care centres. [More…]
One of the criteria against which applications are assessed is the educational content of the child care to be provided. [More…]
It certainly relates to migrant children in their early stage of settlement. [More…]
It will be looking at this means to assist the integration of its people through the establishment of a child care centre along these lines. [More…]
We are very conscious of the need to reach migrant children at the pre-school level. [More…]
As a matter of fact we are very anxious to meet ail Australian children at the pre-school level. [More…]
In reply to a contribution made, I think, by the honourable member for Batman, I would express the hope that our own children at the pre-school level would be able to have the exposure to language and cultures that would broaden the base of our Australian culture at this time. [More…]
The Department of Immigration, my own Department, is already providing special instruction to migrant children at pre-school age in the child care centres in migrant hostels. [More…]
In addition, the Migrant Education Television Unit at Wollongong is already planning an educational television program directed to children of pre-school age for production in 1974-75. [More…]
The Department of Immigration is also in touch with the Australian Pre-School Commission as part of our interest in ensuring that the needs of migrant children at pre-school age will be taken into account by that Commission. [More…]
However, the biggest problem is in the school area - an area where a child’s basic disposition and motivation are formed. [More…]
Following a run of losses, if no relief is readily forthcoming - and it must be realised that a community’s ability to help can reach saturation point - either services will have to be restricted or parents already labouring under great difficulties and personal distress at the condition of their children, will have to be charged fees. [More…]
A mother came into my office in my electorate of La Trobe with a young child of 4 years of age. [More…]
The child could do nothing but roll on the carpet of my office. [More…]
That was the total free physical movement of which that child was capable. [More…]
Until that time I had a fleeting understanding and a peripheral concern for the families of handicapped children. [More…]
The parents of one severely retarded Mongol child have been on the list for more than 7 years. [More…]
The fourth category is: Register - families are coping with the retarded child, placement may never be necessary. [More…]
One thing that was apparent with the Darwin adult education centre was that about 200 children were being looked after at a creche or child minding centre. [More…]
If there is no provision for a creche or child minding centre, I hope that such a proposal will be very seriously considered. [More…]
With the limited numbers enrolled at the Darwin adult education centre, 200 children were required to be looked after while their parents were attending classes and, with the greater numbers enrolled at the Community College, it surely will be necessary to take some steps, even if it is not in the original plan, to acquire a house in the near neighbourhood to be used as a child minding centre so that these many students will be able to attend the college and not have to turn their backs on courses that otherwise they would have taken. [More…]
The Commission has been functioning for some months now, virtually without the authority of Parliament, as has that other child of the Minister, the Health Commission. [More…]
We now are faced with the much more massive problem which goes right to the root of our social structure, namely, of help for the young and the forming family and, particularly, help for the young couple at the time of the birth of their first child or in the provision of the matrimonial home which is desirable at all times but becomes, I believe, necessary when the first child is born. [More…]
But we should not have a social system which compels the mother of a young child, for economic reasons, to go to work against her will. [More…]
Every Australian child is in fact familiar with the boomerang and the corroboree. [More…]
Will the new Minister consider the child at school who by instinct tends to progress along with the group, and yet may have the ability if he used personal individual effort to learn faster than the others? [More…]
We read a lot about malnutrition and how this is caused through lack of utilising the proper foods available and in the method of preparation, and in fact a lack of knowledge of the foods that are available to assist in rearing strong and healthy children. [More…]
The scheme that was introduced of allocating finance to a coloured family for every child that attended a secondary school offset this to some extent, but I know that in some instances the child only attends secondary school in order that the family gets the benefit of the finance, and not because of any desire to further his education. [More…]
And again their idea of group living does not lend itself to the child making an individual effort, and he cannot be blamed for this, but this certainly is one matter which must be looked at when thinking in terms of education for our coloured children. [More…]
When there is an incidence of child mortality that is 20 times higher than that for comparable European communities, there is a need to bring every possible health resource to bear on the problem - not just in the hospitals but in the treatment and provision of sewerage systems, water supplies and things of that kind. [More…]
I remember in an inquiry about the Alice Springs hospital people talking about the high mortality rate among Aboriginal infant children, and the Committee being given an account of a nurse going out into the area and finding an undernourished Aboriginal mother who would be given advice about taking her child off breast feeding and putting it on to the bottle. [More…]
We have taken major steps forward in child care because I think Canberra has more working mothers and more people with 2 jobs and 3 jobs than has any other city in the country. [More…]
One of my last acts, perhaps almost on my last day, was to set aside 5 houses for child care centres in Canberra, and I hope the Minister will leave them that way. [More…]
Every child has an equal right to participate in the distribution of education finance derived from public moneys. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has referred to the isolated children’s scheme. [More…]
When I brought in the isolated children’s scheme the Western Australian Government went out of the isolated children’s scheme and used the $810,000 it saved to make grants to nongovernment schools and to raise them to the $104 level. [More…]
The New South Wales Government makes a grant to families of $88 per child if the child is going to a private secondary school if the parental income is below $7,000 a year - this is the grant that will commence under the new New South Wales Budgetbut it is of no advantage to the school. [More…]
If the child getting the $88 goes to a Catholic school whose fees are $150, that child pays $62 plus the $88. [More…]
The Karmel analysis was that the resources deployed behind the education of an average child in State secondary schools was $511 per student. [More…]
The Karmel exercise, which no political party had ever anticipated, stated that a dignified standard of education for every child is 40 per cent above the existing State school level, which would be $715 per pupil at 1973 values of the dollar. [More…]
The professional qualifications of the staff are similar to those of the Melbourne centre staff except that a child health specialist will be employed instead of a psychiatrist at the outset. [More…]
Very few schools - and I refer to those which can be classed as schools of normally very high academic standards - have made a special effort to locate within the school centres for handicapped children. [More…]
If honourable gentlemen have ever seen the Commonwealth Government schools for the handicapped in the Australian Capital Territory they will know that under certain circumstances, where a child has multiple handicaps, there is a ratio of one teacher for one child. [More…]
On the question of the latch key children, I am not certain of any Commonwealth involvement in the Brunswick North Primary School question. [More…]
The pre-schools commission will be advising the Australian Government on grants that will be applying next year Child care centres are being constructed under arrangements between the Australian Government and various authorities at the present time but I know of none either one way oi the other at North Brunswick. [More…]
The honourable member will be aware that as far as child migrants are concerned we are worried about the fact that the States have no classrooms for the children to be taken to and given special lessons in English, retiring from the normal classrooms. [More…]
In effect there in a blatant denial of the child’s right to a meaningful and fulfilling educational experience. [More…]
I turn to the needs of the handicapped children and particularly those who are psychologically disturbed and have specific learning difficulties or have difficulties of language expression and articulation; that is, to children who, under any proper system of priorities for educational expenditure, would receive prompt and proper care from the phychology and guidance branches of education departments, from the speech therapy branches of education departments and from remedial teaching staff of education departments. [More…]
A report presented recently to the Victorian Minister for Educa tion revealed that in that State, with a school population of 600,000 children, a mere 98 officers in the Psychology and Guidance Branch were available, 43 of whom were still in the process of training. [More…]
I think that is a fair indication of the priority attached by the honourable member for Wannon and his State colleagues to the needs of the child who is handicapped by emotional disturbance or by specific learning difficulties. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member for Wannon and those who, like him, try to undermine the process by which these facts could regularly be brought under public scrutiny have any comprehension of the misery of the family and the child when defects of speech get steadily worse over a number of years while that child is waiting for treatment and none can be provided for him. [More…]
I have seen children identified by officers of the Victorian Education Department as having defects of speech in their first or second year at school and denied treatment for 3 or more years because of the gross shortage of speech therapists. [More…]
For 3 or 4 years these defects became exacerbated and fed on themselves until the children concerned became speech cripples. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member for Wannon has any comprehension of the distress of parents and the child where specific learning difficulties are identified and where 80 per cent of the children who receive the assistance which they require in the first year or 2 years of their school career, recover from those difficulties. [More…]
A majority of the children with these defects are denied the assistance that they need up to grades 5, 6 and beyond, even into secondary schools, where the prospects for successful action are remote indeed. [More…]
It is to be a permanent commission backed by the national government - the one Government in Australia that has the resources to guarantee the future of every child, and for that matter every adult, seeking an appropriate education in Australia. [More…]
Unless a child is grounded properly in infant and primary school - I leave out of account secondary schools for the moment - there is no point in making attendance at universities free. [More…]
Alternatives have to be made available in order to make sure that children in the last 2 years of secondary education do not waste their time sitting in school simply because they have to and to make sure that they derive something of advantage to themselves when they leave school. [More…]
As I mentioned, I was associated recently with the Migrant Task Force in Queensland and I have been tremendously impressed with the way in which teachers, both in the State system and in the Catholic system of education, have been teaching migrant children, very often in what are very difficult circumstances. [More…]
I think we all have to admire teachers who teach migrant children whose knowledge of English is very modest, who teach in overcrowded class rooms with inadequate teaching material and very often in temporary class rooms built under schools. [More…]
The ball is now back in the court of the States to take up the challenge and to work out priorities within their own systems of education to ensure that every child within state schools receives the maximum benefit. [More…]
But those people who argue that the report has in some way discriminated against Anglican schools, for example, fail to take into account that the Catholic education system has sought to provide education for every Catholic child in a way which no other major denomination in this country has sought. [More…]
I noted a statement of the Catholic bishops in which they expressed the view, amongst other things, that there should be some Government assistance given to the education of every child. [More…]
I know, of course, that the program being put forward under the Schools Commission legislation is by no means the only program which this Government advances for the education of Australian children. [More…]
This Government inherited certain educational structures but this year, under the guidance of the present Minister for Education, we have had measures aimed at assistance in the education of isolated children, and a very high proportion of those children, by the very nature of things, attend Catholic schools. [More…]
We are to have legislation to come into effect next year which will assist disadvantaged children for the first time and we await legislation on pre-schools and teacher training. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is making a contribution towards assisting every Australian child. [More…]
The Labor Government is determined to make a permanent commitment to the education of every Australian child and every Australian young man and young woman. [More…]
I am sure that in the years ahead the Commission will make a major contribution to the education of all Australian children, whether they attend State schools or non-State schools. [More…]
I have been concerned for some time that opportunities for the special treatment of extremely gifted children in the Australian environment have not been available. [More…]
If this opportunity is denied these extremely gifted children in many cases the effect on the child is extremely deleterious and as a result, of course, the Australian nation as a whole suffers. [More…]
The standard of schooling a child receives should depend neither on what his parents can or will pay nor whether he attends a government or an independent school. [More…]
Every child must have the right to be prepared for full participation in society, both for his own and for society’s benefit. [More…]
This, of course, means special assistance for slow learners, handicapped children, Aboriginal children and, of course, children of migrant parents. [More…]
We must have facilities but let us concern ourselves too with the provision of teachers for these children. [More…]
We in the Opposition support the need to look at the educational needs of handicapped children and handicapped young persons and to consider the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools. [More…]
But we seek to amend the legislation to have a broader concern for every Australian child. [More…]
Of course you have an obligation to put a school in areas so that free education is available to every child. [More…]
In this way we of the Opposition believe that under this legislation a Commission can be established which will far more effectively carry out the philosophy enunciated by the Karmel Committee and at the same time raise the standard of education of every Australian child whilst preserving a right which Australians hold dear - the right to freedom of choice, the right to select the schools to which they send their children. [More…]
Another very important aspect of the Housing Agreement with the States is that not less than 85 per cent of the homes to be built must be allocated to families where the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner, exclusive of overtime and child endowment payments, does not exceed 85 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Where the family includes more than 2 children this limit can be increased by $2 a week for each child after the second child. [More…]
As a member of local councils for many years in the Mount Druitt, Rooty Hill and Green Valley areas ‘I found tremendous problems with child delinquency, parents who cleared out and broken homes because although the areas had been completed and one could not better the type of home found there, there was not a shopping centre, a park and recreation area or a community centre of any description; there were houses and nothing else and this created tremendous problems. [More…]
On 25 September the Minister, in his earlier and happier capacity, made a statement about Nola Brown, the Aboriginal child brought up from the age of 2 weeks in a European home and sadly abducted in Darwin and taken back to her tribal parents in Maningrida, whom she did not know. [More…]
We are spending $1,000 for every man, woman and child in the Aboriginal population. [More…]
When I listen to this babble I can remember that when I was a child I heard a remark by a predecessor in this chair, Mr Archie Cameron, who said that the babble in the House reminded him of being in a 2-up school. [More…]
We believe that the individual differences of children must be recognised. [More…]
We believe in the need to develop the total personality of the child. [More…]
There is to be a great increase in expenditure on the education of Aborigines, migrant children and isolated children. [More…]
In form 3, which includes 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D and 3E, there are 164 children. [More…]
More than 49 per cent of those children had less than the reading average for that form. [More…]
In form 3 there was even one child - this is form 3 in a secondary school - who was classified as having no reading range at all. [More…]
I refer to the principle adopted by the Government which resulted in the categorisation of schools by the Karmel Committee, a categorisation which denies aid to all children on a per capita basis. [More…]
Every child was treated in the same way and received the same per capita assistance. [More…]
The amount of this assistance was geared to a percentage - 40 per cent - of the average cost of educating an equivalent child in a government school. [More…]
It was relatively easy and simple to administer, and took into account the right of every child to basic adequate assistance and the inalienable right of every parent to exercise his inalienable right and responsibility to decide what type of education his child would receive. [More…]
Surely grade one is one of the most important years of a child’s schooling. [More…]
It reminded me strongly of speeches that I heard from members who are now in government, over a period of years when they pleaded with the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the then Minister for Education and Science, to take account of what was happening in schools across Australia, other than those elite and fortunate schools from which he sprang and to which he, and his colleagues, customarily send their children. [More…]
There was a good deal of the resonance of that honourable gentleman’s attitude in the speech that was made a little earlier this evening by your colleague, Mr Lucock, the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), who expressed great satisfaction with the approach to education of the previous Government when he said that every child was treated the same way and that that made the system relatively easy and simple to administer. [More…]
He paid some recognition - as I think he would not have done a few years ago - to the fact that such things as disadvantaged schools and disadvantaged children exist in our community. [More…]
But he went on to say that if additional assistance over and above per capita grants were given to such schools and such children it would be charity and not justice. [More…]
It seems to make no impact on the consciousness of honourable members opposite that a gross discrepancy exists between the resources available to the schools of which they traditionally and continually have been the champions and the schools at which the great majority of Australian children receive their education. [More…]
If the index of resources devoted to the education of a child in a government school is expressed as 100 units, children who attend Catholic parochial schools and Catholic systemic schools have devoted to their education 70 units, and the resource allocation for children at non-government, non-Catholic systemic schools ranges from 40 units to 270 units. [More…]
An input of 270 resource units means small classes, favourable pupilteacher ratios, an abundant supply of teaching materials, lavish libraries - all the stimuli which will encourage children to take advantage of the capacity with which they are endowed. [More…]
This is the objective in trying to establish, over Opposition resistance, the Australian Schools Commission on a statutory basis to make sure that every Australian child has an equal opportunity to develop the capacities with which he is endowed. [More…]
I recall to honourable members opposite that whereas 80 per cent of the children from those schools for whom they speak in the Parliament complete their secondary education, only 30 per cent of the children from government and Catholic schools, for which honourable members on this side of the chamber speak, are able so to complete their secondary education. [More…]
Every child attending school is an Australian citizen and is entitled to be treated equally with every other Australian child. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to spend $800 a year on the secondary education of one Australian child, every other Australian child should be entitled to the same amount of expenditure by the same Government, and he should be entitled to it as a right, irrespective of the school he attends. [More…]
A wealthy person - even a wealthy person such as the honourable member for Casey, on his salary - can send his child to a government run school, pay nothing in fees and cost the taxpayers $800 a year for the education of his child; yet he is quite capable of paying for that education, the same as anyone else. [More…]
But he makes his children a charge on the community. [More…]
A struggling family on a much lower income than the honourable member for Casey may send their child to an independent school. [More…]
The mother of the second family may work to send that child to that school and the parents may make great sacrifices to do so. [More…]
These schools will become the province of the wealthy and the children of ordinary parents who at present, by making considerable personal sacrifices, can send their children to these schools will be forced to withdraw them. [More…]
Some of these schools will collapse and the others will become elitist schools attended only by snobbish children of snobbish parents. [More…]
This Government is throwing money around like a child with 4 hands. [More…]
I hope that what really communicates itself to a child is the real qualities of the child’s teachers, and those may not always relate to the doctrines the teachers profess. [More…]
If one is going to talk about who is getting the benefit in education I draw the attention of the honourable gentlemen opposite to these facts: Twenty-eight per cent of state school children complete a secondary education and can go on to a tertiary education; 35 per cent of children at Catholic schools complete a secondary education and can go on to a tertiary education; 86.5 per cent of children in non-Catholic non-government schools complete a secondary education and can go on to a tertiary education. [More…]
If a child goes on to a tertiary education he really hits the taxpayers’ jackpot. [More…]
If a child attends the non-government non-Catholic sector of education - which normally is the high fee charging sector - and he goes on to tertiary education he will get a subvention from the taxpayer which leaves the ordinary child in the ordinary state school for dead. [More…]
The honourable member for Deakin asked why $800 should be spent on one child. [More…]
I presume that is what he thinks is the average spent on a state school child. [More…]
and (2) There is constant and on-going discussion between my Department and the Department of Education about ways of improving child migrant education, interspersed with major meetings on particular issues, for example emergency classroom accommodation and teacher-training. [More…]
The present law encourages blackmail, and may also encourage the seduction of children by those who would otherwise prefer adult contacts, but who imagine that child seduction is less risky. [More…]
In our predominantly conformist, overtly masculine society, fixed on the 2-child nuclear family mushrooming in suburban wastelands, the homosexual is an unwelcome outsider. [More…]
Genuine offences - such as rape, assault, indecent exposure, child molesting and other acts - occur amongst heterosexuals as well as homosexuals, and are capable of being dealt with by laws which apply equally to all. [More…]
I am sure that the Prime Minister would be frank enough to say, even now, that he intends to accept virtually whatever advice the Commission gives him - as he is doing with the Coombs report - although that is child’s play compared with this new body. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Education I must say that it is surprising to me that the Government has departed from the practice of making per capita grants to assist independent schools in providing education for the children in that system. [More…]
There can be little doubt that wherever independent schools are providing a standard of education comparable to that of state schools there is a saving for the Australian taxpayer to the extent that those schools receive less financial assistance than the cost of educating children in state schools. [More…]
The saving may be even greater now than it was in the past when the cost of educating children in primary schools was $308 per annum per child and secondary schools received $520 per annum per child. [More…]
Anyone who is claiming the maximum taxation deduction for education of $600 and who is sending his child to a school where fees are around $800 or $900 a year is paying in excess of 50c in the $1 taxation - probably about 60c in the $1 - and about $400 of this $800 is returned to him as a taxation deduction; not only that but also 80 per cent of the students at those schools were receiving Commonwealth scholarships under the previous Government so that it meant the parents were again getting an increment from the Commonwealth by way of those scholarships; and not only that but also 90 per cent of the students of these schools went on to university and it was costing the Commonwealth Government of Australia about $5,000 per head per student for every year that they were at university. [More…]
They got the best that the Commonwealth was able to offer and for that they have used, cajoled and badgered and had every one in the establishment, including those bishops of the Catholic Church who were on-side, come in and back them to prop up a rotten, iniquitous per capita grants system that denied a child in an electorate such as the one I represent, at a school with a pupil-teacher ratio of about 50 to one the opportunity of obtaining a reasonable standard of education and access to tertiary education later. [More…]
Yet honourable members opposite argue that the parents of those children should get the same treatment as someone in my electorate with a child in a mud playground, being taught in a portable hut where the pupil-teacher ratio is about 40 to one. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa and others have complained that the present policy of this Government on education discriminates against children who attend boarding schools. [More…]
This Government recognised for the first time the unique and special problem that exists in educating children from isolated areas. [More…]
It was this Government which for the first time provided money in respect of those children. [More…]
Between $300 and $1,000 is being paid in respect of each of those children. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government of New South Wales - a government of the same colour as honourable members opposite who rise and say that our Government has taken money from the hands of children who go to boarding schools - immediately the grant for isolated children was made available, withdrew the payment of $80 a year which it made in respect of those children. [More…]
Who is taking money from the children who must leave isolated areas to attend boarding schools? [More…]
The LiberalCountry Party Government in New South Wales withdrew $80 a year in respect of each child in that category because this Labor Government had taken on the responsibility of meeting this dire need. [More…]
Although all parties have expressed the desire to see pre-school education made available for every child, the manner in which that pre-school education will be provided is giving many people a great deal of concern. [More…]
If that approach is adopted there will be, firstly, a reduction in community involvement in education and, secondly, a very much slower development of the program of pre-school education for every child. [More…]
If many of the committees that are now currently operating and raising funds to buy the land on which the kindergarten would be built, had available to them the facilities of lending institutions, those committees would be able to provide kindergartens for children who are now without them. [More…]
Instead of there being a situation where there are more committees without kindergartens than there are kindergartens with committees, the situation would be reversed and we would be getting closer to the target of providing pre-school facilities for every child. [More…]
Are the child care centres and pre-school programs which are to commence in 1974 to cease? [More…]
A working party of the Schools’ Council of Great Britain, after a study of socially disadvantaged children in Secondary Schools wrote as follows: “The most decisive factor is not the material home background, not the neighbourhood, not the kind of school the child attends- important as these are. [More…]
It is the attitude of the parents to education, their interest and support of the child in co-operation with the school which matters most. [More…]
What he was really saying was that he wanted local government to remain a dependent child of the States and that councils should be kept in a Statetightened straight-jacket - this from a man who claims that the Australian Government is trying to shackle the States. [More…]
I know that there has been a great deal of sympathy and interest in her predicament which arose out of the abduction of her child Rudi in July this year by her Austrian husband. [More…]
The last report which I received indicated that she had had very good access - in fact, I think she had seen her little boy 4 times in a week - and the embassy and all the officers concerned were given every form of assistance in the presentation of her case to the Austrian authorities that she be reunited with her child and bring him back to Australia. [More…]
Those people who are in charge of the clinic will go into the difficult behavioural problems such as sexual behaviour, child behaviour and people acting up- the aggressive types. [More…]
This is the type of centre where children under school age who are intellectually retarded may receive toilet training and training in eating and playing. [More…]
This training is aimed at allowing children to attend a special school when they are of school going age. [More…]
It will consist of a house with rooms set up for the various types of training and the children will be able to become used to the various types of discipline. [More…]
The Education Department in South Australia accepts responsibility for these children at school age,, but it will not accept them unless they are toilet trained. [More…]
This centre will be set up to train children in this regard. [More…]
I believe this would be in the best interests of the community at large and that it would overcome a lot of the problems of child delinquency and many of the problems we see around the countryside of young people having to leave their home town for employment in other parts of Australia. [More…]
An interim pre-schools commission has been set up to provide child care for the mothers who have to go to work and for those who do not want to go to work but who would like to see their children mix ing with other children and being socialised. [More…]
I think that people know what I mean by the socialising process of helping them to grow up as personalities with children of their own age, being taught by people who are professionally skilled to help bring them up. [More…]
The children here have that opportunity but in most of the other States very few children have that opportunity. [More…]
In 1971 the Australian Union of Students estimated that in 1972 a family on an average income of $4,200 would spend 30 per cent of this in sending one child to university. [More…]
The policy of provision on a roughly equal basis for all children in schools to which all had access was a considerable advance on policies operating before the introduction of public education. [More…]
It was assumed that each child was born with a certain fixed capacity and that if all external barriers were removed by providing schooling that was accessible, equal and free, students from all walks of life would have an equal opportunity for success. [More…]
I represent an area in which many of the families have raised their level of aspiration for their student children to as high as university level. [More…]
With their general level of income, there is no possibility for them to sustain a child at a university. [More…]
The abolition of the fees, which now run at $400, $500, and $600 a year, will make a substantial contribution to their opportunity to allow their children to attend a university. [More…]
Was Nola Brown a child in respect of whom an order had been made under section 36 (1) (b) of the Child Welfare Ordinance committing her to the care of (a) the Director of Welfare or (b) foster parents. [More…]
If so, were the foster parents entitled to the care of the child under the Ordinance. [More…]
It is referring to child endowment records and electoral rolls, the 2 sources the Government claims it will use- an estimated 80 per cent of the population will be covered. [More…]
The birth of a child is normally an event of great joy to the parents.’ [More…]
But when that child is found to be handicapped - whether mentally or physically, or both - the joy can turn to sorrow and anguish. [More…]
In the tragic case of those children who are totally dependent on their parents and the other members of their family, no amount of affection can ever overcome the despair which is generated by the totality of their demands. [More…]
Certainly, the parents’ affection for their child sustains them and provides them with the fortitude to face up to their situation and gives them the energy and stamina necessary to continue - in many cases, virtually 24 hours a day every day of the year. [More…]
This situation is outlined with considerable poignancy and clarity in the following letter, sent to me by one of my constituents, Mrs N. McKay, of Frankston, who has given me her permission to read it to the House on the basis that reference to it would be helpful to the House in understanding the very difficult problems facing the parents of handicapped children in Australia today. [More…]
I am a handicapped child - of Australian birth! [More…]
who anticipates, plans and applies solutions to her every problem - not for the5 or 6 years of a normal child’s complete dependency, but in monotonous repetition, every day of every week, of every year, without relief, or even the bare comfort of a compassionate Government subsidy to perhaps permit assistance in sharing the burden? [More…]
Mother has to achieve all the organising and implementing management of a normal household, in addition to the complexly of providing for her handicapped child. [More…]
Caliper/ boot replacements cost $25 (not $8 to $10), provision for wheel chair, equipment such as special living and walking aids to attempt some relief from Fiona’s immobility, the capital and running costs of seasonal heating and cooling to protect the child against temperature extremes, an annual contribution of $140 to the day centre, the costs of transportation, etc., etc., are some of the facets where we might expect some sharing from Government expenditure, and dispensation from taxes paid each year. [More…]
Without introducing boredom into this communication, it may perhaps be agreed, that the asociated problems and costs of caring for a handicapped child are deserving of your every attention and the immediate action of our Federal Government to grant essential priority, to bring some relief to such a household as ours, forthwith by payment of a subsidy of weekly value, at least 25 per cent of the costs, which would otherwise be paid by the government, should they be charged with the responsibility of support for our child! [More…]
In fact, it is not being melodramatic to say that the pressures bearing down on parents endeavouring to cope with a handicapped child are so great that they have caused some of them to suffer psychiatric problems serious enough to demand treatment, have led to the breakdown of a not inconsiderable number of marriages and, according to a recent survey in the Melbourne area, have caused an unspecified number of suspected suicides. [More…]
The same Melbourne survey showed that many of the brothers and sisters of retarded children also were suffering, to the point where they were under psychiatric care or attending child guidance clinics. [More…]
Finally, there is the question of physical damage to the house itself when the handicapped child is cared for by his parents at home. [More…]
In a large number of instances, it was found that because of the ‘disturbed’ behaviour of the retarded children - many of them hyperactive - their homes were subject to considerable wear and tear. [More…]
It is a good thing that the Government is doing something for children who have lost both their parents. [More…]
In the past this responsibility has fallen within the provision of the States and their child welfare departments. [More…]
Not very long ago it was fairly uncommon for a woman to leave her husband and abandon him with the children. [More…]
We should start by paying what I would call a motherless child’s allowance. [More…]
It would be paid to children who have lost both parents. [More…]
A motherless child’s allowance could also be paid in respect of children who are in the custody of their father either because their mother is dead or because she has deserted the family home and has left the children uncared for. [More…]
Perhaps some kind of housekeepers’ allowance could be paid or some help could be given to board out the children so that they could come home at weekends. [More…]
I hope at least that a motherless child’s allowance will be introduced in the near future and that later it will be supplemented by a housekeepers’ allowance or something like the mother’s allowance that is given. [More…]
It is a terrible hardship for a man who has lost his wife - even by desertion and much worse if he has lost her by death - to find that he is placed in a financial position in which he has to break up his young family and perhaps lose contact with his dependent children. [More…]
They have no children. [More…]
There is a change in that position when the first child arrives. [More…]
In Blacktown there is a child immunisation clinic worth $12,000. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for plugging two of the gaps in areas of social welfare injustice in providing for the single or no-parent families with dependent children, the supporting mother’s benefit, which clarified one area, and the double orphan’s pension for the parentless or orphan child. [More…]
I know that I am speaking on the same subject as did the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) but I am quite happy to do that because I believe that there is one area still outstanding which is the single most serious area of social welfare injustice in Australia, and that is the single male parent with dependent children, the widower, the divorced or the deserted father. [More…]
The woman has a problem in earning an income while she looks after the house and the children. [More…]
The man has the problem of paying for the housekeeper and child-minding facilities while he earns an income. [More…]
A woman, if she has one dependent child, can work and earn up to $26 a week before the benefit of $32 a week is reduced. [More…]
The man is not even allowed child-minding or housekeeper services as tax deductions. [More…]
But there should be some payment to cover the housekeeping and child-minding expenses. [More…]
Just as a purely tentative suggestion I suggest a payment of $10 a week for the first child and $5 a week for succeeding children. [More…]
A man on the minimum wage and with a wife and one child to maintain will not have to pay anything. [More…]
With more children, the amount that he can earn and still not pay any levy will go up. [More…]
A man with 2 children will be able to earn $64.50 and pay no levy; a man with 6 children will be able to earn $82.10 and pay no levy. [More…]
At that time, the Treasurer also announced that the handicapped children’s ‘benefit would be doubled. [More…]
This benefit is payable to the proprietor of an approved handicapped persons home for each day on which the handicapped child receives handicapped person care in that home. [More…]
The principal aims of the Government in the area of special education for the handicapped are as follows: First, the development of each handicapped child to the fullness of his potential as an effective integrated, selfrespecting and independent person. [More…]
Third, the condition the child must surmount is not the only objective of. [More…]
The focus should be an the child as a total person, living in a family and a community. [More…]
Fourth, we need a comprehensive screening system for the early identification of handicaps - in child care centres, in pre-school, in primary school and in secondary school. [More…]
To implement the report of the Interim Committee of the Schools Commission on the subject of handicapped children we must develop a system of administration which actually expresses compassion. [More…]
If we are to detect need in children we must face the fact that families most at risk are least likely to go voluntarily to infant welfare clinics, least likely to use child care centres, least likely to have the services of competent medical practitioners, social workers or phychological advisers. [More…]
Research is needed to identify what characteristics of children are most predictive of subsequent educational and social difficulty. [More…]
We just do not have enough trained people capable of physical, intellectual, emotional and social assessment of any child. [More…]
With one exception, none of the powers proposed to be transferred by the referendum will benefit the people of this country in a personal way, as was done in 1946 in the amendment, by referendum, to section 51 (XXIII a) of the Constitution which conferred power on the Australian Parliament to make provision for such benefits as child endowment, unemployment, sickness and hospital benefits and family allowances. [More…]
Will it increase child endowment in order to achieve these purposes? [More…]
I refer to things such as child care centres, assistance for aged persons and environmental protection. [More…]
I am pleased to note the increased allocation of $10,420,000 for 1973-74 for the child migrant education program as compared with the actual expenditure for 1972-73 of $5,061,184. [More…]
The greatest increase occurs in the area of child migrant education, and I for one am acutely aware of the need for this increased expenditure in this area. [More…]
How often have I seen reticent, nervous, bewildered migrant children, newly arrived from overseas and subjected to all the competitions in Australian schools, with totally inadequate linguistic ability or preparation? [More…]
Expenditure on child migrant education is expected to reach SIO. [More…]
The major portion of this expenditure will finance the salaries of special teachers for migrant children in government and independent schools in all States. [More…]
The number of children receiving this kind of education and assistance will rise from 40,000 to 60,000. [More…]
As previous speakers have mentioned, there have been increases in the adult migrant education and the child migrant education programs. [More…]
The child migrant education program this year provides for an expenditure of $10,420,000 as against $5,061,184 expended last year. [More…]
Of course, it is worth remembering that this organisation was the child of the late Harold Holt. [More…]
It has more children living in it than certainly any other place in the whole of this country. [More…]
It has needs for assistance to provide access roads, for transport to remove the chaos from the roads, for improvements in education and health facilities, for recreation centres and for child care centres. [More…]
I mention child care centres. [More…]
In China there are children’s palaces to care for children after school hours, in other words, the latch key children, the children waiting till their parents come home. [More…]
In Shanghai alone there are 1 1 children’s palaces in all taking between 1,000 and 1,500 children a day and undertaking every possible type of activity - hobbies, sports, the arts, music and so on. [More…]
This type of thing needs to be looked at in this country, just as we need to give far greater emphasis to child care centres for the children of those women who have to work, not because they want to work but simply because of economic circumstances. [More…]
As I have said, there are very great needs in those areas for roads, child care facilities and recreation facilities for the children. [More…]
One of the first things I did when I became Minister for Social Security was, for instance, to amend the regulations so that in a situation in which a mother is in a maternity ward of a hospital with an infant child who is under 10 days old and requires intensive treatment that child is covered for medical and hospital benefit purposes. [More…]
The first occasion on which specific provisions regulating disclosure of information about clients was included specifically in legislation occurred in the Child Endowment Act 1941. [More…]
These are families where there is at least one child under 16 years and where child endowment is paid. [More…]
It is possible to establish which children do and which do not go onto higher educa-tion because of the transition to student endowment; and again personal details on these young people can be retrieved. [More…]
We can pinpoint every birth, we know whether the mother was single or married, who was the father of the child and so on because of our payment of maternity allowances. [More…]
A recent instance, for which I did not give approval and about which I knew nothing, concerns access to personal files related to child endowment recipients. [More…]
The information sought was the mother’s age at the time of the birth of the first child, the time interval between subsequent births, age at the time of births of the last or most recent child and the mother’s nationality. [More…]
It was not possible to obtain the required information other than by examination of actual child endowment files. [More…]
Approval was subsequently given to allow the university staff to extract the required data from child endowment files held in the Sydney office on which payment had been terminated 12 months earlier. [More…]
As child endowment files held in our Sydney office and on which payment terminated 12 months earlier are culled for destruction each 4 weeks, they will be made available to you for examination and extraction of data regarding the ex-endowee’s child-bearing history; where the earlier portion of a file is held in archives, arrangements will be made for it to be obtained and made available to you. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Education: How many capital projects in Victoria have been approved in principle by the Minister under the provisions of the Child Care Act? [More…]
Firstly, it is apparent that State health authorities will have to follow the reasoning that country children with their economic standard and possibly greater access to protein from milk than, say, children in densely populated inner city areas will be the first to be able to forego the milk. [More…]
For instance, ready availability of school milk in some areas has played an important part in helping the child acquire a taste for and an appreciation of the value of milk in later life. [More…]
The generally poor knowledge of nutrition in the community, the persistent commercial pressures to buy food products of relatively poor nutritional value, the common absence of both parents at work, and the increasing tendency to let the child choose foi itself, all point to the fact that even in our affluent society such a positive and pertinent step as the provision of school milk is essential if good nutrition of the young is to be assured. [More…]
Until he is able to do that he is not likely to be able effectively to get the child to the point where it can learn efficiently. [More…]
The professional qualifications and the interest shown by the various teachers have an enormous part to play in the total education of the child. [More…]
I believe that nobody has the complete answer to what is the best method of educating both children and adults. [More…]
Incidentally, this is why I am such a great advocate of freedom of choice being offered to people, not only parents in the education of their children but also to adults when they have the opportunity of carrying on their education later in life. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) mentioned children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
As a teacher, I have taught children who, although appearing to be and in fact being very intelligent and able to cope in many ways, have had a blind spot in their ability to grasp certain information - perhaps in reading. [More…]
At that time I had not heard the word ‘dyslexia’ but I am pretty sure in my mind, looking back on it, that that child had dyslexia. [More…]
If I had been specially trained and if the facilities had been available to give that child a better education by providing the specialist service that was available, he and, I believe, the community would have been much better off. [More…]
I think we would all agree that there are difficulties in doing this, with sufficient regard being paid to the ability of children to reach this level in the first place. [More…]
I agree entirely with the honourable member for Gwydir that, unless a child has sufficient motivation and has been given sufficient opportunity in his early schooling to become motivated and to be able to build upon that groundwork, he will have great difficulty in establishing himself and gaining benefit from tertiary education although it may be completely free. [More…]
Pre-school education is recognised now as a most necessary start to the education of our children. [More…]
Work done by teachers at this level is important to the future success at higher levels of schools, and greater support is necessary not only from the Federal Government but from State governments which also must recognise the rights of our young children to pre-school training. [More…]
There is no doubt that the environment and the relationship between the teacher and the child will have a much greater influence on educattion than the surrounding facilities which, as I mentioned, are being given great attention. [More…]
There is an ever stronger argument for increased pre-school activity for our Aboriginal people and children in rural Australia who do not always have the advantage of constant communication and association with other children in some form of tuition before primary school. [More…]
This is not easy and it will not be an easy task, since each child is an individual and responds to different circumstances, techniques and personalities. [More…]
I refer honourable members to the ministerial statement made in this House by my colleague, The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), on 23 August last in which he clearly set out that this Government, for the first time, really would give to education all that was needed to ensure that every child in this nation was educated to the utmost of his or her talents. [More…]
I do not think I should delay the House any further, except to say that the philosophy of the Government in all aspects of education is to ensure that no child is prejudiced. [More…]
In looking at page 3 of the Bill which relates to the definition of a handicapped child, and, I think, at page 5 relating to the definition of special education teacher training courses and the definition of special schools, I would have some doubt as to whether children experiencing special learning difficulties would be covered in the ambit of this legislation. [More…]
While this legislation does make provision for assistance to be given to disadvantaged schools - the special schools looking after handicapped children in the traditional sense of the use of the word ‘handicapped’, which does not include children with SPELD problems - there is doubt about whether it is the Government’s intention to include children ..with special learning difficulties under the general definition of ‘handicapped child’ and ‘special school’ in which case they are being lumped in with all other handicapped children. [More…]
Basically, that is not something which parents of children in this category or experts in this area would like or want. [More…]
In any case, I should be grateful to the Acting Minister if he could explain the impact of this Bill on this problem which does cover quite a significant number of Australian school children with special learning difficulties in all schools. [More…]
The second category of schools to which I want to address myself today is those schools which cater for mentally and physically handicapped children and the special services which enable mentally and physically handicapped children to receive assistance in conventional schools. [More…]
Its waiting list has grown longer year by year until we find ourselves in a situation now in which the child whose speech defect is identified in grade 2 is unlikley to receive treatment for that defect until he reaches grade 5 or even grade 6. [More…]
I think it would be fair to say that in Queensland the pressure for schools comes from the growing suburbs where the child population is very high. [More…]
In areas in my own electorate where the infant population is very high, new schools have to be provided quickly and existing schools have to be expanded very quickly in order to keep up with the increase in the number of children. [More…]
The child who is unfortunate enough to be sick is placed on a bed under the stairs where every pupil passes by. [More…]
For the handicapped, the slow learner, the migrant or the child with speech defects or emotional problems there is no specialist staff to back up the teacher in the classroom. [More…]
The result is that whether one looks to retention rates or to the students who are able to proceed to a tertiary education, one finds that children who come from lower socio-economic status families are in no way proportionate to their numbers in the overall population. [More…]
Such a policy ensures the right of each child to an equitable share of education funding. [More…]
He is talking about 5.5 per cent of all children who attend non-government schools - not 5.5 per cent of all children in Australia, lt is this same 5.5 per cent of non-government school children whose parents are able to claim $400 a year for each child in taxation rebates. [More…]
It is these same children who over the years have been winning nearly all the scholarships at the higher secondary level. [More…]
It is these same children who have been winning most of the tertiary scholarships and going on to universities, colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology. [More…]
Parents are allowed to deduct $400 from their taxable income for each child. [More…]
In the future the same category of children will probably go on winning a disproportionately higher number of secondary scholarships and a disproportionately higher number of tertiary scholarships that will give them free education under the Labor Party program. [More…]
Every child who gets into a tertiary institution as from 1 January next year will get a free education. [More…]
If children are eligible for it under the means test they will get a living allowance to boot. [More…]
This Bill provides an extra $50m for disadvantaged children. [More…]
There is no reason to believe that any amount of money poured into the school will make any difference to the outcome for the child. [More…]
At the same time, this Government recognises the right of choice of a parent to send a child to any school. [More…]
Other parents with children at private schools are equally taxpayers. [More…]
If it is fair to subsidise a parent who is giving his child a private education for religious reasons it is hardly reasonable to discriminate against those doing the same thing for other reasons, which may be no less admirable. [More…]
Both Mr Dunstan and Mr Hudson, on the one side, and the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony), on the other side, as well as many other people, would agree that discrimination between children has got less and less and that the gap has been closed to a greater and greater extent. [More…]
It says that children have been treated in an unfair way, that equality of opportunity is not present. [More…]
I understand that the intention of the Government in regard to the awarding of scholarships is to go to the extent of saying that no child of tomorrow will be able to get up with head in the air and say: ‘Despite where I was born, despite the conditions I have been brought up under, I won a scholarship’. [More…]
That child’s mates or sisters or bothers will not be able to get up and say: ‘Despite where I was born, my academic capacity was such that I won a government scholarship’. [More…]
The argument develops when we come to environmental reasons which include such factors as ease of study, whether the child’s parents talk intelligently, and whether they keep up with contemporary matters and news. [More…]
Such children are not deemed to be handicapped children within the meaning of the Act. [More…]
We certainly mean that such a child is handicapped in the initial stages of education but by providing special resources that handicap can be erased. [More…]
The 1963 Budget provided per capita grants of 21 for each child. [More…]
It is hard to compare a Commission, involved with every school child in this country, with thousands and thousands of teachers all over the country, and with thousands and thousands of schools - a body like that which could so easily get away from the groups for which it seeks to speak, to make policy for and to represent - with many other commissions which governments would set up. [More…]
We are conscious of the fact that infant and child mortality from diseases such as gastroenteritis has been much too - (Quorum formed.) [More…]
If we add on to the amount to be spent by the Commonwealth the amount which the States are spending the total expenditure is probably nearly $1,000 per year per head for every Aboriginal man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
Sister Stacey is well known throughout Australia for her magnificent work for Aboriginals at Alice Springs Hospital, where her specific responsibility has been the training of Aboriginal mothers in maternal and child welfare. [More…]
She told the story that Aboriginal mothers, being extra maternal if such a thing is possible, were quite wonderful when it came to learning the procedures and techniques of raising children according to modern standards. [More…]
It appears that with these people who move from tribal ground to tribal ground, or to various parts of their tribal ground, the custom is for the healthiest child to receive the major care. [More…]
Hence the health of the very small and very delicate infants is very likely to decline and all the good work that takes place at the maternal and child welfare centres is lost. [More…]
When we think of their health we think more particularly of the health of the infants and small children. [More…]
I remember the nursing sister saying to me one day that she could be treating somebody for something on the bed and an Aboriginal woman would be having a child on the floor. [More…]
What is the average annual cost per child in these centres, excluding Government subsidy. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory, each Parent Association accepts specific responsibilities in the preschool system and, in providing educational equipment, fruit, and funds for cleaning of the school, approximately $35 per child per annum is spent. [More…]
The Parent Committees of other Northern Territory pre-schools, in providing for cleaning, new equipment, insurance, petty cash and general supplies, spend approximately $50 per child per annum. [More…]
The Opposition not only wants that sum of money spent, but also wants to see retained the principle that every Australian child is entitled to a grant regardless of the school to which the child’s parents send it. [More…]
House of Representatives the security of the basic grant to every child attending a nongovernment school is preserved, as it should be. [More…]
Twenty-two per cent of all Australian children attend those schools, and this affects every one of them. [More…]
The previous Government passed legislation which provided grants for each child - $104 for secondary pupils and $62 for primary students, which at that time was 20 per cent of the cost of running a government school. [More…]
The fundamental principles as we see them are these: All children, no matter to which school their parents send them, should receive a grant. [More…]
There should be distributed, on top of this fundamental grant to every child, much larger funds according to need. [More…]
That is why the Opposition supports the Karmel Committee’s report and why it insists that this per capita grant to every child should be preserved. [More…]
Does anyone say that a child, because its parents send it to a particular school, is not entitled to the equality of opportunity- [More…]
Does anyone say that because a child’s parents send it to a particular school, that child, with no choice, is to be removed from the possibility of support from Commonwealth funds? [More…]
We are saying that, for the sum of less than $5m, every child in Australia shall have that basic equality of education in which every child is entitled to a grant and that on top of that extra sums should be provided on the basis of need. [More…]
By implication, throughout the election campaign last year every member of the then Opposition was saying to the parents of children in the private schools: ‘You can vote Labor, and the principle of per capita grants will be retained’. [More…]
The Opposition wishes not only to ensure that this money goes to education but also to see retained the principle that every Australian child is entitled to go and his parents have a freedom of choice to send him to whatever school is selected. [More…]
By the action taken by the Opposition in the House of Representatives, the security of a basic grant to every child attending a non-government school is preserved. [More…]
They are being hypocritical when they come into this chamber and say that there is no difference between the child of a rich man and the child of a poor man. [More…]
The children are the same; but honourable members opposite are fooling themselves, although they are not fooling the people of Australia, when they say that there is no inequality between the child of a man on $50,000 who chooses to send that child to Melbourne Grammar or Sydney Grammar and the child of a bus driver on $80 a week, $100 a week, or whatever it happens to be who has to send his child to a state school. [More…]
They say that a child at that school also needs help. [More…]
What about the school children in Glebe, Surry Hills and Balmain. [More…]
We believe that every child, regardless of where he comes from, whether he comes from Surrey Hills or the electorate of Casey, has a fundamental right to a basic level of support in terms of education expenditure from the Federal Government. [More…]
Every child - no class distinction, no lower class, upper class or middle class - has this fundamental right. [More…]
But in addition we seek to ensure the fundamental right of every Australian child, free from class bitterness and class distinction. [More…]
Its firm belief in the principle that each Australian child should receive basic recurrent educational suppott by a grant from the Australian Government of a proportion of the per pupil cost in government schools irrespective of the school attended and that further grants according to need should be added to this bask grant- [More…]
What security is there for a child in a school like North Fitzroy, Brunswick or Surry Hills? [More…]
What security is there for a child growing up in a society where he is illequipped to cope with the sort of things that he will have to cope with? [More…]
What sort of feeling have those who sat on this side of the House for 23 years had for those children? [More…]
Quite clearly they had very little feeling for those children at all. [More…]
The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education. [More…]
We are as a parent to a child moving out into the world on her own. [More…]
The Committee decided to press the urgent need for an integrated approach to the planning of health and welfare services in Albury-Wodonga; to bring to the notice of the Ministerial Council the acute shortage of social welfare workers in the area, particularly those experienced in youth work; to ask the Cities Commission for a study of the effect of the growth centre on the ecology; to press for the regular release of planning information so that Albury-Wodonga businessmen can plan for the future; and to ask that the Development Corporation consider the need for infant and child care facilities in commercial development and community facilities, as well as providing for the disabled. [More…]
Also what I have constantly said and I repeat now is that we want to see the expenditure of the Karmel money and, in addition to the expenditure of that money, we wish to see - at an’ estimated total cost of not more than $5m per annum - every Australian child as a matter of justice and of equity attract to that child- [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit is payable to charitable and religious organisations conducting approved homes accommodating and caring for both physically and mentally handicapped children under 16 years of age. [More…]
As announced in the Budget Speech, it is proposed to double the rate of benefit to $3 a day for each child at an estimated cost of $0.2m in 1973-74 and $0.5m in a full year. [More…]
The point I want to make relates to the contradiction that parents of handicapped children face. [More…]
If they send their child to be accommodated in an approved home, the organisation running that home will receive $3 a day towards the cost of caring for the child. [More…]
However, if the parent is unable to have the child accommodated the benefit is not paid, and he is deprived of it. [More…]
Perhaps it is just as difficult for those living in metropolitan areas to obtain accommodation at a home for their children because of the shortage of beds and facilities. [More…]
In addition, parents may believe that it is their responsibility to care for a child at home, believing that that is where the best care can be provided for the child. [More…]
In such cases, the child goes to a special day school of some type. [More…]
Such parents already carry a heavy financial and emotional burden in having handicapped children. [More…]
I believe that it is an anomaly that a parent of a handicapped child under 16 years of age should receive no assistance at all. [More…]
An extension of either of those 2 existing schemes or some other scheme that I am sure the Minister and this Government - or any Government - could dream up could be appropriate to cover this anomaly and weakness with regard to the important matter of handicapped children. [More…]
With reference to the case of Mrs King of Canberra and her efforts to adopt her foster child, Kelly, will the Minister investigate the situation with a view to maintaining what is now a happy family unit. [More…]
The payment date for widows’ pensions, supporting mothers’ benefits, child endowment and orphans’ benefits has been advanced from 1 January 1974 to 27 December in South Australia and the Northern Territory and to 28 December in all other States and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
There is nothing in his motion to that effect, if we support this motion today we would be voting to require a total vote of the Australian people to decide the question - that is, every man, woman and child in the country. [More…]
It means the children, the Aborigines, the criminals in gaols, the persons in mental institutions and members of the Armed Forces at home and abroad. [More…]
The motion moved by the honourable member for Warringah deserves to be treated with a certain amount of ridicule because it is an impossible proposal embracing, as it does, every man, woman and child voting on every suggestion - good, bad or indifferent - which will be presented to and decided on by the Australian people at tremendous cost. [More…]
Irrespective of what the Tories opposite say, I believe that every Australian - man, woman and child - will endorse our action as being appropriate in this age of changing times, advancement and Australian nationhood. [More…]
The evidence is that where this decision is taken out of the hands of the parents, and where the child is given no option except to take free school milk, in many cases the child refuses it. [More…]
Large percentages of Aboriginal children are constitutionally affected by cows’ milk; it literally makes them sick, and this is not an appropriate remedy in all cases. [More…]
Because of the importance of the care and education of young children, both to the children themselves and to parents and community at large, the Government welcomes widespread comment within the next few months on the report and its recommendations. [More…]
In the meantime, the Government will continue to allocate the S8m provided in the present Budget for the establishment and operation of child care centres. [More…]
In the case of both child care and pre-school facilities, there are serious inequalities in existing services, and the need for action is urgent. [More…]
The argument in relation to consultation with the States is very interesting when we remember that late last year the then Government introduced a Bill relating to child minding centres which took no account whatsoever of State Departments of Health which were looking after that matter. [More…]
In fact, it absolutely overrode them and did not even place those child minding centres within the Federal Departments of Health or Education and Science but in fact made them part of the Department of Labour and National Service, as it was then called. [More…]
So, when people talk about consulting the States and protecting State rights, I would have thought that the pre-school education and child minding area was very specifically one for the States; but in cases in which it suited the former government it had no compunction at all in excluding the States from its legislation. [More…]
For many years a campaign was waged to achieve justice for the school children of this country. [More…]
There were many people who, in the early days when it was dangerous to do so, asserted that every child in this country was entitled to equality and to justice. [More…]
Many of the people who did it in the days when it was dangerous to do it still survive here, and they will continue to survive here because the principle that every child in this country should attract a sum of money as of right, regardless of the school to which the parents choose to send the child, is right. [More…]
This Party - the Liberal Party - insists that that principle of the right of every child to receive a per capita grant should be maintained. [More…]
It is that in addition to the per capita grant to every child Government funds should be made available on the basis of need. [More…]
But in the Karmel Committee report a phasing out of assistance for a certain number of children in this community was recommended. [More…]
One must have religious bigotry to be prepared to abandon the principle of a per capita grant for every child in this community. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as he now is - the Leader of the Opposition as he then was - and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), as he now is - the honourable member for Fremantle - both made promises last year that there would be no cut in any existing grant to any child. [More…]
We will spend $694m according to the Karmel Committee report and we will establish forever the principle that every child in Australia is entitled to a per capita grant’. [More…]
Whatever has been the outcome of the negotiations that have gone on, however the members of the Country Party vote tonight, I assert that they will stand by the principle that every child should attract to itself as a matter of right and of equity and of justice a per capita payment for education. [More…]
We believe that every child, no matter which school he or she attends, is entitled to the benefit of a basic grant from public funds. [More…]
It concerns the statement he made this week that the States have failed to show specific areas of need that would justify the continuation of the distribution of free milk to all Australian school children. [More…]
Was the decision weighed against the opinion of world nutritionists who have brought down the decision, based on research, that milk is the best supplier of protein which developed the child best, both mentally and physically? [More…]
I have recently approved in principle that pension payments be made to the credit of bank accounts twelve weekly, as for child endowment. [More…]
In pursuance of these duties, the Director made arrangements for Mr and ‘Mrs Brown to foster the child. [More…]
My Government, having brought about the abolition of fees within the area of tertiary and technical education, and having introduced comprehensive forms of assistance to upgrade primary and secondary education, is now concentrating its attention on the area of child care and pre-schooling. [More…]
On the one hand they have passed increasing responsibility to local government, such as for child care centres, assistance for aged persons and environmental protection. [More…]
The problem at the moment is that the court has not given her access to the child in a formal way. [More…]
The Australian Embassy has given all the assurances in the world that we do not wish to interrupt the course of justice and the hearings in Austria, but we have certainly said, through all the means that are available to us, that the mother and the child should be able to get together and I would hope that the representations that are being made in a continuing way to the Austrian authorities will persuade the Austrian authorities to recognise the rights of this Australian mother in this situation and also to act in the best interests of the child. [More…]
Another 2 Australian children at the moment are in Switzerland in a similar situation. [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…]
I would hope that the best traditions of Austrian administration would recognise the rights of an Australian mother in relation to her Australian child so that the mother and child can be reunited quickly. [More…]
Where is the party which advocated the right of every Australian child to receive a proportion of government funds for education? [More…]
Following these discussions, the stage has been reached where, subject to the passage of the legislation in this period of Parliament, the first payment direct to credit union savings accounts will be of child endowment and they are planned to commence in July. [More…]
The Government has received the first report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee which recommends considerable payments for both pre-schools and child minding centres in all States. [More…]
The Camperdown children’s hospital, an average of 20 miles from the centre of the western metropolitan area, where these 4 hospitals are situated, averages 100 to 150 child cases each day from this western area. [More…]
As can be appreciated, with an average annual increase in population within this western area of 25,000 people, practically all of whom are young people with young families, the probems associated with the hospitalisation and care of children are practically impossible to surmount. [More…]
The hospitals I mentioned are not equipped with the necessary specialists to deal with child cases and their journey to Camperdown hospital of 20 miles becomes a nightmare to the parents of the children, with waiting time after they get to the hospital creating a tremendous problem. [More…]
The Labor Government talks about an assessed, seasonal or adjusted family income, which allows for a deduction of $300 for every child undergoing full time primary or secondary education. [More…]
67m is available for expenditure in New South Wales between now and 30 June to establish and maintain education and care services for preschool children. [More…]
25m which have already been approved to New South Wales private organisations under the Child Care Act. [More…]
Arrangements could be made for operational support of existing pre-schools designated as contributing particularly to opportunity for children in need. [More…]
For existing pre-schools, Australian Government assistance would contribute to staff salary costs and would be available to avoid the need for parent contributions in respect of pre-schools catering especially for children in need. [More…]
I might say that, unlike the child care grants which on the capital side are expected to obtain approvals amounting to $ 13.5m by 30 June, the pre-school grants are grants to the States whereas the child care grants result from direct dealings with local government or local charitable organisations. [More…]
There is no doubt that in the next financial year the Government will provide the thrust that is so urgently required in the pre-school and child care fields. [More…]
Many other matters were overlooked in Her Majesty’s Speech; and I should like to mention before I have to conclude that child care and probate were important matters on which the Government could have commented but did not. [More…]
In addition to providing an increase in the pension because of the inflationary spiral, steps should also be taken to stop this inflationary spiral in which case, of course, not only would the pensioner be better off but also every man, woman and child and every industry in Australia would be better off. [More…]
When talking about technical education, other parents will often say to you: ‘That is all right for your child, but I want my child to go to a university’. [More…]
Provision has been made to erect 3 new child care centres in my electorate alone and possibly a fourth one in the Hobart area. [More…]
These child care centres are of high quality, and I suppose that this is one of the problems. [More…]
If the rate to which this Government has allowed inflation to rise is allowed to continue, a dollar at the time of birth of a child born this year would be worth ic by the end of his life, and at the time of his death average annual earnings would be $27m. [More…]
After all, in the main, it is a child of their own creation. [More…]
Mrs Child, who was the defeated candidate in the electorate of Henty, has been appointed by the Minister for Overseas Trade as his trade union liaison officer. [More…]
Mrs Child has been reendorsed as the Labor Party candidate for Henty. [More…]
Lack of both pre-school kindergartens and child care facilities in New South Wales is very serious and both areas require substantial help immediately. [More…]
There are no complaints from New South Wales in relation to the child care Act because the Liberal Government - I will say this in its favour - had the wisdom to dump section 96 of the Constitution altogether and, under its child care Act, to make grants directly to the organisations without using any State governments as a pipeline for those grants. [More…]
25m has gone into New South Wales for child care centres and we are dealing directly with local governments. [More…]
The Bill also makes allowance for financial assistance for certain persons outside Australia not qualified to receive an Australian social service pension and provides for payment of child endowment, pensions and similar long term benefits to the credit of savings accounts with approved credit unions and also the payment of pensions and similar long term benefits to the credit of bank accounts, as has been the case with child endowment since its introduction in 1941. [More…]
A class A widow or a supporting mother will receive a basic pension or benefit of $26 a week, together with a mother’s allowance of $4 a week and additional pension of $5 a week for each child in her care. [More…]
As all honourable members are well aware the rate of mothers allowance is increased to $6 a week if she has a child under six or one who is an invalid. [More…]
Thus a mother with 3 children over 6 years of age will now receive a maximum pension of $45 a week; this amount would be $47 a week if she were entitled to the higher rate of mother’s allowance. [More…]
The same rate of pension will be payable to a single age or invalid pensioner with children. [More…]
A married pensioner couple will also qualify to supplement the basic married rate of pension for $45.50 a week by an additional $5 for each child in their care. [More…]
A widow with one child and no property affecting will now be able to receive income of up to $96 a week before losing her entitlement to widow’s pension, or up to $100 df her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid child requiring full-time care. [More…]
If she has no income affecting, a widow with one child may have property to the value of $43,600, or $45,680 if her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid requiring fulltime care, before her entitlement to widow’s pension is extinguished. [More…]
At present child endowment is paid either by cheque each four weeks or by credit to a bank account at 12-weekly intervals. [More…]
It is proposed that payment of child endowment be made to the credit of savings accounts with approved credit unions. [More…]
Preparations will be made to introduce this new method of payment for child endowment later this year. [More…]
Although initially it will be possible to pay only child endowment to credit union accounts, eventually the new provisions will extend to other payments under’ the Social Services Act which will include all pensions, supporting mother’s benefit, sheltered employment allowance and rehabilitation allowance. [More…]
Honourable members will know, of course, that child endowment may already be paid in this way. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, a war widow may also receive a domestic allowance if she has a child, including a student child, or if she is 50 years of age or is permanently unemployable. [More…]
I am aware of a reported statement by Dr R. M. Howlett, officcr-in-charge of the genetics laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital which calls for the establishment of a genetics centre in Perth as a significant step in reducing the number of child deaths from genetic disease. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman examined the legislation of his own Government in relation to child care centres he would find that his Government - we have followed suit - established a direct relationship with local governments, churches and any private organisations that set up child care centres, without using the mechanism of section 96 of the Constitution and without using the States as a post box. [More…]
5m will have been committed to capital construction works for child care centres between April 1973 and 30 June 1974. [More…]
Furthermore, more than $lm has been spent in recurring grants and nearly $400,000 on research in the field of child care. [More…]
The base rate pensioners who have no other income and who need and deserve assistance, whether it be in the form of supplementary rent assistance or the payment of so much for each dependent child, are the ones who are being hit the hardest. [More…]
Because of the present rate of inflation rents are being increased and it costs more to rear children. [More…]
For example, there is the proposal to abolish concessional tax deductions for dependent children and with the savings thus made to substantially increase child endowment. [More…]
As mentioned, the savings in the first year which would be diverted to increase child endowment would, according to Taxation Office calculations, be of the order of $240m. [More…]
Disregarding this saving, this would mean that the total cost for child endowment would be of the order of $55Om this financial year if the proposal had been implemented for this period. [More…]
In subsequent years savings from the removal of the taxation concession for dependent children will be of the order of $25m a year. [More…]
If average weekly earnings were to increase by 10 to 15 per cent in the same year then to increase child endowment correspondingly would cost between $55m and $80m. [More…]
While this sort of program of increases in child endowment seems to have attractions, the cost is such that further consideration of the proposals is needed. [More…]
I have been asked by a number of people the income effects of Professor Henderson’s proposals relating to child endowment and the removal of tax concessions for various family income groups. [More…]
Perhaps it might be handy for purposes of the record if I indicate here the order of costs involved in increasing child endowment, for example by $1 a week for all children according to their place in the family. [More…]
As honourable members will note, to increase child endowment for the first or only child by $1 a week would cost nearly $100m and to increase child endowment by this amount for all children, nearly $2 10m. [More…]
1 of the inquiry which recommends fundamental changes in the amounts of child endowment to be paid. [More…]
It recommends payment of the amount of $1.50 for the first child, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on up to $8 for the fifth child and subsequent children. [More…]
A deep point of philosophy and even pragmatism is involved here because it can be well and truly argued that child endowment for the first child for different philosophical reasons should be higher than for, say, the second child because quite often the first child is far more costly to the family unit than the second child. [More…]
Quite often the wife is forced to cease work and therefore the amount of income coming into the home on the birth of the first child is suddenly decreased by one-third or more and there is also the initial expense associated with the birth of the first child. [More…]
These include $9m for pre-school and child care centres; $1.7m for health services, of which $0.5m is for blood transfusion services and $0.7m for the school dental scheme; $lm for grants to the apple and pear and canning fruit industries; and $l.lm for assistance in relation to natural disasters in previous years. [More…]
It was then noticed that the house had caught fire and, before any effective means of controlling the fire was found, it was too late and despite all the efforts of the local people the unfortunate child was burned to death. [More…]
Not only did the unfortunate family lose their youngest child but also they lost all their furniture and household effects and in fact now have to start off again from scratch. [More…]
As usually happens in unfortunate cases such as this, everybody has rallied around to give them the maximum assistance, but all this assistance does not bring back the child they have lost. [More…]
The house with the child inside was burned to the ground. [More…]
Even the children of Australia are concerned about the tragedies of the Whitlam administration. [More…]
If the interjection to which I have referred causes confusion for Hansard, I should state that it emanated as a cry from a child in the public gallery. [More…]
The other anomaly which has caused some of this surplus has been the inability of single mothers in some States to have their dependant children included as beneficiaries under the scheme. [More…]
For example, in Victoria the law allows single mothers to adopt their little children and they then become beneficiaries. [More…]
But in that State of great enlightenment and progress, Queensland, from which we have heard much in the last day or so about enlightenment, we find that dependant children cannot become beneficiaries. [More…]
We find that the child must have a mark on it for life and that in the event of the death of the child’s mother on whom it could be completely dependent it is denied, under the previous Government’s miserable scheme, the benefit for which his or her mother has paid out of her salary - in many cases a payment which could not be afforded. [More…]
We have published our policies on preschool education and child care. [More…]
I point out, finally, however, in view of the frenzy of the Country Party on this issue and a little earlier on the matter of the superphosphate bounty, that, for instance, the amount of $65m which will not be going to wealthy farmers after the superphosphate bounty ceases at the end of this year will be very handy to fund an adequate child care program in the community. [More…]
Perhaps that fact explains some of the opposition of the Country Party to proposals put at the recent Country Party conference with respect to child care services. [More…]
The legislation governing child care centres was introduced by the honourable member for Flinders when he was Minister for Labour and National Service in the McMahon Government. [More…]
Responsibility for the Child Care Act was transferred to the Department of Education and it is wholly unamended. [More…]
In fact, my impression would be that the majority of applicants to set up child care centres are local government authorities. [More…]
I think the children in child care centres are very young for any form of indoctrination. [More…]
I think that their main concern is to help the parents who are working by looking after their children. [More…]
There is not a scintilla of evidence that any of these child care centres, whether set up by local governments, churches or private charitable groups, have as their motivation any form of indoctrination. [More…]
There is the illiteracy of handicap of which dyslexia is one aspect; the illiteracy of ethnic origin - the disadvantage the migrant child might experience in trying to - handle the English language, or an Aboriginal child might experience in trying to handle the English language; and the illiteracy of omission either by dropping out, not having a chance or poor or faulty teaching. [More…]
It is found in children of all levels of intelligence, including the genius level. [More…]
Nor is it caused by poor teaching, frequent absences from school, the absence of books from a home, the poor eyesight or hearing of children or emotional maladjustment. [More…]
The sum of $395,000 is being spent on pre-school child research - some of it in the area of the handicapped. [More…]
As to the illiteracy of ethnic origin, the honourable member will recall that $5.25m was envisaged by the Commonwealth Government as being necessary for the capital works for migrant education so that classrooms could be built into which the children could withdraw for teaching in English. [More…]
As to the illiteracy of Aboriginal children, the honourable member will know that we have tried in the Northern Territory to establish literacy in Aboriginal languages where the parents have selected that course and it has been found over many years that that lends itself most effectively to transference to literacy in English. [More…]
If a child does his fundamental primary education in the language of the heart the transference to English is made easier. [More…]
712 (Hansard, 6 November 1973, page 2873), is information relating to child care centres in each State being brought up to date; if so, when will this information be made available. [More…]
Prince Henry was the last surviving child of King George V and Queen Mary. [More…]
The provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, ‘Unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services (but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
need - whether it be for nutrition, for Oslo lunches, or for giving grants sponsored perhaps by my colleague, the Minister for Education, to help institutions which have financial difficulties and which are bound to provide nutrition for children attending those institutions. [More…]
I refer to child care centres, baby homes or schools. [More…]
I refer to his speech about the Labor health scheme meaning disaster not only for every man, woman and child in Australia but for generations yet unborn, generations not yet thought of and, one gained the distinct impression, even generations long since perished. [More…]
First I would like to congratulate the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) and the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) for the way in which they presented the Address-in-Reply tonight. [More…]
We would do this also by encouraging and establishing special facilities and procedures for those who cannot work full time or in normal office or factory hours, including child care facilities, supplementary after school facilities, staggered working hours, flexible time, part time and job sharing, the appropriate application of superannuation schemes and special retraining courses. [More…]
How does one see that equity is maintained between a mother who goes out to get the $80 a week which she can when she is training, with her children looked after in child care facilities to be provided by the Government, and a mother who gets nothing from the Government because she prefers to stay at home and look after her children and believes that is what she ought to do. [More…]
The allowances involved are child education allowances payable to servicemen posted to a new location, generally to cover extra costs associated with the continued education of a child at the former location, separation allowances, livingout allowances, living away from home allowances and retention of lodgings allowances. [More…]
Because he is supposed to be the father of a girl’s unborn child. [More…]
There is a need for the national Government to involve itself, not by directly overseeing urban development projects and becoming a giant landlord and developer, but by providing additional funds to local government for capital works programs such as day and child care centres, recreational and care centres for children both after school and during holiday periods; parks, gardens and flora and fauna reserves; family and community counselling facilities, particularly among migrant communities; library and recreational facilities; health and welfare centres, including family planning and infant health centres; sewerage and drainage schemes; and road, street and bridge works. [More…]
I also offer my congratulations to those honourable members on the Government side who moved and seconded the motion for the adoption of the AddressinReply, the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) and the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child). [More…]
Difficulties often arise in such cases over the care of children. [More…]
It is very undesirable that pre-school children be left in crowded, unstimulating surroundings, as often happens when they are left with neighbours or at cheap child minding centres. [More…]
Worse still are cases where children of 2 and 3 years of age are left strapped in cots all day in bare rooms while parents are out at work. [More…]
When such children get to school they come home to an empty house or have to roam the streets until parents return. [More…]
But the aim of the Australian Labor Government is to provide such centres for all children, free of charge. [More…]
Adequate controls will have to be provided to maintain the standards so that children attending them will benefit, while at the same time allowing enough flexibility to cater for local needs. [More…]
An important factor to note here is that these preschool centres should be seen as places where children are educated. [More…]
The socialisation process of learning to mix in a peer group, the discovery of the physical properties of common materials and objects and the learning of physical manipulative skills not only can be encouraged at the pre-school age but must be encouraged if the child is to stand a chance of developing to its full potential as a person later in life. [More…]
The situation of women in the employment field and the provision of child care facilities are only one part of the social question of the relative roles of the 2 sexes in the society. [More…]
In this respect I say that I have never ceased to be grateful that I came into this world in time to experience as a mere child the final years of the infamous depression of the Thirties. [More…]
Child Minding Centres [More…]
Secondly, in the policy speech last April reference was made to our plans to embark on a major pre-school and child care program at a cost then estimated at $130m in this financial year. [More…]
We will, of course, fully honour the commitments that we have already entered into under the interim pre-school and child care schemes, and which alone could call for an outlay of about $34m in this financial year. [More…]
A widow with one child and no property affecting will now be able to receive income of up to $106.00 a week before losing her entitlement to widow’s pension, or up to $110.00 if her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid child requiring full-time care. [More…]
If she has no income affecting, a widow with one child may have property to the value of $48,800, or $50,880 if her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid requiring full-time care, before her entitlement to widow’s pension is extinguished. [More…]
A sample survey carried out in May 1973 revealed that 27 per cent of married women with at least one child under six years of age were in the civilian labour force. [More…]
The percentage for married women with children under five years of age is not available. [More…]
From information that is available, I am able to explain that a wide variety of training facilities are provided throughout Australia for children suffering from all types of handicaps. [More…]
The usual prerequisite for admission is that a child is so handicapped as to need special equipment and attention beyond that provided through general education services. [More…]
