children - hofreps - 1970

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

I also ask whether anything can Tie done to protect all children like him from purchasing potentially lethal snorkels of this design. [More…]
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…]
I ask him whether this Committee is empowered to inquire into defence forces retirement benefits, war service homes for serving and discharged members, and scholarships for the children of members of the forces who are posted from one school system to another. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is committed to a special programme to assist migrant children in schools who have difficulty with the English language and details of this will be announced shortly. [More…]
Is he able to say whether up to 80 per cent of the students attending these schools are migrants and whether any facilities exist at them to provide special English classes or compensatory education of the type needed for children reared in a high density environment. [More…]
What provision is made for the wives and dependent children of persons imprisoned in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea? [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…]
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…]
Statistics are not kept of the numbers of children in schools who do not speak English as their mother tongue. [More…]
This survey concerned school children of migrant origin, not including those from English-speaking countries or Asians. [More…]
Figures given in this survey indicated that in August 1968 just over 5% of all children enrolled in N.S.W. [More…]
Since there are no residential hostels for mentally retarded children in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory as there are in all the States (Hansard, 12 August 1969, question No. [More…]
747 (2) (b), page 125), what arrangements are made for such children to be accommodated in hostels. [More…]
Would he support such a demonstration by a protest movement or a moratorium if one were to be organised in Australia, or does he agree with the delegate at the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution who said: ‘Subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment that is good for them’? [More…]
Where residential accommodation for intellectually handicapped children of residents of the Australian Capital Territory is required, private centres or mental hospitals in New South Wales provide the necessary facilities depending on the individual circumstances. [More…]
A social worker of the Handicapped Children’s Association of the A.C.T. [More…]
In the Northern Territory a hostel accommodating 10 children is attached to the Slow Learners Centre in Darwin. [More…]
The more severely handicapped children in need of intensive care are accommodated in institutions in South Australia. [More…]
The plans of the Handicapped Children’s Association of the A.C.T. [More…]
include the construction of a hostel at Page in the Belconnen area to accommodate twenty handicapped children up to the age of 16 years. [More…]
There is no proposal at present for additional hostel accommodation for mentally handicapped children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But I do believe, as I have said in this House before, that it is a bad thing to try to drag out into the streets school children or young teenagers in these matters. [More…]
I do believe, also as 1 have said in this House before, that the discussion of events of national importance and the approaches to them are quite proper matters to take place in our schools and always have been; but I think special efforts to bring out into the streets school children and teenagers are not really in the best interests of Australia and indeed have no special effect on those who consider really what the matters to be decided are and the methods by which they ought to be decided. [More…]
Another activity engaged in by these students, who seek to prove that they are worthy of the facilities provided by the Commonwealth, is an annual picnic for the crippled children of Brisbane. [More…]
Underprivileged and crippled children from every institution in the City of Brisbane are brought to the university campus and entertained by students. [More…]
On the very first page of the second reading speech of the Minister those disabilities are referred to, and in any case the Bill provides that ‘handicapped children’ includes physically handicapped or mentally handicapped. [More…]
It says handicapped children, physically or mentally. [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…]
For the reasons I have given I support the proposal that there should be a special committee of inquiry into the problem of handicapped children, as proposed in the amendment moved bv the Opposition. [More…]
I think that committee of inquiry should investigate al) aspects to ascertain how many such children there, are. [More…]
what types there are and what types of handicap exist, ft should determine and establish lines of research into causes, treatment and teaching methods, ft should ascertain the best way to assist governments and organisations looking after these children. [More…]
Sometime ago it was decided that where buses were needed for the transport of disabled persons in sheltered workshops they would be eligible for subsidy and the same principle will be applied to buses for the transport of disabled children under this. [More…]
What corrective and specialised education facilities are available in the Australian Capital Territory for children with specific learning handicaps. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Special schools for physically or mentally handicapped children have been excluded. [More…]
Both have lost their husbands, breadwinners or partners in helping them to bring up the children. [More…]
It is also estimated that there are some 1.200,000 children born in Australia to one or both migrant parents. [More…]
How many of these migrants were (a) males; (b) females; and (c) children. [More…]
I am unable to substantiate the Professor’s figures as details of some of these items, for example, the level of income of families with children attending these schools, are not available to me. [More…]
Has any request been received from or on behalf of Dr Kalokerinos of Collarenebri, New South Wales, for Commonwealth assistance for a research programme into factors contributing to the high infant mortality rate among young Aboriginal children. [More…]
Dr Kalokerinos has discussed his theory that Vitamin C deficiency is a major cause of ill health and mortality in Aboriginal children with me and has suggested ways in which research might be conducted to test this theory. [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…]
The State authorities with whom we have been in contact are confident, however, that the percentageof children with disabilities of the kind mentioned by the right honourable member and who need instruction by remedial teachers to overcome their disability, is very much less than the percentage quoted. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a statement broadcast over station 3LO on 15 September 1970 that 23 per cent of Victorian school children had been assessed as suffering from what was referred to as ‘impaired co-ordination’ or what has otherwise been referred to as ‘a pathological degree of the reversal syndrome’. [More…]
Are any figures available or ascertainable which would indicate what percentage of these affected children are the children of parents who have also been educated under the ‘logical’ system. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Does the Military activity conducted in this area constituted a hazard to children and bushwalkers. [More…]
children have been involved in these repostings in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
dependent children $157m. [More…]
What is the present cost to revenue of income tax deductions allowed on account of (a) family allowances and (b) that part of the family allowance attributable to children. [More…]
It is most essential in the education of children to have them participate in sport. [More…]
I think that this school at Wagaman will be quite an exciting place for the children. [More…]
How many (a) families and (b) children have been involved in these repostings in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
What have been the recurrent expenditures on government (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the Australian Capital Territory in each of the years from 1958-59 for (i) non-salary allowances paid on account of teachers, (ii) costs of transfer of teachers moving from New South Wales to the Territory, (iii) school supplies, (iv) repayments to New South Wales, (A) including and (B) excluding teachers’ salaries and allowances, (v) heat, light and power, (vi) telephones, (vii) water and sewerage services (viii) school cleaning services, (ix) ground maintenance, (x) buildings maintenance, (xi) caretaker or janitor services, (xii) milk for school children and (xiii) school transport. [More…]
the Commonwealth Government provide any form of subsidy for the employment of governesses for the purpose of teaching children resident . [More…]
child endowment for three children under 16 years of age; [More…]
The rate paid to a widow with children was what would correspond to $4.75. [More…]
I have brought before him cases of migrants who have come to this country on the sponsorship of their children who have migrated here in earlier years and who have married and assumed responsibilities as family men. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act ,1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance .from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [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…]
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…]
What assistance for education costs is available for children of low income families in Commonwealth Territories? [More…]
There will be minor tax concessions which, like the social service proposals, are oriented towards the claims of children and students. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children of school age live in the Northern Territory. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children in the Northern Territory attend (i) Administration and (ii) mission (A) primary and (B) secondary schools. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children from the Northern Territory are assisted to receive (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) university and (iv) other education elsewhere in Australia, and what is the nature and cost of such assistance in each category. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children of school age live in the Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay area of the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children of school age living in the Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay area of the ACT attend (i) primary and (ii) secondary school? [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children from the area are assisted to receive (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) university and (iv) other education elsewhere in Australia? [More…]
There are 57 Aboriginal and 75 other Australian children living in the Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay areas of the ACT. [More…]
The figures include children between 5 and 15 years of age and those over 15 years still attending school. [More…]
Numbers of school age children living in Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay attending primary or secondary school. [More…]
The number of Aboriginal, part Aboriginal and other’ children attending these Community Preschool centres as at 26th February 1971 was as follows: [More…]
What was the Infant Mortality Rate for Aboriginal children in Central Australia during the last 12 months? [More…]
Does his Government consider that the minimum wage is sufficient to maintain a man, his wife and 2 children? [More…]
Under the Ministry of Social Security Act 1966 assistance, including rent allowance, may be provided in respect of the dependent wife and children of a striker if hardship exists. [More…]
Where a person is ineligible for unemployment benefit for any reason no unemployment benefit is payable in respect of his wife or children. [More…]
ls he able to say whether, under the Social Security Act of the United Kingdom, an employee who is unemployed by reason of a strike conducted by his own union, is entitled to receive supplementary social security benefits in respect of a wife and children as well as a rent allowance? [More…]
What is the amount of social services benefit paid in Australia in respect of the wife and children of an employee in Australia who is unemployed by reason of a strike by (a) his own union at his place of employment, (b) another union at his place of employment, (c) his own union at another place of employment and (d) another union at another place of employment? [More…]
Since the introduction of fluoridation of the Canberra watersupply in 1964, a long-term survey of the dental health of 6-12 year old children has been undertaken. [More…]
The results of an examination in 1964 of a group of 6-12 year old children who did not have the benefit of fluoridated water have been used as a base. [More…]
Compared with the incidence of newly decayed teeth in this base group the incidence found in children in the same age group bas fallen steadily each year as follows: [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…]
what proportion of children of pre-school age and what aggregate number of children were enrolled at a recognised pre-school or kindergarten centre, [More…]
How many children were born in each of the past 5 years with (a) physical and (b) mental disability. [More…]
How many children in the Territory of Papua New Guinea are unable to obtain: [More…]
Is it possible to estimate how many Commonwealth employees with children at secondary schools are posted from one State to another in the course of any one year. [More…]
In calculating the percentages, expenditure on endowment for student children, which commenced in January 1964, has been taken into account. [More…]
What would be the net cost of the medical and hospital insurance contributions for each of the three categories in each State in part (2) for a man supporting a wife and two children after the insurance contribution is allowed as a taxation deduction when his taxable income is (a) $2,500, [More…]
Section 91 refers to ‘Spouses and children under the age of 16’. [More…]
A survey conducted in September in the Puckapunyal area revealed that 81 servicemen in the Puckapunyal/Seymour area had children of secondary school age. [More…]
These children attended schools in the following categories: [More…]
There were no children at other private schools. [More…]
How many servicemen in the Puckapunyal/Seymour area have children of secondary school age. [More…]
How many of these children attend (a) Government and (b) Catholic schools in the Seymour area, and (c) Government (d) Catholic (e) other private schools elsewhere. [More…]
Where children of permissive residents attend schools they would benefit from the same facilities available to local children to learn English. [More…]
Why are student children of recipients of sickness or unemployment benefits no longer regarded as dependent when they reach the age of 16 years. [More…]
In 1920 a scheme was introduced for the payment of an allowance to married officers employed under the Public Service Act with dependent children. [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…]
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…]
What is the average family of children under (a) 14 years of age and (b)15 years of age, compared with the year occurring at the beginning of each decade prior to 1970. [More…]
The Acting Commonwealth Statistician has provided the following table showing the average number of children per ever-married male at each Census from 1911. [More…]
To obtain these averages the total number of children in each age group has been related to the total number of ever-married males aged 20 to 59 years. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [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…]
Has any consideration been given to protecting the jobs of Australian workers and saving new arrivals from the personal and economic disadvantages of unemployment by immediately restricting immigration to the spouse, children and parents of migrants already in Australia? [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science information for the House on the results of the policy announced some time ago related to the teaching of the English language to adults and children resident in Australia after emigration from overseas countries where English is not the lingua franca? [More…]
Is it possible to estimate how many servicemen with children at secondary schools are posted from one State to another in the course of any one year. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TEN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has indicated that if the Labor Party were in power it would institute a public inquiry into the inducement of people to have fewer children. [More…]
dental services for pre-school and school children (Hansard, 19th August 1970. page 232). [More…]
sale of cigarettes to or through children, the penalty for default being loss of vending licences, [More…]
cigarette vending machines accessible to children in public places and (c) advertising of tobacco without equal facilities, being provided for anti-smoking publicity. [More…]
Has a survey been conducted in the Richmond area, as in the Puckapunyal-Seymour area (Hansard, 13th October 1971, page 2324), to ascertain the number of servicemen who have children of secondary school age and the categories of schools which their children attend. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically, and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergencyfinance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I must emphasise that it is inherent in the Board’s pro’ gramme standards that parents will supervise the viewing of their children after the close of evening family and children’s viewing time at 7.30 p.m. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the take-home pay of the minimum wage earners in Australia with dependent wives and children is less than 5 per cent of the present total weekly wage of the Prime Minister? [More…]
Has a survey been conducted in the HolsworthyIngleburn area, as in the PuckapunyaiSeymour area (Hansard, 13th October 1971, page 2324), to ascertain the number of servicemen who have children of secondary school age and the categories of schools which their children attend. [More…]
Education: Servicemen’s Children in Holsworthy-Inglcburn Area (Question No. [More…]
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). [More…]
It deals with a number of dedicated civilians who have been engaged for some considerable time in Vietnam for the Save the Children’s Fund. [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to increasing substantially grants made to institutions caring for children suffering from handicaps and disabilities of various kinds and of different severities that will probably effect them all their lives. [More…]
How does the Minister for Education and Science justify the claim he made yesterday that the parents of the 75 per cent of children who attend government schools do not care about their children’s education and that parents of private school students do? [More…]
How many children of Army personnel are there of pre-school age living at (a) Puckapunyal and (b) Seymour. [More…]
a fact that a number of children in remote areas of the States are denied a proper education simply because their parents cannot afford to pay the high costs of transport and accommodation involved in allowing the children to gain a proper education in a town or city far distant from their homes. [More…]
If so, what financial assistance does the Commonwealth provide or does it intend to provide to ensure that children from remote areas are given at least an equal opportunity with city children to gain a proper education. [More…]
The amendment should be carried because an Australian schools commission is needed to examine and determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary and technical schools alike and recommend grants which .the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities. [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…]
The welfare of unmarried mothers who continue to care for their children is traditionally a matter for State Governments. [More…]
Accommodation and treatment in the unit is available for both Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal children. [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…]
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…]
In what circumstances are persons over 21 years of age excluded from the provisions of the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
What sum has been allocated in 1971-72 for age pensions, exclusive of wife’s allowance, children’s allowance and other ancillary benefits. [More…]
I have also attended Anzac services for school children in Parramatta Park, hut not on Anzac Day. [More…]
4293 that 157,000 Australian school children in rural areas do not receive free milk at school (Hansard, 9th December 1971, page 4579). [More…]
If so, will he review the position and take appropriate steps to remedy this apparent injustice to country children. [More…]
4293 stated that, according to information provided by authorities in the States and Territories which arrange the distribution of free milk to school children. [More…]
approximately 157,000 eligible children did not participate in the scheme during 1970-71. [More…]
It also stated that it was not known how many, of these children were unable to do so because of distance and supply difficulties. [More…]
The figure of 157,000 children covered both metropolitan and country schools and, according to the information provided, includes those children who, although free milk is available to them, do not drink milk at school. [More…]
As previously stated, where bottled pasteurised milk is not available, provision has been made in the Commonwealth agreement with the States for alternative forms of milk to be supplied to school children. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the case of Mr Edwin Collier, of 494 Prune Street, Lavington, who after losing his farm and being found nonviable by the New South Wales Reconstruction Board has been forced to move with his wife and three young children into town. [More…]
When I hear a member of this Parliament, in the 20th century, advocate that the only way primary producers in Australia can remain in business is for their employees and the children of those employees to starve - and I repeat the word ‘starve’ - I say it is a disgrace to the Government of this country and to the person who advances that sort of policy. [More…]
Were measles cases in Ward 9 of Alice Springs Hospital placed on the verandah of Ward 5 in February-March 1971, and were the children in Ward 5 convalescing from gastroenteritis and other illnesses. [More…]
Did 7 of the children in Ward 5 die after contracting measles. [More…]
How does the staff to patients ratio compare with Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital for children in Sydney. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the new measures I have outlined will represent a milestone in improving the education of all Australian children. [More…]
At present, Army personnel are not obliged to notify the number or ages of their children. [More…]
Interstate Postings of Servicemen with Children at Secondary Schools (Question No. [More…]
When will the conversion of Army personnel records to EDP be sufficiently advanced to estimate, as has been estimated in the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force (Hansard, 11th November 1971, page 3439), how many servicemen with children at secondary schools are posted from one State to another in the course of any one year. [More…]
Pre-school Age Children (Question No. [More…]
to release the report of the interdepartmental committee on the care of pre-school age children (Hansard, 6th May 1971, page 2867). [More…]
What sum has been allocated in 1971-72 for service pensions, exclusive of wife’s allowance, children’s allowance and other ancillary benefits. [More…]
What is the amount of Commonwealth estate duty payable in cases where an estate passes to a widow, widower, children or grand children, and where the dutiable value of the estate is (a) $19,999 or less, (b) 25,000, (c) $30,000, (d) $40,000, (e) $50,000 and (f) $100,000. [More…]
Is the inter-departmental committee established to consider the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report tabled on 5th May 1971 on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia, whose membership was disclosed by the Minister for Health in the Senate on 9th December 1971 (Senate Hansard, page 2560), the same as the inter-deparimental committee established to make a survey of handicapped children and the facilities available for their use, whose membership he himself refused to disclose on 28th September 1971 (Hansard, page 1602). [More…]
There is no objection to the entry of children legally adopted overseas where the adoption would be deemed valid in the intended State of residence. [More…]
Children who have not been legally adopted overseas in compliance with the legislation of the States, may be approved for entry for adoption in Australia provided the adoption plans have the full support of the adoption authorities in the State of intended residence. [More…]
No statistics are available of the number of applications lodged by Australian residents for the entry of children adopted by them overseas where the adoption is deemed valid in the State of intended residence in Australia. [More…]
and (3) All applications lodged for the admission of children whose adoption in Vietnam is deemed valid under State legislation have been approved. [More…]
All applications have been approved where the plans for children’s adoption in Australia have had the support of the State adoption authorities. [More…]
The number of Vietnamese children approved for entry on this basis is 6. [More…]
How many applications have been lodged by Australian residents for the entry into Australia of their adopted Vietnamese children. [More…]
Does the Minister for Education and Science regard the Government parties as the only major parties totally involved in the education of all Australian children? [More…]
What action has been taken to provide country children who are denied access to full education above the primary level with away from home allowances and the cost of travel as promised by the former Deputy Prime Minister at the General Elections in 1969. [More…]
Did the then Minister for Education and Science tell me on 25th September 1970 (Hansard page 1756) that it was not realistic to attempt to estimate the cost of my proposal to provide all eligible Australian children with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
How many teachers does his Department estimate would be required to provide all children in the States with the standard of pre-school education provided in Canberra. [More…]
Such persons usually constitute a small minority of those attending handicapped children’s training centres and where this occurs they do not disqualify an organisation from receiving subsidy under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [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…]
What financial support and/or other assistance is available for blind children under the age of 5 years. [More…]
Organisations providing training for accommodation for such children may qualify for capital assistance under ‘ the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Is it a fact that in each State financial assistance is available on the basis of a regular weekly, payment for deserted wives and the wives of prisoners in the first 6 months of these conditions and for single mothers supporting dependent children. [More…]
Last week he told me in answer to a question upon notice that more than 4,100 additional teachers would be required to provide all children in the States with the standard of pre-school education provided in Canberra and that the estimated cost of training the additional teachers would be $25m, ‘which would’, to use the Minister’s words, ‘of necessity be spread over several years’. [More…]
This proposal, dated 18th July 1972, relates to the fluoridation of water supplies or, where communal water supplies do not exist, the provision of dietary fluoride supplements to children. [More…]
Will the Minister for Customs and Excise receive a petition that has been addressed to me asking for a review of his decision to allow into Australia a book, the clear intention of which is to corrupt and degrade children and to destroy authority, and which is entitled ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’? [More…]
As the turbulence arising from the return of servicemen from Vietnam has subsided (Hansard, 9th December 1971, page 4525), will he now authorise a survey in the Holsworthy/ Ingleburn area, as was done in the Puckapunyal/Seymour area in September 1971 (Hansard, 13th October 1971, page 2324), to ascertain the number of servicemen who have children of secondary school age and the categories of schools which their children attend. [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…]
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…]
The income tax statistics for that year showed the number of children for whom the maximum deduction of $300 per child was allowed to taxable individuals as 124,046. [More…]
However, the total number of children for whom education deductions were allowed was not compiled in respect of the 1967-68 income year. [More…]
No other statistics are available of numbers of children classified by the size of the income tax deduction allowed for their education expenses. [More…]
As announced in my Budget Speech, the Government proposes to introduce legislation as soon as possible to assist in the establishment and running of child care centres operating on a nonprofit basis to benefit children from low income and other special need families. [More…]
It is envisaged that these centres will cater for the children of working parents, giving priority of admission to children in special need, such as those from single parent families, and to children of sick or incapacitated parents. [More…]
For how many dependent children do taxpayers claim education deductions (i) smaller than$ 1 00, (ii) greater than $100, (iii) greater than $200 and (iv) greater than $300. [More…]
How many Australian children fall within the category of isolated children, that is, children who are too far from any school or bus route to use either. [More…]
Is it a fact that no subsidy is paid in respect of the children who need it most, that is, those too far out to use the free buses. [More…]
What steps is he taking to overcome the present neglect of the needs of these isolated children. [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…]
Is financial assistance available in each State as a regular weekly payment to deserted wives and the wives of prisoners during the first 6 months of their husband’s desertion or imprisonment and to single mothers supporting dependent children. [More…]
continuation of war pension to all children over the age of 16 years undergoing fulltime education, $0.8m. [More…]
How many (a) wives and (b) children residing with servicemen in the Holsworthy-Ingleburn area were treated as (i) inpatients and (ii) outpatients in civilian hospitals during the latest year for which statistics have been collected. [More…]
This Bill amends the principal Act torecognise for pension and other purposes the same classes of de facto wives and widows and exnuptial children as are recognised by the amendments to the Repatriation Act contained in the Repatriation Bill 1973. [More…]
The Bill provides for the payment of war pension to student children over the age of 21 years. [More…]
This Bill amends the principal act to recognise for pension and other purposes the same classes of de facto wives and widows and exnuptial children as recognised by the amendments to the Repatriation Act contained in the Repatriation Bill 1973. [More…]
The Bill provides for the payment of war pension to student children over the age of 21 years. [More…]
Will he take action as a matter of urgency to see that Victoria’s migrant children are not denied the English teachers upon whom their wider education so largely depends? [More…]
The Scott report was commissioned in 1969 and it showed a high infant mortality rate and a high death rate among Aboriginal children under 4 years of age. [More…]
Mas he carried out any examination into the provision of special schools for handicapped children and granting of assistance under Commonwealth education programs. [More…]
What arrangements has he made for special schools for handicapped children to receive assistance under Commonwealth education programs. [More…]
What sum has been made available and spent in each year for special schools for handicapped children in (a) each State and (b) the Commonwealth. [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…]
What action has he taken to ensure that specialist bilingual teachers will be employed in schools to improve the educational opportunities of migrant children. [More…]
For children, yes. [More…]
I would expect that for migrant children, citizenship instruction in the form which I envisage will continue to be provided in normal school syllabuses. [More…]
spouse, dependent children and aged or otherwise dependent parents, fiancees and fiances; [More…]
Is he aware of Press reports that Mr Scanlan, the Assistant Minister for Education in Victoria, has said that the Federal Government through the Minister has refused a request for an emergency grant of $17m for handicapped children in Victoria? [More…]
The Victorian Minister went on to say that special grants had been made for technical education and isolated children without reference to the Interim Schools Committee on a previous occasion. [More…]
Representatives of the Australian Dental Association have expressed the opinion that there could be opposition by dentists to the treatment by dental therapists of children beyond primary school age. [More…]
The Government sees no reason to deny children aged 13 and 14 years the benefits of the regular dental care provided by dental therapists. [More…]
Full coverage of children under the age of 15 years is anticipated by 1985. [More…]
To treat children aged 3 to 11 years inclusive 2,900. [More…]
To treat children aged 3 to 12 years inclusive 3,200 [More…]
To treat children aged 3 to 13 years inclusive - 3,500 [More…]
To treat children aged 3 to 14 years inclusive - 3,800 [More…]
Is it a fact that a considerable body of professional opinion is opposed to dental therapists treating children over the age of 12 or 13 years. [More…]
Does the Government intend to perisist with its plan to include children up to the age of 15 years in the school dental health scheme. [More…]
What is the estimated number of dental therapists required in Australia if the age limit on children to be treated is (a) 12 years, (b) 13 years, (c) 14 years and (d) 15 years. [More…]
Will the Minister for Social Security consider removing the 16-year-old qualifying age with respect to invalid pensions in order to provide relief for families who hear the immense physical, psychological and financial burdens of caring for their severely handicapped or retarded children at home? [More…]
The effect of this amendment and of other amendments I will move in the Committee stage of the debate on this Bill and the other 2 Bills which were debated cognately with this Bill at the second reading stage will be merely to alter the date of commencement of the Bill so that the provisions relating to the new supporting mothers benefit and those relating to the children of widowed pensioners will become operative on 3 July, which is the first widows pension pay day after 1 July, the date on which the Bill was originally intended to operate. [More…]
I believe that many representations have been made to him, particularly from Western Australia, regarding the Commonwealth’s living away from home allowance for isolated children. [More…]
How many applications have been received for each level of assistance made available byhim for the education of isolated children. [More…]
What is the percentage in each case of the number of children he expects to apply for assistance under this scheme. [More…]
and (2) The scheme of assistance for isolated children is in its very early stages. [More…]
to (5) Income tax statistics of deductions for education expenses are not classified by the type of school, college, etc attended by the children in respect of whom the deductions are allowed. [More…]
In the interim report of the Committee for the Australian Schools Commission tabled in this House yesterday it is shown that 33,000 Australian children are attending schools and classes for handicapped children. [More…]
Is the Minister able to indicate whether the Government proposes to adopt the recommendation of the Committee in respect of assistance towards the education of handicapped children? [More…]
In what way does the extension of the integration services to meet the special needs of migrant children by the provision of bilingual or multi-lingual officers trained in welfare work, announced by him as an initiative of his Government, differ from the proposal on the same subject announced by the previous Minister on 31 August 1972. [More…]
The following table shows the number of aliens of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship between 1 January 1945 and 31 December 1972 (includes children under the age of 16 years included on the Certificates of their parents) [More…]
How many children were enrolled in child care centres as at 2 December 1972, and how many are enrolled now? [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…]
Is it the policy of the Australian Broadcasting Commission that imaginative material of the type exemplified by ‘Adventure Island’ should be a permanent feature of its television for children; if so, what is the name and the nature of the program or programs chosen to replace ‘Adventure Island’. [More…]
Dr David Jose of the Research Foundation of the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne is directing a study into malnutrition and infection and their effects on the immune response of Aboriginal children as part of an intenational collaborative study sponsored by the World Health Organisation. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: What amount has been allocated to country areas in the Australian States under the isolated children’s allowance scheme instituted by this Government a few months ago? [More…]
Will this expenditure of Federal money remove many of the worst disadvantages suffered by country children who seek to fit themselves for a wider range of careers in the country or in the cities? [More…]
(2) and(3) The provisions relating to concessions on public transport for school children vary quite considerably from State to State. [More…]
Is it a fact that pensioners, who have children attending school, find it extremely difficult to meet the costs of public transport for their children. [More…]
Is it also a fact that some children of pensioners are entitled to use free transport to school but are required to pay for other travel on public transport, placing a heavy burden on their parents. [More…]
Will he take steps to extend the use of entitlement cards to cover children of pensioners attending school when they are travelling on public transport at any time to relieve the pensioner of this costly burden. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I would like to suggest that it might suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill as they are associated measures. [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…]
What is the name and location of rehabilitation centres that have been established or are planned in each State for the treatment of handicapped children. [More…]
Statistics available to my Department show the age distribution of children attending training centres that have been subsidised under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act to be as follows: [More…]
What is the age distribution of children attending training centres subsidised under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Can he say what are the current building costs in each State to establish a pre-school centre for (a) 30 children, (b) 40 children, (c) 50 children, (d) 60 children, (e) 70 children, (f) 80 children, (g) 90 children and (h) 100 children. [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…]
However, it is known that the cost of full day care for children under 2 years of age is considerably higher than for children above this age. [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…]
As the scheme for the provision of free milk for school children will be modified from 1 January 1974 to apply only to children of specific community schools or others selected on a needs basis to be agreed with State health authorities, (a) what are the terms and conditions necessary for a school to demonstrate a need, (b) what are the terms and conditions for a school to be classified as a specific community school, (c) has the Government received applications from schools to be classified as (i) a needy school or (ii) a specific community school; if so, (A) how many schools have applied in each category and (B) what are the names and addresses of schools that have so applied and (d) what are the names and addresses of the schools that have been approved as (i) specific community schools or (ii) having satisfied the needs test. [More…]
If the work has commenced, (a) When will it be ready for publication and (b) When will he make copies available to members interested in the particular problems of Aboriginal children. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment, which the Government accepts, is to remove any possibility of doubt that the Government is concerned with all schools and all children whether they be in government or non-government schools. [More…]
at which special education is provided for handicapped children, or if education other than such special education is provided at that school, that school in so far as it provides such special education; and [More…]
Has the Acting Minister for Education seen reports that the Government is being asked to provide an amount variously estimated at from $3m to $15m in grants to the schools to which honourable members opposite send their children? [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to statements in the November issue of ‘Choice’ that some imported children’s books contain heavy metals and are potentially dangerous to children if chewed or sucked by them. [More…]
If so, will the Minister investigate the situation with a view to prohibiting the import of children’s books with a heavy metal content. [More…]
As Acting Minister for Education I table the report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee entitled ‘The Care and Education of Young Children’. [More…]
The proposed expenditure on non-government schools should provide more than sufficient assurance that the Government wishes to afford parents a real choice in the education of their children. [More…]
If parents decided to send their children to other independent schools or to government schools, will there be sufficient classrooms and teachers to accommodate students from these schools. [More…]
What is the saving per capita and in total of expenditure to the Government through children being educated at independent schools. [More…]
When the right honourable member is campaigning in the next election - if he is still the Leader of the Opposition - we will Show this Hansard to him and point out how he opposed any opportunity for the youngsters to get $700m and how he fought tooth and nail to get $8m for school children attending wealthy schools. [More…]
In previous debates on this Bill we have emphasised the great significance which the Government attaches to the role the Schools Commission can play in developing programs of assistance for all Australian schools and school children. [More…]
We are also prepared to include in the list of matters to be taken into account by the Commission in the exercise of its functions reference to the need for the provision of facilities of the highest standard in all schools whether government or non-government and to the right of parents to decide whether to send their children to a government or to a non-government school. [More…]
These two latter points are additions to the matters already listed in sub-clause (3) of clause 13 in the Bill as presented by the Government which include the primary obligation for governments to provide school systems of the highest standard open, without fees or religious tests, to all children. [More…]
In view of the educational importance of children visiting Canberra, will he consider providing school groups visiting Canberra with transport from the Commonwealth fleet for up to 2 days so that they may visit this area without extreme cost? [More…]
Will he also consult his colleagues, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Transport, in an endeavour to rationalise the cost of fares for school groups coming to Canberra, especially those from distant States from which the fares are prohibitive for a short visit by a school group, so that the national capital will become accessible to Australian school children? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that as a result of cyclone Jenny some 300 persons, including approximately 200 Aboriginal children, elderly people and nuns, are stranded on the Daly River mission at Misery Hill in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Allowing for the limitations placed on the building of schools by the shortages of materials and labour, can the Minister assure the House that there is sufficient accountability by the States to ensure that the increased funds flowing from the Karmel report will be used efficiently so as to result in better schools for primary and secondary school children and a gradual but certain end to the portable madness that has swept Victoria as a solution to the problem of accommodating the increasing numbers of school children, particularly in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne? [More…]
Most of them are Aboriginal children, old people, nuns and missionaries. [More…]
I immediately contacted the authorities and today the Royal Australian Air Force is taking urgent measures to move the missionaries, the Aboriginal children and old people away from this area. [More…]
Is it a fact, as alleged, that out of 340 school age children in the Yirrkala Aboriginal community on the Arnhem Land Reserve in the Northern Territory only 135 attend school. [More…]
Is it also a fact that schooling for the Yirrkala children is not compulsory. [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…]
I ask: Will he say that those engaged in controlling children in child-minding centres are amenable to the opportunities for brain washing? [More…]
How many widowed or divorced persons with dependent children were assisted to acquire their first homes under the Home Savings Grant Scheme during 1972-73. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen a professional report commissioned by the Boronia High School Advisory Council that shows that in the first 2 forms of 12 selected high schools in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne more than one-quarter of the children are urgently in need of remedial attention? [More…]
Realising that literacy is a prerequisite for success at secondary level, can the Minister indicate what action has been taken or will be taken by the Australian Government to assist the Victorian Education Department in overcoming the extreme shortage of remedial specialists so that this incidence of illiteracy and general low level of comprehension, which leads to failures in school and thwarts the hopes held by parents and their children, can be overcome? [More…]
Has the survey undertaken by the National Health and Medical ‘Research Council into the smoking habits of Australian school children been completed; if so, when. [More…]
to (3) The provision of correspondence education in the States, including special tapes for isolated children, is essentially an area of responsibility of State Education Departments. [More…]
However, the Australian Government is providing substantial financial assistance for the education of isolated children and, through its scheme of Assistance for Isolated Children, provides an allowance of up to $350 p.a. [More…]
With regard to the education of isolated children in the Northern Territory, which is a responsibility of my Department, a two-year program to equip correspondence pupils with battery-operated players and slide-filmstrip viewers will commence this year. [More…]
The program is expected to benefit about 300 children in approximately 200 locations in the Territory. [More…]
As recommended in the Karmel Report, the Schools Commission has been asked to consider the question of the provision of additional financial assistance to the States to enable them to provide improved education services to isolated children. [More…]
including the education of isolated children, can be developed throughout the community on the basis of need. [More…]
Isolated School Children: Correspondence Education (Question No. [More…]
Will he examine the possibility of developing special tapes to assist isolated school children who are being taught at home. [More…]
What percentage of (a) married women and (b) married women with children under the age of 5 are in the Australian workforce. [More…]
How many children under the age of 5 are there in Australia. [More…]
The proposal is to construct a school to cater for an initial enrolment of 250 primary and 60 secondary students, with a further 50 children attending the pre-school. [More…]
It continued: 500,000 children will benefit from Whitlam’s child care program by 1977. [More…]
Can he say what (a) after school and (b) school holiday recreation programs are being undertaken for children with (i) Australian Government, (ii) State Government and (iii) local government financial support. [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…]
For the information of honourable members, I table a ministerial statement dated 19 September 1974 on the establishment of a Children’s Commission. [More…]
More than 12,500 pensioners, including widows and children, will benefit from the increases which are to be back-dated to the first pension day in July. [More…]
I am aware that there have sometimes been unsatisfactory aspects in the arrangements made for fostering Aboriginal children. [More…]
Surely no one in Australia can lay charges at the door of the Australian Labor Party, which has been in office since December 1972, because of what it has done for the education of children in this country. [More…]
1 ) Does the Minister support the recommendation of the National Aboriginal Congress for an inquiry into fostering of Aboriginal children. [More…]
892 (Hansard, 6 November 1973, page 2875), in which he indicated a figure of $139,000 for a full day care centre for 60 children aged 2 to 5, not including the cost of professional fees, land or equipment, will he provide an estimate of the cost of (a) professional fees, (b) land, (c) equipment and (d) renting cost per annum for this type of centre. [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…]
1 ) Has a decision been made on assistance for the construction of a centre for the Murray Districts Slow Learning Children’s Group submitted by the Murray Community [More…]
The application for assistance for the construction of a Centre for the Murray Districts Slow Learning Children’s Group is currently receiving the attention of my Department. [More…]
A letter has been forwarded this week to the Southern Region Social Development Board advising details of the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and the procedure for application for assistance through that Act. [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…]
and (3) ‘Establishment of a Children’s Commission’ tabled by the honourable Lionel F. Bowen, as Minister assisting the Prime Minister, on 19 September 1974 (Hansard, page 1586). [More…]
1 ) What steps has the Government taken to establish the Children’s Committee and subsequent Children’s Commission to research and report on specific problems and conditions of Australian children. [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…]
Acton Hotel- table tennis, television, playground for guests’ children. [More…]
after adjustment for inflation and taxation, of a person on average weekly earnings claiming average deductions for a wife and two children. [More…]
I refer to the hostel for intellectually handicapped children at Bruce in the Australian Capital Territory - [More…]
Is it a fact that some South Vietnamese students in Australia sponsored by the Australian Government have wives, young children and other dependent relatives remaining in South Vietnam? [More…]
Is it also a fact that the South Vietnamese Government has not allowed in the past wives and children to join their husbands sponsored for study overseas? [More…]
In view of the genuine fear of reprisals in South Vietnam following military victories by the North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces will the Prime Minister, before he leaves for overseas this week, make urgent representations to the South Vietnamese Government to permit wives and young children of Vietnamese students in Australia to join their husbands? [More…]
Is he concerned that those schools are now becoming the province solely of the children of wealthy parents? [More…]
Did he promise in his 1972 policy speech that the Government would embark on a 5 year program to provide free dental services to all Australian school children. [More…]
If so, did that mean that the Government intended to provide free dental services to all Australian school children by 1 978; if not, what was the intention of this promise. [More…]
The office of the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission has provided the following information in answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Will the Minister also use his influence to ensure that stocks of milk powder held up on Melbourne wharves for some months and needed urgently by the factory will be shipped to the Khmer Republic to provide essential food for children in that country. [More…]
Can he inform the House of the consequences to the children of Australia of obstructing this program? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to a claim that a Medibank card issued for 2 adopted children in Queensland showed the name of the children’s natural mother? [More…]
The Interdepartmental Committee did not complete its examination and report on the ‘Survey of Handicapped Children’ and therefore it was never presented to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare. [More…]
The report of the separate survey of Invalid Pensioners aged 16 to 20 years m New South Wales and Victoria headed (‘Handicapped Children in Australia’) was submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and was incorporated in its Hansard of 1 970-7 1 . [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 35- ‘Interdepartmental Committee Survey of Facilities for Handicapped Children’. [More…]
What action has the Government taken to verify reports of retribution killings in South Vietnam, particularly the reported slaughter of mixed-race children. [More…]
While Mr Fraser claims that the Budget: penalises those families that do save, through life or superannuation policies for their old age, and that want to provide a different kind of education for their children - the economics writer for the National Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Alan Wood, has pointed out that in reality: [More…]
1 ) (i) Children ‘s programs- See my answer on 3 June 1975 (Hansard, pp. [More…]
(i) Children’s programs- See my answer on 3 June 1975 (Hansard, pp. [More…]
I ) (i) Children’s programs- See my answer on 3 June 1975 (Hansard, pp. [More…]
(i) Children’s programs- See my answer on 3 June 1975 (Hansard, pp. [More…]
1 ) What problems have emerged with the administration of the Handicapped Children ‘s Allowance. [More…]
How many children are receiving the allowance, and how many applications have been rejected. [More…]
1 ) Has the National Health and Medical Research Council established any maximum safety levels for lead in the atmosphere and in the bloodstream of adults and children. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a progress report of the Children’s Commission dated September 1975. [More…]
I believe that Australia has a considerable contribution to make to international discussion on this topic, particularly on schemes of financial assistance to isolated children, correspondence education and use of radio for educational purposes in rural areas. [More…]
The Australian project which has been accepted by OECD and included in the Early Childhood Education program is: ‘Evaluation of Pre-School Services for Geographically Isolated Children in Queensland’. [More…]
(a) Under the Home Savings Grant Scheme, nonrepayable grants of up to $750 are made to young married couples, and to young widowed or divorced persons with dependent children, who have met the conditions of the Scheme, to assist them in the acquisition of their first matrimonial homes; [More…]
He asserted very early in his speech that the Labor Government had not increased the allowance for dependent children of pensioners in 1973 or 1974, and drew our attention to a table inserted in the parliamentary record last night by the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman). [More…]
If the Minster cares to re-read the table this time in a normal fashion, instead of standing on his head, he will see on the bottom line that allowances for children of all beneficiaries stood at $4.50 in October 1972. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that staff members of the nearby Mitcham High School have expressed concern about likely problems with the influx of nonEnglish speaking migrant children into the High School? [More…]
Can he say how many children are involved? [More…]
Also, can he say what steps are being taken to ensure that such children have a smooth transition into local schools? [More…]
The present range of hearing aids supplied by NAL caters satisfactorily for children. [More…]
Is it considered that the present range of NAL hearing aids caters satisfactorily for young children or should there be a smaller behind the ear model for this group. [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…]
Has the Department of Social Security yet decided to authorise a grant to purchase a new school bus for the Special School for Handicapped Children. [More…]
$6 a week for the third and fourth children and $7 a week for each other child. [More…]
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee will consider the availability of cows’ milk substitutes as pharmaceutical benefits for the treatment of cows’ milk allergy in children, at its next meeting scheduled for 24 and 25 June 1976. [More…]
Subject to observance of this resolution, the entry to Australia of Rhodesians may be authorised within the categories normally eligible for entry to this country, namely on the basis of being the spouse, dependent children or parents of Australian residents or of possession of specific skills or experience in demand here, as determined by the list of approved occupations. [More…]
How many Members of the House of Representatives have presented petitions calling for the restoration of milk substitutes for children suffering from milk allergy, asthma and other respiratory complaints. [More…]
1 ) There is no record of specific medical evidence considered by the then members of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee in 1973 when the Committee recommended that goats’ milk availability as a pharmaceutical benefit be extended for children from under the age of 4 to under the age of 6 years. [More…]
What was the medical evidence which caused the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee several years ago to recommend that goats milk availability as a pharmaceutical benefit be extended for children from age 4 to age 6 years. [More…]
Has the Government yet made a decision on the future of the Children’s Commission? [More…]
I refer to the High Court decision in Farelly v. Farelly which said there is no jurisdiction for ex-nuptial children, there is a limitation of jurisdiction in respect of applications for maintenance, custody and guardianship by people who are not parties to the marriage, and there is a limitation of jurisdiction in respect of property matters which are not ancillary to principal relief. [More…]
The other question of ex-nuptial children is more difficult from the point of view of this Parliament because it is really a question of power, and the honourable member has made that point. [More…]
1 , Attached Statements, page 39) that his Government would aim to provide a free dental service to all primary school children by 1982. [More…]
What is now the estimated date for providing a free dental service to all primary school children. [More…]
Do 40 per cent of Aboriginal children not attend school. [More…]
How many dental therapists would be required to provide a free dental service to all primary school children. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Health whether it is a fact that more than a decade ago Professor Ida Mann of the University of Western Australia discovered a cure for trachoma which almost eliminated trachoma at that time from Aboriginal children. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the report by Professor Hollows that health services for Aborigines in Central Australia are appalling and that eye, ear, nose and chest diseases together with other systemic disorders are present in an alarmingly high proportion of Aboriginal children and adults? [More…]
In respect of each pre-school substantially conducted for the benefit of Aboriginal children, (a) what was the level of funding in 1975-76 and (b) what funds are to be provided in 1976-77. [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…]
Contrary to the statement contained in the Standing Committee’s Report that children under the age of eight years are exempted from wearing seat belts, the Northern Territory requires all passengers in a motor vehicle to wear seat belts where fitted. [More…]
As a result of investigations carried out by the Queensland Police, two children were dealt with by the Brisbane Childrens’ Court for offences connected with a device addressed to the Prime Minister and intercepted on 25 November 1975. [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…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of women with children under 5 years of age are engaged in the work force. [More…]
2 ) How many children are under 5 years of age. [More…]
What percentage of these children have mothers in the work force. [More…]
Taxation on Children’s Income (Question No. [More…]
(c) The Committee has now recommended that the availability of the cows’ milk substitutes, soya formula, Nutramigen and goats’ milk, as pharmaceutical benefits be amended to include the treatment of cows’ milk allergy in children under the age of two (2) years. [More…]
635, that the Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee would consider the availability of cows’ milk substitutes as pharmaceutical benefits for the treatment of cows’ milk allergy in children at its next meeting on 24-25 June 1976. [More…]
Brother Luke advises me that he is now receiving one application a week for the enrolment of migrant children, mainly in the lower classes and mainly involving newly arrived migrants. [More…]
So Brother Luke can look forward to having a large increase in the number of migrant children attending St John’s College at Lakemba. [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral seen reports that some State governments are contemplating banning a Christian religious group called the Children of God? [More…]
The amounts provided as recurrent assistance under the Interim Pre-School Program and under the Children’s Services Program in the years 1973/74 to 1975/76 are set out in the table below. [More…]
We have to be concerned about the children but let us spare a thought for the adults who have a problem in this regard also. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister for Education not only would relate Government activity to the area of children’s problems but would also devise special means to find adults with problems and, having found them, have programs designed and set up in certain areas in order to allow the adults concerned to overcome their very serious hardship. [More…]
Does the classification include Australian-born children of persons born outside Australia. [More…]
Does he recall the Parliamentary Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties which was set up by the Labor Government in 1974 and which prepared a report titled ‘Learning Difficulties in Children and Adults’. [More…]
The Government has had a migration officer in Portugal for some weeks now and has decided that the following groups of evacuees in Portugal can be accepted in future: First, those immediate family members of Australian residents, that is, the parents, spouses, dependent children and fiances; secondly, brothers and sisters of Australian residents, and in considering brothers and sisters occupational criteria will not be applied; and, thirdly, all those other evacuees who are able to meet the normal occupational criteria. [More…]
Mr Gyngell ‘s wife and children held shares in Warooka Pty Ltd as follows- 9 per cent wife, 30 per cent each of three children, 1 per cent by the company secretary. [More…]
1, Attached Statements, page 39) that his Government would aim to provide a free dental service to all primary school children by 1982. [More…]
What is now the estimated date for providing a free dental service to all primary school children. [More…]
Are children with below-the-elbow or below-the-knee amputations eligible for the Handicapped Child Allowance. [More…]
Is it a fact that in cases where the beneficiaries’ total income remains less than $2,000 a year, no tax would be paid on such income and that, where this applied to say a wife and 3 dependent children, a total of $8,000 of otherwise taxable income per year would become free of tax. [More…]
The waiting period varies in that deaf children or children suspected of deafness are given priority over Repatriation Department entitlement holders and pensioners. [More…]
Children are usually seen within 6 weeks while, at present, nonurgent pensioner cases may not be seen for up to twelve months. [More…]
That this House should express its concern for the plight in Australia of lone fathers and the discrimination, hardship and injustice being experienced by thousands of lone fathers and their children: [More…]