lm on pre-schools and child care centres mean a slowing of present expenditure in these areas of social policy? [More…]
Will it represent a retarding of the training of pre-school teachers or personnel for child care centres? [More…]
23m for child care centres during the last Parliament. [More…]
The problem with this expenditure is that in some States local government - I dp not want to release in advance the details of the Coleman report, which in respect of the sum of $130m proposed has envisaged a very big role for local government - is not empowered to spend money on pre-schools or child care centres. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of the ‘problems that Mrs Madonna Weber, formerly Miss Madonna Schacht of Brisbane, is experiencing presently .in Austria and Germany in attempts to gain custody of her child? [More…]
Has the Australian Government assisted Mrs Weber in her attempts to gain custody of her child? [More…]
I am well aware of the problems faced by Mrs Madonna Weber in her litigation in Austria and West Germany in attempts to gain custody of her child. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that when a child is born to parents of different nationalities that child can, under the law of certain states, have dual nationality. [More…]
The honourable member has asked whether the Government has assisted Mrs Weber in her attempts to gain custody of her child. [More…]
Bearing in mind that law” suits for divorce and child custody are private legal matters solely within the jurisdiction of the appropriate courts in both Austria and Germany, as they are in Australia, the degree of assistance that the Australian Government and Australian embassies can offer is limited and must of necessity be less extensive than that sought by the various organisations and persons who have interested themselves in Mrs Weber’s case. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s answer to the honourable member for Isaacs, will the Minister acknowledge that he has before him numerous requests for both subsistence expenditure and capital expenditure for new and existing child care centres and pre-schools, particularly a number from my own electorate with its large number of 2- income earner families? [More…]
I have 85 requests for child care centres and 236 requests for pre-schools. [More…]
Of the 85 requests for child care centres my Department classifies 23 as very urgent. [More…]
I draw the attention of the honourable member to the fact that $13.5m worth of approvals for child care centres were made last year under the legislation of the former Government and that the whole of that money was not taken up. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), who has just resumed her seat, expressed pleasure at the change of attitude on the part of honourable members on this side of the House to this legislation. [More…]
As the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie) and the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) both pointed out, the National Interest Division is one for which the funds obtainable, however they are obtained, can be obtained only by resolution passed by both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
Some good promises were made, including one concerning a child care program. [More…]
I remind the Minister for Social Security that on 1 May this year, speaking about child care programs, he said: [More…]
The need for such a program is emphasised by the fact that there are at present in Australia about 1.3 million children of pre-school age and that, for more than 1 in 4 of these children, there is no parent at home during working hours. [More…]
Of these only 1 in every 10 attends a child care centre. [More…]
… At least 13,000 children are left totally unattended during the day. [More…]
Furthermore, for too many of our primary school children there is nowhere to go outside of school hours or during vacations. [More…]
I will illustrate how ridiculous and absurd the present situation is for a married man on the minimum wage and with 3 children. [More…]
With child endowment and free health insurance less income tax, the net weekly income for a married man - if he is working - on the minimum wage is $69.40. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) who just resumed her seat- [More…]
I regret that the honourable member for Hotham did not allow the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) to incorporate a table in Hansard. [More…]
We introduced this provision in the last Budget and pay $10 a week to any unfortunate youngster who is a double orphan - that is, a child, both of whose parents are deceased. [More…]
Where was the moral concern in those 23 years, when nothing was done for these unfortunate children? [More…]
As powers in respect of adoption and related child welfare matters are retained by the State governments under the Constitution, consultation with State governments is necessary and a national conference has been arranged for 24 and 25 July. [More…]
There is no doubt that a large number of Aboriginal children in a school is a sign of disadvantage because of their poverty. [More…]
A school is disadvantaged if it needs to put on extra teachers to teach English, but otherwise it has been found that because of the amount of backing in Italian and Greek homes, for instance, that a child gets - the headmistresses and headmasters of New South Wales schools have said this to me - migrant children in very many cases are among the least disadvantaged because their motivation to education is so good, and that almost invariably the disadvantaged children are [More…]
Australian children. [More…]
They are the children usually of deserted wives, or the children of single mothers and so on. [More…]
Behind the others there is a tremendous extended family backing which makes an immense difference to the child. [More…]
I draw to his attention the fact that only a few days ago we heard a serious contribution in this House when the Treasurer (Mr Crean) informed us that the Government’s promises in relation to child care and the abolition of the means test on pensions would not be implemented in accordance with the timetable that had formally been proposed and that these reforms were being postponed. [More…]
If in his electorate, as there is in mine, there is much concern about child care I am surprised that he would even enter into this debate and make comments that would indicate that child care is of little consequence in his electorate. [More…]
I would have thought that if the Government was looking for other expenditure to prune in order to be seen to be responsible it would have found something other than the grants for child care benefits and child care facilities. [More…]
If the honourable member for Robertson went around my electorate and looked in every bus shed and saw pasted on the walls the signs stating that Labor cares about child care- [More…]
I remember also a Press release by the right honourable gentleman on 1 May saying that the Liberal-Country Party coalition offered $20m for both child care and retraining. [More…]
The Opposition Parties cannot even make up their minds about the difference between pre-school and child care. [More…]
The average expenditure by the LiberalCountry Party Government, which preceded the present Government and in which the right honourable gentleman was the final Treasurer, on pre-school education and child care was S5m a year. [More…]
Under the sub-heading ‘Progressive Social Services’ is a promise of ‘child endowment for the first child, without reduction of the basic wage’. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in answer to a question - the one that led to a personal explanation by my colleague, the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) - insisted upon stating that he had read a document of mine which said that an amount of $20m would be spent by a Liberal-Country Party Government for both child care and retraining. [More…]
In the upshot we undertook to spend $20m on child care and retraining. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) said that none of the $130m will be spent on child care and retraining. [More…]
It has education proposals and proposals for pre-school and child care, a superannuation scheme, a compensation scheme and social welfare schemes. [More…]
A Kent child waited 4 years for one. [More…]
The repudiation by the Government of the public undertaking to commence a full-scale pre-school and child care program in 1974. [More…]
It does not concern the program of child care services, if I may use that compendious title, as such. [More…]
It does not deal with the difficulties associated with preschool education - the social consequences of child care activities. [More…]
When the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) delivered the policy speech for his Party on 29 April of this year he gave the clearest of undertakings regarding child care services - and I use that term ‘child care services’ for the sake of convenience to cover both preschool education and child care in the sense that we understand it. [More…]
Child care services will be subsidised with parents contributing to the cost according to their means, the main thrust of the program in the first years being to assist disadvantaged children. [More…]
It is estimated that the cost of this program in the first year - a program of vision and imagination based on a compassionate understanding of the needs of the child, the parent and the community - will be $130m. [More…]
How is it that the honourable gentleman was able to say on 29 April that the recommendations made concerning child care services throughout Australia were based on the recommendations of these 3 reports? [More…]
Only Whitlam has a program for child care. [More…]
500,000 children will benefit from Whitlam’s child care programs by 1977. [More…]
In a statement in this House on 1 1 December 1973 the Minister said that in the case of both child and pre-school facilities there are serious inequalities in existing services and the need for action is urgent. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recognise that in the child care program at present I am implementing legislation of the Liberal and Country parties, which envisages the establishment of expensive and quite elaborate child care centres. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen opposite will recognise that in their legislation they left the initiative for the development of child care centres to local groups. [More…]
We have under construction and approved 262 pre-schools and 122 child care centres. [More…]
honourable member who is getting excited about repudiation - SI 2m was approved for pre-schools and $ 13.5m for child care centres. [More…]
If we are to talk about accelerations I remind the honourable gentleman that expenditure on the pre-school area and the child care area in the last five years of his Government was $8.35m. [More…]
As long as I am responsible for this matter - I am adamant on this - there will be qualified staff in pre-schools and adequate staff in child care centres. [More…]
I am not going around being rigid by saying that everybody in a child care centre has to have a degree from a university or any sort of formal qualification like that. [More…]
If honourable members wish to know my philosophy on this matter - it relates to the expensiveness of staff, perhaps, or at least the time taken to get the staff - it is this: It is unfortunate that some of the justifiable agitation for child care centres and pre-school institutions assumes the eclipse of the family. [More…]
The discussion on child care centres touches on a fallacy that has gone out of fashion and another fallacy expressing the same error which is becoming more and more fashionable. [More…]
The unfashionable fallacy is the view that a child care centre exists to encourage a stable and contented female work force with reduced absenteeism. [More…]
The fashionable fallacy is that a child care centre exists to release a woman to express herself in society. [More…]
Child care centres may encourage a stable female work force and may release a woman to express herself in society, but neither is the purpose of a child care centre. [More…]
Child care is for the development of the child, for the ability of the child to cope with the world around about it and the people in it. [More…]
Child care is a preventive service to prevent emotional and health problems. [More…]
To be adequate a child care centre needs to give a child responsiveness, appreciation and predictable warmth - the role of a mother for a child whose mother is not able to assume a mothering role at least for some part of the day. [More…]
He had a comprehensive report on child care which spoke about a vast diversity of services. [More…]
Some local bodies can be talked into it but if it is merely a question of their willingness honourable members will find that in some areas where child care centres are least needed there is a local government body willing to establish them. [More…]
In some of the most advantaged areas like Toorak there are a lot of disadvantaged children and a lot of disadvantaged people. [More…]
I have mentioned 122 child care centres and 262 pre-school centres under way. [More…]
I am speaking of the elaborate child care centres envisaged by our predecessors. [More…]
My Department regards 23 of the 85 applications for child care centres as urgent. [More…]
lm in addition to other expenditures on child care, which brings it up to a total of $44m which is the figure I have mentioned. [More…]
Because of commitments made by our predecessors we are working through local and voluntary groups at the moment on the child care centres and, because pre-school is not compulsory, we are working through locally inspired individuals as well. [More…]
It has nothing to do with the establishment and organisation of child care centres. [More…]
This discussion that the Opposition has introduced deplores the repudiation by the Labor Government of its public undertaking to commence a full scale pre-school and child care program. [More…]
It was a gimmick that undoubtedly had a strong appeal and influence on the result of the past 2 elections, despite the fact that it is now obvious that no coherent or workable policy had been developed that would allow for a successful commencement of this program and which not only recognised the needs of the children but could also operate within the bounds of our economy. [More…]
There is no doubt that pre-school and child care policies were dangled like a carrot on a stick before the nation - a nation that because of the disastrous economic initiatives of this Labor Government now finds that changes have taken place that have transformed the care of our pre-school age children from an isolated, individual problem into a subject of national concern. [More…]
I mention these 2 factors because this influx of women into the work force has made the child care problem visible in our society. [More…]
If we analysed the need for child care solely in terms of the increased number of working mothers, we would run the risk of the inadequate considerations of the range of possible solutions to our problem. [More…]
It can become all too easy to say simply that places must be found to park the children while the mothers are at work. [More…]
Such a solution leaves out the critical ingredient, that is, the needs of a growing child. [More…]
The circumstances of our rapidly changing society give the issue of child care a wider dimension than the mere need for baby sitting services while mothers are at work. [More…]
When we discuss pre-school and child care programs we should be showing a humane concern for a program of national commitment that is both feasible and capable of full development, not one that has stirred the hopes of the nation and now has become a frustrating exercise in political expediency. [More…]
The motion deplores the callous manner in which the Government has seen fit to sacrifice the interests of women and their children. [More…]
Of course, the child care area is not the only one in the list of promises which have been broken. [More…]
The $134m child care program, they decided, was dispensable. [More…]
But child care centres. [More…]
child care scheme. [More…]
Pre-school and child care programmes, of course, are a philosophical consideration. [More…]
Let us hope for the sake of Australian children that at least this matter has been settled within the Government. [More…]
If another ministerial squabble develops over child care as it did at the Australian Labor Party Conference in 1973, it will be some time yet before the objectives and attitudes of the Government are known. [More…]
The essential test of whether either any party’s words are genuine, is the amount of money the politicians have said that they are going to be prepared to spend on the important issues, and if you just take child care and retraining. [More…]
Liberal-Country Party have said: ‘$20m we will set aside next year for child care and retraining.’ [More…]
$130m the Labor Party has promised for an adequate child care program which would benefit every child in the community, whether that child is at or in somebody else’s care. [More…]
The Government by its actions and its promises has let down the Australian people generally and our women and children in particular. [More…]
When politicians use an emotional and sensitive area like child care and exploit it for their own ends, they deserve the nation’s strongest censure and condemnation. [More…]
I agree with the Opposition that education and particularly child care are matters of great public importance. [More…]
The tabling of these reports reflects the high level of interest taken in child care and other education matters by this Government. [More…]
I am particularly pleased to note this newfound interest in child care by the Opposition. [More…]
A last desperate act by that Government, taken almost as a recognition of its sins of omission in the previous 23 years, occurred in the dying days of the 27th Parliament in 1972 when action was taken to pass legislation relating to child care. [More…]
Let us not forget that earlier this year the Opposition parties in order to force an unnecessary election were not afraid to reject supply in which money was appropriated for child care purposes. [More…]
No concern was expressed for child care at that stage when the Opposition parties were intent on forcing this Government to the people. [More…]
The repudiation by the Government of the public undertaking to commence a full-scale pre-school and child care program in 1974. [More…]
When will the Government implement the undertaking given 18 months ago at the opening of the Senate election campaign to establish pre-school child minding centres throughout Australia? [More…]
After he had pointed out that the then Gov ernment subscribed to the great need for child care, 18 months after it had made a promise in an election campaign - not a couple of months later which is the position we are in now - the then Minister said: [More…]
In the last year the Government appropriated about $10m for pre-schools and $8.3m for child care facilities, but we were not able to spend all the money. [More…]
I have been the president of a. child care centre organisation, or as we call it in Dandenong, a day nursery organisation, for 4 years. [More…]
The organisation with which I am associated applied for money to be spent on fulltime child care for those in need in the community. [More…]
Interestingly enough - I do not think this should be forgotten - it was a Liberal Government which first introduced child care legislation. [More…]
The Registration Committee is the Minister’s child and it does what it is told. [More…]
Ever since, amendments have been proposed to fortify the child, to strengthen it, to bring it to manhood, effective adulthood. [More…]
Child), I take the opportunity of extending to you, Mr Speaker, my congratulations on your re-election to the Speakership of this House. [More…]
In his election policy speech he said that the Labor Party’s child care program reflected the recommendations of the Australian Prc-schools Committee, the Australian Social Welfare Commission and the Priorities Review Staff. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) Consideration is currently being given to arrangements to provide the supplementary nutritional requirements of needy children in child care or educational institutions. [More…]
employed families whose breadwinner’s gross income does not exceed $121 per week or where there are more than two dependent children $121 per week with an additional allowance of $2 per week for each dependent child in excess of two. [More…]
If those members opposite who sit to your left, Mr Chairman, will some day understand that they do not have a divine right to govern but that they have to earn it they might return to this side of the House a lot more swiftly than they are likely to return at the moment because the speeches that have been given here today will not stand the analysis of any secondary school child in Australia. [More…]
I was told by my father as a very young child: ‘The most important man in any organisation is not the president, is not the secretary. [More…]
It was stated that only Whitlam had a program of child care. [More…]
The country needs schools and, of course, child care centres. [More…]
The first time members of the Country Party heard the term ‘child care’ they thought it was an R-certificate movie. [More…]
Tomorrow, as innocent pedestrians, we or our children could have our hopes decimated by the fool or the drunkard in a motor car. [More…]
Every baby born in Australian families requires hospitalisation and the best of medical care for mother and child. [More…]
Both sides of the Parliament had to put forward to the Australian people the sort of amendment to our Constitution which enabled the provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, unemployment benefits and pharmaceutical, sickness and medical benefits. [More…]
Will it dismantle the health care program as it has done the child care program? [More…]
It was to his credit that the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) saw fit to rebuke those who in the last year have lied, abused and misrepresented in statements which have been quoted by the honourable member for Henry (Mrs Child). [More…]
Who could be more vulnerable in this respect than an expectant mother expecting difficulties in child birth? [More…]
If her child happens to have difficulties and has to be put in an intensive care ward, and if the hospital cannot juggle that child between a private and a public intensive care ward, that mother will have to pay some further extra hundreds of dollars. [More…]
I know because last week my wife and my child waited for 3 hours under those conditions in a suburban surgery. [More…]
If funds of this size are available to the Government they should be used in areas to which private enterprise is not attracted such as social security, child care centres and the abolition of the means test. [More…]
It is extraordinary to imagine that sums in the vicinity of $200m a year could be envisaged for this sort of unnecessary involvement in government ownership at a time when this very Government has arbitrarily, by the stroke of a pen, taken away $ 1 30m from the area of child care, and has taken away, by another stroke of a pen, $28m which has been directed to keep some sort of balance in the price of petrol throughout this vast community, throughout this vast economy. [More…]
Already approval has been given to establish a service with the Council for the Single Mother and Her Child in Victoria. [More…]
We believe in the individual human worth and dignity of every man, woman” ‘and child, regardless of race or colour . [More…]
If that is the case, is the Treasurer prepared to impose a head tax of $8 on every man, woman and child in Australia to enable the wages and salaries of other Australians to be transferred to this sectional interest? [More…]
This is the principle for the allocation of funds for schools under the Schools Commission program, for child care, for local government under the Grants Commission, for community health centres and hospitals, for welfare housing, for area improvement programs, for the Australian assistance plan and for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]
Why not index every man, woman and child so that we can put a tab on everybody? [More…]
The Bill enables State and Territory child welfare officers to be used as welfare officers for the purpose of the Act. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that a few weeks later when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) announced the deferment of the Government’s child care proposals, the same Opposition set up a phoney outcry against this Government. [More…]
The total cost of the child care program as promised in the election campaign of May last was almost equal to the loss anticipated to be incurred by the Australian Post Office. [More…]
It would seem that the Opposition ‘s priorities then were that postal charges should be lowered at the expense of a total child care program because it cannot have it both ways. [More…]
He will talk about child care or paralysed people and ask: ‘Are you suggesting that we do not spend money in that area?’ [More…]
It also was undertaking a special study in relation to child care in the Surry Hills area. [More…]
The Australian Government has under consideration the question of child care services and facilities on a national basis. [More…]
Officers of the Department of the Capital Territory are in regular communication with the relevant authorities in the field of child care and with the various local community organisations. [More…]
The fact is that in 1972 the previous Liberal Government gave an allowance of $50 per primary school child and $68 per secondary school child in a regional Catholic school. [More…]
Next year as a result of the Budget the allowance will be increased to $163 for each child in a primary school and $260 for each child in a secondary school. [More…]
A Budget proposal that receives my instant support, not only because it was a matter of policy of the Opposition during the last election campaign but also because it is a necessary national responsibility, is the proposed introduction of a handicapped child’s allowance of $10 a week. [More…]
It appears to me that parents or guardians of children who need constant care and attention require assistance to meet circumstances of personal costs and devotion not encountered by parents of a child not afflicted by severe handicaps, irrespective of that child’s age. [More…]
The former Government made no attempts to increase child endowment payments to give encouragement and support to our basic unit- the family. [More…]
Huge expenditure by the Government on child care and pre-school facilities in the future could well prove to have been unnecessary if such incentive was available. [More…]
The only thing in the Budget that will benefit you is the increased aid for child care. [More…]
It includes general medical practice and aspects of geriatric and rehabilitation services, counselling programs concerned with drugs, alcohol and family welfare, community mental health and maternal and child health services, again outside of hospitals. [More…]
This coming year will also see the beginning of the implementation of the Government’s new program for the care and education of young children. [More…]
This program recognises the need for education, health and welfare components in child care. [More…]
It recognises the need for these same services for children whether they be looked after at home or elsewhere. [More…]
It will break down the traditional distinctions between occasional care and regular care, between pre-school education and child minding. [More…]
All children whether they be looked after at home or elsewhere will have access to local centres designed to take care of their educational, health and psychological development. [More…]
Again, I am sure all honourable members who have had the problem of latch key children within their electorates will welcome and endorse the scheme for the care of the children of Australia. [More…]
This Government has provided legal aid services, child care services and pre-school and kindergarten services. [More…]
I support the provision of the $10 a week handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
All the decisions which have been taken by this Government have been not only significantly beneficial to the people of today but also they will be of great benefit to the people and especially to the children of the future because we believe in equality of education. [More…]
We do not believe that 85 per cent of the children who go on to university should necessarily come from the professional classes. [More…]
We believe that all Australian children should have an equal opportunity of education. [More…]
The only way in which to bring that about is to do what the Karmel Committee report has recommended and what this Australian Government has put into operation, that is, to give every child an equal opportunity. [More…]
They can now see the child care centres. [More…]
As Treasurer the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) said: ‘We will spend $5m on child care centres’. [More…]
This Budget provides for $75m to be spent on giving children throughout Australia an equal opportunity of pre-school and child care and so that the women of Australia who want to go to work will have somewhere decent to leave their children where they can be looked after by professional people. [More…]
We propose to set up a Children’s Commission to look after child care and pre-school education. [More…]
It was not until this Government came to office that a national government thought to spend any significant amount in the States on child care and pre-school education. [More…]
A taxpayer with a dependent wife and one dependent child and earning $100 a week saves $144 a year. [More…]
A taxpayer earning $100 a week and with a wife and 2 dependent children saves $164 a year- 22.9 per cent of his tax liability. [More…]
A taxpayer with a wife and 3 dependent children and on the same income saves $184 a year- 28 per cent of his tax liability. [More…]
A taxpayer with a wife and 4 dependent children and on the same income saves $206 a year- nearly a third of his tax liability. [More…]
The responsible parents who preserve some savings for a rainy day to take care of unexpected illness or unemployment or even to send a child to one of those despised private schools, are belted for it. [More…]
More should be spent on child endowment, we were admonished. [More…]
The Budget completely ignores the major recommendation of the Henderson Report which concerns child endowment. [More…]
If more is to be provided for defence, more for the States, more for child endowment and child care, more for restoration of rural subsidies and reductions in taxation and all the rest of it, where is the huge cut back to fall? [More…]
Relatively common conditions in children require fairly specialised treatment. [More…]
The actual cost of transport for the parents- usually a mother visiting a child in hospital- is quite great. [More…]
A 120-bed specialised children’s unit has been proposed in the new Westmead Hospital. [More…]
It is as if a child did not realise that medicine took some time to act and, finding no immediate effects from one dose, took another and still another. [More…]
When the Labor Party looked at the question of what could be done in the field of dental health some years ago it was put to us by the Australian Dental Association that the most constructive thing we could do was to ensure that every child in the course of his or her primary or secondary education was given adequate dental treatment and taught the principles of proper care of their teeth. [More…]
I applaud my Government in particular for its humane outlook toward those who have the unfortunate circumstance of having a physically handicapped child. [More…]
I know that the Government is money hungry, but why penalise parents who wish to educate their children at private schools, to get it? [More…]
Why should parents not have the right to educate their children at a school of their choice without being penalised? [More…]
Every taxpayer who has a child attending school has $250 added to his taxable income. [More…]
He referred to a child who returns from school, rushes into the front door of his home and, as he said, throws his bag on the floor- that is what happens in his household and it might happen elsewhere. [More…]
The child then rushes into the kitchen and says: ‘Mum, can I have a piece of bread and jam?’ [More…]
What does that child do today? [More…]
The child says: ‘Why?’ [More…]
For example, there was an increase of 78 per cent in expenditure on education; $7Sm was provided for pre-school and child care programs; $28m was made available to commence the construction of new hospitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane; provision was made for home dialysis appliances free of charge; additional funds were provided for nursing homes and for the national drug education program; a further step has been taken in the abolition of the means test for pensioners; increased rent assistance has been given to pensioners; there has been a doubling of the capital subsidy available under the Aged Persons Homes Act; a new handicapped childs allowance of $ 10 a week is to be paid to parents and guardians in respect of a child under 16 years of age who is cared for at home and who, because of the severity of the handicap, is in need of constant care and attention; a 34 per cent increase, which is $67m, is to be made available in grants to the States for welfare housing and there is the possibility of further grants should circumstances warrant. [More…]
Parents who live some distance from high schools who are required to board their children will be severely affected. [More…]
A family can receive $350 a year under the isolated children scheme. [More…]
This position is compounded if more than one child is involved. [More…]
I am referring to children attending state high schools and staying at high school hostels, not those attending private boarding schools. [More…]
The question of reciprocal legislation was considered, aimed at combatting the flaunting of court orders giving custody of a child to one parent by the other parent taking the child out of the jurisdiction. [More…]
What centres are subsidised under the recurrent grants provision of the Child Care Act, where are the centres located, what is the nature of the subsidy and how much does each centre get. [More…]
The recurrent grant subsidy as provided for in the Child Care Act is paid on a quarterly basis. [More…]
As provided for in the Child Care Act, the recurrent grant subsidy is paid in respect of certain qualified staff and special need children as defined in the Act. [More…]
The subsidies vary from quarter to quarter as a result of staff turnover, changes in award rates, fluctuations in attendance patterns including those of children in special need. [More…]
Well, I come now to isolated children, and I have seen thousands of them. [More…]
Many parents of isolated children are now in the position where an allowance of $150 simply will not enable them to keep a child at a high school. [More…]
I concede his point that it costs more than $150 to look after a child. [More…]
But the allowance was never envisaged to cover the looking after of a child. [More…]
In a proper system, there would be no fares for children going to school. [More…]
In some cases for children in country areas that is now the position. [More…]
Again, we have provided sums for pre-school and child care centres of a magnitude of some $70m or $80m in this Budget. [More…]
With his indulgence, I would like to incorporate in Hansard a table which shows the average reduction for education expenses per child by grade of taxpayer ‘s net income for the financial year 197 1-72. [More…]
Quite obviously if the concession is available, as it should be- and I do not for a moment suggest it should not be- to parents of children in the public and in the private education systems equally, surely the amount of deductions claimed by parents of children in public schools will be inevitably considerably less than those claimed by parents of children in private schools. [More…]
One of the things that is going to heighten the sense of discrimination in some parents of children at private schools as a result of the Government’s decision is that whereas $150 might in some cases be sufficient to provide for the cost of excursions and books and extras, if parents have only one or two children at a public school, that $150 is going to go like that even if a child attends the cheapest and most frugal independent school in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
There was a time when both parents could claim tax deductions for the same child as long as their child’s educational expenses exceeded twice the amount of the limit on the taxation deduction. [More…]
In his Budget Speech the Treasurer (Mr Crean) announced the Government’s intention of increasing additional payments for children of pensioners and beneficiaries by 50c a week to $5.50 a week, raising supplementary assistance and supplementary allowance, i.e., rent allowances for pensioners and sickness beneficiaries, by $ 1 a week to $5 a week, and increasing double orphan’s pension by $1 a week to $11 a week. [More…]
The Treasurer also announced the proposed introduction of a new allowance called handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
This allowance will be payable at the rate of $10 a week to parents or guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children who are cared for in a family environment. [More…]
Single or widowed pensioners, including supporting mothers, who are eligible for supplementary assistance and have, say, 2 children, will receive a maximum of $5 1 a week. [More…]
The total amount payable is increased to $53 a week if the pensioner or supporting mother has the custody, care and control of a child under 6 or an invalid child. [More…]
Double orphan’s pension is paid in respect of a child both of whose parents, or adoptive parents, are dead or where one is dead and the whereabouts of the other are unknown to the claimant. [More…]
The pension has proved of considerable assistance to people caring for children who, in the circumstances outlined, have permanently lost all contact with their parents. [More…]
State welfare departments make financial assistance available to people caring for children who are under State control. [More…]
Double orphan’s pension is akin to child endowment and it was never envisaged by the Australian Government that it should relieve the States of expenditure in this field. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I would now like to give the House some details of the Government’s proposals relating to the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
The rate of the allowance will be $10 a week and it will be paid where, because of the nature and severity of the handicap, the child requires constant care and attention in the family home. [More…]
The allowance is designed specifically to assist parents and guardians who have a handicapped child under 16 years of age requiring constant attention and who, for reasons that all such persons will understand, prefer to provide this attention at home rather than place the child in an institution. [More…]
It is recognised that most persons who have a severely handicapped child in the home incur additional expenditure. [More…]
This new allowance should be seen in the context of the broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]
Parents or guardians who care for a handicapped child at home will be encouraged to take full advantage of the facilities that are being made available under the general welfare program and the child’s attendance at a day school or training centre will not affect eligibility for payment of the allowance. [More…]
The allowance will be paid as an addition to child endowment and will therefore be available either by cheque at four weekly intervals, or paid into a bank or similar account each 12 weeks. [More…]
It is estimated that some 20,000 children will qualify for the allowance and that the annual cost will be approximately $ 10m. [More…]
Similarly, unmarried Australian girls who give birth to a child while residing overseas are required to serve a period of 5 years ‘ residence in Australia on their return before qualifying for supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
A woman with a child of her own or a child who entered her care before she became a widow is a class A widow and attracts payment of a mother’s allowance and additional pension for the children. [More…]
A class B widow is one who has no child of her own or has no child who entered her care before she became a widow and who is not less than SO years of age. [More…]
A woman who ceases to be a class A widow because her qualifying child turns 1 6 or ceases to be a full time student, may become a class B widow if she is at least 45 years of age at that time. [More…]
Class B widows at present receive the same basic pension as class A widows but they do not receive the mother’s allowance or the additional pension for children. [More…]
On the other hand an unmarried woman may be granted an age pension at age 60 or an invalid pension and, in addition, receive additional pension for each child in her care, and guardian’s allowance irrespective of whether she is the mother of the children and irrespective of the date the children entered her care. [More…]
It is therefore proposed to enable a mother’s allowance and additional pension for children to be payable to class B widows who have the custody, care and control of any child. [More…]
The provisions relating to the new handicapped child’s allowances will come into operation on 30 December 1974. [More…]
The present legislation will ensure that the qualitative improvements which the Government sought to achieve in schools throughout Australia when it adopted the recommendations of the Karmel report, ‘Schools in Australia’, will still be achieved and as a result every child attending a primary or secondary school in this nation will benefit. [More…]
Increases are now proposed in the rates of pensions payable to the children of veterans who died from service-related causes. [More…]
It is proposed to increase by $1.20 to $10.45 the pension payable to each such child who is in the care of its mother. [More…]
Where the child has neither mother nor father, the rate will be increased by $2.40 to $20.90. [More…]
This allowance is paid to a widow who has a dependent child or children, including fulltime students, a widow who is over the age of 50 years, or one who is unemployable. [More…]
The allowances paid under the soldiers ‘ children education scheme to students undertaking secondary education, or industrial or agricultural ‘training, will be increased by about 13 per cent. [More…]
The increases will range from 45c to $2.25 and the new rates from $3.70 to $18.80 depending on the child’s age and whether it is necessary to live away from home to undertake study. [More…]
Overall, about 4,500 children are involved. [More…]
However, there will be an increase in the addition to pension payable in respect of children in the custody, care and control of the pensioner. [More…]
The addition in respect of each child will be increased by the Bill by 50c to $5.50. [More…]
In the last census some figures were taken out on families where husbands did not have wives and there were dependent children under 21 years of age. [More…]
There were 12,000 families where there was one such dependent child; 7,000 families where there were 2 such dependent children; 3,500 families where there were 3 dependent children; 1,500 families where there were 4 dependent children; and 1,000 families where there were S or more children thus dependent. [More…]
In round figures there were 25,000 families and 50,000 children involved. [More…]
That means that there are 75,000 Aus- tralians-25,000 of them adults, 50,000 of them children- who are thus suffering. [More…]
I believe that here and now we should make widowers with dependent children eligible for pensions on the same basis as widows with dependent children. [More…]
For a one child family it is $100 a week; 2 children $110; for 3 children $120; 4 children $130; and 5 children $140. [More…]
I do not think that anybody would really say that a 5 child family on $140 a week is doing very well indeed. [More…]
If he is working he has to have some kind of housekeeping arrangements unless some of his children are old enough to sustain the burden of housekeeping themselves. [More…]
The figures are somewhat higher than the honourable member for Mackellar outlined to the House and, of course, there were some changes last night For a widower with one child the income limit would be $107 a week, with 2 children $124, with 3 children $141, with 4 children $158, with 5 children $175. [More…]
There would be many of them with 5 or 6 children on an income of much less than $100 a week. [More…]
Although it may seem unusual in relation to estimates for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to be discussing matters relating to child care, such is now the case. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has assumed the responsibility for matters relating to child care. [More…]
I intend to refer specifically to the appropriation of $187,000 to establish an interim committee for the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Child care undoubtedly is a very important matter. [More…]
There is a great and growing concern in the community that child care should, firstly, be made available to those people who have a real need but ought to be available also to any woman and to any family wishing to have facilities for minding their children if those people wish to be employed or wish to exercise some freedom of choice in regard to working or undertaking other activities. [More…]
I am not complaining that moneys are allocated for child care or for child care facilities. [More…]
I note that in the Budget an appropriation of $75m was made for child care. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in 1972 the Child Care Act was introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
The Telopea Church of Christ was establishing a child care centre with a grant pursuant to this Act. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that on 22 July it was indicated that the proposed programs for child care promised in the April policy speech of the Prime Minister could not be introduced. [More…]
So the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen), who is now in the chamber presumably to deal with these matters, made a ministerial statement on 19 September in which he detailed the reasons for the establishment of the Children’s Commission. [More…]
What he said was that an interim committee would be formed ultimately to establish the Commission which will take over responsibility for administering all existing commitments in the areas of child care and pre-schools, and will immediately set to work to enable a substantial beginning to be made on the new program no later than January 1975. [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable members to a report titled ‘Social Issues News Statement’ by the Brotherhood of St. Laurence commenting on the child care proposals. [More…]
The creation of another commission outside existing departments will further fragment social policy making and the administration of child care and family welfare programs. [More…]
The trend should be to integrate and not fragment family and child care programs. [More…]
If the Government proceeds on its present course of action, it will fragment policy making and administration, create confusion and slow down the introduction of urgently needed, locally-based child care services. [More…]
I mention the first child care centre that was to have been established in my electorate in the Dundas Valley at Telopea, a housing commission area which certainly has self-evident and widely acknowledged social problems. [More…]
This worthy group of people that is endeavouring to open a child care facility in January of next year has found that it is almost impossible for a church working in the area with limited facilities to be able to gather together the funds necessary for it to commence operations from the completed centre. [More…]
As Reverend J. Bacik for the management committee of the Telopea Church of Christ Child Care Centre has pointed out, it is not possible in the present economic climate for the organisation to go to its bank and to borrow funds for this purpose. [More…]
This child care centre has to be operating by next January. [More…]
I believe there is no way that a committee or a commission not directly responsible to this Parliament can act fast enough when matters are referred to it for report in this way, and bring about a situation where the child care centre in Telopea and the many others that are seeking to be operational next year will be able to function and be functioning to meet these urgent needs that are evident to us all. [More…]
They occur in his electorate as they do in my electorate and in many other electorates across the country where expanding urban populations and increasing numbers of working mothers are creating the demand for child care centres. [More…]
When the allocation of funds for faculties such as child care centres is determined by Government departments under direct ministerial control, the complaint of the Opposition is always that political patronage is being exercised and will become the basis on which facilities are made available. [More…]
In other words, we have made sure that the allocation of funds for child care centres and pre-school centres will be determined on an expert and impartial basis. [More…]
The foreshadowed establishment of the Children’s Commission, the appointment of the interim committee for this Commission, and the initiation of the national pre-school education and child care services program is a momentous step forward in the social history of Australia. [More…]
Honorable members will be aware that no fewer than 365,000 Australian children under 6 years of age have mothers who are engaged full time in the work force and that there are places available in child care centres at present for no more than 34,500 of those children. [More…]
While it is most difficult to obtain precise pre-school education statistics for Australia as a whole, it seems certain that the position is still one in which there is a pre-school place available for fewer than one in every four of the children whose parents would wish to take advantage of it if it were there. [More…]
It is the aim of the Government to see within half a dozen years that there is a place in a pre-school centre free of charge for every child whose parents want to take advantage of it and that there is a place in a child care facility of one kind or another available for every child whose parents want to take advantage of it, at a charge related to income - [More…]
I am always a little surprised to hear members such as the honourable member for Parramatta complain that undertakings such as the child care facility to which he referred a few moments ago will be delayed when, under the government in which the party that he supports last participated, the prospects of such an organisation being financed at all would have been very remote indeed. [More…]
Government moved in the matter of pre-school education and child care at all and that, indeed, it was only in the last year of office of the former Liberal-Country Party Administration that a child care program was launched. [More…]
While we recognise on the one hand that there is an enormous number of mothers in this community who are obliged to go out to work by economic circumstances and who have a pressing need for child care centres, equally there is an enormous number of women in the community who would simply welcome an occasional break away from their families. [More…]
That is why we are emphasising the provision not only of full time day care centres but also of occasional day care centres, of play groups organised on a voluntary basis under expert guidance and supervision, and a variety of other forms of child care. [More…]
Mothers who do not want to go out of their homes to work provide care for the children of mothers who do go out of their homes to work on the basis that the charge is $12 a day for each of the children who are minded and that the sum of $12 a day for each child is paid to the mother providing the care. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) mentioned the distribution of funds to local government bodies under the Australian Grants Commission scheme. [More…]
I regret very much that my education as a child at a number of schools, both country and city, was sadly neglected in this area. [More…]
-I rise to speak about the Department of the Special Minister of State and particularly in regard to child care. [More…]
Commission or other documents related to the child care area, I find that the terms used seem to conflict at times. [More…]
Pre-school care, child care, long-day care, play groups and many other terms are used to describe the functions of the care of young children. [More…]
Furthermore, I would suggest that we use the term ‘child care’ to apply as it generally has and traditionally does to long term, long-day child care, where parents may leave their children at a centre from early in the morning until reasonably late in the evening, certainly for 5 days a week. [More…]
Two years ago there were no members of that organisation, and I believe there are now 1 5,000 children involved in play groups. [More…]
In particular, I would refer him to a recent initial survey done in the Blacktown-Mount Druitt area of Sydney where it was definitely indicated by mothers in a random survey that 90 per cent of mothers would like sessional care of their children or a play group situation. [More…]
Their concern for their children and the young Australians that they are fostering is the same no matter where they live. [More…]
I would like the Minister to keep this point in mind when referring to the Commission any matters in the child care area. [More…]
The project care book that has been prepared has an innuendo in relation to long-day child care that it is something that will take the children, look after them and deny the parents the responsibility that is rightly theirs. [More…]
These surveys, done in 1971, indicated that 96 per cent of the women would prefer to stay at home with their children, certainly until they reach the age of three and many said until they reach the age of five. [More…]
If the Government is moving in the direction of total day care for children I would suggest that it consider its position very carefully and look to Hungary and Czechoslovakia for some guidance in this matter. [More…]
Comparatively recently Hungary had 50 per cent of its children in child care centres. [More…]
The Hungarian Government is now using television advertising to encourage parents to stay at home with their children. [More…]
It is providing a form of child endowment to encourage parents to do so. [More…]
There are also problems with the children who have been through this system for some years who are now teenagers. [More…]
The Government and society has found that the problems of children who have difficulty in the fixation of a family way of life are really great indeed. [More…]
It no longer encourages mothers to leave their young children in centres provided for them but encourages them to stay at home with their families. [More…]
It will be seen from the project care booklet that a round figure for on-going costs per child seems to be $1,000 a year. [More…]
My investigations indicate that the capital expenditure could be something like $2,500 per child, which amounts to something like $250,000 per 100 children. [More…]
Therefore you have a capital cost of $250,000 per 100 children, an on-going cost of something like $ 1,000 a year per child. [More…]
I would draw the Minister’s attention to the situation of our established system of child care. [More…]
I would suggest to him that if new initiatives are to be taken m the field of child care they cannot be taken at the expense of existing systems. [More…]
There should be retained a freedom of choice and a certain amount of flexibility so that parents have the right to decide, to make a choice between alternate forms of child care. [More…]
It related to expenditure on child care. [More…]
On this occasion, however, the sum of $75m has been set aside for the setting up of child care centres, with the emphasis on education, in the areas of greatest need. [More…]
So on the question of child care honourable members opposite ought to appreciate greatly what the present Government is doing for the women, children and families of this country. [More…]
Child care was mentioned. [More…]
What did those who sit opposite do about child care during the 23 years they were in government? [More…]
Where did you ever allocate $1 for child care? [More…]
The allocation you were referring to related to a Child Care Act which was associated mainly with assisting people in industry. [More…]
Therefore you will find that when we have the report as to what is needed in child care, as the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) said, the figure will be enormous. [More…]
There are 365,000 children in need. [More…]
Let us make it clear that the program for child care will be an effective one. [More…]
It has to be the care of the child throughout the day. [More…]
There will be experimental projects as to what is the best way to look after the child because the child is at various stages of developmentperhaps under 2 years of age and perhaps going to pre-school for part of the day. [More…]
There are many people who are experienced in the practicality of looking after children. [More…]
That is one of the criticisms of one of the first reports, because it had mainly as its significance the establishment of buildings, land and training and there was not a great deal in the way of results from the point of view of child care for the need that now exists. [More…]
Where did the Liberal Party have in its platform any undertaking to do anything about child care? [More…]
I have spent a fair bit of time on the question of child care. [More…]
If we have any claim to credit it is in the fields of child care, education and local government. [More…]
Let me make it clear that the child care program is not the subject of criticism. [More…]
-In the very limited time available to me it is obviously not possible to canvass all the issues involved in the Australian Capital Territory, but in view of the speech made by the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) a moment ago, I want to refer specifically to the child care program before I get on to the main topic of my speech, which will be housing in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I would like to make it quite clear that the child care program - [More…]
I would like to discuss for a moment the child care program. [More…]
I would like to discuss child care in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I will indeed, because under legislation introduced by the former Government and which the present Government is enactingand such legislation indeed applies to the Australian Capital Territory- there are 3 criteria which determine the eligibility for assistance under the child care program. [More…]
The first is that the centre applying for’ assistance has to give preference to children in need. [More…]
The second criterion that has to be met is that the centre must be open to all children and not merely children of any particular category such as employees of a factory. [More…]
The third criterion which has to be observed in getting assistance under the child care program is that the organisation applying for it must be a non-profit organisation. [More…]
It was a disgraceful performance by the Special Minister of State to try to allege that the program of child care was other than on the lines I have just outlined. [More…]
14) Will child care facilities continue to be provided for women after they have completed training and entered the work force; if so, will such child care facilities be extended to all working mothers. [More…]
Have studies been undertaken into the reaction of mothers, who choose to stay at home and care for their children, to the provision of Government child care facilities to women who are being paid allowances to undertake training; if so, will they be provided with an equivalent grant. [More…]
and (15) I suggest that the honourable member directs these questions to the Minister whose portfolio covers child care facilities. [More…]
That goes for the original pension scheme; it goes for child endowment; it goes for things like aged persons’ homes, sheltered workshops and all the other services that we have introduced. [More…]
We on the Opposition side regard as one of the greatest areas of social need the men, widowers and deserted husbands who have been left to care for young children. [More…]
I do not know why the Government is resisting our move because it is bad enough for a child to lose a father, it is bad enough to have the breadwinner leave the family, but when the child is deprived of the mother surely the area of need is as great as or even greater than is the case in the other circumstances. [More…]
This Bill raises the additional payment for each child of a pensioner by SOc a week to $5.50 a week. [More…]
The Bill introduces a handicapped children’s allowance of $10 a week. [More…]
This amount will be payable to the parents or guardians of a mentally or physically handicapped child cared for in a family environment and requiring constant attention. [More…]
When the claim form is received by the Department it will be referred to an Australian Government Medical Officer who will examine the child and certify whether or not in his opinion the child is handicapped to a degree that qualifies for the payment of the allownace [More…]
In practice the medical test for severe handicap will be on the basis that if the condition remained unchanged the child would be likely to qualify for invalid pension on attaining 1 6 years of age. [More…]
One wonders too how an autistic or hyperactive child would be regarded under that test. [More…]
One would think that it would be doubtful whether an autistic or hyperactive child would be considered ‘sick’ enough to qualify for an invalid pension at the age of 16 years. [More…]
But those of us who have had experience with such children know that a family with such a child quite often desperately needs the kind of assistance that is envisaged in this Bill. [More…]
One wonders in those cases whether the parents or guardians of such children will be disqualified from receiving benefit. [More…]
The Bill also seeks to extend the Mother’s allowance and the additional pension for children to Class B widows who have the custody, care and control of any child. [More…]
The Bill also provides for the payment to handicapped children undergoing vocational training as part of their rehabilitation of new rates of allowance comparable to those paid under the national employment and training scheme. [More…]
For example, has the Minister considered the proposition raised in the joint Opposition Parties policy document entitled ‘The Way Ahead’ that the maternity allowance for the first child should be doubled to $60? [More…]
But they go ahead budgeting, and if a child arrives whether planned or not, that first child imposes a massive burden. [More…]
What about the costs involved with a first child? [More…]
I believe that we should be considering people in that situation and that we should at least double the maternity allowance for the first child. [More…]
The report recommended massive changes in child endowment. [More…]
-We have the question of child endowment under deep study. [More…]
What are its thoughts on child endowment? [More…]
The Minister, instead of smirking or smiling, should note that action in the area of child endowment has been recommended by the Henderson Committee and by all responsible social welfare organisations. [More…]
The Henderson Committee has indicated that a great number of low income earners on the breadline with a wife and several children to support and who are suddenly sacked can experience deep hardship in the week following their sacking. [More…]
The honourable member gets terribly upset when we refer to the past, and I do not blame him for that, because he was a member of a government which for 23 years did absolutely nothing about the maternity allowance, about child endowment for the first and second children which had not been adjusted since the previous Labor Government was in office in the 1 940s. [More…]
In Victoria, for State wards cared for by foster parents this Government has provided an orphan pension of $10 which is in the nature of a child endowment type payment to those people to assist with the care of orphans. [More…]
We have the Victorian Premier reaching his hand into the pockets of these children and stealing the $10 like a thief in the night and his colleagues in other States are doing exactly the same thing. [More…]
One other area in which it seems to me that action should be taken is the area of assisting widows with children. [More…]
It does not appear to me that sufficient cognisance is taken of the very high expenses involved in children attending high school. [More…]
When a person depends on a pension of any kind, the child is very severely disadvantaged, even though educational and other benefits may be provided. [More…]
This is a social welfare area and some serious examination should be undertaken of the means by which such children can be placed on the same basis as other children. [More…]
For example, let me take the raising of the child’s allowance from $5 to $5.50. [More…]
So even with this new 50c, the child’s allowance in terms of purchasing power will be far below what it was when we were in office. [More…]
I was interested to hear, I think it was the honourable member for Corio, talking about family endowment for the first child. [More…]
The Labor Party in its policy would have given nothing and it fought us tooth and nail when we proposed to endow the first child. [More…]
The first one is the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
I am sure that the allowance which, as honourable members will be aware, is $10 a week to the parents of guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children who are cared for in the family environment, will meet with wide approval. [More…]
I think the estimate was made that there could be 20,000 handicapped children in Australia who would qualify for this allowance. [More…]
Even though we do not welcome the fact that there are this number of handicapped children, I think one of the side benefits of this allowance will be to bring many of the handicapped children in the community more out into the open and let the Government know about them. [More…]
Apart from the general advantage of the benefit is the side advantage of a means of registration of handicapped children. [More…]
Perhaps it is necessary- because there has been a lot of worry by parents of handicapped children about just what will be the eligibility requirement for this allowance- to emphasise that attendance by the handicapped child at a day school or day training centre will not affect the eligibility for payment of the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
The main basis of assessing eligibility will be that the child’s handicap is such that constant care and attention are necessary. [More…]
The payment is designed to assist parents who have to provide constant care for a handicapped child under 16 years, at which age he or she might be expected to qualify for an invalid pension. [More…]
We are talking about a handicap at a level which, without any improvement in the child by the time he reached 16 years, would qualify him for an invalid pension. [More…]
child would be eligible for an invalid pension at 16 years. [More…]
The idea of the allowance is to assist those parents who prefer to provide attention for the child at home rather than place him in an institution. [More…]
Extra equipment, special clothing or whatever, may be needed apart from the necessity perhaps of having a more specialised baby sitting service than might be needed for the normal child. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) said in his second reading speech, the allowance should be seen in the context of our broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]
Parents who care for a handicapped child at home will be encouraged to take full advantage of the facilities already available in the community and being made available. [More…]
I want to make it clear that attendance of a handicapped child at a day school or day training centre will not prevent his or her parents being eligible to receive the allowance. [More…]
The main basis of assessment of eligibility will be that the child’s handicap is such that constant care and attention are necessary. [More…]
The administrative procedures for dealing with claims for the handicapped child’s allowance have not been finalised in every detail, but I think for the benefit of those who are concerned about whether they might be eligible it would be worth while putting on record a broad indication of the policy pattern that it is intended to adopt. [More…]
As this form will be checked against child endowment records and payments will be related to child endowment, personal details will be kept to a rninimum. [More…]
The parent may be asked to supply information concerning the nature and extent of the care and attention that is provided in the home and the name and address of any school that the child is attending. [More…]
I was outlining the procedures that will apply for the payment of the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
It may be necessary to supply the name and address of any special school or day training centre that the child is attending and the names of medical practitioners who have recently attended the child. [More…]
This perhaps will enable the grant of the allowance to be made even without actual examination of the child. [More…]
The medical practitioner might be contacted directly to assure the Department that the child would be eligible. [More…]
The form, when received by the Department, will be referred to an Australian Government medical officer who will examine the child and certify whether in his opinion the child is handicapped to a degree that would qualify the parent for the allowance. [More…]
In practice, the medical test to determine severe handicap will be satisfied if the handicap is such that if the condition remained unchanged the child would be likely to qualify for an invalid pension on attaining 16 years of age. [More…]
Following approval, the claim will be referred to the finance authority and the amount of the allowance will be added to the child endowment being paid in respect of the child and, of course, the parents will be notified. [More…]
An important thing that I think indicates the Government’s general attitude is that where a claim is rejected on the ground that the severity of the disability is not sufficient to qualify the child for the payment of the allowance, the claimant will be advised of this and also advised at the same time that an appeal against the decision may be lodged. [More…]
In very severe cases that have no hope of improvement the medical officer might well authorise the payment of the allowance until the child reaches 16 years of age. [More…]
In the main the Australian Government medical officers who will conduct medical examinations of handicapped children will have had experience in examining claimants for the invalid pension. [More…]
The Minister has covered one of the major anomalies by introducing the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
As I said earlier, I congratulate the Minister on introducing the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
This extends to provisions which allow the parents of handicapped children to escape from the onerous duty they have of caring for these children, in some cases virtually around the clock. [More…]
Help of this kind enables parents to get away from the home and away from the tension that many of these children create. [More…]
I, like other members, welcome the advance made with the allowance for handicapped children. [More…]
I have had in both my professions, as a medical practitioner and as a politician, a great deal of experience with handicapped children and their parents. [More…]
I have no doubt, however, that a fair amount of modification will have to be made because if this allowance is to fulfil its purpose of keeping handicapped children at home in the care of their parents, who must have the full capability of giving the proper care, not only the children, but also the families of the children will have to be assisted. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Denison (Mr Coates) referred to some of the strains that occur in the families of handicapped children. [More…]
Somewhere along the line we will have to try to assess not only the handicap of the child- this is the starting point- but also the disability of the family, the alteration that a handicapped child makes to their way of life and the conduct of their household, and the effect it has not only on the mother and the father but also on the other children in the family. [More…]
A child could have a learning defect which, if not detected early, creates a psychological or even psychiatric or behaviour problem requiring not only remedial education, but also remedial treatment in specialist clinics. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security indicated in his second reading speech that we should consider the new allowance in the context of a broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison mentioned that the parents of the children who attended day centres would not be disqualified from receiving the allowance. [More…]
If the family is to be able to maintain the handicapped child at home, there also has to be the faculty for them to have a break for a holiday, of no matter how short a duration. [More…]
The honourable member for Hotham, who is the spokesman for the Opposition on this subject, referred also to child endowment. [More…]
He said, without quoting figures, that it was the intention of the Opposition if it were elected to government to increase the child endowment rate substantially. [More…]
The honourable member for Hotham went on to say that child endowment would be taxed. [More…]
So we are going to have means tested child endowment and taxed child endowment. [More…]
has the Prime Minister any knowledge whatever of any proposals on a government level to apply a means test to child endowment? [More…]
As to this proposal about a means test on child endowment, I have never heard of it before and I do not want to hear of it again. [More…]
In the case of a 13 year old boy or girl who is run over on a pedestrian crossing by a drunken driver and receives a permanent total incapacity there will be no benefits at all under this Bill until that child reaches the age of 18 years. [More…]
As I have said already, it is important that under a new scheme the guilty are not advantaged at the expense of the innocent, that the drunken middle-aged driver is not advantaged at the expense of the innocent child whom he maims for life. [More…]
The effect therefore is that the small maimed child of 5 gets nothing immediately. [More…]
Only when the child attains 18 years of age is a small amount of $42-odd a week paid. [More…]
Surely that is a gross inequity in itself for under the present common law system the child would be entitled to substantial lump sum payments as soon as they were assessed. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Wentworth, I think it was, who made a point about a child who is injured as a baby and will get relatively little. [More…]
I pose the case of the school child under 18 years of age who suffers a devastating accident and is a quadraplegic. [More…]
A great deal has been said about what happens to a child who has been injured. [More…]
1) A benefit is payable to a child (including an adopted child) of a deceased person who died on or after the commencing date or of the spouse of such a person at a rate per week- [More…]
if both parents of the child have died-equal to twice the rate that would otherwise have been applicable under paragraph (a). [More…]
A benefit is payable to a child of a person who died before the date at the rate of $13 per week or, if both parents of the child have died, at the rate of $26 per week. [More…]
Subject to sub-section (2), where benefit under this Part (not being benefit at a rate referred to in sub-section 38(1) or section 39) is payable to a person (not being a child), there is payable to that person a benefit by way of a lump-sum payment, in lieu of the first-mentioned benefit, equal to the present value of the first-mentioned benefit, calculated by reference to interest at the prescribed rate and assuming that the benefit would continue to be paid as provided by section 17. [More…]
the man was survived by a child who was a child of the union between that woman and that man and was dependent on that man immediately before his death, then- [More…]
In the case of injuries to children, will the administrative apparatus ever be as fair and respected as the judicial apparatus and will the Bill extend retrospectivity to an assessment of injuries and illnesses suffered by children before they reach the age of 18? [More…]
Will children have to wait until they are 18 to collect any compensation, and then what amount will they get? [More…]
Will their parents receive money to help them to provide additional items that normal children do not require? [More…]
Or is the injured or congenitally ill child to be written off and pensioned as an uneconomic unit? [More…]
Do doctors have to keep a record on the child until he is 18? [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), for instance, made great play of the proposition that the Liberal-Country Party Government built office blocks instead of houses. [More…]
It is pertinent to note that the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) spoke a little earlier, as did the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) and the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie). [More…]
If I can bring a personal element into the debate, I can remember the time when I was a small child in the western country going to various gougers meetings, small mining group meetings and so on. [More…]
The fact of life is that we have in the Government benches a gathering of people desperately out of touch with what is going on in this countrypeople who take the view that to send a child to a State high school and to spend $160 is a violent exercise in extravagance. [More…]
The other point I made was the further conscious objective of this Government to make education accessible to all children, wherever they live, whatever the socioeconomic condition of their parents. [More…]
To achieve this objective we have provided increased assistance for the child whose family lives in an isolated area far removed from normal school facilities. [More…]
We had the strong people of the Caucus saying that the decision of the Cabinet to reduce the amount of taxation deduction for education from $400 to $150 per child was wrong. [More…]
The Government wants to sock the rich, to stop rich people sending their children to independent schools. [More…]
It is not the rich people; it is the people who send their children to State schools. [More…]
I do not know how many honourable members in this chamber have children at school, but try to send your child to a state school and keep the expense down to $150 a year and see how you get on. [More…]
Of course many people who choose to send their children to independent schools will suffer very greatly. [More…]
The people who will suffer are those who make sacrifices to send their children to these schools, who do without a great number of things so that they can send their children to independent schools- not all of them sectarian schools. [More…]
There are numbers of schools in Sydney and right throughout Australia where parents, not on sectarian basis, have spent a great deal of time and effort establishing experimental courses, looking at different ways of education for their children. [More…]
May I remind honourable members of the identification of problems that exist in the pre-school and child care sphere. [More…]
I mention the question of malnutrition and disease affecting the brain capacity of the child before birth because malnutrition does not occur only in areas such as the Kimberleys. [More…]
The abandoning of the free milk scheme did not affect a large number of school children nutritionally, but there were areas where to many children the free milk provided their breakfast for the day and where their educational performance was affected by the abandonment of the scheme. [More…]
At the Preston North East State School in my electorate a large number of the children come from socio-economically depressed families. [More…]
Just last week a report from the Preston North East State School stated that of the 900 children in the school 400 suffered from head lice. [More…]
The Committee of the Parents’ and Friends’ Association of St. Leo’s College, Box Hill, wishes to register a strong protest on behalf of parents, at the decision announced in the recent Federal Budget, to reduce allowable taxation deductions for education expenses from $400 to $ 1 SO per child. [More…]
Many parents in my electorate send their children to such schools as Wesley, where fees have risen for the third term this year to $5 10 per term for forms III to VI. [More…]
This amounts to $1,530 per annum in fees alone for one child. [More…]
Add to this uniforms, equipment, books, fares and all the other extras and it is costing parents well over $2,000 per annum to send one child to such a school. [More…]
According to recent Victorian Government Budget papers, the total taxpayer support for every child attending a government school is approximately $1,230 per annum. [More…]
Every parent who is forced by the policies of this Government to withdraw a child from a non-government school and send him or her to a government school is going to cost the taxpayer an extra $1,230 per annum. [More…]
How much cheaper and more logical to subsidise the fees parents pay at nongovernment schools, to help to keep these fees down to a reasonable sum, thus enabling the average family to send its children to one of these schools should it so choose. [More…]
It is only 2 months or so since the Budget, yet already non-government schools are finding children being withdrawn or enrolments being deferred or cancelled. [More…]
I believe it would be one which would retain the right of the children to be educated at the school of thenchoice and at the same time would treat all children equally. [More…]
It would enable our dual system of education to continue to function; under the system each child would be treated equally by the Government. [More…]
If it cost the taxpayers $1,230 to educate a child at a government school then the government would simply issue a voucher to this value for every child. [More…]
All taxpaying parents would thus receive the same contribution towards their children’s education. [More…]
If by the mother working, or by other sacrifices, parents preferred to spend more on their children’s education than the Government voucher allowed, then it would be their prerogative to do so and naturally they would have to meet the added costs. [More…]
I looked around the school at the facilities there and I could well understand why parents who have no choice but to send their children to government schools are concerned about the amount of money this Government is giving to independent schools, because the facilities at this particular school were far in advance of anything we can find at government schools in a similar area. [More…]
Yet this school was a category G school, which means that whereas when the Labor Party came into office it was receiving $104 per child from the per capita grants this year it will be receiving from the Government $ 141 per child and next year can expect to receive $230 per child in per capita grants. [More…]
I am delighted also to see the innovation of an allowance of $10 a week for handicapped children. [More…]
Many of the people who care for handicapped children at home face a tremendous amount of extra expense. [More…]
If they want a day off or if the family wants a picnic and cannot take the handicapped child they have to pay baby sitters and it is costing a lot of extra money. [More…]
As it is, a handicapped child brings enough grief to the family without the added burden of very great extra expense. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) endeavoured to make out a case that this Government in its 2 years in office has been the only government that has ever done anything in the field of social welfare. [More…]
This complex which will be a million dollar one when it is completed will have within it a youth centre, a basketball stadium, a gymnasium, squash courts, a preschool kindergarten, a child care centre, a Mealson Wheels kitchen, a senior citizens centre, a day care centre for geriatric cases plus some Scout and Guide halls. [More…]
-I direct to the Special Minister of State a question regarding child care. [More…]
Does he expect centres for young children to continue to operate without funds during this period, despite the Prime Minister’s undertaking in August that States would receive recurrent grants similar to those under the existing program? [More…]
In fact, the New South Wales Government contributed virtually nothing to child care. [More…]
We have been able to assist under the existing provisions of the Child Care Act. [More…]
The interim commission on child care standards has been announced and is meeting today for the first time. [More…]
We can see every good reason why existing child care centres should be maintained. [More…]
I can assure the honourable member that as a result of their determinations and their deliberations the child care scheme should get away to an excellent start and the problems that he is so pessimistic about should not arise at all. [More…]
The problem concerns a large number of Australians who have been described as the last large group of neglected and misunderstood handicapped children and adults. [More…]
I make the point that a child who is handicapped in the way that I am speaking of and who emerges from the school system does not suddenly have a magic wand waved over him so that the problem is cured, and you have an adult without the problem. [More…]
If the problem exists in childhood it will exist in adulthood. [More…]
The question of special education facilities for exceptional children, whether they be handicapped or specially gifted children, exercised the mind of the Australian Labor Party for some years before it came into office. [More…]
I pointed out then the need for at least double the output of teachers for slow learners, who comprise about 3 children in every 100- quite a small group when compared with the group we are discussing today. [More…]
I also pointed out the need for generalists in special education, the need for specialists in education for the various categories of handicapped learners and gifted children, including slow learners, disturbed, maladjusted and autistic children, physically handicapped children in various categories, gifted children and specific learning defect sufferers and the culturally deprived, including migrants and Aboriginals. [More…]
The committee of the parliamentary Labor Party in September 1972- again before the Labor Party was in government- made certain proposals on schools commissions, for which we had agitated for some years, to provide equality of opportunity, to investigate inequalities, to recommend programs, to advise the Government, to be the organ of intelligence and insight, to sponsor and conduct research into all aspects of education, and indeed into all aspects of child care and welfare, including the economic, mental and moral well being of children, to sponsor experimental schools and programs, to educate teachers, assist student teachers, foster in-service and continuing education, to consult pre-school authorities, town planners, pediatricians, child psychiatrists, to provide for child minding and pre-school centres and so on. [More…]
The Bill provides for the weekly rates of compensation for total incapacity to be increased from $43 to $57 for a seaman; from $1 1 to $15 for the dependent wife of a seaman; and from $5 to $7 for each dependent child of a totally incapacitated seaman. [More…]
The weekly payment for each dependent child of a deceased seaman will be increased from $5 to $7 and the maximum payable in respect of funeral costs will be increased from $300 to $450. [More…]
The additional weekly supplement for a dependent spouse will be increased from $11 to $15 and the weekly supplement for each dependent child will be increased from $5 to $7. [More…]
The weekly amount payable in respect of each dependent child of a deceased employee will increase from $5 to $7 and the minimum total amount payable for each child will be increased from $500 to $700. [More…]
Pity the poor child who is nightly brutalised by the violence, bemused by the banality and corrupted by the commercialism of what passes by a master stroke of cynicism as children’s television. [More…]
It is equally applicable to the outlook that not only commercial interests but sometimes our national stations bring to television for children. [More…]
This, they say, will be brought about by the present Government, particularly with assistance to local government for such services as social welfare measures, including child care and those sorts of things. [More…]
The subsidy for establishing sheltered workshops for handicapped adults, training centres for handicapped children and hostels for both children and adults will be doubled from $2 to $4 for every $1 raised by voluntary organisations. [More…]
The Bill also transfers the provisions relating to the handicapped children’s benefit, which is now administered by my Department, from the National Health Act to this Act. [More…]
In doing so the rate of benefit has been increased from $3 to $3.50 a day, and provision made to enable short absences, such as when the child returns home for a weekend, to be disregarded. [More…]
I appreciate the interjection because this policy proposal for a housing guidance bureau was the brain child of my colleague from the Lilley electorate in Queensland. [More…]
An allowance of $2 per week is given for each child above two in a family. [More…]
This would be the level of a needs test for a family consisting of a man, his wife and 2 children. [More…]
Are we to say that if a family has 6 children and the needs test moves up to $ 108 a week that family is in exactly the same position as a family on $100 a week with 2 children? [More…]
These local government bodies are becoming heavily involved in social welfare, conservation, child care and the provision of pre-school facilities. [More…]
This is apparent in subsidies and grants, which generally are not known to the public, to hospitals, nursing homes, aged persons hostels, pre-schools, child care centres and, through the Australian assistance plan, to a whole range of community projects. [More…]
Recently in Victoria the Victorian State Health Minister stated rather petulantly that child care centres that accepted Federal money would not get State money. [More…]
Mr CORBETT (Maranoa) ^^^Notwithstanding all my gallantry I must disagree and be at cross-purposes with the honourable member for Henry (Mrs Child) who said that she does not support State rights. [More…]
The levy was introduced by the Commonwealth Government in 1941 as a companion measure with the Child Endowment Act. [More…]
Subsequently, payroll tax was paid into Consolidated Revenue, out of which child endowment was paid. [More…]
I ask the Government why it is rushing this sort of Bill through the House when it has not been considered by the Legislative Assembly, the brain child of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
I know that my colleague the honourable member for Henry (Mrs Child) will be saying something this morning about some of the fringe abuses which have been given publicity in recent weeks. [More…]
I am on a widows pension with one child to support. [More…]
The Bill also proposes amendments to the depreciation provisions to make it clear that expenditure on facilities used in child care centres provided by employers for children of their employees are to qualify for depreciation deductions on the same basis as facilities provided for employees. [More…]
There are many instances where local governing bodies have possibly over-stretched their resources and have endeavoured to do too much with too little; but most modern local governing bodies are required to provide services such as libraries and child minding centres and recreational facilities like sporting ovals and swimming baths; in many instances they undertake the operation of meat abbatoirs. [More…]
But the main difference between the child who believes in Santa Claus and the local government child, so to speak, is that the confidence of the child in the first instance returns pretty quickly; let me assure this Government that the confidence of local government will not return. [More…]
I am thinking of the elderly parent who has had a mongoloid child, for example, and who has nursed that child through to adulthood. [More…]
When widowed that parent cannot be admitted to an aged persons home because she does not want to leave her mentally retarded child and she cannot take that child into the aged persons home. [More…]
Apart from other considerations, such a change would fill in the gap which now seems to me to exist between the domiciliary nursing care benefit which provides this assistance for care at home for people over age 65 and the handicapped child allowance which provides a similar sort of benefit for the care of people under age 16. [More…]
Health centres, child care centres, pre-school centres, schools and universities [More…]
Child care program [More…]
I would suggest that this Bill is further evidence of the priority that is being given by the Government to equality of education for every child in the Australian community. [More…]
The latest actual blow was the drastic reduction of the maximum taxation deduction for education expenses from $400 a year for each child to $150 a year for each child. [More…]
That blow hits those parents who avail themselves of the opportunity to give their children a free education as much as it hits those parents who avail themselves of the opportunity to send their children to an independent school and therefore give them a costly education. [More…]
By reducing the school leaving age from 16 years to IS years what did it produce but a cutback of all those children who were, in its view, unnecessarily going to school, who ought to know their place in life, who ought not to be aspiring to some higher status. [More…]
The honourable member for Chisholm talked about children who have no freedom of choice. [More…]
This Government is concerned with all children. [More…]
We are concerned about helping both State governments and non-governmental education authorities to provide a decent education for all children and to give every child, whatever his limitations or his brilliance, an opportunity to expand that talent to its maximum level in accordance with the child ‘s own motivation. [More…]
Taking a sample of a child’s work at the end of the year and saying that it represents his ability as displayed over the whole year’s work is like taking a patch of soil out of a paddock, analysing it and saying that it is representative of the soil content of the whole paddock. [More…]
It is just as invalid to take a sample of a child’s work by means of a two or three-hour examination paper at the end of the year, under most pressing circumstances, in a situation of anxiety, and saying that that examination sample is representative of what that child has been able to do throughout the year. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to the fact that if the Opposition parties were in a position to implement their proposal that Government expenditure be cut by 8 per cent, the amount made available to schools and pre-schools and for child care facilities would be cut by approximately $44.43m. [More…]
The amount provided for special groups such as Aborigines, migrants, soldiers’ children and isolated children, will be cut by $5.46m and if the amount payable to colleges of” advanced education and teachers’ colleges were included in the 8 per cent, expenditure in these areas would be cut by $25.6m. [More…]
The teacher who wrote to me is expecting her first child early in May and because of the interpretation being put on the regulations she will be required to retire on 1 January 1975. [More…]
The failure of your Government to grant female teachers confinement leave on full pay and male teachers similar provisions to enable them to properly care for their family during the absence of the mother while awaiting and following the birth of an additional child. [More…]
We consider this decision to be both discriminating and grossly unfair to parents with children attending nongovernment schools. [More…]
Parents with large families are particularly badly affected by this decision, coupled with the lack of any child endowment increase. [More…]
We believe that every child, irrespective of his or her colour, creed or standing in life is entitled to a share of the Commonwealth taxation pool for his or her education. [More…]
As one of the previous speakers in this debate emphasised, it is part of our philosophy that it is the inalienable right of every parent in Australia to decide what type of education his or her child shall receive. [More…]
I want to emphasise once again our deep political and philosophical belief that it is the responsibility and the right of every parent to choose the type of education that his child shall receive, and it is the Government’s responsibility to give to each child in this country a per capita contribution to help him or her meet his or her educational requirements. [More…]
Out went the means test and the child care program. [More…]
Social Welfare Workers employed by the Department of the Capital Territory are involved in the following functions: General family casework; adoption, preventive and remedial work with juveniles, including services to the Children’s Court and supervision of probationers; adult probation and parole services; foster care; child care; and institutional services. [More…]
1 ) expresses its belief that there should be no discrimination of any kind attached to an ex-nuptial child and that the word ‘illegitimate’ which has been used to date to describe children born out of wedlock is totally inapproriate and should be removed from all Commonwealth legislation and from common usage, and [More…]
is of opinion that, as a matter of priority, legislation should be introduced to protect the rights of ex-nuptial children and, in particular, insofar as the Commonwealth Government is concerned, to remove the word ‘illegitimate’ from all existing Commonwealth legislation and to amend existing Commonwealth legislation to ensure that ex-nuptial children have the right to participate in the same benefits and entitlements that any other child in the community is able to receive. [More…]
The circumstances facing ex-nuptial children and the lives our society allows them to lead are subjects that should be understood widely and debated frequently, if need be until the concepts of the motion I am putting are accepted. [More…]
But regrettably this needs to be done because unless we specifically direct our attention to exnuptial children, we will continue to assume that they need no special help. [More…]
Society has held, and perhaps for some time to come may continue to hold, strong and varying views on the subject of children born out of wedlock. [More…]
But in the midst of those concerns we have largely ignored the needs of the third person- the child born to an unmarried mother, a widow, a separated wife or to a married woman who has a relationship with a man who is not her husband. [More…]
The purpose of this motion is to ask the community to reassess its attitudes that it has adopted towards ex-nuptial children, to familiarise itself with the difficulties that it may have caused ex-nuptial children and to recognise the harm this has done to the community itself. [More…]
Certainly the law has discriminated against ex-nuptial children, particularly in areas such as the right to participate in the estate of its natural father or to establish as a right the identity of its father. [More…]
But the removal of these disabilities still leaves a far more significant problem, that is, the attitude that society has towards the child. [More…]
I should make the point that when I use the word ‘child’ we must remember that it is a child while it is young, but that same child carried that attitude right through adulthood. [More…]
In Australia we know very little about how the ex-nuptial child is faring. [More…]
There are no longitudinal studies at all that I know of that have been conducted in Australia to determine the welfare and the progress of the exnuptial child. [More…]
But quite clearly the reason there have been no such longitudinal studies in Australia is that no funds have been provided for the purpose and largely because the community, knowing its attitude, has felt that it would be a gross intrusion on the rights of the person to inquire into what has happened to the ex-nuptial child as it has grown older. [More…]
Since the passing of that Act, Bills have been introduced by the Tasmanian, South Australian and Victorian Governments along basically similar lines incorporating in each case a schedule which amends existing legislation to remove the word ‘illegitimate’ where it occurs and to ensure that an ex-nuptial child is not excluded by way of definition from participating in benefits and entitlements that should be available to him or to her. [More…]
As one instance of Commonwealth legislation which is discriminatory in this sense, I mention the Commonwealth Superannuation Act where the definition of ‘child’ includes an adopted child but does not include an ex-nuptial child. [More…]
The findings regarding pregnancy management suggest that mothers-to-be of ex-nuptial children take much less care of themselves and consequently of the unborn child. [More…]
In all aspects of ability and attainment the ex-nuptial group did significantly less well than the child born in marriage or the adopted child. [More…]
We must accept totally the principle that the long-term welfare of the child should be the first and paramount consideration. [More…]
This principle should be the basis of determining all policy and practice for all children without differentiation as between them. [More…]
Making children suffer because of actions taken by others which are certainly beyond the child’s control, it not even existing at the time of the complained of behaviour, is cruel and ill-fitting a society which should adopt such attitudes. [More…]
Society should recognise the immeasurable asset of its own people and its own children. [More…]
Thank you for your letter of 10 July on behalf of the National Council of the Single Mother and her Child in which you seek the support of the Liberal party for legislation to remove the legal disabilities of children born out of wedlock. [More…]
Finally, I wish to say something of the work being undertaken by the National Council for the Single Mother and Her Child and the various organisations associated with it. [More…]
In this matter, as in many other areas, it has been left to a voluntary group in the community to point out to governments and the community generally the need to take positive action to improve the situation of ex-nuptial children. [More…]
To ensure that the child born out of wedlock has a fair start in life. [More…]
To press for better services for those who have had an ex-nuptial child. [More…]
To facilitate a positive attitude on the part of the ex-nuptial child towards his or her natural parents. [More…]
Children’s needs cannot be categorised as belonging to one specific departmental area. [More…]
Children’s problems encompass health, education, social welfare, recreation and cultural development. [More…]
All authorities involved with current programs in child development in Australia now emphasise the need to integrate programs. [More…]
This necessitates the formation of a central unit, which will be the role of the Children ‘s Bureau. [More…]
As my Leader has said, the exnuptial child is disadvantaged because of circumstances completely beyond his control. [More…]
The whole connotation of that word applies to the child as if it is the child’s fault that he has been born under these circumstances. [More…]
Many suggestions have been made of alternative terms that could be used, terms such as ex-nuptual child, natural child and child of a single mother. [More…]
This is an appropriate time for the Parliament to debate and to pass this motion because there is a growing incidence of natural children who for a variety of reasons are born out of marriage. [More…]
I can think of no worse social custom than the parents of a child who is conceived as a result of their actions when half drunk in the back of a motor car getting married because they feel that to avoid social stigma they are forced to do so. [More…]
As society becomes more sophisticated the number of children born out of marriage will increase. [More…]
I refer to the custom whereby unmarried women who become pregnant and do not wish or are not able to have an abortion or a termination quietly have the child adopted by some agency. [More…]
That custom too is changing in that more and more single mothers are keeping their children. [More…]
I do not have the statistics of the percentage of unmarried mothers who kept their children 10 years ago. [More…]
But I am astonished today to notice that 40 per cent of single mothers now keep their children. [More…]
This point would not have had so much importance had the children been formally adopted under the old style. [More…]
We must be unanimous that the child- whatever the faults, if there are any, of the parents- is completely blameless. [More…]
My Leader mentioned the disadvantages that are suffered by children born out of marriage- the Commonwealth Superannuation Act, the property inheritance where ex-nuptial children have to sue and fight to contest their natural rights; the embarrassment that one has to go through in paternity tests; and the housing difficulties encountered by single mothers with children. [More…]
That sort of thing also rubs off on the child. [More…]
All of these disadvantages must, as my Leader suggested, have an enormous psychological impact on that child, whose only sin is that he was born of parents whom he could not choose. [More…]
Is it not now time that we turned our attention to the child? [More…]
One can be in complete agreement with the final proposition put by the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) that it is indeed time that the community and this Parliament, containing as it does the various political parties, should turn its attention to the child. [More…]
This Government is very proud of what it has managed to achieve in the short time that it has been in office in terms of doing away with discrimination- where it has had a measure of success- because discrimination exists in a whole range of areas, as the honourable member for Hotham pointed out when he directed his remarks to the ex-nuptial child. [More…]
When one directs one’s attention to the exnuptial child one sees the same determination being extended there. [More…]
So the whole point is that when one comes to the question of the ex-nuptial child one is in complete agreement with everything that was said by both the previous speakers. [More…]
1 ) expresses its belief that there should be no discrimination of any kind attached to an ex-nuptial child and that the word illegitimate which has been used to date to describe children born out of wedlock is totally inappropriate and should be removed from all Commonwealth legislation and from common usage, and [More…]
is of opinion that, as a matter of priority, legislation should be introduced to protect the rights of ex-nuptial children and, in particular, insofaras the Commonwealth Government is concerned, to remove the word illegitimate from all existing Commonwealth legislation and to amend existing Commonwealth legislation to ensure that ex-nuptial children have the right to participate in the same benefits and entitlements that any other child in the community is able to receive. [More…]
They go right through the town of Moree and to the outskirts of the town each morning with 2 buses and bring every child of a pre-school age to the Pope Pius Mission for pre-school activity and also for medical check-ups. [More…]
Every doctor in the town is an honorary doctor and, on a roster system, they attend to the health needs of the children. [More…]
This is proving to be of tremendous advantage to the Aboriginal children. [More…]
It is proving that this sort of care for the Aboriginal child equips him to enter the primary school, certainly to continue on into high school and hopefully into vocational training and worthwhile, satisfying employment. [More…]
General practitioners do not cope with alcoholism and drug addiction, do not do social work, do not look after the bewildered or the disturbed child and do not go to help families when they are about to break up. [More…]
The Conference of Child Welfare Administrators. [More…]
The Conference of Ministers of Child and Social Welfare. [More…]
(a) The Conferences of Child Welfare Administrators have been held since 1939. [More…]
The Conference of Ministers was first suggested in April 1967 in an invitation to the then Minister for Social Services from the New South Wales Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare. [More…]
Administrators- Generally, to allow for an exchange of ideas between the participants on matters of common interest in the field of child welfare. [More…]
Ministers- Generally, to allow for an exchange of ideas between the participants on matters of common interest in the fields of child welfare and social welfare. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) will be aware of a factory in her electorateJohns Consolidated Ltd- where a tremendous number of employees have been put off simply because of imported goods coming to Australia and undercutting Johns. [More…]
It is like a child giving an excuse for something that it has done wrong. [More…]
Briefly, this legislation provides for increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on certain forms of fringe benefits, the specific allowance of deductions for depreciation on child care facilities, a reduction of the limit on deductions for educational expenses, the deductibility of mortgage interest payments, a reduced level of the special deduction allowable to life assurance companies, a rebate of dependants’ allowances for low income families; and technical amendments fo the principal Act with respect to dividends payable from Papua New Guinea, the relief of taxpayers in cases of hardship and provisional tax for 1974-75. [More…]
Child Care [More…]
Clauses 1 1 and 12 of the Bill provide for the expenditure of plant and facilities used in child care centres provided by employers for their employees to qualify for depreciation deductions in the same way as facilities provided for employees. [More…]
The Opposition’s policy provides specific support for child care facilities and, in particular, a detailed investigation of methods of providing capital assistance- by either grants or long-term loans. [More…]
However, the decision to introduce this tax deduction in no way compensates for the deferral of the pre-election promise to embark on a major pre-school and child care program estimated to cost $130m in 1974-75. [More…]
Whilst we support the increases provided in the Budget for education, we believe that the decision to reduce the deduction does not take into account that the benefit was available in respect of expenses incurred by the family for the individual child. [More…]
In relation to deductions for dependent children, the Committee indicated support for the suggestion, made in the Interim Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty, that such deductions should be abolished and child endowment correspondingly increased. [More…]
It is aimed not at the mythical Midases of society but at every parent who has a child at any school, private or government, anywhere in Australia. [More…]
Can any supporter of the Government assert with any truth at all that with the possible exception of a few of the preparatory grades, $150 will go anywhere near covering the educational expenses in a year for a child at primary or secondary school? [More…]
Despite the Minister’s remote area allowance, this is a very definite thrust against remote area children, because there are no secondary schools or primary schools in many isolated areas and as a result children have to be sent to city-based private schools. [More…]
Payments received by way of child endowment or domiciliary nursing care benefits are to be ignored for purposes of the net income calculation. [More…]
No one can suggest that the cost of educating a child at any school has declined since this Government came to office. [More…]
I think the parents of every school child are finding more and more that the expenses of educating their children are rising, for even though we have a socalled free education system there are still many items of expenditure which people are required to pay in respect of the education of their children. [More…]
Why did it not allow to every parent who has a child at school a minimum deduction of 40 per cent of the $400 or such lesser amount spent on education- that is, in respect of $400 spent on education a rebate of $160? [More…]
Finally, discussions take place with State governments about integrating their programs regionally and the joint use of the regional organisations of councils as the core of a comprehensive, multifunctional regional planning body receiving support from the Australian and State governments and incorporating into its planning activities existing programs such as the Australian Assistance Plan, community health centres, legal aid officers and child care programs. [More…]
It will be of benefit to any person in immediate need: To the permanently homeless, to the deserted or disturbed woman and her children, to the Aboriginal or teenager in want or distress, to the battered woman or the battered child, to the single parent- in short, to anyone without support or an income. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to assist eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
Nor is it proposed by this Bill to intrude into the fields of child care which traditionally have been the responsibility of the States. [More…]
A Class B widow pension is payable to a widow at least 50 years of age without a child or to a widow at least 45 years of age whose Class A pension has stopped because she no longer has a dependant child. [More…]
-The Handicapped Persons Assistance Bill repeals 2 Actsthe Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children’s (Assistance) Actand consolidates and extends the Australian Government’s program of assistance to voluntary organisations. [More…]
The tragedy of being handicapped or of having a child who has become handicapped, who is born handicapped or who appears to be handicapped after birth is a tragedy that can never be understood unless it is personally experienced by the person who is handicapped or by the parents of that person. [More…]
Those people who feel so much pride in their children’s achievements, whether it be their winning a 100 yards dash at primary school or achieving a wellearned Higher School Certificate, will well understand the pride of parents whose mentally handicapped child finally manages to coordinate limbs and brain and climb a few steps. [More…]
Those who feel such pride and joy in their children ‘s accomplishments will understand the joy of parents of a handicapped child hearing their child speak for the first time. [More…]
I have been helping in a voluntary capacity in a kindergarten for mentally retarded children. [More…]
When everybody in the room heard the child speak, they almost felt as if they had scaled Mount Everest. [More…]
Believe me, that handicapped child saying the word ‘duck’ was the result of many months of patience, perseverence and persistance by a dedicated band of teachers. [More…]
We all feel a lot of pride in our family’s achievements, and there is nothing different in the pride of parents of handicapped children, be they physically or mentally handicapped. [More…]
Each child has to have an opportunity to reach his own potential. [More…]
I would like to turn now to the provisions of the Bill concerning the welfare and custody of children who, as I said before, are the real victims in family disputes. [More…]
The most significant innovation in the Bill is the provision for a compulsory conference with a welfare officer between the parties to custody or divorce proceedings to discuss the welfare of a child of the marriage, with a view to resolving any points of difference between the parents. [More…]
Disputes over custody of children are undoubtedly the saddest of all family disputes, and it is hoped that this provision will induce parents to get together and agree on custody arrangements in more cases than they do now. [More…]
The Bill will enable the court to order separate legal representation of a child in custody or maintenance proceedings. [More…]
The Bill contains desirable improvements in relation to void marriages, registration of maintenance agreements, recognition of foreign divorce decrees, registration of interstate custody and maintenance orders relating to ex-nuptial children, reciprocal enforcement of both maintenance and custody orders between Australia and overseas countries, and restrictions on the publication of evidence or details of divorce proceedings. [More…]
Injunctions will be available for the personal protection of a party or a child, for the protection of the property of a party or in relation to the use or occupancy of the marital home. [More…]
The importance of these 2 Bills should be looked at in relationship to the Government’s total welfare program- schemes such as the Australian Assistance Plan, community health centres, child care, recreation and the like. [More…]
If honourable members like to do the sum, they will find that of the total Australian population of 13,500,000 people every man, woman and child ought to have about 200 coins in his possession. [More…]
If the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) will excuse me I am not being chauvinistic when I say men, because as she would know that for some interesting philosophical reason for which I do not have the answer, of the homeless in our country the men outnumber the women ten to one. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to assist the eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
The Minister has given an undertaking that the legislation will not interfere with the fields of child care under the administration of State governments. [More…]
This may seem a strangely out of place and incongrous matter to raise in a Parliament which, with respect to the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), is almost full of hard, cynical men. [More…]
It will be of benefit to any person in immediate need: To the permanently homeless, to the deserted or disturbed woman and her children, to the Aboriginal or teenager in want or distress, to the battered woman or the battered child, to the single parent- in short, to anyone without support or an income. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) made references earlier to the bashed women for whom these homes might be able to serve as a half way house. [More…]
To illustrate the Trust’s problem even further, a study of rental tenancies revealed that 3,943 (or 12.6 per cent) of the Trust’s rental houses were occupied by ‘single’ tenants with children. [More…]
The study of applications from one-parent families also revealed that 25 per cent were currently living with relatives and friends and that 32.4 per cent had one child, 33.6 per cent two children, and 34 per cent three or more children. [More…]
The Registration Committee is his child. [More…]
-The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) talks about the people’s decision as though the people supposedly had spoken in favour of what appears now to be the Government’s still-born health policy. [More…]
The major part of it concerns, first, the quest for dictatorial power for the Minister over the health insurance funds; secondly, matters relating to increased nursing home subsidies; thirdly, the correction of anomalies with the handicapped children payments; fourthly, the widening of the provision with respect to hearing aids to enable the supply of other surgical appliances by ministerial regulation; and, fifthly, the extension of full approval rights for certain friendly society dispensaries. [More…]
Child care centres have been established. [More…]
Honourable members opposite ought to pay a visit to the occasional care centres and have a look at the houses which have been made available to women’s groups to provide care for children whose parents are in special need. [More…]
Nowhere else in Australia are so many 4-year-old children attending pre-school. [More…]
We have done splendid things in regard to child care. [More…]
Nowhere else in Australia are there available the child care facilities that we have in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The school without walls has been operating to cater for children who feel that they can learn in a different environment to that of the Government schools. [More…]
We have appointed an interim committee for a new Children’s Commission, which will plan and co-ordinate our programs for child care and other services. [More…]
If we are not careful the AIDC will become the problem child of Australian finance. [More…]
Miss Calder’s project aims to develop a measure, suitable for use by teachers, for the identification and assessment of the degree of handicap in relation to the young child ‘s perceptual motor development. [More…]
The test is intended not only for use as a diagnostic device but also to assist in the selection of appropriate remedial programs for the individual child. [More…]
Mr Doherty has conducted prior research which suggests that the phenomenon of the late development of certain of the cognitive skills in the visually handicapped child is associated with the child’s inability to interact with the environment i.e. [More…]
By tabulating the most frequent oral language sequences used by children of the 2<A, 3VS, 4Yi, 5’A and 6!? [More…]
The readers will employ these commonly used sequences in such a way that they convey to the child the same meanings that exist in their oral form. [More…]
The programs will therefore provide a graded introduction to written English for children in their early school years which is based upon their oral language structures. [More…]
1 ) Has he received complaints indicating that the allowance of fees to child care institutions as a concessional deduction is not uniform in the various states. [More…]
There is no provision in the income tax law under which deductions may be allowed for fees paid to institutions which merely provide child care facilities. [More…]
Representations have been received from various quarters requesting that the income tax concessional deductions be extended to include payments made by working mothers for child minding. [More…]
I assume, however, that the Honourable Member is seeking information concerning the concessional deductions allowable under the heading of education expenses where a young child attends an institution which provides a form of education appropriate to the child’s age in addition to care and supervision while the parent is at work. [More…]
Even though most child care institutions are not ‘schools’ as that term is ordinarily understood, the Commissioner of Taxation has been able to accept that part of the fees paid qualify as education expenses where certain conditions are satisfied. [More…]
If the relevant tests are satisfied, and provided the child has reached the age of three years, a deduction is allowed in respect of that part of the fees which could reasonably be regarded as attributable to the child’s full time education. [More…]
No deduction is allowed where the child is under three years as this age is the minimum age at which a child is considered capable of absorbing formal instruction. [More…]
As the extent to which full time education is provided by an institution which also engages in the care and supervision of young children can be determined only in the light of the facts of each particular case, the Commissioner is unable to lay down arbitrary rules for general application. [More…]
Where is that person who is so socially involved with the ills of people who are unemployed, the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child)? [More…]
We are building child care centres. [More…]
In Darwin, throughout Australia and elsewhere, the men and women who got together to help, whether it was a child in Hobart breaking into his piggy bank so that he could give or an age pensioner on the devastated streets of Darwin consoling the shocked and dressing the wounds of the injured, took human nobility to its highest level. [More…]
In relation to the people of Darwin I would like firstly to thank the children. [More…]
Throughout the devastating hours of Christmas morning when Santa Claus should have been calling on them, the children of Darwin remained calm and collected as they huddled with their parents while their homes exploded around them. [More…]
Those same children remained calm and collected in the bewildering hours and days which followed, helping their parents and friends and never complaining. [More…]
I would like now to digress and to thank the children of Australia who, on hearing of that disaster, gave up their toys and other Christmas presents so that the evacuated children and the children remaining in Darwin could have a Christmas which will be remembered by themtouched by horror but also by brotherhood. [More…]
That courage was displayed in hundreds of ways, from taking steps to boost morale to cooking for hundreds instead of a few; from nursing a child to nursing many; from finding water supplies to rescuing people at great personal risk in collapsed buildings. [More…]
They are: Firstly, the maintenance of those parties and their children unable to support themselves without social security assistance; secondly, the administrative costs associated with increased demands upon either the existing legal system or the establishment of the Family Court of Australia; thirdly, the increased demands upon the Australian Legal Aid Office, as is provided for in clause 117(3) and (4); fourthly, the probable increased demand for child care centres; and, fifthly, the increased demand for services to deal with the psychological and physical ill-health of disadvantaged one-parent families. [More…]
Indirectly the community bears an even greater financial burden- the costs of the anti-social behaviour and the costs of the new generation of unstable marriages which become evident as the children of broken homes reach adulthood. [More…]
If a woman commits adultery and becomes pregnant and the period of gestation is less than 12 months, the man has no redress and would have to adopt as his own and maintain as his own a child which he knows is not his own. [More…]
I believe that if there is no consent then the provisions of maintenance and child custody should be strengthened. [More…]
Where there is a contest between 2 parties there has to be protection in respect of property and child custody. [More…]
Without birth control it was absolutely essential to have a morality and a code of ethics that protected the unwanted child, that ensured that all children were born into an atmosphere of love and understanding- the birthright of every child, the essential atmosphere for that child to develop its personality and to grow. [More…]
The logical basis for the old morality in terms of the need to protect the newly born child has disappeared. [More…]
I refer to the separation of Family Court matters from those courts which necessarily deal with criminal offences; the provision for divorce proceedings to be conducted in closed court; the emphasis on the paramountcy of the child’s welfare in custody proceedings; the attempts to improve counselling and reconciliation faculties; the proposals for a continuing study of matters affecting family stability, the working of divorce law and legal aid- provided, of course, this study is conducted in a genuinely representative way. [More…]
I have 2 areas of concern, namely, the future of children and the maintenance of the wife of a broken family. [More…]
Let me deal first with the future of children of a broken marriage. [More…]
The point has been made already today that a child or children living in an unhappy house- I use the word house’ carefully,” I do not use the word ‘home’can be tormented to a far greater degree than a child or children who live in a one-parent family. [More…]
I advocate and stand by the concept of a mother and a father, where it is possible, bringing children up in a normal household. [More…]
But if a household is not normal, it is only proper that we examine the degrees of abnormality under which children must live. [More…]
This is a far unhappier situation than a marriage which breaks asunder and which results in the children of that marriage being awarded to one parent with access being granted to the other parent. [More…]
If all honourable members in this chamber were honest, we would admit that we know many cases in which children have lived in circumstances such as I have described and their family life has been most unsatisfactory. [More…]
Handicapped Children’s Benefit Amendment: Provision to increase the rate of handicapped children’s benefit to $3.50 per day for each child accommodated in an approved handicapped persons home and to continue the benefit when a child is absent from the home for short periods is also contained in the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act. [More…]
These were called the Sam Holt advertisements and were the brain child of that now well known character in Australia, John Singleton, who seems to be the darling of the Liberal Party at the moment. [More…]
When one looks at a 12 months period it seems to be very little longer than the period it takes from conception to the birth of a child. [More…]
A child is conceived and, not on account of it but coincident in time with it, the male partner to the marriage says: ‘I want to be separated’. [More…]
Within eight or nine weeks of that event whilst the mother is in the post-natal condition, whilst she may even be in the position of having what is termed post-natal madness, the problem that comes on women who have had a difficult childbirth, the 12 months is up. [More…]
In June of the subsequent year when the woman has the child and is a patient in the maternity hospital, are honourable members going to say that that is divorce without indignity? [More…]
Are young people entering upon marriage to be asked to place themselves in that dependent position with respect to their work- to leave work- to place themselves in a dependent position of having a child or place them in a relatively dependent position of being home makers. [More…]
It is perfectly impossible to determine questions of custody or to have the best interests of a child determined without taking into account the character and conduct of the spouses. [More…]
Do honourable members think a judge, in determining to which of the parties the child is to be assigned, cannot take into account whether one is a drunkard, or one is a basher, or one has committed some of the matrimonial offences that existed before? [More…]
Is there any advantage from the child’s point of view? [More…]
Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
No doubt child care will be the next on the list. [More…]
They say: Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I also take up a point which was made by the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child). [More…]
-The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) was towards the end of her speech rather mouthing a few political slogans, but the rest of her speech contained some interesting matters that deserve to be looked at. [More…]
The provision of maternity allowances, widows’ pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, medical and dental services (but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription), benefits to students and family allowances: [More…]
Under present arrangements to be eligible for a loan of Home Builders’ Account moneys, the average gross weekly income of the main breadwinner of the family, exclusive of overtime and child endowment payments, during the 6 months immediately prior to applying for a loan must not have exceeded 95 per cent of the Commonwealth Statistician’s estimate of average weekly earnings during the preceding December quarter. [More…]
Here, insofar as Home Builders’ Account applicants are concerned, this variation in the method of computing the needs tests will have the effect of raising the limit at the present time for a family with up to 2 children from $117.80 to $136.80. [More…]
They are, firstly, that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother; secondly, that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage; and, thirdly and lastly, but not least, that there is need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent. [More…]
I have not found in the Bill, nor have I heard from any honourable member, any suggestion that children will be forcibly taken away from their parents, although I accept that there may be now, and no doubt will be in the future, those rare and terrible circumstances in which a child must be separated from its parents for its own safety. [More…]
There is no provision anywhere in this Bill, however it is construed, which would force a working class wife, with children under 18 years of age, to work in order to support herself or to live solely on the pension, provided her spouse is employed and earns sufficient income to enable him to contribute to the family’s support. [More…]
Working class women will receive greater protection than those with education and training as they are less able to assist themselves, because work in unskilled employment for a small remuneration may not permit them to obtain adequate paid childminding facilities. [More…]
By the same token, a female doctor, for example, would not be forced to work if she chose to remain within the house to care for the children, but she would be expected to work when the youngest child attained 18 years of age, provided that the woman’s age and state of health enabled her to do so. [More…]
I caution that it is not my view that there is a need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent in all cases, although I believe it is most desirable. [More…]
My wife and I have both undertaken professional obligations and we believe that it is in the interests of the upbringing of our child that both parents be allowed to pursue their careers notwithstanding the fact that it may not be the best for the child. [More…]
The fact is that that child would be worse off if the mother or father were required to be at home, certainly distressed and I believe taking out that distress upon the child. [More…]
In the family a child learns at an early age to relate to other people. [More…]
If we take away the stability of family life in early childhood I believe that we reduce the opportunities for a child to enjoy a wholesome and gratifying childhood. [More…]
A party to a marriage is liable to maintain the other party to the extent that the first-mentioned party is reasonably able to do so, if, and only if, that other party is unable to support herself or himself adequately, whether by reason of having the care or control of a child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 18 years, or by reason of age or physical or mental incapacity for appropriate gainful employment or for any other adequate reason having regard to any relevant matter referred to in sub-section 75(2). [More…]
In proceedings with respect to the custody or guardianship or access to a child of a marriage the Family Court shall, under clause 64, have regard to the welfare of the child as of paramount importance. [More…]
Under clause 73, the parties to a marriage are liable, according to their respective financial resources, to maintain the children of the marriage who have not attained the age of 18 years. [More…]
Under clause 74 the court may make such orders as it thinks proper for the provision of maintenance of both a child and either party of the marriage. [More…]
In addition, clause 76 has provision for determining the nature, duration and amount of payment under such orders for the maintenance of children. [More…]
The court will take a more active part than under the present law in supervising arrangements for the custody and welfare of a child, and a support staff of welfare workers will be provided and will be available to the court to assist both the court and the children who are subject to custody orders. [More…]
Under proposed section 1 14, the court may make such an order or grant such an injunction as it thinks proper, including an injunction for the personal protection of a party to the marriage or a child of the marriage; for the protection of the marital relationship; in relation to the property of a party to the marriage, or in relation to the use or occupancy of the matrimonial home; and to make an order relieving a party to a marriage from any obligation to perform marital services or render conjugal rights. [More…]
My continuing worry in relation to the power and operation of the Family Court is to ensure that its decrees and orders, particularly with regard to welfare and custody of children and maintenance of property, are observed and that responsibility for compliance with and observation of the court’s decrees remain a function of the court itself, or one of its agencies. [More…]
I should like to think that this Government, which has done so much in the field of social reform, which has provided a grant for children who are isolated in the education sense, which has provided a grant to the handicapped child who did not receive a benefit previously and which has provided a benefit to the orphan child who had become a ward of the State, will now direct its attention to building up the home by providing additional funds so that home life may be strengthened. [More…]
The emphasis placed on the paramountcy of a child’s welfare in custody proceedings is important. [More…]
The provisions in relation to the positive duty on both parents to maintain children under 18 years of age, attempts to improve counselling and reconciliation procedures and facilities are useful provisions in a difficult area of human and family relationships. [More…]
Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
I imagine that any student of the English language who reads or hears on television that ‘Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia’ is free to accept that this is not going to cost him anything. [More…]
In other words, the funds and all their assets then become the child, the property of a Minister of the Crown. [More…]
-The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) seemed to labour the point about the protection of people’s rights by the introduction of this Bill. [More…]
3) appears to me to be like a stillborn child that is getting mouth to mouth resuscitation. [More…]
It would be safe to say that this child, this National Health Bill (No. [More…]
I am sick and tired of the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) using her sanctimonious approach about the people’s rights and how her socialist Government has a mandate. [More…]
in reply- The honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) suggested that this health insurance debate is like a stillborn child receiving mouth to mouth resuscitation. [More…]
Medibank will provide free medical insurance cover for every man, woman and child in Australia and free public hospital care in those States the governments of which agree to allow such treatment to be made available. [More…]
In the word ‘curriculum’ educators refer to the whole range of learning experience which a child undergoes during his schooling. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) will agree- I see that she is agreeing with me- that the Government has a mandate to do some of the things that it was saying it intended to do. [More…]
Why should a man not be able to have custody of his child? [More…]
I feel a percentage of men are equally as capable of looking after children as a percentage of women. [More…]
Many members of this House would have spent their childhood in a situation which prevented them from embarking on their education until 6, 7 or even 8 years of age, solely because of geographic isolation and lack of modern transport. [More…]
In today’s modern city many young people become conditioned to the temporary separation from their parents at the early age of 3 or 4 years through the availability of creches and child care and preschool facilities. [More…]
For example, a young wife with one child may have been quite prepared not to accept a settlement because she was able to go out to work. [More…]
If in, say 12 months she had an accident and her child’s future was put in doubt because of the maintenance provisions, there would not be a thing that she could do to seek redress under the proposals of this Bill. [More…]
What about compensation for the fact that she might well have had to leave a profession for some years to look after the children? [More…]
What about the compensation entitlement on a family wage concept in the sense that the husband might well have accumulated assets through her care of him and the children and she has accumulated none? [More…]
What about the children? [More…]
Should a child be denied some rights from his father because the child might have earning capacity? [More…]
That same concept does not apply in the testator’s family maintenance provisions because under those no testator can deny the existence of his widow and children. [More…]
They are to be applauded and their efforts should be strengthened, but we cannot run away from the fact that the statistics clearly show an unhappy part of society that could be helped, although it is doubtful, by guaranteeing that in matrimonial causes one party will be found guilty and the other party will be entitled to some recompense by way of money, custody of the child or the like. [More…]
Certainly I could not say offhand whether the bicycles referred to would be classified as toys, even though they are children’s bicycles. [More…]
Certainly, I would imagine the hazard from bicycles would be less than the hazard from other toys that a child might put in its mouth. [More…]
But if life is sacred, and I believe it is, I believe that the peasant in Vietnam or Cambodia, his child and his refugee wife have got as much right to live in peace and freedom as has any Australian. [More…]
Child Migration Education Program [More…]
Australia’s assistance of $150,000 will be provided to a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project in Zambia. [More…]
The project is of a humanitarian nature and involves provision of schools, health clinics, child care centres, agricultural training units and nutrition units for refugees from Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, Namibia and Angola who have temporarily settled in Zambia. [More…]
There is the cause of irretrievable breakdown after 2 years separation with fault as a cause from 2 years to zero separation to cope with exceptions, such as non-consummation of a marriage and where there is consent that a child should be born in wedlock. [More…]
The Family Law Bill certainly will eliminate fault or the conduct of parties as a ground for divorce but it will not eliminate an open examination of the conduct of the parties in what are the most heartrending results of a divorce- the custody of the children of the marriage and access to them by either partner. [More…]
Clause 64 ( 1 ) of the Bill requires that, in regard to custody or guardianship of or access to a child of a marriage, the court shall regard the welfare of the child as the paramount consideration. [More…]
In a divorce situation they may have to squander slender hard-earned savings or child endowment to pay lawyers. [More…]
If a child is to be given to one parent or another, surely the behaviour of the parents must be looked at. [More…]
If a court is to award custody of a child to a parent, the behaviour of the parents must be taken into account. [More…]
Great advances were made in the field of child mortality and in bringing the Aborigines to missions, as they were in those days, and also to government reserves to try to give them some pride in their own endeavours and their own success. [More…]
If a married couple has children, an unemployment benefit of $5 a week is payable in respect of each child. [More…]
Indeed, of the whole 6 State governments it runs a miserable last in this field, giving a pitiful 26c a head to child care. [More…]
In moving to establish the Children’s Commission the Australian Government has recognised that changing social patterns have put considerable pressures on families with infant and school-age children. [More…]
These changes include a growing number of families where both parents work, and of single parent families, as well as a frequently increasing sense of isolation affecting women looking after children at home. [More…]
Through the Children’s Commission the Australian Government will provide assistance to a variety of organisations, groups and individuals for programs including full day care, family day care, pre-school education, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, playgroups and any other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
The functions of the Commission set out in clause 5 of the Bill embody the philosophy of providing comprehensive, co-ordinated and integrated services for children and include the concept of providing priority to those in greatest need, special needs of particular groups- and flexibility in the provision of services. [More…]
This, of course, is consistent with the provisions of the Child Care Act 1972 which was introduced by the McMahon Government just prior to the December 1972 elections. [More…]
The Bill will ensure that what we are already doing in the provision of services for children will be the subject of continuing parliamentary scrutiny. [More…]
Will the Curriculum Development Centre, once established, accept the broad concept of curriculum as including the totality of experience which a child undergoes during his schooling? [More…]
But the danger for the school child and for the community at large is that those responsible for curriculum development might adopt an attitude that there is only one way of proceeding. [More…]
I do not see the logic in dictating that a child in Bourke, for example, must do exactly the same course or course of subjects as one would find a student doing in, say, Sydney or Melbourne. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the percentage of students who ultimately go to universities does not justify this presumption and for that reason I would earnestly suggest to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that there is a real need to try not only to relate curricula development to the vertical developmentnamely, from the time children first go to preschool right through to the time they finish school- but also to try to relate standards between States to the actual opportunities which are being offered to students and standards of educational attainment in terms of specific subjects. [More…]
For example, a child’s overall condition of upbringing would be as free of restriction owing to the circumstances of his family as public action through the school could make it. [More…]
Another example drawn to my attention was that when children are taken into the city to see the zoo or the museum teachers cannot get them out of the Central Railway Station because the children are playing on the escalators which they have never seen before. [More…]
It is no good teaching children in an environment which is in complete isolation from the environment in which they are expected to live. [More…]
As I have mentioned, the need to increase individual opportunity for every child is very real. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the educationists to prepare a child for present and later life. [More…]
In my view, some people make the mistake of preparing a child for later life without concentrating also on the fact that the child is a living soul in the present. [More…]
Of course, one of the things we have to get over is the legacy of the past, the external examination ridden system of education we have had in this country whereby a child in Bourke has to sit for the same terminal examination as does the child in Sydney, Goulburn, Taree or wherever it may be in New South Wales. [More…]
Not much authority was devolved on the regional or local groups of schools for the children who attended them. [More…]
In the word ‘curriculum’ educators refer to the whole range of learning experience which a child undergoes during his schooling. [More…]
Access to technical and further education by women can be enhanced by providing more in the way of appropriate physical and child care facilities, by arranging flexible timetables and by eliminating prejudice against their entry into manual trades. [More…]
At the same time there should be no pressuresin fact by taxation and other policies we should be reducing the pressures- which lead women to want to enter the work force when they have children to look after, particularly children under the age of five. [More…]
At the end of a child’s school career, whether it be terminated at fourth form, sixth form or some earlier stage, parents seem in many cases to look at everything else before they look at technical education and, if everything else fails, to say: ‘We had better try to see whether he can do a trade or some kind of certificate course’. [More…]
Who will pay for the child care facilities? [More…]
That Mr Daly, Mrs Child and the mover be appointed a committee to draw up reasons for the House of Representatives disagreement to the amendments of the Senate. [More…]
When one fills out forms relating to births one has to give give exactly the same information as one gives to other government departments when one is applying for the maternity allowance or child endowment. [More…]
Other information required is the source of the water supply, the place of residence one year ago in addition to the place of residence 5 years ago, whether the person has been away on a holiday for one week or more in the last year, the languages he uses, the range of his weekly or annual income, the effect of any physical handicap, the age at which he left school, the means by which his child is regularly minded during the day, whether he is a member of any retirement or benefits scheme or the recipient of any social welfare benefits, whether he is covered by a life insurance policy, whether he is licensed to drive a motor vehicle or motor cycle, and the method of travel to work. [More…]
In joining with the honourable member for Hotham, I say that there are many underprivileged areas in this country, underprivileged from lack of galleries, lack of libraries, lack of child care centres, all the matters that go to make a proper quality of life. [More…]
Let us look at the child care program that was announced recently by the Government. [More…]
The Government has announced that further expenditure will be undertaken on looking after the children of this country. [More…]
There are 85 000 children between the ages of one and five years who are left at home by themselves while their parents are at work because there are no child care or kindergarten centres near their homes. [More…]
Are we to say to those 85 000 children: ‘It is safe. [More…]
‘Do not build a child care centre or a pre-school centre in my electorate. [More…]
Should the Government say to the spastic centres and the crippled children’s centres in Australia: ‘Do not let your hopes be raised too high because of what we have done in the past 2 years. [More…]
As the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), said, of course the Government is going to pour millions of dollars into Medibank to ensure that every man, woman and child is covered by a health scheme and not by the patched up job that existed under the control of 113 private health insurance companies. [More…]
The supporters of the Country Party should be honest about it and say that they have seen great advances made in the country towns and in the regional centres as a result of the present Government’s programs in education, child care, nursing home subsidies and so forth. [More…]
The honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) said in his contribution to this debate that if the Opposition became the government of Australia it would cut down benefits for nursing homes and child care, and would cut pensions for age and invalid pensioners. [More…]
We have not been told whether members of the Opposition want expenditure reduced in payments to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, independent schools in the Territories- these include Archbishop Cahill’s schools which I have already mentioned- adult secondary education assistance, assisted migration, child migration education, health insurance, victims of cyclone Tracy and handicapped children. [More…]
I repeat: Which proposition would the electorate choose: Selling $4 billion of Australian assets or printing $ 1,700m in order to make sure that the economy is maintained at a reasonably productive level in order to ensure that the facilities so long denied education, child welfare- one can go on- are supplied to the community? [More…]
My final comment is related to the proposed Medibank scheme which is the brain child of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) who is sitting at the table. [More…]
Additional payments for children of pensioners and supporting mothers are to be increased by $1.50 a week to $7 a week for each child. [More…]
The overall effect of these increases will be that a single pensioner with 2 children will receive a total increase of $8 a week. [More…]
A married pensioner couple with 2 children will receive a combined increase of $ 1 1.50 a week. [More…]
Some 170 000 pensioner and beneficiary families will receive increases in additional payments for approximately 340 000 children. [More…]
A single person without children and with no property affecting his pension will retain some pension entitlement until his other income reaches $92 a week. [More…]
For a married couple without children, the equivalent limits of income and property will be $154.50 a week and $81,160 respectively. [More…]
child and no property affecting will be able to receive other income of up to $120 a week before losing her entitlement to widow’s pension, or up to $ 124 if her child is under 6 years of age or is an invalid child requiring full-time care. [More…]
If she has no income affecting, a widow with one child may have property to the value of $54,000, or $56,080 if her child is under 6 years of age or is an invalid child requiring full time care, before entitlement is extinguished. [More…]
The Government proposes to enable child endowment, double orphan’s pension, handicapped child’s allowance and age, invalid and wife’s pension, widow’s pension and supporting mother’s benefit to be paid to the credit of savings accounts with permanent building societies. [More…]
Initially only child endowment will be paid to building society accounts but the other benefits will be paid in this manner as soon as the necessary administrative arrangements can be made. [More…]
When the debate on this Bill was held on Wednesday, 16 April, the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) made a great point of saying how local authorities were happy with the Commission. [More…]
They are more and more trying to lobby for such things as child minding centres for women workers and so on. [More…]
If one man, one woman or one child dies because of the weakness of this Government, through its inept and incredible belief in doing nothing to upset the victor of tomorrow, we will have let ourselves down badly and we will have committed our own crime against humanity. [More…]
I refer to Mrs Joan Child, the honourable member for Henty, who wrote a letter on 1 May 1975 to the ‘Moorabbin Standard’, a local newspaper that circulates extensively and almost exclusively in her electorate, in my electorate, the electorate of Isaacs and to some extent the electorate of Holt. [More…]
Signed (Joan Child) Member for Henty. [More…]
Mrs Child, because obviously she has had a lot of complaints from pensioners that they have not received the increase in pension, has resorted to the paltry, mean, untrue device of saying: ‘Well, the Bills have been passed by the Houses of Parliament but the reason you have not got your increases, dear pensioners, is that the Liberal and Country Party senators went home early’. [More…]
But I shall remove that restraint from myself and suggest to Mrs Child that she will guarantee herself to be a oncer in the Parliament if she continues to tell deliberate untruths which she knows to be misleading, as I am sure the reading of that letter into the record indicates. [More…]
This Bill also provides for an increase of $1.50 a week for dependent children of pensioners and supporting mothers. [More…]
This increases the amount for each dependent child to $7 a week. [More…]
The overall increase for a single pensioner with 2 children will be $8 a week. [More…]
The new policies in respect of widows or supporting mothers with one child and no property affecting will mean that such a person will now be able to receive other income to a higher level without losing her entitlement to a widow’s pension. [More…]
-I have listened with interest to the apology by the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child). [More…]
Initially this will apply only in respect of child endowment. [More…]
There is an $11 difference in direct benefits received by the 2 groups- $9 if there is not a child under 6 years of age involved- but a very significant difference exists also in the application of the respective means tests on allowable earnings. [More…]
I refer to the recognition of de facto wives and the provision for exnuptial children. [More…]
Beds in repatriation hospitals were unused while many patients outsidecivilians as well as wives and children of exservicemen who were looking for hospital accommodation were not able to receive it. [More…]
There will be an extension of benefits to children of ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
If the child happens to be in full-time education the benefits will continue. [More…]
During recent years much public attention has been focused on the need for more effective policies relating to the care and education of the preschool child, but those who have been most vocal have more often than not had a special interest in only a single aspect of the total problem. [More…]
For example, many have rightly wanted to see an expansion in the availability of pre-school education, whilst others have been more concerned to press for the provision of a greater number of child care centres. [More…]
The former group place emphasis on the educational needs of children, especially those in the 3 to 5 year old age group. [More…]
The latter are anxious to overcome the problem of the care of children whose parents need to work. [More…]
The tendency to distinguish between the care of the pre-school child and the education of that child has led to an unfortunate narrowing of public awareness and national concern. [More…]
Secondly, the distinction has often hidden the importance of special consideration being given to the needs of the very young child, the child 3 years of age and under. [More…]
There is now a growing public recognition and expression of the view that there is no ideal substitute for home and family life for the young child. [More…]
At its 1974-75 annual conference the New South Wales Federation of Infant School Clubs called upon the Government ‘to ensure that no pre-school child is deprived of his or her mother’s care for financial reasons, especially in the first 3 years ‘. [More…]
Most Australian families either choose to care for their pre-school age children especially those of 3 years of age and under, or would like to be able to make that choice. [More…]
The major objective of any child care policy should be to make this possible for those who, through economic and social pressure, are now unable to do so. [More…]
We must concentrate our national energies and resources not only on creating new day care facilities but also in a wide-ranging community approach to child care. [More…]
We must endorse the trend to family orientation of child care by strengthening the capabilities of families with measures designed to improve their social and economic conditions. [More…]
To do this we must recognise that there are a wide range of economic and social policies which, whilst not being child care programs per se, influence the way in which children are cared for and by whom; their mothers or a substitute. [More…]
Such matters as taxation policies originally designed for a nation of single income families or taxation concessions and child endowment and other benefits which have lost their real value are matters that are in need of urgent attention. [More…]
Much legislation discriminates against the normal 2-parent family and, in addition, places 2 -income families in an advantaged position when compared with those families where the wife and mother stays at home to care for her children. [More…]
More and more people are starting to realise that in both the long and the short term it is intolerable to have a situation where mother and child are deprived of mother care solely for financial reasons. [More…]
This burden can be overcome in 2 ways: Either by the mother, irrespective of the ages of her children, going to work, or by significant tax reforms so that the current discrimination against the single income family is removed. [More…]
Such suggestions included consideration of voluntary income splitting of the incomes of husband and wife; the restoration of concessional deductions for dependent spouses and dependent children to realistic levels; the restructuring of the tax scale on an overall basis; an increase in child endowment; and the restoration of the deduction for education expenses. [More…]
These and many other proposals, such as some form of family income maintenance or a mothers’ allowance, are deserving of detailed study and appraisal in an attempt to design a policy for the care and education of the pre-school child. [More…]
It is because of the whole wide range of matters that affect the development of the young child that the Opposition proposed the establishment of a children’s bureau under a minister of community development. [More…]
If families are to be given the opportunity of providing adequate home based care for their young children, measures with both direct and indirect consequences must be introduced to ensure that a real choice is available where today no real choice exists. [More…]
This can be done in a wide variety of ways, including the encouragement of play groups and toddlers groups which provide opportunities for social interaction of mothers as well as their children. [More…]
The provision of child care centres available for occasional use, the suitability and availability of playgrounds together with the provision of community amenities such as libraries and toy-lending services, can also provide valuable support to a mother engaged in the full-time care of a child. [More…]
There will, however, always be those children for whom substitute care must be provided. [More…]
The Minister for Education at a seminar held at the Australian National University in 1974 said that he believed that adequate child care centres need to give a child responsive appreciation and predictable warmth of the type that would be available in the home. [More…]
It is to be hoped that in expanding the number of available places in child care centres through local government and other community groups adequate recognition will be given to the role of the private child care centres which to date have provided more than 70 per cent of care facilities. [More…]
A pluralistic approach should be followed and the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations and its constituent members should be given appropriate recognition and encouragement. [More…]
Such schemes should take their place among the whole range of child care facilities and not be seen as a magic formula in looking after children who are away from their parents. [More…]
We would have liked to find in the Bill greater emphasis both on the need for research into the care and education of pre-school children and on the importance of evaluating the effect of those programs which no doubt will be supported by the Commission. [More…]
In providing support we think that money should be made available through the States as is the case in the fields of primary and secondary education, and that the Bill should include a provision requiring the Commission to work in close consultation and cooperation with the States in the development of comprehensive child care and education programs. [More…]
Organisations which have developed a distinctive style in the provision of child care facilities or education for the pre-school child should not, through the imposition of strings, be required to conform to a standard method of providing care or pre-school education, provided of course that the services offered though diverse in character meet acceptable minimum standards. [More…]
I support the Children’s Commission Bill 1975 with deep personal pleasure as already I have seen the hope and enthusiasm which the proposal has given rise to within the electorate. [More…]
It is a measure that has met with public acclaim and, despite efforts by opponents of the Government to suppress the knowledge of the benefits to be gained, those concerned with child care and those in public life have been able to spread the message widely. [More…]
However, the funding of day child care centres in Western Australia has been restricted in one sense by the election promise of the existing State Government to commence pre-school centres. [More…]
It is hoped that out of a promise made during the fervour of an election a sound and sensible State child care system will evolve. [More…]
It is ironical that the very people who decry Australian Government participation have to rely in the main on the Australian Government for funds in this area of child care. [More…]
Already the Interim Children’s Commission has approved day care centres in areas of need. [More…]
It is hoped that the socioeconomic surveys will show where needs exist and that the appointment of catalysts or, in common terms, research and community child care guidance people, will produce suitable recommendations. [More…]
An aspect of child care which alarms me is the tendency to embark on grandiose building projects without examining facilities available in the community which could be put to dual use. [More…]
One area which concerns me relates to the latch-key child- so-called for want of a better term. [More…]
These children go to school early and leave late. [More…]
If we are to continue to have working families and if we are to encourage working parents to raise families, then governments must make provision for the care of these children. [More…]
In my area at Bellmay an out of school child care group has started a pilot project. [More…]
But the most pleasing aspect is that it is a place where children are going because they want to go. [More…]
It is catering for children who wish to go there after school to undertake some creative hobby, thus ensuring that the children who are there because of other circumstances feel that they are not a race apart. [More…]
But this brings about a continuing problem for those children once they leave the day care centre and enter the normal schooling stream. [More…]
This is one reason why I suggest that there is an urgent need to make a continuing provision for such children. [More…]
There is room for a community voluntary service based on outgoing home child care problems. [More…]
This legislation highlights the fact that this is only the beginning of the child care area in Australia. [More…]
-Despite its imperfections, this Bill which seeks to establish a Children’s Commission is a genuine attempt to overcome one of the major social problems arising from a technologically advanced consumer society which claims a high standard of living, therefore requiring a large percentage of its work force, both male and female, to participate fully in the production of the goods and services required by the community. [More…]
In October 1972 the Child Welfare Grants Act was passed. [More…]
That Act provided for research grants and for funds to assist local bodies or interested groups to establish and run child care centres. [More…]
In 1968-69 the available child care facilities in Australia catered for approximately 14 000 children only- not a very high figure- and in New South Wales, my own State, in 1972, the most recent figures available, there were some 760 registered child care centres coping for 39 913 children up to 5 years of age. [More…]
The estimated number of 3 and 4-year-old children in New South Wales in 1972 was over 165 000. [More…]
Thus, only 15.7 per cent of eligible children were attending pre-school in 1972. [More…]
Despite these factors married women comprise only 22 per cent of the total work force at present and 70.8 per cent of those are of child-bearing age, which I take to be between 15 and 44 years. [More…]
Thus the majority of women in the child-bearing category still remain at home and receive little assistance in bringing up young children. [More…]
One of the major difficulties which Australia has faced is that for too long the need to build up a pre-school and child care infrastructure, especially at the local government level, was not given the amount of attention which perhaps it should have. [More…]
Every child over the age of 2Vi years was guaranteed entry into a pre-school for 6 days of the week. [More…]
I believe it will take a long time for Australia to reach that standard but it is an objective that is worth considering very seriously especially for those children whose parents wish to or have to enter the work force. [More…]
In view of the realities of the situation which have been emphasised, namely, that at present the existing facilities are simply not adequate to meet the existing demand, much less the anticipated demand in future years, I think the legislation is unduly short-sighted in not at this stage encouraging appropriately qualified people to enter the preschool and child care area so that there will be adequate facilities to take those children whose parents wish them to be looked after. ‘ [More…]
It is proposed that the Children’s Commission should report directly to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
The Opposition is of the view, and will certainly carry it into effect when we return to the Treasury bench, that there should be established a Children’s Bureau which will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers who will retain responsibility for the administration of programs within their respective portfolios such as those of health, education and social welfare. [More…]
The Children’s Bureau will not administer programs nor control funding of them. [More…]
In other words, the Children’s Bureau will act as a collector of information and a disseminator of trends and information to the Departments of State responsible for various aspects of social welfare matters. [More…]
On 19 February 1973-just 79 days after we had been elected- the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) announced the establishment of the Australian Pre-Schools Commission to investigate pre-schooling and child care centres throughout Australia. [More…]
Thus, on 19 September 1974, the Minister assisting the Prime Minister, the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen), announced the Government’s wish to establish a children’s commission. [More…]
At that time, the Government set up the interim commission to look again at the whole issue of child care. [More…]
It was to have as one of its broad aims the establishment of the Government’s firm intention that by 1980 all children in Australia would have access to the services designed to take care of their educational, emotional, physical, social and recreational needs. [More…]
By the setting up of this committee the Government recognised that no rigid distinction should be made between the education of children and the caring of them. [More…]
The Special Minister of State on 19 September stated that one of the real strengths of the Government’s program was that it would break down the false dichotomy between child care and preschooling. [More…]
The sad fact is that up till now preschooling originally intended by us as an important aid in removing or modifying inequalities of background, environment, family income and family nationality- had primarily benefited children whose mothers could afford to stay at home. [More…]
Not only has this situation put children from less privileged environments at an even greater disadvantage but also it has created a harmful distinction between the mother who stays at home and the mother who works. [More…]
The interim commission was to take charge of the 1972 Child Care Act, passed in October 1972 by the Opposition when it was in government. [More…]
The spending of money must be done in relation to a number of issues- the number and sort of resources already available in the community, the effect upon the child and the effect upon the parents and particularly the mother. [More…]
It should not be forgotten that it is also a basic resource in child care. [More…]
We pay people an allowance for looking after children- sometimes up to 5 children- in the person’s own home. [More…]
Equipment for the children can be supplied and social workers regularly check on the situation to see how the children are and whether their needs are being met. [More…]
The more one thinks about it the more one wonders why someone has not yet levelled the charge at us that we are nationalising child minding. [More…]
As speakers in this debate have been asked to shorten their speaking time I shall conclude my remarks by saying that this Bill should go some way towards recognising the aspirations of the community for its children and its future. [More…]
Amongst other things - lower the admission age to the year in which the child turns five. [More…]
It was also alleged by certain people who criticised him that he was reducing the funds available for other pre-school and child care services. [More…]
Why he was suprised by this criticism is difficult to imagine becuase I am sure that to the casual observer it would have been clear that the State Government was trying to honour a clumsy election promise to lower the age of primary school admission, and to do this it was using Australian Government funds which in every other State were being used for the legitimate purpose of expanding pre-school and child care services. [More…]
To the extent that a large program of construction of pre-primary centres would limit the possibility for the expenditure on other child care services, the criticism of the Western Australian Minister for Educaton was quite valid. [More…]
Very simply, the amendments provided for a reconstituted Pre-School Board of Western Australia and empowered it to provide both educational and child care faculties for children who were over 2 years of age and who had not yet turned five. [More…]
This allowed the Board legitimately to obtain funds from the Children’s Commission for the provision of early childhood services for children under 5, which has been the stated aim of the Special Minister of State. [More…]
I should say that the reason this situation has come about is that even though the Australian Government, through the Interim Committee for a Children’s Commission did fund the preprimary centres last year the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen), on a recent visit to Western Australia, indicated quite clearly that in future the Children’s Commission would not fund the pre-primary program of the Western Australian Government. [More…]
Secondly, if the Australian Government commits itself to funding a preprimary program it will leave itself very little opportunity for expanding child care and other services which it intends to provide throughout the country. [More…]
It is true that the people of Western Australia are in great need of all the other sorts of services which it is intended will be provided by the Children’s Commission. [More…]
I refer to the second reading speech of the Special Minister of State in which he indicated that some of the other services which would be provided would include full day care, family day care, pre-school education of course, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, play groups and other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
They reveal that 365 000 children under the age of 6 years were the children of working mothers. [More…]
The report went on to state that 437 000 people who were responsible for the care of children between 4 years of age and 1 1 years of age made no arrangements for the care of those children after school hours. [More…]
Can he provide a list indicating the number of applications currently pending from people seeking to adopt a child in each State and Territory. [More…]
Faced with the need to defend his new-born child by opposing wage claims of the metal trades going far beyond indexation, the Minister went to water. [More…]
When I say that I do not defend for one moment, without some comment and reservations, all the provisions of the Child Care Act of 1972. [More…]
But that legislation is past and is not going to have a great relationship to the future administration of services for children in this nation. [More…]
No matter what fashionable ideas people may have, women are still the only ones able to have children. [More…]
Some years ago child endowment- which was free spending money- for 2 children was worth an addition of 7 per cent to average weekly earnings which were coming into a home. [More…]
For 2 children now it is worth an addition of one per cent to average weekly earnings. [More…]
For 4 children in the early 1950s it was worth an additional 15 per cent of average weekly earnings and today it is worth an additional 5 per cent or 6 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Furthermore, I am concerned that this transfer of significant authority becomes evident in the definitions of ‘services for children’ contained in the Bill. [More…]
In the definitions of the services for children, which are the linchpin of this legislation, 7 types of services for children are listed and in many of them the final words are that they are to be available for children who are not being cared for in their own homes, for children whose parents are engaged in employment, for children who whether are sick or physically disabled, or for children where assistance is needed. [More…]
After all, I believe that all children in Australia need assistance and any public authority caring for them must be interested in them. [More…]
It is not enough for a government to say that, with the birth of every child a family can be driven into pauperism and then to say that that family, having been driven into pauperism by the government’s taxation policy, will have services made available to it outside the home under conditions that the government determines. [More…]
I want to emphasise that it was he, as the then Minister for Labor and National Service, who brought in the Bill on childcare. [More…]
What was the philosophy that existed in relation to child care when the Opposition was in government? [More…]
The limited philosophy that existed then in relation to child care is apparent from reading what the then Minister had to say in his second reading speech. [More…]
The Children’s Commission will take its place alongside the Schools Commission, Technical and Further Education Commission, the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
What I have said does not mean that I subscribe to the view that the Children’s Commission is to be seen as a body concerned solely with education unless one takes the term ‘education’ in its broadest sense of meaning the total development of the personality of the child. [More…]
The intent of the Government in creating a Children’s Commission is to provide an imaginative and comprehensive range of services so that not just one group of children, not just the children of working mothers, but all children will have access to those services best designed to promote their wellbeing and to improve the quality of their lives and the lives of their parents. [More…]
One of the features of the mode of approach by the Government is the recognition that in certain areas there is very little interest in child care. [More…]
In my electorate of Holt we have been particularly fortunate in the area of child services. [More…]
This is a commendable approach to the problem of latch-key children and is part and parcel of the full spectrum of child care services. [More…]
On the other hand we see councils, committees and organisations of various kinds renting homes for child care and other activities while schools and pre-school centres are being used for minimum periods. [More…]
It may well be that the child care centre or pre-school centre of today has a different use in a generation’s time. [More…]
We must not ignore the use of homes for family day care where trained personnel could assist mothers of suitable temperament in this situation to look after their children. [More…]
It is here that a small amount of money can be expended in order to make that home or church hall suitable for some type of child care work. [More…]
The other aspect which I want to stress in the few minutes I have available to me is the diversity of approach which is recommended in the work of the Children’s Commission. [More…]
One could go on to mention holiday care, play groups and, in fact, any other child care activity. [More…]
These ensure that the Commission will give priority to providing services for children in circumstances where the greatest need exists. [More…]
It means meeting the needs of children suffering disadvantages because of social, economic, health, ethnic, locational, cultural, lingual or other reasons. [More…]
It means, in effect, encouraging diversity, flexibility and innovation in the provision of services for children. [More…]
With these aims in mind it becomes obvious that the need for a Children’s Commission is real and urgent. [More…]
However, one would concede the need for the closest and most amicable co-operation between the Schools Commission and the Children’s Commission, both of which have an essential but individual role to play in the full development of our children and young people. [More…]
It is in my electorate and I would point out that it is not institutionalised at all despite the fact that it is quite a large pre-school and child care centre. [More…]
It is well conducted with the warmth of people who really care for children. [More…]
She has visited recently some 28 States in America studying child care and pre-school facilities. [More…]
-The previous speaker mentioned that everybody in the community is in favour of giving proper attention to our children which is, in a sense, like supporting motherhood. [More…]
Everybody in this House supports the view that a great deal needs to be done in providing proper care for children in that there are many children in Australia, particularly where both parents are working or the sole parent is working, who are not getting adequate assistance at the moment and that the community does have a responsibility to provide assistance to them. [More…]
However, it could also be said that that is about where the consensus on the child care issue finishes because there are strong differences of opinion within the community on the whole philosophy of child care and this really centres on the role of women either as mothers or as members of the work force. [More…]
One view is that as women have rights equal to men as members of the work force, their childbearing role should not be allowed to prevent them from finding work, job advancement or job satisfaction. [More…]
The result of this is the belief that the community should provide and pay for the care of children while their mothers work. [More…]
We could say from looking at the Bill that there is no prescribed philosophy in the charter of the Children’s Commission. [More…]
It means that we have not really solved the problems of child care by the mere act of providing for a Children’s Commission. [More…]
In my opinion the Government cannot leave the whole question of child care to a commission. [More…]
The money outlaid on child care and the distribution of that money is of tremendous social importance because it represents redistribution of income. [More…]
Returning to the question of child care being paid for by the Government- that is, if the Government pays for the care of children of working parents- that amounts to a redistribution of income away from single income families towards 2-income families. [More…]
It might well be asked: Why should a family with one breadwinner have to pay for the care of children of families who have 2 breadwinners? [More…]
That being so, why should such a family be penalised by having to pay through taxation for the care of children of families who are receiving that second pay packet? [More…]
What I am saying is that the Government must ensure that it is aware of the social and economic consequences of all the decisions of the Children’s Commission before financial support is given to them. [More…]
If child care centres, for example, are paid for by the community what we are doing is taxing everybody to pay for the children of the 2-income family to be looked after. [More…]
I am concerned that money has been outlaid already for child care centres but the charges that are being made on the families will recover only some of the recurrent costs of the organisations which are running them. [More…]
In those cases, obviously the child care facilities should be provided free of charge. [More…]
Chairman’ means the Chairman of the Commission; child’ means a pre-school aged child, a child who is attending a primary or secondary school or a child who has not attained the age of 18 years and is prevented by reason of a physical or mental disability or handicap from attending a school; services for children ‘ includes- [More…]
I wanted to raise generally a problem that I discussed shortly with the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) in relation to the operation of the Child Care Act 1972. [More…]
It becomes clear from the terms of this Bill and the definition of services for children that in some respects this Bill and the present Child Care Act will operate in much the same area. [More…]
I am concerned at the more rigid formulas that have been adopted in relation to the Child Care Act which may have led to a situation in which those centres which are being funded under the Child Care Act may not be in a position to receive the same benefits that are now being made available to institutions that will be established and funded by the Children’s Commission. [More…]
I should like to have clarified for the purposes of many organisations funded under the Child Care Act the extent of any deprivation that the existing and funded institutions and facilities may suffer, and whether they can achieve or receive benefits similar to those that will be made available to those newer organisations which will subsequently be funded under the provisions contained in clause 3 subparagraph (a) dealing with services for children. [More…]
I refer particularly to a submission which I showed to the Minister and which the Minister received, as did other members, from a number of organisations that established child care centres under the Child Care Act 1972. [More…]
The organisations include the St Paul’s Lutheran Child Care Centre, the Ardill Family Centre, the Church of Christ Child Care Centre at Mt Druitt, the Greystanes Child Care Centre and the Telopea Church of Christ Child Care Centre. [More…]
The submission mentions the salaries subsidy and states that in relation to the experience that these centres have had in the period of operation- a fairly short period of operation, as it is- it is evident that the fees having to be charged by the child care centres are excessive. [More…]
It seems quite unfair that Child Care Centres which are basically designed and built to meet the needs of people in working class communities should have to charge more than twice the amount being paid by pre-school centres in predominantly middle class areas. [More…]
This is because the salary subsidies paid to Child Care Centres are most inadequate, for example, at Telopea, out of a staff of seven (2 trained teachers, 1 nurse, 3 assistants, 1 cook) employed at the Centre only one trained teacher and the nurse are being subsidised. [More…]
This seems to me to require some clarification of the way in which those centres under the Child Care Act 1972 are to be dealt with in relation to the more generous funding that seems to have been established by the Interim Commission. [More…]
At the Telopea Child Care Centre it became apparent that certain mother substitute facilities were being provided when there were intellectual and emotional needs of the children when there was a parent in the home. [More…]
The submission mentions the problem of a number of children in a family in which there is only a mother and no father at home, and deals with the problem that that mother has in paying for child care in this institution out of the pension and other benefits that she receives. [More…]
Originally these centres were not meant to meet the needs of a person like this, but because of the large number of mothers who were formerly in the work force and who are now unemployed, it has been found that centres which would otherwise have been full, and were planned on the basis that they would be full, have to take in other children to remain economic and viable. [More…]
The centre in Telopea is concerned to meet the needs of the surrounding community and those for whom there is this special need rather than take in the children of parents who are able to afford to send the children to that centre. [More…]
It is worried that under the old arrangements under the Child Care Act it will be restricted in this. [More…]
I have drawn to the Minister’s attention a request for funds under the family day care scheme by the same people whom he met when he came out to open the Telopea Church of Christ Child Care Centre. [More…]
He was most generous in his praise of the work which was done by the former Government and of the facilities that were funded under the Child Care Act. [More…]
I thank him for the remarks he has made in respect of the Telopea Church of Christ Child Care Centre. [More…]
He has illustrated in a practical way some of the obvious difficulties under the Child Care Act. [More…]
I make no criticism of the previous Government for its intention to establish child care centres under that Act, but we have to be critical of the standards and of the general concept of finance that is involved. [More…]
The capital cost of the Telopea Child Care Centre would be well over $80,000. [More…]
That is reasonable compared with other submissions which ask for $250,000 for a child care centre. [More…]
The centre accommodates 40 children. [More…]
I understand from my officers that the amount of subsidy is $16,000 a year, which is a weekly subsidy of $8 per child. [More…]
If the centre now feels that it needs another $30,000 to keep going that will mean another $16 per child making a total of $24 per child. [More…]
The centre is charging the parents $20 per child, so the total is $44 per child per week. [More…]
Child care in Australia cannot be run on that basis. [More…]
If we are going to achieve an effective child care program the parents have to be involved with the children. [More…]
What we must do in the establishment of child care centres is talk to the people involved, get them to have a look at the centres that are working much more efficiently and economically and see how that can be done. [More…]
I make no criticism of the efforts of the previous Government when I say that that was the standard set under the Child Care Act. [More…]
It is important that we now have a look at it on a flexible basis to see how we can finance a proper program that assists all children, particularly in the areas envisaged in this Bill. [More…]
-I am answering the proposition in this sense: When the honourable member was a member of the former Government he did nothing in relation to child care. [More…]
Is he suggesting that they are trying to deprive children of a mother’s care? [More…]
Is it to be that in the areas that the honourable member represents I need not finance any of the child care centres that the State Government has submitted for financing? [More…]
Does not the honourable member realise, as a sensible man, that the construction of all these centres is motivated by the fact that there is parent involvement and that the children are better off by having somebody interested in them? [More…]
I say this to the honourable member for Lilley: He should not engage in the hypocrisy of drawing a line and stating that some children will not receive any attention or assistance simply because a parent is at home. [More…]
It would then mean that each year and at other times the Minister would be required to come to the Parliament with State grants legislation which would detail the programs that were to be funded on the recommendation of the Children’s Commission. [More…]
If one looks at the report of the Priorities Review Staff on early childhood services, one can see the deep involvement of the States in child care and pre-school education programs- programs which they directly run and administer and those which they support. [More…]
I am sure that when the Minister replies he will draw attention once again to the remarks that he made in his second reading speech in which he pointed out that the Opposition parties, when in Government, funded schemes for the provision of finance under the Child Care Act by direct grants. [More…]
They would have taken account of the States’ deep involvement in child care and preschool education. [More…]
Even if we did in that pilot arrangement, limited in its scope, fund it by direct grants pursuant to section 81, we now believe that because of the experience gained in the administration of the Child Care Act, whereby the need for a more comprehensive program has been made manifest, in those circumstances the funding should be direct to the States through section 96 grants thereby involving the States and their administrations in the more comprehensive expansion of facilities available in the pre-school care and education area. [More…]
Can the honourable member imagine for one moment that we would be satisfied with some of the child care programs that have been started in the States? [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member that in New South Wales the amount of money spent on child care per head is 26c. [More…]
It is quite wrong to raise the legal issue here that the Child Care Act perhaps is illegal. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Sturt suggest that the Liberal Party will challenge the Child Care Act? [More…]
As the honourable member predicted, I would say, his Party’s Child Care Act provided for eligible organisations to be funded directly. [More…]
The position is that if there is a community interested in child care, which is prepared to do something about that need, we do not see any reason why funds should be denied. [More…]
But let us not be in a situation here in which we must run around hogtied to the State governments which, in the main, have shown no interest at all in child care. [More…]
I fear that there may be a possibility of the catalyst making a recommendation to a commissioner, despite what comes from the advisory boards, and then that commissioner carrying on those views with perhaps personal views to the commission, and funding taking place without any proper consideration of the priorities set by the State or indeed by people involved in child care. [More…]
The Federation of Child Care Association members who provide 80 per cent of child care in Australia at the moment, as I understand it, have not been consulted. [More…]
I found that my predecessors had not under the Child Care Act granted any money. [More…]
We were then in a direct relationship with all sorts of child organisations that were setting up child care centres and they received direct grants from the Federal Government. [More…]
The statement has been made that the training of the personnel to handle these children is in the hands of the States. [More…]
They suggest to the Federal Government the setting up of these kinds of courses in child care. [More…]
The commissions of advanced education and other bodies, even universities commissions if we go into the question of research into the needs of children including their health needs, are financed directly from the Commonwealth. [More…]
If the money did come from the application of section 96 in respect of these child care associations the State concerned would simply be being used as a post box except where the Minister has enacted Commonwealth financing of the State ‘s own preschool organisations just as we are enacting now Commonwealth financing for or assistance to State owned schools. [More…]
For reasons I have already indicated, New South Wales is the State with the worst record in child care. [More…]
If it does not meet its obligation to achieve a standard of child care on which it has agreed, of course no further funds will be provided. [More…]
The Opposition wishes to see included here an obligation upon the Commission to the greatest extent practicable to consult and co-operate with departments of the State governments, because it is incorrect to presume that the departments of the Commonwealth Government are the only departments that are responsible for aspects of the planning of, the provision of, the training of persons to provide, and the provision of financial assistance for, services for children. [More…]
Even the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen), in commenting during the debate on an earlier amendment, said that much of the child care program was being carried out in close consultation with the States. [More…]
The State governments have a significant role to fulfil in the area of responsibility that is now to be placed on the Children’s Commission. [More…]
The Children’s Commission will achieve success in providing an adequate and comprehensive care and preschool education program for the children of Australia only if that Commission is willing to consult with the State governments. [More…]
It would amaze me if the Minister declined to accept this amendment, which seeks to impose upon the Commission that obligation- an obligation to consult and co-operate with State governments and State government departments which already are working in the field of child care and pre-school education. [More…]
But I would like the Minister to tell me whether or not it is intended that there will be representatives or nominees of the State governments, who have this large responsibility already in matters relating to child care and pre-school education, on the State advisory boards. [More…]