That this House is of the opinion that the problems and difficulties faced by lone fathers supporting children arc at least equal to those faced by lone mothers and that this House is therefore of the opinion that it is unjust to deny to lone fathers equality with comparable benefits made available by government to lone mothers: [More…]
That this House believes that there is a real need for the Government to urgently and compassionately investigate the problems facing the children of Australia who are being raised by lone fathers and lone mothers, so that they might face the future with at least the possibility of equal opportunity and advantage which accrues to children fortunate enough to be raised to adulthood in 2-parent families. [More…]
to (3) Australia has contributed towards the relief of disasters overseas, both natural and man-made, by direct bilateral grants of cash and commodities and also by regular financial support for the activities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. [More…]
What was the ratio of students going on to tertiary education to children of the relevant age of the population in the years 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, and in each year since 1960. [More…]
Information showing the relationship between numbers of school leavers proceeding to universities and colleges of advanced education and numbers of children in the relevant age group in the population, for the year specified by the honourable member, is not available. [More…]
The aim of the School Dental Scheme is to provide free dental care including health education to all children under 1 5 years of age with initial emphasis on the primary school children. [More…]
Is he aware of the misery that this entails for handicapped children and their parents? [More…]
1 ) How many children are born in Australia with cleft palate conditions each year. [More…]
Can he say what cost is incurred by parents of these children in obtaining correction of the condition. [More…]
Has payment of medical benefits in respect of orthodontists performing work on children with cleft palates been examined; if so, when, what decisions were made, what were the reasons for any decisions made, and are the reasons still valid. [More…]
How many children were evacuated without their parents from Vietnam to Australia by the RAAF in 1 975. [More…]
With abductions of Australian children overseas running at 200 annually, will he advise the results of his undertaking to carry out an urgent investigation with a view to preventing abductions and the anguish caused to Australian parents. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs whether it is a fact that his Department has refused to finance a project to give special nutrition to malnourished Aboriginal children in the inner Sydney area? [More…]
I have found that it is of great benefit to the Aboriginal children and that there is great enthusiasm by the teachers concerned. [More…]
Aboriginal children concerned proceeded up the primary school? [More…]
It said that it would replace the tax concession for children so that all wives could receive this great family allowance. [More…]
How many and what percentage of primary school children were treated under the Scheme in each State in 1975-76 and 1976-77, and what will be the corresponding figures in 1977-78. [More…]
What is now the estimated date for complete coverage of primary school children throughout the country (Hansard, 22 September 1976, page 1348 and 24 March 1977, page 634). [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) Statistics showing the number of children who have been designated as illiterate on leaving their secondary education during recent years are not available. [More…]
Are statistics available showing the number of children who have designated as illiterate on leaving their secondary education during recent years. [More…]
1 ) Is it intended to constitute a Commission to organise celebrations associated with International Children ‘s Year. [More…]
If so, will consideration be given to including representatives of non-government organisations on such a Commission; if so, will the special qualifications of UNICEF and Save the Children Fund be taken into account. [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…]
How can he deny that there are 305,000 children in the level 6 area? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to criticism of the standard of television programs for children in Australia. [More…]
Has the Government agreed to establish a Commission of Television Affairs which will define children’s times free from advertising, determine quotas and categories, appoint panels of qualified people, establish criteria for a special children’s classification, promote the making of children’s programs in Australia, investigate funding for these projects, and establish a children’s television foundation for distribution; if not, why not. [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…]
Some of their children have never seen the sea. [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…]
1 ) Is it a fact that 1978 application forms for assistance to parents of isolated children ask whether the applicant resides in Tax Zone A or B. [More…]
How many children were fully under the care of the ASDS in 1976-77. [More…]
What surveys have been undertaken on the dental health of children after they have ceased to be under the care of the ASDS. [More…]
What percentage of married two income families have children. [More…]
3,206 persons as specially approved cases consisting principally of those approved on humanitarian grounds, together with ‘patrials’ (UK citizens who are the children or grandchildren of an Australian-born person) and persons having a long and close association with Australia. [More…]
1 ) When and by how much were the following benefits and allowances last increased; (a) the supplementary benefit (rent allowance); (b) the additional benefit for children and (c) the rate of guardian ‘s or mother’s allowance. [More…]
The only category of social security benefit for which separate statistics are maintained in respect of refugees is special benefit, and then only in respect of South Vietnamese, Cambodian or Timorese children for whom special benefits are being paid. [More…]
At 3 1 December 1977 there were 44 South Vietnamese or Cambodian children and 62 Timorese children for whom payments of special benefit were being made. [More…]
It is not possible to identify how many of these children were granted permanent residence in Australia since 1 July 1977. [More…]
In addition to special benefit, permanent migrants with children become entitled to family allowances from the pay day after their arrival. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an article at page 23 of On DU for 16 October 1977 on children’s television advertising. [More…]
Will he publish guidelines for television advertising directed at children, providing among other things for clear separation of advertising from program material, with no use of characters from children’s programs in advertising within or adjacent to such programs, and no use of promotional competitions by comperes of children ‘s programs. [More…]
Television Advertising Directed at Children (Question No. [More…]
The breakdown is: 777 adult males; 307 adult females; 527 children. [More…]
Students and pre-school children make up the largest category of about 40 per cent. [More…]
I have gone to a lot of trouble to explain that I have a number of children, some of whom are minors and that they have assets in their own right. [More…]
Some waste paper is distributed to primary schools for use by children and to charitable organisations. [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…]
The Department’s records do not show whether the maternity leave taken was in respect of first or subsequent children. [More…]
What proportion of the funds are to be allocated to teaching English in the initial settlement programs to (a) adults and ( b) children. [More…]
How many (a) adults and (b) children is it proposed that this expenditure should cover. [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…]
I. commend the teachers who teach children to be aware of the beauties of the world. [More…]
Perhaps with the world in the hands of children receiving this sort of education, by the time 25 years has passed it will be a much better world than the one we have created for them. [More…]
On 27 April 1979 I wrote to the Association advising that they would be funded under the Children’s Services Program as follows: [More…]
I instance family allowances, which for the very first time gave low income families an opportunity to take advantage of money that would go to mothers to assist in the support of their children. [More…]
1 ) Has the interdepartmental committee formed to investigate and recommend to the Government legislation or administrative changes needed to reduce the incidence of children being removed from Australia without the knowledge or against the wishes of the other parent concluded its investigations and submitted its recommendations. [More…]
What are the current rates of (a) unemployment benefits and (b) family allowances for (i) a single adult and (ii) a married adult with 2 children. [More…]
What does a married adult with 2 dependent children receive by way of, (a) unemployment benefits and (b) family allowances expressed as a percentage of average weekly earnings. [More…]
Is the Minister able to provide the comparable percentages for single and married adults (2 dependent children) in (a) the United States of America; (b) Canada; (c) Japan; (d) New Zealand; (e) France; (f) Germany; (g) the United Kingdom; (h) Sweden and (j) Austria. [More…]
How many were (a) spouses and dependent children of residents in Australia, (b) refugees with valid entry permits, (c) aged parents who would have qualified for admission if they had applied overseas, (d) private overseas students able to meet the criteria for permanent residence in Australia and (e) others. [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…]
As I made clear in my statement to the House on 9 October1979, part of my decision in respect of the deportation of Mr Grunau was that Mrs Grunau, and the children of Mr and Mrs Grunau, should be offered passages to the Federal Republic of Germany at Commonwealth expense if Mrs Grunau elected to accompany her husband with their Australian-born children. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt will receive official advice of my decisions including this offer of passages for Mrs Grunau and the Grunau children. [More…]
The numbers of (a) dependent children and (b) students eligible for pensioner health benefits are not available separately. [More…]
However, the total number of such children and students is estimated to be 338,200 as at December 1979. [More…]
This figure includes an estimated 106,000 dependent children and students who will become eligible due to the changes to fringe benefit eligibility coming into force on 1 November 1979. [More…]
What is the estimated number of (a) dependent children and (b) students who will be eligible for pensioner health benefits after the changes coming into force on 1 November 1979. [More…]
The Tribunal has introduced a ‘C classification for programs specifically designed for children between the age of 6 to 13. [More…]
It has formed a Children’s Program Committee which makes recommendations to the Tribunal on programs submitted to it for a ‘C classification. [More…]
to (4) The Government is presently considering the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts titled Children and Television. [More…]
1 ) What measures has the Government taken, or does it intend to take, to ensure that commercial television in Australia is geared to, and caters adequately for, minority audiences including children. [More…]
Which of the recommendations of the inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts into the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children, has the Government (a) accepted or (b) rejected. [More…]
Its purpose is to declare the rates of tax payable on income of dependent children, and trustees for them, that comes within the scope of the new system for taxing such income proposed in the Bill that I have just introduced. [More…]
It is therefore fitting that this year Her Majesty The Queen, and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by their children, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne, will visit us. [More…]
My Government will introduce early legislation to pay pensions at standard rates to married couples who have lost the economies of living together; to authorise subsidies to organisations providing meals on wheels; and to provide capital assistance on a 2 for 1 basis to approved institutions training handicapped children. [More…]
I cannot see the equity of that approach when a man supporting a wife and five children and earning $48.75 a week will have to meet the full cost of the scheme himself if he wishes to insure. [More…]
That means to say that the people in this area were defined in a very austere living environment, and the Government is not moving out in a wholehearted approach to this problem by giving completely free cover to a person such as the one I have mentioned, who earns $48.75 a week and is supporting a wife and five children. [More…]
He has to be hospitalised in a public ward while he is supporting a wife and two children. [More…]
Let us consider the case at the present time of a low income earner in New South Wales receiving $2,236 a year, or about $43 weekly, who is supporting a wife and two children and paying about $67.60 a year in weekly payments for medical and public ward insurance protection. [More…]
Contrast this with a better off man supporting a wife and two children who contributes $88.80 yearly for maximum private hospital and medical insurance protection in New South Wales. [More…]
The level of outright exemption, which is usually described as the statutory exemption, is to be raised from $20,000 to $24,000 for eligible estates passing wholly to the widow, children or grandchildren of the deceased, and from $10,000 to$1 2,000 for eligible estates which do not pass to any of those persons. [More…]
Where the value of a primary producer’s estate passing to his widow, children or grandchildren is greater than $24,000 the statutory exemption will be reduced by $2 for every $8 by which the value is greater than $24,000 and will, as a result, cut out where the value of an estate is $120,000. [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…]
There are now more than 100,000 Yugoslavs in Australia to which must be added their Australian bom children. [More…]
The electorate is composed of some 54,000 citizens of this Commonwealth who lead their daily lives like most Australians, who want the things most Australians want - the same opportunities to own their homes, to educate their children and to enjoy some security. [More…]
This would mean that approximately 1,000 people, of whom well over half would be children, are living in tin shanties, patched up with bits of hessian, with earthen floors and generally living in conditions little better than those in which one would put an animal. [More…]
The deplorable housing conditions create unsatisfactory conditions for personal hygiene, with the subsequent high rate of ill health amongst Aboriginals, particularly children. [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…]
Growth measurements and clinical data were obtained from 2,250 children on six Aboriginal settlements in Queensland. [More…]
Growth retardation affected up to 50% of Aboriginal children aged between 6 months and 3 years. [More…]
At two missions where early infant feeding was supervised children showed normal growth patterns, suggesting that Caucasian growth standards also apply to Aboriginal children. [More…]
Clinical and dietary findings, lower concentration of nutritional factors in the blood of growth-retarded children in relation to normal controls and growth responses following the addition of specific nutrients to the diet, suggested a deficiency of multiple nutritional factors in these children. [More…]
A high proportion of children dying from gastro-enteritis or pneumonia, or found to be suffering from deafness, had a previous history of growth retardation. [More…]
Some evidence was presented that children with growth retardation have poorer educational and employment records than children with normal growth. [More…]
It is not good to go to a school in my electorate, whether it be a high school or other type of school, and see a glorious library fully stocked with magnificent publications and then go to a small government primary school and find too many children in the forms, insufficient conveniences and inadequate facilities such as playing fields. [More…]
Since the inception of the scheme in 1964, some 164,000 home savings grants totalling about $71m have been paid to assist young couples, and widowed persons with dependent children, to own and establish their homes. [More…]
A further amendment will extend eligibility for a grant to divorced persons aged less than 36 years with one or more dependent children. [More…]
The eligibility and other provisions relating to these persons will bc broadly similar to those applying to young widowed persons with dependent children who were admitted to the scheme in November 1966, There will also be a transition period, in this case up to 31st December 1970, during which the acceptable savings of eligible divorced persons may be held in a wide variety of forms. [More…]
However, both parties to a divorce may later become applicants for grants either in respect of a home acquired on remarriage, or of a home for the accommodation of the divorced person and the dependent children. [More…]
This amendment will have effect whether the person is applying for a grant as a divorced person caring for dependent children, or as a remarried person with or without dependent children. [More…]
Out of every 20 children born in many of these countries 10 will die in infancy and 7 out of the remaining 10 will be stunted both mentally and physically for life because of malnutrition in childhood. [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…]
Until the GovernorGeneral’s Speech this week it was used to excuse the Commonwealth’s refusal to assist with the training and treatment of spastic children. [More…]
Because of his frank writings concerning facts as he saw them he has been persecuted by this Government in that it has withheld from him a passport which is so important to his livelihood and is so important to his wife and three children. [More…]
Let his wife and children not suffer. [More…]
We are talking about people, about men women and children, about families living in rural towns and directly concerned with the profitability or otherwise, with the economic viability or otherwise, of this great industry which has sustained Australia for so many years. [More…]
It would destroy a dictatorship much more ruthless and far less human than any dictatorship of the right wing, lt would eliminate immediately much of the present industrial unrest through which thousands of men are thrown out of work and women and children are going without proper food and clothing merely to satisfy a foreign philosophy. [More…]
The average Australian worker wants to dress as well as he can, to own the best home he can buy, to drive the best motor car and to give his children the best possible education. [More…]
Widows with children also require greater assistance. [More…]
It deals with the growth retardation, anaemia, infection and protein calorie malnutrition of Australian Aboriginal children. [More…]
I should like to read from the findings of Jose and Welch resulting from their study of 2,250 Aboriginal children. [More…]
Growth measurements and clinical data were obtained from 2,250 children on six Aboriginal settlements in Queensland. [More…]
Growth retardation affected up to 50% of Aboriginal children aged between 6 months and 3 years. [More…]
At two missions where early infant feeding was supervised children showed normal growth patterns, suggesting that Caucasian growth standards also apply to Aboriginal children. [More…]
Clinical and dietary findings, lower concentrations of nutritional factors in the blood of growthretarded children in relation to normal controls, and growth responses following the addition of specific nutrients to the diet, suggested a deficiency of multiple nutritional factors in these children. [More…]
A high proportion of children dying from gastroenteritis or pneumonia, or found to be suffering from deafness, had a previous history of growth retardation. [More…]
Some evidence was presented that children with growth retardation have poorer educational and employment records than children with normal infant growth. [More…]
Chronic streptococcal infection of the tonsil with unusually high antibody responses in growth-retarded children may be related to the high prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in Aboriginal children. [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…]
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…]
The condition emerges in the second 6 months of life; by the age of 2 years, a large proportion of the children studied are affected. [More…]
As in the developing’ countries (where malnutrition is common and freely admitted), Aboriginal children have a high death rate and are plagued by gastro-enteritis, respiratory disease, and chronic ear, nose and throat conditions; all of this is superimposed upon a rising Aboriginal birth rate. [More…]
In older children, the caloric lack must have other causes. [More…]
We hear that a national nutritional survey of Aboriginal children is planned; this may well only confirm the facts which we now have. [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…]
It was called ‘ a workshop on the health and nutritional status of Aboriginal children’. [More…]
In this way we will be able to cure not all but a great amount of the malnutrition in Aboriginal children. [More…]
This is related to the thesis of Dr Kalokerinos, which he elaborated when he saw the circumstances of many Aboriginal children in the west of New South Wales. [More…]
In the case of the married woman, usually with several children, her husband almost invariably knows. [More…]
Funny how it was always Friday afternoon or evening when the poor woman stood on a chair to reach a high cupboard and fell off, or tripped when carrying the weekend shopping home, or fell over a toy one of her children had left on the floor, lt was always the same story. [More…]
The operation is performed on Friday so that if the woman has to be admitted to hospital - or in any case so that she can rest a bit and recover - her husband is home to look after the house and the children. [More…]
What of the women themselves who, in the main, are married with other children? [More…]
Fifty years ago people tended to live and work in the same area, and when the children grew up and married they often made their home in the locality in which they were born. [More…]
It well behoves the nation to give assistance to those people who are prepared to produce children. [More…]
Not only has he done that but he has, so help me, fired a vicious, malicious and .horrifying torpedo into the morale and the courage of the wives and the children of every family in the civil service of the Commonwealth of Australia in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
But even with full employment the fellow on the average weekly wage, with a wife and 2 or more children to support, who has to finance a home transaction, is receiving only a little in excess of $70 a week. [More…]
The chances are that his children attend schools that are either ancient and in need of renewal or they attend classes in portable class rooms that are not designed for some of the purposes to which they are put. [More…]
In Melbourne a Housing Commission home is available for rent only to those who have five children or more and are prepared to wait for 4 or 5 years. [More…]
I was pleased to hear honourable members on the Government side of the House declare their support for equality of opportunity for the education of all Australian children. [More…]
I saw what the Communists are doing to innocent men, women and children in that country, and as a Christian I was proud of what the Australians are doing to protect the South Vietnamese people from Communist attacks. [More…]
Furthermore, there is no allowance given for children born out of marriage. [More…]
I think we should look at this position from the point of view that it is not the fault of the children themselves and for that reason they should not be discriminated against. [More…]
If a woman loses her husband as a result of war injuries or sickness caused by his war service and she has three children she receives $36.40 per week. [More…]
On the other hand, if a woman’s husband dies at 35 or 40 years of age and leaves her with three children she gets $26.50 per week. [More…]
It is a different type of society from that which existed in the early part of the century where elderly people naturally came to the homes of their children and were looked after. [More…]
The same thing applies in respect of handicapped children, another small section of the community. [More…]
There should be a provision for financial aid to the States to ensure that facilities are made available for our disadvantaged children. [More…]
I would like some honourable members to go to the Mount Druitt housing settlement and have a look at the situation there where there are no playing fields and no facilities for the children. [More…]
In two of the suburbs the average number of children to each house is four. [More…]
There are no halls for dances or enjoyment and there are no playing fields, and this state of affairs is setting up a decided problem for the parents in looking after these children. [More…]
Some of the trouble in Great Britain today stems from the fact that in war she lost her leaders from all sections of society and she lost the children that were never born to them. [More…]
The pay and conditions of the Service Branch recently established in the Department of Defence should be of great benefit to all servicemen, for their domestic affairs such as pay, housing, schooling of their children and posting problems are of paramount importance to the morale of the Services. [More…]
Very often discipline is lacking in the upbringing of our children today. [More…]
In fact, to quote one family from Scotland, they are still waiting with their seven children and paying $27 a week in rent from a normal wage. [More…]
It is a Government responsibility to see that all children are equally treated. [More…]
It is a very sad business because the mother of the family is a Tahitian who can hardly speak English and she has four little children to look after. [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…]
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…]
Assume that she has to pay rent of $12 a week and $17 a week for food for herself and her children. [More…]
I am assuming that she has 2 children. [More…]
Will the Minister be kind enough to explain why this anomaly arises and why he thinks that the wife of an invalid pensioner, herself in receipt of the invalid pension, with young children, should be receiving an income $10 a week less than that provided as an A class widow’s pension? [More…]
She would be financially better off, because in all likelihood under the amendments to the Social Services Act last year or the year before she would have a good chance of becoming entitled to an invalid pension at the standard rate of $15 a week and having her children committed to State care and looked after at the expense of the State. [More…]
The facilities and opportunity for education in all aspects should be available on a basis of equality for all children and adults too in all parts of Australia irrespective of State boundaries. [More…]
Unfortunately, there are a great number of parents who will not be convinced that their children could become involved in this unhealthy business but, whether the children become innocent victims or not, unfortunately it ls only grim experience that makes such parents realise that they had the wrong outlook. [More…]
There are parents who think that their children would receive some notorious publicity which would be detrimental to their future, others who think they may become involved and, worst of all, the parent who thinks that if the knowledge that his son or daughter had used the drug marihuana leaked out it would adversely affect him socially and in business. [More…]
In view of the long standing community awareness of the misery which has resulted and continues to result from the use of inflammable fabrics in children’s night attire, can the Minister indicate any immediate prospect of the Commonwealth or State governments introducing controlling legislation after the style of the Children’s Nightdresses Regulations 1964 of the United Kingdom? [More…]
A man on $3,000 a year supporting a wife and 2 children will save $1 6.84 after paying tax, leaving $59 that he has to pay. [More…]
Therefore, to give both children the same opportunity in life, we must give additional educational assistance to the underprivileged one. [More…]
I have received letters from spastic children’s organisations in areas adjacent to my electorate asking me to raise in this House the problem of these unfortunate children born with deformities. [More…]
The organisations are fearful that any measures which this Government might bring down will discriminate against such children and prevent them from receiving the benefits to which they are entitled, forcing the organisations to rely heavily on public subscriptions. [More…]
Why is the taxation deduction for student children only allowable whilst the child is under the age of 21 years? [More…]
Obviously, aged people travel when their children are on holidays. [More…]
Allow them to travel on public holidays or during school holidays with their children. [More…]
We shall give capital assistance on a 2 for 1 basis to approved institutions which give training for the various kinds of handicapped children - the blind, the deaf, the- spastic, the crippled and the mentally retarded. [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…]
As 1 have said, both the States and voluntary bodies have been making valiant efforts in this field of assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
The Bill provides for a $2 Federal subsidy for every $1 subscribed from private or local government, funds for capital expenditure upon training institutions for handicapped children. [More…]
‘Children’ include both handicapped children under 21 years of age and those who, although over 21 years of age, have had continuous acceptance in the institution since childhood. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that, in the administration of the Act, my Department will employ the greatest flexibility, with the aim of getting out effective help as soon as possible, while seeing that our resources are genuinely directed to the real needs of these children, lt is clear enough that there is still much to be done. [More…]
There are, we estimate, some 50,000 handicapped children under 16 years of age in Australia, including both those who have some physical handicap and those who are mentally retarded. [More…]
Insofar as this occurs, it will allow them to devote greater funds towards assisting handicapped children in other ways. [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…]
of the special schools, training centres and hostels which will enable their children to’ live as norma! [More…]
No government could hope to duplicate the type of service that is provided by parents and those who dedicate themselves to supplying the needs of these children. [More…]
The Bill before the House will materially help some handicapped children to engage fully in the life of the community; others will be prepared for sheltered employment or at least achieve a greater measure of personal independence than would otherwise have been possible. [More…]
Churches and voluntary organisations want to provide a better service for handicapped children and the Commonwealth wants to help them achieve that worthy objective. [More…]
Those people who can spend a lot on the education of their children or on the health of their children are the ones who attract government subsidies. [More…]
Allowances will now be paid for student children under the age of 21 years. [More…]
I refer to the expenses incurred in educating children who must be sent to boarding schools. [More…]
The exemption is in the form of a special deduction equal to so much of the estate, up to (10,000, as passes to the widow, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers, sisters, nephews or nieces of the deceased serviceman. [More…]
It had the highest proportion of children. [More…]
I refer by way of preface to some correspondence I had with the Minister some little time ago concerning the plight of widowers who are left to rear young children under extremely difficult conditions. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he can assure the House that the financial difficulties faced by men who have been widowed and have the care of children are still being actively considered by the Government. [More…]
Adam Smith lived in days when one was transported for stealing a loaf of bread and when children worked in coal mines and that kind of thing. [More…]
There are no restrictions under the Migration Ordinance on the exit of immigrants from the Territory except in relation to the taking of children out of the Territory if they are the subject of certain court proceedings. [More…]
Will he undertake to consider the inclusion in the national health scheme of a category of benefit to cover these services so as to assist the day to day work of the centres in the same way as it is proposed to assist their capital expenses by means of the provisions of the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill? [More…]
It showed that out of 2,250 Aboriginal children surveyed in Queensland half were suffering from starvation. [More…]
It was not found on the mission stations which, however they might have been limping along financially, had the intelligence to use supplementary feeding and so produce Aboriginal children with the same growth rates as European children. [More…]
Does the Minister in Charge of Aboriginal Affairs regard the matter of definite public importance concerning the starvation of Aboriginal children which was gagged, as either a personal attack on himself that had to be silenced or an irresponsible motion? [More…]
I might add one further thing: School children of the ACT are receiving a holiday because of the Queen. [More…]
Physical education is very important in the upbringing of the young, especially in towns where there are coloured and part coloured children playing and working alongside white children. [More…]
The resolution urged national servicemen to lay down their arms in mutiny against the heinous barbarism perpetrated in our name upon innocent aged men, women and children. [More…]
Do they want a demonstration on a Friday afternoon in the middle of Bourke Street, outside Myers as the honourable member for Lalor says, when it is full of women and children who are doing their shopping and who may well in this way help to create the impression that the crowd is swelled by supporters? [More…]
This desire is shared by all, but the people must ask themselves whether this is a genuine protest and whether it is intended to be violent or non-violent, bearing in mind that it will be held in Melbourne on a Friday afternoon, the most busy shopping afternoon, in the busiest block, when school children, young children and women will be present. [More…]
The children have enough problems of their own. [More…]
The over involvement of children in politics overseas has brought chaos and disaster.’ [More…]
I include in the case of school children the use of propaganda photographs of the type just issued by the Moratorium movement. [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…]
The honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) has spoken feelingly about the protection of innocent children. [More…]
In some cases these areas are a vital heritage for our children, many of whom will, on present trends, face a series of giant metropolitan complexes in which a tree will be a curiosity. [More…]
The wives and children have had to work. [More…]
As soon as the children have turned 14 years of age they have been taken away from schools and they have been forced to carry on with the family farm. [More…]
That regulation 2 of the amendments of the Public Health, Medical and Dental Inspection of School Children Regulations as contained in the Australian Capital Territory Regulations 1970, No. [More…]
1 ask the MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs whether any steps are being taken by the Commonwealth to ascertain whether or not the malnutrition, protein starvation and retarded growth among Aboriginal children, revealed by research last year in certain government settlements in Queensland, exists anywhere else in other parts of Queensland or anywhere else in the Commonwealth. [More…]
In addition to this some studies are being made at the present time in the field of remedying not only protein deficiencies but also deficiencies in vitamins and iron which apparently are very much concerned with the malnutrition of Aboriginal children in the period immediately after the commencement of weaning. [More…]
If children are given the opportunity to have the environment of their own home, they certainly will grow up better citizens. [More…]
A further amendment will extend the eligibility for a grant to divorced persons aged less than 36 years with 1 or more dependent children. [More…]
The eligibility and other provisions relating to these persons will be broadly similar to those applying to young widowed persons with dependent children who were admitted to the scheme in November 1966. [More…]
The problem is even greater for people, with children, who are on $40 a week. [More…]
There is no reason why there should be discrimination between young marrieds, widows, widowers or even divorced people with children, provided they need and want a home. [More…]
The provision in this Bill to bring divorced persons with dependent children within the scope of the Act will meet with the approbation of most honourable members. [More…]
For instance, a journey by sea is in itself an attraction to those intending to migrate, particularly to families with small children who can be provided with better facilities and accommodation on a ship. [More…]
Dr Kneebourne is engaged in a project to study the essential intake of fatty acids in the diet of Aboriginal children. [More…]
In New South Wales we have put in $25,000 for community nurses in various rural outback areas, sessional fees to medical practitioners for ante-natal and postnatal care of Aboriginals, and we have got $36,000 which is going out in subsidies to the Far West Children’s Health Service, Bush Nursing Association, Western Shire Dental Service, Daughters of Charity at Moree. [More…]
Sisters of Compassion at Wilcannia, and the Save the Children Fund. [More…]
There is a plan for supplementary food assistance, which is of great importance, for children at Weipa, Aurukun, Edward . [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…]
I say quite deliberately that no subject has been more studiously neglected than the education of profoundly deaf children. [More…]
For the most part these children have normal intelligence. [More…]
The needs of deaf children are not recognised. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Whatever money might be spent on children whose brains have been damaged - I recognise the urgency of their need - we must remember that because of their handicap they will not attain more than third or fourth grade of academic study. [More…]
The vital fact of profound deafness is that for the most part these children do not suffer from brain damage. [More…]
It is inevitable that the future of these children will be already decided while ever the present attitudes of State and Federal governments persist. [More…]
This they will have to do through national studies and subsequent legislation so that they and the Commonwealth can provide funds for the planning of an aggressive attack on the needs of deaf children. [More…]
Undoubtedly we all are sympathetic towards these children, but we have not done enough to enable them to realise their full potential. [More…]
These power heads may be purchased at sports stores by children or persons of any age. [More…]
He says that amongst other effects it has been found to cause an increased mortality of children during the first year of life, and to be so sensitive that it already has resulted in the death of 400,000 children in the United States alone as a result of the nuclear weapons tests which were carried out between 1945 and 1962. [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…]
I want my children to live in a democracy. [More…]
A second annual concessionary journey should be granted for children at school to join their parents overseas during school holidays. [More…]
For instance, if a person own a 2 bedroom home, there is an addition to the family and he wants to add another bedroom for the children, loans are available from the credit unions. [More…]
I ask’ any honourable member opposite or Minister whether any explanation can be given about this unnecessary restriction which requires divorced people to have dependent children to enable them to qualify under this legislation whereas widows and other young couples do not need to have dependent children. [More…]
Now, like all shotgun marriages, it is on the rocks and the poor children of the marriage are bankrupt all over the place. [More…]
The powerful master has all the funds and will not keep the children. [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…]
That the rates of unemployment and sickness benefits be raised to the same amount as age and invalid pensions with allowances for wives and children corresponding to those for pensioners’ wives and children. [More…]
Allowances for the wives of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries and for their children under 16 years of age are at the same level as those paid for the dependants of age and invalid pensioners. [More…]
and that eligibility for the Pensioner Medical Service be retained by former widow pensioners who are employed, without means test, while there are dependent children in their custody, care and control. [More…]
Did the survey also reveal that 6”r. or 42,300, of that city’s children are growing up in acute poverty and that of these children 40% come from families with at least 4 children and 22% are children of fatherless families. [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…]
This Government has no power to impound any money that may have been paid to Biggs or to somebody in trust for Biggs or his children. [More…]
Whole of estate passes to widow, widower, children or grandchildren of deceased [More…]
The statutory exemption will be raised from $20,000 to $24,000 passing wholly to the widow, children or grandchildren of the deceased. [More…]
Their application on the families of the deceased is bewildering and cruel at a time when widows, children and relatives would normally expect some consideration and sympathy from the State. [More…]
That is, that greater relief be given to widows, children and grandchildren than to others. [More…]
It is a strong human desire for people to aim to leave to their children - not huge estates which are not protected by legislation but, on the contrary, heavily taxed - either businesses or enough of their savings for their children to have adequate comfort or an adequate education. [More…]
It has set about the task of providing a graduated means of relief giving first of all benefits directly to that category where a primary producer’s estate is passing to his widow, his children or his grandchildren. [More…]
Legal drafting is not for children, amateurs, or dabblers. [More…]
A 50% tax rebate is allowed to exhibitors of films designated as suitable for children. [More…]
The cry that this filth is only for adults and that persons under 18 years of age would not be permitted to view such things is as weak as water and as naive as the little children themselves. [More…]
They mark some For Adults Only’, but how can children and teenagers be controlled when no longer do they go to the theatre but millions of them watch films on the television screens in the freedom of their own homes? [More…]
Parents are being forced to send their children and teenagers off to bed. [More…]
It is unfair to subject them to this type of thing when Bringing up children is tought enough today without this kind of film to make it harder. [More…]
The only way to keep children’s minds away from such depravity is not to show depravity in films. [More…]
Earlier in question time the right honourable gentleman regretted that he was unable to get his Party’s view and the Government’s view on the Vietnam Moratorium across to the secondary school children of Australia. [More…]
I did not regret that the Liberal Party was unable to get its message across to school children. [More…]
It is indeed just as relevant as the attempt by the honourable member - relevant entirely to what he is doing in this matter to try to call school children out into the streets, to take the streets over and prevent their functioning, which is not a matter of instruction but a matter of attempting to use school children as demonstrators for one political party’s purpose. [More…]
In recent years there has been increasing public concern over the extent to which migrant children are handicapped by English language difficulty - particularly in school subjects in which verbal communication between pupil and teacher plays a predominant part. [More…]
The Government has therefore decided on important new initiatives to enable special help to be given to schools in which there are migrant children with English language problems. [More…]
The comprehensive programme will provide for: The expansion of existing facilities for the instruction of adult migrants; the provision of intensive full time English language courses for those who must know English so that they can be employed in the occupations and professions for which they have been trained and are qualified; and classes for migrant school children with English language difficulties. [More…]
I am reminded particularly of the problem associated with the education of the children of migrants. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) in whose electorate the Villawood hostel is situated, has told me that there is a big influx of migrant children to the schools in his area. [More…]
A tremendous problem faces the children concerned. [More…]
An example of others is the loss of understanding that often develops between migrant families and their children. [More…]
The children normally become fluent in English within a short time and, although often retaining a proficiency in their native language, soon come to regard English as their ‘first’ language. [More…]
These children of foreign origin, proficient in their own tongue and able to communicate in the home situation, have now to adjust themselves to an environment where it becomes necessary to learn a completely new set of speech habits, the sounds, structures and vocabulary of their initial language being of little or no use to them. [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…]
We want to bring the best out of these migrant children and I ask the Minister to give the matter his consideration. [More…]
(4)The censorship certification in Australia of thefilm ‘Safari’ asnot suitable for children’ was retained in the Territory but some minor excisions were made for Territory exhibition purposes.This is the only case since November 1963 of censorship in the Territory additional to that in Australia. [More…]
The National Health and Medical Research Council has stated that health education is probably the most effective way to attack the smoking problem, and my Department has co-operated in the provision of this education to school children within the Commonwealth internal Territories. [More…]
Do honourable members opposite really mean to suggest that twice as many children in Australia get sick as children in America? [More…]
Once again, are British children much healthier than Australian children? [More…]
No cigarette advertising may be placed on television in children’s programmes or immediately before or after such programmes. [More…]
No family scenes of father and/or mother smoking cigarettes in front of children may be shown. [More…]
B. Nielands of the Chair of Bio-chemistry, University of California, that, in Vietnam, about 10% of adults and 90% of children who are flushed out of tunnels, bunkers or shelters by gas cylinders and who survive to reach medical care, die. [More…]
What is the amount of workmen’s compensation that is or will be paid to the wife and/or children of each of these workers. [More…]
Man and wife and two children; and [More…]
Man and wife and three children. [More…]
They find it impossible for their children to continue to be educated in the school that the Department has built. [More…]
Surely we should look at it from the point of view of their wives and children who are entitled to the same amenities as anyone else. [More…]
It is the general practitioner who knows the circumstances of a family and the background of the children’s health, and who has treated that family for years and knows the ailments from which members of that family suffer. [More…]
Without criticising the scheme, I say: God help anyone who tries to ring a specialist at 11 o’clock at night to tell him that his children are sick and have a temperature of 103 degrees and who asks whether the specialist will come and see them. [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…]
But, on the other hand, a family man with a wife and, say, 5 children - maybe even more - receiving $50 a week will be required to pay the whole amount of medical insurance. [More…]
There are supplementary nursing home benefits for patients needing and receiving intensive nursing care, and there are special benefits for handicapped children under 16 years of age. [More…]
This to my mind is a very important requirement in any health scheme, particularly where children are involved. [More…]
In 1966 the Children’s Libraries Section of the Library Association of Australia recommended the expenditure of $31,000 over a period of 10 years on the supplying of books in each school with more than 1,000 pupils on the basis of 10 books per pupil. [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…]
The quality of the education we give our children will, in the long run, decide the future of our country. [More…]
We on this side of the House can only continue to make an urgent appeal on behalf of the children of the Commonwealth. [More…]
1 understand that his Department subsidises day training centres for mentally retarded children. [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 Bill also extends this right to pre-1959 officers serving on 4th June 1969 who have since retired on pension or, if they have died, to their widows or orphan children to whom pensions are being paid. [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…]
Let us take as an example an average wage earner on $72 or $73 a week with a wife and 2 children. [More…]
The very extravagance of the propaganda, or the language and the suggestions that are continually being made is in line with the traditional approach of the Communists to foment every grievance, to sharpen the class struggle, and from our school children to our trade unions and from parliament itself to the people there goes out this propaganda embodying the suggestion of the dividing and sharpening of the differences that will lead to this polarisation that 1 deplore. [More…]
High up among the items on this blueprint was the preparation of school children and students - both at high schools and in universities - for the assault of the Communist propaganda. [More…]
‘Tabloid Underground’, to quote one of the productions, is being disseminated among our children. [More…]
T refer to the falsified horrific colour photographs of maimed children. [More…]
In particular I refer to the document ‘The Children of Vietnam’, a ‘Ramparts’ special edition, frequently distributed over the signature of clergymen and in which totally dishonest photographs of children who are alleged to bc the victims of American atrocities are reproduced. [More…]
The background note on the original photograph was ‘Two orphan children enjoy a meal of bulgar wheat and rice at the National Orphanage 10 miles south of Saigon. [More…]
Does it mean the same thing as those writers who told the children in the State secondary school: The bosses have guns. [More…]
Also, the scheme should take into consideration the number of children in family units. [More…]
1 would be willing to pay extra fees because 1 get a higher salary than other people, despite what the honourable member for Denison had to say about it, if it would assist in producing for the community a system in which one’s children, wife, parents, neighbours and friends are totally covered. [More…]
At my daughter’s school, all children will be sent home at 11 a.m. today to avoid the risk of their travelling through the city- [More…]
We have been warned on countless occasions about the yellow hordes pressing down unrelentingly to Australia to gather up our women and children. [More…]
The kind of health education we need would be not only the education of parents so that they will be aware of the possible dangers and how to alert their children to those dangers, but also the education of the community itself to look for things such as the quality of life rather than the material things which tend to drive people on to seeking false methods of gaining euphoria. [More…]
They cannot cope with the traffic of children getting to school and back home or even the traffic of housewives going shopping. [More…]
Industry will benefit, school children will benefit, trade will increase, Australia will benefit. [More…]
The children who will be adults in 10 years time should have more than a working knowledge of the metric system. [More…]
We were advised to prepare ourselves to debate the Handicapped Children’s Bill in the afternoon, and then at about 20 past 1 or half past 1 we were advised that it appeared likely that the Health Bill would be discussed. [More…]
We propose that allowance of $1.50 for handicapped children should be $2. [More…]
The elderly people I speak of are mainly those who reared their families during the depression years; who, because of circumstances beyond their control, fought every inch of the way for years in order to feed, clothe and educate their children in a world that at that time was sick with poverty; who, many times denied themselves food so that their children could eat: who would have given anything within their power to have owned their own homes; and who worked 44, 48 and more hours a week at their jobs to earn a meagre living - and when I say worked, I mean worked, not just filled in the hours, because at that time there were 6 men ready to fill 4 men’s jobs. [More…]
I ask them to consider the miserly amount of money that the Government pays to a widow with a couple of dependent children and to consider the educational needs of the children and the pittance that the Government keeps them on. [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…]
Let us take as an example the case of a man supporting a wife and 6 children. [More…]
This leaves only $7 with which to provide extras, such as clothing, transport, school books for the children and so on. [More…]
When we add to that figure the number of children in that area, its total population would be between 11,000 and 12,000. [More…]
If we add another 1,500 children we find that the approximate population residing in the 2 areas is between 15,000 and 16,000. [More…]
Is the Treasurer aware that recently a working housewife was fined for leaving her children unattended while she worked in industry? [More…]
For example, these ordinances include: An ordinance providing for the interpretation of Territory ordinances and statutory instruments: a juries ordinance providing for all aspects of jury service and, in particular, for women to serve on juries; an ordinance making comprehensive provision with respect to maintenance of wives, husbands and children; a new Wills Ordinance; ordinances enabling married persons to sue each other in tort; a number of amendments to the Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance; an ordinance facilitating the transfer of marketable securities; a new Family Provision Ordinance - to ensure that the family of a deceased person receive adequate provision out of his estate; an ordinance enabling a person between the ages of 18 and 21 years to borrow on the security of a mortgage of his home; amendments to the Administration and Probate Ordinance; and amendments to the Real Property Ordinance. [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…]
The State Education Departments and the independent school authorities are being informed that the Commonwealth will meet from existing appropriation costs within the approved programme which are incurred in the special instruction of migrant children as from 1st April 1970. [More…]
Non-English speaking immigrants are not specified because English speaking immigrants and their children as well as their non-English speaking counterparts are to be provided with courses in citizenship education which are referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-clause (1.) [More…]
In the meantime selected materials already used in the adult programme will be made available for use by migrant children. [More…]
Clause 6 indicates that subject to regulation a living allowance will be paid to migrant students, other than school children, attending approved courses of instruction. [More…]
For the migrant, in Commonwealth hostels, the allowance has been such that the normal hostel tariff has been deducted leaving the migrant if single a living allowance of $8.44 per week and, if married with a dependent wife, $11.03 per week with increases according to the number of dependent children in the family. [More…]
I have considered it advisable that the rates of living allowance paid to migrant students, other than school children, attending approved courses of instruction and the conditions under which the allowance may be paid should be provided by way of regulation so that the detail of the allowances to be paid will be paid before the Parliament when the regulations are made. [More…]
Some State Departments of Education have already taken steps to meet the problems encountered by migrant children in their schools and for this purpose are employing teachers in the special instruction of migrant children. [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…]
Can he say how many handicapped children there are in Australia. [More…]
How many children suffering’ (a) multiple and (b) single handicaps are attending special training centres (i) totally operated by government authorities, (ii) partly supported by government authorities and (iii) privately operated organisations without any government support at all. [More…]
and (2) The number of handicapped children in Australia is not known. [More…]
To date, findings have been published enly in respect of New South Wales where it was indicated that some 2.5 per cent of children under the age of 15 years were stated to suffer from one or more chronic condition which in some way limited their activities. [More…]
In any estimate of the number of handicapped children, the definition of the term ‘handicapped’ is, of course, important. [More…]
All State Governments provide centres for accommodating and training mentally sub-normal persons, including children, as well as subsidising certain private charitable and religious organisations assisting in the care and training of handicapped children. [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…]
While no comprehensive details on the incidence of disability among children in overseas countries arc known to be available, a recent report by the British Department of Education and Science estimated the number of disabled children in the United Kingdom who required special education as 1.32 per cent of the school agc population. [More…]
Finally, if the matter has not been considered, will the Postmaster-General give it his early attention with a view to giving children in those remote areas the opportunity to gain an improved education? [More…]
Has the present situation resulted in (a) Australian trained speech therapists being excluded from higher appointments in Australia which go to members of the profession from overseas holding university degrees, (b) general retardation of the profession in Australia including a lack of research due to a deficiency of persons with a basic degree conducting research studies for higher degrees, (c) inability to accommodate students from Asian countries seeking speech therapy qualifications with universal acceptability and (d) insufficient trained personnel to properly treat polyglot immigrants, bilingual children, multi-lingual children, persons with a brain injury, speech, voice and hearing defects of Aborigines, and other more orthodox forms of speech therapy. [More…]
Either, living alone, employing a fulltime housekeeper to look after children below the age of 16 years, is entitled to a deduction. [More…]
I share the concern of parents with children at those schools, some of whom have communicated with me about the effects on the children of disruption of classes. [More…]
Five or 6 years ago only a dozen children attended the little country school in Moura. [More…]
Today 500 or 600 children are enrolled at the school. [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…]
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…]
There has never been a Commonwealth or State inquiry into the needs crf deaf children. [More…]
Supervision of the work of teachers and of the children themselves is almost nonexistent. [More…]
In 1965 or 1966 there were about 150 children born who are profoundly deaf. [More…]
The rates which we recommend are in our opinion no more than sufficient to ensure that Members shall have available for the maintenance of themselves and their families, for the upkeep of their homes, for the education of their children, and for other outgoings normally paid by persons in private employment out of their remuneration, the full amount of their parliamentary salaries (less, of course, the compulsory Retiring Allowance contributions). [More…]
There is no baby health centre notwithstanding that there are probably more children in the area than in any other similar area in Australia. [More…]
on average, 4 children to a house. [More…]
About 1,700 children attend the Whalan public school. [More…]
More than 1,700 children attend the Tregear public school. [More…]
More than 1 ,200 children attend Lethbridge Park public school. [More…]
These are described as ‘boarders’; they are primary school children attending the high school because the primary school which they should attend does not have the facilities to cope with them. [More…]
But the schools cannot cope with the number of children seeking to attend them. [More…]
In all the circumstances the Commonwealth must do something to assist this area, particularly with regard to transport and the provision of playgrounds for the children. [More…]
Here is an area with probably more children than any similar area in Australia. [More…]
This is not just a simple social problem; it is one which can have very serious effects in the years to come for a lot of children who are not being given reasonable opportunities today. [More…]
As I sai d, it has more children in it and more future young Australians who will build this country than probably any other area in Australia. [More…]
On the New South Wales north coast just recently some 16 or 17 young children were killed in a bus fatality. [More…]
The children were killed in a level crossing smash. [More…]
These certificates should relate to a form of teacher educa tion which ensures that their professional capacity is remedial for children who are in need of remedial teaching - a weakness of the Australian educational system. [More…]
Our teachers colleges need also to be broadened to train teachers to deal with migrant children. [More…]
Some responsible authority should examine the problems associated with the education of our children. [More…]
It warns that the second generation post-war baby boom children - due to hit the schools in the 1970s - will make it impossible for the Education Department to adequately staff schools later in the decade. [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…]
After all, the Martin inquiry did set out to try to estimate what was the likely school population at different levels of education and the likely number of teachers who would be required to service such a number of children. [More…]
One problem coming up is the tuition of handicapped children of all kinds, and this House is to have a Bill on that subject. [More…]
As I have said already, there are increasing enrolments of 5-year old children. [More…]
In New South Wales in this term many 5-year old children will not be admitted to schools simply because there are no teachers available. [More…]
They are confronted with the position that they have nowhere to leave their children. [More…]
It has nothing to do with kindergarten children and training. [More…]
Therefore, we should be insistent, in co-operation with the States, that every person who goes into a classroom to teach any of our children or young adults or older adults should have professional qualifications. [More…]
In Victoria special trains are run from country districts to Melbourne taking school children to look around the industries where they might like to work for life. [More…]
The children are taken to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department and to the big factories in Melbourne. [More…]
Can the MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs assure this House that there was complete agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government in the decision to approve the purchase by OPAL -that is, the One People for Australia League - of the Brisbane Motel at Eight Mile Plains, in the Bowman electorate for use as a hostel for Aboriginal mothers and children? [More…]
If we proceed further from this point without national water planning, without national legislation, and if the cost benefit of a vote is to be the only guiding factor, then we are not going to make the progress as a nation that we should make if we are to hand it on in a reasonable condition to the children who will follow us. [More…]
When that Bill is passed, we will go on to the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [More…]
As an example I refer to the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [More…]