It has been said that the Commission will not be made up of people who are experienced in child care. [More…]
Savings held by an ineligible spouse, jointly with another person, or as child endowment in a child’s account cannot be taken into account either. [More…]
On average 2 children can be born in 3 years. [More…]
Honourable members will recognise that schemes such as the National Employment and Training scheme- the NEAT scheme- grants in aid to child care centres and so on are examples of these. [More…]
Under this Bill, although a man knew his wife was having a child that was not his, he would be unable to divorce her and he would find under the provisions of this Bill that he would have to adopt as his, as it would be born in his marriage, a child who was not his at all. [More…]
It does not help the child and it does not help the relief of bitterness that a woman should be able to say to a man: ‘This child will be yours in terms of our marriage. [More…]
When I spoke in the debate on the second reading of the Bill I mentioned that whilst personally supporting the second reading of the Bill I supported something along the lines that a divorce could be obtained in such cases as, for example, when the partners had been separated for less than a period of one year, where the marriage had not been consummated or where there was a genuine desire on the part of the partners that a child be born in wedlock. [More…]
As most marriages are marriages with children behaviour needs to be considered in determining which person is to be awarded custody of the child. [More…]
The correct course would have been to have a commission of inquiry so that people responsible in matrimonial and child care matters could prepare the framework of a law for the consideration of Parliament. [More…]
Earlier in the debate I gave the example of a woman who could be in a position where her husband desires to separate from her and, under the cohabitation procedures contained in the Bill, with which I agree, where she could be expecting a child in four or five months’ time but the computer says that the marriage is over. [More…]
This amendment is to omit ‘in circumstances arising out of a marital relationship’ and substitute ‘with respect to the personal protection of a party to the marriage or of a child of the marriage, or the property of a party to the marriage, which are in relation to any matrimonial cause then before the court’. [More…]
(Mr Wilson)- After ‘application’, second appearing, insert ‘or where there is a child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 1 6 years ‘. [More…]
The amendment I propose will require the parties, where there is a child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 16 years, to undergo the same reconciliation procedures as are provided for in those cases where the marriage has been in existence for only a short time. [More…]
But I am concerned to see that families are strengthened and that the interests of children are protected. [More…]
There is no opportunity for representation of the children in determining whether or not the marriage should be dissolved. [More…]
In clause 65 of the Bill opportunity is given for children to be represented only after the marriage has been dissolved. [More…]
Clause 65 provides that, where, in proceedings with respect to the custody, guardianship or maintenance of, or access to, a child of a marriage, it appears to the court that the child ought to be separately represented, that child can be represented, but that is only in circumstances in which it is assumed that the marriage is to be dissolved. [More…]
Where the parties have no children the importance of the reestablishment of that communication is not so significant; it is a matter of the bilateral relations between those parties. [More…]
But where there are children it is not a unilateral matter and it is not a bilateral matter; it is a matter of multilateral relations. [More…]
I do not believe that this Bill as now drafted goes far enough in giving to children those opportunities to have their parents live together if communication can be re-established. [More…]
I will not weary honourable members by repeating that speech, but I tried to draw the distinction, as has the honourable member for Sturt, between on the one hand divorces that occur shortly after marriage for a variety of reasons- I am presuming that they are valid reasons- and divorces that occur after the children have left the nest, and on the other hand divorces between 35-year-old people with 6 children. [More…]
As the honourable member for Sturt has said, really it all boils down to what gives best security to the children. [More…]
I am in a bit of a quandary on this matter because, on the one hand, there are many instances in which the insecurity of a child is magnified by having an unhappy domestic atmosphere. [More…]
If parents are warring constantly, then children become worried; they ponder what they can do to help and they become emotionally quite upset. [More…]
On the other hand, there are those marriages in which I am quite sure people can persist and should be encouraged to persist until such time as the children are mature enough to have a better understanding of the problems that face an older generation than their own. [More…]
Any relationship specified in sub-section (3) includes a relationship traced through, or to, a person who is or was an adopted child, and, for that purpose, the relationship between an adopted child and his adoptive parent, or each of his adoptive parents, shall be deemed to be or to have been the natural relationship of child and parent. [More…]
(i) any relationship specified in paragraph (a) of this sub-section includes a relationship traced through, or to, a person who is or was an adopted child, and, for that purpose, the relationship between an adopted child and his adoptive parent, or each of his adoptive parents, shall be deemed to be or to have been the natural relationship of child and parent; and [More…]
for the purposes of this section a person who has at any time been adopted by another person shall be deemed to remain the adopted child of that other person notwithstanding that any order by which the adoption was affected has been annulled, cancelled or discharged or that the adoption has for any other reason ceased to be effective; and a person who has been adopted on more than one occasion shall be deemed to be the adopted child of each person by whom he has been adopted. [More…]
A party to a marriage is liable to maintain the other party, to the extent that the first-mentioned party is reasonably able to do so, if, and only if, that other party is unable to support herself or himself adequately, whether by reason of having the care or control of a child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 18 years, or by reason of age or physical or mental incapacity for appropriate gainful employment or for any other adequate reason having regard to any relevant matter referred to in sub-section 75 (2). [More…]
The Court may, having regard to the matters referred to in section 75 as may be relevant in the circumstances, make such order for the maintenance of a party to a marriage or a child of a marriage who has not attained the age of 1 8 years, as it deems proper. [More…]
It applies to either party to a marriage who has the care or control of a child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 18 years. [More…]
Clearly, therefore, it relates to a mother and wife who has the care and control of a child who has not attained the age of 18 years. [More…]
I refer to paragraph (c), which provides that the matters to be taken into account by the court include: whether either parry has the care or control of a child of the marriage who nas not attained the age of 1 8 years. [More…]
whether either party has the care or control of the child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 18 years; [More…]
It reads: whether either party has the care or control of a child of the marriage who has not attained the age of 1 8 years; [More…]
an order shall not be made for the maintenance of a child who has attained the age of 1 8 years; and [More…]
an order for the maintenance of a child ceases to be in force when the child attains the age of 1 8 years. [More…]
that the agreement does not adequately protect the interests of any child or children of the marriage; or - [More…]
1 ) Proceedings with respect to the maintenance of a party to a marriage or of a child of a marriage, if there is in force an order (whether made before or after the commencement of this Act) with respect to the maintenance of that party or child by the other party to the marriage- [More…]
Under clause 72 in Part VIII of the Bill, a liability is imposed on a party to maintain the other party, to provide financial assistance or other kinds of assistance to the extent that the first mentioned party is reasonably able to do so, but if, and only if, the other party is unable to support himself or herself adequately, whether by reason of having the care or control of a child of the marriage or for any other purpose whatsoever- this is the wording of the actual clause. [More…]
Similarly, in clause 73 of the Bill, the parties to a marriage are liable, according to their respective financial resources, to maintain the children of the marriage who have not attained the age of 1 8 years. [More…]
1 ) In proceedings of the kind referred to in paragraph (e) of the definition of ‘matrimonial cause’ in sub-section 4(1), the court may make such order or grant such injunction as it thinks proper with respect to the matter to which the proceedings relate, including an injunction for the personal protection of a party to the marriage or of a child of the marriage or for the protection of the marital relationship or in relation to the property of a party to the marriage or relating to the use or occupancy of the matrimonial home. [More…]
Clause 114(1) provides: in sub-section 4(1) the court may make such order or grant such injunction as it thinks proper with respect to the matter to which the proceedings relate, including an injunction for the personal protection of a party to the marriage or of a child of the marriage or for the protection of the marital relationship or in relation to the property of a party to the marriage or relating to the use or occupancy of the matrimonial home. [More…]
It was for that reason that in paragraph (e) of the interpretation of ‘matrimonial causes’ it had been proposed to make it rather more precise and instead to refer to the personal protection of a party to the marriage or of a child of the marriage or the property with respect to the marriage. [More…]
Accepting the view that injunctive proceedings can protect a person from violence or protect a child of the marriage, that seems to me to be sufficient. [More…]
This is somewhat astounding because it would mean that it would place in jeopardy a program we have just announced, in cooperation with the Victorian Government, to assist 54 000 children in Victoria in obtaining child care. [More…]
It is also worthy of note that the existing Child Care Act introduced by the Opposition when in government was not subject to challenge; it provides for funds to be made direct. [More…]
I would welcome any legal challenge from the Victorian Government because it would mean that there would be no child care program in that State, and I think that if the Minister is so game as to put in jeopardy that program which is already under way he will pay the penalty at the polls. [More…]
-The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), who has just resumed her seat, challenged the Opposition to write down certain things and related her remarks in particular to the subject of the means test. [More…]
What was said by the honourable member with respect to Tasmania was completely destroyed by the remarks of the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child). [More…]
It is not true to claim that the name of the natural mother of the children appeared on the Medibank cards. [More…]
I have had the matter checked and it transpires that, in relation to the first of the 2 children concerned, a claim was made for child endowment in April 1961. [More…]
With regard to the second child, a claim was made in June 1962. [More…]
On both claims the woman described herself as the foster mother of the children. [More…]
On the second claim, which was made some 14 months after the first claim, the woman concerned showed again the first child’s given names exactly as they appeared on the original application. [More…]
At no time were the adopted given names of the children notified to the Department of Social Security for child endowment purposes. [More…]
That means that for more than a decade the people concerned in this matter who complained to Mr Hartwig have been receiving child endowment for the children concerned without in any way being distressed to the point of contacting the Department and advising that there had been a change of name. [More…]
I regret any instance of distress caused to the family but, on the other hand, if the family had advised the child endowment section of the Department of Social Security of the change of name, prompt action could have been taken to change the records. [More…]
I also remind honourable members that there was a 14 months’ lapse of time between the first and the second claims for child endowment and that on the occasion of the second claim the woman concerned still showed herself as a foster mother and still gave the original or given name of the child as it was before adoption when it was changed. [More…]
The child endowment records and the electoral roll records are being used for the distribution of Medibank cards. [More…]
One could say that almost every man, woman and child at some stage must have been driving roofing nails into the roofs of houses in Darwin. [More…]
I I per cent per dependent child to a maximum of 3 children. [More…]
In other words, for a widow with three dependent children the payment would be 100 per cent of the member’s pension. [More…]
My first amendment and the consequential amendments propose to retain the present 62 te per cent formula, but to agree with the proposal that the first 3 dependent children should each be paid 1 1 per cent of the pension. [More…]
Because there is a residue of 456 per cent, to make a 100 per cent pension we propose that the balance be paid where there is a dependent fourth child. [More…]
We are now in a position where the Opposition says that if there is a fourth dependent child it will agree to pay to a widow with 4 dependent children what the Government is proposing to pay to a widow with 3 dependent children. [More…]
Thirdly, it has been proposed that the widow’s pension be increased from 62Vi per cent to 67 per cent of a member’s pension plus 1 1 per cent for each child for a maximum of 3 dependent children. [More…]
There is an entirely inadequate fiat rate addition for children at present. [More…]
We approve the proposed pension of 11 per cent for each child to a maximum of 3 children - [More…]
I preface my question by reminding him that he said in this House this week that adopted children who received Medibank cards in the name given by their natural mother and not their present name did so because of neglect to advise the Department of Social Security of the correct name. [More…]
I therefore ask him: Why would a child adopted 4 years ago, whose present name was advised to the Department of Social Security 4 years ago, whose endowment has been paid in that name for 4 years- this is verified by checking- and who is recorded by the Department of Social Security in that name, still this week get his Medibank card in the christian names given by his natural mother, causing very considerable distress? [More…]
Will the Minister who has guaranteed confidentiality and secrecy, now tell us where Medibank does get its information, because in this and other cases it did not and could not have got it from Department of Social Security and child endowment records? [More…]
The information is in fact taken from the computer magnetic tapes of the child endowment section of the Department of Social Security and transcribed on to magnetic tapes for Medibank purposes- for the distribution of these cards. [More…]
I find it impossible to understand how any names but the given names registered on the magnetic tape for child endowment purposes could be transcribed. [More…]
But I repeat, I do not see how it is possible to get anything but the given names of the children concerned which are used in paying child endowment, because the cheques for child endowment are printed according to processes which use computer magnetic tapes. [More…]
Each week we pay out I think nearly 4 million- it is certainly well over 3 million- child endowment cheques, well over one million pension cheques and other forms of payment. [More…]
We should be aiming at centres where parents can participate in activities of their choice while children are either participating in theirs or, if too young, are being cared for in well-planned, stimulating child care centres. [More…]
That is the seat held by the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child). [More…]
I do not want to delay the Committee to any great extent, but the effect of the amendments put forward by the Senate would be to destroy the Children’s Commission. [More…]
They would effectively exclude the Australian Government from the whole of the child care program which is a social welfare program as well as an educational one. [More…]
The Australian Government has a mandate from the people to establish a Children’s Commission to provide effective child care services for at least 400 000 children or to make an effort to do that. [More…]
Let me remind honourable members that under the amendments, if agreed to, we would not be able to pay any money direct to local communities, local government and benevolent organisations which of course in the past have been able to be funded by the Australian Government under the Child Care Act passed by the Liberal Government. [More…]
Another is the Community Child Care Co-operative of Fitzroy. [More…]
Another is the Greek Opportunity Youth Club, which we funded to the extent of $4,000 for a Christmas holiday camp project for 160 Greek children. [More…]
What a ridiculous situation it is for a government to say that it has a program for child care and for the Senate to say: ‘Oh, these amendments are only minor’. [More…]
This program is the greatest breakthrough ever in the care of children. [More…]
Is this the way we should want the child care programs to be run? [More…]
Under the Child Care Act aU these things could be done directly but now, because we are trying to follow the same principle, we are denied that opportunity on the basis that the Victorian Government does not approve of it. [More…]
I will accept the fact that Senator Guilfoyle will do whatever the State of Victoria wishes and maybe that is her duty, but she should not put the whole child care program in jeopardy, which it is. [More…]
The grants to the Hobart City Council, the Clarence Municipal Council, the City of Glenorchy, the Tasmanian Centre for Training in Child Care, the Launceston City Council, Tasmanian play groups- they have all been approved by the Consultative Committees and now will be in jeopardy and cannot be funded directly. [More…]
What is wrong with the Australian Government funding children who need these facilities and people who need these services? [More…]
It is a reasonable proposition, but if the Opposition does not accept it it has rejected the whole principle of child care. [More…]
The legislation that we are now examining is to establish a permanent Children ‘s Commission so that in the years ahead funding of these programs can be ordered under an established piece of legislation. [More…]
Having put that part of the record straight, let us look at this legislation in the light of the fact that it is to establish a permanent structure under which child care and pre-school education programs are to be funded. [More…]
Although one cannot but notice the Minister’s heavy concentration on child care programs- almost to the exclusion of any reference to pre-school education as has been pointed out in the debates both in this House and in the Senate- the Opposition sees the care of the pre-school child in a comprehensive way. [More…]
We are concerned for the complete well-being of the child in the family context, in the child care centre and in the general care role as well as, importantly, in the area of that child ‘s education. [More…]
We in the Opposition would, when coming to government, approach this whole problem of the provision of child care and pre-school education in a way significantly different from the way inherent in the Government’s program. [More…]
The Opposition urged that, if the program was to be done in co-operation with the States, their role in the provision of child care and preschool education facilities be recognised. [More…]
We urged that, by the mechanism of section 96 which ensures that the States would be involved in the process of the funding ofthe programs, a better integration would be achieved between those programs proposed by the Interim Committee and, in the future, by the Children’s Commission itself, than would be the case if the Commonwealth simply funded programs direct and did not involve the States in the way that they would necessarily be involved by the application of grants under section 96 of the Constitution. [More…]
Therefore, Mr Chairman, I want to make it clear to honourable members that, whilst we will not hold up this legislation, as we wish to see the Government’s program confirmed in legislation, we want to- point out that, on coming to government, we will review the whole method whereby the Australian Government delivers its child care and pre-school education program. [More…]
It is not sufficient to say that a child cannot get a secondary education. [More…]
Mr Dubney would be able to indicate the advantages of children getting a better education, the advantages of training the adults on the island and the advantages of the islanders being paid in Australian money. [More…]
lowering the infant and child mortality and morbidity rates; [More…]
improving infant and child nutrition; [More…]
Complete doubt exists about the situation after the post-confinement period as well as in cases where a pediatrician is needed for a child. [More…]
That Mrs Child, Mr Cope and the mover be appointed a committee to draw up reasons for the House of Representatives disagreeing to the amendments of the Senate. [More…]
The relevant programs are the Childhood Services Program, which commenced in October 1974, the Child Care Act Scheme (March 1973) and the Interim Pre-school and Child Care Services Program (January 1 974). [More…]
The purpose is to promote the well-being of children, to enhance their quality of life and promote equality of opportunity for both children and their parents. [More…]
Grants are authorised by my colleague the Special Minister of State in his capacity as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and details of grants under the Interim Pre-school and Child Care Program and the Childhood Services Program have been included in statements tabled by him on 5 December 1974 (Hansard page 4699) and by the Minister for Education on 9 April 1974 (Hansard page1217) and in press statements by these Ministers, in particular those of11 April1975 by the Special Minister of State. [More…]
Under the Child Care Act Scheme capital and recurrent assistance has been determined by the Minister in accordance with the provisions in the Act and on the advice of the Child Care Standards Committee. [More…]
Under the 1973-74 Interim Pre-school and Child Care Services Program, capital and recurrent assistance was determined in joint consultation with State authorities and voluntary groups. [More…]
Most of the funds under the programs have been allocated to community groups, local government authorities and State Government departments, the only grants for individuals having been those made under the Child Care Act for approved research projects paid through the institutions with which the individuals are associated. [More…]
In the case of the Child Care Act Scheme information booklets were also distributed. [More…]
Under the Childhood Services Program, funds are available for the employment of persons to assist communities to develop proposals. [More…]
In addition, the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission is looking at ways in which information may be made more generally available to the community and expects to have a general information booklet available shortly. [More…]
In 1972-73, $227,950 was paid out under the Child Care Act Scheme and this rose to $2,152,011 in 1973-74. [More…]
In the first year of operation of the Interim Pre-school and Child Care Services Program,1973-74, $6,5 1 1,603 was distributed under it. [More…]
Provision is made for the Minister to waive payment of the fee in cases of hardship and for a parent or guardian to obtain the information in respect of a child under 12 years of age. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that separate cards are not being issued for each child in a family. [More…]
It was considered to be more convenient for parents for their children’s names and numbers to be on a single family card. [More…]
However, to achieve the objective of recommendation 2 of the Privacy Committee that each child in a family should have his or her own card, the Bill requires in clause 3 that the Commission issue a card to an eligible person upon the request of the person who, of course, may be a child. [More…]
When he went there he was desperate, and who would not be for the sake of one’s child? [More…]
Since the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme was introduced in 1973, the level of benefits provided have been kept under regular review. [More…]
As a result of an increase in the maximum Special Supplementary Allowance in 1975 from $304 to $450 the maximum level of assistance now available under the Scheme is $1150 per child. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government failed to act on the recommendations of the Interim Poverty Report which was released several months ago and which recommended substantial increases in child endowment for example; if so, why. [More…]
Professor Henderson’s Interim Report proposal in relation to child endowment was to abolish taxation deductions for dependent children and to use the money saved to increase weekly child endowment rates. [More…]
1 ) On 22 January 1 974 the Government asked the Priorities Review Staff to comment on the pre-school and child care programs. [More…]
The terms of reference offered the Priorities Review Staff the opportunity to develop further the thoughts on programs for pre-schools and child care outlined in its interim report ‘Goals and Strategies’. [More…]
On a per capita basis that represents about $22 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]
As one critical letter to me pointed out, any school child could have suggested an alternative penalty. [More…]
Can he say whether tax relief for low and middle income earners with dependants is a significant move towards goals which Professor Henderson envisages being met by increased child endowment payments? [More…]
These measures are much more beneficial in that they are selective and help more those who have the greater liabilities, as measured by dependants and necessary outlays of life, than could be the case with child endowment. [More…]
The defect with child endowment is that child endowment increases have to be made across the board. [More…]
Under child endowment, a given level of expenditure has to be spread more thinly because it has to reach more people. [More…]
There are other rebates that they can claim for dependants$400 for a wife, $200 for a student child or another child under age 16 and $ 150 for other children. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party calls itself the child of the trade union movement. [More…]
Let us look at child care which was so miserably neglected under the previous Government. [More…]
Report after report by professional people shows that it is absolutely essential to give the child an opportunity at school and to give them pre-school education and pre-school care for the assistance of the family and for the benefit of the child. [More…]
We have planned to ensure that all children are catered for in child care centres by 1985. [More…]
Things such as child care benefits, free university education for children who could not afford to go to a university, equality in taxation, redistribution of incomes and all those things he calls enforced equality will be rejected. [More…]
This Budget saves about $530 per annum for the 2-child family- over $10 a week relief. [More…]
In addition, this Government has provided Medibank, which is available to everyone in the community, child care facilities, urban development and all these other infrastructures which go to improving the quality of living for people on or below average weekly earnings. [More…]
-Before giving my reasons for supporting the Opposition ‘s stand on this Bill I want to take up a point that was made by the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child). [More…]
-The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) has covered most of the [More…]
When it deals with a statement of deductions for a spouse or for children, it says this: ‘Maximum deduction for each dependant’. [More…]
It goes on to state that that deduction is $364 for a spouse, $260 for a first child and $208 for a second child. [More…]
Now when they claim $400 for a wife or $200 for a child they will receive the full $400 or $200 off their taxation. [More…]
When he dealt with the $1,350 rebate which is allowed to all taxpayers, it could be imagined from what he said that that was the end of it; that is, that the deduction of $400 for the wife and $200 for each child were not entirely outside of the $1,350 rebate. [More…]
I invite honourable members of the Liberal Party who have had these geniuses at their conferences to go through these speeches and see whether they have yet discovered that technical education exists, that technical faculties in their own universities exist, and whether the child with these sorts of gifts has a right to an education. [More…]
I respect very much what these people say about scholarship, but not every child in education is going in for what one would call the kind of classical scholarship to which they are referring. [More…]
As I have said, outside the amount of $1,350 there is an educational component in the allowance for every child except the first. [More…]
Of course, from now on with respect to preschools and child care help more emphasis will be placed on the additional usage of facilities which are already there. [More…]
If we look at the position in the Karmel Committee report we will see clearly that the increase was necessary to benefit every child in this country. [More…]
Because of the shortage of time I will not be able to itemise the complete list, but I point out that the Australian Government assists in meeting debt charges and in the fields of State emergency services, universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, schools, pre-schools, child migrant educational research, Medibank, public hospitals, running community health services, television control, school dental health, health education, home dialysis, blood transfusion services, health planning agencies, housekeeping services, home care services, senior citizen’s assistance, assistance to deserted wives, employment grants, regional employment development schemes, social planning units, Aboriginal advancement, housing, area improvement, sewerage, local government, regional organisations, leisure and recreation tourism and, in Perth, the underground railway study and matters of that nature, going right through to the natural disaster area. [More…]
It deserves the derision of every man, woman and child who lives outside the cities, and it has got it. [More…]
For example, a taxpayer with a dependent spouse and 2 dependent children and earning $160 a week will be $7 a week better off under the Budget proposals. [More…]
A taxpayer with a dependent spouse and 2 dependent children and earning $200 a week will be $10 a week better off. [More…]
The tax rebate for a spouse will be $400; for the first child it will be $200 and for every other child $150. [More…]
Individual cards were printed from information on Electoral Rolls, whereas family cards were produced from child endowment files. [More…]
More and more mail services are being discontinued, shortened or reduced in frequency, thus adding to the burden of providing satisfactory education to outback children. [More…]
Surely a reasonable education is the birthright of every Australian child. [More…]
If he were in government there would be no government funding of poor schools in the western suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne to give the child of a poor family a go to get a decent education or to give him free university education. [More…]
Many people believe that this Budget should not have seen expenditure cuts almost across the board, that in fact there should have been more positive discrimination in favour of lower income groups, that huge allocations should have gone to deserted mothers and fathers, child endowment, public housing, child care and education. [More…]
For a man with a dependent wife, a dependent student child and one dependent non-student child with $613 concessional deductions apart from deductions for dependants would save $308 on an income of $6,000 per annum. [More…]
I repeat that for a man with a dependent wife, a dependent student child and one dependent non-student child with $613 concessional deductions apart from deductions for dependants, would save $308 on an income of $6,000 per annum; $251 on $7,000 per annum; $254 on $8,000 per annum; $318 on $9,000 per annum; and $430 on $10,000 per annum. [More…]
A taxpayer with a dependent wife, 2 dependent students and one dependent non-student child would save $385 on a wage of $7,000 per annum and $375 on a wage of $8,000 per annum. [More…]
What happened to Professor Henderson’s recommendations for child endowment? [More…]
How many are children employed part time- possibly in the family business? [More…]
Is it sense to exempt these single people from tax obligations at a time when the family breadwinner with a spouse and 2 children who is earning $135 a week which will be inflated to $ 1 63 by the end of the year which will result in an additional $490 tax payment- nearly doubling his tax- is being slugged? [More…]
This money would be ripped off those people to provide child minding centres in upper middle class suburbs. [More…]
Families still struggling to reach even the poverty line, pensioners who depend entirely on the benevolence of the Treasurer to keep pace with rising costs, and working mothers, farming out their children to friends while they wait for professionally staffed child care centres, will wonder what Mr Fraser’s equality holds out for them. [More…]
And quotes about equality in education, spontaneous or enforced, will make quaint texts for lessons in social studies in the crowded classrooms of inner suburban schools, where harassed teachers struggle to communicate to migrant children who have not yet mastered the language, much less bridged the cultural gap. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in the community benefits from it, and it is necessary that problems of local government be studied seriously and that realistic decisions regarding assistance be made. [More…]
To give an example, a taxpayer with a dependent wife and 2 children who earns $160 a week will receive a tax saving of $7 a week. [More…]
The present concessional allowances for dependants are replaced by more generous rebates providing for $400 for a spouse, $200 for the first child under age 1 6 and student child and $ 1 50 for other children. [More…]
I am very pleased also that concessions for educational expenses which were previously set at $150 will now be increased to $250 per student child. [More…]
I recall grants of $145,000 under the Aged Persons Homes Act for 4 projects at Smithton and Ulverstone; $8,200 for environment and conservation; $253,000 for community health and school dental services; $206,000 for tourism and recreation grants; $100,000 for child care centre grants; $12,000 towards the Australian Assistance Plan for salaries; and $91,000 for road safety improvements. [More…]
It outlays an amount of $22,000m, which is approximately equal to $1,398 for each man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
One area in which there has been a big advance by this Government is in the care and education of young children in our society. [More…]
I know that in my own area allocations of finance have been made towards the establishment of child care centres. [More…]
There is a child care centre now in the course of construction in the town in which I live. [More…]
As long as the earlier Liberal-Country Party Government was sitting on the Treasury bench the type of education a child received depended on geography. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) that any government, insofar as social welfare benefits are concerned, should sharpen up where the handouts are made. [More…]
With the drawing to a close of the war the main focus of attention in Australia as in other parts of the world centred on the children living in chaos unparalleled in history. [More…]
It was the concern and the aim of our Government that eligible children be brought to this country for adoption by suitable families, this to be effected as promptly and as safely as possible. [More…]
Indeed, many were the members of this House who were beset by anxious, often deeply distressed prospective adoptive parents waiting to receive a Vietnamese child into their homes. [More…]
The anxiety of these people was only heightened by the intense fear campaign fed through the media with no thought to the leagalities for adopting Vietnamese children. [More…]
The Labor Government was concerned not only that children brought to this country should receive a warm receptive response from the proposed adoptive parents, but also that the future of these parents and the children be free from any danger of legal tangles that could arise should the correct procedure not be followed from the outset. [More…]
We have been told this evening, for example by the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), that the philosophy that my Party espouses, and which was so adequately expressed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in an address to the National Press Club on 3 1 July last, is that we stand for a policy of ‘survival of the fittest’. [More…]
It is far too late to do anything about it after somebody has plunged into a river and drowned or has run over his young child on a driveway or lawn or something of this nature simply because he turned off the ignition and locked the steering. [More…]
Under the child migrant education program the school was granted $28,000 until the end of 1972. [More…]
They ought to be proud that they are members of free enterprise parties when 290 companies are being investigated because of their activities in New South Wales, at the risk of more than $2 70m of public money going up the spout This represents more than $70 for every man, woman and child in New South Wales. [More…]
They say that the plan provides great tax benefits to the family man with 3 children or more and that it is an invitation or acts as a direct inducement to parents with 2 children or more to go on and to ‘proliferate with a vengeance’ as they put it, with a third, fourth, fifth or sixth child and so on? [More…]
Of course, it is true that people who have dependants- spouses and children- will benefit very considerably from this Budget. [More…]
Under the previous taxation system, the higher one ‘s income the bigger the subsidy the taxpayers gave for every dependent child. [More…]
One of us (Lovejoy) has estimated that, if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 1 7.4m had been given directly to Aboriginals (estimated to be 140 000), there would have been about $838.00 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
A report tided ‘Rural Poverty in Northern New South Wales’ by the Poverty Commission of Inquiry noted that if the 1973-74 expenditure on Aboriginal welfare of $1 17.4m had been given directly to Aborigines, then estimated at 140 000, it would have meant $838 for every man, woman and child. [More…]
Where are the people who might take their place in a custody case, for example to identify the fact that contrary to the situation in a non-Aboriginal community, Aboriginal people often attach a great deal of importance to an uncle taking custody of a child?’ [More…]
Would it be the end of the school dental therapy program whereby every primary school child in Australia would have free dental treatment by the early 1980s? [More…]
But Medibank is something of value and assistance to every man, woman and child in the community. [More…]
According to that survey, the profile of the average Australian first home buyer is that he is likely to be in the 25-29 age group, he is likely to be earning less than $8,000 a year and he is likely to have one child. [More…]
Tonight I want to speak about child care. [More…]
I think that one of the great initiatives of this Government has been in children’s services. [More…]
In 1972-73 when the Australian Labor Party came into office $486,750 was spent on children’s services. [More…]
The reason for that is that there are more children in my electorate- particularly in the Mount Druitt area- than there are anywhere else in Australia It has been said that I represent the most fertile area of this country. [More…]
We formed an ad hoc committee on child care and preschool services 2Vi years ago. [More…]
But as I said, there is a need because of the very large number of children. [More…]
There is a need for children’s services and that need has been met. [More…]
I take the opportunity of thanking the members of that ad hoc child care committee who served with me for the magnificent job they have done. [More…]
I think that this project will be the pattern of future child care projects in Australia. [More…]
The capital cost per pupil of providing big buildings for child care is very high. [More…]
It ranges from $3,000 to $4,000 for each child. [More…]
As a matter of fact my own grandchild is looked after in family day care in the United Kingdom. [More…]
It involves licensing women who are chosen for their suitability for looking after children. [More…]
I believe that it shows the future of child care for Australia. [More…]
It is one of the most important aspects which should be watched very carefully by all officials and organisations interested in this very important childhood service. [More…]
Once again I compliment the Government on its magnificent record in providing children’s services. [More…]
As I said, when this Government came to office, less than $500,000 was being spent on children’s services. [More…]
The National Country Party never asks questions about education, it never asks questions about child care and it never asks questions about poverty. [More…]
This afternoon, the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) criticised members of this side of the House. [More…]
It has moved into new areas, such as the pre-school area, with an allocation for a comprehensive child care program of $74m this year. [More…]
We also say that every child whether he is the child of a migrant, an unskilled worker, a craftsman, a farmer or a professional person, has the right to an education of quality. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) and the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) earlier in the debate today made totally dishonest statements when referring to the National Country Party’s attitude and interest in education. [More…]
Nobody would ever be satisfied with the quality of education his children are to receive or do receive. [More…]
The document draws particular attention to the fact that in that short period expenditure in 3 areas, namely schools, pre-schools and child care which is one group; technical colleges which comprise a second group; and colleges of advanced education which comprise a third group, the increase has been more than five-fold. [More…]
If we look at the areas of schools, pre-schools, child care and the Schools Commission for State schools, we find that in relation to government schools in the States there is an increase of 4 per cent. [More…]
I look further down the table set out in the document on education attached to the Budget Papers and see that in the area of government schools, pre-schools and child care centres in the Territories the proposed expenditure has risen from $72m to $96m by roughly 3316 per cent. [More…]
It was recognised 10 years ago in the United States that children who had had the advantage of a pre-school education were able to come to grips more rapidly and more thoroughly with the formal education process when they got to primary school; that at every subsequent stage of education they were better off than children who had not been able to find places in pre-school centres. [More…]
So it was that the American federal government sponsored the head-start program to see that America’s most deprived children, the black children, the poor children- (Quorum formed). [More…]
I was saying when I was interrupted by the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner), who called for the quorum and who appears not to take the subject under discussion seriously, that the United States federal government initiated the head-start program so that poor children, black children and children disadvantaged in other ways would be fully equipped to take advantage of a primary school education when it became available to them. [More…]
But it rapidly became apparent when the results of the head-start program were analysed that not even this step, not even getting the disadvantaged child at the earliest possible stage of his life, was a sufficient response to the disadvantage of which he was a victim. [More…]
But surely we should recognise the need to carry on these classes after the birth of a child and make the subject of them the problems which every parent encounters in raising a small child. [More…]
I would like to see a close co-operation developed between the Children’s Commission, the Schools Commission, the Department of Education, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations so that a concerted effort can be made to bring parents advice on the child raising process. [More…]
We should draw on that body of experience and research to devise programs which will meet the sort of problems which cripple the later education of so many of our children. [More…]
Child Welfare Council operating subsidy; [More…]
No serious administrative problems have been encountered in the implementation of the Handicapped Child’s allowance program. [More…]
Those of us who have listened to the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) since she came to this chamber have thought that she was incapable of being educated. [More…]
People like Mrs Moore would be content with a small sum to offset the cost of travel, books and child minding. [More…]
We are speaking of the purchaser, from the child who might go to a shop to purchase a sweet to the person who is buying a home. [More…]
The imposition of conditions such as the undergrounding of electricity supply and the requirement that child care and pre-school facilities also be provided have become a great burden for those buying the finished block of land. [More…]
In 1974 we introduced the supporting mothers’ benefit which is payable to any woman provided she has custody, care and control of a child. [More…]
In June this year legislation was passed to establish the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Last year $46m was spent on childhood services and a further $74m is provided in this Budget. [More…]
I have had sick children. [More…]
When my own children have been ill and have been admitted to a children’s hospital in Sydney, for example, I have preferred them to be in the big wards with the public patients. [More…]
Because of means testing the children were put into small wards in the private section of the hospital where the sisters or nurses could not see them all the time. [More…]
Nothing went wrong, but at odd times when the child was really ill one felt the need to employ a special sister to look after the child because of the worry that they would not be able to cope. [More…]
In brief, a tax rebate of $400 will replace the existing deduction of $364 for a spouse, a rebate of $200 will replace the deduction of $260 for a student child or for one child under 16 years of age, and a rebate of $150 will replace the deduction of $208 for other children under 16 years of age. [More…]
Further, a new allowance, a rebate of $200, is to be introduced for parents without partners who are maintaining children who qualify for concessional rebates as dependants. [More…]
The definition of student for the purpose of the higher of the 2 rebates for children is to be extended from the present definition to include any child under 25 years of age receiving full-time education at a school, college or university. [More…]
Under the previous, more restrictive definition, only children between the ages of 16 and 25 could qualify as students. [More…]
The concessional allowances for both education expenses for a child and for so-called selfeducation expenses are, of course, to be absorbed into the rebate system. [More…]
For a taxpayer with a dependent wife and one child who has a net income of $7,000 this year and is entitled to rebates for expenditures equal to 5 per cent of the net income, tax will be $770 for 1975-76 compared with $997 on the same income derived in 1974-75- this is a reduction of 22.8 per cent in his or her income tax. [More…]
Additional payments for children of pensioners and supporting mothers are to be increased by 50c a week to $7.50 a week for each child. [More…]
Double orphan’s pension- now payable at the rate of $ 1 1 a week- is to be extended to cover a child, one of whose parents is dead and whose other parent is in prison or in a mental hospital. [More…]
Additional payments for children of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries are to be increased by 50c a week to $7.50 a week for each child. [More…]
A class A widow or supporting mother will receive a basic pension or benefit of $38.75 a week, together with mother’s allowance of up to $4 a week and additional pension of up to $7.50 a week for each dependent child. [More…]
The mother’s allowance is payable at $6 a week if there is a child under six years or an invalid child requiring full-time care. [More…]
Thus, a class A widow or supporting mother with 2 noninvalid children over six years will receive a maximum pension or benefit of $57.75 a week. [More…]
The same rate will apply to single age or invalid pensioners with children. [More…]
The maximum proposed pension of $64.50 a week for a married couple may also be increased by up to $7.50 a week for each dependent child and, if rent is paid, up to $5 a week is available by way of supplementary assistance. [More…]
A widow or supporting mother with one child and no property affecting will be able to receive other income of up to $ 126.50 a week before losing her entitlement to widow’s pension, or supporting mother’s benefit. [More…]
If her child is under 6 years of age or an invalid child requiring full time care she will be able to receive other income up to $130.50 a week without losing her entitlement. [More…]
If she has no income affecting, a widow or supporting mother with one child may have property to the value of $56,860. [More…]
If her child is under six or an invalid child requiring full time care she may have property to the value of $58,940 before entitlement is extinguished. [More…]
In turning to the proposal to extend the scope of double orphan’s pension I should first say that this pension was introduced by the present Labor Government in September 1973 as a measure of assistance for people caring for children who have permanently lost the companionship, support and comfort normally provided by parents. [More…]
Double orphan’s pension is paid in respect of a child both of whose parents, or adoptive parents, are dead. [More…]
The principle also extends to a child one of whose parents, or adoptive parents, is dead if the whereabouts of the other is unknown to the claimant. [More…]
Requests have been received from various quarters proposing that the scope of eligibility be extended to include a child whose sole surviving parent is in prison or in a mental hospital. [More…]
Government feels that the position of these children is not greatly different from that of children whose parents are both dead or where one parent is dead and the whereabouts of the other unknown. [More…]
Accordingly it has been decided to extend payment to a person who is caring for a child one of whose parents is dead and the other serving a term of imprisonment for life or for not less than 10 years or who is a mental hospital patient and, in the opinion of the DirectorGeneral, will remain so for an indefinite period. [More…]
A further provision will enable an overpayment of child endowment to be recovered from any continuing entitlement to endowment. [More…]
Every man, woman and child knows that the Government has the numbers in this place. [More…]
The Opposition parties want to stop the injection into our schools of the enormous amount of money that this Government is providing so that each child will have an equal opportunity. [More…]
I hope that the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) will not regard it as a discourtesy on my part if I excuse myself from dealing with all of the arguments which she has pressed upon us. [More…]
I know that the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) has spoken many times about the pensioner who is paying rent. [More…]
One of the difficulties in raising the benefit for people under 18 years is that young people would be encouraged to leave school because if they attend school their parents are entitled only to 50c a week child endowment. [More…]
deal further with those people who are age pensioners, invalid pensioners or who have large families and who rely to a degree on such social.service benefits as child endowment. [More…]
If we are to reach the stage of voting it will be necessary for me to cut short my time- which I regretbecause the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie), the honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Clayton) and the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), are anxious to take part in the debate, as also is the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young). [More…]
The Committee, in recommending the construction of these works, has concluded that there is a need to extend the podium of the Canberra Hospital, that the proposed facilities are necessary and should be provided, that consideration should be given to relocation of the mortuary and providing a small child care facility adjacent to the casualty and outpatients waiting area and that the site selected is suitable. [More…]
For a child under 16 years the previous deduction was $260 and the maximum benefit was two-thirds of that amount, and that was for people on very high incomes. [More…]
For children other than the first child the previous deduction was $208. [More…]
In dismissing a damages action brought against an agent by an Australian last year an English High Court judge said that only a child or an unsophisticated person took travel brochures literally. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that a grant of $5,900 has been made by the Minister for Social Security under the Australian Assistance Plan to the South-West Sydney Regional Social Development Council for a centre for mothers supporting a child or children. [More…]
In the 1974-75 financial year, $392,000 from the ‘Machinery of Government’ vote was expended on an advertising campaign which highlighted community response to Government initiatives in the fields of community health, child care and education. [More…]
I refer to the $707m for Medibank; the $47.5m for payments to preschools and child care; the $108m for payments to hospitals and health services programs; the $64m for community health programs; and the $275m for urban and regional development programs. [More…]
-The delaying of the Budget will have serious effects on the childhood program. [More…]
There are 185 000 children already getting the benefit of this program and that benefit will cease if this money is not made available. [More…]
It is a most serious matter and it is affecting every child under the age of five. [More…]
These areas include child care and pre-schools, Aboriginal advancement, the arts, handicapped persons’ assistance, homeless persons’ assistance, nursing homes and aged and disabled persons’ homes. [More…]
In respect of the silent ravages of child malnutrition the Committee considers that all services in the fields of community health, welfare and education should be given and should accept prime responsibility to ensure that all children under their notice are receiving suitable and sufficient food. [More…]
Our first intention and our first objective must be to see that the Aboriginal people and particularly their children at least have a chance of survival. [More…]
The children must be allowed at least to grow to maturity with adequate help and with adequate mental and physical development. [More…]
A child cannot be self-determining, almost by definition. [More…]
If it is true that there are inadequacies in the community in which the child finds itself, then of course we cannot allow that child to be neglected simply because we are concerned to see that the community is self-determining. [More…]
This is the ceremony which makes a child an adult member of the community. [More…]
From the plane I could see my caravan with my wife and little child in it. [More…]
The other thing that is responsible for that feeling flows not only from its string of broken promises on things like wage indexation, pension increases, child care and others that it said that it would honour but also in respect of resources and agriculture. [More…]
It is something that I as a Minister had a great deal to do with, namely, the provision for the first time of child care facilities on a Federal basis in Australia. [More…]
It was provided after a detailed report and investigation which established beyond doubt that there were at least 400 000 children under the age of 5 years in desperate need of child care in Australia. [More…]
We immediately set about a program that would assist those children. [More…]
That was the reason why we wanted a children’s commission. [More…]
It was only belatedly and on a second attempt that the child care Bill was passed. [More…]
We now find- we will assume it is in the $360m cut to which there is some reference in the Speech of the Governor-General- that the statement issued by the Minister is to the effect that there will be a cut of $9m in the child care program in the financial year. [More…]
Does it not mean that there will be a number of women and children denied the opportunities of child care in Australia? [More…]
Children just cannot wait for care to be financially provided in accordance with what is deemed to be the necessity of a Budget ability. [More…]
The Budget approved by this Parliament provided for $75m for child care. [More…]
The States were provided with $1 lm for new projects on the basis that these projects would be flexible and innovative and would assist women and children. [More…]
A cut has been made and the opportunity for child care denied. [More…]
Is this the Government of big business where women and children are expendable? [More…]
How does the Government expect to get a solid nation in Australia if it has poverty, discrimination, lack of opportunity and lack of child care facilities? [More…]
So we do not have an effective child care program, [More…]
If the Government is going to give something to everybody all over Australia, if, for example, it is going to provide child care services all over Australia, it will be terribly expensive, but if it can be argued that such things should be provided only in certain geographical areas or to certain disadvantaged families - [More…]
I urge him to give a little of his time to the children and parents of Thornbury who, until 24 hours before their kindergarten was due to be auctioned, did not know whether they would have adequate child care facilities this year because funds from the Children’s Commission were frozen. [More…]
Also I encourage him to try to understand what it is like to be a migrant in this country, often working for half the weekly meat bill at the Lodge, exploited in their purchase of land, houses, cars and almost every conceivable commodity, suffering under huge language and cultural barriers, and most importantly, unable to secure equal opportunities for their children. [More…]
If anyone is doubtful about this they need only talk to the children’s teachers. [More…]
Most important of course is that the health of every personman, woman and child- has become less of a worry with the advent of Medibank. [More…]
Does quality of life exist in provincial towns and indeed the greater urban areas of Australia where there are insufficient beds and care for the aged, where there are insufficient facilities available for the mentally and physically handicapped children, where the geriatric is ignored? [More…]
Whether social welfare programs include supporting mothers benefits, handicapped children allowances, grants to community organisations, day care centres, the appointment of social and community planners or child catalysts, local government is the tier of government better able to spend the welfare dollar for full value. [More…]
Under the Labor Government the women doing the course were clearing $83.60 a week, most of which was spent on child care and housekeeping costs. [More…]
At the present moment, just on one-quarter of the children in the Turkish community in Kensington, North Melbourne, have been sent home because their parents cannot find adequate child minding facilities geared to their needs. [More…]
In like fashion we recognised the need or the right of a supporting mother, irrespective of the reason why she is on her own and attempting to support herself and a child or children- it is irrelevant- to the same support that was offered by the last Liberal government to first-class widows- or were they Class A widows? [More…]
It is terribly important that nobody in this country is denied medical treatment that he, she or the child needs, for financial reasons only. [More…]
For instance, it would be quite stupid if they ignored the obvious attraction of the Australian people to this sort of policy and did not describe to their local government areas, to their people involved in main street pressures for creches, for child care, for what have you, that these sorts of things will now have an ingredient of local government, an ingredient of the people making the decision and producing the pressure. [More…]
Local government, which is a creature of the State and sometimes considered to be the poor lost child, played an important role during the rehabilitation period. [More…]
In fact, to the extent that the $9m for child care centres will not be available, the people are considerably worse off. [More…]
These kindergartens are all running into financial problems, but I am pleased to say that following the establishment of the Children’s Commission and the setting up of the various coordinating committees that work in conjunction with the State authorities, we were able to channel Federal money to these areas, and I am sure that the people in these areas are very grateful for what the Australian Labor Party did in its 3 years in office. [More…]
In quite a number of areas in my electorate child care centres are being established. [More…]
Nor will we be able to build for the future, provide for the needy in our community, or improve all those things that need improving in this country such as health, child care, roads and so on. [More…]
A child, after 5 minutes instruction, using this receiver could fix the position of this ship at any time of the day or night within half a mile. [More…]
For each child in the care, custody and control of the pensioner, the pensioner is able to earn $6 a week extra without affecting the rate of pension he receives. [More…]
Advice has just been received as a result of these discussions that the hospital has a continuing responsibility to the child for the provision of an artificial eye and the New South Wales Health Commission is arranging for the boy to continue to receive the services of the hospital without charge, including the provision of an artificial eye. [More…]
What we did not know from the Press reports was the hospital at which the child was a patient. [More…]
One of the great attributes of the Australian Labor Party Government was that it introduced into this nation a very effective early childhood welfare program. [More…]
A survey conducted by the previous Government showed clearly that at least 400 000 children under the age of five were in urgent need of care. [More…]
At least one quarter of the 1 500 000 children under the age of five were in need of child care. [More…]
The previous Government then commenced a program with statutory support in the form of the Children’s Commission which that Government established. [More…]
Honourable members who were in the Parliament last year will remember well the opposition which the establishment of the Children’s Commission met from honourable members who are now on the Government side. [More…]
Its establishment meant that there would be new initiatives and programs for the care and welfare of young children. [More…]
The previous Government was able to show that it should not vacate the field and that it was essential that every Australian government interested in child care should invent and assist new programs for child care development. [More…]
It is against that background that I point out to honourable members the serious damage which has been done by the announcement- innocent as it may appear to be- by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Child Care Matters (Senator Guilfoyle) as follows: [More…]
The Government might try to justify it on the basis that that commitment was to an existing program, but it would have a commitment, I submit, to those who need and who already asked for a child care centre to which the Government has already indicated they would be entitled. [More…]
It means that children under the age of five in those areas will not have child care facilities. [More…]
Nobody in Australia can justify the retardation of child care programs for children in need. [More…]
One cannot say to the child under five: ‘It will be all right. [More…]
The development of children does not stand still. [More…]
Looking at the matter of priorities, why should women and young children be expendable? [More…]
Surely the cut of $9m for the Children’s Commission ought to be the last to go. [More…]
Very little was made of the cut in child care but a lot was made of the advantages to industry by the establishment of an investment allowance. [More…]
Looking at the priorities I ask: Would it not be fairer and far more beneficial not to give as much in this allowance and instead to maintain the child care program? [More…]
You can buy a new machine, a new lathe or a new tractor next year, but you cannot replace the care that young children may miss this year. [More…]
The appropriation for child care was a large sum of money. [More…]
It involved some $47m, I think, for the children’s commission, but because we could not get the Bills passed due to obstruction in the Senate we could not establish the commission. [More…]
I am prepared to predict that the Government’s review will mean that’ no need will be seen for a children’s commission, that it will be left to the States. [More…]
They have an initiative role; but we want to be able to complement and supplement the States role and perhaps offer alternative ideas on the basis that child care in all the States should be of the maximum advantage to the children. [More…]
Already there are 600 applications for child care facilities and the best that we can offer now is sixteen. [More…]
We invited all the existing child care centres to extend their services for full child care and we promised that we would fund them to the extent of 75 per cent of their costs as from 1 January. [More…]
There are about 500 existing centres in New South Wales which the Labor Party in office wanted to extend into full child care centres. [More…]
In my electorate La Perouse has a very great need for child care facilities. [More…]
I could go through a whole list which would clearly illustrate that there are going to be massive cutbacks- whatever word you use, it means no progress- in child care development programs. [More…]
I have advice that there are 50 areas in New South Wales which were going to be able within the Labor Government’s program for the establishment of child care or pre-school centres. [More…]
In every electorate there are people interested in the care of children, whether they be in Mittagong, Macksville, Bathurst or Bendigo. [More…]
Clearly people in need are not going to get this financial aid and as a consequence child care facilities are not going to be established or extended. [More…]
It is a very welcome offer but there will be no money with which to guarantee the cost of running child care programs that might be needed in areas in which kindergartens are established. [More…]
Surely, irrespective of politics, Government supporters can see that cutbacks of this nature mean permanent serious damage to the child care program for which there is a very fundamental need. [More…]
For example, the Parramatta synagogue is in jeopardy from the point of view of establishing a child care centre. [More…]
I ask them to have a look at the areas in their own electorates which are the subject of applications for financial assistance, for integrated child care services or the establishment of new services. [More…]
We can have our political differences but we should not have them in the field of child care. [More…]
They have been put forward by well-meaning people for the benefit of children and you could not get a better priority than that. [More…]
So it is wrong to try to give the impression to people generally that this Government has dumped the childhood services program. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) appointed Senator Margaret Guilfoyle as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Child Care Matters. [More…]
The reference to the Bland committee in no way implies lack of commitment by the Government to the childhood services program but rather a desire to see the most appropriate administrative machinery developed. [More…]
There was a reduction of funds for the childhood services program by $9m. [More…]
To try to put some rationality into this debate let me read from the Press statement of the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Child Care Matters. [More…]
She said that the Federal Government was giving top priority to providing child care in high needs areas with the remaining finance available for new childhood services programs this financial year. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that in examining the 5 centres which it is suggested are in difficulty the Government will certainly be looking at those which are in most need and which are in needy areas where there is a particular requirement for child care centres. [More…]
Grants for child care services for the remainder of this year will be announced and will continue to be announced by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
When talking about the fact that there were insufficient funds to carry out programs that were designed and implemented by the previous Government, I just wonder what sorts of priorities the Government has looked at when it has examined the issue of child care. [More…]
The first was the reintroduction of the superphosphate bounty and the second was its attitude to the investment allowance and the $9m axed from the Budget for the Children’s Commission’s child care projects. [More…]
Further to that, when the previous Administration spelt out the principle of supplying 75 per cent of the recurrent costs in respect of salaries, it was to be applied on the basis of particular criteria to ensure that the day care institutions or kindergartens would be extended to cover the overall area of child care. [More…]
There should be no Taj Mahals set up as kindergartens to accommodate very few children for a brief period of time. [More…]
The maximum amount of child day care ought to be met from the funds that are available. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security has an obligation to the Australian community and to people interested in child welfare to spell out the answers to the questions. [More…]
Preschools and groups seeking funds should satisfy the Interim Committee for the Childrens Commission that the needs of the community have been investigated fully. [More…]
It is nonsense to suggest that there has been any serious or permanent damage caused to the early childhood services program. [More…]
If there has been any damage caused to it and the work of the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission that damage has been caused by the policies of the previous Labor Government. [More…]
Those 2 factors together in themselves have done damage to any child care program that any government, State, Commonwealth or local, chose to undertake. [More…]
The Opposition, in support of its argument in this debate, suggested that there had been serious cuts in the child care services program. [More…]
There is a need to provide the children of a larger number of families with increased opportunities for and access to pre-school education. [More…]
However, when a nation is upgrading the services that it provides for its children it needs to do so in a balanced and rational way. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Child Care Matters (Senator Guilfoyle) have given assurances that every program in respect of which a commitment was made, every application in respect of which a commitment was made by the previous government, will be honored. [More…]
What this Government will do will enable much more to be achieved in the provision of care and education for the pre-school age children of this nation. [More…]
How many honourable members of this House are associated with or know of genuine hard working community groups in their electorates which are seeking to raise funds to provide a kindergarten, a preschool centre, a child care centre, a play group or some other form of family day assistance only to find that $500 raised the year before last will purchase this year only the equivalent of $300 worth of goods. [More…]
When we look at the matter of child care services and pre-school education it is terribly important that as a nation and as a government we should have a philosophy relating to the position of the family in the community. [More…]
So much of its legislation put on the family pressures that created a need for child care services where families were previously able to provide and wished still to provide those services for their children. [More…]
The Labor Party’s philosophy was to provide child care centres for every child when the best care that the great majority of children can receive is care from their own mothers. [More…]
It was the Opposition when in government that destroyed the aspirations of families and those children who need child care, by creating a huge pool of unemployed in the country and by fanning the fires of inflation so that the value of the services that a government could provide out of the Budget resources available in real terms did less for the community than those resources should have achieved. [More…]
A debate earlier today in this place related to child care services. [More…]
An amount of $9m has been slashed out of child care services for the rest of this financial year. [More…]
I refer to such matters as child care, which was mentioned here in the House today. [More…]
Child care has been the subject of debate in this House but it also is relevant to the amendment. [More…]
We have seen $9m cut from the budget for child care while the Prime Minister hands out a superphosphate bounty to his cronies, the wealthy graziers. [More…]
The Government ought to be going to the community and asking what areas of child care should be given priority. [More…]
It should not go to the wealthy electorates and put paid to the opportunities for people in the underprivileged areas to have proper and adequate child care. [More…]
As we of the Opposition have indicated already, the Government should not put up mausoleums and Taj Mahals that will house small numbers of children while the kids in Footscray and Collingwood are running around the streets, waiting for their parents to come home from work. [More…]
This certainly has often been the case in the field of child care. [More…]
Local governments often have provided child care facilities which are remote from the actual needs of the communities that they are meant to serve. [More…]
In implementing the Australian Labor Government’s child care program it was our desire to really involve the community and that desire was demonstrated. [More…]
That report, entitled Project Care, established a huge and pressing need for adequate child care facilities. [More…]
Rather than follow the policy adopted by every conservative Liberal government, both State and Federal, the policy that ‘the Government knows best, ‘ our Government set about meeting those child care needs in a new and innovative way. [More…]
Unlike our opponents we truly are the Party of the people and it was to the people that we turned to come up with the solution that generally met child care needs. [More…]
In our child care program we set out not only to provide child care facilities but also to encourage people to take part in the making of their own destiny, to grow as they assumed new responsibilities, to regard themselves as decision makers rather than as the objects of the decisions of other people. [More…]
Some of the Turkish people send their kiddies back to Turkey for a period of time because there is inadequate child care here in Australia to accommodate their specific requirements. [More…]
Voluntary organisationswhether they be in the field of child care, preschool education, health, the aged, the handicapped or whatever- play a vital role in the delivery of assistance to those in need. [More…]
Despite a hostile Senate and a media partial to the Liberal-Country Party coalition, the Labor Government after assuming office on 2 December 1972 had a magnificent record of achievement particularly in regard to social welfare, child care, education, health, legal aid and direct monetary grants to local government. [More…]
One of the finest achievements of the Labor Government- incidentally it is an achievement which received very little publicity from the antiLabor media- was the granting of $20 a fortnight to the parents or legal guardians of a retarded child. [More…]
Many people in the electorate of Sydney are ratepayers and are entitled to home help service, child care centres, playgrounds, recreational activities for older children, home nursing services, the services of social workers and many others. [More…]
Does this reduction affect thousands of children suffering from asthmatic and other respiratory complaints? [More…]
Since the cost of milk substitutes is in the vicinity of $10 to $20 a week for each affected child, will the Minister acknowledge that hardship is often caused? [More…]
The Committee has looked at remedial teaching and at the capacity for severely handicapped or slightly handicapped children to be taught and encouraged to play a fuller role. [More…]
It seems that learning difficulties vary from child to child and there is no ready answer in any area. [More…]
That the Government’s action is responsible for a 100 per cent increase in the cost of milk substitutes frequently involving parents in expenditure of $10 per week to sustain desirable protein intake for an affected child. [More…]
If parents cannot afford to pay the additional amount and have to stop giving their children the Soya Bean milk the children ‘s main source of protein is removed, with the resultant damage to the child ‘s health. [More…]
If the child is given the foods to which it is allergic so that it gets protein in its diet it is faced with suffering from dermatitis, bronchitis, asthma or infection. [More…]
She has 2 children. [More…]
The milk substitute now costs $10 for a weekly supply of 8 tins which, with an additional cost of $20 for special food plus special soap and essential cotton clothing for this child, represents, as anybody would acknowledge, an impossible financial burden. [More…]
The Committee believes that cows milk substitutes are being used unnecessarily by many children and that, with few exceptions, after the age of 18 months milk substitutes no longer form an essential part of the child’s diet. [More…]
The Committee considers that alternative sources of protein are available to children over 18 months of age, and that was the Committee’s recommendation. [More…]
Such an allowance would barely cover the cost of child care at a commercial child care centre in a capital city. [More…]
He referred to the case of a widow with 2 dependant children. [More…]
I point out to the House that such a trainee under the national employment and training scheme gets her widow’s pension to which she is entitled, plus child allowances, plus a rent allowance if applicable, and in addition is permitted to earn $20 a week before any reduction is made in her allowance, not $6 a week as alleged by the honourable member for Gellibrand. [More…]
Those with a dependent spouse and one dependent child will get very nearly the same amount as they did under the old arrangements. [More…]
Those with a dependent spouse and two or more dependent children will get more than they did under the old scheme. [More…]
The trouble is that from then on the child that he conceived suffered the same faults as other children conceived in old age. [More…]
It was just about his only child and it became spoilt in a way. [More…]
That was the child the honourable member for Hindmarsh conceived so late in life. [More…]
This significant reduction in the qualifying period will be of particular assistance to women who interrupt their careers for reasons such as child rearing. [More…]
In child care, for instance, which is a subject of great concern to me, the Government will give reasonable assistance but there has to be initiative from people, from local bodies, and a rationalisation of facilities. [More…]
The Minister will recall that in the time of the last Government, Commonwealth funding for migrant children’s language training was relegated to a very low priority. [More…]
What arrangements are being made now for the funding of child migrant language education, particularly for South East Asian migrant refugees who recently entered Australia? [More…]
There has been quite a considerable increase in the provision of child migrant education since the scheme was first introduced in 1970. [More…]
At June 1970 246 special teachers were employed, 8800 children were receiving instruction and 200 schools were involved in the program. [More…]
At December 1975 the number of special teachers had increased to 2197 the number of children in special classes was 92 600 and 1278 schools were involved in the program. [More…]
There has been a development towards not treating child migrant education as a special matter. [More…]
Special arrangements are being made to cater not only for children but also for adults. [More…]
So at the places where the families are now residing special provision is being made for English speaking classes for adults and the children are being placed in schools close to the hostels where special English language classes are available to them. [More…]
So the honourable gentleman will see that special attention is being provided not only to child migrant education generally but also to the special needs of refugees from Indo-China. [More…]
How can they tolerate the knowledge that $7m has been sliced from Aboriginal Affairs spending, $34m from health care, $9m from child care and $30m from environment, housing and consumer affairs? [More…]
I suppose the most crying need in my.electorate in social terms and in terms of public debate concerns the child welfare scheme, and I compliment some of the actions taken by the previous Labor Government in this regard. [More…]
However, the people of Australia should be constantly reminded that even after 3 years of Labor Government and the criticisms we have heard about child welfare and its implementation, we are still operating under a Liberal Government’s legislation. [More…]
I am proud to belong to a party that would not contemplate removing the $40 funeral benefit, would not cut off money for child minding centres and would not substantially cut back the moneys provided for legal aid. [More…]
If none of the desirable structural changes are made to the relativities established by the Hayden rebate system, indexation would result in the general rebate being raised from $540 to $61 1, that for a spouse being raised from $400 to $453, that for a child being raised from $200 to $226, that for rates and taxes being raised from $300 to $340 and that for education expenses being raised from $250 to $289. [More…]
A wage or salary earner supporting a wife and 2 children may well find that he is forgoing income to the extent of more than $250 simply because of the impact of inflation. [More…]
We had to try to bring community centres, child minding centres and health centres into these places so that they could be made gentler areas in which to live. [More…]
Each home has at least Vh children. [More…]
I do not know how the experts get a figure of half a child, but this is what they say. [More…]
On anybody’s arithmetic, there would be about 500 school-age children as soon as the houses were constructed. [More…]
A widow or supporting mother with one child and no property affecting her entitlement will qualify for some payment until her other income reaches $131.50 a week. [More…]
Should her child be under 6 years of age or an invalid child requiring full time care the disqualifying limit will be $135.50 a week. [More…]
Where there is no income affecting, a widow or supporting mother with one child may have property to the value of $59,460. [More…]
If her child is under six or an invalid child requiring full time care she may have property to the value of $61,540 before entitlement is extinguished. [More…]
The higher $40 benefit is payable to an age, invalid or widow pensioner, including a woman in receipt of supporting mother’s benefit, liable for the funeral costs of a spouse, a child or another pensioner. [More…]
What we say, if we accept the Department of Foreign Affairs view, is that a maimed child is of less concern to Australians if he or she is, by virtue of a gynaecological accident, conceived in Guatemala than is a child who is maimed in an earthquake and who was born in Indonesia or Malaysia which, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs, happen to be in our sphere of interest. [More…]
A child is expected. [More…]
The argument is that couples have deferred the birth of their first child for several years, perhaps in response to economic circumstances or to changed attitudes towards women working. [More…]
What this argument overlooks is the longstanding decline in completed family size in Australia from an average of over 6 children in the 1880s to about three in the 1940s and to below three more recently. [More…]
The Government is saying to the parent: ‘If your child would normally leave school at the end of November this year we shall require you to maintain him for a further 6 weeks, whether he can get a job or not, because it is more difficult to get jobs for school leavers at that time of the year than it would be if your child left school at an earlier time’. [More…]
I move on to children’s allowances as a further illustration of the cold neglect that Liberal governments of the past assumed casually and of the cold neglect that this Government is seeking to reintroduce by the way in which it is treating social security benefits. [More…]
Children’s allowances- that is allowances for the dependants of pensioners- were not altered from the rate of $1.15 a week for the first child in the 10 years to 1960. [More…]
In the case of the second child and subsequent children, the rate was set at $1 a week at the time of its introduction in 1964 and remained at that level for 7 years. [More…]
We do not subscribe to the belief of the Government that life will be better, that life will be richer and more meaningful by refusing to improve the living standards of people like pensioners by holding back increases in their pension to a later day or by destroying funeral benefits, or by denying them the children’s allowances, or by making pharmaceutical benefits dearer for the sick, or by denying significant numbers of working mothers in the community child care services, or by reducing dramatically if not disastrously for many people, the rates of benefit under the National Employment and Training program. [More…]
I draw the Government’s attention to the fact that quite a large number of children are involved. [More…]
At the present time pensioners and other social security recipients with children receive $7.50 per week for each dependent child. [More…]
According to the latest figures available on eligible children, that is as at 30 June 1975, there were 9858 children of age pensioners, 46 269 children of invalid pensioners, 138 867 children of widows, 59 568 children of those on supporting mothers’ benefits, and 56 293 children of those receiving unemployment benefit. [More…]
So updated allowances will not be paid in respect of a large number of children. [More…]
In the case of pensioners or other social security recipients with only one child, the amount of money involved would be relatively little. [More…]
It is those with a number of dependent children who will experience the greatest difficulty and who will miss out most. [More…]
If honourable members look at the previous legislation on the last 3 occasions, they will see that the section which is amended- section 28- that sets out the rates of pension, has also gone on to deal with the question of the additional pension benefit for children. [More…]
It would, however, I submit, at least be about 50c a child. [More…]
It is paid to the guardian of a child who loses both parents, but it was not paid for 23 years. [More…]
The Declaration on the Rights of the Child puts it that ‘The child, for the full and harmonious development of his personality, needs love and understanding . [More…]
The bearing of a child is described by Paul Ehrlich, that great gentleman, as a 9-months disease and the child itself is presented in many quarters as an evil and a menace to the human race. [More…]
But I do believe that a change in emphasis is needed in this community back to upholding the value and integrity of the mother being available to her husband and children and fulfilling herself, finding her reward, in their stability and gradual growth to maturity. [More…]
To this can be added the cost of child care centres demanded at government expense by those who insist on their right to farm out their children. [More…]
If money is spent by government on venereal disease clinics, drug treatment and assessment centres, abortion climes, social workers and child care centres for working parents there is less, in simple cash terms, to be spent on the genuinely poor, the deserted wives, husbands and children, the widows and the abandoned old. [More…]
Finally I draw attention to the magnificent statement yesterday by the Liberal Party leader in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, Dr Hughes, in which he called for an increase in child endowment. [More…]
Firstly, the qualifying or vesting period for preservation of rights has been reduced from 20 years to 5 years, so that if a woman wishes after 5 years to leave the Public Service for reasons of child rearing, she can do so, return at a later date and have her rights preserved. [More…]
This is a welcome step because the provision in the old scheme, and in fact in many private schemes, that the payment of pension ceased on remarriage is in fact a fetter on remarriage and in cases where there are dependent children it often encourages people not to remarry. [More…]
I think that is contrary to the socially desirable ideal of a 2 parent family being a better family in which to bring up children than perhaps a one parent family. [More…]
Any child at that school is certainly entitled to get those fatalities but what about the child in the other schools? [More…]
In calculating the deductions for the ‘deductions tax scheme’ it has been assumed that the taxpayer has claimed for his wife and children as dependants and has also claimed the maximum allowable amounts for the education of children i.e. [More…]
$ 1 50 in respect of each child. [More…]
In the case of the ‘concessional rebates tax scheme’ it has been assumed that the taxpayer received dependants-rebate and that the only expenses claimed under general concessional rebates provisions are those for the education of the children. [More…]
$250 in respect of each child; for the man with two or four children, however, this total concessional rebate lies below the minimum of $540 given to all taxpayers, so that these men will receive $540 general concessional rebate. [More…]
Only in the case of the men with six children does the rebate exceed the minimum; they will receive 40 per cent of 6 x $250 (or $600) rebate for education expenses. [More…]
That table clearly shows that in respect of an income of $8,000 with 2 children under the age of 16 years, under the old method of the $400 rebate, the tax would have been $1,329. [More…]
The present method of giving a tax rebate per child is much more beneficial and, as I can now prove by these figures, is equitable to all. [More…]
I am dealing now with people who are establishing child care programs in their areas. [More…]
As I have indicated, the Karmel Committee clearly highlighted the fact that in a large section of the Australian community the needs of the child are very great indeed. [More…]
It follows that the State governments, in their wisdom or otherwise, never really allocated sufficient funds over the years to meet the needs of the child. [More…]
Unless the needs of the child are met in the formative years that child is permanently penalised. [More…]
Admittedly other factors, including the factors of poverty and of delinquent parents are involved, but it was clearly established by the Karmel Committee that the chance of obtaining equality was not there for a child who happened to live in a low socio-economic area. [More…]
Honourable members will notice that in all of the Commission ‘s reports great emphasis is placed on the need to try- I emphasise the word ‘try’- to give to each child what is deemed to be an equal opportunity. [More…]
When one looks at what has happened and what is still the position regarding the great needs of children one sees that an efficient allocation of resources has never been made over the years. [More…]
We may have a section in Australia agitating for the spending of more money out of scarce resources on the delinquent child, knowing full well that the statistics, the record and the knowledge is that it is too late to do so. [More…]
It is related to the life and the blood of the people in it and the parents of the children, the teachers and the community generally. [More…]
Speaking briefly about the child care program which concerns the pre-school area, there is no hope of running an effective program unless there is community involvement, particularly on the part of the parents. [More…]
But everybody who knows anything about education knows that normal State procedure is for powerful political personalities to put the best and the most expensive high schools in their electorate, irrespective of whether there is the number of children there to justify them. [More…]
In precisely the same way there was no political demand for, and no political kudos to be obtained, when we put every Aboriginal child in secondary education on a scholarship which might range from some $250 to $2,000 a year. [More…]
There was no demand for that from the Aboriginal community, and in wide sections of the Aboriginal community among the parents there was no understanding of what was happening to their children. [More…]
It is almost standard in Australia for a parent to regard education as a weapon of his child’s advantage- ‘I am a good parent if I fight for my child ‘s advantage over that of all other children’. [More…]
It is there that a child gets an education which gives him an advantage over everybody else. [More…]
The nation has not got an interest in the concept of advantage for some children’s education; it has got an interest in the concept that education should be an instrument of every child’s dignity and advancement. [More…]
The interesting fact which I found was that the 40 schools classified A out of the 9500 schools in the country could make more noise than the other 9460 schools put together because they had articulate parents who knew exactly what they wanted for their children and could argue for them. [More…]
In fact, none of them lost but not all of them were ve.ry happy to see the chances of other children being brought up to their level. [More…]
The position in the Catholic schools, where they try to reach the poorest child, was that they had, of course, a very great burden of education, and they had not made an amendment to the Magnificat to this effect: ‘He has put down the mighty from their seat and exhalted the humble and meek; he has filled the hungry with good things and the rich have got the same amount in flat rate grants across the board’. [More…]
Students are demanding free subscriptions to unions, student representative councils and even sports unions; they are requiring free child minding facilities; and so it goes on. [More…]
The likely effects of Government measures to encourage or discourage child-bearing cannot be anticipated until much more is known about the causes of fertility changes. [More…]
Secondly, the decline in fertility may be just a consequence of women delaying child bearing perhaps because of temporary economic circumstances, such as the difficulties that young couples have now in buying houses, particularly in the major metropolitan areas. [More…]
Thirdly, we need to take into account also in assessing this factor to what extent remarriage within the child bearing age represents child bearing by the people in question. [More…]
If women could be assured of keeping their jobs and of not being relegated, by being married, to staying within the house and if they could be assured of re-entering the workforce once the children were of manageable age, this might affect dramatically attitudes towards procreation. [More…]
This is because the attitude towards child bearing and reproduction is of such a different order from our own at the present time. [More…]
There will be no more money for education, health services, transport, roads, hospitals, child care, universities and colleges or urban and regional development. [More…]
Subject to the provisions of the Social Services Act a Handicapped Child’s Allowance may be payable in respect of a blind child under 1 6 years of age. [More…]
Under the Act the allowance is payable to parents or guardians who supply constant care and attention for a severely handicapped child in their home. [More…]
A severely handicapped child is defined as a person who has not attained the age of 16 years and who has a physical or mental disability and by reason of that disability needs constant care and attention and is likely to need such care and attention permanently or for an extended period. [More…]
Surely, once the level of an age pension, child endowment or even a funeral benefit has been decided upon not much of the total expenditure can be scrutinised. [More…]