I already have indicated that there are 15 honourable members who want to speak in the debate on the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [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…]
But there has been no comprehensive national survey of the handicapping of children. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: whilst not opposing the provisions of the Bill, the House is of opinion that a national inquiry should be conducted to identify the nature and extent of mental and physical handicaps in children, as a basis to the Commonwealth establishing a national policy for handicapped children involving Commonwealth and State Governments, local authorities and private agencies in co-operative action’. [More…]
The number of handicapped children in Australia is not known. [More…]
The situation of handicapped children has been well known to exist in the community for a long time. [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…]
Yet the Minister confessed in his cecond reading speech that, although it is estimated that something like 50,000 children are handicapped children within the definition of that term, only about half of them are able to resort to suitable facilities for their rehabilitation. [More…]
There will be a variation between children in the extent to which this will develop. [More…]
The real problem is not the capital expenditure for the organisations which are conducting services which help handicapped children. [More…]
I will quote the case of autistic children directly. [More…]
How do they afford transport, for instance, for spastic children who have to move over a fair distance to a centre? [More…]
Spastic children have to go 30 miles to Brisbane. [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…]
I make this assessment on the basis of the deficiencies in the educational system for what could be called ‘normal children’. [More…]
Quite clearly there will be failings in the education of children who are handicapped. [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…]
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…]
But in Uruguay, a country which comes in this category, one finds superior services available for handicapped children. [More…]
Educationalists who are specially trained go into the homes of retarded pre-school youngsters and deal with the children’s needs, for instance, by stimulating their sensory organs, providing special toys and training them to use them. [More…]
We cannot do this with all handicapped children of course. [More…]
But it clearly can be done for some children. [More…]
Segregation, on the basis of what I have read from reports, seems to accentuate the differences and the sense of being a failure or of being deficient in handicapped children and helps to develop and consolidate a sub-culture attitude and interfere, therefore, with rehabilitation. [More…]
This often makes it extremely difficult for these children in their transmission into an adult environment. [More…]
What they are providing for the rehabilitation of handicapped children is just not good enough. [More…]
Krupinski, among others, writing in a survey on ‘Mental Retardation Amongst Victorian Children’ in 1966 pointed out that between 1946 and 1953 of those children diagnosed as mentally retarded before the age of 11 years, 2.7% of males and 3.2% of females were diagnosed as such under 2 years of age, and after 7 years of age and up to 11 years of age 70% of males and 60% of females were so diagnosed. [More…]
Quite clearly, not all children in this category can be diagnosed. [More…]
Efforts should be made to impress upon all those likely to encounter intellectually handicapped infants and young children of the importance of early diagnosis, and to provide, where necessary, training in the recognition of those symptoms and signs which suggest subnormality. [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…]
We must train school teachers, who might otherwise ignore, not recognise or even over-react to, symptoms of pupils and so contribute to the late maturing of these children and add to their problems of transmission into an adult society. [More…]
Many mentally retarded children have multiple handicaps. [More…]
The extent to which we are prepared to answer the challenge of handicapped children in our community will be the measure of the humanitarian values which exist in our society. [More…]
More fundamental and applied research into the nature and needs of handicapped children in this community is required. [More…]
Referring to education, I now want to quote from the 15th Annual Report of the Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association. [More…]
I do so as an illustration for the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who thinks that the Bill before the Parliament means something to handicapped children. [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…]
According to the third interim report of the New South Wales Health Advisory Council there are 14,750 handicapped children in that State yet there are only a little over 3,000 facilities provided for them. [More…]
The problem is not expenditure in the field of capital commitment; it is the recurrent expenditure on education, on providing the services of experts, paramedical specialists or even visiting medical specialists where this sort of aid for the rehabilitation of handicapped children is provided. [More…]
What are the needs of deaf children? [More…]
In 1968 in Australia, of the total number of school children 1 in every 618 was attending a special centre for the training of deaf children. [More…]
This seems to indicate that probably there are deaf children in Australia who need this sort of training and are not getting it. [More…]
I should not think that there would be such a tremendously greater number of deaf children in that country than here. [More…]
We need to develop special postschool practical employment classes for deaf children. [More…]
Because of language retardation these children have real problems in absorbing theoretical concepts when training for employment. [More…]
I want to move quickly to the situation of autistic children. [More…]
He has a special interest ;n autistic children and wants to see something done for them. [More…]
In Queensland the conservative estimate is that there are 140 autistic children. [More…]
In fact the authoritative people who operate the autistic centre - non-government authorities - know of only 50 such children under 14 years of age. [More…]
Where are the other 90, or 100 or perhaps 80 children? [More…]
If they are not located and given special training at a special centre which is essential for autistic children they will become lifelong inhabitants of mental institutions. [More…]
It would be a more real approach for us to discuss this problem, in a debate on handicapped children generally, than to buy off our consciences by providing $2 for $1 of capital expenditure. [More…]
I want to advert to the point I made earlier about recurrent expenditures and the burden of them on the people who voluntarily accept the responsibility in our society of operating centres for the rehabilitation of these children. [More…]
And what will happen if they discover the other two-thirds of the total number of autistic children that they think are living in Queensland? [More…]
They will need another 520,000 at least, probably more if they are going to extend their services within the centre to these children and maintain their operations. [More…]
1 turn now to crippled children and the lack of integration, of meshing of the services provided. [More…]
The Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults, in its 1969 report, stated: [More…]
We have to regionalise the activities of these groups so that this sort of gapping and overlapping can be avoided; so that there will be adequate funds available for the mobilisation and the maintenance of meaningful campaigns and policies for handicapped children. [More…]
It would seek to co-ordinate the activities of each of the tiers of government and the non-official bodies currently involved in assistance for handicapped children. [More…]
What is its disjointed and uneven approach to welfare programmes for handicapped children achieving? [More…]
Frankly 1 do not accept the proposition, explicit in the Minister’s second reading speech, that by providing this capital subsidy State governments will be relieved of some of their current cost burden and will be able to redirect funds into other areas of policy for handicapped children. [More…]
I wonder whether they will all face up to this moral challenge that the Minister has thrown out to them to divert the money released into handicapped children services in other areas. [More…]
In supporting this Bill I wish to acknowledge the dedicated efforts of the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) in trying to help the underprivileged and handicapped children and adults in our community. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics for the penetrating study of these matters relating to the chronically ill and handicapped children which will be of great importance in evaluating our programmes for the care of almost one-quarter of our population who are affected. [More…]
The benefits that will stern from this measure are virtually incalculable and cannot fail to give new heart to all groups, who have striven for so long to give handicapped children a chance to live as well as they cao. [More…]
This Bill will be of tremendous benefit to voluntary organisations and the States in giving assistance to our handicapped children. [More…]
In the past, too little has been done in the field of care and these children have grown into fully dependent adults unable to live any sort of normal life and later have become great burdens upon the State, imposing strains upon the governments and private institutions. [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…]
This Bill will give further impetus to the drive to cater far a greater number of handicapped children. [More…]
There are an estimated 40,000 handicapped children in Australia. [More…]
The terms of the Bill will free the States from some of the capital subventions to voluntary organisations and allow the States to assist handicapped children in other ways. [More…]
This is necessary to ensure that the organisations applying for the subsidy have the necessary trained staff to cater for the children and, what is more, the capacity to pay the staff. [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…]
Today Westhaven, as 1 said earlier, is a very large regional complex able to cater for a great number of children and adults, both male and female, who are either physically or mentally handicapped. [More…]
This centre has a sheltered workshop employing 25 people, a farm hostel for 55 intellectually handicapped males, a day attendance centre for 14 children and a school hostel catering for 14 children. [More…]
In addition, as an example of the co-operation that has been developed in New South Wales between the statutory and voluntary agencies, the Department of Education has established an OF school for 48 moderately handicapped children, some of whom are accommodated in the Westhaven children’s hostel. [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…]
In bringing these observations to the notice of the Government I in no way detract from the soundness of the Bill or the value that will flow from it to all voluntary organisations trying to cater for our handicapped children. [More…]
Looking at the position in terms of it’s effect on the children, it will be clear that the aim which the Minister himself has set will not be achieved by the present Bill - certainly not for the organisations that 1 have mentioned and, if one takes note of the Minister’s further comments in his second reading speech, probably not for more than half of the organisations caring for handicapped children. [More…]
The children we are concerned about are not just Western Australian, Victorian or Tasmanian children; they are also Australian children, and the Commonwealth’s reluctance to accept and operate on the basis of that simple fact is at the very heart of the problem which these organisations have faced in their efforts to attract Commonwealth support. [More…]
We are dealing with children and with the families of children who suffer enough because of their handicaps without having an additional financial burden with which to contend, or the addi tional concern that the children are receiving something less than the best attention possible. [More…]
Every argument of social conscience demands that the needs of handicapped children should not have to depend on the vagaries of beauty competitions, telethons and raffle tickets. [More…]
Their scope now or later must be widened to cover the daytoday work - that is to say, the real work - of those engaged in the treatment and training of handicapped children. [More…]
We are dealing with the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill which provides - I state this merely for the record - assistance for capital works and equipment of $2 for every Si that is provided by authorised organisations. [More…]
The Bill provides for children up to 21 years of age, and persons over 21 years of age if they have already commenced training :n an institution. [More…]
To extend the assistance given to handicapped children to those 21 years of age is an excellent scheme. [More…]
Help for handicapped children is one of the outstanding social problems of our age. [More…]
When I speak of handicapped children i include mentally and physically handicapped children, those who are partially handicapped or partially retarded, those who are chronically affected in various ways and those who are temporarily affected but who can permanently overcome their disabilities. [More…]
There is such a variety in this field of handicap both in adults and in children throughout the country. [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…]
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…]
In my own State there is the Subnormal Children’s Welfare Organisation and the Wheelchair and Disabled Association of Australia. [More…]
The Karonga House Special School for Handicapped Children has not been able to keep pace with requirements, but there has been enormous assistance from Rotary clubs. [More…]
The legislation with which we are dealing is a godsend to these people because it means that they will be able to increase enormously the number of children maintained in that home. [More…]
Notwithstanding that, there are many tens of thousands of children who are waiting to find a place to which they can go. [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…]
This organisation is particularly for dyslectic children and it is doing a magnificent job. [More…]
The Bill has been brought forward by the Department of Social Services, but I think honourable members may gather from what I have said that the problem of handicapped children is not one for only the Department of Social Services. [More…]
The House is debating the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill 1970. [More…]
After referring to the 1.50 per day payment which the Commonwealth makes in respect of accommodation away from home in the case of certain handicapped children, the Minister went on to say: [More…]
In spite of the various efforts made by voluntary and local government bodies, the problem of care for handicapped children is increasing daily. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
One of the most desperate and tragic situations that confront parents of severely handicapped children at this time is the inadequacy of hospital type accommodation for their children. [More…]
I refer to children who are too severely handicapped to be able to be satisfactorily placed in most hostels run by voluntary organisations. [More…]
Some church hospitals can care for these children but the numbers are pitifully small when compared with the need. [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…]
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…]
I suggest that Commonwealth bursaries should be made available for student social workers to encourage them to work with families which have handicapped, particularly mentally handicapped, children. [More…]
Bursaries should be made available also to encourage the training of nurses to work with severely handicapped children. [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…]
Some slow learners - children with intellectual handicaps, or social and emotional problems - have to wait up to three years to get places in Victorian Government special education schools. [More…]
The delay can mean it is too late to help the children by the time they are admitted. [More…]
The report says that the shortage of special schools in outer Melbourne suburbs means that many handicapped children travel up to 60 miles a day. [More…]
A shortage of psychology and guidance branch staff means that some children with specific problems - especially in country areas - are overlooked [More…]
Schools for physically handicapped children arc grossly overcrowded. [More…]
The Fitzroy Special School and the Marathon School for physically handicapped children are singled out for scathing appraisal. [More…]
both the States and voluntary bodies have been making valiant efforts in this field of assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
There are, we estimate some 50.000 handicapped children under16 years of age in Australia, including both those who have some physical handicap and those who are mentally reta rded. [More…]
I would say probably more than half of those children are inadequately catered for. [More…]
the States - to devote greater funds towards assisting handicapped children in other ways. [More…]
From my observations of the work of organisations in South Australia which cater for mentally handicapped children, there is no doubt in my mind that few children, if any, are ineducable. [More…]
In its report this panel of experts saw mental retardation as a national health, social and economic problem affecting in that country 51 million adults and children and involving from 15 million to 20 million family members. [More…]
It is a home for mentally handicapped and epileptic children. [More…]
The decision by the Commonwealth Government :o enter the field of capital assistance to places such as Minda gives tremendous relief not only to those conducting the homes but especially to parents and others who understand the value of early guidance and education for these children. [More…]
These arc mentally handicapped children. [More…]
I hop: in the n;ar future that the Minister fo- Social Services will be able io visit Minda Home, to meet the staff who look after these children in the Home and in the school and at the same time to see for himself she work of its separately operated farm which provides useful work for the senior hoys and a significant amount of the Home’s produce requirements. [More…]
lt possesses a farm which produces meat, vegetables, eggs and many other commodities for the consumption of th; children and s aft” at the Home. [More…]
Th : success attained in educating these handicapped children at Minda Home - I have no i:ie., ot the sim. [More…]
It was unfair to weary handicapped children with attempts at serious education. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
The care of handicapped children, long neglected in this country, will to some extent be remedied by this Bill. [More…]
The world’s aspiration to do something for handicapped children is best expressed by the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of a [More…]
He said in effect that he had no idea of the number of children who could come under the heading of handicapped. [More…]
1 have mentioned the world’s aspirations wilh regard to handicapped children. [More…]
It is difficult to get authoritative statistics on this subject, but I would not be surprised if Australia held a relatively lowly position, compared with other countries, in the care of mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
We have a long way to go to measure up to the standard set not only by the world but by the Public Instruction Act of New South Wales, which makes the State responsible for the provision of education services for all children on a free and compulsory basis. [More…]
As you know, handicapped children form t by-no-nu-ans .small minority of the school-age population. [More…]
Conservative estimates of incidence, pui lbc proportion - between 4% and 6% - that is of children who deviate sio markedly from normal growth and development in some significant respect - intellectually, physically, socially or emotionally - thai the regular school programmeis inadequate for their needs; who require therefore special educational provisions - a special school or class or supplementary instruction and services within the regular class. [More…]
Vet we are aware that in many areas, because of the lack of spontaneity, there are children who have never been accommodated effectively either by State or by spontaneous benevolently inspired facilities. [More…]
So those children languish. [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…]
It is the same way that we finance the education of healthy, wholesome, robust Australian children, and that is by way of uniform taxation so that everybody contributes according to his capacity to pay. [More…]
When it comes to the care of physically and mentally handicapped children how can we justify departing from that fundamental principle? [More…]
First, it should provide for the establishment of a handicapped children’s education and health authority which has the responsibility landed on its table. [More…]
In many regions where there is an incidence of mentally and physically handicapped children there are no such, centres and children have 10 travel long distances in attending places where there are residential facilities. [More…]
I want to pay tribute to the voluntary groups which, in the face of Government indifference, have worked tirelessly to fill the vacuum by the provision of handicapped children’s centres. [More…]
.In my own electorate there is such a centre at Kirrawee called the Handicapped Children’s Centre of New South Wales. [More…]
This centre prides itself on being the first centre in New South Wales to cater for both intellectual1))’ and physically handicapped children. [More…]
Over 100 children attend this day centre. [More…]
Another 26 children have been accommodated at a country residential centre at Kurrajong which is now to be replaced. [More…]
How many honourable members have had this experience of sitting clown with a group of 6 or 8 people and planning how they are going to find $700 a week to care for the region’s physically and mentally handicapped children? [More…]
The subsidy is based on a group of 10 children, but the children who are being serviced by the staff have special requirements. [More…]
1 was there a short time ago and one group of 8 children had to have 2 teachers to care for them. [More…]
I know in some of the very worthy institutions that look after the blind and deaf children the pupil-teacher ratio is 2 to 6. [More…]
Yet there is this requirement which seems to be unnecessarily stringent in the case of the handicapped children’s centres. [More…]
There is no subsidy for the teachers and the supervisors responsible for children over 1 6 years of age. [More…]
One is that I do not agree with the Opposition’s contention that all the matters relating to the care of handicapped children should be under the responsibility of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We have to be very careful as a Federal Government that we do not allow the care of the Handicapped children to become the sole care of some remote unpersonalised bureaucracy sitting here in Canberra. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), has mentioned the Handicapped Children’s Centre of New South Wales. [More…]
1 would plead with the Minister for Social Services that the buildings which have been completed for the handicapped children’s centre - and the actual completion date must be very close to the date he mentioned in his second reading speech - be considered for inclusion within this scheme. [More…]
To those of us who have been associated with this work, it is a heart-breaking thing to see the children and their parents living under the difficulties they have had. [More…]
1 do nor support the Opposition’s amendment that we should have a limited inquiry into the handicapped children involving Commonwealth and State governments, local authorities and private agencies. [More…]
To assume, as one speaker on the Opposition side has said, that this should be within the care of the Commonwealth alone is, 1 believe, far too restrictive and far too cruel for such a matter as the handicapped children. [More…]
But lel us not overlook how most of these handicapped childrens centres originated and how they started. [More…]
Every single one of the voluntary organisations - no-one can challenge this - started because the people involved had children involved with that disability. [More…]
Both of these organisations were created by parents of spastic children. [More…]
When there was no organisation around, when no Commonwealth, no Stale, no Liberal Party and no Labor Party had considered the matter it was the parents of the children involved who supported it. [More…]
The Handicapped Children’s Centre of New South Wales, which is now in Kirrawee, was started by the same process. [More…]
Let us not then allow this to happen in the future processes of handicapped children’s centres. [More…]
It is very hard to organise a district to be interested in autistic children if there is nal a body of people in the district, who are closely associated with autistic children. [More…]
We have done it in the field of sheltered workshops and we have done it tonight in the field of handicapped children. [More…]
As members have said before me this Government has been lax in this field of handicapped children. [More…]
On what ground are wc on this .side of the House expected to believe that the State governments arc lo spend more money on the recurrent costs ot caring for handicapped children thanii they are spending at the moment’.’ [More…]
Is it aimed solely at stopping a gap that the Commonwealth believes the State governments cannot fill or is it part of a philosophy of expanding Commonwealth assistance for handicapped children? [More…]
As far as the education of handicapped children is concerned, there is no statement of rights. [More…]
The thing that bothers me most is that nobody in Australia is settling down to look at the whole field of handicapped children, let alone the whole field of general welfare, and asking: ‘What are rights of the people that we should be looking after? [More…]
I cite, for example, the situation of the Spastic Children’s Society of Victoria. [More…]
This is the case with the Spastic Children’s Society of Victoria. [More…]
Until recently it had a bank overdraft of $338,000.In a fit of pre-election conscience Sir Henry Bolte discovered the plight of handicapped children and tossed them $100,000. [More…]
The Commonwealth has made a survey of Australia’s needs in education and it should be able to do this in the field of social welfare and assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
We regard this assistance being provided to handicapped children as a matter of right. [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…]
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…]
Obviously country areas, including those areas in my own State of Victoria, will continue to be deprived of educational and rehabilitation facilities for handicapped children. [More…]
Community involvement can still occur while at the same time we insist that the Government fulfils its full responsibility to handicapped children. [More…]
I quoted figures concerning the Spastic Children’s Society of Victoria Inc. That Society has 2 country centres, 5 metropolitan centres and 2 hostels. [More…]
At the present moment, the Spastic Children’s Society of Victoria lnc. [More…]
Speech therapists and occupational therapists are available only on a sessional basis in Melbourne for the Spastic Children’s Society. [More…]
It caters for 19 children. [More…]
this is just the type of organisation - and these 19 children are just the group of young people - for which these specially qualified people are needed. [More…]
If the Government is to help this group, it must offer the Spastic Children’s Society of Victoria Inc. assistance towards running costs as well. [More…]
Until we can get these special facilities in Bendigo, a number of these children will have to leave my electorate. [More…]
If these facilities and specialists were provided in my electorate these children could stay there. [More…]
One asks why, in God’s name, spastic children and their parents must pay for their own travel to and from school when normal children, particularly in the case of country children, receive their travel free. [More…]
Spastic children must pay. [More…]
Why do spastic children not have at least the same rights as normal children enjoy? [More…]
Why is it that parents and local bodies must pay for such items as electric typewriters for these children? [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…]
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…]
We should be insisting that every person who comes into contact with young handicapped children should as far as possible be fully qualified, f do not in any way detract from the work being done by the voluntary workers or tb’- r>-. [More…]
;H 1 They are doing a very good job, but we must insist that the highest standards arc maintained in educating and training handicapped children. [More…]
There should be nursing staff available to go around and visit the families who have children in very serious situations. [More…]
There should also be social welfare workers available to be able to go around and visit families so as to assist the parents in educating handicapped children if the parents are undertaking this task. [More…]
I think it should be based on a recognition of the needs of handicapped children in this nation as a whole and then action taken accordingly. [More…]
Most people who have had experience with handicapped and retarded children realise that there is a great need for the treatment of these children to commence as early as possible. [More…]
Something to which we should give consideration - and I am sure that the Government will give it consideration - is the fact, as was stated by the Minister, that there are some 50,000 handicapped children under 16 years of age in Australia, including those who have some physical handicap and those who are mentally retarded. [More…]
This indicates that the Government and the Minister recognise the need for continuing this assistance and for helping handicapped children. [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…]
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…]
This is the sort of strain that is placed on the parents of such children. [More…]
Acting on a brochure we received from the Sub-Normal Children’s Welfare Association, we inspected The Chalet, and were immediately taken with the ‘family’ type atmosphere, and the progressive outlook of the director . [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…]
The children at The Chalet’ - [More…]
This is The Chalet for Children - definitely qualify forthe additional benefit . [More…]
The mailer is of crucial importance to very many parents, and through them the children, and indeed to the proper functioning of the home - the facilities for intensive care of the intellectually handicapped are, in general, grossly inadequate, and any private institution dedicated to this work needs constant and very full support. [More…]
Asa practising psychiatrist, I am very aware of the needs of the intellectually handicapped, and can assure you that these children do qualify as needing intensive nursing home cure. [More…]
I make the suggestion that there needs to be co-operation between the 2 Government departments which have the responsibility of providing the benefits and assistance that these children certainly deserve. [More…]
While I commend and support the Bill I trust that the Government will give consideration to a further examination of the position of the parents whose children have to be taken into homes and who have to pay for their care. [More…]
By giving further consideration to the position of parents the Government will enable handicapped children to benefit from the excellent care and attention that is given in such homes as The Chalet for Children at Stanthorpe. [More…]
If the Government could extend the Commonwealth benefit given to these children it would be of great benefit. [More…]
Such assistance would remove from these homes some of the children who have to attend them. [More…]
There is a need for special consideration for these children. [More…]
I leave the thought with the Minister that he might consult with his colleague the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) to see how the co-operation of their .2 departments can best be used for the benefit of these children who need assistance so very much. [More…]
At the top of the list are subnormal children, spastic children, autistic children and so on. [More…]
Public support can be drummed up for causes that touch the heartstrings - sick or handicapped children, for example. [More…]
It is much more difficult to raise money for children who are mentally handicapped, or for an organisation such as the Hanover Centre, which works for derelict men, or for alcoholics,’ Mr Scott says. [More…]
It is also very difficult to raise funds for family counselling services using professional social workers because you can’t show touching pictures of children before and after service, or pictures of huge buildings which are monuments to the money that has been raised. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister is aware of this school, lt is a branch of the Sub-Normal Children’s Association. [More…]
Later on an activity centre was added in which was taught handicrafts, including cooking, to postschool age children. [More…]
At least 13 children are on the waiting list, but they cannot be accepted. [More…]
It is possible that there are quite a number of children who have not applied for admission to the school and even if they did apply they would be unable to attend it. [More…]
One honourable member suggested that the term ‘children’ is rather a misnomer because the term applies at this school, as it does in many other similar schools, to adults who could be 50 years of age but who, because they must be looked after like children, are regarded as children. [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…]
Research in England has shown that there are approximately 4.5 autistic children per 10,000. [More…]
However, it is not known whether these figures are applicable here, lt may well be that climatic conditions or ethnic differences may create a higher incidence of autism in children in England than in Australia. [More…]
Most of the information that is available has resulted from extensive research or from voluntary organisations directly associated with the illness, such as the Autistic Childrens Association of New South Wales and other similar State bodies. [More…]
Taken out of context these symptoms can occur in other diseases or in perfectly normal children. [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…]
If in any way we have learnt something this evening about this tragic disease, if we are at least aware that 300 children in Australia suffer from it, raising the matter has been worthwhile. [More…]
Finally, I hope the Minister will give consideration in the future to enlarging the scope of this Bill so that not only will capital1 funds be available for physically and ‘ mentally handicapped children but also assistance will be given to relevant organisations to help them with their running costs. [More…]
The Prime Minister staled in his policy speech there would be capita] assistance of $2 for each $t towards the cost of building institutions which give training to various types of handicapped children. [More…]
As a member of the Government Members Social Services Committee, J have been on tours of inspection of and have obtained information about the many wonderful institutions set up by religious and other organisations to assist these children. [More…]
I was appalled to learn that in this modern scientific era, with a population of only 12 million, there are in Australia 50,000 children handicapped in various ways and at different stages. [More…]
The States are primarily responsible for the care and training of such children. [More…]
At this stage 1 think I express the sentiments of all honourable members in this House when 1 offer our appreciation and gratitude to those people who render such dedicated and self-sacrificing service to handicapped children. [More…]
This Bill is most estimable and will make a worthwhile contribution to the erection of schools and premises for the children. [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…]
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…]
It is doubtful if even 1% of the cost of educating deaf children is spent on research. [More…]
A very real contribution to the field of the handicapped could be made by the Commonwealth by setting up a national training college for teachers of handicapped children. [More…]
We cannot continue to offer these children the crumbs and dregs and say in effect: ‘This is good enough for you because you are deaf.’ [More…]
Deaf and dumb children are dumb merely because they cannot hear. [More…]
But when one comes into contact with such dedicated people as Brother McGrath and Miss Walters, of whom I have spoken in this House before, who are at the State school at North Rocks, one realises what can be clone for these children. [More…]
At St Louis in the United States of America many children have been taught to speak and have attained secondary diplomas and 12 have gone on to tertiary education. [More…]
When I see these children at North Rocks and at Castle Hill bubbling over with enthusiasm and brightness, I wish that we could have more people like Brother McGrath and Miss Walters who are specially trained to impart to these children the knowledge of how to use their vocal chords so that within a few short years they are able to speak as do you and I. [More…]
this system will be disseminated throughout Australia and these wonderful children with a high IQ will be able to take their places in society and render a service to the community. [More…]
I would like to make it clear for a start that the Opposition welcomes this Bill as far as it goes, lt is a Bill which will assist those organisations which in turn are assisting handicapped children by way of capital assistance for land and buildings and equipment. [More…]
I want to make that clear - the House is of opinion that a national inquiry should be conducted to identify the nature and extent of mental and physical handicaps in’ children, as a basis to the Commonwealth establishing a national policy for handicappedchildren involving Commonwealth and SuiteGovernments, local authorities and private agencies in co-operative action’. [More…]
A committee of inquiry is needed to inquire into those aspects covered by the amendment besides very many other aspects such as research into the causes of handicapped children - there is so much’ to learn yet on this - research into the treatment of handicapped children, research’ into teaching methods for handicapped children and the best way to assist governments and organisations which are endeavouring to do a job in this field to assist those children. [More…]
For that reason I became very vitally interested in this problem of handicapped children. [More…]
We have to look after these children. [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…]
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…]
Within my electorate is the Ashford House School for Cerebral Palsied Children. [More…]
I take this opportunity of recording my admiration and profound respect for the extremely valuable work done by the staff for the handicapped children, particularly in seeking their ultimate rehabilitation.I draw the Minister’s attention to Part III of the Bill and clause 11 which reads: [More…]
the Director-General is satisfied that the equipment is to be used by handicapped children receiving approved training or is to be used otherwise for or in connexion with the provision of approved training, the Director-General may, in his discretion, approve that equipment for the purposes of this Part. [More…]
The children from Elizabeth are obliged to be transported by taxis to Gepps Cross and then they are conveyed by bus to the Ashford centre. [More…]
Many of the cerebral palsied or handicapped children come from low income families and it is of great assistance to them if the. [More…]
children are conveyed by these buses. [More…]
Firstly I want to commend the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wen I worth) for bringing down a Bill of this nature and for his interest in handicapped children, lt is very pleasing to me to find, possibly for the first time since I have been following the affairs of this Parliament, a Minister who has displayed interest in this field. [More…]
Insufficient attention has been given in the past to handicapped children. [More…]
There arc, wc estimate, some 50,000 handicapped children under 16 years of age in Australia, including both those who have some physical handicap and tho-e who are menially retarded. [More…]
If the Minister had the facilities available to ascertain the degree of inadequate catering in this field and if he knew the number of children involved think he would be surprised. [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…]
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…]
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…]
I refer particularly to the Intellectually and Physically Handicapped Children’s Association of New South Wales which has done a magnificent job in this field. [More…]
It commenced when a few people who had severely mentally retarded and physically retarded children got together and decided that they would have to do something about the problem because the facilities did not exist. [More…]
They have raised some hundreds of thousands of dollars to perform a vital, important and necessary task in the community, that is, caring for severely mentally retarded and severely physically retarded children. [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…]
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…]
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 reference to this Bill I was approached by the Mentally Retarded Children’s Society of South Australia. [More…]
Whilst this organisation considers that the Bill is an advance for handicapped children, it has its reservations on. [More…]
the Bill between the States which provide free education for all children and those where education is provided by subsidised voluntary organisations. [More…]
In South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania the education departments have accepted the responsibility to provide free education for all children. [More…]
This assistance is belter than nothing at all, but falls far short of the standard set by the first named stales which provide properly established schools stalled by departmentally trained teachers for all children, handicapped or nol. [More…]
That those States which have left to voluntary organisations the bulk of the responsibility to provide training facilities for their handicapped children are now lo be relieved of a very substantial proportion of their existing contribution, and, (2) those Stales which have accepted full responsibility to provide appropriate professional education facilities are specifically excluded from the Commonwealth assistance available under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
I recently had contact with a Save the Children Fund Committee in Port Lincoln and that Committee asked me for assistance in obtaining Commonwealth finance to aid the running of a preschool kindergarten for Aboriginal children in that town. [More…]
I know that they are not handicapped children in the sense that the term is used in the Bill; they are handicapped in a different way. [More…]
Many organisations working for handicapped children will find themselves in a similar position. [More…]
There is an organisation in my home town which was formed approximately 2 years ago to cater for retarded children. [More…]
This organisation consists mostly of the parents of the children themselves. [More…]
They received donations from numerous town organisations, enough to get themselves going, but they found that by combining with Whyalla which is 47 miles away they could give a better service to the unfortunate children. [More…]
I know that there are honourable members on both sides of the House who have been personally interested in the matter of assistance to handicapped and retarded children and we have of course had the benefit of their advice. [More…]
Firstly, I was asked whether the scheme covers autistic children. [More…]
Secondly, I was asked by the honourable member for Perth (Mr Berinson) and also by the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) as to whether the spastic children in all their activities would be covered and the answer is yes. [More…]
I was asked about mongoloid children and others of similar nature and the answer is yes, they will be covered. [More…]
I would not rule this out but I point out to the House that this Bill is meant to help children and it is not always in the best interests of children to have an adult stranger introduced into their environment. [More…]
It is difficult with a census to be certain that people describe their children correctly. [More…]
The Bill before us is part of a plan to help handicapped children, lt is not a haphazard plan; it is the first thing to do. [More…]
Disabled children grow up and sometimes they can be entirely cured. [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…]
In respect of implementing that agreement, it was subsequently agreed at later CommonwealthState conferences on the subject, that health education programmes should be instituted and directed mainly towards school children. [More…]
Have bottles of all kinds been allowed to accumulate in gutters and on footpaths to the danger of children. [More…]
That means that the wife is left at home to do the work on the farm and that the husband, the wife and the children have to milk the cows before they go to school and work and have to milk again when they come home from school and work. [More…]
One does not have to have a very good imagination to know that the children as they go through school are never able to realise their true potential. [More…]
We have a grave social problem in that as soon as some of these children turn 14 or 15 years of age they are taken out of school to go on to the farm because that is all they know. [More…]
I hope also that some thought will be given to rehabilitation schemes for the children who have never been able while living on dairies to develop their true potential and that they may have the opportunities that were given to ex-servicemen after the war to find what they can do in the fields of trades and professions so that they can take a worthwhile and useful place in the community. [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…]
I suppose the days are gone when children had to milk cows before they went off to school but in many dairy farms it is still a family effort that gets them by. [More…]
We give them the right to produce children and to accept the responsibilities of family maintenance. [More…]
That is the concept of the majority at 21: is one of properly rights in and power over children, as much as of a duty to protect them. [More…]
The difference between the Government and the Opposition is basically this: The Government believes that the burden of the subsidy element should fall on the low income group, on the man with the big family whose children eat the bread and the eggs. [More…]
There are now 550 children enrolled in special classes or schools in Canberra. [More…]
Provision is made for deaf children at Ainslie and Mawson Primary Schools and at the Telopea Park High School. [More…]
The importance of appropriate training and assistance for deaf children at an early age is recognised and two specially trained pre-school teachers work with’ deaf and hard of hearing children in Canberra. [More…]
Another preschool teacher is undertaking a special course in Sydney this year to prepare her as a teacher of deaf pre-school children. [More…]
Physically handicapped children who require medical or para-medical treatment on a regular basis attend a school located at the Canberra Hospital. [More…]
Those children who are hospitalised for lengthy periods are catered for, educationally, by a teacher who works in the wards. [More…]
Moderately mentally handicapped children receive their education at two special schools in Canberra. [More…]
Mildly mentally handicapped children are enrolled in special classes known as Opportunity A classes which are attached to Ainslie, Mawson, Turner and Narrabundah Primary Schools and Narrabundah High School. [More…]
A group of aphasic children attend a special Opportunity L class at the Forrest Primary School. [More…]
Is he aware of the negative and rather dictatorial attitude of the Australian Rugby League Board of Control in refusing to allow the Australian Broadcasting Commission to televise directly to the hundreds of thousands of sport loving Australians, including children, living in provincial cities and country towns an event which is ranked in Australia with the Davis Cup and the cricket ashes as one of the sporting classics? [More…]
The unsewered areas are the developing areas of our cities where most migrants and most children live. [More…]
My colleagues produced very little reaction from Government members when they advocated the role of local government in’ debates this year on Bills dealing with assistance for handicapped children, aged persons’- homes and Meals on Wheels. [More…]
He is a young man with 3 children who has decided not to throw in the towel but to continue to make the best of his situation and the best of the circumstances that descended upon him. [More…]
In any case, Mr Speaker, when you are worn out and dejected in the early hours of the morning, when the health of the Clerks and other staff is affected, when the attendants are worn out and wearyand have not seen their wives and children for a few days, and whenthe other staff members are walking in a tranceI hope that honourable members will realise that it has been caused by the. [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…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children of school age live in the Northern Territory. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children in the Northern Territory attend (i) Administrative and (ii) mission (A) primary, (B) secondary and (C) technical schools. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children from the Northern Territory are assisted to receive (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) university and (iv) other education elsewhere in Australia, and what is the nature and cost of such assistance in each category. [More…]
Number of children of school age (at least 5 years and under 16 years) living in the Northern Territory: [More…]
They are to be entitled to free attendance by a doctor or a certified midwife and to the payment of benefits sufficient for the adequate maintenance in hygienic conditions of mothers and children during the period of absence. [More…]
It also provides that mothers are to be allowed to nurse their children during working hours for halfhour periods twice a duy. [More…]
How do I answer his young widow, or my children? [More…]
Another one was entitled: ‘Fun in Bed’, which turned out to be a book on games for sick children. [More…]
We ought to shield children in our society if necessary but this does not mean that we therefore must deprive adults by reducing their intellectual diet to that appropriate for a juvenile level. [More…]
The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children. [More…]
People should maintain their equity in these properties and indeed so should their children to come, if in due course they are to take over these blocks. [More…]
We appreciate the fact that some increases will be made in the weekly payments to widows, children and people who are totally and permanently or totally and temporarily incapacitated. [More…]
The Government seems to assume that during his per od of incapacitation a worker eats less, his wife and children can live on less, the rent is less, the electricity supply costs less per unit, the gas company charges less and it does not take as much electricity to heat the bath water or to cook the food. [More…]
The wife and children still have to be fed. [More…]
In addition, in all cases in which normal family relationships existed, the wife and children would travel to the hospital and back again each day and would have to pay the cost of fares. [More…]
A lump sum of $12,000 is little enough for an elderly widow without children. [More…]
It is, however, criminally inadequate for a young widow with small children to feed, clothe, educate and shelter. [More…]
Speaking personally, 1 would like to see a widow with dependent children paid a weekly compensation equivalent to the income of her deceased breadwinner for the whole period of her children’s dependency and, say, 75% of that amount thereafter until her death. [More…]
Even in cases where a widow remarries a sufficient portion of her- original weekly compensation should continue to be payable to her deceased husband’s children for the full period of their dependency. [More…]
If $12,000 is an adequate sum to pay a wife who is widowed at 60 years of age and who has no dependent children to maintain, it is surely axiomatic that the same amount must be totally inadequate for the mother of 2 or 3 little children who is widowed at 30 years of age. [More…]
Conversely if SI 2,000 is adequate for a 30 year old widow with dependent children it must be excessive for a 60 year old widow without children. [More…]
As I have already said, the only modification I would make to such a rule is, in the case where there were no dependent children, that the weekly payment could be modified or reduced to, say, 75% of the weekly earnings which the breadwinner would have earned but for his death. [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 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…]
But, even taking that into account, the New South Wales Act is better where there are children. [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…]
The victims of this kind of system are the people least able to bear it, particularly those on what are called lower and middle incomes - and the term middle’ is perhaps a little wide - and especially where the family is a married unit with children and where the wife is unable or unwilling to work. [More…]
1 am not one who believes that a home with young children is better because the children are put in a creche or somewhere else. [More…]
If people want to work, fair enough; but many people in this circumstance are unable to work because they place the care of their children above what they might gain as a wage. [More…]
If he were getting $72 a week and had a wife and several children to keep, would he think that he would have much surplus left over and that he had not been affected when automatically, as he got a wage increase, a large part of it would simply be taken back into the tax system, and as interest rates rose he would pay higher for durables? [More…]
Some publicity has been given to a proposal by the Government to introduce a system of automatic interim payments to the dependent spouse and children of passengers killed in aircraft accidents. [More…]
That proposal provides for interim payments to a dependent spouse and dependent children of a passenger killed in an aircraft accident. [More…]
In the event of an accident, because of the delay involved in inquiries which have to be conducted, a dependent spouse with children could be in the unfortunate position of knowing that some time in the distant future she would receive a lump sum payment of $30,000 but that in the meantime she would have difficulty in making ends meet. [More…]
The most that a dependent spouse or dependent children will be able to receive in damages will be $30,000 under this Bill. [More…]
The courts determine the amount of damages to be awarded to the deceased passenger’s dependant spouse or children. [More…]
My interpretation of the Workers Compensation Act is that it permits a dependent spouse or dependent children to accept the amounts laid down in the Act of so much for death and so much for loss of limb or, if they feel that they have a common law action that they can take where the employer has been negligent, they can go to the court to try to get a greater amount by way of damages. [More…]
If a dependent spouse or dependent children feel that an airline operator has been negligent - and I could go into extensive detail if circumstances permitted in respect of cases where I think there has been negligence in airline accidents - they should be entitled to the best of both worlds. [More…]
The Council also made special recommendations relating to school dental nurses in that it considered any instrumentality responsible for a comprehensive and systematic programme for dental care of Australian school children should give consideration to the utilisation of auxiliary personnel in the form of school dental nurses. [More…]
Victoria - Due to the Slum Reclamation programme in the Melbourne metropolitan area the trend has been towards providing flat accommodation for rental and making houses available for purchase on low depotit Large families of five or more children receive priority for houses vacated and are allocated these homes on a tenancy basis; currently a wait of between 18 months and two years is usual. [More…]
Is he able to give the total number of children in Australia who attend pre-school centres which meet the full requirements of the appropriate authority of the State or Federal Governments for the supervision of pre-school centre standards. [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…]
The numbers of children enrolled in Government and ‘affiliated’ pre-school centres (categories (i) and (ii) (a) ) in each State and Territory to 1969 are shown in the following table. [More…]
The Control Board is also encouraging the production of worthwhile Australian children’s programmes. [More…]
There are differences between the States in the extent to which children of 5 years and less are admitted to government primary schools. [More…]
To some extent, such children would be receiving what could be regarded as the equivalent of pre-school education. [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…]
These figures do not include expenditure incurred by State education departments in respect of children attending government schools, with the special exception of expenditure on government pre-schools in Tasmania - see answer to (2). [More…]
To Lady Kent Hughes, his children and grandchildren we who have known him for so long extend our deepest sympathy. [More…]
As I heard it described yesterday, he could speak even to children and reach a common ground with them. [More…]
at the same time, was able to talk to and meet with the children of this country and any country he visited. [More…]
Perhaps it might be thought that nothing concentrates the mind so wonderfully upon this topic as being under the necessity to defend one’s home and one’s children against a wanton invasion by people who can only be described as idiotic vandals intent upon defacing one’s property. [More…]
I think that there are special needs in the Northern Territory in particular because the children living there, in contrast with those living in the Australian Capital Territory, do suffer serious educational disabilities because of the very nature of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Minister’s statement on the special aid being given to the States in relation to migrant children is also very welcome. [More…]
There is extreme difficulty in teaching children who do not have any English, children who do not have English as their background language yet come into Australian schools. [More…]
However, the disabilities that the Minister mentioned also apply to another category of Australian children in many areas and special assistance to the States for them would have been very welcome. [More…]
I am referring, of course, to Aboriginal children. [More…]
They need special help, and in areas where there are numbers of Aboriginal children it would be good Commonwealth policy to give the States the special assistance that they need to help those children as well as migrant children. [More…]
With men, women and children, and about 40,000 unnaturalised migrants, I have problems. [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…]
Is it a fact that, although Aborigines represent only 2.5% of Western Australia’s population, approximately 21% of all children who die under the age of 1 year are Aborigines. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the proportion of Aboriginal children who die between the ages of 1 month and 12 months is approximately 20 times the death rate among white children. [More…]
If the position is as stated, what is the cause of these high mortality figures in respect of Aboriginal children, and what action is proposed to reduce them. [More…]
The causes of the high mortality figures in respect of Aboriginal infants and children arc largely the result of infections such as those producing gastroenteritis, pneumonia or occasionally meningitis. [More…]
My Department and the Office of Aboriginal Affairs have made special efforts to assist the States in determining the most effective ways to improve the health of this section of our community and recently in an effort to determine the major factors responsible for the production of subnormal health, particularly in Aboriginal children, and ways to correct them, convened a meeting or Workshop’ at which representatives from the States and Territories and experts in fields of anthropology, nutrition, paediatrics, nursing, welfare, administration, public health and medical research were present in Sydney in December 1969. [More…]
What is the estimated mortality rate of full blood Aboriginal children in (a) the Northern Territory, (b) Western Australia and (c) Queensland in each of the age groups (i) birth to 1 year, (ii) 1 year to 1 years,(iii) 2 to 3 years, (iv) 3 to 4 years, (v) 4 to 5 years and (vi) 5 to 8 years. [More…]
How does the mortality rate of full blood Aboriginal children compare with that of other children in Australia. [More…]
From an examination of available data it can be estimated that in the Northern Division of the Northern Territory for1968 the Aboriginal infant mortality was 75.0 per 1,000 live births, and the mortality rate in the 1-2 years age groups 32.8 per 1,000 children in this age group. [More…]
There were 3 deaths of children aged 2-3 years, one in the 3-4 years group, none aged 4-5 years and 2 between the age of 5 and 8 years. [More…]
Comparing these rates for the whole population with the Aboriginal mortality rates shown in the reply to part (1) of this question, it may be seen that the mortality rate amongst infant Aboriginal children is much higher than for other children in Australia. [More…]
That because of the magnitude of the dental health problem Government School Dental Services should concentrate upon the treatment and maintenance of pre-school and school children on an incremental age basis with particular priority to the ‘dentally indigent’. [More…]
That a Voluntary Dental Insurance Scheme Subsidised by the Commonwealth Government be introduced to cover the dental treatment requirements of children and that such a scheme -be introduced in anincremental age basis commencing with children 2 years of age. [More…]
That such a Scheme be introduced progressively over 11 years commencing in 1969 with 2 year old children and in each successive year, introducing 2 year old children into the Scheme. [More…]
The children introduced into the Scheme each year continue to be treated throughout the 11 years required for its full implementation, [More…]
The scale of treatment for alt participating children be uniform in each age group but decreasing between each successively older age group up to the proposed 12 year old group. [More…]
Net growth in the population of 2 year old children between 196.1 and 1966 census figures of 0.70% per annum (including net migration) will continue uniformly throughout the 11 years for full implementation of the Scheme. [More…]
Figures for immigrant families arriving in Australia (a family being defined as a man and wife, or man, wife and children) do not take account of those cases in which the husband and wife migrate separately. [More…]
Only 42.5% of eligible children attend pre-school centres in the Northern Territory whereas in the Australian Capital Territory 48.8% do so. [More…]
Therefore, at this stage I foreshadow an amendment which 1 will move on behalf of the Opposition to give effect to some of the matters that I have just put before the House in relation to the conditions of servicemen, namely education for the children of servicemen and pay and allowances. [More…]
add: ‘and in relation to the whole defence force (i) pay and allowances of all personnel, (ii) provision for the retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of service men.’ [More…]
We should discuss part (iv) of the motion relating to educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
Education at the high school stage for these children has become a major cause of resignations. [More…]
in relation to the whole defence forces (i) pay and allowances for all personnel, (ii) provision for retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
lt is true that in terms of the motion one could not deal with pay and allowances, housing, retraining and children’s education. [More…]
But a committee which both sides of both Houses thought was competent to deal with DFRB would presumably be just the sort of committee that both sides of both Houses would deem to be competent to deal with pay and allowances, housing, re-training and children’s education. [More…]
We heard that it was an expanded negative and all sorts of stupid arguments that would not be accepted in a kindergarten form where children were just starting, to learn to speak and perhaps to debate. [More…]
He has a wife and 2 children. [More…]
The net arrears of War Pensious, Attendant’s Allowance and Clothing Allowance in respect of Mr Medlyn, his wife and his children, amounted to $6,924.30. [More…]
As a result of informal discussions with the States it has become apparent that the States wish to experiment with new types of estate development which would include, in addition to the building of cottages, the building of a number of terrace houses and groups of cluster housing as well as modest high rise buildings for single persons and families without children in particular. [More…]
children’s playgrounds, equipped and supervised; [More…]
But we also believe very strongly that there are much greater risks for our children in isolation. [More…]
1 refer to such things as the increasing influence of the mass media on the minds of young children and in their education. [More…]
Anybody who has a young family, as I have, and who realises how much time his children spend with their eyes and minds glued to the television apparatus must be aware of the tremendous influence this thing exercises. [More…]
1 believe that in Australia we are approaching the stage when we must ask ourselves whether our children are being given sufficient content that is truly Australian - not only Australian in terms of its origin commercially but also in terms of the expressions, the philosophy, the culture if you like, the background of thinking and the attitudes which would be truly indicative of the response of the average Australian. [More…]
We have a duty to the people of this country, indeed to our own children, to provide them with a culture that is indigenous to this country. [More…]
The average family man with a wife and 2 children with a taxable income of $3,000 receives a benefit of $32. [More…]
Cb) Expenditure by income grade of survey items 23, 34, 35. lc) Assumption that average family includes dependant wife and two children. [More…]
Survey showed that 70% 0fall householders had wife and children under 17. [More…]
This Budget is the consequence of that escape and the children of Australia are its victims. [More…]
Having reached that stage the children who live in those expanding towns must go south to further their education. [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…]
I inferred from my question that a need existed for much greater aid for State secondary schools to make those schools more attractive and so encourage children to stay on for the full period of the secondary school course. [More…]
Many of these people come from areas of social and economic deprivation and have a need for a system of education that discriminates in their favour by providing special loadings for these children by way of specialised equipment and training. [More…]
That is not a high rate; it is not a flattering rate, lt certainly is not a generous contribution to the needs of children at secondary schools. [More…]
I do not have the figures before me, but my recollection is clear that I stated in this House in the last session of the last Parliament that the proportion of children attending non-Catholic private secondary schools who receive Commonwealth scholarships is significantly higher than the number of children attending State secondary schools who receive this form of scholarship. [More…]
Maybe a young couple with no children can put up with the noise, but when they become established and begin to have a family they may find that the problem has completely changed for them. [More…]
It is hard to assimilate the purport of these signs as one travels round in such a cursory and superficial way, but in the end it comes down to the fact that people will be affected in hospital, that children will be distracted from their efforts to gain an education, that families will be unable to watch television without interruption, that radio reception will be interfered with, that telephone conversations will be impaired, that shiftworkers will be unable to sleep and that other factors of this type will be involved. [More…]
Fewer than 5% of the workers take the bread from the children’s mouths, cause industrial unrest, promote violence in our streets and seek to destroy our democratic way of life. [More…]
This Government denies the obvious needs of the less fortunate and those battling for an existence, people who seek only the right to live decently and to ensure their children good health and a decent education. [More…]
Yet, this State Government is not able to afford children the opportunity of a decent education. [More…]
In addition the State Government refuses parents a reasonable tax deduction for the expenses they incur in sending their children to the metropolitan area or to some other place to receive education. [More…]
For a person whose income is the equivalent or approximately equivalent to that of an invalid pensioner with a wife and 4 dependant children, the increase in the cost structure which is caused through the increases in sales tax and other duties which the Government has introduced is $27.90 a year based on estimates of family spending. [More…]
On the other hand a man on a salary of $32,000 a year with a wife and 3 dependent children will have a saving in income tax of slightly less than $500 a year. [More…]
We should have more concern for the people who have to survive on invalid pensions and who at the same time have to attempt to educate their children. [More…]
Their commitments include the education of their children, looking after the health and welfare of their families, paying off their homes and providing their families with what most Australians would consider to be the standard of living to which they are entitled. [More…]
Let us look at the position of a man on an average weekly earning of about $70 who has a wife and 2 children. [More…]
The high income earner can claim the maximum deduction of $600 for 2 children. [More…]
The process worker could not possibly afford to pay $600 for the education of 2 of his children, nor could he afford to pay half that. [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…]
In 1968-69 child endowment payments amounted to $l87.9m for 3.7 million children from 1.701 million families. [More…]
I pity the mother with a big family who is compelled to remain at home, unable to go out and get a job, and who tries with all her might and main, to send her children off to school as tidily dressed and as well cared for as are children from other homes. [More…]
They perform like disappointed children if they do not get the expensive presents to which they think they are entitled. [More…]
I refer in particular to the Delivered Meals Subsidy Bill and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [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…]
These arc, if I might briefly mention them, aged peoples’ homes, free medical benefits, free hospital benefits, mother and guardians allowances for widows, single age or invalid pensioners with dependent children, supplementary assistance for single pensioners paying rent or board, subsidies for Meals on Wheels, a comprehensive home care programme, allowances for education for pensioners’ children up to 21 years, and telephone rental and radio and television concessions. [More…]
The allowance for the second and all subsequent children in 1954-55 was $104: today it is $156, an increase of 50%. [More…]
Most people assume that the ability to have children is a God-given right. [More…]
I would equally assume that the intelligence of homo sapiens is a God-given right and I would further assume that there is no compulsion on somebody on $3,000, $2,000, $1,000 or any number of thousands of dollars a year to have 10 children if he cannot afford them, and facilities are available these days to eliminate any necessity to have them. [More…]
However, one thing which has left me rather disappointed is the fact that for just over a year 1 have fought with the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) - although he is a friend - for a better deal for widowers with children. [More…]
1 frankly admit that 1 am nol married and do not have any children. [More…]
It is only by educating farmers’ children to lake their places somewhere else in the community that they will be saved from being forced to follow in their fathers’ footsteps, like it or not, and reap the result of the mismanagement that we have had here in Canberra in the past. [More…]
I have seen people on dairy farms whose children have had to get up in the morning to milk the cows because their families could not afford to hire labour. [More…]
In many cases the children also had to milk the cows at night. [More…]
It is the ordinary people who know that the protection of their homes, their children, their businesses and their way of life is under threat by certain organisations within this country. [More…]
These dissenters are in many ways like young children who are constantly probing to find out how far they can stretch parental authority. [More…]
that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman or of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family greater than if the pregnancy were terminated (and in determining whether the continuance of a pregnancy would involve such a risk of injury to health, account may be taken of the pregnant woman’s actual or reasonably foreseeable environment); or [More…]
These initiation operations varied in their extent according to the number of children being born in a tribe, the state of the climate and the food production. [More…]
Although I appreciate that the Prime Minister has honoured the promise which he made, I feel it would have been of greater benefit to those people who need assistance - the young married couples in the lower income group and those people with children at school who are buying a house - if the taxation schedule had been reformed in another way. [More…]
At the other end of the age range it has a fairly small percentage of children, far below the Queensland and national averages. [More…]
This man, very often a family man with children to keep at school, a wife to maintain and a house to rent or pay off, will face increases in sales tax and in the cost of a telephone - it will be $7 a year for him - which the Budget imposes. [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…]
Sir Arthur Fadden once admitted to me that if we abolished income tax deductions for children altogether we could double child endowment. [More…]
The cash reduction in income tax which a minimum income earner, that is someone earning $42.50 a week, gains through the deductible item for a wife and 2 children is $120; for a person on $10,000 it is $322, and for a person on $20,000 it really becomes lucative at 433. [More…]
In this Budget the Government, has once again ignored the vitally important consideration of assisting young marrieds to have or rear children. [More…]
Most people assume that the ability to have children is a Cod-given right. [More…]
I would equally assume that the intelligence of homo sapiens is a Cod-given right and I would further assume that there is no compulsion on somebody on $3000, $2000, $1000 or any number of thousands of dollars a year to have 10 children if he cannot afford them, and facilities are available these days to eliminate any necessity to have them. [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…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [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…]
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…]
After all, an official survey shows that only 10.5 per cent of Federal Liberal members of Parliament send their children to State secondary schools. [More…]
The survey shows that none of the children of the 26 Federal Ministers has attended or is at a State secondary school. [More…]
This may explain the reason for the continued indifference of the Government about the inadequate educational opportunities for the children of this country. [More…]
Children are staying at school longer. [More…]
Is it because 10.5 per cent of Federal Liberal members of Parliament send their children to State schools and no Ministers send their children to State schools? [More…]
Regardless of scholastic ability only 2 per cent of children of unskilled workers get a university education. [More…]
This, of course, is widening the economic gulf that separates many workers’ children from educational opportunities. [More…]
In 1956 television licence concessions and an additional pension for second and subsequent children were granted. [More…]
In 1957 we saw the introduction of the home nursing subsidy, in 1958 supplementary assistance for pensioners, in 1963 nursing home benefits, in 1964 telephone rental concessions for pensioners, in 1965 a guardian’s allowance for pensioners with children, in 1968 the hearing aid service, in 1969 a subsidy for dwellings for aged persons and the personal care subsidy for pensioners and home care and paramedical services, and in 1970 the meals on wheels scheme. [More…]
The deduction for other children has been increased from $104 to $156. [More…]
Even more to the point, they are indicating their utter determination to force governments to take notice of their wishes for a decent education for their children. [More…]
I support aid for the education of all children but I can understand the many parents with children in State schools watching the deteriorating conditions in their schools and feeling that they have been deprived simply because the Government is giving aid to non-State schools. [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…]
They happen to have 20 per cent of the children. [More…]
As a further part of the confidence trick that is being played on the wage earners of Australia in the low income groups, let me illustrate the actual deduction that is available for a working man, for his wife and 2 dependent children. [More…]
I am a British migrant and my wife and my J children . [More…]
I feel it would have been of greater benefit to those people who need assistance - the young married couples in the lower income group and those people with children at school who are buying a house - if the taxation schedule had been reformed in another way. [More…]
Our future development is dependent to a large degree on the extent to which we wisely spend money on educating our children. [More…]
How can we expect children to study under these conditions? [More…]
Teachers have the interests of the children at heart. [More…]
The parents of children attending these schools face a grave financial burden. [More…]
What 1 refuse to accept is that workers in a particular field, such as miners at Mount Isa or drillers at Kambalda, should feel that they have exclusive rights to bonuses for success and that the benefits should not go also to the teacher who trains their children, the policeman who guards their security, the postman who delivers their mail and, if you like, the income tax clerk who assesses their two returns. [More…]
Almost every one of them is flooded with migrant children and over the 20-odd years that the present programme has been in existence nothing has been done to make it possible for the schools to cope with them. [More…]
The second of six children, he is the son of a father who disappeared for a time at the birth of each new baby and who finally deserted the family permanently when Gregory was a small boy, leaving his wife and children destitute. [More…]
We’re not poor’, she used to tell her children, We’re just broke’, and she taught her children the difference. [More…]
more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children. [More…]
rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
the provision of pre school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children. [More…]
the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
the provision of pre school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Did the tactics of the Vietcong include the destruction of an orphanage and the deliberate murder of women and children? [More…]
Army of South Vietnam considered that it was not necessary to defend the orphanage because it felt that the North Vietnamese would not carry out a senseless attack on innocent children and upon those who were looking after them. [More…]
But, typical of the Communists, they did make this attack, and 12 children were killed and 24 other people were injured seriously. [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…]
Licence concession for pensioners Additional pension for second and subsequent children 1957 - Home Nursing subsidy 1958 - Supplementary assistance for pensioners 1963 - Nursing Home Benefits 1964 - Telephone rental concession for pensioners 1965 - Guardian’s allowance for pensioners with children 1968 - Hearing Aid Service Special Temporary Allowance 1969 - Subsidy for Dwellings for Aged Persons Personal care subsidy for Aged Pensioners Home care and paramedical services 1970 - Meals on wheels subsidy [More…]
The following benefits are available to all pensioners except those in the ‘New Taper Area’ - i.e., those without children whose assessed means exceeds $25.50 per week (single) or$48 per week (married). [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…]
Tasmania: The Social Welfare Department may gram supplementary benefit to age pensioners with dependent children subject to a means test. [More…]
Education: Pensioners in Victoria having the care of high school children may apply to the school principal for financial assistance. [More…]
I should add, of course, that where a pensioner has dependent children the limits I have quoted above are still further increased. [More…]
The increase of 50c per week will apply to all widow pensioners, so that a B class widow - that is a widow aged 50 to 60 and without dependent children - will now receive $13.75 per week plus, where applicable, supplementary assistance of $2 per week. [More…]
1 have a table setting out what the position will be for a class A widow, that is, a widow with dependent children. [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…]
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…]
The family group with lower incomes and wilh children to rear has been treated even worse mainly because of the great burden placed on them by this Budget through indirect taxation. [More…]
In this respect constructive rehabilitation and training programmes for rural families, including children, who have no economic alternative but to leave agriculture, is an essential requisite in Australia. [More…]
Those with a continuous attachment to Wattie Creek seem to number from IS to 20 men and their wives and children. [More…]
There has been a major expansion of educational facilities for Aboriginal children. [More…]
More than 90 per cent of the children of primary school age are now attending school regularly. [More…]
more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children. [More…]
The immediate financing of special pro grammes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
The provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its, school children. [More…]
The immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
The provision of pre-school opportunities lor all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate and the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
In view of the increasing inflationary pressures which affect people on fixed incomes before all others, particularly the aged and widows with dependent children, will the Minister give consideration to an urgent re-examination of, the pension levels which must otherwise be severely eroded if we wait for next year’s budget? [More…]
In advanced countries pre-school and afterschool education are recognised as essential aspects of education for all children. [More…]
As the House will know, the Government has been developing a policy in regard to handicapped children, sheltered workshops and the other related aspects of rehabilitation. [More…]
It was for this reason that earlier this year, and as part of the plan, we brought in the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill, which, [ am glad to say, is already proving its practical worth. [More…]
In between these two extremes - the handicapped children an;l those whose disability precludes them from normal work - we shall be developing further positive rehabilitation measures which I hope will be carried forward in conjunction with State and voluntary bodies. [More…]
The State has to provide the necessary transport, develop ovals and playing areas for the children and meet the needs of education and the other very, great needs of an area which is developing at such an extraordinarily rapid rate. [More…]
The number of children, young Australians growing up, is extraordinary there. [More…]
No public halls, no community centres, nowhere for the children to play. [More…]
This is because these unfortunate males have not formed themselves into a union or pressure group to get justice and if anything screams for justice it is the situation of these unfortunates who, probably through a desire not to disgrace their children, did not contest the divorce petition, perhaps because they were not in a position to pay the exorbitant legal costs charged in divorce cases. [More…]
The lowest figure covered funeral expenses for a child, and the highest was in respect of a father of seven children. [More…]
financial barriers to basic education for alt children; and [More…]
Tt attacked the social and economic services of the southern government, hospitals, schools, malaria eradication teams, agricultural research stations, it raided a leprosarium and brutally attacked the patients, lt murdered Buddhist and Catholic priests, teachers, women and even children. [More…]
according to findings of a field survey of the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession carried out in South Vietnam in the spring of 1962, almost 80,000 school children had been deprived of schools because of terrorists action, and 636 schools were closed. [More…]
Is the honourable member suggesting that we equate the victims of an armed conflict between 2 armies with the deliberate murder of women and children in an orphanage to prevent a democratic election? [More…]
Recently Mr Brown applied for financial assistance to enable teams of coloured children to participate in the coming Softball, vigoro and cricket competitions. [More…]
It seems to me that here was an opportunity for the Commonwealth Government to take positive steps to assist in the education of children in the north of Western Australia. [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…]
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…]
How much longer will we tolerate a situation in which the female head of a family of children is treated in this way? [More…]
The widows and deserted wives with dependant children constitute the group of whom the largest proportion are in acute poverty. [More…]
Compounding the Conservatives offensiveness is their condemning of so many young children to a life of social, economic and cultural deprivation. [More…]
The result for these children is that they are in turn handicapped in their progress through life. [More…]
They have to get out to work early to earn income so that they can somehow prop up the family’s standard of living because there may be other children in the home. [More…]
They will never make a breakthrough, or will their children. [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…]
The Government does little or nothing adequately to encourage families in the lower income bracket to bring children into the world. [More…]
Page 61 of the same report shows that in 1969 the number of endowed children was 1,050,357. [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…]
In 1948 with a minimum wage of $11.60 a family of 5 children received $4 a week in child endowment. [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…]
Available resources include certain income and capital; the main national insurance and industrial injury benefits, family allowances and maintenance payments from a husband on the father of the claimant’s children are taken into account in full but some part of all other resources is disregarded. [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…]
The children could start wagging it from school and get into trouble with probation officers, education department people and the like and eventually become dropouts. [More…]
In each case I prepared figures that applied to a taxpayer claiming deductions for a wife and 2 children at the maximum rate which, at that time, was $1,000. [More…]
One can imagine the situation of a migrant couple with 4 or 5 children. [More…]
I would also include a working widow with dependent children, a working deserted wife with dependent children or a working widower with dependent children. [More…]
A guardian’s allowance of $4 a week is paid to single and widowed pensioners with children under 16 years of age and there are 4,000 in this category in Australia. [More…]
There is also an additional pension for children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Civilian widows, particularly those with young children, are not part of a strong pressure group: they are a small minority, a small section of underprivileged people who do not have the voting power. [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…]
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…]
It depends so often upon economic circumstances, upon the health of the individual and upon so many other factors, such as the marriage concerned, the money earned and the number of children they had to bring up. [More…]
On 23rd September 1965 the Minister, who was still a backbencher, deplored the means test imposed on widows and said that it was of great detriment to her children as future Australians. [More…]
With full employment and with inflation running at 3 per cent to 4 per cent a year our concern should now be for the low wage earner, especially the low wage earner with a family of 3 or 4 children. [More…]
In the case of a married couple without children or with children able to look after themselves or with a relative nearby to assist the children and look after them on their return from school the wife can accept employment and thus supplement the family income, but the low wage earner with a wife and children is not in this position and thus is worse off than his neighbour whose wife has been able to supplement the family income. [More…]
It appears that church halls offer a good venue and opportunity of setting up pre-school kindergartens and/or minding centres for children. [More…]
The halls are advantageously erected so that children could either be collected or left at the school by the parents before proceeding to places of employment. [More…]
In the congregations of most churches there will be ex-teachers, ex-nursing sisters and people qualified to care for, mind and look after the children. [More…]
Further, it would bring the young children into closer association with the church and should be beneficial to their character and physical development. [More…]
Managements of industries within my electorate have told me that during certain parts of the year, especially when holidays occur, there is a lot of absenteeism due to parents having to remain at home to look after their children. [More…]
The children of the low wage earner should have the same opportunities as all others have and it should be the aim of the Government to give the parents the opportunity to bring up their children with dignity and honour. [More…]
It may be that the taxation deductions allowed for children could be dispensed with. [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…]
We have between 80,000 and 90,000 mentally retared and physically disabled children. [More…]
These are widows who are under 50 years of age and who have dependent children. [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…]
Many women can be widowed at the early age of 20, 30 or maybe 40 and left with children, but because they are not paying rent they do not qualify for the supplementary assistance. [More…]
This Bill provides for no increase in the mother’s allowance that is paid to the mothers of dependent children. [More…]
I do not suppose there is a member in this House who has not had the plaintive appeal from a widow with dependent children who is paying school fees, paying rent, paying for new uniforms and all the rest of it: Could 1 not earn just a bit more? [More…]
Then there is the B class widow, a widow who has turned 50 years of age with no dependent children. [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…]
Some of them do so at a good deal of personal inconvenience, because they have to send their children to school in some other place. [More…]
The multilateral aid agreements cover contributions to the International Development Association, the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Food Programme, the South Pacific Commission, the Regional Projects for Economic Cooperation in Asia, and the International Red Cross. [More…]
As they went they gathered children in the train of their procession and they gave out leaflets. [More…]
If he is married and has children the rate goes up a little more. [More…]
The provision for dependants is too meagre and I believe we can be much more expansive in matters such as the Soldiers Children Education Scheme. [More…]
In view of the fact that we have a pretty extensive scholarship scheme and free education at various levels, it would not hurt us to expand the Soldiers Children Education Scheme to include the children of those who have not got war-caused disabilities but who have spent a considerable amount of their lives in the services. [More…]
Take the case of a young man who joined the services in 1939, went off to war and fought in the Middle East and then in New Guinea and died when he was, say, 40 years of age leaving 3 children, one in matriculation year, one about 13 or 14 and one a bit younger. [More…]
Although it could not be proved that his death was war caused especially if he died from a disease such as cancer or heart disease, I think it would be an act of decency for the community to accept some responsibility for the children of that man who served in combat in this way. [More…]
Taking into consideration the wife’s allowance of some $4 and the children’s allowance of $1.38 we do get somewhere near the former basic wage. [More…]
It covers him - or is supposed to in theory - and perhaps his wife and 2 children. [More…]
On the other hand the wife and children of a TPI pensioner also get pensions. [More…]
War widows generally willreceivea 50c increaseinpensionand war widows with 2 children will receive an increase of $2.35 a week under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
Its absence in the Australian Capital Territory has recently given rise to what appears to be considerable hardship on 2 orphaned children. [More…]
It was brought by 2 orphaned children for damages arising out of the wrongful death of both their parents in a motor car accident. [More…]
The judge awarded damages totalling $34,478 and he ordered the defendant to pay the costs of the children in the action. [More…]
On the advice of counsel acting for the children an application was made by letter to the Attorney-General for assistance by ex gratia payment in the nature of a suitors aid fund payment. [More…]
However nothing else was heard from him, and on 24th April 1970 the solicitors for the children wrote again saying that the case would be heard shortly and that the matter was becoming urgent because they wanted to be able to brief senior counsel to act for the children. [More…]
The High Court ordered the children to pay the costs of the defendant insurer and left them to pay their own costs. [More…]
This was exactly what the solicitors for the children had foreseen might happen. [More…]
It may be assumed that the children’s legal costs will not be very much less. [More…]
If it turns out to be that way, the damages that these children will eventually recover will be about half of what even the High Court said they should receive. [More…]
This is a scandalous situation that is a direct consequence of the Government’s failure to enact simple legislation and also of the AttorneyGeneral’s failure to consider the children’s solicitors’ application in time. [More…]
even at this late hour to give serious consideration to making a suitors aid type grant to the children. [More…]
Evidence has been given that little children run inside when jets fly low overhead. [More…]
Nobody would doubt the fact that milk, for example, is one of the most healthy foods given to children and we continue to enjoy it for the rest of our lives. [More…]
The poorest convent school - if we consider the private sector of education - the resources of which are actually a minus because it may be having to feed migrant children, as is done in certain of the poorer areas of Melbourne, gets the same per capita grant as Geelong Grammar School which, in point of fact, in terms of need does not need any grants at all. [More…]
This is a sign of the discontent of so many of the people whose children go to State schools and who feel that the whole Commonwealth attitude towards State schools is one of neglect. [More…]
Australian children cannot be educated economically, equitably and effectively unless and until comprehensive educational statistics are collected on a national basis. [More…]
Australia’s children aged IS to 18 were attending school and today 40 per cent are doing so. [More…]
In 1959 13 per cent of the children who entered government schools remained for the matriculation year and today 20.4. per cent do so. [More…]
I do not believe that the pressing needs of Australian children and schools should be disregarded for yet another year simply because the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) chooses to initiate his correspondence on the matter after the Budget comes in. [More…]
Pre-school education enhances the value of all later education, in particular for those children who are economically disadvantaged or culturally deprived. [More…]
Liberal education policies deny recognised pre-school education 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 these States and in Canberra, where 1 year of pre-school education is available for all children. [More…]
The day to day running of schools should be a matter for the States because the State governments are closer to the schools, closer to the people and closer to the children who use those schools. [More…]
They will be fortunate if they can find any specific statement on what are the standards to be achieved for Australian education, what the objectives of Australian education are, what the quality of Australian education should be, how many teachers there should be, what their education should be, what the ratio of pupils to teachers should be, what the children should be taught, how many buildings there should be, what the buildings should be and what sort of equipment there should be. [More…]
This document is an insult to parents of children in slate schools, to teachers, to taxpayers in general and to all parliaments that are charged with the responsibility of looking to the needs of Australia in education. [More…]
The independent schools have an important place in our education system, educating about 25 per cent of our children. [More…]
What a drain on resources we would have to suffer if we did not have the independent school educating 25 per cent of our children. [More…]
There are people who resent aid to the non-State schools, but let them remember that the parents sending their children to these schools are doing so at great cost to themselves and are helping to pay for the education of the children their critics are sending to the Government schools. [More…]
Yet, as I said earlier, those schools are educating 25 per cent of all children. [More…]
The total Commonwealth direct expenditure in 1970-71 equals about $3 12m, but we should remember that 25 per cent of the State revenues are used to the benefit of 77 per cent of the children attending the State schools while the combined CommonwealthState assistance to the independent schools equals about 2 per cent of the revenues of the States; so who would begrudge the amount of money that is, in fact, going to the independent schools? [More…]
Because no means test is applied to scholarships most of the scarce scholarships are going to the children of wealthy parents who can provide much greater assistance, extra tuition and a more stimulating home background. [More…]
This kind of situation moved Professor M. E. Harvey of Melbourne, in May this year, to express lament that a great deal of potential talent in Australia was being wasted - this is the seriousness of it; it is not only an injustice to the students themselves but also is an injustice because of what it is doing to Australia and the development of its economy not to say its cultural and social wellbeing - because many children did not have the chance to go on to tertiary education. [More…]
Particularly does this apply to some of the wealthier schools and to children of the wealthiest people in our community. [More…]
in our efforts to provide a higher standard of compulsory education for all children, we are actually inhibiting those who are most in need of it because of the costs which have become an inevitable part of secondary; and to some extent of primary, education. [More…]
Commonwealth secondary scholarships granted have fallen from 19.6 per cent of applications in 1965 to 12 per cent in 1969 - that is, nearly 8 out of every 9 children seeking one of these scholarships misses out. [More…]
From our own observations we know that in many low income families children can obtain only the basic items and sometimes not even thse . [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…]
Dr Radford’s findings of several years ago, substantiated by recent smaller surveys, establishing a gross over-representation of students from upper socio-economic families and an excessively large underrepresentation of children from lower socioeconomic families at universities only adds grist to the mill of protest at the way in which want in education is institutionalised by neglect, and privilege and advantage fostered by direct government support. [More…]
The middle class orientation of our education systems disadvantages too many children who are not familiar with the middle class environment and its values. [More…]
In these circumstances a complete refurbishing of our education systems is needed, allowing for more flexibility and experimentation on the part of teachers to assist children to reach out and fulfil their unique innate qualities and capacities as individuals in a diverse world. [More…]
Finally, education should seek to develop more than mere tools of production in training young children. [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…]
He wants shoes for his children and a bedroom for each member of his family. [More…]
Thus under the Government’s scheme a man supporting a wife and 2 children on $50 a week currently pays 3.91 per cent of taxable income for private health insurance, on $75 a week he pays 2.45 per cent of taxable income and when we get into the higher income brackets we find the cost amazingly less onerous. [More…]
Another point that the honourable member for Oxley overlooked is that most Aboriginal patients and their children spend a far longer time in hospital than do white people. [More…]
Tonight I want to make an appeal to the Government to give special assistance for the remedial teaching of children with specific learning disabilities. [More…]
The debate on the estimates for the Department of Education and Science naturally enough was mainly concerned with the education of normal children. [More…]
I believe that the problem of children with specific learning disabilities is even more urgent. [More…]
In the case of children with specific learning disabilities, partial improvement in the position is not enough. [More…]
Funds must be made available for the express purpose of remedial teaching for these children before they are too old to benefit from it. [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…]
Essential needs for these children are adequate facilities for diagnosis, for training of remedial teachers and for other equipment for teaching purposes. [More…]
I submit that no country can afford to have 20 per cent or more of its children growing up with an inadequate education. [More…]
The need for special assistance is even more apparent when one considers that these children will receive the full benefits of education if they can have that special remedial teaching as well. [More…]
Let us not deny these children the full benefits of education just for lack of some remedial teaching. [More…]
So far governments have done relatively little to help these children. [More…]
As an analogy, let us look at the Catholic schools where many parents strain their financial resources to the limit to give their children theeducationoftheirchoice.Yetsuch children frequently find themselves in overcrowded classes and in schools which lack adequate facilities and which in most respects are quite unsatisfactory. [More…]
How much more difficult, then, will it be for parents of the children with specific learning disabilities to cope, if these children require more than average in the way of facilities and personalised instruction? [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…]
In order to do this, 1 believe that the Handicapped Children’s (Assistance) Act must be amended so that assistance can be given in respect of works carried out by the State education departments. [More…]
As that Act stands at’ the moment, there is an incentive for SPELD, the voluntary organisation, to set up its own facilities for these children. [More…]
The Handicapped Children’s (Assistance) Act as it stands at the moment is an incentive for private rather than government bodies to carry out the remedial teaching. [More…]
A relatively simple method of screening these children has recently been evolved in New South Wales. [More…]
the facilities for testing children at pre-school or early school stage, the early diagnosis would gain valuable time. [More…]
If these could be extended to primary schools, provision could be made for special equipment for those children who are unable to read and therefore unable to use the facilities of such libraries. [More…]
If the Government takes 5 years to make up its mind many more children will pass through primary school without receiving that special assistance which is all that is needed to give them a normal education and to prevent untoward behavioural problems for the remainder of their lives. [More…]
I rise, prompted by the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun), to enlarge on the problem of handicapped children. [More…]
These are urgently needed for the children he mentioned and for many other handicapped groups, because very often the handicap is discovered too late to give them the benefit of the attention they need at the time they most need it. [More…]
Nowadays there are so many kinds of specialised disability, not only the specific learning defects that the honourable member mentioned but the ones that have been with us for such a long time - crippled children, spastic children, subnormal children, the blind, the deaf, and the blind and deaf who are now having special facilities which are more expensive again, the multiple handicapped children, the special classes in children’s hospitals and autistic children. [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…]
These children are made social wrecks and are cast on the social scrap heap. [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…]
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…]
Let us give the children one sound in this language of which they can be sure. [More…]
I want to thank both the honourable member for Capricornia and the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) for bringing the general business of handicapped children before the House. [More…]
Firstly I agree with them that as our methods of diagnosis become better, as we become better acquainted with the various kinds of disabilities, we will have a proliferation of the kinds of things which we can treat, such as dyslexia and autism in children. [More…]
Incidentally, it is in what was until recently part of my electorate, at Belrose, that the main centre for autistic children was established. [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…]
I would feel that, while this Government has started in helping handicapped children with capital buildings and equipment, this is by no means the end of the road. [More…]
The voluntary body has the advantage of involving people in the community it is important that the community as a whole should be involved and it has the very great and I think deciding advantage that in some ways it can give a more personal attention to children than can State and government bodies. [More…]
If the capital and the running can be separated out, that does not involve too much confusion; but if the running be partly Commonwealth and partly State this may bring about a degree of confusion which may not be to the advantage either of the organisation concerned or, what is much more important, of the handicapped children.I have indicated a very great measure of agreement with what the 2 honourable members have said. [More…]
A bloody idol which required the sacrifice of children and parents, or dearest connections in private life, and of all the virtues that arise from those relations. [More…]
We are not interested in what schools his children attend and with whom they go. [More…]
If I had a wife, if I had children and if I were all that the honourable member for Lang had said I would indeed wonder when I looked at myself in the mirror. [More…]
He should tell us where this will lead and what it may mean to my wife and my 3 young children and the other young children of this country. [More…]
They are incensed at the constant moving from one base to another and the consequent disruption to their children’s education. [More…]
They want a decent opportunity for their children. [More…]
I see these men, their wives and their children. [More…]
Hansard will demonstrate that I have shown as consistent an interest in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, war service homes, pay and allowances, training for ex-soldiers and educational opportunities for their children as any man who has served in this Parliament. [More…]
Australian children with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Pre-school Children (Question No. [More…]
What is the estimated number of children of pre-school age [More…]
(a) (b) (c) It is difficult to define exactly the number of children of pre-school age. [More…]
This would normally include the number of children aged 3 and 4 years but can also include a number of 5 year olds who are not yet enrolled at primary schools. [More…]
The following table shows the number of children in the population aged 3 and 4 together with estimates of the numbers of 5 year olds not enrolled at primary school at June 1970. [More…]
The main overcrowding in the Alice Springs hospital has been caused by Aboriginal children being sent from the PapunyaYuendumu area to Alice Springs. [More…]
The families sit outside waiting for the children to get better. [More…]
It we see a boxer struggling to get up, we may infer that he has been attacked, If we see a country and its people blasted with bombs into craters, its children and its civilians killed by chemical bombs, its crops and its countryside ruined and its houses burnt and destroyed by these methods - that is, by mass produced destruction - we may infer that some ariborne force has attacked it. [More…]
It concerns Dr Kalokerinos of Collarenebri who, as most honourable members are aware, has devoted himself for some time to the study of the high mortality rate among young Aboriginal children. [More…]
Dr Kalokerinos has established that Aboriginal children suffer from a deficiency of vitamin C, which he treats by prescribing ascorbic acid. [More…]
There is no necessity for me to go over the statistics which highlight the fact that young Aboriginal children in many parts of Australia have a mortality rate which is some 22 times in excess of that of European children who live in the same environment. [More…]
So there seems to be a relatively bad situation for all Australians, but it is many times worse for Aboriginal children, particularly those in the Northern Territory and Queensland. [More…]
In view of the very sorry record of Australia in the treatment of Aboriginal children and in the consideration of health matters affecting Aboriginal people generally, in particular the high mortality rate of young Aboriginal children, I ask that the work which has been carried om by Dr Kalokerinos - be has already obtained proven results - be extended so that other people in the medical profession may obtain the knowledge and the techniques which possibly can save the lives of many Aboriginal children. [More…]
I refer to the low wage earner, especially the low wage earner with three or four children. [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…]
Therefore, in desperation people have to accept accommodation where there are no proper play areas for their children and in some cases laundry facilities must be shared. [More…]
The pity of it is that so many of the people who are forced to accept this accommodation are migrants who have come to this country to escape this type of crowded community development so that their children might have a better future. [More…]
It is an unusual government instrumentality because it handles such diverse matters as local transport, garbage, housing, kerbing and guttering, nature paths, adoption of children, welfare, agricultural services, animal and bird protection, architects’ registration, boiler inspection, bush fire control, the Canberra Tourist Bureau, registration of dogs, civil defence, drivers’ licences, electoral offices, forest management, fruit inspection, registration of hawkers, lake administration, meteorology, testing and registration of motor vehicles, the News and Information Bureau, the police, scaffolding and lifts, street cleaning, the War Memorial, weights and measures, and workers compensation. [More…]
The new Department of Immigration, according to a document issued by the first Minister at a later date, commenced with about 24 officers, 6 stationed in Canberra, 6 more in Melbourne and about 12 located in London, engaged almost exclusively in making arrangements for the British wives and children of Australian servicemen to come to Australia. [More…]
The Minister further stated that the estimated number of persons born overseas who were resident in Australia at 30th June 1970 was 2,500,000, representing 20 per cent of the total papulation.It is also estimated that there are some 1,200.000 children bom in Australia to one or both migrant parents. [More…]
The children and spouses of Australian citizens to bc entitled to Australian citizenship. [More…]
There is provision for entry of the non-European spouse, unmarried minor children, aged parents and fiance of an Austraiian citizen or of persons having resident status in Australia. [More…]
Our educational programme both for adults and children has developed along satisfactory lines. [More…]
In our education programme we have provided broadcast programmes for migrants, special lessons in factories and places of work, crash courses in English for adult migrants so thai they are more quickly able to fit into the community and, perhaps most important of all, we have introduced English training programmes for migrant children in our schools so that they are not disadvantaged in their training. [More…]
It is true that it is the children who become Australian most quickly. [More…]
This, in itself, brings a problem because the children become Australian almost overnight and the parents sometimes feel a little resentful of it. [More…]
To give some examples of its magnitude 1 refer to one of the background papers on the language problems of migrant children at that. [More…]
The paper cited a 1968 survey in New South Wales where it was shown that, with 5 per cent of the total school population being migrant children, some 32 per cent of these, representing about 1 6.500 children, were considered to have language difficulties. [More…]
It would seem that there are many steps to be taken here in Australia, but even more importantly there must be a call for expenditure on such children in their country of origin and, since the problem extends to adults, on their parents too. [More…]
Wrong, from the official standpoint, because a system to aid migrant children is now only getting started. [More…]
For many of these children, migration to Australia meant only a door slammed on their future. [More…]
Up against even bigger problems are children who arrive in Australia during the primary school years - say, seven, eight or nine. [More…]
What a sentence to pass on children. [More…]
The other half of the population includes a group of Aboriginal migrants, refugees from a countryside in depression, a large number of pensioners, a whole series of high rise developments which contain a majority of deserted wives and Service wives, women without husbands, and children without fathers. [More…]
Take the children. [More…]
Because of the strain on the teaching system the teachers are frustrated and the children suffer. [More…]
Some children have developed what is called school phobia because they are either too frightened or too overwhelmed to face school and they just do not go. [More…]
Then one of them .said: ‘They are just children’. [More…]
From which countries did these migrants come what was the total number from each country, and what was the number of (a) males; (b) females; and (c) children. [More…]
The Minister may recollect representations I made to him in connection with a subsidy under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act to assist the financing of a major extension to the Karonga House special school for handicapped children at Epping. [More…]
Under the Act which this Parliament recently passed, capital subsidies on the basis of $2 for $1 can be made to handicapped children’s organisations. [More…]
The Karonga school for handicapped children is built upon land belonging to the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Since that time people have been paying that extra tax on such things as commercial vehicles, tyres, tubes, motor spare parts, children’s toys, sporting equipment and a large number of other items that are listed in the schedules. [More…]
I can think of innumerable cases of children of my friends who will not go to work in the capital cities unless they have a car or have a parent to drive them to work. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will he given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I ask the MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs whether he has yet had an opportunity to attend to and digest the findings of a sample survey of the Aboriginal population in Brisbane, recently conducted by the University of Queensland Social Work Department, which established that 68 per cent of that population had no skills, that unemployment was 4 times greater than for the rest of the population, that housing was significantly inferior, and that there was an alarming retardation rate at school for Aboriginal children which worsened as they got older. [More…]
There have not been very great alterations made to the concessions that can be claimed for dependants such as wives and children. [More…]
There is almost the same proportion of children claimed for in the same group. [More…]
It was more than was allowed for all the children that were claimed as dependants. [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…]
As an example let us take 2 families each with 3 children under the age of 16 years. [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…]
Indeed, while the current taxation scale has been in existence, 1 think, since 1953-54 there has been an increase in the disposable income of the average wage earner with 3 children of well over 30 per cent. [More…]
Let us take, for instance, a man with a wife and 2 children who is completely unskilled and therefore can accept work only of a labouring nature. [More…]
His allowable deductions from his total income for a wife and 2 children plus perhaps medical and hospital contributions and such things could amount to $780. [More…]
Do not let us forget that he has a wife and 2 children to keep. [More…]
I take, for instance, a taxpayer who has a wife and 3 children. [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…]
As to the fairness of the incidence of taxation let us look at the position of a man with a wife and 2 children and let us take an average net taxable income of $2,000 per year. [More…]
In the case of a man with a wife and 2 children who is in receipt of $3,000 per year the concession is worth $329 per annum. [More…]
The wage earner has to rely on his memory in filling out his income tax form in the hope of getting some concessional allowance for his children of educational age, but there is a battery of clerks, computers and God knows what in the Taxation Branch trying to whittle him down for every lc he may have claimed in excess of what he is allowed to claim. [More…]
Leonard W. Mayo, of the Association for Aid of Crippled Children in the United States, made a statement a few years ago on this point. [More…]
I hope they will not mind my putting it this way, but I think that they have a big enough social burden to bear without having the further imposition placed upon them of having to go out to help to raise money to pay the wages of the supervisors who help to provide not so much employment - employment is the means to a social end - but a social outlet for their disabled children. [More…]
It was for this reason that earlier this year, and as part of the plan, we brought in -the handicapped children’s legislation, which, I am glad to say, is already proving ils practical worth. [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…]
There were open drains and children caught worms by drinking the water; there was little storage accommodation; the paint was drab and peeling;, the children’s clothing was awful: small boys had unlaced boots, long moleskin trousers turned up at the bottom, adult football jerseys which had been given to the Cottages by a football club, old army jackets above the jerseys and whatever hats they could collect. [More…]
The children were dirty and had very little washing accommodation. [More…]
The old nurses home is now used as accommodation for children. [More…]
In Victoria there are 35 day centres for mentally retarded children. [More…]
In South Australia there is the community mental health centre at Woodville and the day centre for mentally retarded children at Toorak Gardens. [More…]
One producer has been asked for 26 additional episodes of a well known and popular children’s series of films which he had mads last year. [More…]
Worse still, Australian drama and children’s programmes are counted as twice their length in calculating the 50 per cent content. [More…]
Firstly, television for good or evil makes an immense impact on people’s minds - adults, young people, children, ignorant or educated. [More…]
Other Australian drama productions are credited with one and a half times their actual duration - and children’s programmes which are designed and produced in Australia in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 15 of the Television Programme Standards again receive credit for twice the actual duration. [More…]
The position has deteriorated to such an extent in the Sydney area that our fellow Australians - unfortunately, the low wage earner and the married couple with 4 or 5 children - are not able to purchase a lot of land under $10,000. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
Finally, is there any evidence of drug addiction amongst school children in Australia? [More…]
In answer to the last part of the honourable gentleman’s question, unhappily there is evidence of school children being peddled drugs of certain descriptions by those creatures who seem to have no conscience about selling anything for money. [More…]
We have had evidence - I have seen it myself - of children who have an addiction to or a compulsion to take hard drugs - to mainline - and who when they cannot get a syringe use a most extraordinarily unhygienic and terrible implement to open up their arms and arteries to administer the drug. [More…]
Yet a further matter which is under close and active consideration is the effects of frequent reposting of servicemen in the form of family disruption and interruption to children’s education. [More…]
Supplementing this would be a sociological examination of the day-to-day life of the serviceman and his wife and children with a view to making cash compensation. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘this House is of opinion that, instead of the proposed committee, a joint select committee of both Houses be appointed to inquire into and report upon the Australian Defence forces in relation to (i) pay and allowances of all personnel, (ii> provision for the retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for .the children of servicemen’. [More…]
This, incidentally, disrupts home life and plays havoc with young children’s education and their personality development. [More…]
It has pledged itself also to: Provide War Service home entitlements to all servicemen after 2 years regular service or 6 years of CMF service; minimise the incidence of postings so as to give more stability to home life; provision of health services from the Repatriation Department to servicemen and their dependants; scholarships to children whose education would be disrupted otherwise by shifts; availability of adequate life assurance and elimination of special loading charges which currently penalise our fighting men: injuries sustained other than on active service would be covered by the Repatriation Act and not the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act which is less generous; and non-contributory pensions to all exservicemen to replace the present costly, unwieldly and unintelligible DFRB contributory system. [More…]
I refer to family and children’s programmes on the one hand, and to the Australian content in television programmes on the other hand. [More…]
Although many of these programmes attract the young audience it is clear that in family viewing time there are unused opportunities for developing a wider range of Australian programmes of both an entertaining and informative character to interest children and adolescents. [More…]
It is my view that while the control of television is so much in the hands of commercial interests it is unlikely that there will be any improvement in children’s programmes, at least at the commercial level, and it is unlikely that there will be any improvement in’ the Australian content. [More…]
To develop the sort of culture referred to in the section of the report dealing with children’s programmes it is necessary to experiment for quite a while, even if the acting is bad and bad programmes are made for a while It will not improve until we go through this, process of trial and error. [More…]
The man goes away to the markets and the wife and children are left alone on the farm. [More…]
People go there with children in caravans and for picnics and outings. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
When I asked him in March whether it was empowered to inquire into defence forces retirement benefits, war service homes for serving and discharged members and scholarships for the children of members of the Forces who are posted from one school system to another, he superciliously replied that these matters were, of course, as 1 would realise, largely the responsibility of other Ministers. [More…]
They have voted against my Deputy’s motions to have parliamentary committees inquire into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and into (i) pay and allowances for all personnel, (ii) provision for retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system: a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children surfer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one-sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginals, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to. [More…]
include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. ‘ [More…]
Ensure that, emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
En jil re that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
(e> That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Tt is an unfortunate fact that an increasing number of widow3-and deserted wives wilh dependent children are seeking assistance from State housing authorities. [More…]
The special account has been desirable in the past, but I think the time has now arrived when we have to give consideration to the low wage earner and the person with four or five children. [More…]
T refer to the low wage earner and to the young married couple who are rearing 4 or 5 children. [More…]
Of course, this interrupts the education of their children. [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…]
He wanted to know not only because of his own interests but that of his family and his school-age children. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1.970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
This has to be found by families, often with heavy demands in raising children, buying homes and so on, for their elderly parents. [More…]
The Housing Commission built 500 houses in the area and 1 ,500 children moved into them. [More…]
His wife, who was 58i years of age and the mother of 1 0 children, had not worked for wages for almost 40 years. [More…]
I believe that families such as those of migrants with 4 or 5 children, deserted wives, widows and deserted widowers with dependent children are the ones who are seriously affected in the community. [More…]
In the city of Melbourne alone there are 42,300 children who are living in poverty. [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…]
Did the survey also reveal that 6 per cent, or 42,300 of that city’s children are growing up in acute poverty and that of these children 40 per cent come from families with at least 4 children and 22 are children of fatherless families? [More…]
I have written lo the Minister for Labor and National Service (Mr Snedden) requesting exemption on compassionate grounds for the son of a widow who has 8 children, 5 of whom are attending school and the sixth is due to commence school next year. [More…]
Whilst he was in Australia his 4 children were under the care of the Child Welfare Department. [More…]
Papua and New Guinea: School Children (Question No. [More…]
How many (a) indigenous and (b) expatriate children of school age live in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
How many (a) indigenous and (b) expatriate children of Territory residents are assisted to receive: [More…]
The service aims to examine as many children as possible and to encourage those with defects to seek private treatment. [More…]
The service aims to examine and treat children during their first school year and annually thereafter until they are 8 years old (but to continue treatment to the age of 12). [More…]
It is provided at three metropolitan dental centres, by annual visits of staff to country schools and treatment at mobile units, and by visits to children’s homes and orphanages. [More…]
School children are treated at hospital dental clinics in the larger towns, and those beyond easy reach of hospital dental clinics, at rail dental clinics or with portable equipment at schools. [More…]
Examination and treatment are provided mainly for children in government primary schools; at static dental clinics- in larger country schools and by the School of Dental Therapists in the metropolitan area. [More…]