If I were to say that the child migrant education program is going to be slashed by $983,000 before the end of the financial year, I do not think that anyone opposite would be able to prove me wrong. [More…]
Other specific Commonwealth Government programs such as Community Health, Child Care, Community Arts, Tourism and Recreation, and the Aged and Handicapped Persons programs, for example, are the main source of funds for particular aspects of community welfare. [More…]
Nor do I think our overcoming the neglect of so many decades by introducing a double orphans benefit or a handicapped child allowance, for instance, has made people softer. [More…]
We know that there is also conjecture that child endowment is to be curtailed and, of course, maternity allowances are the subject of similar conjecture. [More…]
Gradually children are getting better facilities and we are getting the right facilities for every child in school. [More…]
It amounted to $30m- a cost borne by deferring pensions, by seeking to destroy the system of funeral benefits, by denying working mothers child care centres, by making housing mortgage repayments more expensive - [More…]
Without such assistance the city will never meet the demand for roads, sewerage, drains, transport, health, child care and other community facilities which its recent growth is creating. [More…]
Many years ago the Arbitration Commission informed the Government that it would not grant a wage rise if child endowment was introduced, and child endowment was introduced. [More…]
Melton has a population of approximately 1 1 000 people, 75 per cent of whom are under 35 years of age, with approximately 2300 children under age five. [More…]
There is a neighbourhood centre funded by the Children’s Commission to facilitate child care programs, an after-school program funded by the Children’s Commission, family day care funded by the Children’s Commission which arranges for children to be cared for in private homes, and an information bureau and youth worker both funded by the Australian Assistance Plan and both serving a useful purpose. [More…]
The adult migrant education program was cut by $419,000; the child migrant education program was cut by nearly $lm, and the Aboriginal advancement program reduced by $3.7m. [More…]
The largest single cut in the education budget- let me emphasise that point; the largest single cut- is in the area of the child migrant program, a cut of $983,400. [More…]
Almost $lm has been trimmed off the child migrant education program. [More…]
It is the new Liberal-National Country Party Government that is bent on discriminating against migrant children and adult migrant workers seeking to improve their standard of education. [More…]
I instance next the cuts in the budget of the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Indeed, some ethnic communities have been sending their children to their home countries for want of adequate child care services in this country. [More…]
Proceeding through the document we find a further cut in the budget for the Children’s Commission. [More…]
I have already stressed the importance of child care in our community and I do not need to do so again. [More…]
In this generation it is correct to say that overseas aid is exemplified first by the Marshall Plan- a child of the generous people of the United States. [More…]
An amount of $7 1 ,500 is to be saved on Aboriginal study grants and $538,000 is to be saved on assistance for isolated children. [More…]
There is to be a saving of $419,000 on the adult migrant education program and $983,400 on the child migrant educational program. [More…]
We find cuts in housing, health and child care right across the board, made without thought and with absolutely no relationship to the difficulties of the communities. [More…]
Like me, he would have 40 or 50 schools in his electorate, child care centres and dental clinics at the schools, all established by the Labor Administration. [More…]
He should ask about the migrants and the children who are being taught in the schools in their own language. [More…]
It had something to do with a children’s crusade. [More…]
I assume that it was nothing to do with the child care program that this Government is axing so savagely. [More…]
As it would appear from reports that the Government intends transferring the tax rebates for children to an effective form of child endowment, will the Prime Minister do what he can to see that the advantages of tax indexation will apply to those transferred forms of child endowment? [More…]
I refer to the decision that, in the case of custody of children, the Act was valid only to the extent that it applied to proceeding between the parties to a marriage for the custody of the natural or adopted children of both of them. [More…]
This means that disputes between one party to a marriage and, say, a grandparent of a child of the marriage would fall outside the jurisdiction of the Act and would therefore have to be resolved according to relevant State law. [More…]
Likewise disputes between a husband and wife over a stepchild would be outside the Act. [More…]
In the areas of maintenance and injunctions, the definition has been confined to proceedings between the parties and, in the case of maintenance of a child, to proceedings by or on behalf of a child against one or both parents. [More…]
The expression ‘child of a marriage’ has been limited to the natural or adopted children of both parties to the marriage, although the existing, wider meaning has been retained for the purposes of section 63, which prevents a divorce becoming absolute unless the court is satisfied as to the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]
One amendment will enable an authority or officer of the Commonwealth or a State to take proceedings to obtain a maintenance order on behalf of a party or child. [More…]
Doubts have been raised as to the extent of these powers, and the amendments spell out the powers under a court order that may be exercised, where necessary, to search places and to use force to take possession of a child. [More…]
Two amendments in the child welfare area have been included in the Bill at the request of the former New South Wales Government. [More…]
One of these ensures that a child who is under the guardianship of a State or Territory Director of Child Welfare while awaiting adoption cannot be the subject of a maintenance or custody order except in special circumstances. [More…]
At present the Act confines this exemption to children who are under the care and control of a Minister pursuant to State or Territory child welfare legislation. [More…]
The other amendment would take away the jurisdiction that a court now has under the Act to order the continuance of a custody or access order relating to a child after the child has been adopted. [More…]
Child Care and the Arts [More…]
The forward estimates for child care, the arts, and other programs administered by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet have been reduced by about $ 15m. [More…]
The Government has decided that about $73m should be appropriated in 1976-77 in respect of the pre-school and child care program. [More…]
Consideration is being given to changes in the program designed to ensure greater emphasis on child care to children of needy families. [More…]
At present, assistance towards meeting expenditure upon children ‘s needs is provided in 2 main ways- by child endowment and by taxation rebates for dependent children. [More…]
At existing rates, the cost to the Budget of assistance through the taxation system is about 3 times as great as the direct expenditure on child endowment, which is relatively small and has been seriously eroded by inflation in recent years. [More…]
Such families are unable to take advantage of the taxation rebates for children which are available to the great majority of families. [More…]
In essence, it involves abolishing the taxation allowances for dependent children, and disbursing the resultant additional revenue in the form of large increases in child endowment. [More…]
The details of the new arrangements will be announced by the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) but in brief the main features are: The present taxation rebates for children will be abolished as from the end of this financial year. [More…]
The existing arrangements for payment of child endowment will be maintained but at substantially increased rates. [More…]
The new rates of child endowment, compared with the present rates, are as shown in the following table and I ask for leave to have it incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
The figures show that for the first child the present rebate of 50c will be increased to $3.50. [More…]
For 2 children the present rate of $1.50 will be increased to $8.50. [More…]
For 3 children the rate will be increased from $3.50 to $14.50. [More…]
For 4 children the endowment will move from $5.75 to $20.50. [More…]
For 5 children the endowment will increase from $8.25 to $27.50. [More…]
The broad effect of these changes will be to increase the weekly level of child endowment paid to families by between $3 and $4 per child. [More…]
As the weekly equivalent of the present maximum taxation rebate is $3.85 in respect of most children, the overall position of families able to take full advantage of these rebates at present will not be greatly changed. [More…]
There are, however, about 800 000 children in low income families which pay little or no taxation. [More…]
These include the children of widow and invalid pensioners, of workers close to the minimum wage or in intermittent employment, of self-employed people unable to earn an adequate income, and of many Aborigines, recently-arrived migrants and other disadvantaged groups. [More…]
Child endowment will continue to be paid, as it always has been, usually to the mother. [More…]
The full-year cost of taxation rebates for dependent children and students, had they been indexed in 1976-77, together with the cost of the present child endowment scheme, would have amounted to about $ 1,025m. [More…]
There will thus be no net full-year cost to the Budget arising from the new system, other than the cost which would otherwise have been incurred in indexing rebates for dependent children. [More…]
Allowance will, however, be made for increased dependants rebates, and zone allowance, where they are relevant, and the child dependant allowances that are to be abolished will not be allowed. [More…]
A person will be treated as a ‘dependant’ of a taxpayer if he or she is the taxpayer’s spouse or child under 16 years of age, and the taxpayer contributes to his or her maintenance. [More…]
A child of the taxpayer who is aged 16 or more but less than 25 and who is a full-time student will be treated as a dependant if his or her income is not above $ 1 ,073. [More…]
Other proposals which will broaden the eligibility conditions for payment are (a) children of alien fathers will no longer be disqualified on nationality grounds; and (b) payment will in future be made to a person presently ineligible if a child is dependent on the claimant or spouse and the claimant or spouse is a resident of [More…]
Most families receive assistance for children under 16 years of age and students by way of child endowment and personal incometax rebates. [More…]
However, the benefits that arc available to some taxpayers by way of tax rebates for children do not apply to some 300 000 families whose incomes are insufficient to enable them to take advantage of those tax rebates. [More…]
The redistribution of income described is possible as a result of the parallel Government decision to abolish personal income tax rebates for children and students. [More…]
For such families they will more than offset any reduction in assistance for children arising from the substitution of increased family allowances for personal income tax rebates. [More…]
The abolition of tax allowances for children and large increases in family allowances were recommended by Professor Henderson in the first main report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty. [More…]
The increases in family allowances will take effect at virtually the same time as the pay-as-you-earn schedules of tax instalments are adjusted to take account of the withdrawal of rebates for children and students. [More…]
The new proposals will increase the annual cost of child endowment by $785m to $ 1 ,020m a year. [More…]
This additional cost will be offset by the abolition of taxation rebates for children and students. [More…]
Since the Government proposes in its first Budget to make pensions paid to all persons below age pension age subject to taxation, why are not the greatly increased child endowment payments also subject to tax? [More…]
So far as the major point of the honourable gentleman’s question is concerned, that is to say the family allowances and the major increase in child endowment, if I may say so, Mr Speaker, that is one of the most significant measures of social welfare introduced in this country by any government. [More…]
I believe that it will greatly assist families, particularly those in the poorer financial brackets, and as I think I said in the statement, it will directly have a very advantageous impact upon the 300 000 poor families with some 800 000 children. [More…]
Caution with the money supply, personal tax indexation and increased child endowment might well be part of that package, but so too would be the continuation and expansion of the effective expenditure programs begun by the Labor Government. [More…]
Fifthly, Labor welcomes the increase in child endowment. [More…]
However, my sixth point is that we deplore the fact that these improvements to child endowment have been carried out at the expense of so many. [More…]
The Government is also providing an increase- a large increase- in child endowment, which will be paid to the mothers of children in areas in which there is real need and in which the private welfare agencies have said that such payment is so necessary. [More…]
I turn to the third element, namely, child endowment. [More…]
Any person who has a regard for children and a love of family will desire to ensure that the mother will have a better opportunity to feed, clothe, entertain and ensure the recreation of her children. [More…]
I believe that we achieve more than that, because under the present provisions, particularly with regard to the indexation of wages and income tax supplementary to an increase in wages and child endowment increases, we have established the proper basis on which we can now approach the trade union movement in order to ensure that the unions are persuaded to come to the party and agree to an incomes policy and, more particularly, a responsible wages policy. [More…]
At the point of implementation of the package, that is, when tax indexation is introduced and we have the Medibank levy and the child endowment and dependent children’s tax rebate manoeuvre, a lot of people will be worse off. [More…]
The increase in child endowment and the abolition of the tax rebates for children mean that families will have less cash in their pay envelopes. [More…]
The positive sides of it in fiscal terms are the change to child endowment, tax indexation- which is one of the most important changes ever introduced in Australia- and, of course, a transfer from the rebate system to a cash transfer system. [More…]
First of all, the statement on the one hand makes substantial improvements in respect of child endowment and on the other hand it takes away the tax rebate system for children. [More…]
First of all I want to take the question of child endowment versus tax indexation. [More…]
We are told that the combined cost of child endowment plus the tax rebate system is of the order of $ 1,021m of which something like $240m, or about one-quarter, is attributable to the child endowment bill and something like three-quarters of the total cost is attributable to the tax rebate system. [More…]
It is now proposed that we should introduce a child endowment system that will have approximately the same total cost but will distribute the overall benefits somewhat differently. [More…]
I simply make the point rather categorically that from now on the difference between married and single taxpayers as far as the tax system is concerned is no longer contained within the tax schedule but is contained within the payments for child endowment. [More…]
All I suggest is that not enough credit has been given or attention paid- and I think this is implicit enough in the kind of explanation that was given in the Treasurer’s speech- to what was done recently by the tax rebate system that was supposed to operate, and will operate certainly for the year ended June 1976, but will be terminated with respect to children as from 1 July 1976. [More…]
I would have thought that the logical step would have been not only to remove deductions for children from the tax schedules but also to have removed deductions for wives from the tax schedules and put some kind of cash benefit upon what a wife is supposed to be worth. [More…]
I have another question to ask: Given that the child endowment costs approximately the same as the child endowment plus the rebate, what will be the effect on 1 July when the tax deductions no longer apply for children? [More…]
For instance, the proposal to move tax rebates for children into child endowment is desirable, but with qualifications, as I will mention a little later, because the net benefit is much less than the benefit was made to appear when the statement was made to the Parliament. [More…]
The child endowment proposals- moving the tax rebate for children across to child endowmentI believe constitute a very good principle. [More…]
The Government does not want to index the rebates for children which existed under the tax scheme and accordingly is moving them across to child endowment. [More…]
I refer now to child endowment. [More…]
It is a most generous move on behalf of the Government to increase child endowment to the extent it has. [More…]
I refer to such things as the cancellation of the rebate for dependants and its replacement with a family allowance or increased child endowment payments; the disbanding of Medibank and the forced return of people to the private health insurance funds, with a slug to taxpayers to pay for it; and income tax indexation as a trade-off to the Medibank tax or the Medibank levy- call it what you will, because it is one and the same thing. [More…]
Why did the Government decide to take away the rebate for dependent children and turn it into a family allowance or an increase in the child endowment? [More…]
The Government will save about $l,025m with the elimination of the rebate for dependants, and the cost of the new child endowment payments is the same amount, $ 1,025m. [More…]
But, of course, the Government is not indexing the child endowment payments. [More…]
It refused to index the rebates for dependents, and we will not see it index the new child endowment payments. [More…]
Child endowment payments are paid into the banks, and I think it is true to say that many mothers will leave the money there as a nest egg, call it what you will. [More…]
At any time in the future that the Government may want to increase child endowment payments it can add to consumer stimulus by doing so. [More…]
A Government document released, or leaked, a couple of days ago indicates that 57 per cent of taxpayers will be worse off as a result of the 3 changes announced by the Treasurer, that is child endowment, Medibank and tax indexation. [More…]
Not only that, but the proposals for Medibank, child endowment and others form a policy for the redistribution of wealth which in itself is not an economic policy. [More…]
The change from child endowment to family allowances, together with the abolition of the tax rebates for dependent children, will bring very great benefits to low income families. [More…]
However, the basic change now to be made with the introduction of family allowances at a much higher rate than the previous child endowment will prove to be of major assistance to many of these low income farm families about which I have spoken. [More…]
The Labor Government introduced child migrant education programs, community recreation projects and schemes designed to improve the quality of life in the disadvantaged areas of our cities- the areas of high ethnic group concentration. [More…]
We are led to believe that the child migrant education program is included in the general allocation for the Schools Commission. [More…]
In other words, there is no longer any guarantee that the special needs of migrant children will be catered for adequately. [More…]
I turn to the area of child care. [More…]
This is not the first time that I have stressed the vital importance of child care for our ethnic communities generally and, in particular, the children in the disadvantaged areas. [More…]
The importance of child care will increase even further as the Minister has decided to increase the migrant intake. [More…]
It is therefore vital that adequate child care be provided. [More…]
Proper child care also has the effect of giving the child of migrant parents the opportunity to improve English language skills so that the child will not be disadvantaged on first going to school. [More…]
In other words, spending on child care has been effectively reduced by 15 per cent if we take into account inflation. [More…]
There will be an increase in demand for child care services but a decrease in the funds available to meet this demand. [More…]
Indeed, one of the most disturbing aspects of the situation was that there were a quarter of a million dependent children in very poor families, many of them in 2 -parent families with the father in full employment. [More…]
For these people current rates of child endowment are grossly inadequate. [More…]
We therefore recommend that substantial increases be made in rates of child endowment and that taxation allowances for children be replaced by tax credits which should be added to child endowment to help poorer families. [More…]
Between May 1972 and May 1976 the standard rate of pension increased by 126 per cent, but by contrast the additional allowance for children of pensioners increased by only 66 per cent and child endowment payments, which remained stationary in nominal terms, declined steeply in real value because of the rate of inflation experienced in Australia over the last few years. [More…]
These changes have been to the detriment of poor people with children. [More…]
I have always been unhappy with the previous system of tax rebates combined with small child endowment payments. [More…]
It was not only that the poor did not benefit; the rich, who benefited most from the money they received from the tax concessions for their children, used what to them was a small and marginally insignificant child endowment payment either to swell their children’s bank accounts or to purchase luxury items for them. [More…]
I have always felt that this was an abuse of scarce government resources, particularly when there were many poor families who needed much more in the way of family allowances to provide better food, clothing and other basic or essential items for their children. [More…]
Although child endowment is not means tested, the impact of the combined measures- that is, the increases in endowment payments and the abolition of tax rebates for children- has a similar effect to that of a means test and quite properly will ensure that resources will be directed away from the relatively well off families and into the hands of the poorer families in Australia. [More…]
Some members of the public in Western Australia have questioned the wisdom of a government providing subsidies to those who wish to have children; some have suggested that it is a penalty against those who do not have children; some have said that it provides a positive incentive to have more children; and the most distasteful criticism of all comes from those who say that it gives encouragement to those irresponsible people who have many children but cannot afford them. [More…]
To those who suggest that it is wrong for the Government to subsidise those who have children and to penalise those who do not, I simply say that in the aggregate there has not been any significant increase in government resources directed to helping families who have children, whether these resources be measured in the form of direct expenditure via child endowment payments or in the form of a loss to revenue through tax rebates. [More…]
The other criticisms I have heard- I repeat them- are that this scheme is an incentive to have more children and that in particular it gives encouragement to certain irresponsible people who have large families but cannot afford them. [More…]
I suggest that even the maximum payment of $7 per child for the fifth and subsequent children could not be considered in any way as an incentive in terms of either the actual or the intangible costs of rearing a child. [More…]
To the people who make these kinds of criticisms about poor people and large families, I say that it is morally questionable to suggest that the capacity or incentive to have children should be judged solely by pecuniary considerations. [More…]
To those who put forward these criticisms, I say that their argument means that to deny these poor people assistance is like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted and the children would suffer the consequences if adequate government assistance were not available to compensate them for their parents’ amorous activities. [More…]
Further, I ask: Who is entitled to say that certain people can have children and certain people cannot? [More…]
Surely in a country such as Australia anyone who wants to have children is entitled to have them and governments must ensure that their policies are structured in such a way as to permit this. [More…]
These new measures will help to ensure that this is the case, whereas the previous levels of child endowment in an indirect way more or less suggested that only the relatively well off could benefit from Government assistance, principally through the tax rebate system, if they had children. [More…]
Surely this is what child endowment is all about. [More…]
It is not an incentive for parents to have children. [More…]
It is not designed to convey special benefits to the children of wealthy parents. [More…]
It is designed simply to ensure that when parents do decide to have children those children, irrespective of their parents’ circumstances, are not denied the essentials necessary to give them the living standards that all children in a country such as Australia could reasonably expect. [More…]
This Commission recommended that a proposal for an increase in child endowment was ‘for immediate action’. [More…]
I do not think anyone disputes the value of the changes in the child endowment and dependants’ allowances area. [More…]
The money that is to be paid in child endowment to a substantial number of families but not all families will be more than offset by the losses of expendable income in areas in which people have greater reserves and are more likely to spend that income. [More…]
It also should be pointed out that 58 per cent of the child endowment payments are currently paid directly into bank accounts. [More…]
The payment of water and municipal rates and the re-equipment of children going back to school, plus the cost of the Christmas lay-off, all happened to fall within that period. [More…]
But I suggest that the child endowment payments in those areas in which the family can possibly afford it- if the family could not it would be spending its total income anyhow- will remain in the bank to meet especially those commitments to rates and the commitments of that nature that will of necessity increase because the Government has not in this package indicated a sufficient level of support to local government to prevent very substantial increases in costs in that area being passed on to the public this year in the form of municipal rate increases. [More…]
In comparing the child endowment payments with the tax rebates it was stated that the present rebate is $3.85 a week or $200 a year per child and the difference was calculated on that basis. [More…]
However, because of the Government’s decision to index taxation and to index deductions- for example, for a dependent wife and some other dependants- it is obvious that the indexed rebate for a child next year would have been $226, not $200. [More…]
Therefore, the difference should have been calculated on an extra $26, which would raise the present endowment by 50c a week for each child. [More…]
So, although the tax tables published show that people will be 7c or 14c better off, I do not think that is terribly important; nonetheless, for every child in the family people will really be 5c a week worse off than was shown in the published figures. [More…]
On the subject of child endowment the report states: [More…]
As an immediate measure, therefore, the Commission would concentrate help to families through child endowment and abolish taxation deductions. [More…]
Similarly, if the mother wants to work, this assistance will help her if she wishes to pay for child minding or obtain some other assistance. [More…]
These measures will help 300 000 low income families and their 800 000 children. [More…]
I am very pleased to see the increase in child endowment. [More…]
But, of course, this increase is basically to be paid for by the discontinuance of the allowances for children, namely, the actual cash rebate of $200 for each student child and $150 for each non-student child. [More…]
In other words, the Government proposes to take money from one area and give it in the form of increased child endowment payments in another area. [More…]
Proposals covering child endowment, tax rebates or dependent children, tax indexation and the Medibank levy in isolation, because there are so many other propositions at which one has to look. [More…]
The Government has cut the child care and preschool program, the area improvement program, the sewerage program - [More…]
The Government’s proposals for child endowment, the abolition of the tax rebates for dependent children, tax indexation and the Medibank levy, which will mean that about 57 per cent of the people will be worse off, will not be ignored by the people. [More…]
Broadly speaking, the Opposition agrees with the provisions of the Bill relating to child endowment. [More…]
It is part of the package in which taxation rebates for children have been removed. [More…]
Substituted in their stead has been a significant increase in child endowment. [More…]
The first point I raise is that when tables were published giving comparisons of the whole effect of the package, a comparison was made on the basis of a rebate of $200 for student children. [More…]
It is obvious that the rebate for children, had it been retained, would also have been indexed. [More…]
In other words, it is silly to compare the endowment figure with a notional rebate of $3.85 a week per child which the taxpayer now loses- $200 a year. [More…]
So people will be 50c per week per child worse off than is shown in the published tables. [More…]
I cite the case of a woman who has been receiving maintenance payments from her husband or former husband which one assumes have been geared on the basis that they pay for the child’s upkeep. [More…]
Because the father paid for the upkeep he was able to get a taxation rebate of $200 a year for each one of his children. [More…]
On the other hand, the woman who is looking after the child will get significantly increased child endowment. [More…]
But generally speaking I thing that individual cases ought to be looked at rather than make this matter a mass transfer where the ex-husband in every case loses his benefit and the mother looking after the child automatically gains that benefit. [More…]
There is no way for the husband to get part of the child endowment if the children are with the mother. [More…]
Letters have been published in the newspapers in which fathers claim that there will be a significant unfair transfer of extra child maintenance from the husband to the wife who is looking after the children. [More…]
In the child care area, at a cost of $50,000 each we could have provided faculties for 25 children at one centre. [More…]
The Government’s own Queensland Institute of Medical Research studied the syndrome of protein calory malnutrition in Australian Aboriginal children and published the academic consequences in the school work of the Aboriginal children as well as the health consequences in the form of growth retardation and anaemia. [More…]
At 2 missions where infant feeding was supervised and nutritional deficiency in pregnant mothers prevented, the children showed normal growth patterns suggesting the Caucasian growth patterns also apply to Aboriginal children. [More…]
These 2 missions left Queensland Government settlements for dead in terms of effectiveness for Aboriginal child health though their resources were less than Government settlements. [More…]
In Aboriginal belief in that area the earth spirit enters a woman to fashion the child when the woman first feels the quickening. [More…]
The place where she first feels the quickening is sacred to that child. [More…]
I am now answering 2 points that the honourable member for Prospect raised at the Committee stage yesterday concerning- the Government’s proposals to withdraw income tax rebates for “children and substantially increase child endowment. [More…]
His second point related to the effect that the abolition of tax rebates for children and their replacement with increased child endowment payments would have on a man who is paying maintenance to his wife or former wife in respect of children. [More…]
As the honourable member correctly pointed out, the husband or former husband will lose any income tax rebates that he would previously have been allowed in respect of his contribution towards the maintenance of the children, while his wife or former wife will receive the benefit of the increased child endowment payments. [More…]
It is also correct that no provision is made for continuing income tax rebates for children in these circumstances. [More…]
And it is difficult, on taxation principles, to see why a distinction should be made between the provision of maintenance for children in this way and that provided in ordinary family circumstances. [More…]
Before introducing the new system of assistance for the maintenance of children, the Government very carefully examined its social consequences, and came to the view that any disadvantages were greatly outweighed by the advantages. [More…]
It was not considered practicable, or appropriate, to provide special treatment in the income tax law for persons in the situation described by the honourable member who considers that there will be a significant unfair transfer of extra child maintenance from the father to the mother who is looking after the children. [More…]
The more appropriate course in these circumstances would appear to be for the father to confer with the mother to see whether some reasonable accommodation to the new situation is not practicable and, if there is a court order for the maintenance of the children, to seek variation of the order on an agreed basis. [More…]
If my child were seriously ill and had to be admitted to a hospital, I would much prefer my child to be in a public ward of the children’s hospital. [More…]
I would much prefer my child to have the treatment and the facilities of the public sector in that hospital. [More…]
Caution with the money supply, personal tax indexation, and increased child endowment might well be part of that package - [More…]
Throw in the Medibank neutralising effect on any benefits from child endowment and tax indexation, and you find that the leaked Treasury document is probably understating the situation when it says that over half of the work force will be worse off as a result of the Government’s deal. [More…]
I understand that other revenue producing areas being considered include the imposition of a charge for occasional child minding centres, the strong possibility of a charge on library services, which in most areas of Australia have traditionally been free, and substantial increases in charges for the use of hitherto free public sporting and recreation facilities. [More…]
The very young and the very old had become a greater charge on the taxpayers along with the army of professional welfare workers, administrators, researchers and consultants, child minding centres and staffs and nursing homes. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security remains the legal guardian of the children concerned in the cases in South Australia and will remain so until such time as they are legally adopted in accordance with State law, marry, leave the country or reach the age of 18 years. [More…]
In practice the power and responsibilities of that guardianship have been delegated to the Director-General, the Department of Community Welfare in South Australia, and to the principal officers of the relevant child welfare authorities in other States and Territories. [More…]
Hence the welfare and status of these children will continue to be protected. [More…]
The Minister, in association with child welfare authorities, is concerned to do whatever is possible within her powers to facilitate the adoption of the many children such as these and in fact already has signed some 90 orders which have the effect, by exempting the children from the provisions of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, and hence the guardianship of the Minister, of permitting the due legal processes in the States or Territories to determine whether adoption applications may be approved. [More…]
Exhaustive enquiries are made by the child welfare authorities and considerable delays can occur before the Courts or, in the case of Queensland, the Director of Children’s Services, who is the approving authority in that State, can consider these applications. [More…]
Delays can occur because of the sheer volume of work imposed on social workers and other staff in the offices of the State and Territory child welfare authorities, or in getting the matter before the court. [More…]
Any enquiries about these matters should be directed to the relevant State of Territory child welfare authority. [More…]
The addresses of the principal officers of the child welfare authorities in each State and Territory appear at the end of this statement. [More…]
The Federal Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs has the responsibility for determining the eligibility of people for residence in Australia, including a child whose admission is sought by Australian residents for the purpose of adoption in Australia, or an immigrant child being adopted overseas. [More…]
A child being admitted into Australia in these circumstances would normally travel on a national passport of the country of which he or she is a citizen. [More…]
This normally provides a means by which the authority of that country can control the departure of such a child. [More…]
For the above reasons, people interested in sponsoring a child from overseas for the purpose of adoption or who are proposing to adopt a child overseas, should in the first instance, seek advice from the child welfare authorities in their State or Territory of residence. [More…]
for the adoption of the child in Australia; or [More…]
There is a growing practice of people proceeding overseas with the intention of adopting children in accordance with the laws of the overseas countries concerned. [More…]
If the adoption is not recognised because of legal or other requirements imposed under State or Territory legislation, these children also become ‘immigrant children’ within the meaning of the Act. [More…]
It is for this reason that people contemplating adopting a child overseas should seek the advice of the child welfare authority of the State or Territory in which they reside before initiating any adoption action overseas. [More…]
Additionally, those people who have adopted a child overseas should similarly consult the child welfare authorities in the State or Territory where they reside, as otherwise problems for that child may occur in the future if the adoption is not recognised. [More…]
These would include doubt regarding the authorization of medical treatment for the child if the guardianship were challenged. [More…]
Also, it is important that the interests of the child are protected in a disputed inheritance matter, or where the dependency of the child is challenged following the death or incapacity of the adoptive parent in the event of a claim for damages or compensation. [More…]
As the guardian of immigrant children, the Federal Minister for Social Security has the same rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities as a natural guardian. [More…]
Since 1952, by agreement with the State and Territory authorities, those powers and functions of guardianship of the Federal Minister for Social Security under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, have been delegated to the principal officers of the relevant State and Territory child welfare authorities excepting the power of delegation. [More…]
In the case of adoption, the preparation of a recommendation by a State or Territory Child Welfare authority involves a careful examination of the situation which can be a lengthy process. [More…]
Matters of concern to the Commonwealth include correct identification and confirmation of arrival details, including the granting of residential status, possible international implications and the general well-being of the child. [More…]
When this is completed, it is the practice for the Minister for Social Security to sign personally an Order exempting the child from the provisions of the Act to enable the adoption applications to be resolved by due legal or administrative process in accordance with the legislation of the State or Territory concerned. [More…]
Subject to the agreement of State authorities which has now been obtained, new procedures will be introduced which give State and Territory authorities, power as delegates of the Federal Minister for Social Security to exempt a child from the provisions of the Act without reference to the Federal Minister. [More…]
This will enable child welfare authorities to take all the necessary action in connection with adoption, marriage or departure from Australia without the necessity of referring the matter to the Federal Minister for Social Security unless there are exceptional circumstances. [More…]
To ensure that the children’s welfare is safeguarded, the Minister for Social Security has requested that child welfare authorities continue to refer for attention, matters of an unusual nature or where malpractices occur, and has asked to be kept informed on a regular basis of the number of children in their State or Territory who are known to come within the provisions of that Act or are exempted therefrom. [More…]
The addresses of the relevant Child Welfare Authorities to whom all enquiries regarding adoption should be addressed, are as follows: [More…]
This phobia about Russian ships is presumably the justification for defence expenditure of $ 12,000m over the next 5 years- for a 5.5 per cent per annum increase in real terms in the defence budget at the expense of funds for health, cities, roads, the environment, child care, education. [More…]
We believe that it is more appropriate for an Office of Child Care to be established under the Minister for Social Security, as part of the Department of Social Security. [More…]
The philosophy of the Government in relation to child care will be to see that the funds which the Commonwealth makes available provide facilities for child care for those who need it, especially for single parent families. [More…]
About 75 to 80 per cent of the funds that the Commonwealth presently spends in this area through the Interim Committee for the Children ‘s Commission pays salaries for pre-school teacher training. [More…]
This Act tends not to meet the major objective, as we believe it should be, which is to establish opportunities for child care in areas of need and areas of particular hardship. [More…]
I also have great pleasure in indicating, if the House is interested, that Mrs Marie Coleman, the Chairman of the Social Welfare Commissionwhich the previous Administration indicated that it wished to abolish- will be the first Director of the Office of Child Care. [More…]
This Authority is really a child of that original committee, although not created until May 1975. [More…]
The Federal Government ensure that the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory legislate to ban the sale and fitting of unapproved child restraints. [More…]
The Advisory Committee on Safety in Vehicle Design undertake research with a view to designing vehicles, particularly family type vehicles, to enable the fitting of approved child restraints. [More…]
In my view the most important section of the report with regard to the potential for saving lives is found in recommendations numbers 32 to 41, which deal with seat belts and child restraints. [More…]
Because of its deep concern for the number of children being killed the Committee made very strong recommendations on child restraints. [More…]
I appeal to Australian parents not to be irresponsible in failing to have their children restrained when travelling in motor cars. [More…]
When I am driving along and see two or three young children in another car being allowed to climb all over the place I feel like stopping that car and really giving the parents a talking to. [More…]
Children who are not restrained in cars are like guided missiles if a vehicle suddenly has to brake. [More…]
One could well add to those factors the importance to those placed in stringent economic conditions of the family allowances which increase child endowment measures of the past so markedly. [More…]
Custody proceedings have to be taken by parties to the proceedings and relate to a child of the marriage or to an adopted child of those spouses. [More…]
I believe stricter guidelines should be inserted in maintenance Acts as to the matters to be taken into consideration in assessing a reasonable and adequate payment on the same lines as those set out in the Family Law Act which, amongst other things, not only takes into consideration the age and the state of health of each of the parties but is bound to have due regard to the income, the property and the financial resources of either parties, the care or control of a child, the financial needs and obligations of each of the parties, the responsibilities of either party to support any other person and so on. [More…]
The men said that they would film the students setting up the tent and then film them demonstrating against the fact that aboriginal people received an unfair advantage to education for their children in that they receive a special allowance of $ 1 a day or a week for each child- (they were not sure at all). [More…]
The Prime Minister has stated that the Government will abolish the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Owing to the concern of many people, will he give an assurance that he will maintain the Labor Government’s policy of providing 75 per cent of recurrent costs for child care and family day care? [More…]
While there is a continuation of these programs and commitments in the forthcoming year, what we would want to do is to see that a greater part of Commonwealth funds goes to providing genuine child care for those in need- for single parent families who wish to be independent; who want to work and cannot work because they cannot get adequate child care facilities. [More…]
Ten years ago you would not have seen an Aboriginal child in the local high school. [More…]
Today Aboriginal children are receiving a reasonable education. [More…]
To give a child too much money too quickly may not always be to its advantage. [More…]
The Government has taken ad hoc, hastily considered decisions on defence, Medibank, taxation, family allowances, depreciation and investment allowances, funeral benefits, legal aid, the cadet scheme, child care and many other things. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Child Care Matters, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister Assisting the Prime Minister in Child Care Matters has provided the following information for answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
On 23 June His Excellency agreed to a change in the administrative arrangements order which placed the responsibility for child care matters under the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
How many persons receiving full-time training under the NEAT system are in the following categories: (a) single juniors, (b) single adults, (c) married persons with a dependent spouse, (d) married persons with a dependent spouse and 1 dependent child, (e) married persons with a dependent spouse and 2 dependent children, (f) married persons with a dependent spouse and 3 dependent children, (g) married persons with a dependent spouse and 4 or more dependent children, (h) widows, divorcees, deserted wives or single mothers with 1 dependent child, (i) widows, divorcees, deserted wives or single mothers with 2 dependent children (j) widows, divorcees, deserted wives or single mothers with 3 dependent children, (k) widows, divorcees, deserted wives or single mothers with 4 or more dependent children, ( 1 ) married persons with a spouse who earns between $70.50 and $238.20 a week, (m) married persons with a spouse who earns below $70.50 a week, and (n) married persons with a spouse who earns above $238.20 a week. [More…]
Almost everyone will be worse off as a result of the Medibank levy and the so-called innovations in child endowment. [More…]
By and large, the innovations in child endowment reach relatively few people. [More…]
So he simply deferred the case and the couple were married within a fortnight of the girl ‘s having the child. [More…]
With all the legal humble-bumble that the young couple had to go through, if the girl had not been strong mentally one could imagine her committing suicide rather than having a child out of wedlock. [More…]
Despite the promiscuity which goes on today in the community, a lot of women suffer great embarrassment at bearing an illegitimate child, and that could have been brought about by the legal humble-bumble the young couple had to go through. [More…]
This would prolong the agony that a young couple have to suffer when they are in love, they are going to have a child and they want to get married as soon as possible. [More…]
I asked him whether it would be sufficient if the mother of the girl to be married signed a statutory declaration to the fact that she bore this child on a certain date and in a certain hospital. [More…]
The honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) mentioned the case of a girl who is about to have a child. [More…]
Yet, said the Department, this should not preclude a citizen or a resident of Australia from seeking review of a decision about the entry or extension of a temporary stay of a spouse, minor child, fiance(e) or aged parent. [More…]
Footnotes inform us that in the areas of preschools and child care, the arts, sewerage and the National Estate, the departments and agencies concerned have ‘not been able to make estimates’. [More…]
It is the same story with women, children, migrants, pensioners- all disadvantaged people. [More…]
The increases in child endowment will be paid for by abolishing dependant tax rebates- that is, by a real increase in taxation. [More…]
Child care services for needy children and families will be curtailed. [More…]
The Government had already reduced expenditure on child care by $9m in February and served notice that the Children’s Commission would be abolished. [More…]
The Budget means a further reduction in child care services of 13 per cent in real terms. [More…]
There are no funds to expand the child care program and to help women who have to work to make ends meet or to support husbands who have lost their jobs. [More…]
The child migrant education program has been absorbed into the Schools Commission for which there is no budgetary breakdown. [More…]
4 reveals that the increase in personal income tax is comprised practically wholly of these 3 items: A rise in the work force of VA. per cent; higher incomes of 12 per cent provided by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commissionthe honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) who is interjecting encouraged the Arbitration Commission on, a number of notable occasions to grant larger increases- and, of course, as is well known, a dramatic increase this year in child endowment rates in response to those many private welfare agencies which have been advocating that as the greatest area of need. [More…]
Of course, the rebate for children is no longer taken into account as a deduction for taxation purposes, which has resulted in a swap around, if you like, of $700m. [More…]
This Government, after being in office only a few months, has taken up one of the major recommendations of the Henderson report, namely that in relation to child endowment and the rental voucher system. [More…]
These are the people who will pay an extra $30 a year for each of their children to travel by bus to school. [More…]
These are the people for whom child care funds have been drastically cut. [More…]
If what the Russians say is true, the Hitler adventures and things of that description were mere child’s play where a few tens of millions of lives were at stake. [More…]
Will the Treasurer reconsider this matter and take into account that the governments of Sweden and West Germany altered their tax laws to give such relief and that the British Government gave a grant to each child equivalent to the amount of tax to be paid? [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in 1972 the Liberal-Country Party Government commissioned, with the support of the State Ministers responsible for child and social welfare, a family research project within the University of New South Wales to undertake a series of studies directed towards understanding and documenting family disruption and breakdown and changing family patterns in Australia. [More…]
It is also pleasing to see that the allowances for handicapped children have gone up from $ 10 to $ 1 5 a week and that the expenditure on child care programs has been maintained. [More…]
Are we all so wealthy that we can afford almost $400 for each man, woman and child in Australia, to be locked up in savings accounts? [More…]
A child born today will be buying his first home around the turn of the century- at 13 per cent inflation a modest house costing $20,000 today would cost close to half a million dollars. [More…]
In a few minutes I will deal with the increases in child endowment. [More…]
The tax rebate for children has been withdrawn. [More…]
Now let me deal with the withdrawal of the tax rebate for children and the introduction of the increased child endowment. [More…]
If the children are given tasks to do it may be too much for them. [More…]
If a father decides to try and keep a family together he will almost certainly find it a struggle to maintain a full time job and still provide for child minding during the time he is away outside school hours. [More…]
The Finer report found that about one third of lone fathers had to leave their children to their own devices after school. [More…]
Holidays cover about 3 months of the year and it is impossible for a low income earning father to take time off work or to pay for child minding. [More…]
A family with one child will be 80c per week worse off; a family with 2 children will be 30c better off; a family with 3 children will be $1.40 better off; a family with 4 children will be $2.25 better off; and a family with 5 children will be $3.85 better off. [More…]
The Australian Government has now earned the unique distinction of being the first government in the world to tax the compensation paid to child victims of thalidomide. [More…]
7m made in respect of 34 children in total at an average tax for each child of 25.14 per cent. [More…]
In cases involving limbless children, where the effects of thalidomide were more severe, the tax will rise to as high as 3 1 per cent on 1975-76 taxation figures. [More…]
The increased child endowment is all but balanced by an increase in personal taxation due to the abolition of the rebates for dependent children. [More…]
It is a kick in the teeth for all those groups of concerned people, the people who set up the child minding collectives, the members of the residents associations, the people working in the area of social welfare, the Aboriginal groups with their legal and medical services and their housing projects. [More…]
Let us look at child and adult migrant education. [More…]
In Victoria alone the Department of Education estimates that there are 85 000 migrant children who need special help with English but who are being given no assistance whatsoever. [More…]
They believe that a significant improvement in the fertility rate could be induced by an improved social benefits scheme for women with children. [More…]
In circumstances where the children of the family are cared for at home and are not forcing governments to provide child care faculties by way of creches and pre-schools, a differential payment might be considered to take care of the different circumstances applying in family care. [More…]
It has been suggested that the allowance might be paid initially for a period during which the mother has a child under 5 years of age and is not in employment. [More…]
Great play is made on the Government ‘s rise in child endowment - [More…]
Great play is made on the Government’s rise in child endowment last month; but surely that has been destroyed by the cut in wages as a result of the elimination of tax rebates in respect of children. [More…]
The rate for the first child is $3.50 a week; for the second child $5 a week; for the third child $6 a week; for the fourth child $6 a week; for the fifth child $7 a week; for the sixth child $7 a week; and for the seventh and later children $7 a week. [More…]
An allowance of $5 has been provided for children in institutions. [More…]
Most of us have institutions in our electorate in which children without a mother or father are cared for. [More…]
This increase will be of assistance to the institutions caring for those children. [More…]
When speaking during the adjournment debate last night he referred to the effect of the exchange of tax rebates in respect of children for the new higher family allowances and he gave some peculiar figures. [More…]
He admitted that families were 80c worse off with one child, then he said that they would be 30c better off with 2 children, and so on. [More…]
The tax rebate for children last year was $200 for each child. [More…]
This year with indexation it was proposed that it would be $226 for each child. [More…]
If the Government had not introduced its new child endowment scheme and abolished the tax rebate, a family with one child could have claimed $4.35 a week as a tax rebate plus 50c for the first child, making a total of $4.85 a week. [More…]
Now a family with one child will receive child endowment at the rate of $3.50 a week, a loss of $1.35 a week. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Eden-Monaro should be able to follow the figures for one child. [More…]
Under the previous arrangement, the calculation for a family with 2 children was twice the $4.35 a week tax rebate, which equals $8.70, plus one lot of child endowment at 50c a week and another at $1 a week, totalling $10.20 a week. [More…]
Now, under the new system, the child endowment rate is $3.50 for the first child and $5 for the second child, totalling $8.50. [More…]
This represents a loss, under the new system, of $1.70 a week for a family with 2 children. [More…]
Under the previous system a family with 3 children would have received 3 times the $4.35 a week tax rebate, which equals $13.05, plus the total child endowment to which they would have been entitled of $3.50 a week, making a total amount of $16.55. [More…]
Under the new system a family with 3 children will receive $14.50 a week, a loss of $2.05c. [More…]
Hopefully the honourable member for Eden-Monaro could make the appropriate calculations for families with 4, 5 and 6 children but I shall give him the figures for a family with 4 children. [More…]
Under the previous system 4 times the $4.35 a week tax rebate would equal $17.40, which with the child endowment entitlement added would amount to $23.15 a week. [More…]
The new child endowment rate for such a family is $20.50 a week, which represents a loss of $2.65 a week. [More…]
The main features of the system are these: The former child endowment payments will be replaced by a new system of family allowances under which the family with one child will receive $3.50 a week from the Government. [More…]
The family with 2 children will receive $8.50 which was formerly $1.50. [More…]
The family with 3 children will receive $14.50 a week; that was formerly $3.50. [More…]
The family with 4 children will receive $20.50 a week and the family with 5 children will receive $27.50 a week. [More…]
An additional $7 a week is paid for each additional child. [More…]
But the other key aspect of the system is that at the same time the tax rebates for children have been abolished. [More…]
Another is the Child Care Act 1972. [More…]
I am reminded of the story so beautifully told by George Orwell during World War II when he was broadcasting on the British Broadcasting Commission of his own experience as a child. [More…]
As a child he got a razor blade and cut off the nether end of the wasp. [More…]
One other area that will be cut- here again, it has been quite evident in my electorate- is children’s services. [More…]
Of course, the same thing applied to child care centres. [More…]
Expenditure on the child migrant education program is cut from $ 1 1 .5m to $700,000. [More…]
Secondly, reduced take-home paythe impact of the Government’s fiscal measures relating to the introduction of personal tax indexation, the increase in child allowances, the abolition of tax deductions for children and the imposition of the Medibank levy- will have the combined effect of disadvantaging many families. [More…]
Married working couples with no children in the area of $140 to $300 will be worse off. [More…]
Couples with one child and receiving between $120 and $380 will be worse off. [More…]
Even taxpayers with a dependent spouse and one or two children and receiving between $ 1 60 and $200 will be worse off. [More…]
It will assist greatly 300 000 families and 800 000 children in this country. [More…]
Many of my colleagues, on this side in particular, have been advocating increases in child endowment for some time. [More…]
The payment for one child is $3.50 a week, for 2 children $8.50 a week, for 3 children $14.50 a week, for 4 children $20.50 a week, and thereafter $7 a week for each additional child. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said that this Government has no concern for women and children. [More…]
Of course, child endowment has been with us for some decades. [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member also that there are no real benefits in the Budget for the taxpayer with dependent children. [More…]
1 he will see that the Government has abolished the child rebate and this will take $700m from taxpayers. [More…]
Now, under the new rates a family with one child gets $3.50 a week; before it got 50c. [More…]
For a family with 2 children the allowance is $8.50 a week; before it was $ 1.50. [More…]
The allowances increase according to the number of children in the family. [More…]
There are many 4 children families which receive $20.50 a week. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) has 7 children. [More…]
We can all have our little fun about child allowances but they hit home in the right place. [More…]
One case involved a wife and 4 children. [More…]
Another case involved 4 children ranging in age from 18 years down to 12 years. [More…]
The application for the eldest child was approved by letter from Canberra on 26 January. [More…]
The applications for the three other children were approved by letter on 18 March. [More…]
Up to 30 August, the children, who are alone in that country, had been told on 2 occasions that our authorities in that country had no knowledge of the matter. [More…]
He was under some strange misapprehension that for every child of a family there was a $200 rebate; he said that in his speech. [More…]
There is a $200 rebate for the first child and a $ 1 50 rebate for each succeeding child. [More…]
I simply reiterate that in my case, with 5 children, I lost $800 in tax rebates, which is $15.40 a week. [More…]
I also lost the old child endowment of $8.25 a week. [More…]
If the honourable member for Prospect cares to add up the figures he will find that in my case with 5 children- city members probably do not quite realise that there are still a lot of fertile people in the country- we will gain $3.85 a week. [More…]
He realises something that few members of the Liberal Party of Australia realise- he will have to say it to them 50 times before they understand it, although it is a relatively simple proposition- that is, that the family allowance was created at the expense of the child rebate allowance solely to avoid indexing that child rebate allowance. [More…]
The most significant redistribution in terms of personal benefits took place when the previous Government introduced the new tax system and initiated a system of child rebates. [More…]
It meant that wealthy people like the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), who made money by failing to keep people out of gaol- as an advocate in the courts- were receiving about 60c to 66c in each dollar for each child for whom they claimed, if they claimed for all the children for whom they should have claimed, whereas the average income earner was receiving only about 35c to 40c in the dollar. [More…]
All the Government has done is to take that system, move it sideways and give it a little bit of padding as sugar coating to get it over this year to avoid- this is the sole motivation behind what the Government did- the cost that would have flowed as a result of the indexing of these child rebates if they had been left in the tax system. [More…]
Not content with a sojourn into the game of ‘Guess The Deficit’, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came into the fray with his election assertion that every man, woman and child owed the Government $500 because of the deficit. [More…]
Because of the abolition of dependant tax rebates, the increases in child endowment have to be paid for by a real increase in taxation. [More…]
Child care payments are still down. [More…]
3m in 1976-77 for child care services, a reduction of 12 per cent in real terms. [More…]
However the phoneyness of the Government’s claim of keeping the Budget outlays the same as they were last year is exposed by the fact that included in the 1 1.3 per cent increase in outlays is child endowment or the family allowance payments which were a consequence of the abolition of a tax deduction which amounted to $700m in a full year. [More…]
by leaveRecent publicity has been given to situations where residents of Australia have proceeded overseas to arrange adoptions of young persons without obtaining the necessary support of Australian child welfare authorities. [More…]
I should like to inform the House of the Government’s attitude to the entry of children in such circumstances, thereby providing guidance on the Government’s policy to potential adoptive parents. [More…]
This should help to avoid the disappointment that Australian residents seeking to adopt children overseas may experience if authority for entry of the children to Australia is withheld because of non-compliance with Australian requirements for adoptions. [More…]
to promote the welfare of the child; [More…]
to meet the circumstances of Australian citizens who desire to adopt a child from an overseas country; [More…]
to ensure as far as practicable that the adoption will be successful and that the child will settle harmoniously into its new community. [More…]
Quite often an Australian resident has adopted a child in an overseas country and sought entry of the child to Australia. [More…]
This sort of situation was considered in May 1976 by a conference of Australian State and Territory social welfare administrators which recommended that immigration policy should be reviewed for children subject to foreign adoption orders to allow entry only of those who have been subject to orders likely to be recognised by an Australian Court; who have been subject to orders considered unlikely to be recognised in Australia but where the adopting parents have been approved as suitable to adopt by the adoption authorities in their State or Territory of normal residence; or who have had a child-parent relationship of long standing and where refusal of entry of the child would not promote his or her welfare and best interests. [More…]
As Minister for Immigration and Ethic Affairs, my role is primarily to determine applications for entry to Australia of children for adoption on the basis of the principles and recommendations I have mentioned. [More…]
In accordance with those principles and subject to sound health the entry to Australia of an overseas child is normally approved where the adoption proposal has the support of the child welfare authorities in the State or Territory of residence of the proposed adoptive parents, and the authorities in the overseas country in which the child is living are agreeable to the adoption being arranged. [More…]
In all adoption procedures the welfare of the child is of paramount importance and so far as inter-country adoptions are concerned the Australian Government will be guided by the views of the State or Territory child welfare authorities. [More…]
Observance of this arrangement will ensure that the best interests of children involved in “ inter-country adoption will be served and that their legal rights will be established. [More…]
The Government has extended to the mothers of Australia the most generous family allowances in history, namely, $3.50 for the first child, $5 for the second child, $6 for the third and fourth children and $7 for the fifth and subsequent children. [More…]
Those pre-school teachers and child care educators present at the meeting objected strongly to this point of view and argued that only a trained professional has the capacity to enrich the experiences of young children. [More…]
When my children have that problem I usually give them All Bran. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Health who represents the Minister for Social Security in this place and I refer to an open letter written by his ministerial colleague which indicated that the 75 per cent subsidy for pre-school child care would obviously be reduced next year. [More…]
Can the Minister give an assurance that the average wage earner and the single parent will not have to pay any more for child care, bearing in mind that they have lost the dependent child allowance and now have to pay for Medibank? [More…]
Can the Minister given an assurance that single parents and those people earning less than average weekly earnings will not have to pay more for child care because they have lost the dependent child allowance and will also have to pay the Medibank levy? [More…]
I will regard the question as being on notice, particularly that part in relation to the child care aspect. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Social Security is currently having discussions with her State counterparts in respect to the child care program, which also includes pre-schools. [More…]
The increase in payments to handicapped children from $10 to $ 1 5 is also most welcome, but I am sure that the Treasurer is aware of the great needs which still remain for educating the handicapped child into the tertiary area of education. [More…]
I hope that next year’s Budget will see the extension of appropriate educational allowances and the extension of invalid pensions to disabled children over the age of 16 years who remain full-time students. [More…]
I put it to honourable members that they have the same anachronism that the payroll tax had when it was introduced to pay child endowment. [More…]
For example, for pre-school and child care services in 1973-74, the recurrent expenditure totalled only $4,000. [More…]
He seems to take the attitude that whereas Australian people generally accept the proposition that many things that are important to individuals and to the nation at large should be financed on a capacity to pay principle- I am referring to such matters as social welfare benefits, child endowment, widow pensions, age pensions, even the defence of the country and many others that come under the administration of State governmentswhen it comes to health we ought to depart from that principle and revert to a philosophy whereby people have to look after themselves and whereby a levy ought to be paid. [More…]
Can honourable members opposite think of a more simple proposition than paying from the proceeds of taxation so that the rich pay more than the poor as is the case in respect of widows’ pensions, child endowment, defence, education and all these other services for which we legislate from time to time? [More…]
In addition, the Bill clarifies certain provisions of the principal Act- the Family Law Act- relating to maintenance and custody where the child or children concerned are in the care of State welfare authorities. [More…]
For instance, these courts have a child minding room where parents can leave their children while they are being counselled. [More…]
If we are to have family law administered by one court, if matters such as arose from the case Farrelly v. Farrelly are to be dealt with, if matters such as property, apart from divorce, the custody of illegitimate children, applications for custody by in-laws of children of a marriage and applications for custody in relation to children who are only de facto children of a particular marriage- for instance, the child of one of the parties- are to be dealt with by the court the only way of doing it at the moment is by having State Family Courts. [More…]
Admittedly, legal aid has been the poor child of all State and Australian governments. [More…]
Local government must rid itself of the Cinderella syndrome or the child of the States syndrome that it has attached to itself in past decades. [More…]
It is quite clear, if one studies the Borrie report, that a great majority of mothers of young children are at home caring for their children. [More…]
It may be argued by some who would like to see substitute care provided for every child that the reason those mothers are at home is that they do not have child care centres where they can place their children. [More…]
I think there is another interprettation of the facts; that is, that those mothers prefer to be at home with their children and need support services to enable them to continue to be the primary care givers for those children. [More…]
If it is possible when the children of a family are at school for the mother to work and she chooses to do so- and over 50 per cent of mothers in the community make that choice- then in those circumstances the family has 2 incomes, but families with young children are very often dependent on only one income. [More…]
There is an urgent need for careful examination of family incomes to ensure that families with young pre-school children have sufficient income. [More…]
Furthermore, such families need the support of a whole range of childhood services that are not based upon the idea of child care, which in the minds of so many people conjures up the idea of substitute care. [More…]
As I said in my opening remarks, I urge upon all those who believe that the mother should be the primary care given for young children to say so. [More…]
If there is developing in their areas a child care centre, they should go along to ensure that it develops upon the basis for which it is being established- to support the family. [More…]
In a Press Release in the Sydney Morning Herald on 26 July 1976, it stated that the Federal Government will cut funds for Pre-Schools and it is likely the money will go to increase aid for more needy children. [More…]
Mrs Marie Coleman, Director for the Federal Office of Child Care, said that underprivileged children were receiving little help and she felt they were the group most in need of Government assistance, but we feel that we are well and truly rilling an essential community need with our Centre and Centres such as ours. [More…]
The approximate situation is that money outlays are expected to increase by 7.8 per cent, excluding the family allowances, which are, of course, completely offset by the increased tax receipts from the abolishing of child rebates. [More…]
He must work and this creates further expensive problems for him due to the shortage of child care facilities for preschool, after school and holiday care. [More…]
The financial problems of the single father include the payment of child minding fees during the day for the very young and baby sitting fees at night. [More…]
It is essential that the lone father be given a pension in order that he has a greater option to work or not to work so that he can get by with part time work which will allow him to spend more time at home with his children. [More…]
The reports emphasised the problems created by the father not being home after school or by pre-school children being left totally in the hands of a mother substitute. [More…]
Who can judge the emotional impact on a young child who has lost his or her mother? [More…]
What happens to a 4-year old child who experiences this kind of constant change of significant persons in his or her life? [More…]
Lone fathers in Australia require more child minding facilities, with such faculties having more flexible hours. [More…]
More domiciliary assistance is required because fathers are not equipped for a sudden role transition- the buying of clothes for children, cooking, house cleaning, clothes mending, and weekly shopping for the house. [More…]
These are all tasks foreign to him, quite apart from the emotional problem a lone father has in being required to relate to his children in a way which he has never done before. [More…]
One can imagine the pressures that this boy’s father faces when he has to go to work and leave his child in the care of others. [More…]
Lone fathers are often very poor and cannot afford their own transport They need mobility to take their children to child minding centres and to places that children normally want to visit. [More…]
I suggest that the Government investigate the possibility of providing additional tax concessions for people in these circumstances, not only for housekeeping fees and child minding fees but also for motor vehicle insurance and registration fees. [More…]
I have been stressing the financial plight of lone fathers and their children. [More…]
There is always enormous pressure on them, and the saddest aspect of all is that children raised in these circumstances must suffer irreparable emotional and psychological harm. [More…]
But there is no question that improved income support, improved domiciliary care, improved child minding facilities and a more equitable disbursement of welfare funds between lone fathers and lone mothers would go a long way towards relieving some of the pressures on these families. [More…]
Some of the money which is left from the pension cheques, the child endowment payments or unemployment benefits is handed back to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
They are developing concern about what they call increased baby money’ or ‘child endowment money’. [More…]
Firstly we should take into consideration the abolition of deductibility for taxation purposes of dependent children, which paid for the increase in child endowment. [More…]
On the plus side there is tax indexation, as the Minister mentioned, and an increase in child endowment. [More…]
He should talk to a single income family with 2 dependent children and see what they think about the economic package. [More…]
In the area of child care the program seems to be running down under this Government. [More…]
We were told that children as young as 8 years of age are being intoxicated; that wives are being beaten up to make them hand over child endowment, and that child endowment increases- the baby money- has been and is being used to buy grog; that charter planes are flying loads of liquor into reserves; that one community passed around a hat on one occasion and that $3,000 was collected in 2 days to buy grog; that husbands are selling women to finance liquor supplies. [More…]
The Bill provides for the rate of this benefit in respect of each physically or mentally handicapped child under 16 years of age to be increased from $3.50 a day to $5 a day with effect from 1 November 1976. [More…]
Currently, the benefit is payable to 86 homes in respect of 1400 handicapped children. [More…]
As the House is aware, the Government has also decided to increase the handicapped children’s allowance from $10 a week to $ 1 5 a week, which is payable under the Social Services Act 1947-1976. [More…]
An increase in the rate of the handicapped child’s allowance; [More…]
This progressive change, when considered in conjunction with the increases in pension rates to take effect from 11 November 1976 will mean that a single age or invalid pensioner without a child will, regardless of his assets, retain some pension eligibility until his income, apart from pension, reaches $ 107 a week or $5,564 a year. [More…]
A married pensioner couple without a child would not have their eligibility extinguished until their combined income, apart from their pension, reached $179.50 a week, or $9,334 a year. [More…]
A single person, without child, will qualify for fringe benefits provided his income, other than pension, is less than $33 a week. [More…]
A married couple, without child, will qualify provided their combined income apart from pension, is less than $57.50 a week. [More…]
Handicapped Child’s Allowance [More…]
The handicapped child’s allowance is to be increased from $10 to $15 a week. [More…]
The handicapped child ‘s allowance is particularly designed to help the parents or guardians of severely handicapped children under the age of 16 years who need constant care and attention and who provide this care in the family home rather than place the child in an institution. [More…]
This allowance is currently being paid to the parents or guardians of over 19 000 severely handicapped children who care for the children at home. [More…]
One aspect covered by the new guidelines is the position of infant children. [More…]
Up to now the view has been taken that in some instances a severely handicapped infant required no greater degree of constant care and attention than a conventional infant and therefore it was not possible to grant handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
The new guidelines will provide that where an infant child is diagnosed as having a physical or mental disability, by reason of which he is likely to qualify as a severely handicapped child within the terms of the legislation, eligibility will be conceded. [More…]
The increase in the handicapped child ‘s allowance from $ 1 0 a week to $ 1 5 a week is estimated to cost $3.4m in 1976-77 and $5.2m in a full year, bringing total expenditure to $14.1m in 1976-77 and $15.9m in a full year. [More…]
In addition, such matters as education and child care have also been greatly affected and this has affected the children and the communities in those centres. [More…]
Funds are provided to government and non-government school authorities for special language teaching equipment, for salaries of special teachers and for the initial special instruction of refugee children. [More…]
In 1975-76 $10m was spent on child migrant education under the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 in the six months period to 31 December 1975; from January 1976, however, the child migrant education program has been financed from general recurrent grants administered by the Schools Commission. [More…]
For many children pre-school experience is their first contact with their peer group outside of their own home and family environment. [More…]
As well as this important social interaction, preschool education encourages the intellectual and creative development of the child. [More…]
Pre-schools play a vital role in preparing children for primary school. [More…]
They are a valuable first step in ensuring the development of each child into an educated and social being. [More…]
I look forward to the day when every child, irrespective of means, can attend a pre-school centre, a kindergarten. [More…]
The $74.4m allocated, an increase of $9.4m over last year, and the creation of an office of child care in the Department of Social Security are moves I welcome. [More…]
It is becoming increasingly apparent that primary schools in their preoccupation with the more esoteric side of a child’s development are failing in their job to teach reading, writing and numeracy. [More…]
We must arrest this disturbing trend and eliminate the situation where children entering high school are incompetent in these basic skills. [More…]
I have no quarrel with the increased educational emphasis on helping the child to develop to fulfil his or her full potential as a young human being, but a modern member of society has little future if he cannot read, write and count. [More…]
Any budgetary outlay for education must ensure that all children, irrespective of means, can freely and readily avail themselves of this education. [More…]
Most Australians see that the school ‘s role is to equip their children with the basic skills needed to get jobs and to live in society as it is. [More…]
Informal teaching styles affect our children’s progress towards these goals. [More…]
Of course, the idea behind the bilingual program is that the child who has learnt to speak another tongue- in the case of Australia, a tongue other than English- needs to be taught initially how to read and write in that language before making the jump into the English language. [More…]
That is a tragedy because there are greater demands on the child skills today than there were in the past. [More…]
For example, in the field of migrant education it is noticeable that the child migrant education scheme has been absorbed into the School’s Commission program and that this effectively reduces the suggested real growth in the schools’ program. [More…]
The Braggett study in Newcastle indicated that children who have the advantage of going to pre-schools out-perform non-attenders at pre-school. [More…]
I do not want to get involved in the argument of comparing child care centres with pre-schools. [More…]
But quite obviously child care centres do not have as great an attraction for people who live in country areas. [More…]
At the present time in my State of Queensland the State Government does not provide transport for children who wish to attend pre-schools. [More…]
I suggest that it would be a good initiative if funds were made available to transport country children who desire to attend pre-school. [More…]
The same sort of thing is done by the Opposition in respect of child migrant education. [More…]
There is no way that sufficient specialist remedial teachers can be provided to deal with all the problems children have. [More…]
But these special services will exist to support and assist classroom teachers, not to relieve them of the responsibility of the child with problems. [More…]
Let us look again at the dependants’ allowance for children. [More…]
The fact is that children have never counted for much in monetary terms under Liberal -National Country Party conservative governments. [More…]
Allowance for the first child stayed at $1.15 from 1951 to 1960 inclusive. [More…]
Previously we introduced a tax rebate which was worth $3.85 a week for each child. [More…]
That would mean with child endowment for the first child a total payment of $4.85 as against a payment under the new arrangements of $3.50. [More…]
Therefore a family with one child will be $1.35 a week worse off as a result of the new family allowance. [More…]
Again in the case of a family with 2 children the indexed tax rebate with child endowment would have been $10.20 against a family allowance of $8.50. [More…]
The figures continue in that way as a result of indexing the tax rebate and relating it to child endowment. [More…]
There will be no adjustment to supplementary assistance and allowances, benefits for children or, most importantly, what is now called the family allowance, or child endowment. [More…]
The indexed amount of rebate would have been $4.35 in the case of the first child plus 50 cents for child endowment. [More…]
The family would have received $4.85 net benefit during each week for the first child. [More…]
A family with 2 children would have received $8.70 as tax rebate plus $1.50 as child endowment for the 2 children, a total amount of $10.20. [More…]
But they will receive $8.50 as a family allowance for 2 children, a loss of $1.70. [More…]
The family with 3 children would have received $13.05 as a tax rebate plus $3.50 as child endowment, a total of $ 16.55 compared with the new family allowances of $14.50, a net loss of $2.05. [More…]
For 4 children, there is a loss of $2.65 a week. [More…]
In addition to that, the important point that people must realise is that there will be no indexation of child endowment or family allowances. [More…]
When I raised this point before, Government supporters said that the Government at no stage claimed that it would index tax rebates for dependent children which were increased from $200 to $226. [More…]
If honourable members opposite look at the Budget Papers, they will see quite clearly that the $200 child rebate was increased to $226. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member that it is the duty of parents to look after their children once they leave school. [More…]
I would have thought that it would have been the wish of every parent- it surely is in my own case- to look after his children immediately they leave school, and indeed, for as long as is necessary until such time as they find their feet. [More…]
Who would suggest that any parent should discard a child immediately that child has finished his or her education? [More…]
I want to use up the remaining few minutes of my time to talk about the handicapped child ‘s allowance. [More…]
They are an increase in the standard and married rates of pension, adjustment of the standard and married rates of pension and benefits periodically; the introduction of an income test for pensions, replacing the previous merged means test; an increase in the rate of the handicapped child’s allowance; and a new arrangement to pay unemployment and sickness benefit on a fortnightly rather than weekly basis. [More…]
The allowance paid to dependent children is to remain at $7.50 a week. [More…]
The guardian’s allowance in respect of a child under 6 years is to remain at $6 a week. [More…]
I am sure that this House will agree that there must be no argument that the most significant change in the social security benefits area has been the amalgamation of child and student endowment into a single family allowance. [More…]
It gives effect to the Government’s decision to increase the rate of handicapped children’s benefit. [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit is payable to an eligible voluntary, religious or charitable organisation, or local governing body, which provides approved residential accommodation for handicapped children who are engaged in training programs. [More…]
The Bill also provides for the rate of this benefit in respect of each physically or mentally handicapped child under 16 years of age to be increased from $3.50 to $5 a day with effect from 1 November. [More…]
Currently this benefit is being paid to 86 homes in respect of 1400 handicapped children. [More…]
I also give the Minister and the Government credit for having increased the allowance from $3.50 a day to $5 a day in respect of each handicapped child in approved residential accommodation. [More…]
I suppose there is no other benefit which is more ignored by the Government members than the additional pension benefit for children. [More…]
It benefits nearly 300 000 children and some 150 000 pensioners who qualify for the additional pension benefit for children. [More…]
That will mean that whereas during the period of the last 2 Parliaments we saw that amount move in 3 years from $4 a child to $7.50 a child- nearly double- we will see the amount remain static during the time of this Parliament. [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard a table which takes into account the tax rebate system which we introduced and which represented a significant redistribution of resources to families, indexed with the personal tax indexation figure of 13 per cent plus the cumulative child endowment for different size families, and which shows that under the new arrangement families are worse off financially than they would have been if the old system had been retained. [More…]
-The table shows, for instance, that a family with one child is $1.35 a week worse off, that a family with 2 children is $2.70 a week worse off, that a family with 3 children is over $2 a week worse off, that a family with 4 children is $2.65 a week worse off, and that a family with 5 children is $2.50 a week worse off. [More…]
As a child I was always told, ‘If you have a problem and want some information ask a policeman and he will guide you’. [More…]
We instituted the Schools Commission so that every child could have a decent education. [More…]
I rise today to discuss the matter of the Fairbridge scheme for migrant children. [More…]
Mr Kingsley Fairbridge was a South African born scholar and aristocrat who was distressed at what he saw to be the plight of the children in the overcrowded cities of England at the close of the 19th Century. [More…]
Noting this picture of squalor and starvation, he determined to do something about it and formed the Child Emigration Society at the turn of the century and eventually realised his dream in the form of Fairbridge House, a large old mansion in Western Australia which became the home for thousands of underprivileged English children who learned in the precincts of its spacious grounds the basics of farming and domestic work before taking their place in an Australian society which offered them much greater opportunity than would ever have been possible in their native England. [More…]
N.S.W.-(State total $666,253 plus $1.20 per day per Aboriginal child). [More…]
Bourke- approximately $32,000; Box Ridge $9,950; St Pius X Mission, Moree $14,880; Save the Children Fund pre-schools at Coffs Harbour, Armidale, Griffith, Kempsey, Taree, Brewarrina, Cowra, Goodooga, Gulargambone, Lake Cargelligo, Nambucca Heads, Walgett, Wellington- total $530,959, Murawina $78,464. [More…]
In addition $ 1 .20 per day per Aboriginal child is paid by the State Department of Youth and Community Service to all pre-schools from funds provided by D.A.A. [More…]
Retaining the present over-70 pension and child endowment. [More…]
It referred also to the need to improve infant and child nutrition. [More…]
Though I see little television, I am concerned about the growing practice in our country of television advertising being directed towards children. [More…]
Therefore it must be conceded that the directing of advertising towards children to promote adult usage and child usage products pays handsome dividends to the advertiser. [More…]
I believe in particular that the aiming of adult usage product advertising towards children is creating dislocation which causes immediate problems and which will germinate in the relentless pursuit of the unattainable in adulthood. [More…]
I have been told that the United Kingdom bans child orientated advertisements. [More…]
with a dependent spouse or dependent child who is not eligible for free medical treatment for all conditions will for Medibank Standard pay levy at a rate reduced by one-half of the amount it would otherwise be [More…]
We did it for hospitals, health centres, growth centres, land development, recreational and tourist projects, child care and urban public transport. [More…]
If honourable members can bear with me for a short time on this subject relating to local government, some of the people listening may be surprised to learn that the Federal Government gives block grants direct to local government for some of the following purposes: Pre-school and child care services grants are made direct to local government authorities as set out on page 103 of Budget Paper No. [More…]
If one goes there today one will find that they acknowledge very much the great help given to them by the new child endowment provisions. [More…]
Taxpayers’ funds which are being eaten up in unemployment benefits could be put to use for the needs of children. [More…]
Let me place on record that if a child is not provided for in its formative years it is too late to try to correct the defect later on. [More…]
In the secondary school area, the previous grant per child at level 6 was $355. [More…]
The children of Australia are our investment for the future. [More…]
-May I suggest to the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Peter Johnson) that he reverse the role of performer and audience in relation to his children’s reading matter. [More…]
If I understood him correctly, he said that it was a delight for him to read to his children from all the modern publications that were now used in schools. [More…]
The real way of advancing children’s reading skill, basic to education, I would suggest to the honourable member, is for them to read to him. [More…]
Research on this aspect has been supported by the Thomas Coram Child Centre at London University which has just completed a very interesting study of British schoolchildren in Dagenham. [More…]
The group of children selected had a comparable socioeconomic background. [More…]
This would suggest that the best experiment for the honourable member for Brisbane to try would be not to read to them but to encourage the children to read to him. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Brisbane will find using this method that there will be an advance in the children’s reading age. [More…]
Our duty to the Australian school and the Australian child is just as overwhelming and demanding as is that of any State government. [More…]
Therefore the child goes to school less well equipped to take up the challenge of modern education, and that applies particularly to migrant children. [More…]
Normal children should be able to read by the time they are seven. [More…]
Teaching a child to read is the most fundamental responsibility which is owed to him by his school and the education system generally. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle commented in his introductory remarks upon what was said by the honourable member for Brisbane, who expressed some pleasure at being able to read to his young children some of the educational material available today. [More…]
If the honourable member for Fremantle had appreciated that the youngest child of the honourable member for Brisbane is only 3 weeks old and that his other children are all under school age he would have understood the pleasure which the honourable member for Brisbane gets from reading stories to his children- as, I might say, I do to my own children. [More…]
I draw the attention of the honourable gentleman to the fact that every Aboriginal child in secondary education in Australia was put on a scholarship by the Australian Labor Party when in government and that the bilingual program was started for the first time in an attempt to communicate with them in their own languages. [More…]
I can recall clearly when I was a child in north Queensland thousands of hectares of beautiful scrub country- a lot of people refer to it as jungle country. [More…]
It might be argued that we were among the initiators of the Child Care Program within South Sydney, and we have co-operated with many group as well as the Council in seeing that the people of South Sydney were able to express their views. [More…]
She has opened avenues whereby child bashing problems can be examined [More…]
The quantity and the quality of water resources are involved in the lives of every man, woman and child in the nation, and to a large degree decide conditions of health and happiness in every town and village. [More…]
That scheme was the child endowment scheme. [More…]
The Pay-roll Tax Act and Child Endowment Act were introduced as companion measures in 1941. [More…]
Child endowment was seen by the government of the day as an adjunct to the wages system. [More…]
Nowadays, child endowment or family allowances are part of general welfare expenditure and payroll tax is just another revenue item. [More…]
There has been some minimal activity in the area of roads, preschools, child care and welfare facilities. [More…]
The additional weekly supplement for the dependent wife will be increased from $ 1 5 to $2 1 and for each dependent child from $7 to $10. [More…]
The weekly payment in respect of each dependent child of a deceased seaman will be increased from $7 to $10 and the maximum payable in respect of funeral costs will be increased from $450 to $650. [More…]
The additional weekly supplement for a dependent spouse will increase from $15 to $21 and the weekly supplement for each dependent child will increase from $7 to $ 10. [More…]
The weekly amount payable in respect of each dependent child of a deceased employee will increase from $7 to $10 and the minimum total amount payable for each child will increase from $700 to $1,000. [More…]
Ask any common worker, any unionist, any executive in the mining companies, anyone in the community involved, even the smallest child, and he can tell you that the safeguards required for the mining of uranium are well known and that we did not require a costly report to bring them to our notice. [More…]
On the occasions when permitted to enter the schools, students often are encouraged to entertain the children in their care rather than actually to teach. [More…]
That part of the student’s experience amounts to a simple child minding exercise. [More…]
I put it to him that a far greater amount of money is spent on the education of a pupil in the private schools such as Geelong Grammar and Melbourne Grammar than there is on any workers’ child who has to attend a school that is run by the State. [More…]
I, in turn, support the system where every child in this country, irrespective of the station in life of his parents and the depth of his parents’ pockets, has the right to a proper education. [More…]
It should be noted that, in classifying the persons surveyed in May 1973 as being responsible for children, responsibility was assigned, wherever possible, to a female- mother, stepmother, foster mother or female guardian. [More…]
A male was classified as being responsible for a child only in cases where there was no such female. [More…]
In consequence, in May 1973, there were only 4500 males in the workforce classified as being responsible for children under 6 years of age. [More…]
There is an apparent increase of about $2,000m but $540m of that or about 6 percentage points of the increase on the previous year represents the loss of rebates to taxpayers for children. [More…]
So in any reasonable assessment of what has happened to direct taxes this year, that has to be allowed for that $540m which is a straight transfer from tax to child family allowances. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Income derived by a child, whether directly or through a trust, may be taxed to the child, or, in the case of trust income to which a minor child is presently entitled, to the trustee, and does not directly affect the tax payable by the child’s parents or guardians. [More…]
Because of the general concessional rebate for resident individuals, no tax was payable for the 1975-76 income year by a child whose taxable income was less than $2,519 or by a trustee where the income to which a minor child was presently entitled was less than $2,519. [More…]
Prior to the 1976-77 income year the concessional deduction or rebate to which a parent was entitled for the maintenance of a child was reduced on a sliding scale, and the tax payable by the parent thus increased, where the separate net income of the child exceeded a specified level. [More…]
As from I July 1976 the replacement of rebates for dependent children by increased family allowances means that a child’s separate income can no longer affect, by way of reduction in concessional rebates, the amount of tax payable by the parent or guardian. [More…]
I understand, however, that in determining eligibility for payment of family allowance in respect of a student child aged between 18 and 25 years, the amount of income of the student is taken into account in deciding whether the student is dependent on the claimant. [More…]
How many applications under the Child Care Act have been approved m local government areas in each category defined in the report of the Priorities Review Staff tabled on 30 July 1974 as at (a) 30 June 1975, (b) 3 1 December 1975 and (c) 30 June 1976. [More…]
The table below sets out by State and by time period of the initial approval related to each particular centre, the number of centres approved for assistance under the Child Care Act 1972 in each of the three categories of highest priority of the five-point rating scale developed by the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
In all, 232 child care centres have been approved for capital and /or recurrent assistance under the Child Care Act to date. [More…]
In this regard, three points are made: the socio-economic category rating is a broad scheme that does not specifically identify pockets of need in otherwise relatively affluent areas; the placement of child care centres needs to take into account such factors as major transport routes and thus convenience to clients who may not necessarily live in the immediate area of the centre; a number of centres being assisted under the Child Care Act existed before that legislation was enacted. [More…]
The honourable member’s attention is drawn to the situation that assistance has also been made available outside the provisions of the Child Care Act 1972, both through the States and directly to organisations for the establishment and/or operation of multifunctional and integrated projects providing a range of care and developmental services for children, including full and part-time day care and outside school hours care. [More…]
For each dependent child the increase is from $7 a week to $10 a week. [More…]
In the body of the journal calculations are given for a taxpayer with a wife and 2 children. [More…]
After adjustment for higher child endowment, health taxes and inflation we find that in 1976-77 the family that had earned $10,000 for 1975-76 has had its spending power reduced by $5.15 a week. [More…]
Under these arrangements the income that each child receives from the foundation will be exempt from taxation. [More…]
For over 2 years now the amount has been $57 for an employee, $15 for the wife and $7 for each dependent child. [More…]
It changes the program to cater for sub-moronic adults who then watch children’s programs. [More…]
Some advertisers during children’s hours twist their advertising to meet the mental level of the viewing child aged four, five or six, and say that if the child does not buy a certain kind of food or toy its mummy does not love it. [More…]
In the hope that the Tribunal reads these speeches, I ask it to give some consideration to the question of children’s programs. [More…]
I recently saw some school essays that displayed an incoherence and lack of spelling ability that shocked me, for the children concerned were destined for high school next year. [More…]
On inquiring why the first had been remembered, she was told by the class, almost to the child: ‘Because you wrote it on the board and made us learn it’. [More…]
Many good teachers who really try to maintain discipline in the classroom find themselves thwarted by parents who simply do not care or by others who consciously resent any attempt by the teacher to shape their child in some civilised measure. [More…]
It was our intention that these funds initially would be made available to families whose regular weekly income, excluding overtime and child endowment, did not exceed 1 10 per cent of average weekly earnings in each State. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will well know, and I believe he will support, the decision taken to change the previous basis of child endowment payments to the present family allowance system. [More…]
Mr Parkes as a child remembers the Prince of Wales coming to the Parliament. [More…]
Only last Monday night when opening the debate in the Parliament on taxation legislation I gave the example of a man with a wife and 2 children who received a taxable income of $10,000 a year, which is just over the figure for average weekly earnings. [More…]
I pointed out that after taking into consideration the increased child endowment benefit, this man was now taking home over $5 a week less when adjustments were made for inflation and account was taken of the health taxes and the removal of rebates for dependants. [More…]
This system greatly increases the amount that was previously paid in child endowment. [More…]
In fact, under this system the mother in a family with 5 children receives a cheque for an amount of the order of $330 every quarter. [More…]
It is true that at the same time as this system was introduced the tax rebates for children were abolished. [More…]
But for the higher income group of people it is practically a line-ball situation; what is received in additional family allowances matches what is lost through the abolition of tax rebates for children. [More…]
But for people in the lower income group, where incomes are not high enough and insufficient tax is paid to take advantage of the child rebates, the amount received under the family allowance scheme represents a net gain. [More…]
In that way this Government has been able to assist some 300 000 low income families and 800 000 children of those families. [More…]
Failing to teach a child to read is among the more serious injuries which one human being can inflict upon another. [More…]
The child has closed to him the excitement and information of the world of books. [More…]
The following figures come from the nationwide survey of literacy and numeracy in Australian schools carried out by the ACER, and they are stark: Twentynine per cent of Australia’s 10-year old children and 27 per cent of 14-year old children are unable to understand written material which is no more difficult than the text books and reference books they use in their classrooms. [More…]
Between IS per cent and 25 per cent of children are passing from primary school into secondary school and ultimately leaving school altogether without ever acquiring an adequate mastery of the basic educational skills which they need in order to function successfully as citizens and as members of the work force. [More…]
Children who are not brain damaged or otherwise the victims of a major handicap should have picked up the mechanics of reading by the time they are aged seven. [More…]
Teaching a child to read is the most fundamental responsibility which is owed to him by bis school and by the education system generally. [More…]
Unfortunately, one thing which can be said with complete certainty is that enormous numbers of today’s children are not mastering the reading skills which research shows clearly could be taught to them. [More…]
As the Select Committee was told, it is not dyslexia or specific learning difficulties which have landed us with the literacy problem, as much as teaching which fails to identify precisely where breakdowns have occurred in the child’s acquisition of reading, to tackle them, and then retest to make sure that success has been achieved. [More…]
A child who is failing in subjects such as geography or history because of difficulties with basic skills should be taught these skills within the subject areas of the subject teacher. [More…]
From the research evidence, the whole idea of taking children out of their classrooms for separate remedial teaching should now be seen as deeply suspect. [More…]
The Select Committee was told that, while there had been spectacular initial gains in performance on the part of great numbers of children, often in the long term these gains declined or even disappeared. [More…]
Too frequently, withdrawal from the normal classroom setting leads to the child ‘s problem being seen as in his own ability or personality rather than in the qualities of the teacher or of the classroom itself, as is so often really the case. [More…]
When the remedial process has run its course, the child simply returns to the conditions which gave him his difficulties in the first place. [More…]
The reason for under-achievement in a young child or person greatly in need cannot set aside his entitlement to extra teaching resources. [More…]
In terms relevant to the schoolroom, the survey indicates that one child per classroom in 10 year olds is virtually unable to read and one child in every three or four classrooms of 14 year olds is still unable to read in any independent manner. [More…]
There are problems of learning difficulties, but if the word dyslexia’ is used to describe a supposed medical problem or supposed learning problem, that is dangerous in itself because it will lead parents and teachers to think that a particular child is dyslexic, and, therefore, something is different about that child, whereas the child may merely have one of the many criteria of learning difficulties that we discovered. [More…]
When I was in the United Kingdom in June and July of this year I went to the College of Education at Edgehill and also to the Thomas Coram Child Research Unit of the Faculty of Education of London University. [More…]
The truth about our Australian community is that the most articulate sections of the community regard education as a weapon to their advantage and to the advantage of their own children over other children and not as the instrument of every child’s dignity. [More…]
The Specific Learning Difficulties Committee was trying to find reasons why some children do not succeed. [More…]
At the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Professor Tizard had students who had done a survey of English children at Dagenham. [More…]
They had excluded from the survey children of West Indian background or Indian and Pakistan background because their command of English was different from that of the general run of English children. [More…]
They analysed the reading capacities of English children in the Dagenham area and they found this very interesting thing, that children who read regularly to their parents now were in the top reading group. [More…]
Children who read occasionally to their parents now were in the second best reading group. [More…]
Children who had regularly read to their parents in the infants group, but had not done so since were in the next group, and children who had read occasionally to their parents in the infants group were next. [More…]
The children who had never read to their parents were in the last group. [More…]
This is a very interesting aspect in establishing a correlation between the factor of parental interest in listening to the child’s achievements and the child’s results. [More…]
In other words, children and young people do catch from adults a value placed on education. [More…]
The home is vital because whatever the school achieves, however dedicated the teacher is, if the home environment to which the child returns does not place emphasis on correcting a serious problem and if no encouragement is given to the child to progress, in the final analysis very Utile progress will be made. [More…]
Evidence taken by the Committee revealed that the older ‘type’ of teacher was better equipped to isolate the problem initially and to inculcate into the child a better understanding of the needs of education and how to achieve the desired ends. [More…]
Wages are supplemented by marriage and child allowances. [More…]
Is it considered that the work done by the Centre, for women of all occupations in the important areas of child care, equal pay and maternity leave, is of value. [More…]
It is difficult to assess the value of the work done by this Centre in the areas of child care, equal pay and maternity leave. [More…]
How many children are beneficiaries of the increases in child endowment announced by him in May 1 976 but who were denied any benefits of the taxation rebates for dependent children announced in the August 1975 Budget [More…]
How many of the children to whom the increases in child endowment announced in May 1976 applied attracted partial tax rebates for dependent children as announced in the August 1975 Budget. [More…]
What are the estimates ofthe value ofthe dependent child tax rebates for 1976-77. [More…]
What are the estimates ofthe value of the dependent child tax rebates indexed for inflation at 1 3 per cent. [More…]
What are the total estimated payments for child endowment for 1976-77. [More…]
Aboriginal children are not distinguished from other children for purposes connected with family allowances or the allowance of child rebates. [More…]
5 ) The only information in respect of this question known to the Schools Commission is that set out in (3) and that the school has received and receives support for migrant education through the Child Migrant Education Program and currently through the Migrant and Multicultural education program ofthe Schools Commission. [More…]
Ban on Unapproved Child Restraints (Question No. [More…]
If it is decided to differentiate between child restraints and seat belts by legislation, ample publicity will be given through the media. [More…]
As far as fitment of child restraints to motor vehicles is concerned I would reiterate what I said in my reply to question No. [More…]
1239 that all passengers, including children, riding in a motor vehicle must wear seat belts when provided. [More…]
However, I am afraid that the child is mutated. [More…]
Their application was processed by the Department and apparently they were told that AAP matters were not being dealt with by the Federal Government any more but that the Office of Child Care would look into the matter. [More…]
They subsequently made an application to the Office of Child Care. [More…]
Consumer Affairs Bureau is at present considering the most appropriate way of prohibiting the sale of child car seats and harnesses not certified to comply with Australian Standard 1754. [More…]
In the latter case the alternatives of specific legislation for child car seats and harnesses or general consumer product safety legislation will be examined. [More…]
This was highlighted by a circumstance of a child dying some day or two ago and the fact that from Darnley Island one has to go by boat over to one or two of the other islands before taking an aircraft to hospital. [More…]
A young child who is injured gets very little compensation. [More…]
The Prime Minister announced in this House on 2 June 1976 that the Government would not proclaim the Children’s Commission Act. [More…]
The Prime Minister announced at that time that the Government was creating an office of Child Care within the Department of Social Security. [More…]
We are very fearful that we will see, particularly in the education field, a return to the old philosophy that the man who spends more money on the education of his child, which he can do only if he earns more, should get a larger tax deduction. [More…]
In 1976-77 all levels of government spending reached $2,339 for every man woman and child in this country, out of which social welfare alone accounted for over 30 per cent. [More…]
If the Department’s whole budget was simply paid to the Aborigines, each man, women and child would get $1,800. [More…]
Nothing has been done about the special child care rebate promised in the policy speech for single parent families or families where one parent is an invalid. [More…]
It was obvious to us that the child endowment system had become out of date because of the size of the payments being made and that necessary reforms had to be made. [More…]
I had discussions with officers of the Department of Social Security who deal with handicapped children and they repeated the same message that I had been given in Sydney- no hope, no funds, no fault of theirs. [More…]
There is such a thing as the Council for Child Care. [More…]
We hope that even though there are no funds for handicapped persons we may be able to bring these children under the Council for Child Care and try to set up an activity centre so that they will not develop square eyes at home and so that there will be some hope for them in the future. [More…]
They were determined that never again would they have to face a situation as they did on the Golan Heights where Syrian guns were able to be turned daily onto the Israel kibbutzim and kill a farmer here and a school child there. [More…]
So many of these children, of course, had to do that. [More…]
The ICPA submits that the present rebate of $250 is totally inadequate and needs increasing to an amount compatible with actual boarding school fees, less what it would cost a parent to keep that same child within his own home and to let that child walk across the street to a school of an appropriate level. [More…]
1 ) that living away from home allowances be not treated as income of the child for taxation purposes for children geographically isolated from educational facilities. [More…]
Nothing has been done about a special child care rebate for the single parent family or the family where one parent is an invalid yet it was promised in the policy speech. [More…]
child minding co-operative), can be initiated and sustained. [More…]
1 A major problem faced by Regional Councils in the past was that, as a child of the Federal Government, they had difficulty relating to State Government programs. [More…]
In the present Federalism impasse, Regional Councils are the ignored children of both levels of Government. [More…]
We do not want to have an overcrowded Australia, but that is not a conceivable prospect within the life span of any child sitting in the Gallery, much less in my life span. [More…]
Livestock-Rural Development Sponsorship and Child Welfare Australian-Asian Livestock Society Ltd. 18 March 1977. [More…]
The 31st General Assembly of the United Nations, at its Plenary Session on the 21st December, 1976 has now proclaimed 1979 the ‘International Year of the Child’, and it would be futile for the Commonwealth Government to join any International Committees to plan for the ‘Year of the Child ‘ whilst it stands idly by and writes off tens of thousands of good productive cows whilst thousands of children starve to death every day because they have no milk to drink. [More…]
Few countries have ever been better situated than we are at the present time with our large numbers of surplus cattle to make a significant contribution to coincide with the International Year of the Child ‘. [More…]
The cow is the foster mother of most of the world ‘s hungry children and Australia would receive wide acclaim if we initiated a program of sending thousands of our more productive cows to Third World countries to establish pilot projects to ensure that the hungry child would be fed. [More…]
If some positive action is taken we could send tens of thousands of our cattle to these countries where they would soon become a living symbol of our generosity and help for many years to come and I cannot think of a more practical program to mark Australia’s contribution during the ‘International Year of the Child’. [More…]
This is happening today in the treatment of families with young children. [More…]
The longer the present inequalities remain in the system the greater will be the pressure for child care facilities. [More…]
More and more children will be looked after by mother substitutes because the tax structure is not neutral in its impact and as a result fails to guarantee mothers genuine freedom of choice as to who should care for their children. [More…]
The Aboriginal child starts with a heavy handicap. [More…]
In many respects their experience of life is so restricted that as soon as they enter schools they are at a disadvantage with their contemporarieswhite contemporaries- who are two or three years in advance of the Aboriginal child socially. [More…]
In secondary schools there has been a new approach to the question of keeping Aboriginal children at school. [More…]
Surely a country as wealthy as Australia can afford to adopt the proposition that every child has a right to read. [More…]
It is not widely recognised that parental influence plays a very important role in determining whether a child reads for himself. [More…]
Not the least of these is the reduced time that many parents and children spend in reading. [More…]
Under the heading ‘The Disaster Area of Education’ an article entitled ‘How to Help your Child Learn to Read’ appeared. [More…]
Surely Australian parents are not going to be forced to rely on newspaper articles in order to improve and develop their children’s reading skills. [More…]
Much of the population growth that occurred between 1950 and 1965 was accounted for by a sharp increase in the child population as a higher proportion of infant births survived the early days of life. [More…]
Since 1965, this swollen child population began to spill into the early labour force ages. [More…]
If we look at the whole range of Labor initiatives and Labor achievements- in health, in education, in social security, in child care, in industrial policy, in incomes policy, in human rights- we can see that women and children are as much the beneficiaries as men, and that those in greatest need receive the greatest benefit. [More…]
I have mentioned the supporting mother’s benefit, payable to any women with the sole custody, care and control of a child (we would have extended, and we will extend, this benefit to supporting fathers too). [More…]
We established a pre-school and child care program which was catering for 100 000 children around Australia. [More…]
As pan of this program we passed legislation to set up the Children’s Commission; the Fraser Government has destroyed the Commission but Labor will restore it. [More…]
Every woman who needs or wants to work will have the right to work, to work with equal pay, to work on terms of genuine equality, to have the same access to job training schemes, wage indexation and unemployment benefits, to enjoy the same protection from exploitation, and to enjoy adequate child care services if she is working or if she is not. [More…]
A basic criterion in the definition of a handicapped child for the purposes of Handicapped Child’s Allowance is that the child requires constant care and attention by reason of his physical or mental disability. [More…]
In view of this definition it is not practicable or desirable to set down a blanket rule that children with below-the-elbow or below-the-knee amputations are or are not entitled to Handicapped Child’s Allowance. [More…]
Each claim is considered on its ments taking into account the severity of the handicap, any secondary disability and the ability of the child to cope with his handicap. [More…]
The claim has provision for the parents to advise if appropriate, of the child’s difficulties in eating, toilet, mobility, behaviour, speech, language, hearing and of the special care and attention provided including number of hours per day care is required. [More…]
This assessment and the report completed by the child’s supervising doctor are then considered by a Commonwealth Medical Officer employed by the Department of Health, who certifies whether the child can be accepted as severely handicapped for the purpose of the allowance. [More…]
I am advised also that the Leader of the Opposition’s commitment to make child care services available even to women who are not working could involve an additional cost of the order of $200m. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition wants to claim that his speech last weekend contains no new commitments I suggest that in future he make it plain that a Labor government would make no changes to the present conditions under which women are eligible for the unemployment benefit and for assistance with child care. [More…]
In addition to that, of course, the Government is showing much greater concern for and giving much greater attention to the provision of child care facilities where there are very real areas of need in the Australian community. [More…]
There are many women and single parents in the Australian work force and unless there are adequate child care facilities, in a great many cases children are not properly looked after when their parents, whether they come from a 2 parent or a single parent family, are working. [More…]
It is estimated this financial year that $27m, I think- an amount approaching $30m at any rate- will be allocated for the provision of child care facilities. [More…]
The previous Administration did virtually nothing in spite of the establishment of the Interim Children’s Commission. [More…]
These include the examination of problems in certain areas; the establishment of an advisory council; advisory committees established by my colleague Senator Guilfoyle in respect of social security matters; and the examination of the feasibility of employment based child care facilities. [More…]
If we assume that there are more children in the electorate of Grey than in the other electorates, this highlights the need for an increase in the facilities by which these children can receive training in kindergartens and so on. [More…]
When the Labor Government was in office it went a long way in assisting kindergartens and child care centres under the Children ‘s Services Program. [More…]
I am told that the child care centre at Whyalla is operating. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) wrote to members of Parliament some 6 to 8 months ago announcing that the Government was going to change its emphasis on child care services. [More…]
The people who will lose are not only the people who are running the kindergartens but also, more importantly, the children and their parents who rely on these forms of education. [More…]
As you will know, the Government has been anxious to reorient the Children’s Services Program to give greater emphasis to the provision of child care services for families in need, particularly single parent and low income families where it is necessary for the mother of young children to go to work. [More…]
When I read that letter I was all agog to find out what kindergartens were going to be assisted and what was going to happen about new child care centres. [More…]
I understand that in future the Minister may be asked to perform the official opening of these child care centres. [More…]
I would hope that at the official opening of the child care centres in the northern Spencer Gulf area the Minister will not, if she accepts the invitation to open them, take the credit for them because the credit does not belong to this Government. [More…]
On the one hand it could be clearly stated that from the point of view of child-bearing current patterns of marriage are extremely favourable to a higher level of fertility. [More…]
It could be suggested that the recent decline is only temporary as women have delayed their child-bearing because of short term economic circumstances. [More…]
Much of the decline in births since 1971 is due to women in their 20s having fewer children than women of a similar age did in the 1 960s. [More…]
The pattern of later marriage and delay in having the first child is now well-established in the United States. [More…]
This in turn has increased the opportunity costs or earnings forgone in having children. [More…]
In many of the source countries from which our migrants have come the family means not merely a dependent parent or a dependent child but brothers and sisters and their families. [More…]
This means that although population will not be stationary because of past high levels of fertility and high inputs of young immigrants we have produced at the moment an age structure with a high proportion of young in child bearing ages. [More…]
Perhaps the most significant of all is that any reversal in declining fertility or 2-child families in Australia is unlikely. [More…]
There is no evidence to suggest that the declining fertility or the trend for a 2-child family in Australia will, in fact, be reversed. [More…]
The grandfather of this child probably will be able to meet the costs of all these things, but this child is only the epitome of all children born in Australia. [More…]
This child may be more fortunate than most. [More…]
I put to the House tonight that it should not adjourn but should stay in session until it resolves how children such as Travis Keith Johnson shall progress in this world. [More…]
I refer to those children who do not have the advantages that this child may have. [More…]
Children should have equal opportunities to obtain an education. [More…]
They should be able to enjoy equal opportunity to avail themselves of a community health system, not one that is restricted to children whose grandfathers can afford to pay for them. [More…]
Is it a fact that a student receiving an isolated children’s allowance is debarred from a secondary education allowance, or a handicapped child ‘s allowance, or vice versa? [More…]
Benefits under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme are not affected by payment of Handicapped Child ‘s Allowance. [More…]
This allowance, administered by the Department of Social Security, is payable in respect of a severely handicapped child under the age of 16 years who is being cared for in a private home. [More…]
Such a child may be entitled to an allowance under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme as well as the Handicapped Child’s Allowance if he is either undertaking an approved course of correspondence studies at home, or living with a relative to attend daily an institution for the handicapped because his family home is too far from the institution. [More…]
They knew that basic and needed programs for health care, hospitals, education, housing, the cities, recreation, transport, sewerage, child care, sport, the environment would all suffer from the Fraser federalism. [More…]
Without Federal intervention there would be no unbroken rail guages between the States; urban transport, particularly the railways, would still be burdened with antiquated equipment and rolling stock; young people would still have inadequate and unequal opportunities for secondary and tertiary education; and new initiatives in health centres, the environment and child care would not have been considered. [More…]
The bright child with ambition will impose selfdiscipline on himself, even in a very free atmosphere of learning. [More…]
The children who suffer most from the new, less formal methods of education are those of average ability and limited selfdiscipline. [More…]
In a class in which there is free or almost free expression the child will tend to reject what does not come naturally. [More…]
Waiting periods of up to 14 weeks are becoming regular in the child endowment processing section of the Department in Victoria and complicated cases are taking longer to be satisfied. [More…]
One in every 3 Australians is a migrant or the child of a migrant; one in every 5 Australians has a native language other than English. [More…]
Almost nothing is being done to enable hundreds of thousands of Australian children to study their native languages in schools, let alone to acquire a general education through the medium of their mother tongue. [More…]
We can only guess at the hardship and handicaps these children have experienced in their school lives and subsequent adjustment to adult and working life. [More…]
The report noted that there are strong educational and social reasons for enabling a migrant child to learn his own language as well as English. [More…]
It recommended that all children should be able to study languages and cultures other than their own. [More…]
It recommended that governments throughout Australia should enlarge the opportunities for children to study languages and cultures in both primary and secondary schools. [More…]
Every message sent home with a pupil attending that school is written in 2 languages, and the child has to explain to the parent what is the message from the headmaster, Mr Roy Barlow. [More…]
Sixthly, towards the end of this century Australia will need to spend relatively more on such things as aged pensions and other age related welfare schemes and relatively less- I am sad to say this- on such things as child endowment, education, creches and the like. [More…]
It has successfully initiated many programs in the fields of health, welfare, child care, education, ethnic affairs, recreation, youth, environment and community information and media access. [More…]
There are childhood service officers where there were none before the scheme. [More…]
The honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) was a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties and he knows very well that there are children in this country who are deprived of the opportunity of achieving their maximum level of educational development. [More…]
This is particularly so in the migrant area where, as I have pointed out a number of times, the migrant child is trying to put his backside on 2 stools- he is losing his mother tongue and trying to learn English. [More…]
In many cases migrant children cannot achieve this objective and because of the inadequacy of our education services they are destined to fill the more meagre positions in our society. [More…]
Expenditure on the child migrant education program is to be cut by $983,400. [More…]
In family allowances the Government has introduced allowances payable for each child under 16 years of age, or under 25 years of age if receiving full time education. [More…]
It seems to me that every person who has a child loves that child. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned my grandchild. [More…]
Of course I love the child. [More…]
That child will experience all the benefits that I can give to it. [More…]
He says that a woman finding herself pregnant, perhaps after taking the best precautions in the world, who is not prepared to bear the child, should be forced to go ahead and bear the child. [More…]
The wage earner on average weekly earnings with a wife and 2 dependent children has lost a net $7.59 a week in the past year because of the Government’s policies. [More…]
This is arrived at bv taking into account gains through the new child endowment scheme and savings from income tax indexation totalling $1 1.62. and losses of the the child rebate tax claim, partial rather than full tux indexation and the imposition of the Medibank levy totalling $19.2 1. [More…]
I would like him to think back to the great reforms that were initiated by the Labor Government in regard to child care programs, urban improvement programs and the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
The coroner was told that a typing error on a medicine label may have caused a child’s death recently. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, Section 15 of the Ordinance requires a medical practitioner to give to parents of a child under the age of 1 6 years such directions as may be prescribed by the Chief Medical Officer. [More…]
The delay in the recording of child endowment changes is 11 to 12 weeks. [More…]
The field services and counselling services of the child welfare branch have been delayed. [More…]
The Women’s Trade Union Commission has since received $22,400 for the 1977 calendar year from the Office of Child Care for a child care needs investigator: this covers salary assistance, rent and administrative expenses. [More…]
The assistance will be used for a study which considers the need for child care services specifically in relation to working areas rather than residential areas. [More…]
Grants for purchase and renovations came from the Children’s Commission, the Hospital and Health Services Commission, and the International Women ‘s Year appropriation, totalling $ 1 36, 1 77. [More…]
Before the Centre’s child care program began, the Office of Child Care gave salary support for a child care worker. [More…]
From June 1976 the Office of Child Care has provided $10,973.93 recurrent assistance to the organisation. [More…]
Support is continuing under the provisions of the Child Care Act. [More…]
Even if a long term sentence is imposed, the fear and dread of imprisonment is often negated by the lucky felon finding himself suddenly transported to some pleasant rural training farm cum holiday camp where the smell of pine forests and lucerne fields makes Alcatraz sound more like the king’s castle in some child’s favourite fairy story. [More…]
The teacher knows whether there is any problem at home and probably knows that the child has no parents at home. [More…]
In any classroom one can see the child who is making progress. [More…]
Action to secure peripheral employment benefits such as child care services at the work place would seem to us not to be included. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Foreign Affairs initiated a review at the suggestion of the honourable gentleman of what seems to be an alarming increase in the number of child abductions. [More…]
I am advised as a result of that inquiry that the present position seems to be that for the issue of a passport to a child under 17 years of age, the consent of both parents must be given. [More…]
There is a provision for a parent to lodge with the Department of Foreign Affairs an application requesting that a passport be withheld from a child when it is thought that abduction is likely. [More…]
I am told that there is no action the Department can take to prevent children from being removed from Australia if the children have citizenship of another country and travel on a passport of that other country. [More…]
Section 62 of the Migration Act, which comes within the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, requires that a parent should not remove a child from Australia where there is an order of an Australian court entitling the other parent to access to or custody of that child; in other words, irresepctive of the fact that the passport may not be an Australian passport. [More…]
This provision of course does apply therefore to children of any nationality. [More…]
Section 63 of that same Act, that is the Migration Act, makes provision for a parent to serve notice by statutory declaration upon carriers that they shall not, without reasonable excuse, permit a child to leave a port or place in Australia for a destination outside Australia when such an order is in force. [More…]
The review that was undertaken at the behest of the Minister for Foreign Affairs has indicated that within the ambit of the present responsibilities of the Department of Foreign Affairs therefore, there is little that can be done by it alone to prevent child abduction. [More…]
However, as a result of the review an approach has been made to set up an interdepartmental committee to see whether, in conjunction with all departments, further steps might not be taken to ensure that child abduction does not continue to the extent that it has in the past. [More…]
What incentive is there for an Aboriginal child to succeed in his educational studies if his father is unemployed and there is every likelihood that the child may not be able to obtain employment at the conclusion of his or her education? [More…]
The resultant inactivity from unemployment, coupled with the payment of unemployment benefit, has led or contributed to deleterious social effects within the communities including: adverse attitudes of Aboriginal men to work severe drunkenness and associated violence health hazards, and child neglect which occurs because some parents use their unemployment benefit for alcohol instead of food and clothing; and acute juvenile delinquency. [More…]
Expenditure on the child migrant education program was to be cut by $983,400. [More…]
At this time when we have high unemployment and a great need to use construction resources, it would be very efficient of our economic managers to look at the point of utilising unemployed personnel, equipment and resources in meeting the needs of school children. [More…]
We say and have said repeatedly that a child never gets a second chance. [More…]
If the need is there for a child now and it is not met, that child cannot fill in the gap later on. [More…]
It is perhaps worth noting that in 1973 the average father of an independent school child had a gross income of $12,000 a year. [More…]
Such families averaged 2.3 school age children. [More…]
After tax rebates, parents spent $913 a year to educate each child. [More…]
They still maintained an average of 2.3 school age children. [More…]
But after tax they were required to spend $2,087 a year to educate each child at an independent school. [More…]
So, whilst their income had gone up by approximately one-third-of course, allowing for taxation, the real increase would have been less than that- the cost of educating their children had more than doubled. [More…]
A great many people think of education as a weapon of their children’s advantage over everybody else. [More…]
The adequate view for the Commonwealth or the States is that education is the instrument of every child’s dignity, not the weapon of some children’s advantage. [More…]
1 ) The United Nations has designated 1979 as the International Year of the Child. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of results of studies by prominent British psychiatrists who have found that children under the age of 3 years and who constantly lose the care of their mothers through hospitalisation or regular attendance at child care institutions, suffer long term psychological and emotional damage? [More…]
Will the Government evaluate the results of such findings, or initiate its own research program in this area before making any long-term decisions about future child care programs in Australia? [More…]
Finally, in view of these findings, does the Minister think it advisable to consider a change in the direction of support for families by placing more emphasis on means tested income support schemes for parents of young children rather than devoting more resources to the building of child care institutions? [More…]
-The Government already makes a significant contribution towards assisting families to cope with the child rearing functions. [More…]
In June 1976, there were 3 997 148 children under the age of 16 years in 1 935 596 families receiving allowances. [More…]
In regard to the children’s services program, the Commonwealth has appropriated $73. [More…]
3m for the current financial year for expenditure on children’s services. [More…]
This is a service which benefits children from approximately 3 years to 5 years of age. [More…]
Most of the balance is spent on a range of services of a nature designed to support the family and in particular to give expression to the Government’s wish to give child care to needy families where the children otherwise would be without care of any kind. [More…]
A number of research studies have been funded in previous years under the children’s services program, some of them relating to psycho-social development of children. [More…]
He is a spell child of Australian politics. [More…]
However, because of family allowances children are no longer included in that aspect of indexation. [More…]
We have deprived the taxpayer of a deduction for children, but we have now indexed zone allowances and other dependants allowances. [More…]
Perhaps we should also index family allowances for each child so that the value of the money received will remain the same. [More…]
In other words, His Honour clearly said to the Government: ‘You cannot direct Daniels, the DirectorGeneral, to deny this child her unemployment benefit because you have laid down an economic policy that says that nobody is to get unemployment benefit’. [More…]
A child, 16 years of age, went to the guidance officer at school and sought guidance as to what employment she should be seeking. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite, including the honourable member for Melbourne, say that a 17-year old child who leaves school without having determined whether he is going to work or whether he wants to work should receive $36 a week? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that the Murawina Aboriginal Child Centre at Chippendale in my electorate of Sydney has been waiting for months for promised funds to continue its excellent work? [More…]
Does he appreciate that the centre is established in a disused factory with the only outdoor play area for the children the dangerous streets of Chippendale. [More…]
If we look at the amount of money provided to a man with 2 children- the figures have been frequently quoted by various people in this place- and at the amount of money which it is claimed by various people in this place is the cost of protection, we find that it is far more expensive to pay a person unemployment benefit, service his family with the $7.50 allowance per child, and supply the free services which are provided under the social welfare program than it is to have a protected industry. [More…]
What difference does that make to anybody in the Australian community whose child, who may well not even be of voting age or may be only 18 or so, goes into an office and is told: ‘We would be able to assist you under the State-administered means test but not under the federal test, which has been recommended by the Commission or in relation to which the Attorney-General has given us a direction under the agreement that the State concluded’. [More…]
State Child Welfare Authorities have advised that adoptions of the Vietnamese children have been completed as follows: [More…]
It is understood that in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia the processing by Child Welfare Authorities of adoption formalities for a number of other children has been completed and the applications are awaiting processing by the Courts. [More…]
With regard to “single” supporting parents, what would be the cost to revenue if child minding expenses were an allowable tax deduction or a rebatable matter. [More…]
In broad terms, the sole parent rebate is available to taxpayers who have the sole care of a dependent child or children under 16 or a dependent full-time student (or students) under 25. [More…]
The housekeeper rebate is available in respect of a person wholly engaged in keeping house for a taxpayer and in caring for a taxpayer’s child or student dependant. [More…]
If child minding expenses up to a limit of $250 per child were allowed as a deduction to “single” supporting parents who do not at present incur education expenses that may qualify for concessional rebate, the annual cost to revenue would be about $2m. [More…]
Has the Minister received representations from the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations regarding massive vacancies in child care centres in Australia. [More…]
and (2)1 have received representations from the Australian Federation of Child Care Associations which is an association representing the commercial day care sector, recording details of a survey of vacancies in child care centres in the commercial day care sector. [More…]
and (5) Approvals for new services under the Children ‘s Services Program are given against the Government ‘s policy of ensuring that Commonwealth funds are allocated to provide genuine child care for those in need. [More…]
Do Commonwealth Police estimate that more than 1 Australian born child is being abducted overseas every fortnight and that inadequate help is made available by the Government to repatriate them. [More…]
In many cases has the Commonwealth Crimes Act been breached and are current passport regulations inadequate to cater for an Australian population in which 25 per cent of all persons are dual citizens, thus making child abduction by 1 parent through a Foreign Embassy or High Commission an easy matter. [More…]
Does the Government treat child abduction as a civil matter thus denying financial aid to Australian mothers and fathers whose children have been stolen. [More…]
Will he examine the case of Mrs Raphael Calogero of Granville, New South Wales, who was force to expend all her financial resources to recover her abducted child with the help of an Australian journalist who, at his own expense, has assisted in the repatriation of 3 abducted Australian children in the last 3 years. [More…]
1 ) Commonwealth Police do not estimate that more than one Australian child is being abducted overseas every fortnight. [More…]
However, several requests are received each fortnight from the Department of Foreign Affairs seeking the assistance of this Force in the taking of preventive action on behalf of a parent granted custody of a child who expresses a fear that the other partner to the marriage may attempt to remove a child from Australia without consent. [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 Department has in fact repatriated some abducted children under those provisions. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs has undertaken a review of the Passports Act and the review indicates that within the ambit of the present responsibilities of the Department of Foreign Affairs there is little that can be done by it alone to prevent child abduction. [More…]
An approach has therefore been made to set up an interdepartmental committee to see whether, in conjunction with other departments, further steps might be taken to help prevent child abduction. [More…]
In the case of Mrs Calegero ‘s child, the Department of Foreign Affairs gave approval to the Australian Embassy Berne to provide a ticket to Australia for the child subject to the usual undertaking to repay being given. [More…]
If a child is to learn only for threequarters of an hour a day, although the teacher may be an excellent teacher the child still has to go back into the class room and may well be prejudiced. [More…]
Also the child in the class room who has reached a certain stage of development for a certain school year may find that he is being held back in his learning because of the need for the teacher continually to pay special attention to children who are disadvantaged. [More…]
Wide-ranging incentives for the establishment of clean, labour intensive industries in Canberra should be developed as a matter of urgency and should include payroll tax rebates, low interest rate loans, concessional rates on municipal charges, freight equalisation incentives, subsidised industry based child care facilities, as well as concessional rates for electricity. [More…]
If one looks at the explanatory notes in relation to migrant education at the time of that Budget one will see that in 1 975-76 $10m was spent on child migrant education in only six months. [More…]
Of course, the Government now says in respect of child migrant education that it is picked up in what is called the Schools Commission funding. [More…]
Yet if one looks at the previous Budget one can readily see that there had not been an adequate acceleration in the funds provided there in a general sense to provide sufficient funds for child migrant education, if in fact it was costing in excess of $20m at that time. [More…]
Maternity/Paternity Leave- Up to 52 weeks maternity leave may be taken before and after the binh of a child, with 12 weeks paid leave. [More…]
Paternity leave of 5 days may be taken at the time of the birth of a child. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in this country would be an equal shareholder in it so that no foreign multinational corporation could exploit them as is being done in so many other industries. [More…]
He wanted to see the Australian people- every man, woman and child in Australia- being an equal shareholder in the exploitation of Australia’s resources of gas on the North West Shelf. [More…]
Is it also a fact that with family allowances, which took the place of rebates for children, heartlessly not being indexed, taxpayers with one child, on about $12,000 per annum or less, with two children, on about $13,000 per annum or less, and with three children, on about $ 14,500 per annum or less will be worse off than before by next July? [More…]
Family allowances took the place of rebates for children. [More…]
People on taxable incomes up to $12,000 a year with one child will suffer because there is no indexation of family allowances. [More…]
There is a direct personal link between spirit beings or dreamtime heroes who gave the people their own tracts of land, the child to whom the spirit gives life in its mother’s womb and the place from which the spirit came. [More…]
1 ) Does he recall my raising the pressing problem relating to the escalation of child abductions in May 1976 as a result of which, among other initiatives, he agreed to set up an interdepartmental committee to examine the issue involved. [More…]
1 recall that the honourable member asked a question concerning child abductions on 26 May 1977, in answer to which I said that an approach had been made to set up an interdepartmental committee. [More…]
Child migrant education programs have been reduced by $130,000. [More…]
In the 1976-77 Budget Medibank was slashed by $450m; health services were doubled; programmed expenditure on four education commissions was reduced by $172m; tuition fees for second and higher degrees were reintroduced; taxing of social security pensions and benefits was introduced; grants for senior citizens centres were terminated; expenditure on sickness and unemployment benefits was cut by $33m; subsidies for aged persons homes were reduced by SO per cent; funding for the Australian Assistance Plan was completely withdrawn; funding for the Aboriginal people was cut by 30 per cent in real terms; the Labor Government’s programs for urban and regional development were virtually destroyed; funds for the school dental service were frozen; the legal aid service was strangled before it had a chance to function; child care services were savagely cut back, and despite all these cuts in government expenditure, taxes were also increased by 25 per cent and the Government did everything in its power to curb wage increases, with the result that over the year average wages fell by $ 1 1 .50 a week. [More…]
I mention the case of a constituent, a young woman with two children. [More…]
He examined the child’s mouth and told the mother that the child had an abscess and that the cost of treatment would be $140. [More…]
She did not know what to do and the child had to suffer for three days. [More…]
The child was taken to the clinic and the abscess removed. [More…]
The fact is that any taxpayer with dependants is worse off as a result of the removal of a rebate for dependant children and the substitution of rates of child endowment which are unindexed. [More…]
The Yes case campaigners contended that local councils were unable to provide sewerage, roads, community health services, child care facilities and facilities for sport and recreation without huge rate increases. [More…]
It can be seen from the statement that the transfer covers a wide range of important functions such as primary industry, child, family and community welfare, payroll tax and stamp duties. [More…]
The absence of both parents from the home leads to increased demands for child care facilities and welfare services which are provided as a matter of course in the traditional one income family. [More…]
I refer to the extension of the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
The Government is conscious of the additional costs that can be incurred in caring for a handicapped child at home. [More…]
At present low income families may not be eligible for the handicapped child’s allowance because their child does not satisfy the medical criteria for a severely handicapped child. [More…]
The Government in this Budget has now decided to extend eligibility for the handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
The DirectorGeneral of Social Services, at his discretion, will be able to grant a handicapped child’s allowance of up to $15 a week to a person on low income who has the custody, care and control of a substantially handicapped child who at present does not fully meet the medical criteria. [More…]
It has cut back on education, on welfare housing for Aborigines, on child minding centres and on a host of other things on which it cannot properly justify cutting back. [More…]
We need more people to provide child care facilities for the mothers of this country. [More…]
Probably 350 of those options would be vocations of which neither the parents nor the child had ever heard. [More…]
The poor things have to send menchildren to Melbourne Grammar School. [More…]
If they have only one child they have to send him to Magdalen College at Oxford. [More…]
Provides for cuts in real terms in expenditure for traditional federal areas such as welfare housing, hospital and health services, pre-school and child care centres, legal aid, school dental schemes, growth centres, sewerage and other programs; [More…]
The Government increased child endowment; that is true. [More…]
However, it also abolished tax deductions for children. [More…]
So, that total effect was that the increase in the child endowment was almost completely offset. [More…]
I have five dependent children. [More…]
Because of the elimination of the tax rebate of $250 for each dependent child, I am $4.50 worse off each week. [More…]
Other people with dependent children must be similarly affected. [More…]
If a child has to attend a hospital considerable expense for the parent to be near the child is involved. [More…]
Converting the child rebates into higher child endowment payments meant that the Government avoided the expense of indexing those particular rebates. [More…]
Thus, in a full year, the net cost of the higher child endowment payments was no more than the cost of indexing the child rebates would have been. [More…]
It is on this basis that the Opposition is arguing that ‘the vast majority of taxpaying families’ would have been better off had the Government maintained the child rebates and indexed them in 1976 and 1977 in the same way that the other rebates were indexed. [More…]
To put the matter into perspective let me say that since 1972 fewer than 40 cases of child abduction have been referred to my Department. [More…]
The removal of children from Australia by one parent without the consent of the other is, of course, illegal. [More…]
What is not widely known is that certain steps can be taken to prevent children being removed illegally. [More…]
If a parent considers that his or her partner may remove a child without his or her consent he or she should fill in an inquiry form at a passport office. [More…]
This will at least help to prevent travel documents being provided for the child until a court order can be obtained. [More…]
When a court order is obtained the parent should have a lawyer notify all carriers that to remove the child would be a contravention of section 63 of the Migration Act. [More…]
These will provide at least a partial solution to the problem of child abduction. [More…]
As I understand it, despite its investigations, which included interviews with the reporter from the Sunday Independent who wrote the original story and interviewed a member of the Senate, it has been unable to discover anyone who admits to being a member of the organisation or anyone who has first hand knowledge of it However, I understand that the Attorney-General’s Department has received no complaints of child abductions being carried out by any such organisation. [More…]
A household with two adults and one child with an income of under $80 weekly spends $16.37 per week on transport costs, that is passenger movement and the transport input in the cost of commodities. [More…]
Now let us consider a household with two adults and two children with an income of under $80 per week. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party introduced a grant for the parents of isolated children because we wanted every child in Australia to have access to educational opportunities. [More…]
But this Government allowed the roads to deteriorate to such an extent that half the number of school buses are bogged down and the children cannot get to the schools. [More…]
On the one hand the Government makes grants available to educate children and on the other hand it denies them that opportunity because of the roads on which the buses have to run. [More…]
As I said to women last Saturday: ‘All you have to do is to take your child into a kindergarten and sit in’. [More…]
When parents separate and cannot agree about the care of their children, the law usually refers to the problem as a dispute about ‘custody’, a word which has overtones of the prison rather than the family. [More…]
Actually, a number of legal terms must be distinguished: A child’s guardian is the person who is responsible for him- he has the right (and the duty) to make such decisions as where the child will live and go to school, whether he will undergo serious medical treatment, and so on. [More…]
Formerly, the father was the child’s guardian, but since the Family Law Act, which came into force on 5 January 1976, both parents are guardians. [More…]
The word custody usually refers to the situation after a court has determined a dispute: The parent having custody is the one who lives with and looks after the child from day to day, and makes most of the decisions affecting his life. [More…]
The other parent usually has access, which amounts to the right to visit the child or have him stay with that parent at certain times. [More…]
The House will recall that last May I raised with the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) the matter of the appalling level of child abductions in Australia in recent years. [More…]
Because of my concern about child abductions and the difficulties that the Family Court faces I wrote a lengthy submission to the former Attorney-General and I shall make some reference to it. [More…]
One area which has frequently been exploited relates to a passport under which a child or children may be lawfully taken out of the country on a passport that may have been obtained by one or other of the parents some time before proceedings in the Family Court commenced. [More…]
In situations where the custody of the child is paramount I think the passports ought to be surrendered. [More…]
If neither party wants the child ‘s name presently on the passport to be changed during the proceedings the court need not intervene. [More…]
Regrettably, most child abductions from this country affect people who are dual nationals holding dual passports. [More…]
Where an order made by a court (including a court of a prescribed overseas country) with respect to the custody of a child is in force, a court having jurisdiction under this Act may issue a warrant authorising or directing the person, or any of the persons, to whom it is addressed to take possession of the child and to deliver the child to the person entitled to custody or to some other person or authority (including a person or authority in or from a prescribed overseas country) named in the order on behalf of the person entitled to custody. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister for Special Trade Negotiations who represents the Attorney-General, to the House and to the Government that there must be a far more effective and efficient method for parents to have a warrant executed and the child returned to them when a court order has been defied. [More…]
I have had two cases drawn to my attention in which a parent obtained through the Social Security Department the address of a spouse who had defied the Family Court order for custody and abducted the child. [More…]
Public child minding facilities for the children of witnesses and others who come to the court are provided also. [More…]
I think the honourable member will find that the Department, after having received certain advice, will in fact provide particulars in an appropriate way to help locate a child and have the child taken from the offending parent. [More…]
I say quite categorically that I do not believe the abduction of a child should be treated as a criminal matter. [More…]
To adopt a course will not result necessarily in bringing back the child. [More…]
The ‘child-napping’ or whatever one likes to call it, may well be a crime on the part of the parent. [More…]
But it is no satisfaction to have the parent back and the child somewhere in some other part of the world with his grandparents. [More…]
The children of parents in the lower socioeconomic group are really suffering a burden, as the Karmel report clearly showed. [More…]
The Commission was set up in an effort to reverse that imbalance, on the basis that every child should have an equal opportunity and on the basis that they should be supported by way of funds. [More…]
We know that at the end of the year, when you come up for examination, those who went to schools and who have had financial support, perhaps to the extent of $2,000, will do a lot better that the poor unfortunate child who has had support to the extent of about $300. [More…]
All the techniques, all the teaching aids, everything will be there for the children of the wealthy parents because the aids could be bought. [More…]
Children from the lower socio-economic group will have to do the best they can. [More…]
So we get the present problem in Australia that because a child might have poor parents he is to remain deprived and a victim of the environment into which he was born. [More…]
Schooling has become a social service which the Government has undertaken to provide and each child is personally entitled under our present system to a certain amount each year towards the rising cost of his or her schooling. [More…]
It is the individual child ‘s personal need for a suitable education that establishes its right to this money, a right it exercises through its parents or guardians. [More…]
Parents in turn have the responsibility and right of choosing for their children a school which meets their legitimate preferences. [More…]
It seems to me when I consider the complications that might arise from this present Bill, which I support, that the simplest way of calculating the amount due to each child would be to make it equal to the actual average cost, whether it be the local, region or State cost, of maintaining a place in a government school. [More…]
This Government is providing 20 per cent for a child who might need 80 per cent or 100 per cent, yet honourable members opposite stand up here as Australians and talk about education. [More…]
I will name just a few of them: The States Grants (Home Care) Act, the sport and recreation grants, the area improvement program, child care and preschool services, hospital and health services, community arts, the Regional Employment Development scheme and the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
These projects range from community health centres to day hospitals, day care centres, geriatric services, health education services, maternal and child care services, drug and rehabilitation facilities, funding for community nursing and so on. [More…]
I have a wife and a young child. [More…]
The matter about which I speak this afternoon concerns the appropriation for the Office of Child Care and the payments to the States for which that Office has responsibility. [More…]
I think that, if we look at the lamentable record of the Fraser Government in the field of children’s services since it decided not to proceed with the establishment of a children’s commission and decided instead to establish a mere division within the Department of Social Security, we will see just how important institutions occasionally can be in flagging changes in government policies. [More…]
The lengths to which the Government has gone to conceal the change in policy and of heart which it has had about the support it is prepared to offer to child care throughout Australia are extraordinary. [More…]
The first thing I point out is how oddly the estimates for child care are constructed. [More…]
It is difficult to track payments to preschools, to family day care centres, to full day care centres and to other child care projects such as pre-school centres, after-school centres and holiday school programs. [More…]
No one could quarrel with the priorities the Government set for itself or at least announced in relation to family day care and for all its child care projects. [More…]
The Government announced that it would give priority of access to single parent children, migrant children and children with special needs. [More…]
The consequence is that children within those categories are now no longer able to attend pre-school as their parents cannot afford it. [More…]
They will be filled by children from more affluent families who live in areas which may be more remote from these areas. [More…]
Children will come the extra miles to get a place in a preschool because of the shortage in their own areas. [More…]
The Director of the Office of Child Care conceded in testimony before the Senate Estimates committee dealing with this matter that in the last financial year in New South Wales there was still $6.8m worth of capital approvals outstanding for pre-school projects. [More…]
The honourable member for Sydney (Mr Les McMahon) has instanced in this place on several occasions recently the absurd position which has arisen in his electorate in the inner city part of Sydney around the Glebe area, where a brand new institution has been completed and children of residents in that district in a low income area of Sydney will not be able to afford to send their children to that pre-school. [More…]
It will be used by the more affluent commuters to jobs in the city as a child-minding centre. [More…]
That surely cannot be what the Government intended in relation to children’s services, but it is unmistakably the indirect result of the new directions of policy being set discreetly by this Government. [More…]
-We have just heard the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) talking about the provision for pre-school education and child care centres. [More…]
What he failed to do was to indicate to the House his attitudes to the overall matter of the care and education of young children. [More…]
It is time that the States exercised their responsibility and allocated greater proportions of funds into the area of childhood services, not merely into child care or pre-school education but into services to support the family in order that children can be brought up by their families and given appropriate care and education so that when they do start school they can begin their formal education without disadvantage. [More…]
Furthermore, a new scheme of family allowance has replaced the old child endowment and tax concession rebate arrangements. [More…]
Until now the criteria for the handicapped child’s allowance have been that a severely handicapped child receives $15 a week if that child is looked after by parents. [More…]
The criteria have been eased significantly, and now refer to a substantially handicapped child, particularly relating to low income families or families in necessitous financial circumstances because of the additional cost of looking after that child. [More…]
Parents must have the ability to cover their transport and accommodation cost when they have to accompany their child to a far-away metropolitan hospital. [More…]
-In speaking on the Estimates for the Department of Health this evening I raise the question of the link between child neglect and drug taking. [More…]
I hope that the proposed Commonwealth inquiry into drugs will cover the links between child abuse and drug taking. [More…]
If a child is annoying a mother by crying or playing up in some other way she may well be tempted to give the child a dose of the sedative she herself is taking. [More…]
Her child looked normal. [More…]
It was found that the child’s throat had virtually been burnt out because she had had a near lethal dose of the sedative. [More…]
We all realise that screaming and naughty children can irritate parents. [More…]
But we must remember that children can build up a tolerance to drugs and can start on the road to drug taking by parents giving them overdoses of these prescriptions or giving them when not prescribed. [More…]
I know of a case where the mother of a young child was a heroin addict. [More…]
In the opinion of some experts in the child welfare field this mother had little chance of leading a normal life. [More…]
The child was subsequently made a ward of the State. [More…]
This raises the issue of children’s rights and whether these rights are different from the rights of the parents. [More…]
It is common in the treatment of addicts with young children that the child is taken to the hospital with the mother. [More…]
This raises a conflict between the natural right of the parent to bring up a child and the child’s rights. [More…]
A child who is with his mother in the hospital will often be locked in a room with his mother, have no other children to play with and be a virtual prisoner of the institution in which the mother is placed. [More…]
The risk of physical danger to children of drug takers is high. [More…]
I know of a case in which a child of 20 months drowned in the bath because the mother was so ‘zonked’ out she did not know the child was drowning. [More…]
They may be out in the cold for long ours without tending to a small child which itself may be frail because of diet in pregnancy. [More…]
Medical practitioners when treating parents must consider rehabilitation of the child as well as the parent. [More…]
They must consider in the case of addicts whether it is proper for the child to stay with the mother during the course of treatment. [More…]
I would like to look at another recorded case in examining this question of the child ‘s rights. [More…]
The mother was shooting up, as they say, on heroin; the house in which she was living was raided by police; she was living with a prostitute and the house was frequented by addicts and dealers; the child was not changed or bathed- and she thought that she was a good mother. [More…]
Is this the right and proper environment in which to bring up a child? [More…]
What are the child’s rights? [More…]
Children are being exposed to the drug scene and the drug environment. [More…]
Presumably young children will be affected. [More…]
There are also cases of children born to heroin addicts being born with withdrawal symptoms. [More…]
It was brought about by the fact that an older child of, say, 15 months or 16 months who was still breast feeding had a prior claim on the mother’s breast and a younger child who came along died because it did not have a claim to the mother’s breast. [More…]
Finally I feel it is necessary to note that there is a distinct possibility that many Aboriginal children who fail to thrive, or who die through failure to present for medical aid in time, are suffering from deliberate neglect, which is the only form of infanticide available to the people today. [More…]
The children most likely to suffer from this fall into several quite simple categories- those of the unmarried girl, those who are the product of a tribally-wrong marriage, especially one that is incestuous as the people see it, and those born too close to a sibling; these almost certainly died in the past since the older child has the unquestioned right to the mother’s milk until it no longer needs it. [More…]
I want briefly to raise a matter which concerns members of the Amputee Children’s Society. [More…]
I think many honourable members might have been a little concerned a short time ago when the Press revealed that a deaf girl, who had been receiving the handicapped children’s allowance, was to lose that allowance because her parents were making an endeavour to normalise her attitudes as much as possible by admitting her to a state school. [More…]
Although there were very great problems involved in her attending a state school, including problems of transportation and the like, and certainly problems in relating to other children and problems in hearing lessons and so on, on balance it was felt by the parents and people who were advising them that this was a beneficial thing for the child to do. [More…]
However, because the child attended a state school, the allowance has been taken away. [More…]
I have in front of me a copy of a letter sent to a parent of an amputee child which spells out the Government’s intention to impose this means test. [More…]
The allowance will be paid where a child’s disabilities are adjudged on medical grounds to be marginally below what constitutes ‘severely handicapped’ as defined in the legislation and the family income does not exceed the adult minimum weekly wage (‘Six Capital Cities’), at present $1 10.60 per week, plus $6 for each child. [More…]
It will be paid at the rate of SIS a week or the amount of expenditure associated with the child’s disability, whichever is the lesser. [More…]
The proposed means test of $1 10.60 per week, which is the level of the minimum weekly wage, plus the allowance of $6 for each child would naturally have the effect of excluding a very large number of families who at present receive the benefit. [More…]
1) and (2) While the exact nature of the Commonwealth Government’s involvement in Australia’s observance of the International Year of the Child in 1979 has yet to be finalised, an interdepartmental committee has met a number of times to discuss and co-ordinate the efforts of a number of Commonwealth departments. [More…]
The Government has made a decision to work with both State governments and voluntary organisations in the celebrations of this Year of the Child. [More…]
I desire to ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs a question relating to the fostering of Aboriginal children under the laws of a State or the Commonwealth when the child’s home is unsatisfactory and the child is taken from the parents for the child’s safety. [More…]
Secondly, is the child fostered, if possible, to a satisfactory Aboriginal family, having regard to the overtones from the past in taking an Aboriginal child from his own race? [More…]
If it is wise to foster the child to a European family, are steps taken for the child to maintain some contact with Aboriginal people? [More…]
In respect of child migrant education, in 1976 we provided $23,254,000 through the Schools Commission’s general current grants program for child migrant education. [More…]
In addition, in 1976-77 some $534,870 was provided for other services for child migrant education. [More…]
So again, funds have increased for child migrant education. [More…]
If the Minister were serious about child migrant education he would never be out of the office of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), because funds are being cut in that area. [More…]
Persons who have come to this country to establish a new life and a new future for themselves and their children are having that vision shattered as a result of the partisan attitude of the Government and particularly of the Minister. [More…]
They do not have a person who can stay at home and look after children; so they have to pay for child care facilities. [More…]
If they have two or three children, often the rent burden becomes intolerable. [More…]
I join with Senator Ryan in another place in calling upon the Minister for the Capital Territory to review the POliCY and take into account child care payments by lone parents and also family size. [More…]
The following official collections all do so: quinquennial censuses of population and housing; records of persons registered for employment with the Commonwealth Employment Service; hospital morbidity collections in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory; imprisonment censuses in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia; court statistics in Western Australia; child adoption statistics in New South Wales; vital statistics in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Every Australian school child for generations suffered because of it. [More…]
Are the parents of those children who attend private schools not entitled to a contribution from the public purse similar to that received by the parents of children attending government schools? [More…]
After all they are taxed on the same basis, their children have the same needs and some of those private and independent schools are showing us things that we need to learn that will benefit all children, including those in the government schools. [More…]
The guidelines that the Government put down were in line with its long announced policy that at least 20 per cent of the cost of educating a child in any school system should be provided from the public purse. [More…]
Some children have the cost of their entire education met from the taxpayers’ dollar. [More…]
The honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) seemed to be putting that every child should have an equal opportunity and that we should not interfere with the existing system. [More…]
The Commission clearly established that children in Australia now have nothing like an equal opportunity. [More…]
The resources that parents want to devote to the education of their child could be as high as $ 1 ,400 a year. [More…]
It is no good talking about that being the norm for every child in Australia, because the same resource allocation is not available to all in the competitive education system. [More…]
But surely everybody would agree that if the resource allocation norm is $1,400 every child ought to have $1,400 available. [More…]
It gets back to the old sectarian issues from the point of view of looking after the interests of children. [More…]
That is more a problem for parents than for children. [More…]
There is now a subsidy of 32 per cent for more than 300,000 children, but the Government says that it does not matter, that levels 1 and 2 will be increased to 20 per cent and will receive $2m. [More…]
Over 300,000 children in need now have to compete on an equal basis. [More…]
How can a child compete if his parents happen to have a very miserly income? [More…]
The child of the deserted wife and the orphaned child have no chance, and Professor Karmel identified that. [More…]
We, as Australians, have a responsibility when we collect taxes all over the country to guarantee those children the same resource allocation. [More…]
For the Government to say that it will give only 20 per cent when a child needs 35 per cent is an indictment of its policy. [More…]
They have been around since Adam was a child. [More…]
Extension of eligibility for handicapped child’s allowance to less severe cases where the family income is low and financial hardship would otherwise be suffered. [More…]
Handicapped Child’s Allowance [More…]
At present handicapped child’s allowance of $15 a week is payable to parents or guardians in respect of a severely physically or mentally handicapped child under 16 years of age who is cared for at home and who, because of the severity of the handicap, requires constant care and attention. [More…]
This should not be confused with handicapped child’s benefit which is paid at $5 per day for handicapped children residing in an approved home. [More…]
The handicapped child’s allowance is designed to assist in meeting the exceptional costs incurred by parents or guardians who p refer to care for a severely handicapped child at h ome rather than to place the childin an institution. [More…]
It has come to notice that there are a number of low income families caring for a child who is substantially handicapped but not severely handicapped and for whom handicapped child’s allowance is not paid because the medical criteria are not fully met. [More…]
The Government is aware of the additional costs that can be incurred in caring for a handicapped child at home and that it places a strain- often a severe strain- on the finance of low-income parents. [More…]
These expenses can arise out of the need to provide special footwear or other clothing, special diets or specific medical or remedial treatment that the parents of other children are not required to provide. [More…]
The Government has accordingly decided to extend eligibility for handicapped child’s allowance. [More…]
The Director-General of Social Services, at his discretion, will be able to grant a handicapped child’s allowance of up to $15 a week to a person on low income who is caring for a substantially handicapped child. [More…]
The allowance will be payable in respect of a child whose substantial handicap does not fully meet the existing medical criteria but where, because of continuing substantial expenditure associated with the child’s disability, the parent or guardian is, in the Director-General’s opinion, suffering severe financial hardship. [More…]
Where there are children, additional benefit of $7.50 a week is payable for each child. [More…]
The zero rate is generally not to apply in respect of income to which no beneficiary is presently entitled, or to income of a trust set up during the lifetime of the settlor where an infant child under 16 years of age is presently entitled to the income. [More…]
This relieving power will ensure that ordinary trusts for children under 16 years of age will not be called on to pay tax where the income is under $1,041. [More…]
Trustees who are taxed on other income to which a beneficiary is presently entitled will be allowed the zero rate- for example, a trustee of a deceased estate for an infant child. [More…]
Section 26.3 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states quite unequivocally that there is a right of parents to decide the type of education that their children should receive. [More…]
It does not state that children of wealthy parents will have the right to go to independent schools, to church schools or to schools that demand fees. [More…]
The cost of educating a child at such schools is not met entirely from the public purse. [More…]
It is a complete fallacy to suggest that the children of wealthy parents attend private schools. [More…]
1) 1977-78 shows that the Government reduced the amount available for child migrant education. [More…]
It is for those reasons that while the Opposition welcomes the statement it is disappointed to think that the money could not have been made available at the time of the Budget, at the time there were negotiations between officers of the States and the Commonwealth as to what the needs were in not only adult migrant education but also child migrant education. [More…]
Child migrants are entitled to as much consideration from the Minister as adults. [More…]
In fact there has been a cut in the amount of resources available for child migrant education. [More…]
He will see that in the fields of adult migrant education and child migrant education the Commonwealth should be making available a much more substantial sum than the $ 11.8m now provided. [More…]
The 100 per cent General Rate for a wife is $4.05 per week and $1.38 per week for each eligible child. [More…]
In the 1976 Budget, the Government introduced the system of family allowances to replace child endowment and tax rebates for dependent children. [More…]
If the 1975-76 system of tax rebates and child endowment had continued and if the child rebate had been indexed in line with other rebates, thousands upon thousands of taxpaying families, the vast majority- in fact all on $240 a week or less, which I believe constitute about 80 per cent of tax-paying families- would be better off now than under the proposed tax scales we are now debating, plus the present family allowance. [More…]
The disadvantage under the family allowance system varies from $1.80 for a family with one child to $5.30 for a family with five children. [More…]
This comparison reveals that a family with five children and an income of $200 a week will be over $6 a week worse off as a result of this Government’s tax changes. [More…]
On the other hand, a family with one child and an income of $400 a week will be over $7 a week better off. [More…]
Trusts formed for children by a living trustee will be exempt from taxation on incomes below $1,040. [More…]
One of the more common trusts is where the mother, father or parent has a trust for their children and where the income is below $1,040 it will not be taxable. [More…]
A trust for an infant child, which is the proceeds of a will, will have a tax exemption level of $3,750. [More…]
When the Treasurer introduced these Bills, he said that the provisions will ensure that ordinary trusts for children under 16 years of age will not be called on to pay tax where the income is under $ 1 ,04 1 , which I have just mentioned. [More…]
I have advocated for years in this House- and it finally came to pass- that it would be better to take child concessions out of the Income Tax Act altogether and to look after this area by means of child endowment. [More…]
The Government has taken child concessions out of the Income Tax Act and is relying on child endowment. [More…]
These are: General resources programs- general recurrent grants, including funds for child migrant and multicultural education, emergency aid for nongovernment schools, and capital grants; specific purpose programs- disadvantaged schools and schools in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development including education centres, and special projects. [More…]
It abolished child rebates and instead significantly increased the rates of child endowment payments, which it renamed ‘family allowances.’ [More…]
Converting the child rebates into higher child endowment payments meant that the Government avoided the expense of indexing those particular rebates. [More…]
Thus, in a full year, the net cost of the higher child endowment payments was no more than the cost of indexing the child rebates would have been. [More…]
It is on this basis that the Opposition is arguing that ‘the vast majority of taxpaying families’ would have been better off had the Government maintained the child rebates and indexed them in 1976 and 1977 in the same way that the other rebates were indexed. [More…]
by omitting from column 3 of the table in sub-section 2: ‘ In respect of 1 such child-$226 [More…]
In respect of each other such child -$ 1 70 ‘ and substituting: ‘In respect of each such child-$50’. [More…]
There is the extension of the eligibility for the handicapped child’s allowance to less severe cases where the family income is low and financial hardship would otherwise be suffered. [More…]
The Bill gives no indication of how the handicapped child’s allowance will be applied or how the Director-General will decide whether a particular instance causes severe financial hardship to the family. [More…]
January because to look after their children is just one of the obligations that parents accept. [More…]
I have received complaints from my electorate, and I am sure that other people received them last year, from persons who were completely unable to look after their school leaver children at that time. [More…]
What I find particularly unpleasant is the fact that the family allowance stops when the child leaves school. [More…]
In the case of pensioners the dependant benefit stops when school finishes; yet those children do not become eligible for anything else. [More…]
That is fair enough if the child can find a job, but we all know that it will be very difficult this year, as it was last year- it will be even more difficult this year- for young people to find a job. [More…]
What does the woman who is on a widow’s pension do for six weeks to look after her child who is unable to find a job? [More…]
There may be the case of a widow, or any other person receiving social security benefits, whose children have been entitled to a benefit of, I think, $7.50. [More…]
The children have been entitled to a family allowance, depending on their position in the family, of at least $3.50 per week. [More…]
The allowance can be affected if there are a number of other children. [More…]
The other children then move into other positions and the family allowance drops. [More…]
That child then has the additional costs of trying to find a job- the costs of going to the Commonwealth Employment Service office, going to the office of the Department of Social Security, ringing up, buying newspapers which advertise jobs and that sort of thing. [More…]
When one of the children reaches the age of 16 or 18 years and leaves school, and after a period of six weeks has not found a job, that family, provided the child is under 18 years, will receive $36 a week, and if the child is over 1 8 years the family will receive, I think, $49.30 a week even though there is a parental income of $500, $600 or $700 a week. [More…]
We talk about the family unit in the sense of two spouses with a total income inasmuch as one or the other is entitled to a benefit, but the children are not taken into account. [More…]
Family allowances, of course, are the direct descendants of such matters as child endowment and all the rest of it. [More…]
(1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears- ‘ beneficiary ‘ means a person in receipt of a benefit; ‘benefit’ means a benefit under this Part, and includes an allowance by way of supplementary assistance; ‘child’ means a child under the age of 16 years; ‘supporting father’ means a man (whether married of unmarried) who- [More…]
has the custody, care and control of a child who has attained the age of 6 months, being a child- [More…]
ii) in the case of a man who is a married man living apart from his wife or a man who has ceased to live with a woman as her husband on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to her-who was an adopted child of, or in the custody, care and control of, that man on the relevant date; [More…]
a ) has the custody, care and control of a child who has attained the age of 6 months, being a child who- [More…]
in the case of a woman who is a married woman living apart from her husband or a woman who has ceased to live with a man as his wife on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to him- was an adopted child of, or in the custody, care and control of, that woman on the relevant date; [More…]
For the purposes of this Part, a child who is being maintained by a person shall be deemed to be a child of whom the person has, and had at any time when the person was maintaining the child, the custody, care and control. [More…]
were a child; [More…]
a ) in the case of a woman who is a supporting mother in relation to a child born of her- that child was born while she was residing in Australia; [More…]
in the case of a man who is a supporting father in relation to a child of whom he is the father- that child was born in Australia and that man was residing in Australia at the time of that birth; [More…]
A benefit shall not be granted to a person who is a supporting parent unless the Director-General considers that it is reasonable that the supporting parent should have taken action to obtain maintenance from the person or persons who is or are the father or fathers, or the mother or mothers, as the case may be, of the child or children in relation to whom the first-mentioned person is the supporting parent and that that person has taken such action to obtain such maintenance as the Director-General considers reasonable. [More…]
A supporting father will be eligible for benefit of $49.30 a week plus $7.50 a week for each child, including a student child. [More…]
In addition, a guardian’s allowance of $6 a week will be payable where he has the care of a child under six years of age, or an invalid child- $4 a week if the child is over six years but not an invalid. [More…]
Thus a supporting father with two children, one of whom is under six years of age may receive, subject to the income test, a total benefit of $70.30 a week. [More…]
A lone father also has emotional problems with which to deal, particularly if he has teenage children. [More…]
The problem is accentuated if the teenage child happens to be a daughter. [More…]
When a father is left alone, the struggle to maintain a full time job while still providing for child minding during the time he is away outside school hours is extemely difficult. [More…]
When a woman remarries she is still able to stay at home with her children. [More…]
Concerned fathers have told me that they must think very carefully before remarrying and consider the compatibility of the children with their prospective new mother, as she will be the one with whom they will spend most of their time. [More…]
Above all they must face the task of convincing themselves and their children that they can manage alone. [More…]
I would suggest that there are plenty of people in the Minister’s electorate- widows with children leaving school for example. [More…]