Children are examined at schools, institutions, and Aboriginal missions, and treated at government clinics, or referred to private dental practitioners. [More…]
In 1969 the scope of the service was extended with a view to the examination of all children in the first primary grade, and as appropriate in later primary grades. [More…]
Children examined [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian educa tion system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
I believe that not only 1 but virtually everybody in Australia would have been shocked, distressed and disgusted that a man could be kidnapped from in front of his home where he was playing with his children, taken away by thugs and murdered because those thugs wanted some kind of political activity on their behalf. [More…]
Children used to go for hikes there on Sunday afternoons. [More…]
The report went on to say that a study of 2,250 children on 6 Aboriginal settlements showed growth retardation affecting up to 50 per cent of children aged between 6 months and 3 years. [More…]
From 30 per cent to 60 per cent of children with growth retardation had chronic respiratory or ear infections. [More…]
I have quoted those figures simply because they make it quite obvious that if we want to cut down the morality rate and give those children who do live but suffer retardation and infections a chance to make reasonable advancements there must be a tremendous amount of work done in that field. [More…]
It is obvious that there is much to be done so that the children may be born with a good chance of living. [More…]
It is also important to ensure that the children in particular receive adequate food and a balanced diet which will provide them with the necessary vitamins substantially to improve their health, their physical condition and their resistance to infection. [More…]
Aboriginals, especially children, are far more susceptible to leprosy than white races; we expect to find the disease amongst the children. [More…]
Now he does not suggest that the children are born with the disease; he simply says they are more susceptible, which surely means that they contract it through contact with another person, such as the mother. [More…]
So it must be obvious that unless the physical condition of the children is very substantially improved they will remain not only susceptible to leprosy but very susceptible to many other serious diseases and therefore could never reach the stage which we believe they should have the opportunity to. [More…]
If the younger children see others leave school and still find no work or at best only the same sort of work and at the same wage as those who have no education, they will naturally see no value in education and lose interest. [More…]
If there is any task we should perform, we should set out to give an absolute coverage to the Aboriginal children of Australia in the pre-school area. [More…]
What is the position of the secondary school Aboriginal children? [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…]
This would help to give them more incentive to remain in employment, to give their children something better to come home to, to give them the opportunity to come home to families of which the father is in employment and is able to feed them well and therefore make them healthier, stronger and more resistant to disease. [More…]
We find children at school complaining about the smell of the Aboriginals but I wonder how many of them would go to school in any different condition if they lived under the same conditions? [More…]
Then we have to see that they are enabled to pay rent at a level they can afford, that they are shown the basic requirements of hygiene and nutrition so that their children may have an opportunty of taking their rightful place within the schools and later within society. [More…]
It is hard to get them to send their children to school regularly and it is hard to get them to remain in employment. [More…]
The men remain in employment and the children attend school. [More…]
care and upkeep of their homes and in the care of their children and be to them their own clinic sister and home adviser. [More…]
One in every 6 Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory dies before it reaches the age of 4 years. [More…]
It has been contended that Aboriginal children lack vitamin C. My colleague, the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) has referred to the dedicated work undertaken by Dr Kalokerinos of Collarenabri in his identification of the vitamin C deficiencies and of the need to meet this with particular treatment involving ascorbic acid. [More…]
The Government does not realise that the Collarenabri cemetery is dotted with little white crosses to which Aboriginal mothers go every weekend in mourning for young children who need not have died if there had been elements of compassion in this country over the last 200 years. [More…]
Perhaps I should move on to the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]
When I come up against someone who is Jim Crow minded and has antiAboriginal feelings my reply is: T suggest that you go up and have a look at the children coming out of the high school. [More…]
If you had watched the children coming out of the high school a few years ago you would not have seen any Aboriginal children, but the last time I checked I think there were 52 Aboriginal children attending the high school.’ [More…]
Those Aboriginal children mix with white children. [More…]
But we strike another problem once these Aboriginal children reach a certain standard of education. [More…]
Children up to 6 months or until they are no longer breast fed are fairly equal with their white contemporaries. [More…]
So we have this continual evolutionary process which is unfortunately creating a situation where by the time Aboriginal children are 15 or 16 years of age they are so fat behind their white contemporaries that they have no possible hope of catching up. [More…]
There were children with torn singlets, filthy, dirty, matted hair, eyes covered with pus, running around almost naked. [More…]
This may sound to be a small proportion of the 900 local Aboriginals but when one realises that 500 of them are children, 200 are women and about a further 100 are too old to work or otherwise incapable of working, it leaves only about 100 males of whom one-third are being trained by the company. [More…]
I have quoted to them what has been told to me by schoolteachers in my area who have pointed out that Aboriginals do about as well as white children in their classes. [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…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Is he aware that 240,000 children will have priority for admission within the terms suggested by the Prime Minister? [More…]
Neither the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) nor any other Minister wants the responsibility of dealing with this aspect of life - the environment in which we are to live and in which our children and our children’s children are to reside. [More…]
School children are now acutely aware of the threat to their environment. [More…]
Recently, the children in my daughter’s class have been engaged in a study of the area in which they live. [More…]
lt is not practical to use wool in some garments for children because at present wool has not been made shrinkproof in a large number of products. [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…]
more than 300,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; [More…]
Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one-sixth of its school children; [More…]
The immediate financing of special pro grammes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
The provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
After ali, he carries the burden of defending the country; he carries the burden of being in the country, he carries the burden, in effect, of developing a heritage for the future of his own children. [More…]
In the last decade we have experienced the phenonemon of a much higher percentage of people expecting their children to get a tertiary education. [More…]
1 think that the Commonwealth, which now has a large number of children under its authority in Papua and New Guinea. [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…]
To children coming from privileged homes, as the honourable member for Port Adelaide points out. [More…]
We could call to mind, for example, the problems which are known to plague some country people whose children have to go to city schools. [More…]
These people may be still not adequately provided for financially in the sense that they have to keep their children away from home; there is no local high school to which to send them, and so on. [More…]
We do not know what kind of talent lies wasting in the minds of so many children who have left school. [More…]
For myself, I would be very reluctant to accept a special streaming for gifted children or anything of that sort, although I think you can make a strong case for the provision of specialised treatment inside schools. [More…]
There are between 2i million and 3 million children. [More…]
I hope that something might be done in the field of handicapped children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
It was quite evident that 70 per cent of them have been before the Children’s Court. [More…]
These problems were due to broken homes, neurotic parents, delinquent parents, alcoholism or a sheer inability on the part of parents to take an interest in their children. [More…]
They are wondering about the needs of their children. [More…]
It is not possible from available records to provide information of the number of children involved. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physioally and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the respiratory infections have been found to have the effect of seriously impairing the hearing of Aboriginal children, thereby drastically reducing the benefit gained from their schooling? [More…]
The Government’s proposals in regard to handicapped children relate to both Aboriginal and European children and are directed towards this objective. [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…]
I have asked people who are not keen political students due to their obligation to put chops on the tables in their homes and support their wives and children: ‘Who is going to invade us? [More…]
How many (a) families and (b) children have been involved in these repostings in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
In Victoria the groups are as follows, the numbers of organisations in each group at 30 June 1969 being shown in brackets: hospitals (160), benevolent homes (12), hostels for the aged (124), children’s homes (56), foundling homes and refuges (15), rescue homes’ (4), convalescent homes (1), blind, deaf and dumb institutions (6), medical dispensaries (2), institutes for maternal and infant welfare (4), philanthropic organisations and societies (295), church relief organisations (27), benevolent societies (76), training schools for nurses (3), nursing services and societies (4), bush nursing centres (20), ambulance services (24), hostels (11), creches (7), kindergartens (135), and organisations for the welfare of boys and girls (425). [More…]
Children Fund and, as the Prime Minister mentioned, the Aborigines Advancement League and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and’ ‘Torres Strait Islanders, of which she was a founder. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth wilt be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
one who is more inclined to patronise the ABC’s radio and television programmes than the programmes of commercial stations - I must admit that with the increasing interest that is being taken in pop music by my teenage children I do not get my own way as readily as previously - I have generally found them to be of. [More…]
Broadly speaking, however, they provide for an expansion of the migrant education programme for adults and children before and after arrival in Australia, in co-operation with the State education authorities. [More…]
It was evidently not until about 1967 or 1968 that the real seriousness of the situation dawned on the Government and with it the need to provide a scheme whereby the children in schools and those adults whom I might term the waverers, or those who were not highly educated and were unable to learn English, needed a new and comprehensive scheme if they were to do so. [More…]
Comparatively recently two excellent surveys were conducted, one by the Department of Immigration in Canberra and the other by the New South Wales Department of Education, on the question of migrant education and the education of migrant children. [More…]
Migrant children performance in many subjects is affected by their language difficulties. [More…]
The report of the survey conducted by the New South Wales Department of Education in 1968-69 on the question of education of migrant children also stated: [More…]
Incidence of migrant children in total school population is about 1 in 20 and of the 50,664 reported migrant pupils some 16,452 - 32 per cent - have some type of English language difficulty. [More…]
One could quote at great length, from the report of the survey, which was an excellent one, because there are pages which deal with the problems facing these children and the problems which the Department of Education in New South Wales faces in providing education for these children. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, migrant children present a very difficult problem, and one of the most significant statements which have been made on this subject appears in an article by Carolyn Dowling. [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…]
The number of migrant children in schools runs into many thousands, as has been pointed out in these articles and as is indicated by the number of teachers to be recruited. [More…]
It has certainly taken the Government a long time to realise how unfair it is to teachers, children and State authorities to bring non-English speaking migrants into the country in thousands and leave the full responsibility for their education at every level to State governments and independent schools. [More…]
increased education costs to the States because of the influx of migrant children has given rise in many quarters to the question whether our migration programme should be curtailed. [More…]
There is nowhere to teach children in many schools, State and independent. [More…]
As it stands, it means that the Government reluctantly has accepted the fact that it has a responsibility to the children, the States and the teachers to provide some finance for the thousands of migrants who have been brought to Australia, but it is confining it to the very minimum and leaving the responsibility for finding additional capital to the States. [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…]
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…]
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…]
The joint Commonwealth-New South Wales Education Department survey which was conducted a short while ago showed that of the 7,700 migrant children surveyed English was spoken at home ali or most of the time in only 15 per cent of the households. [More…]
This, of course, is a most impressive figure indicating the dearth of English in the home situation of a considerable proportion of migrant children. [More…]
Further figures discerned from this survey show that in households where no English is spoken some 27 per cent of the children were making what was rated to be good progress or better at school. [More…]
I think that, this having been said, it is fairly obvious even to the uninitiated in these matters that the problem with children is unlikely to be as serious in a continuing sense, lt may be serious initially and thereby provide quite some impedi ment to a rapid or a normal increase in educational advancement, but it is likely to be a situation which will be overcome in the natural course of events merely by virtue of the fact that children are children, they are young, they are receptive and they are mixing with other children at least most of whom certainly speak English. [More…]
Therefore these children, despite the disadvantage of the home situation at that stage, are likely in the normal course of their intermixing to get along fairly well. [More…]
The success of Australia’s immigration programme has long been tarnished by an obtuse disinclination to evaluate the problems which migrants and their children encounter. [More…]
Of course, we can say this of Australian children generally: that there are many thousands trying to get into universities, that there are probably thousands trying to get into kindergartens and that there are class loading problems and the like, but there are special problems with migrants. [More…]
Without the fulfilment of these obligations by the Commonwealth Government, the States will always suffer from an inadequacy of funds necessary to meet both the general needs of education and the particular finesse and expertise and special resources required for the education of migrant children. [More…]
Startling revelations about language problems of migrant children have now come to hand 25 years after the then Labor Government initiated our first immigration programme. [More…]
For many of the 2i million people who have comprised our total net population gain since 1946 and for a large number of their children the lost opportunities that have resulted can never be regained. [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…]
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…]
What is there against making available special radio facilities to assist with the education of migrant children and adult migrants? [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I should like to add that the Government’s efforts have been directed towards achieving control of television advertising so that such advertising does not take place at times during which young children are watching television programmes. [More…]
For many years many teachers at Government and Catholic schools have had a problem teaching English to non-English speaking migrant children. [More…]
It is not uncommon for 60 or more non-English speaking migrant children to commence a school year at primary school with little knowledge of the English language. [More…]
The special provisions in this Bill - I again emphasise the payment of salaries of these special teachers in addition to teaching aids and so on, is a very progressive step forward by the Department of Immigration and will be a big factor in enabling migrant children to settle more quickly into their new environment. [More…]
Speaking generally, approximately onethird of the children attending schools within, the electorate of Holt are children of migrant parents, and approximately one-half of these are from the United Kingdom. [More…]
In many cases children attending this school come from homes in which English is not the commonly used language. [More…]
In some cases the children’s own mastery of English is so weak that the teachers feel that this handicaps them in their subjects, and I do not think there is any doubt about that. [More…]
lt is worth noting that the percentage of migrant children is higher in the upper forms. [More…]
Out of a total enrolment of 630 children there are 246 children of migrant parents, which represents over 40 per cent of the total enrolment. [More…]
Children of migrant parents whose native language was not English represent approximately 24 per cent of the total enrolment; children from homes where English is not the commonly used language represent approximately 20 per cent; children whose parents could not speak English fluently or write it represented 9 per cent; and children whose lack of English posed a handicap to their learn ing represented 3 per cent, which is a quite high figure. [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…]
At the Dandenong South school there are 280 migrant children out of a total enrolment of 506, and of these 280, 105 are White Russian children. [More…]
Obviously, these children cannot progress very far until a knowledge of basic English is gained. [More…]
Again this presents a great problem for these children because, as I have mentioned, they have to cope with 2 languages. [More…]
of a total enrolment of 650, 200 are children of migrant parents. [More…]
Once the English language is mastered migrant children can manage at an average level. [More…]
This period varies with the age - the younger children assimilate fairly readily - the older children find the language barrier the cause of loneliness. [More…]
It is difficult to help slow learners within the migrant group - I have taken Italian children who have been with us for 3 years who still have difficulty in coping at grade level. [More…]
Approximately 150 children from migrant parents are attending this school which has an enrolment of 600. [More…]
At present 20 of these children have little or no English. [More…]
Migrant children participate very eagerly in all sporting activities. [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…]
Children who have migrated at secondary level sometimes have acute difficulties, particularly where parents do not speak English at home. [More…]
This would ease considerably the burden on the children. [More…]
It was interesting to note from the survey carried out among children in the Holt electorate that few retained their cultural talents. [More…]
Perhaps greater opportunity should be given to schools to encourage children to retain their native culture. [More…]
I do not think that the general problems which now face many migrant children faced me and therefore I would not claim any special expertise on the basis of my own antecedents. [More…]
1 am sure that the proposition which I should like to put forward is not novel, but basically there are 4 causes of difficulty for migrant children: Firstly, the question of education in a foreign language; secondly, the question of education in an alien culture; thirdly, the low income of the parents in many cases; and, fourthly, the concentration of migrants in relatively depressed urban areas with their depressed schools. [More…]
In passing I should like to make the point to the Minister that when we speak about migrant education we are trying to deal with the special problems arising out of migrant education and we must not forget that about half of the migrant children are, in fact, English-speaking children, but they still put a terrific amount of pressure on our Stale education systems and on our private education systems. [More…]
I do not think that there is any need to go into details on the question of the special problems facing these children because of their parents’ incomes when they first arrive in Australia. [More…]
We have to understand and meet the needs of migrant children. [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…]
We would counteract such drives among certain groups in our migrant population if in the schools that the children of these migrants attended, Italian history, Turkish history, German history, or whatever it may be, were taught. [More…]
I turn now to the question of establishing the abilities of children early in life-. [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…]
It related to a migrant pensioner who had died and left a widow with 5 children. [More…]
I compare the situation of migrant families and migrant children with that of the mentally handicapped. [More…]
In the last session of Parliament we passed legislation for the assistance of mentally handicapped children. [More…]
I have been for years a member ofan association concerned with mentally handicapped children. [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…]
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…]
This whole question of the education of the children of migrants is a very important one and it is very interesting to note the number of honourable members who have offered to speak on the subject because it takes their attention. [More…]
This school is not very far from the migrant hostel and as a result all the children of school age who reside in the hostel attend this school. [More…]
The number of migrant children at the school is always about 100 but they are not the same children. [More…]
Some accommodation at the school is used to teach the children of migrants living in the hostel. [More…]
As a result of this the children of the residents of the area - shall we call them the permanent students of the school - do not have the advantage of a library or an arts and crafts room because the 2 rooms that would be used for those purposes are used to accommodate migrant children. [More…]
There are many problems which arise in these schools and one is the lack of accommodation due to the fact that the rooms are occupied by migrant children. [More…]
For the 3 months they are there, the children of migrants sit blankly and stare into space because they cannot comprehend what is taking place around them. [More…]
The teachers who are available endeavour to give those children as much attention as they can but of course this is to the detriment of the students who are already at the school. [More…]
Frankly this problem goes a lot deeper than the teaching of English to the children of migrants. [More…]
Having spoken to the principals and teachers of schools in my electorate my experience is that the percentage of native born children in Australia who are receiving a very good education in the English language is not very high. [More…]
The incentive has to be found to encour age migrant women, migrant men and their children to learn the English language. [More…]
Three sections of the migrant family are affected by this communication barrier: The breadwinner, the housewife and the children. [More…]
Then, of course, there are the children who at school, through mixing with Australian kiddies, have a much better chance of picking up English than their mother has. [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…]
At this hostel special classes have been set up to prepare non-English speaking migrant children of primary and secondary school age to enter Australian schools. [More…]
Both the State and independent schools have to cope with the problem of educating migrant children. [More…]
The assistance to be given in both teacher training and capital equipment such as language laboratories should help greatly in the education and assimilation of migrant children. [More…]
Much money is spent bringing migrants out on cheap fares, more is spent teaching them and their children English, and a lot of them return home after making money. [More…]
1 believe that it is not in the long term interests of Australia that this should occur.In his policy speech before the 1969 election the Prime Minister announced the Government’s intention to take the initiative in promoting and accepting responsibility for expanding the existing facilities for the instruction of adult migrants, to provide intensive full time English courses and to provide special courses in existing schools for migrant children. [More…]
In the main these would be children who are immediately put into the school system. [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…]
But how many children or adults will still not be able to have the advantage of English instruction because there is insufficient money available for materials, equipment and teachers or, as my colleague the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) says, suitable buildings? [More…]
There are the primary school children whom I have mentioned. [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…]
The local public school has had to build 2 new classrooms in the primary sector to provide for the influx of the new Greek children. [More…]
How many children will suffer because of that? [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…]
I think that over the past 20 years a great strain has been placed on teachers in our State schools because children do absorb and children do learn English very quickly. [More…]
Certainly in New South Wales teachers have had a great strain placed on them in trying to prepare children for their school lives. [More…]
I congratulate them on their continuing interest in this basic problem as it affects not so much the children but the teaching fraternity in New [More…]
For example, the Federal Department of Education and Science, which is administering Commonwealth grants for the Department of Immigration, is insisting that teaching follow the situational method which is taught to adult migrants in its classes for children. [More…]
wider spheres of community life because their activities are confined to the home, but also for children should be by the situation method, as though the study of language or the proper use of words can be divorced from the study of the history and literature which produced those words. [More…]
It is important to realise that the disadvantaged migrant family in Australia has a distrust of schools and a lack of knowledge about the aims and methods of teaching employed by teachers at schools which their children attend. [More…]
Unless this ignorance and hostility is dispelled, the chances of the schools achieving good results with migrant children will be limited. [More…]
The average migrant who will be placed at a disadvantage, as will his children, receives no such special assistance. [More…]
In the policy speech of the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) delivered in October a promise of $4m was made for the removal of difficulties of migrant children. [More…]
However, the second reading speech does not indicate that the facilities for the leaching of children should also be used wherever practicable for the teaching of adults. [More…]
It may be that by cramming children into other rooms, by using rooms for a purpose for which they were not intended, or by using school library facilities, accommodation can be made available. [More…]
This is an area where the children are more in need of this type of instruction and this type of basic English training than in other areas where better facilities are provided. [More…]
These children need help. [More…]
Unless there are very young children who in many cases do not learn their native tongue, the need for high pressure involvement to learn a new language is not nearly as urgent for the female as it is for the male who must go to work and therefore has to have some smattering of English. [More…]
In these areas normally there are also very heavy concentrations of young children, ft would be of great help if pre-school children could be given the facilities to provide them with basic teaching in English to bring them at least up to the level of Australian children in their community. [More…]
In the inner metropolitan areas where high rise flats and such like are developing, I hope that the educational standard of migrant children will be raised to a level where opportunities to obtain Commonwealth scholarships, etc., later in their education will be available. [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…]
believe that the general approach we have made to immigration has been fairly effective but that our most miserable failure has been in the way we have approached particularly :he children who have arrived here as a result of the migration scheme. [More…]
When the children turn up at the school they will find that all the odds are against their learning English. [More…]
I want to concentrate on the question of school children and what should be done in the schools and for the schools. [More…]
Figures given to me last year for the Princess Hill primary school, for instance, showed that 15 children in grade 6 needed remedial English lessons, 10 in grade 5, 22 in grade 4, 14 in grade 3 and 5 in grade 2. [More…]
Some other schools are much more hard pressed but in this school with 66 children in need of remedial English lessons there is a need for perhaps 3 special teachers. [More…]
Seventy-eight per cent of the pupils in grade 1A were new Australian children, 79 per cent in grade IB, 90 per cent in grade IC, 76 per cent in grade ID, 70 per cent in grade IE, 75 per cent in grade IF, 85 per cent in grade 1G and so on down to 58 per cent in the special rural school which is conducted for the purposes of training. [More…]
I believe that in Brunswick, which, as I said, is only 4 square miles in area or the size of a decent farm where some honourable members come from, in Coburg and probably in Richmond and Northcote - I do not know the geography of Sydney so well - the only solution to the problem seems to be to take a special building and make it a school in which for perhaps 6 months - I am not sure of the time element - one concentrates on getting the children integrated into the English language. [More…]
The children of migrant families are entitled to this consideration. [More…]
In my own constituency of Riverina in 1 class in I school there has on occasions been only 2 children with what might be called an old Australian background. [More…]
I mean children who were born in Australia and who have grandparents who were born in Australia. [More…]
This did not create any great tensions for those 2 Australian children but of course this is not the problem. [More…]
I think we ought to be quite clear in our minds that when we are talking about the difficulties children have in tackling the language and in preparing themselves for the skills they should have in a modern industrial society we are talking about something a little different from integration. [More…]
At the same time other factors in the education of children should be taken into account. [More…]
We have to do more than just look at the children’s education in the schools. [More…]
It is into this incredibly fragmented society that we are putting young migrant children. [More…]
The problems of the children of migrants and the education of migrants are bound up with the demographic distribution of population in our community It is quite incredible that the demographic centre of Australia has not changed since the census of 1911. [More…]
I wanted to make that point very plain, because when we apply ourselves to this problem we should not limit our considerations for the classrooms and the capital expenditure needed to enable children to be properly educated. [More…]
It is important for the morale of migrant children from wherever they come - and it was indicated that we now have migrant children coming from Asia, Europe and indeed all the continents of the world - that there is no misunderstanding in the minds of those children about the attitude of the Australian people to them. [More…]
In summation, 1 hope that this measure will go some way after 20 years towards relieving the hardship and disadvantage of many migrant children. [More…]
These surveys related not only to adult migrants but also to migrant children in the schools. [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…]
Inevitably, however, the Government has been obliged to concentrate its efforts on the adult migrant education programme, it being generally accepted that the responsibility for migrant children in schools was that of the State Education Departments. [More…]
It is significant to note that it was not until towards the end of the 1960s that the States themselves began to appreciate the need for special and additional measures for migrant children. [More…]
Secondly, the accommodation requirements of schools cannot be attributable only to newly arriving migrant children, and expenditure on additional classroom space is appropriately, in the view of the Commonwealth, a charge to the States’ capital works votes. [More…]
Finally, I might mention that the migrant education programme provides financial assistance in establishing central language laboratories to which children are brought from surrounding schools, thus avoiding the additional classroom demands created by what is called the withdrawal class system. [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…]
Can he state, from the latest information available for each State and Commonwealth Territory, the (a) neo-natal, birth, infant and age specific mortality rates for Aborigines and (b) the degree of deviation from internationally accepted standards of growth, for example in relation to height and weight, of Aboriginal infants and children according to age specific rates. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an Australian Broadcasting Commission news report of Sunday, 1st February 1970, concerning the children of Australian servicemen in Vietnam and the claim by the National Director of Public Relations for the Australian Red Cross that 9 out of 11 of these children have died ot malnutrition and respiratory diseases in an orphanage outside Saigon run by nuns who do not receive any help from the Vietnamese, American or Australian Governments, but exist solely on charity and gifts from Australian and American soldiers. [More…]
If the claims were substantiated, did or will, the Government take steps to alleviate the situation of these children whose welfare should be the responsibility of this country. [More…]
Following reports in the Press during 1969 that the An Phong orphanage at Vung Tau housed children of Australian parentage, these allegations were carefully investigated. [More…]
None of the children there born since 1965 was positively identified as having an Australian father. [More…]
Of 240 children in the orphanage at the time of the enquiries, only 6 were considered to be part Caucasian. [More…]
Irrespective of their parentage, the plight of all children at the orphanage has not gone unheeded and as a humanitarian gesture, the Australian forces at Vung Tau have provided substantial assistance by way of voluntary donations to the orphanage. [More…]
How many government schools are there in Australia where the pupils are all Aboriginal children. [More…]
Aboriginal children and one for children of white workers. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
This being the Grievance Day debate, it is my intention in the brief time available to grieve on behalf of two of my constituents who, despite their great financial burden, have made tireless efforts to give their two lovely children every comfort, aid and medical assistance within their power, although, according to expert medical opinion, the life expectancy of their children is not in excess of 10 years. [More…]
The children who are suffering from this incurable complaint are Shelley, aged 4 years, and Paul, aged 2 years. [More…]
The father would not be among the high income group of the community, but let me stress to the House the heavy burden of medical costs placed on these very decent and law abiding parents to keep their beloved children alive. [More…]
I emphasise the need for the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) to place on the pharmaceutical benefits list certain drugs essential to children similarly suffering or to make special provision for free drugs to be issued to parents who have children in a similar state of health. [More…]
The complaint of the children has been diagnosed as cystic fibrosis, commonly referred to as dry lung. [More…]
I also understand that prophylene glycol, which these Merrion children must have constantly, is essential for the treatment of dry lung and it is also very costly and is not on the free pharmaceutical benefits list. [More…]
These children, who are victims of cystic fibrosis or dry lung, have to be placed in a fog lent, for at least 4 hours a day and I understand that their lungs have to be kept damp 24 hours a day. [More…]
Two machines purchased by the parents which are essential for keeping their children alive, plus the drugs that must be given to them, as well as the fog tent, have involved them in an outlay of approximately S6.000 since the children’s complaint was first diagnosed. [More…]
I think that the House must feel some compassion for the unfortunate parents who have children with a life expectancy of only 10 years, but despite this the parents are quite cheerful and happy and meeting their responsibility in the true Australian way. [More…]
1 understand that an association was formed in Sydney some 3 years ago to appeal to the Government for special care for the unfortunate children suffering from cystic fibrosis. [More…]
The association has been asking for recognition by the Commonwealth Government and also for financial assistance for the care, aid and treatment of the children. [More…]
I therefore hope that ihe great human qualities allegedly possessed by the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) will rise to an unprecedented height and that immediate steps will be taken to aid these unfortunate children and their parents and others similarly situated in bearing the crushing burden of medical costs in keeping their near and dear ones alive. [More…]
Children are being dented the opportunities of a decent education. [More…]
Poverty is increasing to the degree that many dairy farmers are being forced to work their families under conditions of slave labour and children are being denied the opportunities of decent education. [More…]
I would add the comment, by way of illustration, that if the Government brings in 175,000 migrants again it inevitably puts upon the States the duty of making available classroom space and teachers for the children, more hospital accommodation, more housing, more transport. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister joined the Prime Minister in blaming the wage earner who is so well off in affluent Australia today that he has to send his wife to work to keep his children at school. [More…]
In the last 5 years pre-tax average weekly earnings increased by 37.36 per cent; after tax they increased by 32.10 per cent for a man supporting a wife and 2 children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education service which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education service which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to the heavy financial burden placed on the parents of children when it is necessary for those children to change schools, such as the movement from primary school to high school, at which time parents must purchase new uniforms for their children often at a cost of $70 or more? [More…]
There has been a tendency throughout Australia to let Aboriginal children go to school up to primary level and almost invariably as soon as the age requirements are fulfilled those children leave school and before very long there is a downward trend in terms of their assimilation in the community as far as jobs are concerned rather than an upward trend at least to a level with white children. [More…]
For another, the children who attend Kormilda College travel from the Alice Springs area and even districts south and west of Alice Springs and this necessitates a 1600 mile journey to and from the college 2 or 3 times a year. [More…]
So not only will this college save them this lengthy travelling but it will also enable them to go to school in their own environment in central Australia which, I think, is very important with regard to the bringing up of children whether they be Aboriginal or European. [More…]
My second reaction was dismay because there is no question that if the honourable gentleman did say what he is reported to have said hundreds of thousands of young Australian children will be influenced to the view that marihuana is harmless, because the honourable gentleman says so. [More…]
But he went further and said that it should be legalised and should be consumed by school children because they would feel relaxed, happy, convivial, and that perhaps it would improve human relations. [More…]
I can envisage that the statement by itself will incite young Australian children to have a go at marihuana at a time when the Government is spending $500,000 on a national education campaign to try to dissuade young children from taking marihuana. [More…]
Indeed, a widow supporting two children of between 6 years and 15 years receives nearly $4 a week below this level. [More…]
A breadwinner supporting a wife and two children on unemployment or sickness benefit receives a payment which is more than $20 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
Their existence too frequently takes place in a situation of grinding poverty, and what is so alarming is the fact that innocent, unfortunate children must suffer. [More…]
As Mr Harper points out in chapter 6 of People in Poverty’, which was released recently, the most disturbing feature of these families is the numbers of innocent children affected by this deprivation. [More…]
He estimated that there were nearly 12,000 such children in Melbourne. [More…]
One wonders what wrongs innocent children possibly could have done to have society visit the harm of social, economic and cultural deprivation upon them through the instrument of its national Government. [More…]
For example, the survey found that 30 per cent of women bringing up children by themselves were found to be in poverty and another 14 per cent were only marginally above the poverty line. [More…]
I am sure that a visit from a relative, or better still from their own children, would mean far more to our elderly citizens than would an increase of $1 a week in their pension rates. [More…]
I quite agree that the lone pensioner paying rent is in need of additional assistance, but should not his or her children, relatives and friends also accept greater responsibility? [More…]
Of course, in the Asian countries the children accept responsibility for their parents. [More…]
Certainly they should, and much more could be done to programme violent and erotic television material after 10 p.m. or thereabouts so that parents can feasibly keep their children away if they wish. [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…]
I would hope that my children would see them and be repulsed by them. [More…]
One would wonder what menchildren think of them. [More…]
I will bet they have more than their fair share of children in revolt against them and their values. [More…]
The virus does not originate in the minds of children. [More…]
He has introduced and encouraged the States to introduce the R or X certificate to indicate those films which are not appropriate for children to see and he has introduced an appeals structure for the censorship of films which goes a long way towards achieving the ideal in film censorship. [More…]
I think this applies particularly to children. [More…]
I am unconvinced by those who advocate the complete abandonment of all the standards that have been set up and must afford some protection to certain areas of our community, particularly children. [More…]
He would urge that young children and young people should have marihuana available to them. [More…]
But I have never told a smutty yarn in front of my children nor will I and they respect me for it. [More…]
What did disgust her and sicken her and a lady who went with her was the fact that school children sitting in front, behind and all round her - kiddies still going to primary school - represented the main part of the audience. [More…]
I have been told by some people who have seen ‘The Adventurers’ that it U not the sort of film that ought to be banned from adult showing but it is not the sort of film that would do a lot of good, if any, to young children who are still going to school. [More…]
I do hot think anyone who has read such publications as “The Naked Lunch’ or ‘My Secret Life’ would seriously suggest that they should be openly on sale on the bookstalls for all and sundry, including children, to buy. [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…]
Scenes depicting violence carried out in a professional way would only help to turn many of them into children of violence. [More…]
It said also that parents should make every effort to supervise children’s television viewing and to assert basic responsibility for their moral development. [More…]
I think that the break-up of home life is one of the causes of delinquency, violence and children getting into trouble. [More…]
It is their primary duty to help children to choose which books to read and which films to see. [More…]
I have heard a good deal tonight about the responsibility that rests upon the shoulders of parents to try to guide their children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should bc amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended lo include all the country’s physically and menially handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
If a person pays his taxes in Australia, he has the right to certain financial concessions for his wife and his dependant children.. [More…]
But if his wife and children live overseas then he is not allowed such concessions. [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…]
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…]
A person can choose what he considers to be suitable material for his children to see or to hear only if he has some method by which he can judge the relevant material without actually hearing it, seeing it or reading it himself. [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…]
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…]
One finds that those children who are fortunate enough to live in the privileged areas, such as the northern suburbs, some of the southern suburbs and the Illawarra area, are receiving a far greater proportion of these Commonwealth secondary school scholarships as well as those for tertiary training than children who live in the western areas of Sydney. [More…]
The children in the western suburbs come from families whose income level is very much lower than that of those in the other areas, yet they are receiving far fewer of these Commonwealth secondary andteritary scholarships than do children in the northern suburbs. [More…]
For that reason I feel that we need to have a look at this matter to find out whether there is equity between the two systems of examination, because obviously something is wrong if more children in 1 school can attain 6 advanced levels than in any other school in the area, yet that school receives fewer Commonwealth scholarships than any other school in the area, or even none. [More…]
But surely the children who need financial assistance most are those who should receive it. [More…]
The teachers tell us of cases where children have been told by their parents: ‘If you receive a Commonwealth scholarship I will give it to you as pocket money.’ [More…]
Their purpose is to see that children who have natural capacities and abilities are given the opportunity to utilise and fully develop those natural capacities and abilities. [More…]
The Minister need not inform me by way of interjection, ft is a failing of the Government that it has not had the courage, the decency or the foresight to provide such a provision, and that is my answer to the Treasurer (Mr Bury) who just interjected, t would like to mention the case of a widow with 8 children, 6 of whom are going to school. [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…]
The youth and children of Australia, with their naturally curious minds, are starting to question what drugs are all about. [More…]
I am worried about the constant discussion of these drugs, it is by good-meaning people, including Ministers and others, because what they are really doing is promoting them in the minds of children. [More…]
The Government would be far better advised to tone down its continuous promotion of marihuana in the minds of children and to concentrate its attention on methods nf reducing the alarming incidence of alcohol and tobacco consumption among young people in Australia. [More…]
1 am sure that the Minister, whom 1 do not criticise, makes his statements in good faith, but I am concerned about the continuous harping in the national Press about marihuana, LSD and cannabis because this only excites susceptible young children into having a go a’ them. [More…]
Children are freer today than they were years ago. [More…]
We do not want 90 per cent of our school children smoking it and opting for the hallucinogenic and distorted world to which I referred yesterday. [More…]
That provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [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…]
Five market centres have been established; 6 dispensaries; 71 classrooms for many hundreds, and indeed thousands of children who will occupy those rooms; 4 community centres; water supplies for 14 hamlets; and playgrounds for 17 schools. [More…]
Yet it is well known that if a man wants to keep his family in a reasonable state and wants to sec his children educated the best contribution he can make is to send his wife out to work, and that is what is happening across the nation at the present lime. [More…]
yesterday protested about the exclusion of children over the age of 16 years, who are undergoing full time study, as dependants of recipients of unemployment and sickness benefits. [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…]
50 for other children under 16 years of age. [More…]
I commend the Government’s action in extending long term sickness benefits as in the case of the invalid pension, but I emphasise that children over 16 years of age who are receiving a full-time education are not recognised as dependants by the Department of Social Services. [More…]
The number of beneficiaries involved and the amount of money that would be paid to them if such children were recognised as dependants would not wreck the economy of the nation. [More…]
A man with a wife and 5 children, with’ a permissible income of S6 a week, would be entitled to a benefit of S39.50 a week, but if that man works for one or two days at the meat works his wages would still be less than S39.50. [More…]
So, clearly, I would advise not an increase of penalty but a decrease of the existing penalty imposed on people for producing children. [More…]
This is the sort of degrading penalty which is imposed on these people not for the number of children they have but simply’ because they have not the means to meet ‘ the cost of decent housing; because they have not the political pressure to demand better treatment; because they have not been accepted in the community by the shire and State authorities, and because they do not have the moral backing as yet of ‘ the Commonwealth Government, whose primary responsibility it is to ensure that they have decent living conditions. [More…]
My aim is to free people from the compulsion to produce children for which they do not plan and for which they cannot provide. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Finally, at no time have I advocated the use of the drug by school children. [More…]
I assure the Minister that I have not advocated that it should be used by school children. [More…]
Now the honourable member for marihuana - he might well finish up with that title in this House - that is, the honourable member for Maribyrnong, is suggesting not only that it be legalised - and that was enough to sting me to a reply - but also that it should be taken by children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
It is passible to value the loss of fixed assets in homes and furniture, but not the intangibles such as the inconvenience caused, the loss of man hours in so many directions and the effect on education when children are not able to attend school. [More…]
but 1 think everybody knows that originally, in the earliest awards, it was held that the wage would sustain a husband and wife and two or three children. [More…]
If I may use the words of our policy, we are dedicated to political liberty and the freedom and dignity of man; safe from external aggression and playing our part in a world security order which maintains the necessary force to defend the peace; looking primarily to the encouragement of individual initiative and enterprise as the dynamic force of progress; to make just provision for the aged, the invalid, the widowed, the sick, the unemployed and the children. [More…]
The former Prime Minister backed him and he dared to start talking about removing powers, such as those relating to Aboriginals from the businessservile government of Queensland where, according to the Medical Journal of Australia, hundreds of Aboriginal children on government settlements showed 3 years retarded growth when 6 years of age, shrunken brains and permanently damaged mental skills, while poorer mission stations in Queensland can totally eliminate these tragedies. [More…]
Of the 2,000 odd children who were examined 50 per cent suffered from these things, and practically all of that 50 per cent were on government settlements and not on the missions which were much poorer but which had the intelligence to feed protein supplements to the Aboriginal children. [More…]
become isolated from our neighbours and from the people with whom our children will have to learn to live. [More…]
Already today the Leader of the Labor Party has spoken about the new Prime Minister’s belief that the basic wage was sufficient to keep a man, his wife and 2 or more children. [More…]
He does not care whether our children die by malnutrition or by a bullet. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and menially handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Association Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Stales for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
It is no secret that children, irrespective of their age, faith or family income, encounter in pre-school centres, primary schools, high schools and technical schools unnecessary barriers and avoidable handicaps. [More…]
It transforms the prospects of children who are economically disadvantaged or culturally deprived. [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…]
As the Leader of the Opposition said, it does not take into account the needs of pre-school education, of the special needs of handicapped children, of technical education or education at any other level. [More…]
So provision for the welfare of 78 per cent of Australia’s children has to wait. [More…]
What will be the position of these children while they wait for the Government to implement the recommendations contained in this report? [More…]
It takes no account of the thing about which this country ought to be ever shameful - the non-acceptance of our governmental responsibility for handicapped children. [More…]
The children in this country are being crucified upon the politics of Slate versus Federal interest. [More…]
Their children are coming home and saying: ‘We have not had a science teacher for 4 weeks’, or ‘We have not had a mathematics teacher’. [More…]
How many children are sent home half a day a week to do private study because there are no teachers to teach them? [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…]
There is a need for a programme of positive discrimination to help children in backward areas, in the less affluent areas and in the culturally deprived areas. [More…]
Rather, the Commonwealth has acted in a most highly responsible and realistic manner, one which I believe is in the best long term interests not only of the school children of Australia but also of all those people who contribute money in taxes. [More…]
To provide adequate training and to provide buildings and equipment poses a tremendous problem when we realise that so many more children than formerly are going on to higher education. [More…]
I think, however, that there has been a levelling out recently following a sharp increase in the number of children going on to secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
Many children decided over the past few years that they wanted to go on. [More…]
All they are interested in is an adequate education for their children. [More…]
1 am sorry to be parochial but it applies to every electorate I can think of, including the one in which my own children go to school. [More…]
My own children similarly are dismissed early from school, having periods when quite clearly they are not being taught the subjects they are supposed to be taught. [More…]
It is OK perhaps where my children went to school. [More…]
How about the situation in the industrial suburbs, the working class suburbs, the places where most of the children attend school? [More…]
What prospects do those children have? [More…]
When my wife went along to assist in an after school club at an inner Melbourne suburban school to look after the children, she was able to relate to me some of the deficiencies in that school. [More…]
She was able to say how we had succeeded in overcoming these deficiencies in the school our children went to because our parents were better off and were able to help more. [More…]
In other words, we are going to victimise the children in the less well-off areas because their parents cannot afford to provide what the Government is not prepared to provide. [More…]
They tend to provide less for children in poor areas than in other areas where the parents are better off and better versed in the ways of education. [More…]
These are the farmers and their employees, the shopkeepers and agents in country towns, and, of course, their wives and their children. [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…]
But the gem of them all, one to which I shall make some reference before I exhaust my time, is ‘All Manner of People’ by Mr A. E. Debenham, a highly respected man who formerly was a magistrate at one of the Sydney metropolitan children’s courts. [More…]
He has no safeguard and his wife and children can be thrown to the wolves. [More…]
I saw the misery of broken homes and deserted wives and neglected children. [More…]
I saw the misery of broken homes and deserted wives and neglected children. [More…]
I saw the beginnings of resentment and hatred in the faces of small children whose attitude towards life was warped by drinking and gambling. [More…]
I am sure will be a very good investment in the future security of Australia, the security of our children and a better investment than the expenditure of lives and money in a futile war, such as the one in Vietnam. [More…]
Children as young as 10 and 11, marihuana and heroin addicts, went to the Philadelphia centres. [More…]
I have no intention of leading a children’s crusade to the barricades where they will be wiped out - I use that metaphorically. [More…]
Many of the children in my electorate are the children of low income families. [More…]
Fifty students last year were getting special financial assistance from the Victorian Education Department, on the basis of a means test on a weekly income of $38.55 for a family with 2 children. [More…]
If the actual minimum wage had been the means test, the school would probably have had an additional 50 children receiving special assistance from the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
In other words, probably about 2 in 9 of the school’s children were from families on very low incomes. [More…]
Many of the children came from families living in poverty. [More…]
A 1970 survey of the school found that 10 per cent of the school’s children were children of pensioners or of widows; 50 per cent were children of labourers or of seraiskilled workers; 33 per cent had fathers in occupations ranging from semi-skilled to semi-professional; and 6 per cent had fathers who were foremen or professional people. [More…]
Equally revealing are the family circumstances of the children at this school. [More…]
A survey in 1969 showed that 47 per cent of the children were from families of 4 or more children. [More…]
What was the Commonwealth’s assistance to the children at this school? [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…]
This material includes the kindergarten kit, Children’s Highway Code, Teacher’s Manuals, Parents folder together with posters. [More…]
I know of a family comprising8 children and a widowed mother living at the rear of a city house under an iron lean-to 8 feet by 5 feet with a dirty chaff floor and one bed for the lot of them. [More…]
There is room for criticism - justified criticism - of a country that tolerates conditions experienced by adults and growing children on some reserves which are a disgrace. [More…]
But for persons to be able to go home at night -to’ a comfortable suburban home knowing” that women and children are living in such parlous conditions, without raising the matter with the responsible Ministers ‘for action to be taken, is beyond comprehension. [More…]
The increase of 50c a week in the basic standard rate payable to age, invalid and widow pensioners will bring the new rate to $16 a week - this, of course, excludes additions to the pension such as supplementary assistance and additional payments for children. [More…]
The maximum basic rate for widows without children will rise to $14.25 a week. [More…]
Imagine this hanging over the head of a dried vine fruits producer who has a family to maintain and whose children are going to school. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I wonder how people living in the Woden Valley feel when the sky darkens angrily: are they thinking of their children who have to travel these roads back home? [More…]
If we fail to meet that challenge, it could become an unthinkable disaster for our children. [More…]
I am sure that a visit from a relative, or better still from their own children, would mean far more lo our elderly citizens than would an increase of $1 a week in their pension rates. [More…]
Again, we find that the level of sickness benefit for a man with a wife and 2 children is about $21 a week below the poverty line struck by the Melbourne survey. [More…]
Many children of pensioners, despite the fact that their parents have kept them and looked after them for years when they were children, tend to neglect their parents when they become old. [More…]
It is not only the taxpayers’ responsibility to look after pensioners, the children of those pensioners should also accept some responsibility for .their parents. [More…]
However some pensioners who live with their children or who own their own homes are not too badly off on this amount. [More…]
Her husband had deserted her, and she has 4 children all under the age of 16 years, including twins 22 months of age. [More…]
She receives a pension of $34.50 a week to look after those 4 children. [More…]
She has to take care of the children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Therefore a grateful and dignified country should endeavour to pay to the war widow and her children the maximum amount of pension. [More…]
Discontinuance from 30th September 1970 of supplementary assistance for children in Victoria of parents receiving a full Commonwealth pension, including widows, means that over $219,000 will not be distributed amongst those children this year. [More…]
The present and future is bleak and grim for these mothers and children. [More…]
Have some consideration for these people and give the children something they have not, a chance in life, a chance to get out of a poverty stricken state, a chance to earn enough to avoid becoming part of the hard core of poverty to which they are condemned for life under their present circumstances. [More…]
Does it help to lift any of these people out of the trough of despond and need, a need that affects children and will have effects in the succeeding generation? [More…]