They lose the family allowance for the child. [More…]
They lose the pension benefit for their children once they leave school and they cannot receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
The tables to which I have referred are evidence that unless the Government grapples with the needs of education it will not give equal opportunity to every child in Australia. [More…]
We got rid of that and looked at the matter on the basis of what should be done for the children of Australia. [More…]
Again we make the point that the Liberal Party and apparently the National Country Party have got hooked onto this ridiculous mathematical policy that every child is to be given 20 per cent towards the cost of maintaining him at school. [More…]
A migrant child needs more additional resources than have been made available here. [More…]
The Karmel report drew attention to the children of the lower socio-economic groups. [More…]
The dignity of the child has been destroyed and nothing has been done to see that every Australian has an equal opportunity. [More…]
Unless the child is given the opportunity it will not get it later. [More…]
The child may have all the problems of not having a good home environment, having one parent or no parents. [More…]
That disadvantage to that child has to be made up now and not later. [More…]
In short, they are: The general resources programs- general recurrent grants, including funds for child migrant and multicultural education, emergency aids for nongovernment schools and capital grants; specific purpose programs- disadvantaged schools and schools in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children, including children living in institutions, services and development including education centres and, of course, other special projects. [More…]
Expenditure on schools, pre-schools and child care rose from $594m to $664m. [More…]
I do appeal to the Schools Commission to come back to the conception we had about its work, that is, that it is quite irrelevant to the Commonwealth whether an Australian citizen happens to be a child in a government school or a child in a non-government school. [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 first aspect of the problem is that the poorer people are, the less critical they tend to be about what their children are getting in education. [More…]
Now as a parent I want my child to have educational advantages, but honourable gentlemen opposite are not in the slightest degree interested in my child’s advantages. [More…]
They ought to be interested in education as an instrument of every child’s dignity and every child’s efficiency. [More…]
If children have deployed behind their education already a very high resource level, it is not wise in a budget of limited resources to deploy more behind those children at the expense of those less privileged, who are not getting a proper deployment of resources behind their education. [More…]
The mere fact that some Catholic schools which has been catering for very poor children and therefore needed massive support got a rate of 95 per cent of its running costs from the Commonwealthand it was open to any child to enrolwould not mean that there would be a Protestant deluge into the school. [More…]
1 ) Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to a statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 19 September 1977 in relation to child abductions. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General urgently recommend a system of children’s visas, whereby no child could leave Australia without the consent of any person with custody or guardianship of, or access to, that child. [More…]
1 ) The Attorney-General’s attention has been drawn to a statement made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives on 21 September 1977 in answer to a question by the honourable member concerning child abductions. [More…]
Sections 64 and 70 of the Family Law Act already authorise a Court to order the passports of a child or any other person to be delivered up to the Court if there is a possibility of the removal of the child from Australia or the person has deliberately defied a custody or access order. [More…]
1 ) Did he say in answer to my question without notice on 30 May 1977 (Hansard, page 2097), regarding child care programs, that a number of research studies have been funded in previous years under the Children’s Services Program, some of them relating to psycho-social development of children; if so, which of these studies researched the matter raised in my question. [More…]
Have any of these studies confirmed the findings of certain prominent British psychiatrists who have found that children under the age of 3 years and who constantly lose the care of their mothers through hospitalisation or regular attendance at child care institutions, suffer long term psychological and emotional damage. [More…]
The World Health Organisation Chronicle recently made reference to a Report of the WHO Expert Committee on Mental Health in an article ‘Child Development- Separating Fact from Fancy’. [More…]
Will he arrange, in conjunction with his colleagues, for the withdrawal of the passports of any citizen or citizens who appear before the Family Court in relation to child custody matters to ensure that children are not removed from jurisdiction. [More…]
Australian courts already have the power to order a parent or guardian involved in a custody suit to surrender a travel document in which a child ‘s name appears. [More…]
The illegal removal of children from Australia is of continuing concern to the Government and the procedure for the issue of passports taking into account the danger of child abduction is under active review involving appropriate Ministers and departments. [More…]
International Year of the Child (Question No. [More…]
When did the Prime Minister commence negotiations with the Premiers on co-operative arrangements with the States in planning Australia’s observance of the International Year of the Child, 1979, adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1976. [More…]
The Government considers that planning for the International Year of the Child should be co-ordinated between Commonwealth and State governments at ministerial level to ensure maximum participation of non-government organisations. [More…]
International Year of the Child (Question No. [More…]
Which departments are represented on the interdepartmental committee established to plan Australia’s observance of the International Year of the Child in 1 979. [More…]
1 ) to (4) Officers of the Departments of Health, Finance, Education, Aboriginal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Ethnic Affairs and Social Security have met to ensure cooperative preliminary planning for the International Year of the Child. [More…]
Ministers has now been set up to supervise Commonwealth involvement in the International Year of the Child, it will be possible to formalise the membership and terms of reference of the Inter-Departmental Committee. [More…]
Special benefit may be paid under discretionary provisions in section 124 of the Social Services Act to a lone father who is required to care for a sick or young child providing assistance is not available from friends, relatives, nursery or creche. [More…]
As from 1 November 1977 the rate of benefit is $49.30 a week plus $7.50 a week for each child. [More…]
What would have been the expected expenditure under the previous rates payable for child endowment [More…]
The estimate provided by the Department of Social Security is that, on the assumption that the previous conditions of eligibility as well as the previous rates of child endowment had been maintained, the full-year cost of child endowment would have been some $230m. [More…]
This cost estimate is based on the estimated number of families with children under 16 years of age and families with student children aged 16 years to 20 years at 30 June 1977. [More…]
The following table has been provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and shows the identified outlay by State Governments on pre-school and child care programs for the years 1971-72 to 1975-76. [More…]
State outlays include grants to local authorities made from funds provided by the Commonwealth under its Pre-schools and Child Care Program. [More…]
Let me say that in relation to the three children of the two families involved the Commonwealth is in the process of establishing a special trust. [More…]
The Commonwealth is leading the nation in establishing a sum of $ 15,000 for each child in that trust and it will be administered for the benefit of the children and the families. [More…]
The advertisement was authorised by Mr J. Zeleznikow of 16 Virginia Circuit, South Caulfield, and it invited support at the election on 10 December last year for Labor Party candidates Mrs Child, Mr Steele, Mr Ross and Mr Holding. [More…]
Thank you for your letter of 8 December drawing to my attention the paid full-page advertisement in the 2 December edition of the Australian Jewish News inviting support for Labor Parry candidates Child, Steele, Ross and Holding and carrying the heading ‘Anthony Pleads Nazi’s Cause’. [More…]
The Government has now taken the first step in this regard by its decision to abolish Commonwealth estate duty on property pasing to a spouse or parent or child of a deceased, and that abolition will be retrospective to 21 November 1977 when the Prime Minister first announced the decision. [More…]
In addition, no gift duty will be payable on property given on or after that date by a person, his or her spouse or child or parent. [More…]
Being born in Australia, I could speak English as a child. [More…]
The honourable member is a child in international relations. [More…]
Under successive conservative governments the aviation industry has been treated as a pampered child, without the public being given an opportunity to express its needs and wants in a public forum. [More…]
Unless increased family allowances and adequate parent allowances are provided, those mothers who wish to look after their young children have no choice but to seek paid employment. [More…]
Child endowment was rarely adjusted to compensate for the declining purchasing power of the dollar. [More…]
In 1976 the tax rebates for dependent children were superseded by increased child endowment payments which were renamed ‘family allowances’. [More…]
It could be part of Australia ‘s response to the United Nations Year of the Child. [More…]
We should pay bread winners undertaking these courses and provide child care for participants where necessary. [More…]
I have in front of me a comparison of the amounts spent on migrant adult and child education under the last Hayden Budget of 1975-76, as it has become known, and under the present Budget. [More…]
Expenditure on the adult program in 1975-76 was $8,231,313 and expenditure on the child program was $21,814,753. [More…]
In this Budget year, 1977-78, the amount for the adult program has been raised to $1 1,878,000, which is the largest amount of money ever spent in Australia on adult migrant education, and the amount for the child program has been raised to $26,005,500, which again is the largest amount ever provided. [More…]
Every child cannot be an academic. [More…]
I believe it to be a great waste of resources to push a child or a person through 12 years of schooling, six years of which are at high school, cramming the brain with subjects that are of absolutely no use in a chosen vocation until at the age of 1 8 the person commences training possibly for a trade, possibly for an office job or possibly for an academic career. [More…]
Parents of my age group who went through wars and depressions possibly pushed their children into academic careers feeling that these children would receive a greater monetary recompense. [More…]
But I feel that too many parents for personal snob value- not snob value for the child but snob value for themselvespush little Johnny or Mary into educational pursuits which are beyond their mental capacity. [More…]
I feel that this is a great danger to the child. [More…]
I have seen children- young men and young ladies- who have completed a course of education to obtain the higher school certificates. [More…]
That is a tragedy for the child. [More…]
It seems to me that there must be changes in our education system itself and that government moneys must and should be spent for the benefit of the nation -for the benefit of our children certainly- but not as it seems apparent today for the benefit of school teachers- a group which is treated as another holy cow. [More…]
There was a word of sense in what was attributed to the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) recently, when he was reported to have said that more women should stay in the homes and produce children. [More…]
But he denied making that statement, because today it is not popular to produce children; we have to give women their place in life, and that is out in the work force. [More…]
How can a so-called Christian country such as Australia tolerate the mass slaughter of innocent unborn children that takes place today? [More…]
Today the two-child family is the standard, and that is insufficient even to maintain our present population. [More…]
If ever I have seen a handicapped child, it is that dear little girl. [More…]
He was requested to look into the situation to see whether a handicapped children’s allowance would be made available to Priscilla ‘s parents. [More…]
In its report that Committee made 52 recommendations covering matters relating to braking, retreading of tyres, lighting, field of vision, seat belts and child restraints and regulatory controls and authorities as well as accident recording and data collection and analysis. [More…]
The complex was to include theatres, an art gallery, youth centres, recreational centres, child care facilities and some retailing space. [More…]
It is contemplated that the profits would provide occasional child care centres at shopping centres and recreational facilities which have not been supplied by the Government in the Belconnen area. [More…]
The profits of the Authority would provide general recreational and child care facilities and any other facilities or amenities that are not supplied by the Government which has let the people of Canberra down very badly in that respect. [More…]
We are told by church leaders that the consequences of the present intolerable numbers of registered jobless will be family breakdown, child abuse, mental and physical illness, alcoholism and, again, crime. [More…]
At that time the payments were $57 per week for the injured person, so much for his wife and so much for any children. [More…]
In October 1976 the present Government updated the payments to, I think, $80 per week for the injured person, $2 1 for his wife and $10 for each child. [More…]
At the present time the weekly payments are $80 for the injured person, $2 1 for his wife and $ 10 for each child. [More…]
To a man with, say a wife and two children, that means $ 12 1 a week. [More…]
The reason I put this proposition to the Government is that it is totally inequitable for the present situation to continue when the Government has now determined that death and gift duties should be removed, and in fact have been removed in regard to estates passing between parent and child and husband and wife as at 2 1 November last. [More…]
Is it sensible to penalise the parent who sends his child to a private school, but who is poorer than a wealthy parent who sends his child to a public school? [More…]
It blew a hand off a child. [More…]
The legislation, firstly, will provide that no estate duty will be payable by the estate of a person dying on or after 2 1 November 1977 in respect of property passing to the spouse, a child or a parent of the deceased person. [More…]
In addition, no gift duty will be payable on property given on or after that date by a person to his or her spouse, child or parent. [More…]
In the last two years, there have been savage cutbacks in funding for urban renewal, sewerage, land commissions, growth centres, health facilities, schools, parks, libraries and child care. [More…]
Firstly, Mr W. M., is a father of three children. [More…]
He found that his cheques have been running two and three weeks behind for the past three months and on several occasions he has been forced to send his two school children to school without breakfast. [More…]
A. is the father of six children. [More…]
On the last occasion in early February he was unable to purchase exercise books for his children or afford school shoes for the children concerned. [More…]
Finally, the fourth case is that of Mr E. P., who has one child and his wife is pregnant. [More…]
The child had bronchitis and the parents were unable to afford medicine. [More…]
All of these consumer organisations- let us call them that; I refer also to associations of hospital patients in particular hospitals and parent and child care organisationsshould be brought into that review procedure. [More…]
Many more black people than white people nursed me when I was a child. [More…]
I am informed that State and Territory child welfare authorities have stated that 1 96 of the children in question have now been adopted and the adoption of the majority of the remaining children is pending. [More…]
I remember what happened when I was in medical practice and I was dealing with children suffering from measles or some other common complaint. [More…]
The vast majority of children with measles will recover from that condition and no specific treatment is necessary. [More…]
A proportion of children will have complications, such a chest infections, ear infections and possibly encephalitis. [More…]
But it is wrong to put the onus on the mother or father of the child to decide whether to have that child completely checked at the appropriate time and pay $10 or $14 for that to be done. [More…]
A large number of people will wrongly decide- I emphasise the words ‘wrongly decide’- that they will not obtain treatment for a child. [More…]
The child may then contract a significant chest infection, such as pneumonia. [More…]
It may reach the stage of bronchiectasis We know that a large number of children with that disease suffered firstly from one of the relatively minor virus diseases of childhood, of which measles is one of the most common. [More…]
I can remember as a child that a two lb loaf of bread and a pound of sugar cost the same. [More…]
Before I am finished my speech, if we consider the averages, one child will have been killed and disposed of. [More…]
This is not the killing of an unborn baby; it is the killing of a living child which has proceeded from the body of its mother. [More…]
Another method of killing the child before birth is exsanguination, by which the baby’s umbilicus is drawn outside the woman’s body and cut to allow the baby to bleed to death while it is unborn. [More…]
The Government’s decisions mean that no estate duty will be payable by the estate of a person dying on or after 21 November 1977 in respect of property passing to the surviving spouse, a child, a grandchild, a parent or a grandparent of the deceased person, and no gift duty will be payable on property given by a person on or after that date to relatives within those classes. [More…]
One effect of the proposed amendments will be that gift dutywill not be payable in respect of gifts made on or after 2 1 November 1977 to the extent that they are for the benefit of the spouse, a child, a grandchild, a parent or a grandparent of the donor. [More…]
I find it difficult to justify, for example, that Australia’s assistance to young marrieds with children is one of the lowest in the world at the same time as it should be considering, and rightly so, an increased migration policy. [More…]
It is a matter of justice as between the child born to an Australian family and the child born overseas who is to be a migrant to this country. [More…]
We know also however, that there was a reduction in terms of the total household income then available to all taxpaying families with children. [More…]
What has been his response to representations made to him on 28 October 1977 by the NSW Local Government Community Workers’ Association in which concern and dismay was expressed about the drastic curtailment of funding for the following Government responsibilities: (a) welfare workers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, (b) Family Law Court Counselling Service, (c) education programs, including after school care, child care and other family care programs, and migrant classes for adults, (d) health care services including community health centres, domiciliary care services and women’s health centres, (e) unemployment and unemployment relief schemes, (0 housing, in particular housing for the aged and invalid people, (g) pension and benefit reductions in real values and proposed transfers of responsibility for these, (h) 470 community programs funded under the Australian Assistance Plan, (i) programs for the handicapped, (j) the Legal Aid Commission Bill, (k) Aboriginal affairs, (1) grant in aid services for migrants and interpreter services, (m) Australian Government printing services, (n) national co-ordinating bodies for youth affairs, (o) women ‘s refuges subsidies reductions and (p) Australian Bureau of Statistics processing. [More…]
I would like to take this opportunity to remind honourable members of the fraud associated with replacing our system of tax rebates and child endowment with the family allowance scheme. [More…]
But now every taxpaying family with children is much worse off than it was under Labor. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which compares the rates paid to tax paying families under the family allowance scheme with those paid under the tax rebate and child endowment arrangements. [More…]
In this table the $200 child rebate introduced in the 1975-76 Hayden Budget has been indexed in line with other tax rebates. [More…]
Under indexation the child rebate in 1977-78 would have been at least $250 per child- that is $4.82 per child per week for a taxpaying family calculated on the basis of indexing $200 by 13 per cent in 1976-77 and by 10.9 per cent in 1977-78. [More…]
The tax rebate which has now been lost in respect of a family with just one child is $4.80 a week. [More…]
The child endowment for the first child would have been 50c a week. [More…]
Therefore a family with one child would have received $5.30 a week under our system even if the level of child endowment had not at any stage been increased. [More…]
The family allowance this year for the first child is $3.50. [More…]
Therefore every family with only one child loses $1.80 a week. [More…]
A family with two children would have received a tax rebate, which is no longer available, of over $9.60 a week. [More…]
The child endowment would have been 50c for the first child and $ 1 for the second child making a total of $1 1.10 a week. [More…]
The family allowances introduced by this Government are $3.50 for the first child and $5 for the second child, making a total of $8.50 a week. [More…]
Similarly, for a family with three children the loss is $3.40 a week, for a family of four children it is $4.45, for a family of five children it is $4.75 and for a family of six children $5.30 a week. [More…]
In respect of the abolition from 2 1 November, property passing to members of a family has been denned to include a widow or widower, a child, a grandchild, a parent or a grandparent of that person. [More…]
On an estate in New South Wales valued at $100,000 the State duty paid where the property passed to a child would be $15,500. [More…]
For instance, the basic exemption now when property passes to a close relative such as a spouse, child or grandchild is $40,000 or $48,000 in the case of a primary producer’s estate. [More…]
It should also be mentioned that, in respect of rural estates worth $140,000, where the estate is left to a spouse the duty payable is only $ 1 ,900 and where it is left to a child the duty payable is $7,762. [More…]
1 ) The Fairbridge Society of London has been associated with child migration to Australia for over 60 years. [More…]
The Society now maintains two centres in Australia for the reception and care of children up to 15 years of age. [More…]
For the greater part of this period the scheme related to the entry of unaccompanied children for whom special resettlement could be undertaken. [More…]
See question ( 1 ) In addition, the Commonwealth pays a per capita arrival and equipment allowance for each child up to a maximum of $200.00 for the first twelve months based on completed months of residence at the Society’s centres. [More…]
International Year of the Child (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Is the Minister, in her capacity as Minister in charge of the Office of Child Care, responsible for Commonwealth [More…]
Government support for, and participation in, next year’s ‘Year of the Child’, if not, which Department has the responsibility. [More…]
Will any financial support for the promotion of the ‘ Year of the Child ‘ be available to voluntary organisations. [More…]
1 ) The Minister for Social Security has responsibility for co-ordinating Australia’s participation in the International Year of the Child (IYC). [More…]
With the passing of these Bills, no estate duty will be payable by the estate of a person dying on or after 2 1 November last, in respect of property passing to the surviving spouse, child, grandchild, parent or grandparent of the deceased person. [More…]
These Bills are designed to bring about a situation in which no estate duty will be payable by the estate of a person dying on or after 21 November 1977 in respect of property passing to the surviving spouse or a child, grandchild, parent or grandparent of the deceased. [More…]
What about the massive cuts in real money terms to the funds allocated to the child care area? [More…]
Consequently, how many new projects are getting approved these days in the child care area? [More…]
During the Whitlam days we of course did obtain large scale grants, particularly capital grants for child care and children’s services. [More…]
These cuts have been made not only in the child care area but in the areas of transport, housing and so on. [More…]
The type of child leaving school at the end of fourth or sixth form is the best educated young kid we have ever turned out. [More…]
He was a child of it. [More…]
1 ) What is the maximum sum provided for equipment per child place in a child care centre under the Child Care Act. [More…]
1 ) There is no maximum sum set under the Child Care Act 1 972 for equipment grants. [More…]
The level of funds provided has been sufficient to enable sponsoring organisations to purchase sufficient equipment to meet State licensing requirements for child care centres. [More…]
A review of the procedures relating to equipment grants is being undertaken by the Office of Child Care. [More…]
If ever a thimble and pea trick were played on the Australian family man and woman it was done by his Government when it decided to cut out the tax rebate for dependent children and introduce family allowances. [More…]
The situation is made all the worse by the fact that had the tax rebates for dependent children continued they would have been indexed. [More…]
The tax rebate for a person with one child would have been $4.80 a week. [More…]
The child endowment, under Labor, was 50c a week. [More…]
The family allowance for a person with one child is now $3.50 a week, instead of the 50c a week. [More…]
In other words, had the tax rebate been still operative and had it been indexed as the Government undertook, a person with one child would have been getting $4.80 a week compared with $3.50 a week today- a loss of $1.80 a week. [More…]
For a second child a person would have received $9.60, compared with the $5 received now. [More…]
A person with one child is $ 1.80 a week worse off; a person with two children is $2.60 a week worse off; a person with three children is $3.40 a week worse off; and a person with four children is $4.45 a week worse off. [More…]
A person with six children is $5.30 a week worse off. [More…]
If they sat down and looked at the matter logically, had their tax rebates for dependent children been indexed as the Government had undertaken to do, they would be far better off than they are today. [More…]
This is a society marked by rapidly increasing rates of crime, mental illness, suicide, drug addiction, vandalism, child bashing, and so forth. [More…]
On one occasion nine Australian prisoners comprising five men, three women and one child were brought in by natives and subsequently killed and beheaded. [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…]
October 1 969 by $2 a week in respect of a child under 6 or an invalid child requiring full-time care, i.e., from $4 a week to $6 a week. [More…]
Although it is now the prerogative of the States to determine their own means testing for housing commission accommodation one would expect that since the waiting list is so long, and Federal finance is so pitiful, the Labor States would probably continue to impose a means test similar to the one set out in the table I have incorporated in Hansard with an extra $2 1 a week allowed for the first child and another $25 a week allowed for a second child of a different sex, and so on, as shown in the table. [More…]
However, the Minister must accept that it is essential to increase the income ceiling at least to the national average wage- perhaps to the national average wage plus 15 per cent, with similar allowances for children as now apply in New South Wales. [More…]
As he was always a strong and healthy child, the Muhvich family have every reason to believe that the two permanent scars he now bears on his lungs are as a direct result of the fumigation carried out to slaughter the birds. [More…]
Their grandchild who was present also became sick with the same symptoms as their son. [More…]
Take for example, the case of a child living in Bourke who is referred to a Sydney specialist because there is no appropriate specialist closer. [More…]
If in this example it is necessary to travel by air, the costs of return economy class air travel for the parent and the child amount to $204.20, and when one adds the cost of accommodation for say 2 days and nights, the total cost to the parents could be of the order of a further $60. [More…]
However, in certain circumstances, usually a child under 14 years of age and as provided in the new section 14, a patient may be accompanied by both an attendant and an escort. [More…]
It provides that, commencing in the 1978-79 income year, where a child of a divorced or separated couple would, under the existing law, be taken to be a dependant for levy purposes of both parents, the child will be taken to be a dependant solely of the parent who is paid family allowances for the child. [More…]
This will avoid the situation that could arise at present where both parents may be required to pay levy up to the full family ceiling through the same child being taken as a dependant of each of them. [More…]
I remember what happened one Saturday when one of my first three children had influenza. [More…]
I rang a doctor and he said that he would call in to see the child later. [More…]
By then my three children were sick and he asked for fees for treating the three of them. [More…]
I think in particular of the mother who has to accompany her sick child to a distant city. [More…]
One of the important ones is, for example, penicillin for children, in tablet and capsule form. [More…]
The payment by the patient, or the mother of the child who receives the medication, is $2. [More…]
That is a huge increase in the case of a child who is suffering from a fairly chronic condition. [More…]
It is important to realise that amongst the 220 items affected are mogadon, lomotil fergon, rectinol, and amitryptiline type of tablets such as tryptanol, clinistix, some antihistamines, eye ointments, many cortisone ointments, butazolidin and, as I said earlier, penicillin tablets and capsules for children. [More…]
Child Welfare Ordinance 1958 [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b ) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
First child born in 1 976- $16,3 10. [More…]
Second child born in 1977- $8,419. [More…]
1241 (Hansard, 4 November 1976, page 2426) that consideration was at that stage being given to introducing restrictions on the sale of unapproved child restraints and to the feasibility of legislation requiring the wearing of approved restraints. [More…]
If so, can he now say when he will take action to implement the recommendations of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety to ensure that (a) the Australian Capital Territory legislates to ban the sale and fitting of unapproved child restraints and (b) legislation is enacted to require the wearing of restraints by children in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Consideration of legislation to control the sale of unapproved child restraints is complete. [More…]
(a) The need for legislation to control the sale of child car seats and harnesses not certified to comply with Australian Standard 1754 was considered by the Commonwealth/State Consumer Products Advisory Committee last year. [More…]
The Committee has agreed in principle that a product safety standard for child car seats and harnesses should be gazetted under the Trade Practices Act, and it is understood the recommendation is being processed within the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs. [More…]
A Bill for an Ordinance to require the wearing of restraints by children (where available) and to make it an offence to carry an unrestrained child between i and 8 years of age in the front seat of a vehicle which has rear seats is in final stages of preparation. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
Interdepartmental Committee on Child Abduction (Question No. [More…]
1 (Hansard, 8 March 1978, page 569), when will he table the recommendations of the interdepartmental Committee and the decisions of the Government on the review of the procedures relating to the issue of passports in cases where there is a danger of child abduction. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of tinAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
There should be no implication that the possession of a product makes the owners superior to their peers, nor that lack of the product may lead to ridicule and contempt No comparison should be made with last year’s models or competitive makes in such a way as to make a child possessing these feel inferior. [More…]
Results shown or claimed for advertised products, such as toys or games, should be attainable by an average child without an undue degree of skill. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strenthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
Moreover, the family allowance is to be reduced to offset a child’s income from such sources as the tertiary education allowance scheme. [More…]
Thousands of unemployed are to be denied indexation for themselves; thousands more are denied it in the allowance for their children. [More…]
Our children leave the home as soon as they are able, to begin their own nuclear families. [More…]
The situation of women who leave work for marriage and child rearing only to face years of boredom and isolation after the children are able to look after themselves is probably worse. [More…]
I understand that from time to time people actually come to civil marriage celebrants and ask for their children to be christened. [More…]
Nonetheless, if people feel some cultural need to have a ceremony to accept a child into the family and formally give it a name, I do not see why that service should be denied to them. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
First child-S 103,897.47. [More…]
Second child- Nil Third child-Nil. [More…]
First child-$80,202.34 [More…]
Second child-S 1 1 ,74 1 .24 [More…]
Third child-Nil. [More…]
First child-$47,137.82 [More…]
Second child- Nil [More…]
Third child-Nil. [More…]
Have been widely comdemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
Who benefited most from Medibank, more education, child care centres and better public hospitals? [More…]
It was a taxation deduction which was subject to a means test for the individual child. [More…]
3m for institutionalised child care and $1 1.5m for the Family (Divorce) Law Court. [More…]
In the table I have compared the cumulative tax rebate which has been lost since the Government abolished the tax rebate which was introduced in the 1975-76 Hayden Budget and the rather small child endowment that was paid under Labor with the amount the taxpayer’s family now obtains. [More…]
Let me give the example of the family with one child. [More…]
The tax rebate for that child would now have been $5.16 a week. [More…]
With the 50c child endowment, that family would have been receiving $5.66 a week. [More…]
In the case of two children the loss is $3.32 a week; for three children, $4.48 a week; for four children, $5.89 a week; for five children, $6.55 a week; and for six children, $7.46 a week. [More…]
I am not necessarily saying that those groups are not in difficult circumstances, but I feel that members of families with children and a single income who are trying to establish themselves are the worst off group in Australia at present. [More…]
The Government, during the last few weeks before the Budget came down, floated alleged proposals- I am afraid that some of our people picked these up- that family allowances for the first child were to be abolished or were to be taxed as part of the mother’s income, and so on. [More…]
They used to be its agent for the payment of child endowment. [More…]
We used to pay war pensions, invalid pensions, aged pensions, child endowment- the lot. [More…]
A special non-means tested grant has been introduced for children of beneficiaries living in tax zones A and B who qualify for either the Boarding Allowance or the Second Home Allowance. [More…]
The grant is $ 1 00 for each child who qualifies for the Boarding Allowance or $ 100 per family qualifying for the Second Home Allowance. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
Finally, social service payments: Most of the changes in the last two years, especially the move from dependants’ allowances under income tax to child endowment- [More…]
Indeed, the total treatment of Tasmania comes out something like this: From Canberra this year Tasmania will be receiving $501,894,000, which on a per capita basis works out at something like $1,100 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]
Increased funds are provided for the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service and the handicapped child’s allowance is extended to students aged 16 to 25 who do not receive an invalid pension. [More…]
Let us take the example for 1978-79 of a man on estimated average weekly earnings, with a dependant wife and two children. [More…]
Compared with the old Hayden days, he would be better off by $13 a week- $6 a week less tax plus $7 a week because the family allowance is so much more than the old child endowment. [More…]
A guidance officer attached to the Narbethong School for Visually Handicapped Children and the Queensland Training and Placement Centre for the Blind has made representations to me on behalf of many blind persons at his centre. [More…]
The Optaconoptical, tactile conversion- is looked upon by Queensland educators of the totally blind as having such potential and value to the independence and practical lifestyle of the blind individual that, along with Braille reading, it has become an essential part of the schooling of every totally blind child with the manipulative ability to use it. [More…]
and (2) Section 6(1) (b) of the Maternity Leave (Australian Government Employees) Act 1973, provides that female staff must be granted ‘Maternity Leave’ for a period of six weeks before the expected date of birth of a child and six weeks after the date of birth. [More…]
No records are kept as to whether a birth in respect of which leave is granted is the employee’s first, second, third or subsequent child. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of these periods. [More…]
Sum paid for maternity leave for first child in 1976-$95,184; 1 977-$ 1 15,479; 1978- $36,184 (to 24 May). [More…]
Sum paid for maternity leave for second child in 1976- $17,583; 1977- $10,250; 1978-$5,803 (to 24 May) [More…]
No paid leave is recorded for a third child in any of the years under review. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second, and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b ) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
On the other hand, many other people who have children with normal abilities, with all their faculties, have had virtually everything provided for them in our system, even up to the doctor of philosophy level. [More…]
The special needs of handicapped students also have been recognised by extending the eligibility for the handicapped child ‘s allowance to cover students aged 1 6 to 2 5 years of age who are not in receipt of an invalid pension. [More…]
About 60 per cent of Aboriginal people in Central Australia over 60 years of age are blind and 30 per cent of Aboriginal children under 1 1 years of age have trachoma. [More…]
Because of the lack of preventive medical services and health services, on average, urban Aboriginal children cost the Government hundreds of dollars a year per child in remedial medical costs. [More…]
Let me refer also to the position of children. [More…]
Does the honourable gentleman suggest that there should be declarations in relation to all children? [More…]
I believe it is terribly important that the children of members of parliament be able to lead and live their own independent lives. [More…]
It is hard enough for the children of politicians. [More…]
Should the assets of dependent children be made public? [More…]
What happens if they are the assets of a child who has earned those assets himself and is independent? [More…]
The Government has also gone cold on its proposal to tax family allowances according to children’s earnings. [More…]
Whilst the intention of this proposal is commendable the effect of it on ordinary families where a child shows some initiative by earning income from such activities as selling newspapers is not at all commendable. [More…]
Child care facilities are often expensive and inadequate through no fault of the people who run them. [More…]
It appears that the Government would rather bribe women not to work than live up to its responsibility for providing child care. [More…]
Duty on property passing to a spouse, child, grandchild, parent or grandparent was abolished from 21 November 1977. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
As the honourable member for Banks has pointed out, the cost of the Commonwealth Parliament last financial year was $14,218,786 or, in round figures, one dollar for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of un-Australian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
b ) Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
I am looking in particular at amounts appropriated for the International Association for Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions, the International Organisation of Citrus Virologists and the International Conference on Mining and Metallurgy. [More…]
The rates were then $57 a week for the injured person, $ 1 5 a week for his wife and $7 a week for each child. [More…]
It increased payments to $80 a week for the employee, $21 a week for his wife and $10 a week for each child. [More…]
I quoted the rates earlier: They are $80 a week for the employee, $2 1 a week for the wife and $10 a week for each child. [More…]
That means that a man with a wife and two children receives $121 a week. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition’s tax return for 1976-77 has an entry next to the words that require the form to set out details of the separate net income of each child. [More…]
Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
In the area of child migrant education there has been an increase in expenditure in each of the years since this Government took office. [More…]
In 77 years of this Parliament only four women- Joan Child, Kay Brownbill, Doris Blackburn and Dame Enid Lyons- have served. [More…]
Severe cutbacks in areas vital to the realisation of equal opportunity- education, child care, retraining, health, welfare, legal aid, et ceterahave been the order of the day under the Fraser administration. [More…]
It sought to cut back funds for the family allowances by introducing a means test on children and students but I understand that that proposal is to be revised. [More…]
It has reduced funds for family planning services by 6.3 per cent in real terms and has cut funds for children’s services by 15.5 per cent. [More…]
Women particularly will suffer from higher unemployment and reduced health, education and child care services. [More…]
) Have been widely condemned for its support of unAustralian, anti-family, anti-child behaviour and morals such as incest, promiscuity, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, prostitution and brothels, etc. [More…]
Set up a Select Parliamentary Committee along the lines of the New Zealand Select Committee to conduct a public inquiry into the ways and means of supporting and strengthening family life and providing adequate protection for children from physical and sexual abuse before as well as after birth in accordance with the UNO Declaration of the Rights of the Child as part of Australia’s support for the Year of the Child. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will take no measures concerning the Royal Commission on Human Relationships Report that will further undermine and weaken marriage, child-care or the family which is the basic unit of our society. [More…]
All of the houses were surrounded by Cambodian soldiers who immediately opened fire and used machetes, axes, sabers and sharpened sticks to slay the villagers … A fleeing child was caught by a soldier who cut off his leg and threw him into the flames. [More…]
The provisions of the Bill cover the following: Indexation of pensions and benefits; age pensions for persons aged 70 or more; rationalisation of payments for children; family allowances, including handicapped child’s allowance and double orphan’s pension; maternity allowance; and payment of benefits in respect of children living abroad. [More…]
Handicapped child’s allowance of $15 a week is payable to parents or guardians in respect of a child under the age of 1 6 years who is cared for at home and who, because of the severity of the handicap, is in need of constant care and attention. [More…]
Subject to the discretion of the DirectorGeneral, a handicapped child ‘s allowance is also payable, wholly or in part, where a person has the custody, care and control of a substantially handicapped child and, as a consequence of continuing substantial expenditure associated with the child’s disability, the person suffers financial hardship. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the Government’s decision to extend payment of handicapped child ‘s allowance for full-time students aged between 1 6 and 25 years, providing the child is not receiving an invalid pension. [More…]
Existing provisions allow continuation of payment of handicapped child ‘s allowance for not more than 30 days in the case of severely handicapped children who are temporarily absent from the family home but exclude those who are not severely handicapped. [More…]
The Bill gives the Director-General discretion to continue handicapped child’s allowance in respect of any child during short absences from the family home. [More…]
In order to make provisions regarding children uniform the Government has also decided that the upper age limit of 25 years for payment of family allowance and double orphan’s pension will also apply to payment of additional pension and additional unemployment or sickness benefit for children. [More…]
It has also decided to preclude payment of family allowance and double orphan’s pension where the child receives an invalid pension. [More…]
The Social Services Act provides that family allowance, including double orphan’s pension and handicapped child’s allowance shall be payable in respect of endowment periods as determined by the Director-General. [More…]
As the Act stands at present the Department of Social Security has been advised that it is possible for two people to be paid a full family allowance for the same child at the same time. [More…]
The Bill therefore proposes to remedy this deficiency by giving the Director-General discretion to apportion payments on such basis as he determines where he is satisfied that two persons are each qualified to receive payment in respect of the same child at the same time. [More…]
For example, where parents living permanently apart have joint custody of, or joint access to, a child. [More…]
Provisions in the Social Services Act currently enable family allowance, including handicapped child’s allowance and double orphan’s pension, and additional pension or supporting parent’s benefit or additional unemployment or sickness benefit for children to be paid for a child living abroad. [More…]
In the light of this the Bill provides that such payments will not in future be made for children outside Australia unless: A child is temporarily abroad; a child is living abroad pending migration to Australia within four years after the commencement of the benefit; and in respect of additional pension/benefit a child is living abroad with a person who is himself receiving an Australian pension or benefit overseas. [More…]
It is the Government’s view that the child of a Service pensioner will have had sufficient time to embark upon and complete his full-time education and attain appropriate qualifications to facilitate entry into a chosen vocation by the time he attains 25 years of age. [More…]
It is now proposed that an upper disqualifying age limit of 25 years be applied in respect of the additional allowances paid to Service pensioners who are supporting student children. [More…]
However, allowances already in payment in respect of student children 25 years and over will continue while students are undertaking full-time education. [More…]
-The table shows clearly that, because of the Government’s failure to index family allowances, a family with one child, provided there is a taxpayer in the family, loses $2.16 a week; a family with two children loses $3.32 a week; a family with three children loses $4.48 a week and so on. [More…]
1 indicates the Government’s decision no longer to pay outside Australia family allowances, orphans’ pensions and handicapped children’s allowances unless the child is temporarily abroad, living abroad pending migration to Australia and living abroad with a person receiving the Australian pension. [More…]
I would like to touch also on the estimates of the Department of Social Security, which I would relate to the estimates of the Minister for Health in regard to the drug problem, and would refer to the fact that next year is the International Year of the Child. [More…]
We associate that year with the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations declaration that, ‘Humanity owes to children the best it has to give.’ [More…]
There are in the world 1.5 billion children who are under 12 years of age. [More…]
I suggest that 1979 would be an appropriate time for this country, and for the world, to examine its conscience in regard to children. [More…]
Are we civilised in our modern society when child bashing is common, when children go cold, hungry and uneducated and when, as the previous speaker stated, children have a future of unemployment? [More…]
I want to record in Hansard the 10 rights of children. [More…]
I make an appeal, not only to government but also to private organisations, to the service clubs and youth organisations, to get very closely associated with the International Year of the Child. [More…]
Our future depends on the quality of our children. [More…]
Let the spirit of next year be a spirit of the International Year of the Child 1979. [More…]
If it is not, we place a family with dependent children in a disadvantaged position in comparison with a family that has the same income but no dependent children. [More…]
In time we will need to give consideration to increasing the family allowance paid in respect of the first child and in respect of children under the age of six. [More…]
Many people tend to think that the first child is the least expensive child. [More…]
We pay the lowest rates of family allowance in respect of the first child. [More…]
the curtailment of expenditure with the addition of a child is striking. [More…]
I should say that under our social security system we do make special provisions for families where there are children with a single parent. [More…]
In addition to the basic pension payable to the mother allowances are payable in respect of her children. [More…]
secondly, the addition of a child to a two adult household clearly means a fall in average income- a fall that must be all the more traumatic because of the high expenditure patterns of the two adult households before the event of children. [More…]
the household finds itself ‘flush with money’ prior to the start of child bearing. [More…]
In the many cases income losses and higher expenditure associated with the onset of child bearing are eased again when the children come to school age and the mother can take up employment on a part or full time basis. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who in this House represents the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the need for the Government to look at the total family allowance program and the need as circumstances permit to ask the question whether when we increase those benefits to maintain their real value we should not at the same time make a substantial increase in real value of the payments made in respect of the first child particularly while that first child is in the pre-school age group. [More…]
This lady is in Australia for two reasons connected with the forthcoming Year of the Child which is to be next year. [More…]
She is promoting the integrated, loving and caring family unit as the soundest place in which to bring up children. [More…]
She advocates that children should at all times be protected by the family, by society and by law from exploitation. [More…]
It is an unfortunate reality that she has to emphasise that whilst there are laws against the exploitation of children in the labour market, there are no laws in this country against their exploitation in pornograpic publications. [More…]
When did it become ‘bigoted, illogical, repressive and reactionary’ to desire to protect little children from being used in pornography or to desire to promote a loving, caring community of families in this country? [More…]
What, then, is the future for their children? [More…]
Do they support for their children the things from which Mrs Whitehouse is trying to protect other children? [More…]
Surely the decent ALP members in this House can be ashamed of the student club either for its unintelligent foolishness in thoughtlessly condemning something on which it did not bother to get some hard facts; or worse, for its implicit support for the disgusting exploitation that Mrs Whitehouse opposes and its implicit denial of the value of the family as the basic unit of society and the best haven for the growing child. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the House a quite serious situation that has arisen in New South Wales because of the obsolescence of the Child Care Act of 1972. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) has recently, for the purposes of payment of recurrent subsidies, approved graduates from some child care certificate courses as equivalent to a nurse under section 11(5) of Part III of the Child Care Act of 1972. [More…]
The point is that all of these colleges which provide courses in child care follow the same curriculum and their graduates submit to the same external examinations. [More…]
Some six months ago the New South Wales Child Care Association requested an amendment of the Act to allow the recurrent subsidy for teachers to be paid to the pre-schools employing graduates from all of these colleges, not just from the three designated in the 1 976 Act. [More…]
Those students completing the child care courses within the Illawarra region will not get jobs in their own area. [More…]
I am aware that the Child Care Act as a whole is under review. [More…]
I am aware that legislation was introduced into the United Kingdom Parliament to protect children from indecent photography and from the publication of photography of this description. [More…]
The honourable member will recall that last year when I was Attorney-General the question arose of child pornography in this country and that I met with the Ministers from around Australia for the purpose of preventing pornography of this description from being distributed. [More…]
I remind honourable members also that next year is the International Year of the Child and that the Government has taken a number of initiatives in relation to that. [More…]
threatens the future education of every child attending a Government School. [More…]
How can it be claimed that that situation will ‘threaten the future education of every child attending a government school ‘ when on the figures accepted by the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority there are only 13 fewer teachers than it wanted, in a system employing 2,772 teachers? [More…]
Total government borrowings overseas has now reached the level where the Government owes foreign financiers $280 for each man, woman and child in this country, compared with only $90 a head when the Fraser Government took over in November 1 975. [More…]
If we take them into consideration, for each man, woman and child in this country, we are going to be owing $320 as against the $90 at the time the Fraser Government came to office. [More…]
He is the same man who said a fortnight ago in Sydney again that his Government had given greater emphasis to child care oblivious of the simple fact that in 1975-76 in our last Budget we allocated $64m for this purpose. [More…]
If a member of this Parliament decides he wants to provide, say, $3,000 a year for one of his children who is attending university or a college of advanced education, the family allowance for that child will still be intact. [More…]
In a relative sense that payment will represent no great sacrifice as against the sort of sacrifice of providing just a modest level of support for a student child of a person on a modest to lower middle income. [More…]
In real terms a family is worse off now as against 1975 by between $2.96 in the case of one dependent child and $7.86 in the case of three dependent children if one makes an allowance for the child endowment and tax rebate which Labor introduced in late 1975 and which were effective from the beginning of 1976, updated according to cost of living movements and measured against the family allowances paid at the present time. [More…]
Indeed I suggest that we might think in terms of allowing the family allowance at some time in the future, when finances permit, to be paid during the period when women are expecting a child so as to assist them with preliminary expenses. [More…]
If we had continued with the Labor Party scheme, the so-called Hayden scheme, under which a tax rebate of $200- not a deduction from taxable income but an actual rebate- was introduced in the 1975-76 Budget, to be indexed in line with other tax rebates, that rebate would now be $269 per child. [More…]
That is $5.16 per week per child for a taxpaying family. [More…]
Under our scheme, a family with one child would have received a tax rebate of $5. [More…]
1 6 a week plus child endowment of 50c, making a total payment of $5.66 a week. [More…]
A family with two children would have been entitled to a tax rebate of $10.32 a week, with child endowment of $1 for the second child and 50c for the first child, making a total of $11.82 a week. [More…]
That family now receives $3.50 for the first child and $5 for the second child, making a total of $8.50 a week. [More…]
Similarly, for a family with three children there is a loss of $4.48, for a family with four children a loss of $5.89, for a family with five children a loss of $6.55, and for a family with six children a loss of $7.46 a week. [More…]
It is not indexing family allowances; it is abolishing family allowances for those children in receipt of allowances under prescribed educational schemes. [More…]
In other words, the Government is taking away the family allowance from those parents whose children qualify to receive a benefit under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and other schemes, yet it is not removing the family allowance from those people who earn much more. [More…]
If a parent earns a very large amount of money, earns too much for his student child to receive the TEAS allowance, and is able to send his child to university or to some other tertiary institution, there is no attempt to remove the family allowance. [More…]
The Director General considers that it is reasonable that the supporting parent should have taken action to obtain maintenance from the person or persons who is or are the father or fathers or the mother or mothers as the case may be of the child or children in relation to whom the first mentioned person is the supporting parent and that that person has taken such action to obtain such maintenance as the Director General considers reasonable. [More…]
A benefit shall not be granted to a person who is a supporting parent if the Director General considers that it is reasonable that the supporting parent should have taken action to obtain maintenance from the person or persons who is or are the fathers or fathers or the mother or mothers as the case may be of the child or children in relation to whom the first mentioned parent is the supporting parent and that person has not taken such action to obtain such maintenance as the Director General considers reasonable. [More…]
It underlines the similar plight of the single parent with child. [More…]
In the first case, the unemployed household with two dependent children will by November 1979 have fallen $20 below the poverty line. [More…]
In the case of the single parent with child the gap will have reached $25. [More…]
We find under the existing arrangements that no family can receive at one and the same time a family allowance and a Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance, that the one child family is better off by $1.75 a week, that the two-child family is better off by 25c a week and that the five-child family is worse off by $ 1.75 a week. [More…]
I speak in particular of young families which are faced with the burden of having an extra child. [More…]
The question of means testing the family allowance was raised in another context in the Budget, and we all know that the Government changed its mind on the question of the abolition of the family allowance as far as the income of children is concerned. [More…]
I refer to the case in which the child is being used as part of a tax avoidance scheme and has significant income via a family trust or some othersimilarmethod.Itisverydifficulttojustify the payment of the family allowance to such families. [More…]
However, there will be no abolition of the family allowance in the case of other families whose children are attending tertiary institutions up to the age of 25 years. [More…]
The fact is, first of all, that the amounts given to mothers on the birth of a child have stayed the same for 30 years. [More…]
The argument used by the Minister- it contains a certain amount of logic- is that because of the extent to which a universal health scheme pays the bills for childbirth this concept might be redundant, but what the Minister is overlooking and what those who drafted this proposal have overlooked is that the purchase of basic equipment for the child was part of the original concept. [More…]
If the Minister goes back and examines the position he will also see that it was built into the original concept that in many cases the period of childbirth, particularly with low income families, would involve some possible loss of earnings to the mother. [More…]
As well, when we talk about expenses associated with the birth of children, there is the actual establishment for looking after the new born babe. [More…]
It is a time when expense is high- when a child needs clothing, all the various equipment for feeding and all the various equipment for sleeping. [More…]
If we are looking at the maternity allowance we should be looking not purely at the hospital and medical costs of confinement and childbirth. [More…]
A family receiving an income of $8,600 a year- that is the threshold of the means test operative in relation to TEAS payments- and having a dependent child receiving a TEAS payment will lose its family allowance. [More…]
Yet the dependent children of a family with an income of $40,000 a year will not be eligible to receive TEAS payments but will still be eligible for the family allowance. [More…]
The dependent children of a family receiving an income of $40,000 or more a year will be eligible to receive a family allowance but not eligible for a TEAS allowance. [More…]
The dependent children of a family on an income of” $8,600 or less a year will be eligible to receive a TEAS allowance but will not be eligible to receive the family allowance. [More…]
Clearly the children in the lower income family should still be eligible to receive the family allowance. [More…]
I can advise the House of a personal experience whereby a specialist refused to operate on a sick child because in 1975 I preferred to remain in Medibank Standard which of course offered 85 per cent of medical fees and free treatment in standard hospital wards. [More…]
Here is a group of people with a sick child in need of treatment. [More…]
However, we are concerned about the group who will now opt out because they cannot afford to join an insurance fund and who will subsequently say: We will take the risk but if in the morning our child feels sick and we do not have the money to pay the doctor we will not go to him. ‘ [More…]
The latest borrowing of another $600m from Japan puts every man, woman and child in the country into hock for $324. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods? [More…]
Lack of understanding because of language problems is bad enough, but when it means that children miss out on education, sometimes entirely, we are creating longer term problems and continuing costs to the community. [More…]
With the best schooling a child needs to spend his full time at school to learn at a normal rate. [More…]
The Department’s books show that 460 people went through an 8-week course last year but because many of the refugees, both adults and children, were illiterate in their own language they had little hope of learning English in the time provided. [More…]
I gather that there is also a problem in that students attending a school which has a migrant language department are ineligible to take courses in intensive English provided by the Child Migrant Education Centre in Melbourne. [More…]
This report goes a long way in recognising migrant problems as a whole, and contains significant recommendations on settlement services, but it does not give sufficient support to the vital question of child education, perhaps because it is a State responsibility. [More…]
Staff who wish to take leave around the time of the birth of the child will still have available to them other forms of leave. [More…]
Under the present provisions, staff can receive more than 12 weeks pay if the actual date of birth of the child is later than the expected date of birth. [More…]
The most important of these concern, firstly, the new section 7- inserted by clause 8 of the Bill- which will enable an employee to continue to work closer than 6 weeks before the expected date of confinement provided the leave officer agrees and a medical certificate is provided; a similar provision will enable an employee to resume duty earlier than 6 weeks after the birth of the child. [More…]
This change will, for example, enable a mother whose child is hospitalised after premature birth to return to work should she so desire. [More…]
-I would like to deal with two aspects of child migrant education. [More…]
The area which has consumed the major portion of energy and funds is teaching English to non-English speaking children of school age. [More…]
Since 1971, the Commonwealth Government’s child migrant education program has concentrated on teaching English to immigrant children who were unable to participate adequately in mainstream classroom activities because of insufficient knowledge of English. [More…]
Community language programs should be available not just for ethnic minorities but as an option for every child, regardless of ethnic background, in order to develop communication skills in a language of the society. [More…]
By encouraging appreciation of each child’s language and culture, such programs create an improved climate of tolerance and understanding as well as performing a vital role in encouraging the development of high self regard in nonEnglish speaking children. [More…]
Despite general agreement on the crucial role played by migrant education for increasing the well-being of all our citizens, the Federal Government’s funding of child migrant education this year is nothing short of tragic. [More…]
This makes a mockery of the repeated claims by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) that his Government has provided strong and continuing support for child migrant education. [More…]
Recognition of the educational needs of children with immigrant backgrounds has been painfully slow. [More…]
there were resident in Australia up to 400,000 children aged 4 to 14 years who came from a background where English was not spoken. [More…]
Since the kind of school a child attends is primarily its parent’s responsibility, governments should not discriminate among viable schools. [More…]
To ensure that wealthy families did not receive unneeded public subsidies for their children’s schooling, tax schedules should be adjusted. [More…]
Parent’s right to choose would be formally recognised by law and the funding of thenchildren ‘s schooling would be formally a social service payment. [More…]
No doubt there would still be arguments about the appropriate size of the Government’s education spending, but at least each child would receive the same basic allowance, something that is not happening at present. [More…]
This system regards schooling as a social service to which each child is entitled. [More…]
Each child would be allotted a schooling grant equal in amount to the average cost of putting a child through a government school. [More…]
If the Soviet education system has a fault, I think it is that there is a tendency for the children at present to be over-educated. [More…]
In the education system there at present every child must be educated through the full high school system and must do all the academic subjects up to the equivalent of year 12. [More…]
Michael Young, the British sociologist, not the honourable member for Port Adelaide, has argued that part-time domestic service as a career could absorb large numbers of people in work they would like to do, such as gardening, maintenance, cleaning and child minding. [More…]
More than half the adult population take pills or tonics almost daily and one child in three is already on some form of medication. [More…]
Nevertheless, 3.8 per cent of the child population have not been immunised. [More…]
Shops, storage, community purposes, craft centres and child care services. [More…]
As a result of the post-Budget decisions on taxation of certain pensions and the withdrawal of the income test on the basis of the child ‘s income, there have been quite deliberate additions to the size of the Budget deficit. [More…]
Is it also a fact that every Australian man, woman and child now owes overseas financiers over $280? [More…]
The general resources programs are general recurrent grants, including short term, emergency assistance for non-government schools catering for country children, and building and equipment grants. [More…]
The specific purpose programs are for child migrant education, disadvantaged schools and students in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development and special projects. [More…]
Until now the child migrant education program has operated as a part of the general recurrent grants program. [More…]
In the case of dependants the situation is that for the first child $15 a week is added, for each additional dependant the amount of $10 a week is added. [More…]
Work under the scheme was to take place over a prescribed period of years so that every school child received adequate dental care. [More…]
I am appalled to note that in this Year of the Child the appropriation for childhood and associated services is down from $53m to $42m. [More…]
Apart from reductions in works and services I suppose we have all been a bit disturbed to learn that the program which provided maternity allowances and which stood for 66 years in the face of wars, depressions and everything else, is to be eliminated in the Year of the Child. [More…]
There has been an actual drop in the childhood and associated services vote of $9,047,000 over last year’s appropriation. [More…]
An allocation of $4m is proposed for senior citizens centres; $ 10.4m for home care services and $42 m for child care and associated services. [More…]
As honourable members will know because it has been mentioned in the House before, in May approval was given for graduates of some child care certificate courses to be regarded as equivalent to a nurse for the purpose of payment of recurrent subsidies under the Child Care Act. [More…]
The Roslyn Hall Child Care Centre in Rockdale has employed a graduate from the Bankstown Technical College and, except for the technicality, would have qualified for payment of the recurrent grant. [More…]
For the benefit of the honourable member for Gellibrand, this financial year Tasmania will be receiving from Canberra a record $50 1.894m which, on a per capita basis, works out at about $1,100 for every man, woman and child in Tasmania. [More…]
As far as I am concerned Tasmania has never had it so good and as long as this Government is prepared to pay $1,100 per annum for every man, woman and child in Tasmania it will have my full and continuing support. [More…]
I understand that the adoption of the new criteria involves the acceptance of the principle that if a child, irrespective of his background, has been in a school for two years the presumption is that he is able to handle the English language. [More…]
The net effect of this new policy with these new criteria is that in many schools where children of ethnic and migrant background are being educated there will be an overall reduction in the number of teachers available to teach English to such students. [More…]
An employee who is off work after six months receives $80 a week, $21 for his wife and $10 for each child. [More…]
A Department spokesman said that at any one time there were about 40 kids (DCS handles children to 16 years) needing immediate accommodation. [More…]
Problems are often encountered with long-term placements to flats, boarding houses and citizen’s homes, with either the child or the ‘host’ finding the arrangement unsatisfactory. [More…]
DCS also has to do a lot of shopping around’ to place a child in crisis accommodation. [More…]
a child must be under the ‘ care and protection ‘ of the State at present before his accommodation costs will be subsidised. [More…]
Among the list of names included in the advertisement are: Gordon Bryant, Dr Cass, Joan Child, Ken Fry, Clyde Holding, Innes, Senator Cyril Primmer, Tom Uren and a whole host of others. [More…]
Let ‘s look at a taxpayer with a spouse and dependent child on average weekly earnings of $220.38. [More…]
This figure takes no account of the family allowance scheme which provides mothers with significantly higher benefits than the old child endowment. [More…]
If Labor’s 1975 tax scales had been indexed only to the same degree as they have been indexed by this Government, a taxpayer on average weekly earnings with a dependent spouse and child- the same example as was taken by the Prime Minister- would have been much better off than he will be under this Government. [More…]
A very sobering statistic which I think is accurate but I cannot give the source- I would like to have it checked- is that one child in 12 under the age of 15 years is likely to be seriously injured in an accident in Australia. [More…]
Most women bear children and they should not be discriminated against in the work force because of their unique biological function of childbearing. [More…]
Maternity leave is necessary to enable women to combine their dual roles as workers and child bearers. [More…]
Surveys show that, despite the enormous difficulties in getting child care for children under 1 8 months old, 50 per cent of women return from maternity leave. [More…]
Most other Western industrialised nations have legislated for paid maternity and paternity leave, adequate child care facilities and work on a permanent part time basis for parents caring for young children. [More…]
Many women find it essential to return to work after having a child because they are family breadwinners or because the survival of the family depends upon two incomes. [More…]
The role of the parents in getting to know the adopted child is equally as important as that of natural parents. [More…]
We can save less than a million dollars by seeing that the father is not at home when the child returns home with the mother, but we can pay $40m for VIP aircraft for the Prime Minister to fly overseas. [More…]
The Bill also makes provision for an officer or employee who is the father or a person accepting responsibility for the care and maintenance of the child to take up to 1 week’s leave with pay, around the time of the birth of a child where he requires the leave to take care of the mother of a child or of a child. [More…]
The standardisation of 12 weeks maternity leave is also necessary because at present, prior to this legislation coming into operation, staff can receive more than 12 weeks pay if the actual date of birth of the child is later than the expected date. [More…]
It means job security to women at a time when child rearing is occupying less time of women’s lives on a full-time basis and is frequently combined with careers. [More…]
Paternity leave is the only government recognition of the dual role of father and mother in child rearing. [More…]
By repealing section 10 of the principal Act the Government is, in effect, downgrading the role of the father in child rearing. [More…]
Probably all of us, who are of another generation, were brought up with the well-known attitude about a woman’s place: A man got married expecting his wife to look after the home, have children and look after him when he got home. [More…]
That attitude is changing and the younger generation- I suppose I can include people of my own age in that group- are now changing their attitudes towards what each partner will do; who will go to work, who will look after the children, do the washing up, wash the nappies and so on. [More…]
It is also likely that many women are prevented from returning to work because of inadequate child care facilities, lack of part-time work, restriction of the period of unpaid leave, or a combination of those factors. [More…]
Instead of withdrawing provisions which certainly were not generous when compared with those operating in other countries, the Government should be facilitating the establishment of maternity and paternity leave provisions in the private sector; providing adequate child care facilities instead of reversing advances made by the Labor Government in this area; exploring ways of providing adequate permanent part-time work for government employees with young families, and encouraging the private sector to follow suit; and, finally, investigating the effects of making provision for easier re-entry or retention of career rights for women who stay out of the work force longer to look after children. [More…]
With 40 weeks leave available in addition to the 12 weeks, if that person commanded a salary of $200 a week, during that period she would receive a subsidy of some $8,000 from the taxpayers’ purse to have a child, and that is a subsidy not available to most other Australians. [More…]
To make this possible, social amenities are needed, above all in the form of child care. [More…]
Perhaps these senior public servants think that women might seek jobs with them simply so that they can have a child on paid time at public expense. [More…]
It aims at women as well as men because both women and men should have equal responsibility towards their children. [More…]
Accordingly, the Storting has adopted legal provisions on entitlement to full pay during absence in the case of a child’s illness for all employees caring for children under 10 years of age. [More…]
Some government institutions will experiment with a six-hour working day for parents with children under three years of age. [More…]
In Sweden, parents have been entitled to a total of seven months absence from work in connection with childbirth provided they have been employed by their present employer for at least one year. [More…]
Moreover, the mother is always entitled to parental benefit for 29 days after her confinement, even if she does not have custody of the child. [More…]
Otherwise, the main rule is that parental benefit goes to the parent mainly responsible for the care of the child after its birth. [More…]
Parental benefit is payable to the parents for a total of up to 2 10 days, but on no account after the child is 270 days old. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, ( b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
Of course, any innovation that takes place from now on is the child of technology, which just does not use up huge resources of manpower. [More…]
The Canadian ‘Block Parent Program’ has been looked at by the Office of Child Care. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth in the administration of the Children’s Services Program recognises that the basic responsibility for the regulation, licensing and provision of child welfare lies with State governments. [More…]
What sum was paid for maternity leave for the (a) first, (b) second and (c) third child in each of the periods. [More…]
If the honourable member were to look at the amendments which were announced in the 1 977 Budget he would realise that there is very little advantage to be gained today from setting up a trust for a child under the age of 16 and that there is very little avenue for a zero rating. [More…]
In this regard it is very difficult these days to persuade a lawyer to draw up a trust agreement for a child on the basis that the purpose is to save tax because that no longer is the situation. [More…]
The Child Migrant Program began in 1970 and continued under various administrative arrangements until it became the responsibility of the Schools Commission in 1976. [More…]
This Government’s foreign borrowings have pushed our debt obligations up to a record level of $325 per head of population- $325 for every man, woman and child in the nation. [More…]
1 ) Approximately 800 facilities are regarded as being of a child care nature. [More…]
Its specific purpose was to help young Australian couples building a family to meet the initial impact on household expenditure when a child was born. [More…]
It tried to take money from them as children. [More…]
Harold Green who organised the petition for the hanging of the ‘Moors Murderers,’ Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, was soon after convicted of child murder. [More…]
Until now the child migrant education program has operated as part of the general recurrent grants program. [More…]
There were some 400,000 children whose first language was not English. [More…]
The approach in trying to implement this policy has usually been to withdraw the nonEnglish speaking children into remedial classes so that their language difficulty is equated with physical or mental handicap. [More…]
In fact, many of the children came to feel that they must be inferior because they had to be given special instruction. [More…]
In other words, they felt that if one’s first language was not English one was clearly a handicapped child. [More…]
It has been disastrous not just because of the effect it had on migrant children but also because of the effect it had on English speaking children. [More…]
A monolingual, monocultural English speaking youngster would feel his ego growing every time his neighbour in school was hauled off to the special class where that child was to be taught English. [More…]
The child needing special instruction in English, we also recognise- this is the latest development- ought to be given help to maintain his native tongue, his first language, as well. [More…]
The end result of all this is that the migrant child, having been given additional help, will have a mastery of English. [More…]
The English speaking child will be monolingual, in my view disadvantaged. [More…]
What about the situation of a school- this is an example that Al Grassby gave- where there were 25 per cent of Australian children and 75 per cent migrant children? [More…]
Some of the parents of the children attending that school claimed that the 25 per cent Australian, the English speaking, children, were being discriminated against. [More…]
At the outset, I wish to pay tribute to the pioneers in this Parliament who in the years gone by have been the people who were responsible for the injection of Commonwealth funds into the education of the Australian child and the Australian adult. [More…]
Quite rightly, the honourable member for Maribyrnong cited increases in certain areas in terms of dollars but I believe he did not quote the salient factor, that is, that, in the Level 1 schools, the percentage of standard costs which the Government bears by way of general recurrent grants for students is 1 6 per cent of the estimated costs of educating a child in a government primary school for a year, namely, $845. [More…]
Our philosophy is that each child in Australia, irrespective of the income of his parents, is entitled to some basic contribution to help his or her education in a school of the choice of the parents by virtue of the fact that they are taxpayers. [More…]
If the States are going to adopt that approach they should also display at the entrance to every college of advanced education and university a sign stating: ‘Your child attends here by virtue of the generosity of the Federal Government. ‘ [More…]
The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education and continuing his education further. [More…]
What has to be recognised in Australia is the power of simple snobbery and the extent to which education is regarded as a weapon to ensure the advantage of ‘our child over their child’. [More…]
Perhaps there is a growing tendency to regard education not as a weapon of advantage, but as an instrument of the dignity of all children and young people. [More…]
The Commission found that, because Queensland has a higher proportion of its population in the age group of 0 to 18 years than New South Wales and Victoria, it has need for a greater per capita expenditure on child welfare, for instance. [More…]
On child welfare, Queensland spends 18.6 per cent less than the average of all the States. [More…]
Honourable members may have read that the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) took a seriously ill young child out of Cocos last weekend. [More…]
I believe that the CocosMalay nurse must have been with that child when she was taken out. [More…]
What factors were taken into consideration when he decided to reduce by 25 cents in every dollar the child allowance paid to a parent whose children earn in excess of $3 12 per year. [More…]
How does he propose to distinguish between a child in a poor family selling newspapers to earn this amount and a child of a wealthy family receiving a dividend of this amount from a family trust. [More…]
What are the details of the sum and disposition of funds from the Office of Child Care,Department of Social Security, for Children’s Services Development Officers during [More…]
Three categories of field staff have assisted in the development of child care services: [More…]
i) Ethnic Child Care Workers are Development Officers employed specifically to assist migrant communities in child care matters. [More…]
Making an allowance for child endowment and for the tax rebate which Labor introduced in 1975 and which were effective from the beginning of that financial year, in real terms, a family is worse off now as against 1975 by between $2.16 a week in the case of a family with one dependent child and $7.46 a week in the case of a family with six dependent children. [More…]
In the current financial year, 1978-79, expenditure on health and welfare is expected to rise to $10.9 billion- almost $800 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
The problem of a rural child with some ability to a low income parent seeking to fulfil the child’s educational capabilities is an example of extreme hardship. [More…]
A child in an area with proximity to academic institutions, a fully equipped primary school, a high school with the necessary course structure and equipment, is able to be educated in an orderly manner without disruption to family life. [More…]
Of more consequence is the problem of a rural child competing with others in a tertiary institution. [More…]
The child who has to live away from home will almost certainly have to undertake some form of extra curricula activity to increase his income. [More…]
The tertiary allowance guidelines take no cognisance of a child living away from home except that the means test is extended upwards slightly. [More…]
Any person in this House who considers that it is a reasonable economic proposition for a family with an income between $8,000 and $9,000 a year with a reducing level of assistance to maintain a child, possibly several thousands miles away from home, is either a fool or has never tried to keep a person aged 20 years or 2 1 years in reasonable circumstances. [More…]
The child may not be disadvantaged because he is living away from home. [More…]
However, he is disadvantaged by the hours he is forced to spend on additional workloads outside his studies which other children can spend in study and revision. [More…]
I am not saying that the additional work will not benefit the child but he is disadvantaged when compared with his fellow students. [More…]
The child care program has gone. [More…]
He receives $2 1 a week for his wife and $10 a week for each child, which means that a man with a wife and two children receives $ 12 1 a week. [More…]
One way is simply by income splitting, by diverting one’s income through trusts towards children. [More…]
As the law currently stands, any income of a child beneficiary up to a total of $16,608 is taxed at 33V4 per cent and at only 47V4 per cent up to $33,216. [More…]
If the father is taxed at the maximum marginal rate of 6 1 te per cent, he can still save a lot of tax by putting his income through a trust for distribution to his children who then pay tax at a much lower rate. [More…]
Of course, the interesting point is that the parents can still utilise that income, perhaps to some degree by normal parental control over the financial affairs of their children but, if that is too blatant, the Australian Taxation Office can then demand that higher tax be paid. [More…]
The children may lend the money back to the trusts- that is, another collapsible loan; one not intended for repayment- which increases the capital of the trusts. [More…]
So the parents have channelled income to the children who have paid tax at a much lower rate and then the money comes back to the parents through the supposed repayments of the loan. [More…]
In section 102 of Division 6 there was thought to be a major deterrent to tax avoidance through income splitting by providing for penalty tax to be paid where income is payable for the benefit of unmarried children under 21 from a trust created by the children’s parents. [More…]
Firstly, the High Court ruled in 1 957 that section 102 did not apply if a child was only contingently entitled to income from the trust, that is, if property was settled on the trust for an infant subject to his attaining, say, the age of 25 or marrying before that age. [More…]
Also in 1970 the High Court in what is known as Truesdale’s Case also ruled that the section had no application if the trust is created by someone other than the parent or the child beneficiary. [More…]
This would rule out the application of section 102 in the usual case- very much the usual case now- where a settler creates the trust with a nominal amount and the parent then transfers assets to the trust for the benefit of his own children. [More…]
The rate of tax calculated under s. 102 (2) should be calculated by adding both incomes under the trust for other child beneficiaries and amounts derived by the subject child under other trusts to the income of the parent. [More…]
Perhaps the most substantial of these amendments concern the welfare and custody of children. [More…]
The Bill will extend the range of circumstances in which a court can order the parties to confer with a counsellor, or can order a counsellor to report to it, on the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]
These powers will become available to the court in any proceedings in which the welfare of children of a marriage is affected. [More…]
The Bill also will enable a person other than a parent to make an application for custody of a child who is the subject of a custody order where the parent awarded custody has died. [More…]
On the recommendation of the Council, the Bill clarifies the authority of a person under a warrant directing him to take possession of a child who has been the subject of a custody order. [More…]
If the report has been studied, has the Government taken any initiatives arising from the report and in particular, has consideration been given to the concept of a named person to provide a point of contact for the parents of every child who has been discovered to have a disability or who is showing signs of special needs or problems. [More…]
Is the Minister able to say whether the professionals who make an assessment of a child’s health or educational problem have any responsibility to share these findings with the child ‘s parents, or do they have any right to withhold certain information. [More…]
Whether in a legal sense professionals who make an assessment of a child’s health or education problem have a right to withhold information from the child’ s parents could only be answered by reference to the variety of authorities employing these professionals and to the professional associations to which they belong. [More…]
In part, the Report suggests that the discovery of a handicapping condition in a child should usually be revealed to the parents without delay. [More…]
The Report makes suggestions about the conditions which should be arranged for parents to be told of their child’s handicap and for guidance to be given to them. [More…]
The year 1979 is the International Year of the Child. [More…]
After 1 November 1979 that person earning $220 a week, with a spouse and dependent child, will pay tax of $38.82 per week. [More…]
The matters raised in this Bill are matters of great concern to every citizen of this nation because they affect the basic legal rights of every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
Access to the High Court of Australia by every man, every woman and indeed every child, where an action is brought on behalf of a child, should be unrestricted. [More…]
To that extent, in giving my support to this Bill, I urge that governments, regardless of party affiliation watch carefully to ensure that there has not been created a situation in which the highest court of the land has become a court which is inaccessible to the ordinary man, woman and child. [More…]
I am expressing now a personal view on the basis of cases that have come into my office involving heart-rending stories of a spouse, either male or female, where problems have arisen over the custody of children. [More…]
In my view, it is extremely difficult to get away from that feeling of involvement with both parties, particularly where the welfare of a child is concerned. [More…]
It must be extremely difficult for the courts in their wisdom to decide matters of care and control of children, be it with the mother or the father. [More…]
Quite obviously, the welfare of the child is the most important issue. [More…]
I am pleased that in most of the decisions that have been brought to my attention the judges who have been appointed to this jurisdiction have shown a great degree of objectivity in deciding what is to be done for the welfare of the child. [More…]
Where that situation arises, the damage done to the children cannot be calculated. [More…]
I hope that the Committee will be looking at that matter because the deleterious effects on children should be uppermost in the minds of both parents. [More…]
There is nothing more heartrending than to see a child’s life destroyed by intransigent parents. [More…]
We saw a child minding centre in those courts. [More…]
Not one member of that Committee was not moved by watching those children playing with grandmothers or with other people who were accepting the responsibility of parents who could not get along. [More…]
This Joint Parliamentary Committee must accept the responsibility of trying to probe deep enough into this matter and of coming forward with recommendations which are not just concerned with property settlement or the custody of a child- a chattel to be handed to a mother or a father. [More…]
In fact it would be considered highly irresponsible and unethical in the case of the hand but not so in the case of the unborn child. [More…]
Regarding the rights of the unborn, I think in this year, the International Year of the Child, when we are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, we should have a close look at that Declaration. [More…]
The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth. [More…]
What a tragedy it would be if this Parliament in the International Year of the Child ignored that declaration and voted against this motion. [More…]
The 40-year old woman pregnant as a result of rape may seek the advice of her husband, her children and her doctor. [More…]
Not one of us men in this House can speak of the personal experience which a woman or child undergoes in circumstances where she has to make a decision to terminate her pregnancy. [More…]
If she is a healthy, normal girl her life will not be in danger in giving birth to her father’s child. [More…]
The girl, her mother or other members of the family must therefore pay the full cost of the operation to abort her father’s child. [More…]
The basis of the motion and the amendments is to persuade members of this House that abortion should be carried out only where the life of the woman or child is in danger. [More…]
Until that attack she had been living happily with her husband and four teenage children. [More…]
This must be noted by the four teenage children and the husband, they also knowing that the foetus which is developing in the womb of the mother is that of one of several louts who subjected their mother or wife to the denigrating violation of the individual by rape. [More…]
In these circumstances I see two competing moral questions: Should the mother carry that child, thereby causing unwarranted pressure on the family and perhaps even placing the family unity and wellbeing under threat, or should she have the child aborted? [More…]
Not wanting the child is an important factor especially among the young and single. [More…]
From these cases, it must be accepted that there is a rule of law which recognises that an unborn child may possess rights. [More…]
This implies that there are correlative duties imposed on others in favour of the unborn child. [More…]
It also implies that an unborn child is deemed to be a ‘person’ where the right is for his benefit, so if he survives his binh and obtains the requisite capacity to institute proceedings for an infringement of his rights, he may do so and obtain a remedy for the infringement when he was en ventre sa mere. [More…]
In the various cases, as was pointed out, by Cozens.Hardy M. R. the unborn child’s rights were considered separate and distinct from the mother’s rights. [More…]
Because of lack of precedent one might be slow to apply this fiction to the law of negligence but I find no logical reason for rejecting the notion that the common law would protect a child en ventre sa mere against careless acts causing him or her injury. [More…]
As its property, real or personal, is protected so should its physical substance be similarly protected by deeming it to be a person in being and imposing a duty of care on any other person not to commit any act of carelessness which as a reasonable man he would anticipate would injury the physical substance of the unborn child. [More…]
Without being called upon to refuse to follow any authority binding on this Court, there appears to be no valid reason, in principle or otherwise, why this concept of protecting the unborn child should not be introduced to the developing law of the independent tort of negligence. [More…]
We consider that the abovementioned judgment is authority for the proposition that the unborn child is recognised by law as a person separate from his/her mother and is the possessor of rights under law. [More…]
The recognition of the unborn child as a separate legal person with legal rights which are enforceable on birth must mean that the law also recognises that that legal person cannot be deprived deliberately of its life by being aborted. [More…]
In other words, not only must the unborn child not be damanged by careless or negligent acts, it must not be deliberately deprived of life simply because it exists. [More…]
We consider that it is also strongly arguable that such action in those circumstances may lack sufficient intention by a doctor to directly cause the death of the unborn child by such an operation. [More…]
The doctor’s intention in those circumstances is to preserve the life of the mother, and only indirectly to cause the death of the unborn child. [More…]
Legally the doctor’s intention in such a case can be characterised as a lawful attempt to preserve at least the life of the mother in the course of treating a medical pathological condition and probably the life of both the mother and the child. [More…]
For the first group the task of raising a child is onerous and lonely. [More…]
The risk of a forced marriage and the fear of an unwanted child is a tragic burden. [More…]
These are the women who are disadvantaged by lack of information about contraception and lack of child care. [More…]
In fact, these are often the people most vocal in opposition to sex education in schools and extended child care. [More…]
The restricted availability of abortions forces women to be unable to exercise the choice of avoiding a situation where an unwanted child is brought into being. [More…]
Women have a variety of responsible reasons for wanting an abortion such as the inability to manage financially; inability to cope emotionally; completion of a family or a recent child; no wish to be forced into a marriage; avoidance of family strife or parental awareness; ill health; worry about the deformity of a child; and rape or incest. [More…]
For the most part women are treated unfairly in a domestic role where they are not only responsible for bearing a child but also for rearing the child and caring for the home. [More…]
Secondly, no adequate dividing line separates the child from the foetus. [More…]
In this case, the other is the unborn child. [More…]
I believe that if a woman does not want to bear a child, she should not have to. [More…]
I emphasise the following words- necessary to preserve a woman from the serious danger to her life or her physical or mental health (not being merely the normal dangers of pregnancy and child birth) which the continuance of the pregnancy would entail; and … in the circumstances not out of proportion to the danger to be averted. [More…]
But I feel that we cannot shunt off our responsibility in this manner because there is a moral aspect in the termination of pregnancy that in our opinion involves the right of an unborn child. [More…]
This Parliament must ask itself: What are the facts in the biological development of a child; is there life at stake in every abortion; what are the possible long term complications to the mother, the family and the nation; does an abortion terminate the life of a child or is the so-called foetus just a piece of tissue? [More…]
It must be admitted that in planned or unplanned pregnancy followed by an abortion or even by childbirth the female pays the greater price in human involvement and in human suffering. [More…]
But society cannot escape its responsibility to the unfortunate woman who does not get this assistance by simply saying: ‘You can do what you like with the unborn child and we’- that is society or the government- ‘will pay the medical or surgical bill’. [More…]
Scientific evidence clearly indicates that once conception takes place we have the life of an unborn child to consider. [More…]
I believe that the conception and life of a child in a mother’s womb and its birth concern not only co-operation between man and woman to bring new life into the world but are also the very basis of Christian belief in the creator and in the sacredness of human life. [More…]
Many of these women feel that society is saying to them: ‘If you cannot alford the confinement or if you do not think you can keep the child after birth, we have given you a way out. [More…]
Have they not a right to carry the child and see the birth of the child? [More…]
Not one member of the House of Representatives knows what it feels like to be a single girl who is pregnant to a man who cannot and more often than not will not undertake the responsibility of providing food and shelter for the child she is carrying for him. [More…]
Not one honourable member knows what it is like to be the tired and overworked mother of a poor man’s clutch of children and to be pregnant with another that will place further and unbearable burdens on her shoulders. [More…]
If we are endowed with an ounce of Christian charity we should not be indifferent to the anxieties that torture the mind of every woman who is pregnant with an unwanted child. [More…]
The same burden will plague our souls if we pass laws that result in the birth of an unwanted child whose birth destroys the happiness of its mother, the happiness of its father or the happiness of its brothers and sisters. [More…]
Let those who oppose abortion do more than they are now doing to lift the living standards of those who constitute the majority of the working families so that married couples can at least afford to welcome every child that is conceived. [More…]
Accepting the balance of expert opinion as to when life begins, the sanctity and the supreme importance of the individual life applies to the foetus and the unborn child as well as to any other group such as the aged, the incurably ill or whatever it may be. [More…]
I also say most sincerely that I am deeply conscious of the anguish and hardship an unwanted pregnancy can sometimes cause- and I have in mind not only the mother but also the subsequent difficulties of what may turn out to be an unwanted or unloved child. [More…]
or where either (a) the pregnancy was as a result of incest or rape or (b) the mother has been subject to disease or physical conditions which could reasonably be expected to result in serious deformity to or retardation of the child. [More…]
Firstly, I believe that an unborn child has a right to hie, recognising that under the law as it stands, the life of a mother is given preference over the life of an unborn child. [More…]
That an unborn child has a right to life is widely recognised. [More…]
I made the point on that occasion that the fundamental question was whether the rights of an unborn child should be recognised during the whole or only part of a pregnancy. [More…]
The reason I am opposed to the payment of medical benefits for abortion is contained amongst those reasons I have already stated and it is, of course, the right to life of the unborn child. [More…]
I think that emphasises the point I want to make and which I think has been forgotten, and that is that the provision of medical benefit payments gives a sense of security to people who may not have that sense of security and who may be prepared to avoid the possibility of becoming pregnant if they have to look after and deal with an unwanted child or face the dangers of an abortion. [More…]
What about adopting a positive resolution on what we can do for women in order to guarantee that they can retain a child and not be subjected to the physical and mental disturbances that obviously occur? [More…]
If one looks at the situation since the introduction of the supporting mother’s benefit with regard to the adoption of children one will see how we have improved the situation on the very simple basis of enabling a mother to retain her child, which is a normal, strong maternal instinct and is very good for the child [More…]
In New South Wales in 1972, 3,3 10 children were adopted. [More…]
In other words the child was separated from its mother by the set of circumstances then prevailing. [More…]
Many arguments are raised by people of goodwill against the practice of abortion itself, but it is simply not practicable to oblige women to have children they do not wish to have, and it is not realistic or fair to argue that if a woman did not want a child she should not have become pregnant in the first place. [More…]
All of the speakers who have taken part in the debate have had one thing in common- namely, the protection of the woman and the child. [More…]
My personal feeling is that in protection of Mother and Child, there should be a continuing responsibility by Governments in regard to family allowance, medical services, child care, education and housing, etc. [More…]
Normally I would agree with the classic liberal proposition that the law should not intervene in matters of private morality; but I believe that the classic liberal proposition I have just stated does not apply in this matter because another life is at stake, the life of the unborn child. [More…]
No discussion on abortion should ignore the status and rights of the unborn child. [More…]
However, I do want to give some examples of how we commonly accept in our own thinking and terminology that there is a mother and a child involved in an abortion. [More…]
I suggest the very use of the word ‘mother’ indicates that in the Minister’s mind an abortion involves a mother and a child. [More…]
There cannot be a mother without a child being involved as well. [More…]
I suggest that in our normal thinking we do think of an abortion involving both a mother and a child. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in the years 1975 to 1977 there were two deaths from abortion and 69 deaths from child birth in Australia. [More…]
Does he agree that the habit of regular physical activity should be introduced early in a child ‘s school life but that many Australian schools lack specialist physical education teachers, while teachers generally and parents underestimate the significance for health and mental alertness of regular physical exercise? [More…]
Did a 1970 survey show that 75 per cent of post-primary children in government schools are denied a planned continuous program of physical education because their schools are without a gymnasium? [More…]
Does he agree that it is imperative and urgent that a program be adopted to make physical education a daily requirement at all levels in government schools and to provide gymnasia to all schools and a physical education specialist teacher on the basis of one physical education teacher to every 200 children? [More…]
As 1979 is the International Year of the Child, it is a most opportune time to get children interested and involved in sporting and recreational activities. [More…]
Secondly, where the child is known to be, or could in all probability be, deformed or mentally defective. [More…]
I would hope that those placed in the unfortunate position of deciding whether or not an abortion is to be performed would, despite the stress that inevitably accompanies such occasions, make a responsible moral judgment about what is best, giving due weight to the fact of the presence of an unborn child at a particular stage of development. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ (first occurring) be omitted, with a view to substituting the following words: this House expresses its deep concern that for every three live births in Australia there is one abortion, and therefore is of the opinion that the Government should take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that medical benefits shall not be provided by the Commonwealth for the termination of pregnancy unless the termination is performed to protect the mother when her life is endangered by a physical pathological condition or where either (a) the pregnancy was as a result of incest or rape, or (b) the mother has been subject to disease or physical conditions which could reasonably be expected to result in serious deformity to or retardation of the child. [More…]
The real motivation underlying the Lusher motion would appear, inevitably, to be a belief in the sanctity of human life- a belief that the unborn child has as much right to life as has any other human being. [More…]
I appreciate that critics of this viewpoint will argue that, whilst the very existence of life may be a matter of great principle, so too is the quality of that life and that to permit a child to be born into a family or to an individual who does not want it or who feels she cannot cope is a greater misfortune than to abort the life of that child. [More…]
But I ask the question: Does every pregnant woman have the basic right to determine whether her unborn child shall be permitted to live or to die regardless of circumstances? [More…]
Should she have the basic right to say that her unborn child be not permitted to live simply because she does not want the child or because it may cause financial or other strain which she would prefer not to have to cope with? [More…]
At the end of the day these arguments of the quality of life for both parents and children and the rights of women have to be weighed on the scales against the principle of the right of human beings to be born, provided the safety of the mother’s life is not at issue. [More…]
The honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee), in his speech yesterday, quoted with approval an extract from the Royal Commission on Human Relationships that the life of the unborn child is different in quality from the life of a human being after birth, the clear implication being that the life of the unborn child is somehow inferior. [More…]
The evidence, at least in relation to one substantial clinic, is that the main reasons persons have gone to have abortions are as follows: Firstly, in 32 per cent of the cases it was felt that future plans might be impaired by a child being born to the mother; secondly, in 35 per cent of the cases it was felt that there would be additional financial strain on the rest of the family; thirdly, in 1 7 per cent of the cases it was felt that the girl concerned was too young or too immature to deal with a child; and, fourthly, that in 5 per cent of the cases the woman was pregnant to a man other than her husband. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have taken steps to reduce the capacity of families to handle the added child. [More…]
We should be doing something for mothers and for children. [More…]
We should be providing child care centres and the whole array of social security systems. [More…]
How could people living on the 12th or 15th floor of a building face the prospect of another child when perhaps they already have two or three children? [More…]
I ask the question: Who will speak for the unborn child, other than the members of this Parliament? [More…]
I think those of us who know of women or young girls who might have wanted to lose a child will understand the trauma of those occasions. [More…]
I believe that every one of us ought to be concerned about young childless couples who would like to adopt a child. [More…]
There is no doubt that an excessive number of abortions has the effect of depriving those young couples of children. [More…]
But the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) would draw the line at protection of life, rape, incest and disease expected to result in the deformity of the child. [More…]
Who reasonably can oppose which seeks to uphold the right to life of an unborn child while safeguarding the mother’s equal right to survive? [More…]
It is talking about the right of the unborn child to live and be part of this society. [More…]
That to me is a very basic difference from a child immediately after birth. [More…]
Of course, I agree with any steps that might be taken to support a pregnant woman and enable her successfully to give birth to a happy, healthy child. [More…]
I do not advocate that every child should have its tonsils removed, that everyone should have his appendix removed, or that every woman should have an abortion. [More…]
I have a letter from the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child. [More…]
In 1977 the New Zealand Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion handed a report to Parliament which proposed that the unborn child was entitled to effective legal protection in any abortion laws laid down in this country. [More…]
I think it is a shame when we in Australia have families deprived of being able to have children and there are years and years of waiting to be able to adopt a child. [More…]
Of course, no public law, no public directive, can shield that life from harm, but that does not mean that there is no public responsibility to assist and protect, within the means available, the mother and the unborn child. [More…]
I was impressed especially by the comments of the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) when he stressed the need for a positive approach to the abortion issue; in effect, that we should look to greater social support for the mother, and that we should give her an opportunity, by counselling, advice and economic support, to bear her child. [More…]
We can only stress on occasions such as this that the life of the unborn child is very important and cannot be treated as something without any real value or worth. [More…]
No mention was made by the honourable member for Hume of the funding of expectant mothers during pregnancy and the financing of a mother and child after birth. [More…]
The Government worked a con trick on mothers by removing the breadwinner’s dependent deduction and lumping it together with the child endowment. [More…]
Child endowment has rarely been increased. [More…]
Abortion threatens the nation through the destruction of its children. [More…]
The first part of the ruling is proportionate to the second part, but where the first part refers to the death of an unborn child, nothing that has been proposed should be put on the scales opposite that. [More…]
Nobody has said that the abortion will be illegal if the woman is wealthy, or if she is in the situation of having very few children, no children or one child. [More…]
It is so easy to uphold the sanctity of life when the child is but a foetus and then later, so convenient to send that child to war to kill fellow human beings. [More…]
It simply falls flat in terms of any classic liberalism because it fails to face up to and resolve the fact that another person is involved in this question of choice- the unborn child. [More…]
I readily recognise that pregnancy, birth and child rearing may cause enormous difficulty and hardship for the mother, either emotionally, psychologically, socially or economically. [More…]
They are human problems which can be solved by human, humane means, and the destruction of one of the participants in that problem- the unborn childdoes nothing to solve the root problem and in fact is inhuman and unjust. [More…]
I also take some exception to the question-begging in using the phrase ‘unborn child’ that we have heard so often. [More…]
The term ‘unborn child’ is an absolute contradiction in terms but it illustrates the prevailing moral and verbal confusion. [More…]
A child is by definition born and independent, and the phrase unborn child’ or even ‘pre-bora child’ has as much meaning as the phrase ‘living corpse’ or post-death person’. [More…]
Might I, as an alternative to that, say that that trauma could not equal the joy that is experienced when even a person such as a humble back bench member of the national Parliament can persuade someone to have a child rather than an abortion. [More…]
If only every pregnant girl or woman desperate for help could share from society generally the love and assistance which these girls receive from these nuns, both in their pregnancy and at the birth of their child, this problem would not be in its present proportion. [More…]
On this motion’s logic medical benefits should also be denied for pre-natal care and child birth as pregnancy is neither a pathological condition nor a medical necessity unless the services are essential to save the life of a mother or a child. [More…]
We have been thinking of providing an allowance for pregnant girls before their child is born, to provide them with more enlightened sex education and better family planning. [More…]
Those in favour of abortion are prepared to kill an unborn child and they console themselves by saying: ‘Okay, but it’s not a very big life’. [More…]
They speak only of mother and child. [More…]
Those women have no right to have their unborn children murdered. [More…]
If an unwanted child is born it is much better to have it adopted by those thousands of people crying out for children and who are unable to have them. [More…]
They ignore the thousands of healthy children who would have otherwise be born to healthy mothers. [More…]
They do not have the right to kill an unborn child, an old person or a cripple. [More…]
The contrary argument, expressed by the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher), which I support, is that a pregnant woman in fact must consider not only her welfare but also that of the child to be. [More…]
Unfortunately the law has not denned the rights of the unborn child, the least of which, surely, is the right to live. [More…]
Sixty-two per cent gave inability to cope financially as their reason, 47 per cent did not want an unwanted child and 12 per cent could not face adoption. [More…]
She was told she would never have a child as she could not possibly survive childbirth. [More…]
She did survive childbirth. [More…]
It aims to protect the unborn child, not from being killed, unfortunately, but from being killed at public expense. [More…]
The unborn child is just as much a human being as any other child. [More…]
The unborn child is at a disadvantage in a world where adults have all the power. [More…]
That poor little child is small and naked, without a voice or even a name. [More…]
It is lethal for the child. [More…]
We live in a country that encourages the protector of a child, his or her own mother, to become the very agent of his destruction. [More…]
To pretend that the child is not alive until the moment of birth is to say that it all of a sudden becomes human. [More…]
We have six children. [More…]
Our first child was born normally and without any complications. [More…]
Our second child also had a normal birth, but my wife received a blood transfusion which introduced the RH factor into her bloodstream. [More…]
In 1951 my wife gave birth to a son, our third child. [More…]
Each of our other three children, including twin boys, was born severely jaundiced with a probability of spasticity. [More…]
Undoubtedly it was a far greater mental strain on my wife as she was carrying the child or children in her womb, but she bore the strain willingly and cheerfully. [More…]
After our third child was born we were told by our gynaecologist of the high probability of spasticity in any future children. [More…]
Is there a member of this House of Representatives who would suggest that those three children should have been aborted merely because there was a high probability of spasticity which may have caused us parents a problem? [More…]
Those three children were not affected and are today normal children, thank God. [More…]
It advocates the births of unwanted children but does nothing to enhance the quality of life for all children. [More…]
It does not campaign for a mother’s right to raise a child in decent socio-economic circumstances. [More…]
Until a woman can raise her child in an acceptable environment and fully accept the responsibility parenthood entails, society has no right to condemn a child to the horror and misery of abuse. [More…]
Until the Right to Life movement can guarantee a proper environment for a child it has no claim to its future. [More…]
At present, family allowances are not available to mothers whose children are receiving TEAS payments. [More…]
Is the life of the unborn child to be regarded as being of the same value right throughout the duration of its development and pregnancy, and does its status differ from the status it has when it becomes a born child? [More…]
The unborn child asserts a command over the pregnancy. [More…]
People do not feel the same emotional response to the zygote and the embryo as they do to the unborn child in the later stages of pregnancy. [More…]
I think it is important that the general schools of thought in that report are considered because it is clear from the number of abortions that are being carried out in Australia at present that varying values are placed on the unborn child. [More…]
It is interesting to note that during the speeches I listened to, and I admit that I have not been able to listen to every speaker, either yesterday or today, I do not recall anybody mentioning that this happens to be the International Year of the Child. [More…]
During the passport review it became clear that the problems of child abduction went beyond the simple matters of passport issue, and a further interdepartmental committee was therefore established to investigate all aspects of this specific problem. [More…]
The facts are that the people in the community with families receiving the family benefit today are worse off in real terms than they were at the end of 1975 when they received child endowment and the tax rebate for children which I introduced. [More…]
For instance, a family with one child is $2.17 a week worse off and a family with two children is $2.06 a week worse off. [More…]
It saw that the rebates for dependent children, which I had introduced, if indexed, would involve cost to the Government. [More…]
That is why I am able to point out- the facts confirm it- that today the average income earner or, as the Prime Minister likes to call him in that new matey parlance he has suddenly discovered, the average bloke supporting a wife and two children is, before tax but after consideration is taken of the present family allowance compared with tax rebates for children and child endowment in effect at the end of 1975, $8.50 a week worse off. [More…]
1 7 a week, for one child, worse off. [More…]
In Committee we will be proposing amendments which will broaden the scope of proposed section 7a ( 1 ) which protects the interests of children, require a response by the Government or those so delegated to a passport application in reasonable time, reduce the severity of most of the proposed penalties, and provide a right of appeal against a decision to withhold or withdraw a passport. [More…]
The purpose of this section is to ensure that the unmarried minor is not issued a passport without steps having been taken to protect the rights of the child and the rights of persons who have custody or guardianship of or access to the child. [More…]
It is not clear how the passports office will ensure that it is in possession of the facts in relation to custody, guardianship or access for each child. [More…]
Moreover, the withholding of consent by a person having custody, guardianship or, more particularly, access may not, of course, be in the interests of the child, and the Act provides that a court may order that a child may leave Australia. [More…]
Our proposed section 7a (2) (c) then proceeds, however, to give the authorised passports officer discretion- a discretion parallel to that of the Court- to allow a child to obtain a passport and travel. [More…]
This discretion in turn, would, however, seem subject- under proposed section 7B (b)- to the right of a court to order that a child may not be issued a passport. [More…]
Our proposed amendment relates to the fact that the Bill refers only to the issue of a passport to the child. [More…]
However, frequently, children are included on a parent’s passport. [More…]
It may be that the Bill could be interpreted to cover this situation, but given the extent of specification in the Bill it would seem best to make explicit reference to the inclusion of children on a passport, and apply the same rules. [More…]
The resume of that particular example indicates the sorts of problems that are faced by parents in a separated situation who do have the legal custody of their children when that child or those children are abducted by the other parent and removed from the country. [More…]
On 22 February 1978, the honourable member for Hawker asked a question of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) whether an interdepartmental committee had been appointed to examine and to report on the issue of passports with particular reference to child abduction. [More…]
In that review, it had considered the incidence of child abduction. [More…]
However, I believe that it is necessary to retain that requirement for the practical means of protecting not only the financial rights of a spouse or former spouse but also to guard against this situation of child abduction and removal from the country. [More…]
That particular part of clause 8 is directed towards the problem of child abductions but it will not eliminate the problem of the removal of children from Australia since it can be by-passed by dual nationals who hold two passports, by the use of false documents, by making false statements, and by making application outside Australia for a passport. [More…]
However, the clause does tighten passport procedures in this regard and provides additional protection to people who may fear the abduction of their children. [More…]
I understand it has been suggested that children should be issued with individual passports. [More…]
After studying this proposal the Government has come to the view that this would not prevent the unauthorised removal of a child. [More…]
Individual passports would also raise the possibility of the child taking the passport and leaving the country without the knowledge of either parent or being removed by another unauthorised person. [More…]
Further, there would be increased workloads in issuing separate passports for children. [More…]
The proposed requirement for parental consent to the Issue of a passport to children who have not obtained the age of 18 years, which is embodied in the legislation, therefore provides the opportunity, so far as the legislation can practically go, to cope with this problem. [More…]
Eighteen is the age at which, according to the Family Law Act of 1975, a child ceases to be under parental control. [More…]
During the passport review by the interdepartmental committee, to which I referred earlier, it became clear that the problems of child abduction went beyond the simple matters of passport issues and a further interdepartmental committee has therefore been established to investigate all aspects of this specific problem, including the procedures which other departments and authorities could follow to prevent child abduction. [More…]
Certainly I believe that Cabinet legislative or administrative changes are necessary to reduce the incidence of children being removed from Australia by one parent without the knowledge or against the wishes of the other parent. [More…]
One of the major problems with child abduction concerns children whose endorsement appears on one of the parent’s passports. [More…]
The ultimate solution to the problem of child abduction for separated or divorced couples is to ensure that separations or divorces do not occur. [More…]
The Government, through its policies, has a responsibility to ensure that maximum support is given to the family and thus minimise the likelihood of marital breakdown with its subsequent problems, of which child abduction is one manifestation. [More…]
-Whilst I support the Passports Amendment Bill and will press our amendments to it, the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) will acknowledge my persistent efforts to eliminate the high incidence of child abduction within and from Australia, and the need for urgent legislative and administrative changes to reduce it. [More…]
I will not deal with the clause relating to child abduction as that was dealt with so adequately by my colleague the honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman). [More…]
Much child abduction in Australia can be traced to the parents having dual nationalities and acting in defiance of custodial orders. [More…]
Where there is an application for a custodial order the Family Court judges have the power to call for passports and impound them until such time as the court determines which parent will have the custody of the child. [More…]
The issue on whose passport the child should be cited could then be determined by the court and notified to the Department of Foreign Affairs in the respective State. [More…]
How low the honourable member brought his argument when he talked about a lack of milk for children. [More…]
No child in Victoria went short of milk. [More…]
Clearly television has merged as the dominant experience in the life of the average Australian child, monopolising more of his or her time than any other single activity apart from sleep. [More…]
A similar situation exists in relation to the police, corporate affairs, prices and rent control, industrial safety, mining and minerals, public and private land, environmental protection, child, family and social welfare. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the Department of Social Security has appointed Ansett Airlines as official travel consultant to the International Year of the Child National Conference on the Child, the Family and the Community. [More…]
I was very distressed that I could not attend his funeral because of a previous commitment to welcome Len Reid, a former member of this House, in his ‘Walk for the Child’ around Australia. [More…]
Women are highly likely to be such discouraged workers, particularly those with children. [More…]
Because they believe no jobs are available they do not try to make child-care arrangements and so are not ‘available’ to work under the ABS definition. [More…]
A Morgan Gallup Poll conducted in 1973 found 32 per cent of women interviewed would go out to work if there was a convenient child-care centre available. [More…]
The assumed pattern is that most women work until they are about 24 years old, leave work to bear children and then, at about 35 years old, a smaller proportion re-enter the workforce and stay until they retire. [More…]
In a sample of Melbourne married women with children under 12, Jan Harper and Diane Worrell found that the most common pattern of work experience was that of intermittent employment- moving in and out of the workforce at intervals. [More…]
There was no long gap between child-bearing and work re-entry. [More…]
Harper and Worrell found that about 70 per cent of their married women had worked at some time when they had a pre-school child and more than 40 per cent worked at some time when they had a baby less than twelve months old. [More…]
A man with a wife and four children is $9.20 a week below the austere poverty level line. [More…]
A single person is $2.25 a week below it; a lone parent with one child is $4.50 below it; and a lone parent with three children is $ 14.60 a week below that very austere, that very mean and thoroughly deprived line of poverty. [More…]
Members will recall that there was a time in this country when allowances were made to taxpayers who had dependent children. [More…]
All taxpayers had their tax calculated and if they had dependent children, a dependent spouse or student child, they were able to claim the rebate applicable in that year as a deduction of their tax liability. [More…]
It abolished the tax rebate so far as dependent children were concerned and made an explicit cash payment to the parent- normally the motherwho had the care and control of the child. [More…]
Are we to believe that the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) and the honourable member for Perth (Mr McLean) would suggest that taxpayers with dependent children should receive no concession in respect of their dependent children? [More…]
Having listened to them in tonight’s debate one would believe that they are advocating that there is a level of income at which parents of families supporting dependent children should be on their own. [More…]
We can see the total cost, we can make sure that the benefit is paid in respect of every child in the country and, at the same time, we should make sure that we do not inflate the public expenditure by wrong-headed accounting procedures. [More…]
I would like to mention a quotation made by a woman called Barbara Rodgers at the National Children’s Bureau Annual Conference held in Great Britain in 1976. [More…]
In June 1973 the cost of overseas borrowings was $96 for each man, woman and child in the country. [More…]
We have to reveal the extent to which this Government is mortgaging the future of this* country and of every worker and every workers child by virtue of those overseas loans. [More…]
If he would like to come to the opening of the Rockdale Macedonian community child care centre, which is now being built with a federal government grant of $200,000 in Arncliffe, when the Minister for Social Security opens it in a few months time, and praise the Government, he is more than welcome to come along and be party to those proceedings. [More…]
Finally, how does the Minister justify the fall of 28 per cent in the real value of the family allowance and the handicapped child allowance? [More…]
Check on infant and child feeding programs and train mothers in improved mothercraft techniques; instruct in infant and child care and hygiene. [More…]
For example, a couple with two children, for whom the poverty line was at about $125 a week at the end of 1978, are receivings 1 12.20. [More…]
A single parent with one child, for whom the poverty line was $85.30 is receiving $64.20- more than $20 less than the amount required to provide basic necessities. [More…]
Discussion with any of the non-government welfare agencies confirms that it is single parents supporting children who are most deeply in poverty in Australia at present. [More…]
A single parent with three children was receiving $30 a week less than the poverty line for that group at the end of 1 978. [More…]
I give as an example a taxpayer with a spouse and dependant child and with a average weekly earnings of $220. [More…]
Many relatively poor people, or people who are not really poor but who may not be terribly keen on spending money which they will not get back, will ignore the early symptoms of respiratory diseases in their children. [More…]
If children have asthma- I suppose that is one of the commonest respiratory illnesses- or some other recurrent respiratory illness, it will be ignored. [More…]
Because the mother will not be able to get a refund on her doctor’s fees or a significant subsidy from the Government in one form or another, she will say that it is not worth while paying $9 if the child only has a cough. [More…]
If there is a delay before treatment is sought we will certainly have a significantly greater number of children with bronchiectasis, et cetera. [More…]
He said that he would maintain the children’s services program. [More…]
Instead of having a decent child care and pre-school kindergarten program today we have only a few odd grants which are made mainly in Liberal Party electorates to pad up the sitting members. [More…]
Every man, woman and child in Australia is now in hoek to overseas bankers to the extent of $325 per head. [More…]
The removal of the subsidy of $50 per child per week will exclude thousands from schools where they acquire necessary social skills. [More…]
The Schools Commission’s excellent project for devolution of educational authority, including financial authority, I assert can best be implemented by funding the consumer, that is, the child attending school or his family- not the school directly or the system, but the child whose education, whose life therefore, is what this whole operation is about. [More…]
Overall, children in the latter schools receive per capita less than half of what their government school neighbours receive. [More…]
Equal needs are not being met with equal aid, which is why I recommend that the Schools Commission’s needs policy should be applied to each family and not to institutions, whether public or private, attended by children from quite different socioeconomic backgrounds. [More…]
They do not even realise that in this Year of the Child it is grinding children into the ground. [More…]
They do not even think that the cost of unduly bureaucratic administration- they do not like that phrasewould open up new worlds, new futures, to hundreds of inner city poor and immigrant children. [More…]
In the International Year of the Child it is splendid that the Government is once again making available the money that it has previously made available over the years. [More…]
It would be good if the Government did a little more than it has done so far for the child in terms of its coming into the world. [More…]
I cannot let the opportunity pass without saying that we are famous for doing all we can in the International Year of the Child to promote abortion. [More…]
I remember the discussions concerning disadvantaged children and finally the decision by the Labor Government to introduce the isolated children’s scheme. [More…]
A child as a person, has an absolute, inalienable right to equality of education input no matter where he or she lives and no matter whether the parents are rich or poor. [More…]
I refer now to student allowances in the secondary scheme and to changing the former scholarship scheme into an allowances scheme based on the needs of the child in a certain age group. [More…]
A poster of the Pope holding a child was confiscated from Henryk Wujek. [More…]
As a consequence, those municipalities which have the greatest need for welfare services, child care services and employment projects have been affected, in Western Australia at least, in two ways. [More…]
For the purpose of classification, a child ‘s dress was 32 inches. [More…]
A number of importers decided- I believe quite unfairly- to use the by-law relating to children’s dresses to bring in garments at a substantially reduced penalty and substantially reduced tariff rates. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) also left Australia on 1 June to attend the International Conference of Women Leaders in Israel and to take up activities associated with the International Year of the Child in the course of visits to Europe and the United States. [More…]
Last financial year’s health expenditure represented about $504 for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
by inserting after sub-paragraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of sub-section (3 ) the following sub-paragraph: (iiia) is a child (including a step-child, foster-child or ex-nuptial child) of the applicant or a child (including a step-child, foster-child or exnuptial child) of such a child or a niece or nephew of the applicant; ‘; and [More…]
This is provided either by way of the handicapped child ‘s allowance payable to a mother or guardian to help meet the exceptional costs of bringing up a severely or substantially handicapped child up to 16 years of age, up to 25 years of age if a full time student or by the domiciliary nursing care benefit payable to a person who provides adequate nursing or other care to an older child or adult in his or her home. [More…]
A child in Port Macquarie suffering from spina bifida, which for New South Wales residents could be treated only in Sydney - [More…]
The Children’s Book Council of Australia NSW Branch considers that the Government’s proposal to tax imported books a contravention of the spirit of UNESCO of which Australia is a member and in particular of the Florence Agreement. [More…]
Such a tax will preclude many parents in providing cultural enrichment for their children which is deplorable particularly in this the International Year of the Child. [More…]
Child Welfare Ordinance, 1957 s. 14(2) (c), 14(3) [More…]
That this House, in the International Year of the Child, noting that: [More…]
1) the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child states that the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth, and asserts that a child shall be entitled to grow and develop in health and to this end special care and attention should be provided both to the child and to the mother, including adequate prenatal and post-natal care, and [More…]
1 ) Have regulations recently been changed with respect to eligibility for handicapped child’s allowance; if not, when were these regulations last changed and what were the changes. [More…]
6 ) Is or could the cost to a parent for a severely, substantially, moderately or mildly handicapped child be the same. [More…]
How do doctors or the Minister make the distinction between a severely, substantially, moderately or mildly handicapped child. [More…]
Do costs to a parent of a child suffering any degree of handicap consistently increase with the age of the child; if so, has the Minister considered taking this factor into account when deciding on the level of benefit. [More…]
The Social Services Act was amended on 10 November 1 977 to give the Director-General power to grant a handicapped child’s allowance in respect of a substantially handicapped child as distinct from a severely handicapped child. [More…]
The allowance is available to parents or guardians of severely physically or mentally handicapped children who are living in the family home and who by reason of their disability require constant care and attention and are likely to need such care and attention permanently or for an extended period. [More…]
The allowance may also be paid where parents or guardians care for substantially handicapped children in their family home and provide care and attention only marginally less than that required if the child were severely handicapped and who, as a result, experience severe financial hardship. [More…]
A maximum payment of $65 a month may be made for substantially handicapped children. [More…]
The rate of $65 a month applies in all cases where the allowance is granted for a severely handicapped child. [More…]
Neither the Minister for Social Security nor any doctor has the legal authority to grant or refuse payment of a handicapped child ‘s allowance. [More…]
The Director-General of the Department of Social Security, who has responsibility for assessing entitlements, may require the child to be medically examined or he may obtain medical advice from a legally qualified medical practitioner. [More…]
The Director-General has the discretion to set the rate of handicapped child ‘s allowance where the family is suffering hardship as a result of providing almost constant care and attention to a substantially handicapped child. [More…]
In assessing entitlement to an allowance, and in particular in assessing the need for constant or almost constant, care and attention the Director-General and the medical practitioners from whom he seeks advice have regard to a number of factors including the extent to which the child relies on the claimant for the performance of everyday activities such as eating, dressing, bathing, ambulation, toileting and any other special activities such as therapy programmes. [More…]
Each claim for handicapped child’s allowance is treated on its merits and there is regular consultation between officers of my Department and Commonwealth Medical Officers involved in the scheme to ensure consistency of approach. [More…]
for a substantially handicapped child, any changes in the cost of care are taken into account. [More…]
If we examine the family allowance- and I was a strong supporter of its introduction in place of the tax rebates and child endowment which had obtained for many years- we find that the loss in benefits to a taxpaying family in respect of their first child has become $2.70 a week; in respect of a family with two children it has become $4.42 a week. [More…]
For a family with three children it has become $6.10 a week; for one with four children it has become $8 a week; and for one with six children it has become $10.50 a week. [More…]
In the 1978-79 financial year, $93,500 was allocated by my Department to the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement to fund a hearing conservation program administered by the Queensland Department of Child Health and the University of Queensland to provide both a preventive and clinical service to Aboriginals. [More…]
1 ) Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to an article published in the Advertiser of Saturday, 19 May 1 979, under the caption ‘The Tug of Hate’, relating to the International Year of the Child, a belief that it is time an international treaty was drawn up to deal with legal problems associated with child snatching, and a report that The Hague Conference on International Law has just held its first talks on the problem. [More…]
In India, the child born in a community of more than 5,000 persons has seven and a half times as good a chance of receiving a University or College education as the child born in a rural village. [More…]
He is the SPELD child of Australian politics. [More…]
Bear in mind that when the Labor Government was in office every year there was an adjustment, according to cost of living increases, in the allowances paid for dependent children of pensioners. [More…]
Inflation has progressively eroded the value of family allowances so that in real terms a family with two children is now $3.26 a week worse off than it was in 1975. [More…]
A family with three children is $4.10 a week worse off. [More…]
The dependent child allowance is down $3.63 a week in real terms. [More…]
The guardian’s allowance has eroded $2.89 a week for a child under six years and $1.93 for a child over six years. [More…]
What does the Government have to say about the traumatic effects of having an unemployed child or about having an unemployed breadwinner? [More…]
The failure of this Government to index family allowances has meant that the family allowance for one child has lost its value to the extent of nearly $3. [More…]
The loss to a family with five children has been $7.50. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) is also the Minister in charge of children’s affairs. [More…]
In this present situation they can see that they have to put off staff, cut back on activities and not take on children below a certain age. [More…]
The aim of the Whitlam Government was to give 12 months of pre-school education to every child in Australia. [More…]
If the employee had a wife he received an extra $2 1 and $ 10 for each child. [More…]
It increased the amount paid to an injured employee by $ 10 a week, the amount paid to his wife increased from $21 to $23.50 a week and the amount for each child went from $10 to $1 1.25. [More…]
The problem is that work of that nature such as drainage, kerbing and guttering, roads, schools, aged persons’ accommodation, youth centres and child care centres requires much more than just labour. [More…]
An amount of $69.2m has been allocated for assistance for preschool and child care projects in the States and the Northern Territory- a significant increase of $5.4m. [More…]
However, I think he may have been somewhat overcome by the fact that the Minister for Social Security, my colleague in the other place, made available $300,000 to child care workers in those refuges. [More…]
The New South Wales Government could well have undertaken this job since it has a responsibility for children in its own State. [More…]
Therefore, those people receiving in excess of $12,000 per year who are healthy, who have not adopted a child, who have incurred no education expenses or who live in rented accommodation, will be ripped off when they need the money the most, in their retirement years. [More…]
Collect information on fitting rates and wearing rates of both adult and child restraint devices: to assist in evaluation of Australia’s compulsory seat belt wearing legislation to evaluate the introduction of Victoria’s ‘child restraint’ legislation to evaluate a radio and press publicity campaign aimed at increasing the use of restraints by children and evaluation of compliance with legislation requiring retrospective fitting of seat belts to older cars. [More…]
1 ) Did Australia participate in the International Year of the Child sand castle competition in Acapulco, Mexico in 1979. [More…]
The invitation from the contest organisers in Mexico was considered by several bodies such as the International Year of the Child Events Task Force on which the Commonwealth and all States were represented, the Department of Foreign Affairs, my Department and several private groups. [More…]
There is a modest increase for child migrant and refugee education in a category labelled Associated Services’. [More…]
Once again, I cannot be sure what that means, but given the increase in the number of refugee children we are taking, I cannot see that amount doing all that much good, bearing in mind that by virtue of the Government’s accepting the Galbally report, it is also presumably waking up to the needs of all the other immigrant children in the country who have not had adequate educational opportunities provided for them because there has been inadequate funding over the years. [More…]
A large prospective study of 46,000 women of child bearing age showed a death rate from circulatory diseases among those who used oral contraceptives S times greater than those who did not. [More…]
He gave particular emphasis because of this increase and because of the consequential dangers to the unborn child. [More…]
As the WHO report and the paper of Dr Donovan spell out, there is clear and unchallengeable evidence that a woman who smokes throughout her pregnancy, causes the child in the womb to become an average 200 grams lighter at birth than the child of a woman who does not smoke. [More…]
The table shows quite clearly that under the tax rebate system which was introduced during the last Hayden Budget, the tax rebate per child, indexed as taxation has been indexed until this year, would have been $5.60 per week per child for a tax paying family plus 50 cents child endowment for the first child. [More…]
The family allowance for the first child is $3.50 compared with the $6.10 paid previously. [More…]
So a family with one child loses $2.60 a week. [More…]
Similarly, the table shows that a family with two children loses $4.20 a week, a family with three children loses $5.80 a week, and so on. [More…]
If a family has six children it loses over $10 a week because of the Government’s attitude to family allowances. [More…]
If the old child endowment scheme had been kept and tax deductions allowed for dependent children, the average Australian family would have been dollars a week better off than under the family allowance scheme. [More…]
There is no rise in the allowance for the dependent children of pensioners and beneficiaries. [More…]
There are half a million children in this category. [More…]
Half a million children are the dependants of pensioners and recipients of the unemployment benefit and the sickness benefit. [More…]
This shows a despicable disregard of the welfare of children. [More…]
In the International Year of the Child it is perhaps even more despicable than it would have been in any other year. [More…]
The Government clearly does not give a damn about forcing half a million children into deeper poverty. [More…]
But what has the Government done to extend child care services in the inner city areas? [More…]
The Government has said that this year child care funding is to be increased by 1.03 per cent, but what it has not told the public at large is that in that increase it has lumped the cost of child care facilities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Because in New South Wales there is a large number of private child care centres and kindergarten union centres, which are not long day care centres, the children in the inner city areas of Sydney have been further disadvantaged. [More…]
New South Wales is once again sadly disadvantaged because of the inadequate provision for child care in the inner cities. [More…]
Funding for children’s services is supposed to have risen by 16 per cent. [More…]
Unfortunately when one looks at the level of expenditure and inflation, which the Government itself says will be at least 10 per cent in the coming 12 months, it can be seen that the amount of money being made available for children’s services in Australia has been reduced in real terms by 2.4 per cent. [More…]
Some of this increase would have been offset because of the taxing of pensions and benefits and the change from a child tax rebate to a family allowance scheme. [More…]
Using that effective level of the 1975-76 dollar value, dental services for school children have been cut by $8. [More…]
7m; children’s services have been cut by $ 1 7.3m; payments to the States for schools have been cut by $22.8m; payments for child migrant and refugee education have been cut by $7.2m; payments for pre-school and child care have been cut by $ 18.6m; payments for housing have been cut by $205.8m and payments for leisure and cultural facilities have been cut by $5.4m. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) pointed out this afternoon, if it was a matter of providing something for the Army Minister, such as a report on a child in a school cadet corps who was thought to be harbouring subversive thoughts, yes, ASIO was absolutely capable of producing a report on that. [More…]
Clearly environmental responsibility has been the unwanted child of this Government. [More…]
The additional weekly supplement for a dependent spouse will increase from $2 1 to $23.60 and the weekly supplement for each dependent child will increase from $ 10 to $ 1 1 .25. [More…]
The weekly amount payable in respect from $10 to $1 1.25 and the minimum total amount payable for each child will increase from $1,000 to $1,125. [More…]
The first of these, in clause 3 of the Bill, increases the upper age limit for a dependent student child from 21 years to 25 years, standardising the definition of a student child in Commonwealth compensation legislation with that applicable under the Social Services Act. [More…]
The additional weekly supplement for a dependent wife will be increased from $2 1 to $23.60 and that for each dependent child from $10 to $1 1.25. [More…]
The weekly payment in respect of each dependent child of a deceased seaman will be increased from $10.00 to $1 1.25 and the minimum total amount payable for each child will increase from $1,000 to $1,125. [More…]
A further amendment in clause 3 increases the upper age limit for a dependent student child from 2 1 years to 25 years. [More…]
Employees) Amendment Bill 1979 and will standardise the definition of ‘child’ in Commonwealth compensation legislation with that applicable under the Social Services Act. [More…]
International Year of the Child Unit (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Who is the Director of the International Year of the Child Unit in the Department of Social Security. [More…]
In one of the same journals is an advertisement for the International Year of the Child. [More…]
I think that ultimately some Commonwealth money is involved in the International Year of the Child. [More…]
One remembers well the eulogies in this House by Government members about the Government transfer of the former provision of tax rebates in respect of children to increased family allowances. [More…]
But since then the tax concession in respect of children has gone. [More…]
The family allowance scheme is now very much like the scheme which was introduced in 1950 when another conservative government came to power on a promise to pay child endowment for the first child- an appeal to greed rather than need. [More…]
Nevertheless, that promise was honoured and in 1950 a five shilling child allowance fee was paid in respect of the first child to each family entitled to receive it. [More…]
An amount of ten shillings was still being paid to families in respect of the second child. [More…]
At present family allowances are the same as they were when they replaced concessional taxation rebates for children back in 1976-77. [More…]
Then they stood at $3.50 for the first child, $5 for the second, $6 for the third and $6 for the fourth. [More…]
So a family with three children is losing $4.70 a week because of this Government’s failure to index family allowances and a family with four children is losing $6.70 a week. [More…]
When the Labor Government left office in 1975 the national debt stood at approximately $75 per head for every man, woman and child in Australia. [More…]
Media reports had suggested that hundreds of children may have been removed from Australia by one parent without the consent of the other. [More…]
While the number of child removal cases appears not to be as high as media reports had suggested, the Government is concerned to make its legislation and administrative procedures as effective as possible to minimise the problem. [More…]
Prevention of child removal is a complex matter involving questions of jurisdiction, dual nationality, citizenship, freedom of travel and rights of the child. [More…]
Continued participation by Australia in discussions in the Hague Conference on Private International Law on a proposed international convention on the specific problem of child removal; [More…]
Does the Minister acknowledge that an average wage earner with a dependent spouse and child and with a weekly take home pay of $150 would pay 40 per cent of that income on housing? [More…]
Our birth rate has declined to a critical level and so child rearing does not contribute the same economic significance in the family budget as it once did. [More…]
Tonight I wish to raise three particular matters- two dealing with children- which I hope the Government will look at. [More…]
The first matter I raise is the situation of a war widow who, after the death of her husband, has a child. [More…]
Under the existing law, that woman is not eligibile for payment in respect of that child by way of an additional payment to her war widow’s pension. [More…]
If she were in receipt of a civilian widow’s pension, she would be eligible for such a payment in respect of that child. [More…]
But because of the differences between the repatriation Acts, and veterans affairs and social services legislation, she is denied any payments in respect of that child. [More…]
Thus the child itself is denied any assistance from the Government. [More…]
That woman cannot make a claim under social security legislation in respect of that child because, in assessing the child ‘s entitlement to assistance, the amount of her war widow’s pension is counted as income. [More…]
That is one instance that I wish to raise in respect of children. [More…]
Whilst the family allowance has been frozen at the same level for three years prices have escalated by 30 per cent, spending on education has been reduced, child care services have been starved of funds and housing has become dearer and dearer. [More…]
As honourable members will know, the record real spending on education in Australia is mainly bringing more and more pay for more and more teachers, and not better facilities for children at schools. [More…]
Government spending for each child in State schools has never been so high, even after inflation is taken into account. [More…]
It is not up to the Federal Government to dictate to the States how they should distribute their education money between buildings and equipment, and teachers salaries, but it is disgraceful when States blame the Federal Government for problems emerging from their own decisions, particularly when more Government money is being spent on each child in State schools in Australia than ever before. [More…]
So teachers have won their campaigns for more benefits for themselves at the expense of facilities for children. [More…]
International Year of the Child Sand Castle Competition (Question No. [More…]
4383 on the International Year of the Child sand castle competition (Hansard, 1 1 September 1979, page 981), was the decision to participate submitted to the Minister for approval. [More…]
They have taken their decisions to bomb and to refuse humanitarian help at a great remove in distance and responsibility from the consequences of their obduracy; not for them the sight of an emaciated child spitting itself to death ! [More…]
It is also proposed under the regulations to refund half the amount of the charge where a course has run for no more than half its normal duration in any year and in the event of the death of the student, the withdrawal through serious illness of the student, the withdrawal through serious illness or death of a parent, spouse or child, or the grant of resident status to the student. [More…]
Child care centres, welfare services, senior citizens’ centres, various recreational facilities and public libraries are vital in supporting people at particularly vulnerable times of their lives or in ensuring more satisfying leisure activity. [More…]
Money was also provided for recreational needs and tourism as well as for pre-school and child care services. [More…]
A person earning $200 or so a week, with a wife and dependant child, will be $10 a week better off from that date than he would have been under the tax scales introduced by the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) when he was Treasurer in the Labor Government. [More…]
These areas included child care, assistance to Aborigines and care for the disabled and aged persons. [More…]
Child care is an area where this is most obvious. [More…]
Extension of wife’s pension to women who have no child in their care, or who are under 50 years of age where their husbands are in benevolent homes. [More…]
Provision for the payment of family allowances on a daily basis where the child moves from one person to another or enters or leaves an institution. [More…]
Provision for the continuation of handicapped child’s allowance to a person ordinarily caring for a child where the child is temporarily in an institution approved for the payment of family allowance. [More…]
Family Allowance, Double Orphan’s Pension Handicapped Child’s Allowance [More…]
Payment is made, for the whole period, to the person or approved institution having the care of the child on the first day of the pay period. [More…]
This can mean that a person or institution having the care of a child for the greater part of a period but not the commencement, receives nothing by way of family allowance in respect of that period. [More…]
Broadly stated, the conditions for payment of family allowance apply also to double orphan’s pension and handicapped child’s allowance, but handicapped child’s allowance is not payable to an institution. [More…]
Consequently the absence of a child from the family home for a few days covering the commencement of a family allowance period can result in the non payment to the parent or guardian of amounts of $47.70 and $65 a month respectively. [More…]
To correct this the Government proposes that, where a child moves from one person to another or enters or leaves an institution, entitlement will be decided on the basis of the number of days for which a child is in the care of the person or institution. [More…]
In respect of a handicapped child ‘s allowance, the absence of a child from the private home for a short period can be disregarded and payment continued uninterrupted provided family allowance continues to be payable to the parent or guardian. [More…]
However, under existing conditions if a child enters an institution to which family allowance is payable the parent or guardian loses handicapped child ‘s allowance. [More…]
It is proposed to amend the law to enable handicapped child ‘s allowance to be paid to the parent or guardian where the child is in an endowed institution for a temporary period. [More…]
However, as at present, the handicapped child’s allowance will not be payable where handicapped children’s benefit or nursing home benefit is paid to an institution. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, in order to qualify for a double orphan’s pension a person must be caring for a child, other than a child he has adopted, both of whose parents are no longer living, or one of whose parents is deceased and the other is not able, because of specified circumstances, to support the child. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that some people have travelled overseas to adopt children under the laws of other countries or to bring children to Australia with a view to adoption under Australian law. [More…]
While there is no barrier to payment of a double orphan’s pension where a child, Australian born or otherwise, is awaiting adoption in Australia, it has never been the intention to pay the double orphan’s pension for any adopted child, including those adopted under the laws of another country. [More…]
The rate applicable for a child in the care of his mother, adoptive or step-parent, will rise by $2.05 to $12.50 a week. [More…]
If both parents are deceased, or the child is not being maintained by a parent, adoptive parent or stepparent the rate will rise by $4.10 to $25 a week. [More…]
The case I refer to is that of a women who, having been widowed, subsequently has a child and that child is treated by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs as nonexistent where the woman receives a war pension. [More…]
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs takes the position that the child, not being the child of the husband as a result of whose war service the woman receives a war widows pension, is not the responsibility of that Department. [More…]
I do not think that it is the responsibility of Acts of Parliament to moralise on the conduct of people to the extent that they are fined and their children are disadvantaged. [More…]
The situation of a woman who has a child not covered by a war widows pension because it is not a child of the deceased exserviceman whose offspring attract a pension, is that if she applies to the Department of Social Security for coverage of that child, the war widows pension is applied as a means test against her in assessing whether the childrens allowance will be paid in respect of that child. [More…]
If she were receiving a social security widows pension, the child would be covered automatically, but because she is receiving a war widows pension, she is denied cover for the child under either form of pension. [More…]
In one case the Department of Veterans’ Affairs says that it is not the child of the ex-serviceman and in the other case the Department of Social Security says to the woman: ‘Your widows pension is such that it excludes you, because of the means test, from getting coverage for that child ‘. [More…]
What it is really saying to that woman is that she has to give up her war widows pension and take a social security pension in order to get coverage for that child because of the cross use of the means test. [More…]
Some people are not marrying or are delaying child bearing. [More…]
If it was considered desirable not to add to government spending, a reduction in the Family Allowances could pay for the increased supplement paid to lower income groups, e.g., a reduction of $4 per month per child would have resulted in approximately $200m in 1978. [More…]
The Government has increased and extended eligibility for the handicapped child’s allowance, expanded the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service and widened the eligibility for acceptance for the free-of-charge programs. [More…]
Earlier this year the Government announced a commitment of up to $ lm to establish a Child Accident Prevention Foundation. [More…]
Fourthly, there is payment of the family allowance on a daily basis for a child moving between parents and an institution or between one person and another. [More…]
Fifthly, there is a continuation of the payment of the handicapped allowance to parents or those usually responsible for the care of the child when the child is temporarily in an institution. [More…]
Seventhly, there is clarification of the payment of the double orphan’s pension with reference to children adopted under the law of another country. [More…]
The amount of payment for a child goes from $10 a week to $11.25, an increase of 12.5 per cent. [More…]
We are increasing the weekly payment for each child from $10 to $11.25. [More…]
A married employee with at least one dependent child would receive flat rate weekly benefits at a rate higher than the present adult minimum wage. [More…]
In New South Wales a single employee receives $96.30 a week, a spouse $22 a week and each child $ 1 1 a week, which are about the same as the rates paid by the Commonwealth for a family man. [More…]
I understand that the new proposals provide for $105 a week for an employee, $30 a week for a spouse and $ 10 a week for a child, but these rates will be subject to a ceiling of $155 a family a week. [More…]
So the weekly benefits of a Commonwealth employee with a spouse and three children will exceed those that would be available under the proposed Victorian rates. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that since combining the then existing tax rebate for dependent children and child endowment in 1976 into a family allowance payment, that benefit rate has remained frozen? [More…]
Is it a fact that the family allowance payment for four children in real terms today is $6.54 a week less than the combined tax rebate and child endowment for four children in 1975? [More…]
Is it a fact that by terminating the tax rebate for dependent children and by refusing to index the substitute family allowance he has saved $5 80m so far at the expense of Australian children? [More…]
An incident having occurred in the galleryMr SPEAKER-It brings tears to the eyes of a child. [More…]
It is very difficult for a child with an average intelligence quotient to cope with two languages. [More…]
It is easy enough for people who are outstandingly bright to do so but it is not easy for the average child. [More…]
If we say positively that those children should be encouraged to do a lot of their schooling in a language other than English they will never get a fair share of the cake that is available in Australia and which ought to be available in Australia for all who are permanent residents. [More…]
If the income of a child or other resident exceeded $79.70 a week the pensioner would not be eligible for the concession. [More…]
This would apply whether or not the child or other resident contributed towards the cost of the telephone, i.e., rental and calls. [More…]
The general resources programs are for general recurrent grants, including short term emergency assistance for non-government schools catering for country children, and building and equipment grants. [More…]
The specific purpose programs are for child migrant education, disadvantaged schools and students in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development and special projects. [More…]
There has been a broadening of the provisions within the multicultural education program to provide for national level projects, to facilitate the program’s administration and to encourage schools to be more responsive to the multicultural needs of all children. [More…]
-The table shows the number of four-year-old children who are attending pre-schools in the States of Australia. [More…]
When one looks at what has occurred in children’s services in New South Wales, one is quite concerned about the position. [More…]
Prior to 1973, under the former Liberal-Country Party Government in New South Wales, about 25c per child per annum was being spent on children’s services. [More…]
During the same period in Victoria, which had a more enlightened form of liberalism in control, the State Government was spending approximately $2 per child per annum. [More…]
When the Whitlam Labor Government came to power in 1 972 and the present Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) was the Minister in charge of children’s services, we saw quite a change in all States except New South Wales. [More…]
There were considerable difficulties in getting the New South Wales Liberal Government to come to an agreement with the Commonwealth regarding the provision of funds for child care. [More…]
The number of children enrolled in those pre-schools increased by approximately 80 per cent, from 121,000 to 218,000 children. [More…]
When the Deputy Leader of the Opposition was the Minister in charge of this area he entered into written agreements with the States to provide 75 per cent recurrent funding for child care services and a sum of $60,000 towards the capital cost of child care units. [More…]
Indeed, the people who formed the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission, and particularly the two Children’s Commissioners in New South Wales, Mr Lex Gray and Miss Trisher Kavanagh, should be congratulated. [More…]
In fact, when Mrs Coleman, who heads the Office of Child Care, appeared before Estimates Committee A, she said: [More…]
I do not think that that is a very suitable way to be dealing with the educational facilities that we make available to young children in Australia. [More…]
I would hate to see the children of my State- in particular, the children of my electorate- suffer because of that. [More…]
From the report of Estimates Committee A we can see that there has been a move away from the funding of child care facilities under the Child Care Act to the funding of facilities under what is called centre-based funding. [More…]
The only failing of that system at present is that it costs considerably more to run these community-based child care facilities and there is a need for more recurrent funding for most of those facilities. [More…]
The teacher-student ratio in a neighbourhood centre-type child care facility is higher than the ratio in a larger pre-school. [More…]
The Office of Child Care and the Government have not taken that into account in the recurrent grants that are made available for staffing and for the other costs of running these centres. [More…]
The funds available under the Child Care Act are indexed- admittedly only up to awards payments made prior to 1978 but a form of indexation is built in- whereas, unfortunately, with centre-based funding there is no indexation. [More…]
All in all, I support the activities of the Office of Child Care. [More…]
Child I hope that the Government will endeavour next year to make a decision for the children of New South Wales and provide some extra capital assistance in order to ensure that those children have equality of opportunity with the children of Victoria and Queensland, the adjacent States. [More…]
What is the current supporting parent’s benefit for a parent with (a) one child, (b) 2 children, (c) 3 children and (d) 4 children. [More…]
So one can do the sum again and include in the concept of net tax the amounts paid by the Government by way of child endowment or the family allowances and the additional amounts that taxpayers have to pay now to be covered for health care. [More…]
In 1975-76, 13.3 per cent of the income of a married taxpayer with a dependent spouse and two children went in net tax. [More…]
The introduction of the child rebate at the time was also a very worthwhile measure. [More…]
I think it was Mungo Maccallum who wrote somewhere that politicians in Australia occupied a place in public esteem somewhere between drug pushers and child molesters. [More…]
The first of two key modifications now proposed is that the new system for taxing income of dependent children will not apply to student children aged 18 to 25 years. [More…]
It will be limited to children who, at the end of the income year, are under the age of 1 8 years. [More…]
While there is a case for proceeding on the basis that a full time student over the age of 1 8 years is a dependent child, like a person under that age, we have come to the conclusion that, in the light of other modifications to the system that I will mention shortly, the case for keeping students over 18 within the system is not sufficiently strong. [More…]
The $1,040 per annum level is already the threshold for a number of trusts, namely those for children under 16 covered by section 98 of the Income Assessment Tax Act. [More…]
For example, if the total taxable income of a child with nonemployment income of $1,040 per annum or less does not exceed $3,893- the amount up to which the zero rate of tax applies- no tax will be payable. [More…]
It is therefore proposed that as well as excluding income a dependent child derives as a beneficiary of a deceased estate, there will also be excluded any income that a child derives in consequence of being left property by a deceased person, for example, dividends from shares bequeathed to the child and income arising from the investment of a cash legacy. [More…]
In similar vein, income from the investment of other sums coming directly to a child on a person’s death, such as the proceeds of a life insurance policy or a lump sum from a superannuation fund payable to the child, will also be excluded. [More…]
It may sometimes happen that a parent dies without having made adequate provision for his or her children- property is left to the surviving parent who then finds it necessary to settle part of it on the children. [More…]
Income coming to a child in this indirect way on the death of a person will also be excluded from the new system, but only if the trust or other arrangement for the child is made within 3 years after the death. [More…]
It will also be a condition that, in total, the excluded income as a result of the death does not exceed that which would have flowed if the child had received the benefit under the rules of intestacy. [More…]
It has all along been made clear that, to the extent they are reasonable in amount, salary and wages and other income from services rendered are to be outside the new system applicable to income of dependent children. [More…]
For example, it is possible that a child may carry on a small business, and the legislation will make it clear that income from the business is also to be excluded. [More…]
Moreover, income from the investment of savings out of a child’s income from his or her own efforts, whether in the form of salary or wages for employment, payments for personal services, or profits from the conduct by the child of a business, is to be excluded. [More…]
Also to be excluded is income from the investment of savings out of any other income of the child that is itself income of a type that is excluded; for example, savings out of income from deceased estates, from legacies, or from the investment of compensation moneys. [More…]
Also in the excluded categories will be income from the investment of verifiable winnings by a child from legally authorised lotteries. [More…]
These will aim to ensure that, for example, in the case of income from a business, it is really the child ‘s own business and that the profits of the business have not been inflated by the diversion of income to it by a relative or other person not at arm’s length. [More…]
The relieving power will ordinarily not be available unless the persons concerned establish that the tax payable on the non-employment’ income of a child under the new system is greater than the tax that would have been payable on that income if it had been added to the income of the child ‘s parent. [More…]
If the child has minor brothers and sisters also in receipt of ‘nonemployment’ income, the ‘non-employment’ income of all of them will be added to that of the relevant parent for the purposes of this comparison. [More…]
Indeed, $5,020 is not a bad amount for a child to have invested, and we are talking about children’s investments. [More…]
As the Treasurer said, $416 was reasonable because we were looking at an investment by a child of some $5,000. [More…]
How many children in this country have investments in their names of $13,000? [More…]
There are probably quite a few thousand, but it is a tremendously small proportion of the total number of children in this country. [More…]
I would have tackled even that as being a modest investment for a child. [More…]
Certainly, to describe $13,000 in the name of a child as a modest investment shows a very strange set of values by the standards of most Australian people. [More…]
Here we are talking about children having $13,000. [More…]
What sort of people describe a child’s investment of $13,000 as a modest investment? [More…]
There will be continued scope for tax avoidance by income splitting with a dependent full time student child. [More…]
If student children are exempted in this way, quite obviously parents can utilise a full time student child for income- splitting purposes. [More…]
New South Wales, the richest State in Australia, on its own proposition, gives $16.40 to each child in a non-government primary school for every $100 it gives to each child at a government school. [More…]
The 20 per cent odd of children who attend non-government schools in Australia cannot get a fair deal unless the States join with the Commonwealth in acknowledging some responsibility. [More…]
As a result of that recommendation it is very wrongly and unjustly accused that it allocates somewhat more per child attending a non-government school than it allocates per child attending a government school. [More…]
Every member of this House knows that is the minority of funds which goes to support children in education. [More…]
Let me read out the contributions by the States per child attending a non-government secondary school compared with a child attending a government secondary school. [More…]
In the State which makes the lowest allocation in Australia, Tasmania, the allocation is $16.30 per child in one category compared with $100 in the other. [More…]
In New South Wales the allocation is $17.50 for a child in one category compared with $100 for a child in the other category. [More…]
I make the following points, which deserve to be made: I request that when the Commonwealth Government makes its funds available for non-government schools and those schools send their accounts out to parents- whether it is Blackheath College or Cunumulla Convent or whatever it happens to be- there be an obligation on those schools to make clear what is the Commonwealth’s contribution per child and what is the State’s contribution per child so that at least the community will begin to understand. [More…]
If we are going to spend $800 less, by way of public expenditure and capital expenditure, on a child in one sort of school compared with another sort, we want to know how much of that $800 can be made up by families- and by poor families with numbers of children. [More…]
No doubt it was the legacy of its birth, spawned as it was by a Labor administration, the brain child of the revered Chifley Government, that led to this desire to dismantle it. [More…]
The allegation is that the attention was denied because the child was suffering from Down’s syndrome and that she was told during the course of an interview with the medical director of the Princess Margaret Hospital that it was best that the boy had been given no treatment, and that he was a problem and a charge on the community. [More…]
She strongly denied that the child was an epileptic, though he was so described on his PMH record card. [More…]
She apparently made a number of admissions, including that she knew of another Down’s syndrome child being refused admission to the Intensive Care Unit at Princess Margaret because of its handicap. [More…]
As it is the Year of the Child, will he undertake to amend the Income Tax Assessment Act to include those charities in the list of associations attracting tax deductions. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Health been informed of the coroner’s court findings yesterday in the case of a child death at Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth? [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present a report entitled ‘Child Migrant Education 1978-79’. [More…]
Certainly Joan Child will be making sure that people of the electorate of Henty know about the inadequacy of the Government’s housing policy. [More…]
Over 20 months ago the family asked the Minister for permission to bring the child to Australia. [More…]
We now have a situation where there is a father and mother who have Australian residence and there is a young child approximately three years of age in the Philippines who is being denied the opportunity of being reunited with his mother. [More…]
There have been many instances where young women migrating to Australia have deliberately concealed the existence of children in the belief that this would reflect favourably on their applications. [More…]
Language difficulties and the misunderstanding of rules are regularly advanced for excuses for the omission when the child ‘s admission is sought at a later date. [More…]
She took the view that she had no dependants as the child was in the care of the mother. [More…]
It is quite inconceivable that in this country a Minister of the Crown could be taking an attitude which will have the effect of deliberately depriving the mother of being reunited with her own child. [More…]
He suffered an illness as a result of the shock of the news coming to him that the young child could not be reunited with the mother. [More…]
I have never heard of such a case in our history of a parent being deprived of the opportunity of being reunited with such a young child. [More…]
The short synopsis is that a coroner’s inquiry was held into the death at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, of a Down’s syndrome child who was admitted suffering from respiratory trouble. [More…]
Dr Godfrey, who is the director of the Princess Margaret Hospital, had to admit that there was no evidence of any firm diagnosis of epilepsy in this child, although on his Princess Margaret Hospital record card he was described as having epileptic fits. [More…]
He had found that that approach often helped other bereaved parents of Down’s syndrome and handicapped children. [More…]
I am trying to speak for this child. [More…]
-The child was 23 months old. [More…]
I refer to the case of a war widow who now has an illegitimate child, and I raise the question of the rights of the child and the rights of the woman. [More…]
In correspondence with the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the only information I am able to obtain is that in order to receive coverage for the child under any form of benefit other than family allowances the woman would have to resign her war widow’s pension. [More…]
It may well be that the expectation of a person receiving a war widow’s pension is that that pension will cover the children and the dependants of the ex-servicemen. [More…]
However, I do dispute that the war widow’s pension should then be used to deny the woman social security cover for the same child. [More…]
Surely it is a simple matter of natural justice that the child and the mother should be entitled to the same rights as a civilian widow with a child on a social security pension, without having to accept the penalty that she must surrender her entitlements as a war widow. [More…]
It may be that the Repatriation Act is deficient, and it is certainly a fact that it is not long ago that the same child would have been denied rights under the Social Services Act. [More…]
But those Acts have been changed to recognise the facts of life, to recognise that a moral judgment should not deny cover for a child or a parent in circumstances where the child exists, irrespective of the nature of its birth or its legitimacy. [More…]
I ask the Minister to give consideration to the answer that he gave to me in correspondence and to review the existing law, which provides that unless the widow resigns her war widow’s pension she can obtain no cover for the dependant child simply because of the interaction of that pension and the Social Services Act. [More…]
The child is realtively young and will be in the widow’s care for at least another 10 years. [More…]
She is entitled to the war widow’s pension because she is a war widow, and she should not be asked to surrender that pension in order to gain coverage for her child. [More…]
She is denied cover for the child unless she resigns that pension, and that is a penalty based on a moral judgment. [More…]
If the Repatriation Act is not to be permitted to cover such a child, I ask the Minister to ensure that arrangements are made so that the child is entitled to be considered for a social security pension in the normal way. [More…]
In fact, it was the honourable member for Corio who called the child illegitimate. [More…]
If sample surveys had been carried out about child care for instance- that is one of the questions being dropped- such surveys may give us the kind of information that we need. [More…]
I mention child care and the area of ethnicity. [More…]
Child and Adult Migrant Education Programs- From 1970-71 until 1973-74 both the Child and Adult Migrant Education Programs were administered by the former Department of Immigration with the Department of Education (Education and Science until the end of 1972) providing consultative advisory and servicing functions. [More…]
Full responsibility both for the Child and Adult Migrant Education Programs was transferred to the Department of Education from the Department of Immigration on 12 June 1974. [More…]
On 1 January 1976 the responsibility under the Child Migrant Education Program for the provision of funds for specialist teachers and in-service training was passed to the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Department of Education continued to exercise responsibility for overall policy, the demountable classroom program, the contingency program for refugee children, emergency classroom accommodation for refugee children, teaching and learning materials and assistance in teacher education [More…]
1 ) and (2 ) The value of child endowment and tax rebates for children to a person with a dependent spouse and 3 children and receiving the minimum wage at June 1976 was effectively about $37.50 a month- about 60 per cent of their maximum value. [More…]
Has the Minister received any reports of the coroner’s inquiry into the death of the child Christopher Derkacz at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth about which I inquired last week? [More…]
Has the Minister seen Press reports of evidence of the paediatric registrar of the Princess Margaret Hospital, a Dr Clothier, who, referring to some Down’s syndrome children and their condition, said ‘and so the child is allowed to pass away’? [More…]
Has the Minister seen Press reports that Dr Fry, the Medical Director at the Princess Margaret Hospital, has been proclaiming to all parents of handicapped children that the full facilities of the hospital have been and always are available to handicapped children? [More…]
Thus, income from deceased estates, or from property left to the child by a deceased person will be outside the new system. [More…]
So too will income from the investment of other sums coming directly to a child on a person ‘s death, such as the proceeds of a life insurance policy or a lump sum from a superannuation fund. [More…]
Income from property transferred to a child by another person to whom the property was left by a deceased person, if transferred within three years after the death of that person, will be excluded if within limits set by relevant rules of intestacy. [More…]
A child in full time employment will, of course, be outside the new system altogether but, as regards a child not categorically excluded in this way, employment income from part time work and income from a business conducted by the child alone or with another minor will both be outside the new system. [More…]
Income from court-ordered settlements arising as a result of divorce or judicial separation, income from the investment of a child’s lottery winnings and income from the investment of savings out of any of the excluded categories of income make up the balance of the classes of income excluded from the new system. [More…]
These safeguarding measures aim to ensure, for example, that profits are not diverted to a child ‘s business by relatives or other persons not at arm’s length, and that income from a child’s investment is not inflated by similar diversions. [More…]
Trust income to which a child under 18 years of age is, or is deemed to be, presently entitled is already taxable in the trustee’s hands and will be taxed under the new system on the same basis as would apply if the child derived the income directly. [More…]
It is to the effect that a child, or the trustee for a child, will be eligible for a rebate to the extent that the tax otherwise payable on the relevant eligible income is greater than the tax that would have been payable on that income if it had been derived by the parent, or the parent with the higher taxable income. [More…]
If the child has minor brothers or sisters also in receipt of eligible income, the eligible incomes of all of them will be added to that of the relevant parent in ascertaining how much tax the income would have borne in the parent’s hands. [More…]
Where there are children these limits are increased by $6 for each child. [More…]
If so, is part of this festival also part of the International Year of the Child program. [More…]
What sums were paid by the Commonwealth in grants in the Electoral Divisions of (I) the Northern Territory, (2) Canberra, (3) Kalgoorlie, (4) Perth, (5) Swan, (6) Sturt, (7) Kingston, (8) Ballarat, (9) Bendigo, (10) Deakin, (II) McMillan, (12) Isaacs, (13) Henty, (14) Holt, (15) La Trobe, ( 16) Hotham, ( 17) Bass, ( 18) Franklin, ( 19) Braddon, (20) Wilmot (21) Denison, (22) Wide Bay, (23) Herbert, (24) Fadden, (25) Dawson, (26) Lilley, (27) Bowman, (28) Brisbane, (29) Leichhardt, (30) Calare, (31) Eden Monaro, (32) Cook, (33) Lowe, (34) Barton, (35) Macquarie, (36) St George, (37) Phillip and (38) Macarthur under the (a) Child Care Act and children’s services program, (b) Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act, (c) Aged Persons Hostels Act, (d) Handicapped Persons Assistance Act, (e) Homeless Persons Assistance Act, (0 State Grants (Home Care) Act, (g) delivered meals program, (h) welfare rights program, (j) personal care subsidy scheme and (k) Australian Assistance Plan during (i) 1975-76, (ii) 1976-77, (iii) 1977-78, (iv) 1978-79 and (v) 1 July 1979 to date. [More…]
I also draw the honourable member’s attention to the Minister’s report ‘Child Migrant Education 1 978-79 ‘ which I tabled in the Senate on15 November 1979. [More…]
What specific procedures are followed by the airlines in the event of (a) a general medical emergency occurring, (b) a suspected heart attack and (c) imminent birth of a child. [More…]
I also suggest to the honourable member for Sturt that if he reads clause 14- stronger, as it is, than the old section 43- together with clause 12 of the present Bill, which refers to a child of a marriage who is under 18 years of age, he will see that the Bill enables the court, of its own motion or at the request of either party, to order that the parents attend a conference with a welfare officer to discuss the welfare of their child and try to resolve any differences between them concerning the matter. [More…]
There is also the right of the child or children to have counselling of its or their own. [More…]
Of course, there is also the provision which has been written into this Bill and which has found a place in the existing law, that is, that the court shall not pronounce a decree nisi unless it is satisfied that proper, reasonable, satisfactory arrangements have been made for the children. [More…]
One can say: There is a welfare officer, a psychologist and a child welfare expert down the corridor. [More…]