Does it come from families who are already trying to raise young children and accept their responsibility to their elderly parents? [More…]
Do they know of old people who are kept at home by their children who love them, even though they completely disorganise the household and lead to breakdowns of the mothers of the families and the disadvantage of children in those families. [More…]
women and children of all age groups. [More…]
That there are increases in costs of maintenance in children’s and babies’ homes in Victoria, the shortfall last year being approximately $500,000, which cost is aggravated by inflation and continuous rises in the cost of living. [More…]
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that the House of Representatives will initiate or concur in appropriate legislation for the purpose of (1) making grants suitable to the financial needs of benevolent institutions for additional accommodation and equipment of a capital nature and the estimated costs of same, in particular for destitute or near-destitute men, women and children of all age groups, and for those in a nonpensionable age category and (2) enabling financial grants of a supplementary nature to be made for maintenance costs of an urgent nature in such institutions. [More…]
Population is the basis on which boundaries should be decided because men, women and children of all ages and all nations present as many problems as those eligible to vote. [More…]
Does he not understand that it is economic necessity alone that forces a wage or salary earner to allow the mother of his children to go to work while his family is still in need of her at home? [More…]
If the honourable member had seen fit to do a little bit of homework he would have seen for himself that the Gov ernment a couple of years ago introduced a system to subsidise the States on a 50 per cent basis to bridge the financial gap for these deserted wives, many of whom have a number of small children. [More…]
By heavens, I would not like to have been a widow with children when the Labor Party was in power. [More…]
What he cares about and what we should care about is whether he can buy enough food, enough shelter, enough clothing, enough enjoyment of life and, in the case of invalid, widow and deserted wives’ pensions and unemployment benefits, whether it is possible for the children of the family to expect a decent education. [More…]
In the last Budget the income for a widow with 3 children was increased by a paltry LS per cent. [More…]
A widow with 3 children all over the age of 6 years will, under this measure, have her pension increased from $29 a week to $29.50 a week. [More…]
This is an increase of 7c a day for a woman with 3 dependent children. [More…]
In other words, we are asking n woman with 3 children ail over the age of 6 years to live on 35 per cent of the average weekly earnings of the community. [More…]
It is not only the case of widows with dependent children which has been forgotten. [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…]
For subsequent children the paltry amount of S3. [More…]
She has 6 children. [More…]
Assuming that about 13.000 children are of school age. [More…]
If the father in a family of 7 is gaoled and the children are placed in institutions the cost to the Stale within 6 months will be S200 a week, and this is without accounting for lost production. [More…]
Under this legislation, a widow with 2 children will receive $30 a week. [More…]
As 1 said he married a couple of years ago and now has 2 children, the younger aged 6 weeks. [More…]
The case involves a 45 year old married woman with two young children. [More…]
That the provisionsof the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I want to observe very quickly that in the first place this programme was designed not to encourage women to enter the work force but to deal with an immediate problem which now exists and which, as I understand it, is of such dimensions that a quarter of a million children under 6 years of age have mothers who are currently in the work force. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will bear in mind the interests not only of industry but also of the children concerned. [More…]
He has raised a, most pertinent point in relation to the programme, namely, the interests of the children concerned. [More…]
The honourable member and the House can be well assured that the interests of the children certainly will be borne in mind. [More…]
As one of my colleagues has just said by way of interjection, the interests of the children are paramount. [More…]
As I recall the background of the scheme - not that I was personally associated with it - it was in large measure because of the interests of the children in part that this scheme was introduced. [More…]
A major dimension of that problem was concerned with the children whose mothers were already working. [More…]
I emphasise, lest there be any misapprehension, that the interests of the children will be paramount. [More…]
The present total number of ex-seamen pensioners, wives, widows and dependent children is only 243. [More…]
The problem concerns a Sergeant Smith who is stationed in Papua and New Guinea and whose brother is now dying in Royal Perth Hospital after being involved in a traffic accident on 18th March in which he and his wife were injured, his wife fatally, leaving 2 small children to be cared for by Sergeant Smith’s parents. [More…]
To expect him to spend the return air fare which is in express of $500 could well preclude him from returning to see his parents with his wife and children in June. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [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…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act,1970, be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assetnbled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australian children. [More…]
Does he agree with the Minister for Primary Industry that Australian soldiers should shoot women and children if ordered to do so and obey such orders without question? [More…]
They are well dressed and they walk up there with women and children. [More…]
Where they are higher, -alternative rales of 121 per cent and $0.55 General and $0.55 Preferential apply to adult sizes and 121 per cent and $0.35 General and $0.35 Preferential to children’s sizes. [More…]
Children get all sorts of material things, including motor cars, by the age of 17 years or so and there is not very much left for them to get when they start their working lives, their really earning lives. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration pointed out to me in a reply to a question that occasionally European parents working in Asian and Pacific countries wished to send their children to school in Australia while they are still too young for entry as migrants. [More…]
Such children are admitted as students. [More…]
asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, upon notice: ti) Is he able to say whether (a) estimates of the number of destitute orphans in Vietnam now exceed 150,000, and (b) there are several thousand abandoned children in institutions. [More…]
There are 116 orphanages registered by the Ministry of Social Services caring for 20,000 children of whom 40 per cent have lost both parents. [More…]
There are also approximately 104 day centres registered with the Vietnamese authorities, which look after approximately 11,000 children. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and the Australian Embassy in Saigon are already advising Australians who enquire about adopting Vietnamese children on the needs for documentation and other requirements. [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…]
If the definition of ‘suitable employment’ is not too vague and uncertain, I see no great exception to the provision because, as I said earlier, a person cannot expect to have the right to be retrained and relocated simply because he wants to take up another position, perhaps no different to his present position, which carries a few cents extra pay or which is closer to the school which his children attend or to some other facility that would make the position more convenient. [More…]
make life hell for women and children- [More…]
It involves discrimination against children as a result of the existence of an anomaly in the Social Services Act. [More…]
She had 2 children by her de facto husband, one of whom is now aged 5 years and the other 10 months. [More…]
I think the most important thing for us to consider is the fact that she has very young children. [More…]
Those children have to be given some opportunity in life. [More…]
Also, if the woman suffered bad health at this point of time and was 80 per cent incapacitated for work she could be granted an invalid pension which would include allowances for the children even though she had been deserted by her de facto husband in the same circumstances as have already occurred. [More…]
Furthermore, as I see it, the Department of Social Services is setting itself up as an illogical judge of the morals of the case with a resultant discrimination against the lady’s 2 children because of her de facto relationship. [More…]
My concern is not for the mother, but for her children and their future. [More…]
Because of this illogical anomaly in the Social Services Act the children are being deprived of the benefits which would accrue to the family if the mother were granted a deserted wife’s pension. [More…]
This anomaly in the Act discriminates, as I said, against the children, who are the innocents in the case, by making a moral judgment on the background of the mother. [More…]
In other words, any chance that that man had to hand on to his children even a box of matches as a result of his labours during his working life is thrown overboard. [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…]
I should like to hear more comment come from both sides of the House on the tragic situations that are faced by the young unmarried mother and the young widow with small children who do not receive anywhere near enough support for their situations. [More…]
Decent parents try to inculcate an approved line of conduct in their children, yet they must face a barrage from irresponsible vested interests which have no limit to the finance at their disposal. [More…]
I should like to go on record as saying that we are all guilty whilst we know that 10,000 children will die today of starvation and neglect in Pakistan and India alone, and another 10,000 will die tomorrow and so on, but do practically nothing to help them. [More…]
Many parents frantically made small rafts on which their children floated to safety. [More…]
We are no longer shocked to know that today 10,000 children in India and Pakistan will die of starvation and neglect and another 10,000 tomorrow and so on. [More…]
Out of every 20 children born in these countries 10 will die in infancy and 7 out of the remaining 10 will be stunted for life both mentally and physically because of malnutrition in childhood. [More…]
I have not heard of anyone wanting to protest about these 10,000 children who are going to die today in India and Pakistan. [More…]
At the present time in New South Wales children are being sent home for a period every week because of the inadequate number of teachers available and inadequate accommodation. [More…]
School children are being sent home because of inadequacies and there are stringencies in our hospitals which should not be there. [More…]
They have very fine families and very nice children. [More…]
But in the words of the children’s rhyme ‘sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me’. [More…]
For each white child contracting kwashiorkor, a disease caused by malnutrition, there are 1,400 cases among African children. [More…]
This applies not only to the Sobukwes Mandelas, Helen Josephs, but also to their friends and wives and children who wait for that day. [More…]
children under the age of sixteen years normally acquire Australian citizenship by inclusion on the certificates of citizenship granted to their responsible parents; [More…]
The children salute the flag and say a few words, but that is the end of it. [More…]
When I made this point an another occasion a certain minister of religion said that this was no good at all, that the children just learned the words off by heart and it did not mean a thing. [More…]
It was also claimed that children were being forced to leave schools and colleges. [More…]
That finance should be made available by thi’ Government to cover the cost of the secondary and tertiary education of children from rural areas affected by the current economic situation. [More…]
I think that those points are worthy of very careful consideration, particularly the one that refers to the education of children in rural areas. [More…]
Action should be taken on this because the children concerned will be forced to stay on the farms or become rural workers and labourers because they have not been able to obtain the education which they require. [More…]
I know people in my own electorate who have previously been able to send their children to colleges in the capital city but who are now forced to put them through correspondence courses - and we know how comparatively inadequate they are and how it will be almost impossible for those children to make their way in life. [More…]
I believe that assistance to country children at secondary and tertiary level is of the utmost importance if we are to avoid having those children become labourers in the community. [More…]
It is probable that there are proportionately more children in these areas than in any other part of this country. [More…]
He is a married man with children. [More…]
How can any person live and rear children on $125 a fortnight? [More…]
He has 3 children aged 9, 7 and 3 years. [More…]
This attendant happens to be a Catholic, but he cannot afford to send his children to a Catholic school, as is his wish. [More…]
This has taken away from him the inalienable right to educate his children where he wishes. [More…]
The reason he cannot educate his children at a Catholic school is the lowly amount that is paid to him by this Parliament. [More…]
This duty, to protect the employment of I do not know how many people, will cost the children of Australia, on my arithmetric $200,000 every year. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
In particular will the Treasurer examine closely the desirability of continuing to allow deductions for medical expenses and children? [More…]
It is quite clear in the Northern Territory, for instance, that where we have pre-school centres they are extremely important in that children of the Aboriginal race and children of European race mix together and have a social association, and for children of the Aboriginal race who are coming in as fringe dwellers they are a very important introduction to the sort of new way of life that they an following. [More…]
Only middle class areas have been fully aware of bow important psychologically pre-school centres are for children in their whole life development. [More…]
Finally, I should like to express the Government’s respect and admiration of the work of the voluntary organisations in the pre-school field, There is a tradition throughout Australia of community involvement in this area of education, not only of parents interested in having a kindergarten available for their own children but also of many men and women giving freely time and money so that kindergartens are available in areas where need is great. [More…]
From the former arises a most useful awareness in the minds of parents of many aspects of their children’s education, an awareness which may be maintained throughout the years of schooling. [More…]
It found that some 50 per cent of those children had received at least 1 year of pre-school education. [More…]
Some research work that I have done indicates that by taking a percentage of children between the ages of 3 and 5 years who are not attending infant schools and using that percentage as a basis to determine the percentage of children attending pre-schools in the various States, it is revealed that in Victoria this percentage is 28.23. [More…]
That, I emphasise, is taking all children between the ages of 3 and 5 years. [More…]
It is important for the long term education of all children in 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…]
New South Wales has 252,000 children in the 2 to 5 year age group. [More…]
It is remarkable that in the United Kingdom, which is hard pressed and which is said to be in a bad way, on its knees, the Plowden report is to be implemented, and the Government is working steadfastly towards the end of achieving an enrolment of 90 per cent of the eligible children for pre-school education. [More…]
Sweden, we are told, has 56 per cent of eligible children enrolled. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory 36 per cent of eligible children are enrolled and 78 per cent of the 4 year olds are enrolled. [More…]
In South Australia only 14 per cent, and in New South Wales only 7 per cent of the quarter of a million children eligible for pre-school education are enrolled. [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…]
Predominantly it is the children of middle class families who have the benefit of pre-school education. [More…]
There is very little public financial support for these centres and so the families have to make very substantial sacrifices if they want their children to get the benefit of pre-school education. [More…]
Does it want to thwart and stop this exploitation of the educational needs of children, or does it want to make it a part of the education system? [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…]
That legislation also provides for a full year compensatory education programme plus an 8 weeks sum up programme for children prior to entering full time education. [More…]
Basic interest in this field arises from a growing body of evidence, of not very distant origin, which is showing with little doubt that children of the ages from 3 to 5 years have a far greater capacity to learn than was ever thought possible, in general terms at any rate, by the general public or, for that matter, by educationists. [More…]
The basic point is that young children, 3 to 5 years old, are capable intellectually and mentally of taking aboard a lot of reasonably formal training. [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…]
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…]
For example, in the electorate of my colleague, the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) a large factory - Ericssons Pty Ltd - has found it necessary to set up a creche for the female employees because it needs the women in its work force and to attract them it must provide facilities for the children to be cared for. [More…]
We may never remove this barrier because of the lack of large country industries, but by the use of residential accommodation which could bring small numbers of children from country areas for training and then send them back into the smaller industries which may exist, these grants will make a vast difference. [More…]
What I would like to discuss is the importance that the Australian Labor Party gives to the right of all children to a pre-school education. [More…]
We believe that all children should have a pre-school education because of the considerable educational benefits that it can provide. [More…]
But of equal importance is the strategic role which we believe the pre-school can take in an assault on inequalities between children. [More…]
For particular groups within the community, such as Aboriginals, migrants and handicapped children, the education system is a one-way street to frustration. [More…]
It will aim to provide a pre-school education for every child and to give early treatment to culturally disadvantaged children. [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…]
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…]
The simple fact is that preschool education should be recognised as a right of all children and, accordingly, should be free. [More…]
But for many parents, the fees are prohibitive, and many children who could benefit most from a pre-school education are being denied the opportunity. [More…]
It is clear now that pre-school opportunities for all children can be provided only with the assistance of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
While it guarantees to all children in the Australian Capital Territory the right to 1 year of preschool education, the assistance which the Commonwealth gives to the States in the form of capital grants for pre-school teacher colleges if of only marginal assistance and reflects a sense of concern for the welfare of Australian children which is only slightly greater than English governments in the eighteenth century showed towards Dame Schools. [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…]
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 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 Australian Pre-Schools Commission will treat the remedying of handicaps suffered by disadvantaged children as one of its principal tasks. [More…]
The value of this role in catering for largely middle class groups of children has been considerable. [More…]
Rural and inner suburban areas, where disadvantaged children are concentrated, would receive attention first. [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…]
The average age of people residing in that area, including the children, is only 8 years. [More…]
We have endeavoured to make life in urban areas worthwhile for our estimable young people who are now having their first children, and we get great satisfaction in helping them. [More…]
Druitt area for the cleanliness of their homes and the neatness of themselves and of their children. [More…]
Then the Department of Education will build a school, probably 2 or 3 miles away, requiring buses to transport the children or, if their parents are a little more affluent, they may be driven by their parents in cars. [More…]
Father cannot get to work without a car; so mother has to have a car as well to take the children to school and to do the shopping because public transport is not available or efficient enough for convenience or comfort. [More…]
Why, for that matter, does every house have to be built on a block of land X feet by X feet with a back yard which is usually too small to be able to do anything in, thus forcing children to play on the streets and run the risk of being killed by cars, as they so often are? [More…]
Why cannot schools be designed in the centre of the community within easy walking distance for children, without their having to run the risk of crossing dozens of roads to get to school? [More…]
We shall earn the gratitude of our children and, in turn, of theirs. [More…]
But beyond this, it makes sure that there is another side of life available to all, and particularly to children and old people. [More…]
There will be various ways over a linear playground, for small children, longer ‘adverture-routes’ for older children, and possibilities of safe movement for old people and for those exercising their pets. [More…]
It is estimated that there are 4 to 5 young children in each house. [More…]
Let us do what we can to encourage Australians to fulfil their birthright and live in a decent environment where their children can grow up and have the opportunity to live a decent life. [More…]
The mothers who are bearing children today receive the same birth allowance as their dear mothers received 20 years ago. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Does this provision apply not only to naturalised migrants but also in cases where children of Australian parents who are overseas on business or as tourists, are born outside Australia. [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…]
This would do away with the need for special institutions for the aged, the mentally ill and children at the moment. [More…]
Perhaps worst of all, his open support of the very small lawless group on the Gazelle Peninsula was quite insane and stupid if one realises how near this policy came to creating very serious trouble, possibly even the massacre of women and children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all die country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I submit this argument to the Minister: What will a loan of $1,000 do for a farmer with 2 or 3 children who is in a hopeless financial position? [More…]
What the Opposition wishes to see written into this Bill very speedily is that such people and their children will be given the opportunity to learn a trade or be employed profitably somewhere else. [More…]
Certainly the children of these farmers ought to be sent through technical college so that they may learn a trade in order to fit themselves into society. [More…]
Many of these children have left school at an early age. [More…]
These children are used to a way of life different from city life. [More…]
The Labor Party is most concerned about the future of the people and their children who will be displaced from farms. [More…]
If the Government has no concern for children, we have. [More…]
The measure affects 1 million Australian men, women and children. [More…]
Children will have their education curtailed and their future careers put in jeopardy. [More…]
In addition, the care of children born with congenital deformities as a result of the drug, Thalidomide, is undertaken in conjunction with the respective State Health departments. [More…]
In the case of limbs and appliances provided for children deformed through Thalidomide, half the cost is borne by the Commonwealth, with the other half being recoverable from the State Health departments. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include ail the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physical and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
It is also proposed that 50 paediatric beds be provided for the particular needs of Aboriginal children. [More…]
We were told that there are occasions when 2 children are accommodated in one bed in the paediatric ward. [More…]
We were later told that on occasions 4 Aboriginals children, if I am not mistaken, were accommodated in one large oxygen tent. [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…]
The Reverend Downing said that, of every SO Aboriginal children born in the Northern Territory, 11 will die in early childhood .We were told also that there is a deficiency of personnel, particularly nursing sisters in the Territory in this front line area of defence which is regarded so significantly- [More…]
As a result, many children who come from the back blocks and from settlements into the hospital contribute to its overcrowding. [More…]
That might sound a little like a cliche, but it is a lot more than a cliche when the lives of hundreds of young Aboriginal children are involved. [More…]
The situation would be quite different if they were the children of honourable members. [More…]
This will be an excellent facility, and the kind of facility to which any of us would be pleased and proud to send our own children. [More…]
I suppose that, if one deliberately set about a policy of assimilation, one could not go about it more effectively than by arranging to take the children away from their family at a certain age, to take them away from their tribal customs, to take them some hundreds of miles and for some years put them in a place in isolation from their parents. [More…]
But this is not the case with Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
We will not spend that kind of money in the Northern Territory because these children are Aboriginal children. [More…]
If they were white children we would probably go to the trouble of strategically locating these schools so that the children would not have to be away from their homes for very long. [More…]
But it is different with Aboriginal children. [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…]
I know that all my colleagues share the hope that, as some 300 Aboriginal children will attend the college, the coffers of the nation will be used to provide a small swimming pool for these children, many of whom might have come from areas where there are lovely rivers or creeks or from coastal areas. [More…]
In spite of what the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said, it is a great step forward because the Aboriginal children will not have to leave their natural environment. [More…]
As regards the honourable member’s remarks about whether or not we would do something for white children, I point out that there is a similar college in Alice Springs for coloured, part coloured and white children who come from stations. [More…]
I might add that my children, too, had to travel 300 miles into Alice Springs and that they were separated from their family. [More…]
One of the things that I have found most interesting in the Northern Territory on the occasions I have been there and have talked to the Aboriginal people has been the interest which Aboriginal people living in isolated places show in allowing their children to take advantage of the education which they are now receiving. [More…]
I hope this means that the secondary grant scheme for Aboriginals will be extended to children as young as 12 years who attend these colleges in Alice Springs and Darwin. [More…]
I hope this means that the Commonwealth similary will extend the scheme to Aboriginal children right throughout Australia when they go from primary school to secondary school. [More…]
we believe, to simply wipe off a widow with a flat payment of $13,500 and say: ‘You are paid’, irrespective of whether she is young with a number of dependent children or an elderly person without dependent children. [More…]
If $13,500 is the proper figure for a widow of 64 years of age with no children, then it is grossly under the amount that should apply in the case of a young widow of 26 or 27 years of age who has four or live dependent children to maintain. [More…]
Alternatively, if $13,500 can be’ justified as a wipe-off figure for a young widow with four or five young children then axiomatically $13,500 must be too much for the elderly widow without any children. [More…]
The proper approach is npt to attempt to get a lump sum payment to compensate widows for their loss but to’ pay thom, while they have dependent children relying upon them, a weekly compensation payment equal to the amount their deceased husbands would have received had they remained at work. [More…]
Once the ‘ children are no longer dependent she should receive an amount equal to 75 per cent of that figure, remembering all the time ‘that if the widow continued to receive the full income her husband previously earned she would pay taxation, just as her husband Would have paid it had he been employed. [More…]
For all we know, his distress could be a consequence of bis work, and that could be the reason he takes his own life, leaving his wife and little children behind. [More…]
I do not think it is right that a widow and little children should be made to suffer because of the breadwinner’s action. [More…]
For a married man the upper limit under South Australian legislation is $65, irrespective of the number of children he has. [More…]
Under the Commonwealth legislation a man and wife with 4 children receive $63.50, with 5 children they receive $68.50, and then there is a progressive increase for other children. [More…]
But up to the present time all that has haappened has been the making of variations in the weekly payments for an employee on compensation, plus extra payments for his wife and children if married. [More…]
To use the sort of language that my children use, it is not groovy material. [More…]
of section eighty-three, of this Act applies in relation to the person or in relation to the widow or widower or the children of the person, as the case may be, the last preceding paragraph shall be disregarded; and [More…]
of section eighty-three, of this Act applies in relation to the person or in relation to the widow or widower or the children of the person, as the case may be- [More…]
there shall be paid out of the Provident Account to the person, or to the widow, widower or children, in addition to the amount payable under that sub-section, an amount equal to the amount paid to the Board together with compound interest on that amount in respect of the period that commenced on the date on which the person became a contributor to the Provident Account and ended on the date on which he ceased to be such a contributor, at the rate or rates applicable under sub-section (3.) [More…]
But now, in 1971, a situation has developed which touches on a key community in New South Wales - a fine community of men, women and children who are involved in the cannery. [More…]
According to the AUS submission, only 2 per cent of children in the lower socio-economic classes get tertiary education’. [More…]
Mr Fairbairn’s statement on dropout rates confirms that we have another Liberal Minister for Education and Science who complacently contemplates a disgracefully immoral inequality of educational opportunity among children, and completely ignores the social and economic disasters these same children will have to bear in their lifetime as a result of his Party’s policies. [More…]
I am not going on to discuss disasters that may ensue to children in later life. [More…]
When it comes to the allowance for children - $200, shall we say, for the first child - the same thing applies. [More…]
Even Geelong Grammar, if it is not of an acceptable standard, should be brought up to an acceptable standard because there are children in it. [More…]
But the technical facilities that have been established, as a result of Commonwealth grants and State action, such as the Western Australian Institute of Technology, Leederville Technical School and Perth Technical School, are facilities which are used by children from both the private schools and the State schools alike. [More…]
I hope that I am not misquoting the Minister, but I think that he said that over a certain period of time 64 per cent more children were staying at State schools than before. [More…]
Only 16 per cent of State school children at one stage completed the full secondary course. [More…]
I do not say for a moment that all children should be forced to stay at school. [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…]
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…]
As I have said in the House before, at least at the primary level there are certain convent schools that have been a minus quantity in fees because nuns and others have actually fed migrant children from indigent families. [More…]
But the whole approach of .the Minister to the children in the State schools is wrong. [More…]
The evidence laid before the House in answer to a question asked by my colleague from Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) shows the disastrous fallout, particularly from the state schools of Australia, which the major proportion of the children of Australian attend. [More…]
Three-quarters of the children of Australia - offhand, I think the figure is something like 2 million - are in the State school systems of Australia. [More…]
I believe that the resolution is at least fair and that, generally speaking, in the school community this operation has been seen to have very considerable and specific advantages in the education of our children in secondary schools. [More…]
I think that they simply cannot understand the needs of the children who attend the schools which educate the majority of the children of Australia. [More…]
In fact a great many parents are sending their children to schools such as Geelong Grammar and other independent schools, but they have to make an extreme sacrifice, particularly at the present moment, in order to send them there, lt is interesting to see this reaction of the Opposition. [More…]
There does seem to be an opinion amongst members of the Opposition that people who can afford to send their children to schools other than the State schools should not under any circumstances receive any grants at all. [More…]
A brief summary of the facilities made available by the Commonwealth and State Governments and independent organisations for the education and training of mentally and physically handicapped children in Australia is contained in a bulletin prepared and issued by my Department entitled: ‘The Education of Handicapped Children’. [More…]
What is , the estimated: expenditure for the full financial year 1970-71 for (a) additional pension for second and subsequent children, (b) supplementary assistance for pensioners, (c) mother’s allowance for widow pensioners with children, (d) guardian’s allowance for aged and invalid pensioners with children, (e) double pension entitlement to widows or widowers for 12 weeks following the death of a spouse, (f) the aged persons’ homes scheme, (g) home nursing subsidy, (h) nursing home benefits, (i) subsidies for the provision of accommodation for disabled persons, (j) sheltered employment allowances, (k) training scheme for widow pensioners, (1) subsidies for dwellings for aged persons, (m) personal care subsidy for aged pensioners, (n) home care and paramedical services, (o) the meals on wheels subsidy, (p) television licence concessions for pensioners, (q) telephonerental concessions for pensioners, (r)Pensioner Medical Service Scheme, (s) pharmaceutical benefits for pensioners, (t) hearing aid service for pensioners and (u) aged persons’ income tax concessions. [More…]
way of care of pre-school aged children. [More…]
Is it a fact that existing parking facilities at the Kalgoorlie Airport are inadequate and that, in addition, a danger exists with regard to the movement of motor vehicles and small children. [More…]
What is the cost to the Commonwealth of the maintenance allowance for student children under section 82b (2.) [More…]
The annual cost to income tax revenue of deductions allowed under section 82b of the Income Tax Assessment Act for the maintenance) of student children is estimated to be approximately $13m. [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…]
and (12) The cost to income tax revenue of changing the definition of student children under section 82b (5.) [More…]
ment Act as in (a), (b) and (c), and the cost oj increasing the maximum deduction for student children to $312 are not known. [More…]
A Basic Agreement with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) was signed on 21st December 1967. [More…]
From the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): [More…]
The estimated number of children of school age living in the Northern Territory (at least 5 years and under 16 years) are: [More…]
On this basis, it is estimated that income tax revenue would be approximately $125m greater if payments on life and personal accident insurance policies in respect of taxpayers, their spouses and children were not allowed as income tax deductions. [More…]
Are there any impediments in the way of Australian servicemen arranging the adoption of Vietnamese children. [More…]
Can he say whether United States Army procedures enable United States soldiers to arrange the adoption of Vietnamese children without difficulty. [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…]
The position in regard to United States soldiers wishing to adopt Vietnamese children is similar to that of our own servicemen. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. [More…]
Labor would provide war service bornes, repatriation health benefits, civilian rehabilitation training, scholarships for their children and generous re-engagement, retirement and resettlement allowances for members of the forces. [More…]
Officers and men have conducted English classes for adults and children. [More…]
Our OXFAM representative West Bengal reports 10,000 children will die in 3 weeks and general worsening refugee situation. [More…]
I am afraid that many of the children whom I saw at the time I was there are beyond any help. [More…]
It is true to say that they have sufficient food to sustain them for a short period of time but it is equally true that the small children who are there and are suffering from malnutrition, cholera, typhoid and other diseases are not being given that extra food and those extra vitamins or drugs which would enable them to return to full health. [More…]
The message that has been conveyed to us on behalf of Oxfam today by the Save the Children Fund organisation states that 100,000 children will die. [More…]
I attended a Save the Children Fund hospital at Kaliani About 40 children are being brought into the hospital each day right on the very edge of death. [More…]
While we were at the hospital several children passed away. [More…]
They are not in any position to bring in all the sick children. [More…]
They bring children in for treatment only when they are on the very edge of death. [More…]
So there is the humanitarian consideration of the fact that hundreds of thousands of small children and other people in this area will die of starvation and famine. [More…]
What were the numbers and percentages of (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children living in the Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay area of the Australian Capital Territory who (i) were enrolled for the first year of secondary education in 1966 and (ii) were still attending secondary school in (A) 1969 and (B) 1971? [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals, and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals nad way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
In later years I have ensured that every single cent of it was paid to social or organisations of a similar kind in my electorate, particularly to the people who look after sub-normal children in the Eureela homes in Burwood. [More…]
He was, however, prepared to conscript other people’s children. [More…]
Women had to sell their children, the new born babies, in the street by the pound. [More…]
Nevertheless, the position of orphans and children will be given special consideration when the results of the quinquennial investigations of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Funds become available during the next 12 months. [More…]
I make this offer to the honourable member for Wannon: If he will come to the federal division of Sturt I will accord him every courtesy and opportunity to look at some df the shocking conditions that children and teachers have to put up with as a result of mismanagement, lack of understanding and lack of foresight. [More…]
below tb, 20th parallel) and that during this period 50 children died before they reached 12 months. [More…]
However, the attitudes of the Aborigines themselves to normal concepts of hygiene, the implications of the life style which most Aborigines choose to follow and the absence of family planning leading to the inadequate spacing of children are significant contributing factors to the Infant Mortality Rate. [More…]
While communal feeding services provide free planned meals for infants, Aboriginal parents frequently have to be reminded of the desirability of regular and adequate feeding for their children. [More…]
How many families in Canberra with more than four children were waiting for transfers from (a) 2-bedroom and (b) 3-bedroom government houses to larger government accommodation at 30 April 1971? [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our national identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of radio and television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our national identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of radio and television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our national identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of radio and television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The female parole board has as its chairman the permanent member of the male board and three other women who at present are the Convener of the Female Prisoners’ Council, an ex-governor of a female prison and a children’s court magistrate. [More…]
No advertisements for alcoholic liquor may be televised or broadcast in proximity to programmes for children or at times when the audience may be expected to include large numbers of young people. [More…]
Young people, whether children or adolescents, must not be allowed to participate in the presentation of these advertisements. [More…]
If not, will the Minister arrange for consultations to be held in view of the number of large underprivileged problem families wilh most of the children unplanned and inadequately provided for? [More…]
On this basis all staff who are employed specifically as teachers have some form of teaching qualification, although these qualifications may not necessarily be specifically in relation to the teaching of pre-school aged children. [More…]
The Austalian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he has had his attention drawn to a telegram from Mr Raymond Cournoyer leader of the Oxfam Relief Organisation in Bengal, to the effect that 200,000 refugee children between 1 and 5 years of age are in danger of death through malnutrition within the next 10 days, that half may be saved but at least 100,000 will die anyway, and that elderly people are also suffering. [More…]
The Government deplores the enormous suffering and death that are occurring in this region, not only to children but also, due to disease, lack of food and exposure, to adults in very large numbers. [More…]
He said his Government would not be a satellite of any power, but every person, even school children, in this country know that this Government has been a satellite of the United States of America in regard to its policy towards Vietnam. [More…]
But those of us who regard our children as something more than useful enhancements of our political images will, on their behalf, condemn you as being both self-seeking and irresponsible. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The new requirement in relation to Australian content was announced in November last year with particular regard to drama, children’s programmes and the total number of hours which were to be used in the evenings for television purposes. [More…]
I have I day at home with my family and that is usually on Saturday because the children play football. [More…]
Those functions have been connected with the Country Women’s Association, the Red Cross Society, the Crippled Children’s Association and the Returned Services League. [More…]
They are: Firstly a handful of longestablished relatively affluent suburbs; secondly an increasingly depressed countryside; and thirdly the vast new growth of outer suburbs and the old inner suburbs with poor services and amenities, where most of our children and migrants live. [More…]
In each of these sections, in all parts of the nation, there are 2 groups which suffer particular discrimination, particular alienation: First the old, the widowed, the sick, the retarded - that enormous group of our fellow citizens who are wholly or mainly dependent on the community: “.nd, the young, the school children. [More…]
But I find it a cheap reference to all those parents who make sacrifices to send their children to religious schools. [More…]
It is utter imbecility on the part of the Leader of the Opposition to suggest that only the very wealthy send their children to schools for which they pay fees in addition to the taxes they already pay to help to run the state school system. [More…]
This may well be true, but it is a disgrace that so many of our young people and children of migrants who have come to this land believing it to be a land of promise are denied opportunities which are their right and which they should not have to beg for. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our national identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of radio and television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
We must give incentives to production and development and we must protect our social security, educate our children and guard our national security and welfare. [More…]
There are economic advantages to the general taxpayers for if all children now enrolled in the independent schools were to transfer to the government schools … at least an additional Si 30m a year would be involved in the running costs of the government schools. [More…]
Of the children who commence secondary school, of those going to government schools only 25 per cent go right through to their sixth year: of those going to the Catholic schools only 32 per cent go through to their sixth year; while some 81 per cent of the pupils of the other private schools go right through to their sixth year. [More…]
In 1970 in New South Wales alone there were 535 Catholic primary schools teaching 123,000 children. [More…]
There were 182 Catholic secondary schools teaching 65,000 children. [More…]
The proportions of children in New South Wales in 1969 who were being catered for by the various education channels are as follows: Government schools, 77.13 per cent; other non-government schools, 3.24 per cent; and Catholic schools 19.63 per cent. [More…]
It should also be noted that there is evidence of a drop in the number of children attending Catholic schools. [More…]
I think it would be more economically sound for a government to keep open the schools which educate children at a cost lower than that at which a government school can educate them. [More…]
It is educationally sound that the Government should support variety and flexibility in schools, especially as that would allow the citizens the democratic right to choose the type of education they want their children to receive. [More…]
I say in all honesty that the parents of children attending Catholic schools are not asking the Government to prop up a moribund school system. [More…]
Returning to the increases included in the Budget, I refer to the Si increase granted to wives of pensioners when the wife is under 60 years of age and has an incapacitated husband or has children under her care. [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…]
The future needs in education for Australia’s children are surely of sufficient priority to make the Government realise its obligations in this field so that the full potential of this nation can be realised. [More…]
Whilst I fully agree with the principle of the expenditure on study and grants for the secondary education of Aboriginal children, I also feel that insufficient is being done for the education of Aboriginal children at the primary and pre-school level. [More…]
As I stated, there is nothing wrong with the secondary education grants system in principle but far too many Aboriginal children do not have the opportunity, for various reasons, to avail themselves of these grants. [More…]
I recently had a conversation with a headmaster at one Aboriginal school in my electorate, and in answer to a question of mine he informed me that because of the circumstances the children would be educated only to the 4th grade primary standard, so it is obvious that very few, if any, of these children will be able to avail themselves of the assistance being given at the secondary level. [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…]
An inquiry is to be held into the mortality rate of Aboriginal children in the Alice Springs area. [More…]
This would enable Aboriginal children, many of whom are culturally deprived and living in fringe dwelling areas and the like, by the time they got to primary school to have a reasonable chance of pacing it with children from the broader Australian community. [More…]
Tragically, once again the claims of our children have been ignored. [More…]
This will barely offset the rises in costs due to inflation and will not take into account the increase in the population of children in schools, an increase due to immigration, our own birth rate and also the longer time children are now expected to stay at school. [More…]
Unless we face up to this fact, our children will be inadequately educated and so placed at a distinct disadvantage in the future world where increasing technology will demand higher levels of education for a large proportion of the population. [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 should like to comment specifically on 2 matters of great concern - the age pension and assistance to families with 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…]
Teachers are frustrated in trying to cope with the present teaching situation let alone coping with sickness, staff shortages, increases in the student population and few remedial classes for backward children and slow learning children. [More…]
No provision is made for large shelter areas - halls where children can assemble to eat their meals on winter days. [More…]
The standard rate of pension payable to single people and widows with children is to be increased by $1.25 to $17.25 a week. [More…]
It would hit very hard a large percentage of people who own their own homes and are getting on in years and those who, at the other end of the scale, have young children at school. [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…]
Male teachers are saying: T can mike more money selling insurance’ or T can make more money and can look after my wife and children better by selling used cars’. [More…]
Our teaching service is subsisting where it can by the employment of working wives - women who have raised their children and who are unable to cope financially. [More…]
That there are 37 children in our class as there is a teacher shortage; [More…]
That we do not think children who wish to learn should be made to suffer in a situation which was not caused by, them. [More…]
Is he aware that Dr Kalokerinos believes that an inquiry ought to be held immediately into this very important matter which involves the lives of Australian children? [More…]
Henty in the work of Dr Kalokerinos in the field of the welfare of Aboriginal children, particularly in parts of the central north west of New South Wales, and of his views on the importance of vitamin C. Dr Kalokerinos has recently been in parts of the Northern Territory and has been examining what are in his view the causes of infant mortality there, particularly in Alice Springs. [More…]
The views that he has put forward expose a method of therapy for Aboriginal children different from the therapy usually employed in the Northern Territory at the present time. [More…]
I was able to point out that arrangements have already been made by the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to ensure that in each period of 28 statistical periods there must be not less than 50 per cent of programmes of Australian origin transmission between 6 a.m. and 12 midnight; secondly, between the key hours of 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. not less than 45 per cent of programme transmission time shall consist of programmes of Australian origin, this requirement to be increased to 50 per cent from 26th June; that between the hours of 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. not less than 6 hours shall consist of first release Australian drama; and finally that not less than 4 hours shall consist of programmes for children of school age designed and produced in Australia under the supervision of persons qualified for this work and based on the recommendations contained in the ‘Television Programme Standards’. [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…]
Standard rate pensioners with means assessed between $11 and $13.50 per week will receive graduated increases calculated in such a way that the pension and means as assessed together will total $27.25 per week plus, of course, any extra allowances for dependent children. [More…]
Married rate pensioners with means as assessed between $9.50 and $11.50 per week will receive graduated increases calculated to ensure that the pension and means as assessed will total $23.75 per week ($47.50 per week for a married couple) plus, of course, any extra allowances for dependent children. [More…]
It does not, of course, measure the whole of the improvement, since in addition we have brought in supplementary assistance and extra allowances for children, besides introducing new fringe benefits whose average value is of the order of $5 a week. [More…]
I now come to the provisions of the Bill which are specifically oriented towards the family and the welfare of children. [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…]
The rate of endowment payable in respect of the 20,000 children under 16 years of age in approved institutions will be increased by 50c to $2 a week. [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…]
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 Chifley 90c, which was payable only to certain invalid pensioners, was increased to $1.15 in 1951, and in 1956 second and subsequent children became eligible for an allowance of $1 a week. [More…]
This allowance was then extended to the second and subsequent children of widows. [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…]
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…]
I have set out this history in some detail, because it shows the development of a plan to provide an entirely new treatment of children in bereaved or deprived circumstances. [More…]
From the position under the Chifley Government, where a widow received nothing extra for her children beyond her 50c a week, and invalid pensioners got only 90c a week allowance altogether, however many children they had, we have now progressed to the point where all children of pensioners- - age, invalid and widow - are to receive $4.50 a week each; where all widows with dependent children are entitled to a mother’s allowance of $4 a week; where some widows are also entitled to an extra mother’s allowance of S2 a week; and where some invalid and age pensioners are also entitled to a guardian’s allowance of $4 a week or $6 a week. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members I incorporate in Hansard the following table showing the position of a widow with dependent children. [More…]
This Budget, as I have said, is especially oriented towards the needs of dependent children, particularly towards the needs of children in deprived families, where bereavement or invalidity has struck. [More…]
Recent Liberal-Country Party governments have pioneered several new fields such as aid to handicapped children, subsidies to Meals on Wheels and voluntary bodies; a greater programme of decentralisation of operations; a new approach to rehabilitation services; an expanded programme of aged persons’ housing; and a complete overhaul of the scheme of Com.mouwealth Employees’ Compensation. [More…]
These will benefit the more seriously disabled ex-servicemen and the widows and children of deceased exservicemen whose death was related to war service. [More…]
Specifically the Bill provides for increased payments to ex-servicemen who are totally incapacitated from war related disabilities or tuberculosis; to those whose incapacity allows them to work only part time or intermittently; to those who need the assistance of an attendant; to those who have lost one or more limbs or an eye; and to war widows and the children of ex-servicemen whose death was related to war service. [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…]
On the other hand, a TPI pensioner with a wife and 2 children, who also receives a service pension, but with no other means, will receive a total family increase of $5.12 a week. [More…]
Clause 3 also increases the pension rates in respect of the children of deceased seamen coming under the Act. [More…]
One bedroom flats were not constructed exclusively for single persons and it has always been the practice to allocate one bedroom flats to married couples without children who prefer this form of accommodation. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The other point, and a much more important one perhaps, of which the South Australian Minister took no note that I can recall, is that those allowances are of specific advantage to people in remote country areas whose only prospect of giving their children the kind of education they would like to give them is to send them to boarding schools. [More…]
in a national education programme; it lies in the consciousness of parents of the need to educate their children on the dangers of smoking and of taking other dangerous drugs. [More…]
I refer to the impact and the result of concessional deductions for the wife and children. [More…]
A further most significant measure was the increases granted in the additional pensions payable where a pensioner has dependent children. [More…]
The Sisters and lay preachers are utterly devoted to educating the children in this school. [More…]
and (b) (i) In 1969 there were 68,644 children in Australia enrolled at Government preschool centres and at centres run by organisations affiliated to the Australian; Pre-school Association. [More…]
The earliest figures available for .previous years relate to 1963 when an estimated 47,350 children were enrolled at pre-school centres, representing 9.7 per cent of the eligible population as defined in (i) above. [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…]
How many (a) invalid and (b) age pensioners have (i) one and (ii) two or more dependent children. [More…]
What is the total number of children involved and the cost of providing the increased rates as outlined in the 1971 Budget. [More…]
It is estimated that approximately 41,000 children of age and invalid pensioners will benefit from the increased rates announced in the Budget. [More…]
How many of these wives have dependent children. [More…]
What is the cost in a full year of the increased rates proposed in the 1971 Budget for non-pensioner wives and dependent children. [More…]
Detailed statistics for the total number oi non-pensioner wives of invalid and age pensioners with dependent children are not maintained. [More…]
pensioners’ wives who were receiving wives’ allowances had dependent children. [More…]
The number of non-pensioner wives of invalid and age pensioners who have dependent children and are not paid a wife’s allowance would be negligible. [More…]
The estimated full year cost of the increased rate for dependent children proposed in the Budget is $3. [More…]
Of this amount $2.5m is in respect of dependent children, of invalid pensioners and $0.7m in respect of dependent children of age pensioners. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the Government’s announced proposal to assist the States in helping mothers of children who are not eligible for benefit under the Social Services Act Broadly, they are deserted wives during the first six months of desertion, wives during the first six months of the husband’s imprisonment, deserted de .facto wives and de facto wives of prisoners and other unmarried mothers.’ [More…]
Are children of bigamous marriages regarded as qualifying children for widows’ pensions. [More…]
How .many Aboriginal and Island children in the (a) States, (b) Northern Territory, and (c) Australian Capital Territory received a pre-school education during the year 1969. [More…]
Some Aboriginal children attend ordinary pre-schools and generally figures of Aboriginal enrolments are not available. [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs states that in Queensland approximately 500 Aboriginal and Islander children attended community pre-school centres in 1969. [More…]
Complete figures were not available for South Australia, but the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs reports that 94 Aboriginal children are known to have attended pre-schools in 1969. [More…]
As at 30th June 1969, 342’ children were known to the Commissioner of Native Welfare to be attending pre-schools in Western Australia. [More…]
In 1969, 540 Aboriginal children were attending Administration (Welfare Branch) pre-schools in the Northern Territory; 150 were attending mission pre-schools and 79 were attending community pre-schools operated by the Department of Education and Science - a total of 769 children. [More…]
There were 13 Aboriginal children enrolled at the Wreck Bay pre-school in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Much of the current thought on future planning stems from the many recommendations made at a Workshop on Health and Nutrition in Aboriginal Children held in Sydney in December 1969 and which was .attended by representatives of Universities, Public Health Departments and workers from welfare and social organisations. [More…]
What percentage of accepted claims are subsequently cancelled, for reasons other than increased income, age of children or re-marriage. [More…]
If the Government wants to use tradition as a means of denying democracy, it may as well say that Lord Shaftesbury would not have done anything about children in the mines. [More…]
At the present time there are 192 patients in the hospital, comprising 53 European adults, 15 European children, which is about the normal figure, 49 Aboriginal adults, which is also about the normal figure, and 69 Aboriginal children, which is a rather low figure. [More…]
In the children’s ward where 3 or 4 months ago a very serious situation existed the number of patients is at its lowest for the past 12 months. [More…]
An intensive care unit is to be built this year and it is expected that this will prevent a recurrence of the state of affairs which brought about the death and cross infection of so many children in this hospital. [More…]
Measles was a great killer of Aboriginal children in years gone by. [More…]
Back in 1845 the explorer Eyre discovered that it was unusual to find an Aboriginal family with more than 2 children. [More…]
In those days an Aboriginal family with 4 children was rare. [More…]
Today it is not uncommon to find an Aboriginal family with 6 or 7 children. [More…]
It can be seen that there has been a terrific build-up of the Aboriginal children population. [More…]
These families are desperately in need of health and hygiene education and education on family planning, ft has been reported that 50 per cent of Aboriginal children are under the age of 15 years. [More…]
In the case of Aboriginal children 19.3 per cent are under 5 years of age; 12.9 per cent of white children fall in this group. [More…]
It is a major social upheaval for these people to have to travel 200 to J00 miles to a hospital and very often the children go with the parents. [More…]
This does not do the children any good and it certainly does not do the parents any good. [More…]
The Aboriginal families would remain in their own districts and would not have to travel with their children many miles from home to Alice Springs or some other hospital. [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…]
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…]
I am certain that his children will not be denied the benefits of pre-school education and I am equally certain, that by his decision many thousands of Australian children who should in all fairness be entitled to the same opportunity at this level of education will be denied a pre-school education. [More…]
I trust it will very soon be thought to be adequate for him to live in with his wife and children. [More…]
How can the Prime Minister claim to be proud of the quality of life of Australians when his Government denies equality of opportunity for pre-school children and handicaps the parents of many thousands of Australian children who were hopefully awaiting the assistance which was part of the mandate he once claimed to have inherited? [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…]
Last year the average wage earner with no dependents would have received about $35 more a year as a result of the increases in that Budget, but when this is compared with the average wage earner with a wife and 2 children it shows, in the comparison of figures that I have taken out, that the additional amount he would have received over the 12 months would have been only $20, which is $15 less than the single man’s increase for the 12 months period. [More…]
It is the foster parent for thousands of children of people lost in the wars. [More…]
In 1971 every building that the children occupy is nearly 40 years older than those the children occupied in 1938. [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…]
Within a month 100,000 children from East Pakistan are expected to die. [More…]
more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children. [More…]
The immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aborigines, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children. [More…]
The provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
Let me refer to the case of child endowment for 3 children under 16 years. [More…]
No matter how long standing, how loving or how commendable in so many ways has been a relationship between her and her de facto spouse, in the event of his death she will have no right for herself or her children to social service benefits from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
But if an invalid pensioner has illegitimate children - no matter whether she has one or a dozen - she is entitled to assistance from the Department of Social Services for each of those children. [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…]
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…]
The significance is that it is an established fact that children who have the opportunity to attend a pre-school develop certain personal skills; develop a better ability to handle conceptualisation; they develop their tactile abilities and so on and in addition they develop certain personality traits which allow them to adjust to group environment more easily. [More…]
The result of all this is that when these children go to primary schools they make progress much more easily. [More…]
The evidence is quite convincing that this is a great advantage to these children. [More…]
If I can tie up all these school factors, indicating as they do, that many are missing out while some are doing particularly well, if we are prepared to use the educational system in this community as a special supplement to make up for the cultural deprivation of so many children we can make considerable progress in combating poverty insofar as attitudes and abilities are concerned. [More…]
What we need is a highly enriched system of education for our children who live in this poverty area but we cannot restrict ourselves there. [More…]
We have to go beyond the children and work within the homes because unless we are prepared to do this the work being done in the schools - the creative constructive and progressive work that is done there - will be seriously undermined. [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…]
There will also be an increase of 50c in child endowment for the third and subsequent children. [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…]
I have been in a house in India where 76 people were living under the one roof; the sons and daughters have married and their children have married and have had more children and so on. [More…]
His children were, of course, his means of obtaining social services. [More…]
The lesson, of course, was that he was not only looked after by his children but also he received their love and affection and, perhaps of even greater importance, had respect and dignity in old age. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members 1 incorporate in Hansard a table showing the estimated cost to revenue of allowing deductions in respect of the 1967- 68 income year - the last year for which these figures are available - on account of spouses and equivalents, children under 16 years of age, student children, net medical expenses, life insurance and superannuation payments, education expenses and gifts. [More…]
It shows, for example, that the cost to revenue in the year in question was, in round figures, $126m for allowances for spouses and equivalents; $164m for children’s allowances; $ 106m for medical expenses allowances; $191m for life insurance and superannuation pay ments allowances; $70m for education expenses allowances; and $12m for gifts allowances. [More…]
That appeared to me to be a very old fashioned and anachronistic sort of attitude, and it is not just distressing, it is absolutely appalling to find that that is still the situation today, except for pensioners with children in the family. [More…]
If people have lived and worked in Australia long enough to qualify for the age pension - that means at least 10 years - and if thereafter they prefer to return to their original homeland or to settle in some other country whether to rejoin their children who may have migrated or for some other reason, why should we prevent them from doing so? [More…]
There have been very substantial increases in children’s and guardians’ allowances. [More…]
Deserted wives and their dependent children also will benefit. [More…]
So many of these people come to these towns with 3, 4 or 5 children and virtually only the clothes which they wear. [More…]
It is most important to bring deserted wives back into the general community and to retrain them for jobs so that they can earn and provide their children with better education. [More…]
The local women have introduced them to their social institutions and have looked after the children while the deserted wives have been trained for employment. [More…]
It should not be necessary for me to refer to the assistance that is provided in respect of handicapped children. [More…]
Throughout the Australian community there are’ vast numbers of children who are handicapped in some way. [More…]
It is only when a school for handicapped children is established that people appreciate just how many children are involved. [More…]
It is surprising to see the number of such children in small country towns. [More…]
A great job is being done in the provision of training centres and of teachers for handicapped children. [More…]
One of the great values of organisations like Meals on Wheels and those bodies which look after handicapped children is that they involve the people of a community. [More…]
If there is one thing that people in trouble, invalids, old people and handicapped children need, it is sympathy and understanding. [More…]
He has never known what it is to be unable to buy decent clothes and a pair of shoes for children to wear to school. [More…]
It would appear that the Government is showing little concern about assisting mothers to bring children into this world. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
I am prepared to say that Class A widows, widows with dependent children, have come out of this legislation best of all. [More…]
They will receive a reasonable increase, particularly in respect of dependent children. [More…]
She is called the Class B widow, the widow who has no dependent children and who is over the age of 50 and has not yet turned 60. [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…]
There are many other benefits and concessions provided by the Government that assist parents in maintaining children. [More…]
The cost of revenue to the Government through providing concessional deductions for children in respect of education exceeds $250m a year. [More…]
Health insurance rates for a family with children - however many children - are pegged at the rate applicable for a married couple without children. [More…]
Special assistance is also provided for handicapped children and for children of pensioners. [More…]
All these matters indicate the attitude of a responsible Government, which is to provide benefits in respect of children in a way which will help in making them better citizens of tomorrow. [More…]
It does not, of course, measure the whole of the improvement, since in addition we have brought in supplementary assistance and extra allowances for children, besides introducing new fringe benefits whose average value is of the order of $5 a week. [More…]
Even where increases are given, such as in endowment for families of 3 or more children, a very large part, if not all, of that increase will be regathered by the Treasury through increased charges imposed by the Government upon several articles which the majority of families find necessary to purchase. [More…]
This Budget, as 1 have said, is especially oriented towards the needs of dependent children. [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…]
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 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 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…]
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 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…]
Consequently, married couples are putting off having children. [More…]
In 1951, it introduced medical benefits for pensioners, aged persons income tax concessions and pharmaceutical benefits for pensioners; in 1954 the Government instituted the aged persons homes scheme; in 1956 it introduced television licence concessions for pensioners and additional pension benefits for second and subsequent children; in 1957, the Government introduced a home nursing subsidy; in 1958, supplementary assistance for pensioners was introduced; in 1963, it introduced nursing home benefits; in 1964 the Government introduced telephone rental concessions for pensioners; in 1965 the guardians allowances for pensioners with children was implemented; in 1968 it introduced hearing aid services and special temporary allowances; in 1969 there was introduced the subsidy for dwellings for aged persons and a personal care subsidy for aged pensioners and home care and paramedical services; and, in 1970, the Government introduced the Meals on Wheels subsidy. [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…]
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…]
If they have children of the marriage and become technically deserted wives when they find out that the husband is already married and is incapable of maintaining them, the only way they can obtain any relief from the Commonwealth is by an act of grace payment from the [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…]
One has only to drive down Sydney Road, pause for a few minutes and take a step to the left or the right down any of the streets, knock on the second, third or fourth door and one will find pensioners, migrants, children and deserted wives living in poverty. [More…]
But children have always been a necessity of life, and this is something of which this Government has continuously taken account. [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…]
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…]
Briefly, the Government aspires, among other things, to a high rate of economic expansion, a growing population and work force, better educated children and full employment. [More…]
It is a sad commentary on our achievements when a man has to spend up to 20 per cent of his waking hours travelling to and from work, when weather forecasts include the level of eye irritation likely from exposure to the atmosphere, when traffic police can spend only minutes on traffic duty and children are not allowed to play outside because of atmospheric pollution, when the individual becomes depersonalised and lashes out with all sorts of anti-social behaviour, when the city becomes just too big for the good of the people living in it. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals and way of life, particularly through the media of radio and television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
The point I make is that the Government is looking to the future in building these large schools for pre-school and infant children so I certainly commend the Government for its planning. [More…]
The population of the major towns in the Territory is increasing at a rate of over1 1 per cent and these projects indicate that the Government is looking to the future and planning the schooling of the increased numbers of children which must result from this population growth. [More…]
The improvements to the pensions and allowances will benefit the more seriously disabled ex-servicemen, the widows and the children. [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…]
I congratulate the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Government on giving extra consideration to war widows and their children or to the orphaned children of ex-servicemen. [More…]
The rate for a married TPI pensioner with 2 Children is $49.30 while the net minimum wage of a married person with 2 children, after payment of income tax, is $43.55. [More…]
According to my figures, the TPI rate paid to a married man with 2 children is about $6 a week more than the minimum wage. [More…]
The fact is that in this Budget and in the last Budget the TPI pension rate has been increased by $338 a year, and the war widow with 2 children will receive an additional $369 tax free. [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…]
How many of their children born in Australia left with them. [More…]
Were these children Australian citizens. [More…]
What rights do these children have to return to Australia (a) with or (b) without assistance. [More…]
As I informed the Honourable Leader of the Opposition by letter dated 1st July 1971. in reply to a telegram which he directed to me on 24th June 1971 seeking information concerning the number of Australian born children who have left Australia during the preceding 12 months on account of the deportation of one or both of their parents, only 5 Australian children left for that reason. [More…]
The departure of Australian born children in these circumstances has never been recorded for statistical purposes. [More…]
1 believe, however, that the number of Australian children departing as a consequence of one or both parents being deported would have been minimal and probably of the same order during each of the past 5 years. [More…]
Requests for assisted passages by Australians who were taken overseas as children by their parents for residence, are considered on their merits. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Immigration whether his attention has been drawn to the case of an American, Mr James O’Leary, his wife and 13 children, who entered Australia on a 2-day visitors’ visa and who are now living on their broken-down boat which is moored in a Queensland swamp. [More…]
Does he know that this man’s wife is a naturalised Australian and that his children are Australians by birth? [More…]
Under a third proposal a concessional deduction will be available for legal expenses and fees incurred by taxpayers in adopting children. [More…]
In fact, it is advocated that a person should have one television set for himself and one for the children so that he can look at the programmes he wants to see and does not have to look at what the children want to see. [More…]
It is amazing when one considers that all of those people - men, women and children - who live in my constituency could be employed in some manner by the Australian Post Office. [More…]
I was very impressed with the sincerity of 2 of my constituents who complained to me about their telephone account - a man and wife with no children. [More…]
I carefully questioned them as to whether their children could be using the telephone without their knowledge, but they replied that they had no children. [More…]
In particular, would the honourable gentleman ask of the 2 High Commissioners whether there is any need for milk biscuits to be supplied to children who, I understand, are dying in their thousands from stark starvation? [More…]
As with other rural areas, a need exists for policies to assist with education for country children, employment for country people, for rural reconstruction and for retraining schemes for people forced to leave farms or affected in other ways by redundancy. [More…]
In country areas today, people are experiencing the greatest difficulty in maintaining children at schools and universities away from home. [More…]
I suppose it was that same sense of responsibility that has prevented the Government from giving help to thousands, of elderly people in nursing homes who are paying upwards of $30 a week and it was the same sense of responsibility that prevented it from providing assistance to kindergartens to help mothers with children in such places while they go to work. [More…]
No old people want to be a burden on their children and no children want to sec their parents in circumstances of need. [More…]
I think the time has come when, in the interests of humanity and in the interests of those young children who have to be brought up with the attendant requirements of education and the rest, the pension for a civilian widow with a family should be immediately reviewed by the Government. [More…]
It will accelerate the enrolment of Catholic children in State schools simply because parents will be unable to pay the higher fees which must be levied to keep the independent schools semi-solvent. [More…]
Opponents of state aid argue that Catholics are free to enrol their children in State schools and if they elect not to do so then they must be prepared to pay again. [More…]
These schools are catering for children of parents who are not amongst the affluent members of our society. [More…]
More than 100 migrant children are attending special classes in education and to provide for these children there are 1 1 lay teachers as well as religious teachers. [More…]
The bishops are deeply concerned at the increasing financial burdens falling upon parents, many of whom, for conscientious reasons wish to enrol their children in independent schools. [More…]
Is it a fact that only a small fraction of parents can afford to spend over $300 per annum on the education of their children and thereby benefit from the increase? [More…]
Can the Minister state how many parents of children at government schools will benefit from the increase and how many parents who have children at the affluent independent schools such as those attended by the children of most members of Cabinet will benefit? [More…]
The fact that this allowance exists enables and encourages them to make an additional effort to send their children to a boarding school. [More…]
Very often this is the only way in which people living in remote areas can get their children to a school which they would prefer and which they believe is desirable. [More…]
The Treasurer has also given an assurance that the position of orphans and children will be given further consideration when the ninth quinquennial investigation of the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund and the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is completed. [More…]
I think that we all agree that the widows and children who suffer under the Commonwealth scheme, the defence forces scheme and the parliamentary scheme, as well as those under private schemes, should receive the benefits which are now being offered to them. [More…]
Special consideration will be given, in a 5-year examination that is about to commence, to the position of orphans and children. [More…]
You might be all right, if you have your own garden around Rabaul, getting a wage of $7 or $7.50 a week, but if you are getting $7 a week in Port Moresby and living in a shanty and not near your own gardens it very probably means tuberculosis for yourself, tuberculosis for your children and a very unsatisfactory condition. [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…]
It goes without saying that the cost to parents of educating their children, particularly at independent schools, has risen in the last 6 years much more sharply than will be fully allowed for by means of the increase of $100 proposed in this Budget. [More…]
If we believe, as honourable members on this side of the House certainly believe, in the virtues of a free enterprise society - perhaps those virtues are not practised now as much as they ought to be - and if we believe that a healthy diversity comes from the institution which is known as a pluralist society, the Government should be encouraging individuals in the community to be self-reliant wherever possible in relation to such activities as the education of their children. [More…]
Therefore it seems to me it should be a prime task of government in the field of education to encourage parents to invest in the education of their children in the independent school system if that be their will. [More…]
lt seems to me that it is also important that the independent school system should not become the preserve of a thin upper crust of the children of very high income earners. [More…]
We would be encouraging parents not to rely on the State at all times, which they are entitled to do if they wish in relation to the education of their children. [More…]
It will not of course be used solely in aid of the independent school system because it must be borne in mind that parents of children at government schools are entitled to claim a concessional deduction in respect of incidental expenses arising from the education of their children at those schools. [More…]
We on this side of the House must remember that in 1969 a great initiative was taken with the avowed aim of enabling the independent schools to continue in the future to provide the services that they ought to be able to provide to maintain a healthy national condition in the education of the children of this country. [More…]
However, it is perfectly plain that by reason of greatly increased financial assistance given to the States this Government has taken the view that the States from now on can undertake more of the responsibility of making per capita grants to parents of children in independent schools in aid of the education of those children. [More…]
Therefore, if this position is to be remedied, the Government should act and act quickly within the framework of the taxation system to make it possible for people on lower incomes, if they so desire, to keep their children in independent schools. [More…]
They have come up there to have their families of 2 or 3 children and in the foreseeable future they will have to put up with the problem of airport noise. [More…]
The Minister got up, and attempted to defend the crowded hospital situation in which the children of this nation were sleeping on the floor. [More…]
Acting on behalf of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Government hired a Hercules aircraft from Pacific Western Airlines Ltd of Vancouver to make 3 flights to India in June. [More…]
Bearing in mind that the present system of concessional tax deductions confers greater benefits on taxpayers with higher incomes than on taxpayers with low incomes, will the honourable gentleman have an investigation made as to the feasibility - and, as one aspect of feasibility, the cost to revenue - of amending the taxation law so as to provide for taxpayers who incur expenses on such items as educating their children the option of a tax rebate up to a certain amount in respect of such expenses as an alternative to claiming a concessional deduction? [More…]
Did the Minister, when he introduced this scheme, quote figures which indicated that the scheme would cover a total of 184,000 families, or over half a million adults and children, living in poverty or near poverty? [More…]
At that time it related to payment of child endowment for the second and subsequent children. [More…]
We have heard the equally unsmart remark that the generation gap is nonsense because fathers have a habit of being older than their children. [More…]
The children of this affluence may well realise that with all of our vaunted growth this century has produced more wars, more mass murders, more systematic genocide, more ecological catastrophes, more alienation, more crime, more ugliness, more noise than any previous age. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition has said, a man on $3,000 a year will have to spend $4 to get a $1 reduction in his tax whereas a man on $30,000 a year will get a tax reduction of $2 for every $3 he spends on educating his children. [More…]
As to the demand for more schools - and 1 do not deny that many more are required - migrant children represent only a little more than 9 per cent of the school children population. [More…]
There is a demand for higher educational standards and it is a fact that children today stay at school much longer than did children of earlier generations. [More…]
This increase in population to the extent I have mentioned will not affect us and it may not affect our children but 1 believe that the actions which our generation takes today will have a tremendous effect on the lives of future generations. [More…]
The committee’s president, Mr Ian Aird, said today: ‘We have heard that children in many schools are bored by it and pay scant regard . [More…]
“The question is how best to get this idea to the children.’ [More…]
The idea of the tradition of Australia and the sacrifice that has been made so that children can go to school should be taught to the children. [More…]
Parents should teach their children and instil into them the traditions of Anzac and the other sacrifices that have been made in the 2 great world wars and the other minor conflicts. [More…]
I hope that school teachers - and a lot of them - will now and again calmly pause in this rush of modern civilisation for a few moments to tell the children the great story of the Australian tradition with its fighting forces. [More…]
They should be provided with kindergartens for their children and domestic assistance in the home rather than that their talents should be lost. [More…]
The implementation of the proposal will mean that people will have to move from the towns where they have lived all their lives and where their children are at school. [More…]
If 35 men are transferred from one of the local headquarters this in itself might mean that, taking into account wives and children, 100 people move out of the area, with resultant loss to that district. [More…]
It is transferring them from homes in which they live and their children from schools which they attend, uprooting them, and taking them to another area. [More…]
Their children have been reared there and have gone to school there. [More…]
Why encourage greater growth, traffic bottlenecks and environmental problems, the high cost of servicing generally unhappy environments for families and for children? [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) who is keen to interject will remember only too well that I raised this matter in the terms of a motion before the Parliament to appoint a joint select committee of the Parliament to look into the pay and allowances of serving members of the Forces and other matters related to their conditions including housing for serving members of the forces, education and scholarships for the children of- those who are serving in the forces and the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen. [More…]
However he cannot insure only his wife and children for medical benefits but must pay for the family benefit. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: (a) An estimated 359,800 children in Papua New Guinea are in the 7-12 age bracket. [More…]
223,091 children - are in primary schools that are members of the Papua New Guinea education system. [More…]
The proportion of school-aged children in primary schools varies from district to district. [More…]
Handicapped Children: Interdepartmental Committee (Question No. [More…]
Which departments are represented on the interdepartmental committee established to make a survey of handicapped children and the facilities available for their use. [More…]
Of course, this could not happen to the children of the wealthy because they usually get a block of land or a home given to them by the bridegroom’s or the bride’s parents; we know that this so often happens. [More…]
life with his wife and children’; and it does not matter that it can destroy the opportunities of a man for the rest of his life. [More…]
Let me relate to the Minister the case of a widow with 8 children, 6 of whom were going to school. [More…]
Health education programmes under which trained health educators inform villagers and school children about basic health and hygiene including nutritional matters. [More…]
Mothers with children suffering from nutritional deficiencies live in these units and receive instructions in unproved feeding habits. [More…]
Is it a fact that administrators and school teachers at Yuendumu in the Northern Territory are imposing Anglo-Saxon names, including surnames, on Aboriginal children. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the children of the same family are being given different surnames. [More…]
If so, are the parents of these children highly disturbed at this attempt to eliminate their own family or clan names of which they are justly proud. [More…]
Funds provided for education through the Trust Account are ensuring to Aboriginal Australians more and better educational facilities by way of buildings, equipment, libraries and so on, and are helping the States to ensure that children at school below the statutory school leaving age will receive necessary assistance with clothing, textbooks, travel, tutorial assistance and homework supervision. [More…]
I am satisfied that very many more young Aborigines are now staying on in secondary school and that there has been generally a marked improvement in the attitudes and application of the children and in their level of attainment. [More…]
In the first 3 years oha Commonwealth has expended mon than $500,000 from the Trust Account addi tional pre-schooling for Aboriginal children. [More…]
If so, will he consider the introduction at an early date of a modified scheme to at least provide child-care assistance in the case of children of single-parent families. [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 Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, morals and way of life, particularly through the media of Radio and Television, which is hi the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity: Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 300,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
I am aware of the serious health problem confronting Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, particularly at Alice Springs, and I have had discussions with my colleague, the Minister for Health, in regard to this matter. [More…]
It is in secondary grades that most children attend the non-government schools which are not conducted by Catholic orders. [More…]
I quote the percentages of children who can have pre-school education. [More…]
That Government also gave 25m to the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund. [More…]
For tens of thousands of Australian families it could have helped to provide a break in the poverty cycle in which low income, poor housing, poor diet arid poor hygiene are passed on from parents to children. [More…]
Included in it is a requirement that there should not be advertising of cigarettes and tobacco in close proximity to children’s programmes but in any case that there should not be a telecasting of this advertising between 4 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. [More…]
But I do not believe that this necessarily has a relationship because, as has been explained by the Board and by me, the Broadcasting Control Board believes that adults substantially undertake viewing from 7.30 p.m. onwards and that the responsibility for children watching television after that hour lies with parents. [More…]
Unless large scale assistance is quickly provided acute famine conditions and ultimately death face millions of these people, particularly young children. [More…]
Already 100.000 children have died and a further 500,000 are doomed to die before Christmas. [More…]
Since that time the concept that Australians should control the destiny and the natural resources of their own nation - I will not say that it has caught fire because I believe that in the hearts of most of our countrymen there has been a feeling that we should retain some semblance of independence - has created a tremendous response across the nation, indicating the desire of ordinary Australians and their children to have a continuing stake in their own country. [More…]
So there is a big concern among the ordinary men and women and the children of our community to see that we retain some control over our own resources. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I would like to set the record straight by saying that my implication was the lack of water affecting general hygiene, the ability to sterilise in regard to possible contacts with the carriers and sufferers of the disease and, of course, the need to prevent dehydration which would even further depress the already low resistance of the Aboriginal children. [More…]
I refer to women who are divorced or separated with or without children. [More…]
The Commonwealth homes savings grant scheme allows divorced people and widows under 36 years of age with one or more dependent children to qualify for a housing grant. [More…]
The Department of the Interior will grant a loan to a financially eligible woman who is looking after children or providing a home for her aged parents. [More…]
The difficulties encountered by deserted wives and women with dependent children in obtaining housing finance occur not only because of their sex but also as a result of their poor financial position. [More…]
Indeed, some women, especially those without children, may prefer to live in a flat rather than a house because flats tend to be more available closer to their employment and require less maintenance. [More…]
I notice, for instance, that donations to the Freedom from Hunger campaign, the Save the Children Fund and the Volunteer Services Abroad fund, all worthwhile causes, attract deductions from taxation in New Zealand. [More…]
In New Zealand any contribution that is made towards the welfare of children at school, thus saving the Government money, is an allowable deduction. [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…]
She may place children in a creche or have somebody in the home to look after them and payments made in this way are offset by some taxation deduction. [More…]
I wonder what would be the attitude of the average Australian if a report were brought down which advocated the complete elimination of what are known as concessional taxation deductions, in other words, the deductions allowable, when submitting taxation returns, for a spouse, for children, for medical expenses, and for life assurance and superannuation premiums. [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…]
No doubt honourable mem bers have seen workmen working in traffic zones and children going to school wearing garments of this colour. [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…]
These people are there and they have to suffer very many disadvantages such as the high cost of educating their children and all of these things that are associated- [More…]
I find it incredible, not merely as a member of Parliament but as a father of children in this country, that Labor members, including those who are doctors, rise and make speeches such as have been made in this House this day. [More…]
I do not think we can be surprised about this after looking at the behaviour of Liberal Party Ministers so far as their children are concerned. [More…]
We find that 0.0 per cent of the children of members of the Ministry who attended secondary schools attended state schools, 8 per cent attended Catholic schools and 92 per cent attended private non-Catholic schools. [More…]
Comparing this with Libera] backbenchers we find that 10.5 per cent of their children attended state secondary schools, 14.7 per cent attended Catholic secondary schools and only 74.8 per cent attended private nonCatholic schools. [More…]
In the case of the Australian Labor Party, we had 68.7 per cent of our children attending state schools, 23.3 per cent attending Catholic schools and only 8 per cent attending private nonCatholic schools. [More…]
The Cabinet and the Liberal Party members just don’t send their children to State Secondary. [More…]
Hardly any have any experience of the State system either through their own education or that of their children. [More…]
However since they have no children in State schools it is not possible. [More…]
Through increased taxation deductions the recent Budget gives a further $6.25m to parents of children at the expensive private schools. [More…]
We witnessed a rather pathetic attempt by this anachronism of the 1970s, the present Minister for Education and Science, to justify this concession on the basis of helping the allegedly poor graziers to send their children to Geelong Grammar School. [More…]
As long as the conservatives are kept in power the average Australian will have little opportunity for his children to get a decent education. [More…]
At least in this way we might be able to make a start towards eliminating some of the chronic debilitating conditions which arc responsible for many deaths, particularly of children, in these camps. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 - should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Australian Parliament has a responsibility to encourage the development of our National identity, character and heritage and the promulgation, for the sake of our children, of an adequate picture of Australia, her standards, mores and way of life, particularly through the media of radio and television, which is in the immediate control of the Australian Government. [More…]
Well, the answer is that there is no question that there are generally lower parental incomes among the parents of Catholic children than those in the protestant sector. [More…]
But if we give fairly free rein to conscience in other respects, not least in the c?se of dissenters from national service and others, whether or not we prefer a secular basis for education, the freedom to choose the educational institution to which we might send our children seems to me to be a pretty fundamental one. [More…]
On the other hand, if we take a pragmatic view, then here we have a system or systems of non-State schools which in fact are educating about a quarter of our children. [More…]
For example, I can take the case of a person who a year ago paid, say, $260 a term for 2 youngish children at a private school. [More…]
The real casualties of the Liberal power struggle are not the Ministers who have lost their jobs but the children who have lost their chance of a better education. [More…]
Less than 15 per cent of Australian children are eligible by age for pre-school education are able to find places in pre-school centres on which we spend annually per capita in New South Wales 4.7c, Queensland 14.8c, Western Australia 34.3c, South Australia 59c, Tasmania 59.4c and Victoria 92.1c. [More…]
A recognised pre-school education is denied to all but 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, 14.5 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria. [More…]
Compare pre-school education in each and any of the States and in Canberra, where one year of pre-school education is available to all children and all pre-school teachers are fully qualified. [More…]
The inadequacy of pre-school education particularly penalises migrant children whose families speak at home languages other than English and the 400,000 children whose families earn incomes below the poverty line or just above it. [More…]
Seventy per cent of the children from suburbs where migrant and low-income families congregate score below average in the communication skills which are fostered by a pre-school education whereas in more privileged suburbs the incidence of below average scores is only 30 per cent, less than half as great. [More…]
Here we have a system where people are prepared to pay money in addition to their normal taxation payments for the right to send their children to the schools of their choice. [More…]
This assistance ranges over a wide area, from the provision and maintenance of schools and tertiary education institutions in the Territories through grants to the States for a number of educational functions to Commonwealth scholarship schemes and special assistance to Aboriginals and soldiers’ children. [More…]
Perhaps the most impressive example of inequalities between the States shows up in figures on children who attend pre-schools in the States and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Department of Education and Science and the Australian Pre-school Association on the number of children eligible for preschool education who attend in each State. [More…]
Attendance was 48.9 per cent of eligible children, that is from 3 years upward to school age. [More…]
New South Wales was at the bottom of the scale with only 3 per cent of eligible children getting a preschool education. [More…]
We must bring the libraries into the area of children - into the schools. [More…]
Another point that has arisen in recent times is the problem of educating children in isolated areas. [More…]
Recently an organisation known as the Isolated Childrens Parents Association was formed. [More…]
The problem of educating children in isolated areas is a very real one for the parents of these children. [More…]
The cost of sending their children away to school - the cost of fares and the cost of maintaining them - is getting beyond the capacity of these people under the present conditions in rural areas. [More…]
Isolated Childrens Parents Association because this is a very difficult problem for these people. [More…]
It is something which would not cost the Government a very great deal of money because the number of children so affected is not very great but they are very much in need of assistance. [More…]
for these schools involve a large number of teachers who have dedicated their lives under this dual system of education to the teaching of children. [More…]
These children are entitled to grow up in a world where they should not at the age of only 10 or 11 be worrying about their future. [More…]
What sort of a deal are we offering these children now in secondary school, who are moving on to the higher school certificate, with all the pressures that are imposed on young people these days to keep up with the Joneses and so on? [More…]
This in turn troubles the parents for its potential impact on their children. [More…]
I believe that many, children of ability will be encouraged by this scheme to stay on at school for a longer period than they might otherwise have done to their own benefit and that of the nation. [More…]
It was obvious from the Minister’s statement that under this Government the vital responsibility for financing education in Australia will continue to be regarded in terms of how many votes it may be worth rather than how many children may be handicapped educationally by the current inequalities of the various systems throughout this nation. [More…]
Government schools would never have been up to their present standard if the taxpayer had to pay for the teaching of all the children in this country. [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…]
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…]
Thirdly, there is the unhappiness of the children and young people themselves. [More…]
There are, as the honourable gentleman remarked, those who should go on and who do not, those who are gifted children of poor parents who require scholarships to pay their tuition fees and require also living allowances. [More…]
Again, we should expect parents who can afford it to do more for their children. [More…]
For people coming from impoverished countries in Europe nothing was too difficult and no sacrifice was too great on the part of their parents to enable their children to acquire education. [More…]
Those sources can be found in the parents who wish to make sacrifices for their children and in the young people themselves. [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…]
Standards of accommodation and so forth could be laid down and standards established regarding curricula and public examination to ensure that children receive a proper education. [More…]
Sir, I stand for this because I believe that it is better for parents, for children and for the community and would produce a far better system of education than that to which we are rapidly moving. [More…]
Children living in areas such as the one that I represent will be further disadvantaged for a number of reasons. [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…]
It means that their children do not have the opportunities that existed when this secular Act was introduced in Victoria. [More…]
I do not quite see the logic of spending some SI, 500m, as the States and the Commonwealth are spending on education this year, giving our children every opportunity of developing mentally, physically and emotionally if they miss out on their spiritual growth. [More…]
Nevertheless, we do not know at this point of time whether it is to the benefit of children - not teachers but children - that class sizes should be smaller, as we have all accepted for many years they should be. [More…]
The fact that parents of children going to private schools pay fees is irrelevant to the argument. [More…]
If non-Catholic private schools did not offer better facilities, quite apart from the other attractions such as class and status, then people would not be so foolish as to send their children to these private schools. [More…]
Why pay private school fees to have one’s children in schools inferior to the State schools? [More…]
However, this objection to the spending of Commonwealth funds on rich private schools fails to recognise that there is a significant group of private schools - the Catholic parish schools - which are poor, inadequate and over crowded and in which the children in the main come from poor families. [More…]
Then obviously something must be done about it since it is politically irresponsible to permit the children in those schools to suffer educational deprivation compared to their counterparts in government schools. [More…]
With all the evidence I can find, both in my own reading and in my own personal experience with the problems of my own children at school, it seems to me that this is the only constructive future for education. [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…]
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…]
What hope have these children of getting a proper start in school? [More…]
The Commonwealth to establish an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students In government and nongovernment primary, secondary and technical schools and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist them meeting the requirements of all school-age children on the basis of needs and priorities. [More…]
So I put it to the Parliament that the Government is planning for the education of the young in the Northern Territory and is really looking ahead to the very fast growing population and the quick growing numbers of children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
However, under this item I urge the Government to consider revising the boarding allowances of $250 per annum for Northern Territory children living away from home to attend school. [More…]
This has also been the case with the $100 subsidy for children under 12 years of age who live in the Northern Territory. [More…]
For children who receive supervision from governesses a subsidy of $100 has been payable for some years. [More…]
People probably think that these estimates set out expenditure on education for students and children and the provision of facilities. [More…]
The Estimates that are under discussion at the moment should spell out correctly and properly in the figures presented where we are heading so far as the betterment of education for the student children of this country is concerned. [More…]
It is using the minds of children to achieve office. [More…]
The 2 basic arguments or contentions are these: First, that it is a matter for the Commonwealth Government and the Commonwealth should be setting out to provide millions of dollars immediately for education; and secondly, that the Government is lining the pockets of the rich who send their children to Geelong Grammar, to St Peters School and to all the other leading independent schools in Australia. [More…]
But what I ask myself and honourable members opposite to do is to try to devise a scheme under which that could fairly and equitably be done to all children in all schools throughout Australia without the Government being laid open to any charge that it is motivated by a sectarian influence or, if any untoward event happened and the Opposition formed the Government one day, the Opposition being laid open to that accusation. [More…]
Those people who want their children to have a religious education may send their children to this school.’ [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…]
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…]
We seem to overlook the demands and needs of the great proportion of children who go to the state schools in Australia. [More…]
1 would say that almost all children in Brunswick is now less well served in education than they were in 1938. [More…]
But in large areas of education in Australia children are now less well served than they were 30 or 40 years ago. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended’ to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eightper cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Thatthe provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [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…]
Secondly, we have one other pretty important problem, that is, the provision of, I think, about 15 rural nurses to fill the complement of the hospital to provide hygiene, nutritional and other kinds of education for the mothers who might accompany the children and also to educate the children themselves. [More…]
On the other hand many of these national schemes which involve salaried medical service cost less and yet the results in terms of the quality of medical care are better as judged by such things as the infant mortality rate and illness of children, which are very sensitive barometers used to measure health services in underdeveloped countries and so on. [More…]
Twenty per cent of them will have no children. [More…]
Of those who do have children, many of course will not live in close proximity to their children, who may be hundreds of miles away. [More…]
She is also unlikely to be able to rely on her children to call regularly on her, or to help her with those acts of daily living with which she is coming to need assistance. [More…]
We seem in our community to have lost the social pattern whereby it was considered right that elderly parents should live in the home of their children, as respected figures, for the term of their natural life. [More…]
But the children of these aged people have their own problems. [More…]
They have their own children, frequently they are both working, and they want to lead their own life. [More…]
Perhaps we should give tax concessions for costs of home alterations to enable elderly people to be cared for at home, and give tax concessions for money spent by their children on medical and nursing costs. [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…]
Firstly, I would like to say that I am very impressed with the quick action that has been taken in regard to the high mortality rate of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The facts are that the mortality rate of Aboriginal children in central Australia doubled m 12 months; that of every 50 Aboriginal children born, 11 died in early childhood; that the 201 -bed hospital at Alice Springs was accommodating 240 patients; that there were 2 and 3 children to a bed and sometimes 3 or 4 to an oxygen tent. [More…]
But the point is that it will affect our children and our grandchildren. [More…]
I would hazard a guess that if we do not do something about it our children will not have grandchildren. [More…]
It is a brutal irony that children must bear the brunt of the suffering caused by the population explosion. [More…]
I refer to the urgent requirement to improve substantially what in many areas at the moment can only be described as the deplorable and disgusting conditions in which many Aborigines are expected to exist - conditions which in turn are largely responsible for the high mortality rate among infant children, for the dreaded disease of leprosy and for several other ills and complaints from which so many Aborigines suffer. [More…]
He said that the major role played in causing deaths in Aboriginal children between the age of one month and one year in Western Australia was highlighted by figures indicating that around 92 per cent of the deaths in those age groups were associated with infections of one sort or another. [More…]
The work would probably have to be continued over several years to educate properly the parents and children, but even in the short term it would certainly be well worth while. [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…]
I doubt the honourable member’s real interest in the welfare of these children, whether they were black or white. [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…]
The table below gives a distribution of head of families in private dwellings at the 1966 Census by numbers of dependent children (defined as children under 21 years of age nol in the labour force) without distinguishing between married and unmarried heads. [More…]
Mr O’Lear was deported; his wife and children were repatriated at Australian Government expense. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Of course, one of the big problems in the area at the present time is the education of children in isolated districts. [More…]
They ask whether slacks, knitwear and children’s garments can be thrown in the washing machine. [More…]
I think this is one of the reasons today why we are losing out in the field of children’s garments, because anyone who has 3 children, as I have, will know that within 10 minutes of dressing them their clothes will be filthy dirty. [More…]
You tell me where in this measure a producer with a wife and 4 children, 3 of whom are going to school, is guaranteed one cent? [More…]
I am suggesting that the Commonwealth Government could give assistance to help to purchase the whole of the area in order to preserve it for posterity and also for the present generation, particularly the school children who visit the area in their thousands every year. [More…]
Recently 1 read that authorities in the city of Kokyo in Japan have decreed that school children will spend a week of their school year studying away from the city in order that they may experience the breathing of clean, pure air. [More…]
This, to me, is a shocking state of affairs and one to which I hope our children will never be subjected. [More…]
Its soldier children education scheme uses the State education systems to carry out the responsibility that it has. [More…]
I know from a glance at the place that the nutrition of the children seems to be inadequate. [More…]
For 7 years the operations of this scheme have shown that the scheme discriminates massively against the children of low income families whether they be in the inner suburban areas or in country areas. [More…]
In addition, it discriminates massively against migrant children. [More…]
On the other hand, it is a perfect means of promoting and advancing those children who already are fortunate because of family circumstances. [More…]
It is interesting to relate that last month, in the ‘Australian’, a report appeared of a survey of parents whose children had been granted scholarships. [More…]
That is a lot of money which could be used profitably on children of families of low incomes. [More…]
That many Australians are concerned about the tragic plight of the refugees from East Pakistan and the rapidly worsening condition of thousands of children who have come as refugees into India from East Pakistan. [More…]
find the means by which regular and large consignments of high protein foods and vitamin additives canbe sent to sustain the children who are now dying in East Pakistan. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The decision made at that time was that in view of the special circumstances treatment of their own children by medical practitioners would not be recognised under the National Health Act. [More…]
The reason I went up there was that I was impressed by the figures showing a sudden increase in the Aboriginal infant mortality rate, that is, the mortality rate of Aboriginal children up to 1 year old. [More…]
It means that more than one in every 5 Aboriginal children dies before it reaches the age of one year. [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…]
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…]
I refer again to one of the conditions mentioned by the honourable member for Prospect - the condition of chronic protein deficiency in Aboriginal children which precludes normal growth, which warps the development of the brain and which determines that these children will never be able to function academically and educationally equal to other children. [More…]
But the tragic thing which was expressed in the article of the ‘Medical Journal of Australia’ was that these conditions did not apply to Aboriginal children on the mission stations; they applied to Aboriginal children on Queensland Government settlements. [More…]
The missions had had the intelligence to feed protein supplements to Aboriginal children in infancy and early childhood. [More…]
Therefore a completely different picture emerges of a large number of Aboriginal children - a large enough number for the sampling to be significant on the mission stations that were analysed in Queensland and on the Queensland Government settlements. [More…]
We are all aware that even in an area like Port Augusta where there are quite a number of educated and sophisticated Aborigines, most Aboriginal children because of their background and their parents lack of education start off at school behind white children. [More…]
Through the well trained staff at such schools it would be possible to involve the mothers and by doing this the mothers would learn something as well as the children. [More…]
By the time the children got to school age they would have a chance of absorbing an education. [More…]
1 know of a preschool kindergarten at Port Lincoln which is run by the Save the Children Fund at which they involve the mothers in preschool activities. [More…]
It is pleasing to see in Port Augusta that there are now up to 1.00 children attending secondary school when a few years ago there were no children attending high school. [More…]
But the problems arise when these children leave secondary school because in many cases there are no jobs for them. [More…]
I refer to the announced resignation a few days ago of Matron Joyce Wilding, who has been matron of OPAL hostel or the Joyce Wilding hostel in the Mount Gravatt area of my electorate, lt was established 16 months ago as a hostel for Aboriginal mothers who were passing through Brisbane and requiring temporary accommodation for various reasons - perhaps while they or their children were in Brisbane for hospital treatment. [More…]
I took the case to the Minister’s Department and suggested that such small items be provided as an independent budget for Mrs Wilding to maintain the home efficiently and effectively, an independent board of management to assist her and a car so that she could take the sick and injured children for medical treatment in times of emergency. [More…]
The second will concern itself with means whereby children and young people can be helped to enjoy and practise the arts more effectively. [More…]
Accordingly, the points 1 make for such a programme are these: Firstly, we should move into the educational system to reach children. [More…]
However, if we are going to broaden the audience and broaden the number of consumers who in turn can more easily and more generously support the artists in our community, we must go to the base roots of our society - into these areas where there is, in fact, cultural deprivation - and somehow enrich these children so that as they grow up they have a better acquaintanceship and a better appreciation and will derive more joy from the various forms of artistic expression. [More…]
Others argue that it becomes a part of the drudgery of the normal school system and accordingly will repel children rather than attract them. [More…]
But more importantly, if we do not go into the schools, if we do try, as seems to be the case at the moment through the Arts Council, to reach children through community activities, we shall miss out largely on the children we are talking about - the vast majority of children. [More…]
From my observations, I conclude that the majority of children who are participating in these various forms of artistic or art expression in the community are coming from middle class homes. [More…]
They are the sort of children who in any case would go on to appreciate art in its various forms of expression. [More…]
It must be a relatively free system of education with the minimum amount of discipline involved - a system where children are encouraged to be creative, to express themselves freely and as much as possible to develop their own forms of music, drama and literary expression and gradually to be brought into association with the works of people whose contribution is regarded as worthwhile in these fields. [More…]
If we can reform our methods of teach ing and our attitude towardstheobjectives of education so that some native aesthetic sensibility is preserved in children, and children are no longer brutalised and anaesthetised by the bludgeoning -process of ‘learning’ - that is to say, hammering conceptual knowledge into their innocent minds - then there would be some human material to work with. [More…]
You can’t expect the flowering of the creative instinct in an epoch which condemns its children to a via dolorosa of examinations. [More…]
In plain words, further expansion of primary education where there are still substantial numbers of children unable to attend primary school has been cut off. [More…]
We have been saying that they have to learn to behave the way our children behave. [More…]
Young people are initiated at an early age so that they change from young children to men. [More…]
He said, in effect, that by all means there should be Western ideas for Western children but that we should not try to impose on his people, who are of a different racial origin and of a different culture, our Western civilisation. [More…]
He said that children perhaps could receive some Western education but to really make them live with security and confidence ;n their own society they should have their own tradition and culture. [More…]
Prior to the Second World War there were only 500 children in Administration schools and 90,000 children in mission schools. [More…]
The T schools follow a Territorial syllabus and provide the indigenous population with primary, high, technical and vocational school education and the A schools follow the New .South Wales syllabus and provide a primarily academic education for the children of expatriates as well as for indigenous and mixed race pupils with early facility in the English language. [More…]
External Territories (Mr Barnes) provided information in relation to the number of children in the Territory who were unable to obtain primary and secondary education. [More…]
It is estimated that there are 359,000 children in the 7 to 12 age bracket in the Territory and of these 223,000 are in primary schools. [More…]
That means that 3 out of 10 children have the opportunity to go through to secondary schools. [More…]
I believe that parents have the right to pick the school of their choice and to choose a particular denomination if they want their children to have a religious upbringing. [More…]
What the honourable member wants - I think that I am right in my interpretation of what he had to say - is to ensure that the people of Papua New Guinea have a freedom of choice, that is, that they can send their children either to a State school or to a non-State school. [More…]
He is the eldest of 12 children. [More…]
He is married with 4 children. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing, as far as possible, for their immediate needs, we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to help solve, as there are 8 million people, many of them helpless children, affected. [More…]
The first casualty to whom I talked said: T lost my wife and 7 children’. [More…]
I would say that that would be an extremely high percentage of the work force because a large number of that 44 million were children because as is well known these families have large numbers of children. [More…]
If the figures concerning wage and salary earners were related to the fact that the great percentage of them are married, it would be realised that 300,000 to 400,000 men, women and children will be on the dole within the new few months, yet the Government refuses to do anything about it. [More…]
No Government supporter, certainly not the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who is now lounging back in his seat and wearing a pale pink tie, has suggested increasing the amount of weekly payment to those men, women and children who will be out of work and idle as a result of the Government’s inattention, inactivity and almost stupidity. [More…]
Can he obtain from the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly the number of children in Papua New Guinea in: [More…]
What is his Department doing to discourage (a) smoking and (b) the drinking of alcohol by school children attending schools in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory- [More…]
How many were (a) adults and (b) children. [More…]
’ Did the Queensland Institute of Medical Research establish that there was a protein-calorie* malnutrition syndrome among Aboriginal children; if so, when was this matter first reported. [More…]
The Institute’s 1971 Annual Report says that the results of a survey in March-May 1971 of all children on the Mitchell River and Edward River communities on Cape York Peninsula indicate a high rate of mortality and morbidity among Aboriginal children in those two communities. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I think that he struck a balance between directing the searchlight of truth on to HMAS ‘Leeuwin’ and at the same time respecting the code in the community that juveniles charged for any sort of misdemeanour or crime are entitled to secrecy of the proceedings in which they are charged, which is the normal procedure, for instance, in the children’s court. [More…]
The parents who send their youngsters into an institution like this are not anticipating that their children will be put through any initiation ceremony other than the proper induction procedures of the Navy. [More…]
Parents who are on the edge of a decision about allowing their children to go into HMAS ‘Leuwin’ - there are people in Queensland and Victoria who send their children thousands of miles away for the first time and they do so because of their complete confidence in the Navy - could be influenced by adverse publicity and the marginal decision would go against recruitment and against the development of an efficient service. [More…]
In order to qualify for the purchase of a house from the Housing Commission a young couple must show that they have a certain number of children, that they have been on the waiting list for a certain length of time and also that their income is not less than $70 a week. [More…]
1 am thinking of my children and of the children of honourable members opposite - the young people who are in hock when they get married. [More…]
Three quarters of a million children have been born in Australia of migrant parents. [More…]
Children born in Australia were always the first migrants. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has now adopted a policy for a Labor - Government to persuade people to have fewer children. [More…]
The first of them is this: The Government has been tardy in the extreme in the matter of reuniting families, ft took it 20 years to agree to provide assisted passages to enable a man to bring his wife and children to this country. [More…]
But there are still delays of up to a year in reuniting families, there are also delays of nearly a year in issuing visas for people to come and visit their children. [More…]
It has cut down the vote for migrant education in such a way as to impose hardships on migrants and children. [More…]
Australia’s policy has one principal aim, that is, to try to develop this vast country so that we are able to hold it, provide an inheritance for our children and earn our place in this part of the world. [More…]
Children born in Australia were always the first migrants. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has now adopted a policy for a Labor Government to persuade people to have fewer children. [More…]
Migrants and their children, including their Australian born children, have over the years played a significant part in our national development and have made a mighty contribution in the industrial field. [More…]
Under the programme the Department meets the salary costs of special teachers engaged in the instruction of migrant children and the cost of language-laboratory type equipment. [More…]
Let me inform the honourable member that this area is in dire need of a crash programme and that the $16m which was allocated during the course of last year has not as yet shown any real benefit in the education of migrant children. [More…]
I would like to draw the attentiton of the House to the fact that in the electorate I represent believe it or not - honourable members opposite will have to believe it because they have neglected to take out sufficient surveys - by visiting the classrooms personally and spending some hours in them I have found that the proportion of migrant children in 2 schools, namely Newton Primary School and St Morris Primary School is over 70 per cent. [More…]
Government members will recall that I have risen to my feet on a number of occasions in this chamber and pointed out what type of inquiry ought to be carried out by a responsible government in regard to education, migrant housing, the portability of pensions and pre-school education where a language difficulty arises with migrant children who, mark you, after they enter the junior grades at primary school, are at a disadvantage for the whole of their life. [More…]
Since migration resumed after World War II more than 2.7 million settlers have come from overseas and upwards of threequarters of a million children have been bom to them. [More…]
The children are found wandering around the school yards in Moreland and Brunswick where the parents have dropped them on the way to work. [More…]
The answer is children born in Australia of parents living in Australia. [More…]
They can be the children of migrants who have settled in Australia. [More…]
If the policy of the Australian Labor Party were implemented little could be done to stop the flow of these people, so with 50,000 Indians coming into Australia - or 50,000 migrants of any nationality - they, their spouses and children would represent 100,000 to 150,000 people. [More…]
They will have children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I refer the Minister for Social Services to the non-recognition as dependants of student children over 16 years of age of recipients of unemployment and sickness benefits, which the Minister confirms has been the case since the original Act was passed in 1942. [More…]
Does he agree that there are now many more children over 16 years of age who are full time students as compared with 1942? [More…]
The statistics show, I think, that only something like one-third of all allowable concessions are allowed in respect of direct dependants - wives and children - and that the other amounts are a miscellany of items such as medical expenses, education expenses, life assurance and so on. [More…]
One deals with education expenses claimed by grade of actual income and the other deals with the number of children for whom deductions for education expenses were allowed by grade of taxable income. [More…]
There were 135,000 children involved in claims by taxpayers whose incomes were within that range. [More…]
This covered 1,174,000 children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
An unskilled steel worker in my own area with a take home pay of $54 a week might be receiving $25 at the most in respect of the same concession after maintaining his wife and his average 2i to 3 children. [More…]
The first, of course, is the concession for the deduction for the education of children. [More…]
Then we have a concession being allowed for the fairly substantial legal expenses paid by people who adopt children. [More…]
These people are doing a service to the community by adopting children. [More…]
These figures represent cash social service benefits and do not take into account non cash benefits including the free health scheme in the United Kingdom and the near free health scheme and the free dental care scheme for children under 16 years of age in New Zealand. [More…]
The amendments now proposed to that Act would increase the maximum permissible amount to $400 and would also extend the age limit to those dependent children of a taxpayer who are students of less than 25 years of age. [More…]
Neither amendment will be the means of offering any real assistance in meeting the actual high cost of education, and even where there may be some simple or slight benefit it will be directed towards the more wealthy taxpayers while the very people who do require some significant assistance towards the education of their children will gain very little if any help or relief. [More…]
The amount of $300 as a maximum deduction from actual income was set down in 1963 and, as everyone knows - and many of them to their sorrow and to the depletion of their savings - during the years since 1963 there have been very substantial increases in the cost of education itself and also in the cost of transport and accommodation, etc., for those children who are obliged to travel to and remain in either capital cities or large country towns to obtain an education. [More…]
Those latter costs are very substantial indeed, and it is quite unjust and shows a complete lack of sympathy and understanding, or perhaps lack of concern by the Government, that a taxpayer in the far north, for instance, is allowed no more for education expenses as a taxation deduction that is a taxpayer living in a capital city who is not subject in any way to costs of fares and whose children are able to live at home during the whole time they are gaining their education. [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…]
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…]
For those reasons I am not at all happy with the present method of offering family assistance or concession and am of the opinion that a straight forward allowance of direct taxation deduction irrespective of income would be a much more equitable and acceptable system, but even this would not help those people who, because of their circumstances, pay next to nothing in tax in any case and yet who at the same time are the very people who require assistance for the education of their children or to ensure their good health. [More…]
Admittedly the proposed increase of $100 for education expenses can mean a slight reduction in tax for some parents in distant places who can afford to send their children south or elsewhere to school and who will be able to claim that $100 against air fares, but it will not be such as to mean the difference between a parent being able to afford to send his children away for that better education. [More…]
This brings me to the point that if the system is to be retained and if $400 is now considered to be a fair and appropriate figure to meet education costs in areas where the bulk of taxpayers reside - I refer of course to the capital cities - certainly an amount much higher than $400 should be allowed to taxpayers who live in remote and distant areas and who can do nothing other than pay very large amounts for both fares and accommodation costs if they wish to give their children the opportunity of gaining a good schooling. [More…]
The taxpayer who is resident close by a doctor or hospital has a very distinct advantage over the taxpayer who, because of distance and lack of medical facilities, is obliged to travel or to meet travel costs to allow his dependent wife or children to consult a doctor or to enter a hospital. [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…]
This will mean, of course, that those taxpayers with school age children and who cannot afford to pay even $300 - the existing allowable deduction for education expenses - will be even worse off this year than they were last year because of the additional direct tax they will be obliged to pay. [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…]
Many scholarships are given to student children whose parents really do not require financial assistance. [More…]
If the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is interested, I could show him correspondence I have received from parents who felt that their children should not have received scholarships but that, in fact, the scholarships should have been awarded to the less privileged people in our society. [More…]
Why is it that deductions for dependants, the education of children, insurance, superannuation, medical expenses and so on are of far greater benefit to the person on a high income than they are to a person on a low income? [More…]
Is it that his wife and his children are not of the same value as the wife and children of a person on a much higher income? [More…]
That was an age in which children were subjected to working conditions which no person today would be prepared to accept. [More…]
At a time when pensioners, mothers of school age children and others are forced to pay more and more for goods and services due to legislation brought down by the State and Federal governments, all we hear in this Parliament is that the workers’ wages are causing inflation. [More…]
Everyone has a lot of sympathy for a mother of 2 or 3 school age children if the husband does not work overtime and the family depends only on his wage rate for the family income. [More…]
She must be finding it very hard to make ends meet in the face of all the rising costs, but I do not think the solution should be that she should have to go out to work while the children get themselves off to school and return home to an empty house. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing, as far as possible, for the immediate needs, we consider that Ibis is a problem for all mankind to help solve, as there are nine million people, many of them helpless children affected. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing, as far as possible, for their immediate needs, we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to help solve, as there are eight million people, many of them helpless children, affected. [More…]
They have picnics; they have a lunch time meal, and children play in it. [More…]
These are being made because the increasing infant mortality rate was chiefly attributable to overcrowding and cross-infection in the children’s ward at the hospital. [More…]
Seventy-five per cent of the Aboriginal children of eligible age are attending pre-school. [More…]
Over 90 per cent of eligible age Aboriginal children are attending primary school. [More…]
we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to help solve, as there are 8 million people affected, many of them helpless children. [More…]
Because I mentioned a figure of 120,000 unemployed by the New Year which could involve between 300,000 and 400,000 men, women and children, he put up the false argument that this figure is excessive because most of the unemployed people would be school leavers. [More…]
If you have 2 children of school leaving age who are not going to work the whole family is affected. [More…]
They must be affected because these children are economic factors within the family unit. [More…]
I say to the Minister in all sincerity that one of the results of unemployment is that children are uneducated. [More…]
The Government does not provide anything for children who are over 16 years of age when a man has been sacked. [More…]
I suppose the very first priority in Australia today is reconstruction - progressive dynamic reconstruction to assist primary industries not only to become viable again, those that can become viable, but also to assist those unfortunate people who have lost almost everything they have invested and worked for over the years to at least have a better life for themselves and their children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
In addition, the constant rotation of officers’ duties involves frequent new postings and transfers with all of the consequent disruption of family life, the schooling of children and so on. [More…]
The TPI pensioner who is married and has 2 children receives $49.30 in actual cash, which is approximately $6 a week more than a person, married and having 2 children, receiving the minimum wage after the deduction of tax. [More…]
In my area there are 2 splendid institutions, one for cerebrally palsied children and the other, Bedford Industries, which is the largest sheltered workshop in Australia. [More…]
1 wish to draw the attention of the Committee and of the Minister to what I consider are some extremely absurd anomalies arising out of the Handicapped Children’s (Assistance) Act. [More…]
The majority of voluntary agencies working with handicapped children have recognised the importance of combining both. [More…]
The handicapped children of Australia have been further handicapped because of the non-availability of subsidy for the provision of these services. [More…]
If such a poo] is used for training handicapped children in physical education and teaching them to swim it is presumably eligible for subsidy. [More…]
A married TPI pensioner with 2 children will make a net gain of no less than $5.12 while a widow with 2 children will gain $6.65. [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…]
Provision also is made for a comprehensive medical service, for rehabilitation training for disabled members and for national servicemen, widows and children. [More…]
The same thing applies in respect of child endowment for 3 children under 16 years of age. [More…]
I note that there is to be an increase of $3m in respect of numerous items such as aged persons homes, sheltered employment, telephone rental concessions, rehabilitation services and handicapped children. [More…]
Why do we subsidise buildings for handicapped children but not the costs of providing physiotherapists, speech therapists, doctors or nurses within them? [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to Include all the country’s physicallyphysically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy,-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
This would be of concern to the post office staff in furthering their children’s education. [More…]
It is possible to receive tertiary education at the Institute of Technology in Whyalla and I am sure that this is an advantage of which many of the children of the post office staff would avail themselves if they were still to be stationed at Whyalla. [More…]
The third point 1 wanted to make is that the Postmaster-General’s Department has done a particularly good and expeditious job in its inquiry into television services, particularly for school children in the southern Riverina. [More…]
I want to make this point, because there is a vast territory in which several thousand school children have been unable to obtain the advantage of television in their schools. [More…]
I now hope that these basic services for several thousand school children can go ahead. [More…]
Obviously it is wrong to deprive thousands of children in this country of a basic facility which is shared by other pupils. [More…]
These films have a great impact on children of a very young age, and I would advise any honourable members who have the time to go to the local schools in their electorates when these films are being shown and have a look at them. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Stales for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to Include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [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…]
Some children in a United States school were shown a picture of a peaceful lane with rows of trees along the edges and they were asked why those trees were planted. [More…]
When they were told that the trees were in the United States, the children said that they were there for windbreaks and to keep down the dust. [More…]
There has been an immediate approval of provision of 10,000 blankets which are required for the oncoming cold weather, 330 tons of castor sugar to mix with the milk in the children’s diet and 5,000 tons of ordinary sugar which is mixed with the ration for adults. [More…]
This will apply in the case of every Australian citizen, including women and children, and will not be limited by any consideration of tha financial status of a patient. [More…]
Honourable members opposite deny that they will nationalise medicine but they are going to legalise abortions, have free abortions, provide free contraceptives on every street corner, limit parents to 2 children and legalise homosexuality. [More…]
At the moment there could hardly be a greater need amongst Australian people and particularly Australian children than in the field of dental care. [More…]
The criterion adopted was based on the occupational status of the fathers of the children at different schools in South Australia. [More…]
There is quite a significant difference in the dental health of children at the schools in the high socioeconomic group - that is, in the affluent suburbs - compared with those in the poor suburbs. [More…]
This is why the Australian Labor Party’s proposals for dental health are based on preventive dental health and dental education particularly for school children. [More…]
We would like to see this extended to all children throughout Australia. [More…]
Secondly, most children’s dental requirements are of a limited nature and a fully qualified dentist is not required; in fact, using dentists alone would be a wasteful employment of highly skilled manpower. [More…]
The dentist’s wider knowledge and skills are thereby extended to a far greater number of children when he directs therapists to perform routine clinical procedures. [More…]
Their function would be to carry out the control of dental disease by treatment and secondly, but more importantly, they would be directed towards prevention by education and motivation of children to patterns of behaviour that are favourable to good dental health. [More…]
As the scheme progressed we would expect the standard of dental health in the children’s community throughout Australia to improve considerably. [More…]
As a result of that we would be able to extend it to cover secondary school children and, perhaps even more importantly, pre-school children as well. [More…]
I want to say a few words about handicapped children. [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…]
In many parts of Australia there are scores of children with an IQ of less than 30. [More…]
These children are not eligible to participate in our free and compulsory education system. [More…]
What happens to these children and their parents? [More…]
The fact is that the children are often denied and the parents are often required to devote substantial parts of their lives to fulfilling the requirements whichare the product of Government neglect and the denial of these basic principles. [More…]
I would like to see a blueprint in Australia on the care of the nation’s handicapped children. [More…]
That blueprint should programme the acceptance by the Commonwealth of the total financial burden in the same way as we accept the financial burden for healthy children. [More…]
The running costs of the establishments which care for the handicapped children, these establishments which fill a public vacuum, a governmental vacuum, are not sufficiently met by the Government. [More…]
There is much more I would like to say about this because I am especially concerned with the problems of the New South Wales Handicapped Children’s Centre and its Rainbow Lodge. [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…]
Finally I would like to make one plea in regard to the cost of artificial limbs, especially for children. [More…]
I have personal knowledge of the enormous burden which is placed on the families of these children. [More…]
These officers have made orders with respect to such matters as maintenance payments, property rights and access to children. [More…]
They include, for example, the right of a wife to receive weekly payments of maintenance moneys, the right of a father to visit his children in the custody of their mother, and the right of a wife to a portion of the property held by her husband. [More…]
Adverting to the taking over of the Cunnamulla service by Nationwide Air Services, I should mention that it was understood that Ansett Airlines would be prepared to provide Friendship aircraft when the need arose, particularly during school holidays, but I have been informed that people who have children at schools away from Cunnamulla have not been able to make such an arrangement. [More…]
I do not know whether it is because of seat occupancy or because Friendship aircraft are not readily available that arrangements have not been made, but I hope that the Ansett organisation will confer with Nationwide Air Services and provide a Friendship service to cater for the deserving need of bringing children and .students to and from schools. [More…]
I mentioned earlier - and I emphasise it again - the great advantage of air services for children and students. [More…]
He was about 22 years of age and had 2 or 3 children. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by TCN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by HSV consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by ATN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by Station GTV consist of drama, light entertainment, sport, news, children’s, family activities, current affairs, religious matter and education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station QTQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station BTQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station NWS consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by Station ADS consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family, Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Austraiian programmes at present televised by station ATV consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
ment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVT consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station STW consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVW consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Education: Servicemen’s Children at Secondary Schools (Question No. [More…]
Details are not maintained of the numbers of school children who actually attend secondary school. [More…]
However, during 1970-71, 140 RAN and 495 RAAF personnel with children between the ages of 12 and 18 years were posted between the States, the Australian Capital Territory, and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Is it because of Government policy (Hansard, 28th September 1971, page 1602) that the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, in inquiring into the problems of, and the provisions for assistance to, mentally and physically handicapped personsin Australia, did not have the benefit of access to reports of the interdepartmental committee established to make a survey of handicapped children and the facilities available for their use (Parliamentary Paper No. [More…]
We were talking at the time, I think, about the total expenditure by governments on education and I was pointing out that one of the factors that underwrote the Australian figures was that a little over 20 per cent of Australian children are educated in independent schools, and that the total expenditures by private people on independent education was a matter about which Government statistics were not as complete as might be desirable. [More…]
In the longer term, however, the benefits to he derived from advances in preventive dentistry - with the emphasis on young children - may be even more decisive. [More…]
How many aphasic school children are there in New South Wales. [More…]
Do these children need specially qualified teachers and equipment known as language masters. [More…]
What moneys and other assistance are provided by the Commonwealth for these children. [More…]
Is special equipment used lo assist these children subject to sales tax. [More…]
These are the ‘problem’ families who frequent public and voluntary welfare agencies with a variety of social disabilities, such as alcoholism, children at risk, employment instability, marital problems and so on. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has indicated that if the Labor Party were in power it would institute a public inquiry into the inducement of people to have fewer children. [More…]
If we are going to populate this country - and we still retain the ambition to do that in our own time and under our own terms - the best people that we can seek are our own natural-born children. [More…]
People are working with local community organisations in order to improve living’ and environmental conditions and particularly to assist the young children in these areas. [More…]
The work these people do in these organisations is extraordinary in an effort to uplift the standards, the environment and opportunities of the children of the people in those districts. [More…]
What sort of life is it for a family with young children having to live in a flat? [More…]
his wife and perhaps some children. [More…]
Consequently, it does seem that they have no choice but to abstract a demand lor housing from a demand from human being for houses to bring up children, and in which to enjoy a private lite. [More…]
hut also keeping them for the good effect that variety and diversity have on the imaginations, not only of adults, but also of the children growing up in the community. [More…]
We want to thank you for sending 1,500,000 text-books for our school children and we want to thank you for all the other aid. [More…]
Two-thirds of Commonwealth scholarships go to the children of Australia’s lop 20 per cent of salary and wage earners and, as T have already indicated, this deprives many others who do not come from such affluent homes from getting to the university. [More…]
1 repeat that two-thirds of Commonwealth scholarships go to the children of Australia’s top 20 per cent of salary and wage earners. [More…]
Only 8 per cent of children of working class parents who leave school enter university although they make up 33 per cent of the school leavers. [More…]
Tremendous obligations are imposed on them in trying to give their children tertiary education. [More…]
I see it as a natural and logical aspiration of people for their children. [More…]
One could take this further and say that Australia supports colleges of advanced education because some means had to be found of satisfying the insensate demands of the electors for ‘qualifications’ for their children, and universities had proved to be too expensive, too radical and too unresponsive. [More…]
As a result of these difficulties they have got together and formed an association which is called the Isolated Children Parents Association with the subject of getting assistance from both the States and the Commonwealth to provide some sort of education for their children. [More…]
That is a milestone on the path towards making advanced education as exclusive and as prohibitive as university education already is for many children of lower income families and particularly students in country areas. [More…]
I believe there will be a continuing escalation of fees, as the Victorian Minister for Education has pointed out, until these reach the levels applying in some universities and until such times as they, coupled with quotas, make the colleges of advanced education no longer the institutions for working class children, which I do not believe they should be merely, anyway. [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…]
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…]
Parents have the right to choose their children’s education and as taxpayers they are entitled to ask that public funds to which their taxes have contributed should be shared justly and equitably for the education of all children. [More…]
The reduction of the number of independent schools in Australia will effectively deprive many taxpaying parents of their right to choose an alternative type of education for their children. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing, as far as possible, for their immediate needs, we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to help solve, as there are 8 million people affected, many of them helpless children. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing, as far as possible, for their immediate needs, we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to help solve, as there are nine million people, many of them helpless children, affected. [More…]
Labor shall provide war service homes, repatriation health benefits, civilian rehabilitation training, scholarships for their children and generous re-engagement, retirement and re-settlement allowances for members of the Forces. [More…]
We have had a statement from the Victorian State school teachers organisation saying that as a minimum $130m is needed in capital construction for the education of children in the City of Melbourne alone. [More…]
There is a tremendous wastage of skilled population at the secondary school level because of the large numbers of children who have to leave school, and there is a poultice on that - the secondary school scholarshipswhich does not really meet the needs of the children. [More…]
One must recognise that, these days, it is impossible for schools to be able to give children all the information, let alone skills that they will need in their later years. [More…]
This seems a most unfortunate thing because we are training people who will go into schools and teach library techniques to children. [More…]
I think that the most sorry spectacle of this is in respect of the education of handicapped children in Australia, and I will say a little more about that matter shortly. [More…]
As I have said, it is of special concern among primary school staff, and parents of primary school children as well, that Commonwealth specific grants have not come their way and that they are regarded as the poor relations. [More…]
School fees have had to be increased substantially, which will place a heavy burden on parents of many children in private schools, particularly in the parish Catholic schools. [More…]
I would have liked to have had the time to talk about what the Commonwealth and the States do not do for the education of our handicapped children. [More…]
Is it not a standing disgrace that parents should have to be running raffles and hoop-las and other such activities in order to educate children who happen to be mentally or physically handicapped, and in some cases both? [More…]
Nothing is given to help these particularly handicapped children who need a higher proportion of teachers to students. [More…]
State governments only subsidise the cost of providing one teacher for every 10 handicapped children but some of these children are so handicapped that one teacher could not handle 10 of them or give them adequate instruction. [More…]
There is no subsidy given in respect of pre-school children in this category and there is very little given towards the transport costs of handicapped children. [More…]
It has been stated on many occasions that in this day and age when more knowledge and research are going into education the provision of these library facilities has enabled those children whom we might describe as exceptional students to take advantage of the facilities and on an equal basis with other children who also have these opportunities, to further their education. [More…]
When these children eventually reach university or other high planes of education, they are more prepared to shoulder the responsibility that face them. [More…]
But what I do know - and I know it positively - is that the Austraiian people will not fall for cheap and unworthy promises from the Opposition but will support this Government in its plans to enable education to continue to progress in the best way that it can and to make available facilities of the type proposed in this legislation to the children of Australia in the years to come. [More…]
The problem in this Parliament, particularly on the other side of the House, on the subject of education is that one would be led to believe that the threequarters of the children of Australia who are in the three-quarters of Australian schools, those conducted, by State governments, did not exist. [More…]
Every proposal from the other side of the House is directed towards that quarter of the population which sends its children to non-State schools. [More…]
But there aire secondary schools scattered round the countryside, and the children attending those schools are deserving of assistance to enable them to reach a standard of education which will in turn allow them to take advantage of the assistance given at the tertiary level of education. [More…]
Children’s Parents Association, which is appealing to State governments and to the Commonwealth Government for assistance. [More…]
These latter schools are the last to be provided with their needs, lt seems to be almost an act of faith by State governments that the children from the more affluent areas have their needs met first. [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…]
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…]
Why place a means test on children when the Opposition do:s not want to place a means test on age pensioners? [More…]
There should be no doubt whatever that assistance to lower income families, especially to their children, should be increased now. [More…]
The nation as well as the families directly concerned, has spent very large sums of money on educating those children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
We have the pitiful situation where it is reported that one couple have had to send their children back to Turkey to be looked after because they could not afford to keep them here because of the circumstances. [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…]
This is really the only way to give what could be soundly and sincerely called equality of opportunity in education to all children. [More…]
I believe that one of the great needs in this field, if we are to provide equal opportunity for all, is to give’ further assistance to the children of parents in isolated areas. [More…]
I want to congratulate the parents of those children who have travelled great distances to form what is known in Queensland and New South Wales as the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. [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…]
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…]
There is nothing more humiliating and degrading than for mothers and fathers to have to admit that after years of paying for the schooling of their children they cannot find a job for them. [More…]
The document lists such responsibilities as family casework, family counselling, day care centres, home help services, care of the aged, low cost meals or meals on wheels as they are called in some areas, community centres, citizens advice bureaux, clubs for children, young people and the aged, and day camps and other holiday camps as well. [More…]
But there is a hard core of about 60 men, women and children who could be described as permanent dwellers on Cape Barren Island. [More…]
The tragic part about it is that the children have to move out with them, and this becomes an educational problem. [More…]
Today the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) made mention of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. [More…]
Many people in these isolated areas are finding it very bard io educate their children and they arc conscious of the assistance being given to the Aborigines. [More…]
Aboriginal children are like many nonAboriginal children who live under disadvantageous circumstances. [More…]
In these areas there are now many more Aboriginal children at school than there were in former years. [More…]
When these children leave school there is a gap in providing employment for them until such time as they become adults and are able to move on and get jobs in other areas. [More…]
When I visited the Indulcna area one teacher said that the teachers found themselves inhibited because, through the isolation of the area, they were not able to take the children on tours. [More…]
It was suggested to me that perhaps the Commonwealth Government could come to the party and provide buses for this and similar schools so that the teachers could take the children on tours, possibly to the south but at least to areas where the children could see something different. [More…]
The South Australian Education Department provides buses, but only to take children to and from school. [More…]
There also exists the problem of children who start school late and leave early. [More…]
Because of malnutrition they are so small that, although they may be 7 or 8 years of age, they look as though they are only 5 years and because they are Aboriginal children, nobody rounds them up to chase them along to school. [More…]
In pastoral areas of Queensland, many children including white children leave school before the minimum permissible leaving age because they intend to work on their family’s pastoral properties. [More…]
However, if the Aboriginal children leave school at 12 years of age. [More…]
or whatever age they may leave, no-one chases them up m the same way that they would be if they were white children. [More…]
I am associated in a modest way with a hardworking team of people in the Save the Children Fund in Queensland who have established a kindergarten at Eidsvold. [More…]
We have to use the State instrumentalities wherever appropriate as we do, for instance, in the soldiers’ children education scheme. [More…]
Therefore, the Commonwealth is doing much more than has been done before to encourage Aboriginal children to stay at school much longer than they have in the past. [More…]
Here again the Commonwealth has already done a great deal to encourage expenditure of matters concerning the health of Aboriginal children. [More…]
The hospital co-operated with Dr Mann for many years in her research work and we know of the tremendous advances which have been made as a result of knowledge gained about that scourge which affected so many Aboriginal children throughout this country. [More…]
Not only must we look at matters which have been raised by the honourable member for Fremantle; we must look also at the possible need for family planning so that Aboriginal mothers will be able to space their children in a way that is available to European mothers in Australia. [More…]
To put it all more concretely, the people of Bougainville have 80 per cent or more of the children of school age in schools. [More…]
The people of the highlands have 15 per cent of the children of school age in schools, and they feel this very deeply. [More…]
A number of children who have finished their primary education cannot be accommodated in secondary schools and they tend to get into trouble. [More…]
Just prior to the Second World War, only 500 children were in administration schools and about 90,000 in the mission schools. [More…]
Today, there are some 223,000 children of the 359,000 children in the 7 to 12 year age group attending primary schools. [More…]
Under the present system, as I pointed out in the question, if there is a school established in an area the Government refrains from establishing a school and the children in the area only have the opportunity of attending a school run by either the Methodist church, the Catholic church, the Anglican church, the Lutheran church or quite a number of other religious groups. [More…]
I agree with the system of giving people a choice of the types of education available for their children. [More…]
As far as 1 am aware there are no published statistics giving the number of aphasic school children in New South Wales. [More…]
I am advised that aphasic children along with others who lack verbal communication skills vary both in the type and degree of their affliction. [More…]
Speech therapists and special teachers assist these children in overcoming their affliction and in meeting theireducational, social and emotional problems. [More…]
The Commonwelth does not provide any direct form of assistance for these children. [More…]
It is understood, however, that their use in the teaching of aphasic children is confined almost exclusively to the government schools and clinics in which asphasic children are taught. [More…]
In the case of a migrant taxpayer with a dependent wife and children oversells, it is the administrative practice of the Commissioner of Taxation to treat the wife and children also as residents of Australia if the taxpayer intends to bring them to this country. [More…]
Are there only (a) 7 libraries for children, (b) 6 libraries combining facilities for both adults and children and (c) 1 mobile library unit in Canberra for the purpose of serving the people of Canberra. [More…]
A detailed breakdown of children’s book stock is not available. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970’ should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I am sympathetic to the concern and for the need of this area but I should draw the honourable member’s attention to the fact that a number of States do provide some living away from home allowances specifically for children who need to board to continue their secondary schooling. [More…]
Certain arrangements have also been made for the evacuation of the wives and children of Australian staff in Pakistan. [More…]
The wives and children of Australianbased staff at the Deputy High Commission in Karachi are to be evacuated by the special Qantas flight, which I have already mentioned. [More…]
Will he make a statement to the House on the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and the recommendations touching on the care and education of handicapped children; if so, when. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will bc given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I am all in favour of a proper examination of the available information, but I do not think that some of the comments which have been made by members of the Opposition make it any easier for parents to bring up their children to believe that certain things are good while others are not. [More…]
I do know that the film has been given a ‘M’ rating by the censor which means that children if accompanied by their parents will be able to see it. [More…]
Certain studies have shown that, in fact, people look lo areas - this is well known, I think - where their children can have a good schooling, where they have good access to markets and to their shopping provisions and so on. [More…]
This is something which is often felt by families when ;they lose their children to the metropolis at the end of their school days. [More…]
The plight of country children leaving school will be particularly acute because of the structural unemployment outlined in the Prime Minister’s statement. [More…]
It would appear to me that Opposition members are acting like a Jot of spoilt children who have just had their ice creams taken away from them. [More…]
The headmaster said to me: ‘How am I going to advise parents who are asking whether they should take their children away from school now?’ [More…]
Family life was disrupted, children neglected, ther was an emotional vacuum and many of the adults were well on their way to becoming alcoholics. [More…]
The Marys, wives or gins and their children remain outside the liquor store while the men in ignorance exhaust the social service payments that the Government makes to them. [More…]
The survey conducted in the Puckapunyal.Seymour area required considerable staffing effort to collect and collate the data, however, because the Seymour-Puckapunyal area is relatively concentrated and the number of servicemen with children of secondary school age comparatively few, it was possible for this survey to be conducted. [More…]
Education: Servicemen’s Children in Townsville Area (Question No. [More…]
13 October 1971. page 2324), lo ascertain the number of servicemen who have children of secondary school agc and the categories of schools which their children attend. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn’ to the great concern expressed by doctors at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, and at the Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital, duc to the sharp increase in the incidence of accidental drug overdosage with anti-depressants among children. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether antidepressants are the most common reason for the admission of children to these institutions due to drug overdose and whether admissions trebled over the past year resulting in the death of 2 children with others coming close to death from this cause. [More…]
An article in the Medical Journal of Australia of 23rd October 1971, contributed by the Director of the Intensive Care Unit of the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, stated that tricyclic anti-depressant overdosage is now the most common cause of admission of children to hospital for drug overdosage and that admissions from that cause have trebled. [More…]
Information on this aspect from the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, is not readily available but it is understood that there is an impression that there has been an increase in drug overdosage from anti-depressants among children admitted to that hospital. [More…]
The medical profession is expected to be familiar with the potential hazards of all drugs and to issue appropriate warnings to their patients, particularly where there is a possibility that children could have access to the drugs. [More…]
Poisoning of children with drugs is related principally to the careless storage of drugs in the home and is not a new problem. [More…]
Particular attention has also been given to the pan which safety containers may play in preventing the poisoning of children. [More…]
At that session, Council expressed its concern at the incidence of poisoning in young children and commended the use of tablet containers that cannot readily be opened by young children. [More…]
The resultant revised code became effective on 1st October 1971, and is basically an attempt to move the emphasis of cigarette advertising on television and radio away from children. [More…]
On what dates have reports been made by the interdepartmental committee established to make a survey of handicapped children and the facilities available for their use (Hansard, 28th September 1971, page 1602, and 11th November 1971, page 3440). [More…]
In 1966 a typical recipient, a deserted wife with dependent children, received cash assistance at the rate of $26.50 per fortnight irrespective of the number of children. [More…]
In June 1971 the benefit rate in respect of, for example, a deserted wife with four children and no other income was $70.00 per fortnight. [More…]
and (5) Social Welfare Benefits are intended primarily to help people awaiting statutory aid, such as deserted wives with children, or persons who are unable to qualify for Commonwealth pensions or benefits and for various reasons cannot support themselves and their families. [More…]
The following organisations connected with the United Nations normally operate in East Pakistan: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); World Food Programme (WFP): World Health Organisation (WHO); Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO): United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): International Labour Organisation (ILO); United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Bank Group. [More…]
Is it a fact that the children denied free milk are in areas where because of remoteness they face dietary difficulties. [More…]
Will he and the Minister for Health, review the position with a view to using citrus juice as an alternative to milk where milk supplies are not available to the disadvantaged children. [More…]
by authorities in the States and Territories which arrange the distribution of free milk to school children approximately 157,000 eligible children did not participate in the scheme during 1970-71. [More…]
It is not known by that Department how many of these children not receiving free milk at school were unable to do sio because of distance and supply difficulties. [More…]
However, where, because of remoteness, bottled pasteurised milk is not available provision has been made in the Commonwealth agreement with the States for other forms of milk such as powdered or reduced milk to be supplied to school children. [More…]
This represented 2.939 children or 0.4% of the overall primary school population eligible to participate in the scheme. [More…]
Prior to the introduction of the States Grants (Milk for School Children) Act limited school milk schemes were in operation in several States and it was decided that the extension of these schemes would be an effective means of promoting the health of children through improved nutrition, lt was considered that milk as an ‘all round’ food best served this purpose. [More…]
Prom time to time, consideration has been given to proposals that, fruit juice be supplied to school children in lieu of milk but it has been decided on each occasion not to extend the scope of the Act beyond the supply of milk. [More…]
How many doses of the vaccine have been used’ by the Commonwealth on school children in the Australian Capital Territory and the Nor.hera Territory. [More…]
respect of children attending. [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…]
How many children of Army personnel are there of pre-school age living at (a) Puckapunyal and (b) Seymour. [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 is therefore impracticable to give a precise answer to the honourable member’s question unless appropriate details of the size of family, the ages of the children and the interest rate and other factors are taken into account. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing as far as possible, for their immediate needs, we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to solve, as there are nine million people, many of them helpless children, affected. [More…]
While we recognise India’s outstanding contribution in providing as far as possible, for their immediate needs, we consider that this is a problem for all mankind to solve, as there are nine million people, many of them helpless children, affected. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Com monwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The increase is particularly striking where children are concerned, and this illustrates our special concern for the family unit, which was so scandalously neglected under the Labor Government. [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…]
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…]
The National Health and Medical Research Council in July 1968 prepared a sort of minimum budget for the food intake - the protein and calorie intake - of a man, his wife and 2 children where the male head of the family was involved in fairly demanding physical work, such as a skilled labourer. [More…]
A food budget of $18.50 to $19 a week would leave about $16 to $16.50 a week from the proposed unemployment benefits for a family of husband, wife and 2 children. [More…]
One feels that part of the explanation for the significantly increasing retention, rate in the higher grades at secondary schools will be found in the fear of so many parents that they must keep their children at school to obtain higher qualifications to enable them to gain employment. [More…]
These children are excluded from receiving assistance, but the Minister does nothing to ameliorate the serious economic stress of these families. [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…]
Yet a man and a wife are asked to do this on $25 a week, and a man with a wife and 2 children is asked to do it on $34 a week. [More…]
Parents are involved in great expense in sending such children back to school. [More…]
When one talks about 122,000 unemployed in Australia one is not talking about the people who are affected by unemployment because in addition to those who are unemployed there are wives and dependent children. [More…]
I believe that the annual report indicates that dependent children average three to a family. [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…]
Any person who suggests that a man with 2 children can live for a long period on $34 a week without that family suffering severe hardship and deprivation and without destruction of a man’s confidence in himself and his will is a fool. [More…]
It is not only the person who becomes unemployed; it is the person’s family - his children. [More…]
If the children happen to be of high school age there is no way in the world that the breadwinner can continue to pay for their schooling. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, a boarding allowance of $250 per annum is payable by the Commonwealth Government to the parents of all primary and secondary school children who have to live away from home to attend school. [More…]
Is it a fact that atmosphere radiation from these tests produces a cumulative danger which jeopardises the health of all people, particularly children, that radiation particles build up in the bones and thyroid glands of children, hence subjecting them to the dangers of bone cancer, leukemia and thyroid carcinoma, that the radioactive elements can remain in the body for many years and that they can result in the mutilation of the reproductive cells leading to the birth of deformed and diseased children. [More…]
On the reserves they are learning useful skills in a training scheme which pays them a training allowance and they are benefiting from a better diet, health services and education for their children. [More…]
There are now 68 per cent of the estimated number of 3 and 4 year old Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory who receive pre-school education. [More…]
Over the border in Queensland, only 7.3 per cent of all children of eligible age attend pre-school centres, while in Western Australia the figure is only 9.9 per cent. [More…]
If there is one identifiable section of the population which needs pre-school education in order to give it a proper start in life, it is the Aboriginal children. [More…]
I wish that the Commonwealth would provide these facilities for all children of preschool age, but the Aborigines need it more than any other identifiable group. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth should directly make provision for pre-school education in areas where there are a significant number of Aboriginal children. [More…]
There can be little doubt that Aboriginal children in Queensland and Western Australia cannot get as good an opportunity at that stage of their lives now as they can in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It has ensured that their children can get to school and that the people have adequate health services. [More…]
If the land in the reserve in the Northern Territory were to be carved up on a traditional basis what would have to be done about providing a future for those who have to live outside reserves, and I mean by that the present children? [More…]
Seventy-five percent of the children of an eligible age are now attending preschools and 92 per cent of them are attending primary schools. [More…]
Over 5,000 children - 92 per cent of those who are eligible - are attending primary schools. [More…]
The missing children are mainly from nomadic families or are living in very remote and small places. [More…]
It is a fair effort to have 75 per cent of the eligible children attending pre-schools. [More…]
It should be remembered that children over 3 years of age attend preschools in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The young people are changing in their attitudes, which frequently creates problems between parents and their children. [More…]
It is expected that in 1975 over 1,100 children will be attending community or special secondary schools. [More…]
Another newspaper heading reads ‘Dogs Before Children’. [More…]
Aboriginal children in Alice Springs are searching rubbish bins to find food, an alderman said yesterday. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) spoke about the need for pre-school education for Aboriginal children other than those in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I do not think that a $2m hospital for Aboriginal children in Alice Springs is a little thing, but the honourable member for Wills did not mention that. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition also was critical of the Government’s pre-school efforts in regard to Aboriginal children. [More…]
Just for the record, I point out that last year almost Sim was spent in the States on pre-school education for Aboriginal children, and that over the last 4 years the Commonwealth has allocated $25m to the States for this purpose. [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…]
I regret too that the people who benefited from our generosity did not beget any children who went out to fight in the war in Vietnam which we described as immoral. [More…]
In relation to interruptions of work for nursing children and to the manner in which such interruptions are to be treated, the honourable member will be aware that prevailing practices in Aus-‘ tralia regarding nursing mothers engaging in employment are different from the circumstances envisaged in the instruments and, accordingly, the need for providing for daily absences for this purpose has not arisen. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER- All States but one and the Commonwealth have selected a method of straight per capita payments in support of independent schools, dependent upon the number of children in those schools. [More…]
I refer to the Isolated Children Parents Association. [More…]
I believe that if there is one section of the Australian community that is underprivileged, it is the section comprising the isolated children in this nation. [More…]
Now, according to my latest assessments, there may be 2.000 children who, according to any definition that has so far been applied to isolated children, would have to bc included in any scheme. [More…]
Surely, we will not allow this number of children to be deprived. [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…]
However, perhaps of greater importance, had this situation continued many of the children in the 1,000 refugee camps faced acute problems of malnutrition and there would have been mortality on an unprecedented scale had they had to endure life much longer in these camps. [More…]
As it was, some 400,000 children are reported to have died and this was quite evident when one observed the few infants returning home with their parents now that they are free to do so. [More…]
What confidence can the Government expect to give to the parents of teenage children who are forced back to school or forced into an area of employment, if they are fortunate enough to get employment, when these children stayed at school for an extra 3 or 4 years to equip themselves for a job much better than they are able to acquire at this time? [More…]
How is the Government to instil confidence into these parents and children by introducing a measure such as this? [More…]
I speak of the effect on their children, their inability to pay for the education of their children and all the many associated heartbreaking problems. [More…]
Today one out of every 2 children leaving universities and schools cannot obtain a job under this Government. [More…]
At the moment the Government is killing the hopes of people who come to this country expecting it to be a place where there is economic opportunity and security for children. [More…]
Some of them are married with children. [More…]
1 do not think that an increasingly sophisticated intelligent electorate should be treated in this day and age in rather the same way as young children are reputed to have been treated by their nannies in England during the Napoleonic Wars. [More…]
Their nannies are said, by history, to have told children, when they were fractious: If you do not watch out that terrible man Boney will come and eat you up’. [More…]
Of course, it was as useless for that purpose as turning off the fountain in Lake Burley Griffin although it did have the difference that it was much more serious because it imposed a financial burden on many parents of school age children. [More…]
The increase is only an attempt to extract money from parents who have school age children. [More…]
As such it is nothing more or less than a tax on the parents of school age children - a tax which in the form in which it has been imposed here in the Australian Capital Territory is not imposed in many of the other States, certainly not in New South Wales, South Australia. [More…]
It means that a family with 3 school age children has had its bus fares for those 3 children increased from 60c a week to $1.50 a week. [More…]
If the family has 6 school age children - and I know of one which has 8 - the bus fares increase by $1.80 a week to $3 a week. [More…]
It is almost impossible to find out just how many families with school age children there are in Canberra whose incomes are such that the fare increase will cause hardship. [More…]
The Minister does not tax the wealthy who drive their children to schools in cars. [More…]
It is true that in special circumstances, where there are large numbers of children or special medical expenses have been incurred, other factors can be considered but I am told this is extremely rare. [More…]
Families with a breadwinner who earns $53 a week or more get no relief, notwithstanding that for, say 6 school children their bus fares now amount to $3 a week. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has shown by his recent intervention in a particular case that I am sure he will recall - the case of the Tharwa primary school children - that basically he is sympathetic to this problem because in that case he did intervene and, as I understand it, overrule a departmental decision which would have taken away some transport subsidies and he restored the subsidies to the parents of those school children because of their geographical isolation. [More…]
The increase in bus fares for school children travelling to and from school on special buses and on regular buses in the Australian Capital Territory was approved by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in September 1971. [More…]
With the exception of private buses, which are hired on a contractual basis to transport children living in rural areas to and from school, all the buses used by school children in the Australian Capital Territory are operated by the Department of the Interior. [More…]
The decision to increase school bus fares was taken after careful consideration by the Department of Education and Science of the cost to that Department for the provision of special school buses, and of subsidising reduced fares for school children who travel to and from school on regular buses. [More…]
The bus fare charge of 2c for school children, as I mentioned earlier, was not varied from November 1964 until November 1971. [More…]
In that time the cost to the Department of Education and Science of subsidising the cost of bus transport for school children rose approximately 150 per cent. [More…]
The major element of the cost is the provision of special buses to take children to and from school. [More…]
Other elements of the cost include the provision of special buses to transport school children to and from school sporting fixtures and special events; a subsidy of school children’s fares to and from school on regular government passenger buses; a subsidy of the fares for the bus transport to and from school of children living in rural areas of the Australian Capital Territory who are not served by private contract buses; and payment of the cost of fare concessions granted to secondary school children during their school vacations. [More…]
Children attending non-government schools come from a wider area of the Australian Capital Territory and are mors dependent on special buses for transport to and from school. [More…]
The special school bus service provided for Australian Capital Territory school children is different from the school bus services provided in other parts of Australia. [More…]
In Sydney and Melbourne, for example, the majority of school children who are dependent on bus transport travel to and from their school on ordinary passenger buses, which operate along the normal routes and which are adequate for this purpose. [More…]
It is a question of free education; it is a question of whether the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) is prepared to support for the people of Canberra the system that is applicable to his own children, wherever he comes from, up beyond the black stump. [More…]
Free education is the matter before the House, lt is nonsense for the Minister to say that it is essential in this circumstance to increase from 2c to 5c the fare in Canberra for school children in order to raise another $70,000 or $80,000 to balance the Australian Budget. [More…]
The Minister is the rubber stamp apparently of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) whose children, if they went to a State school in the area where he lives, would also have the benefit of free transport to that school. [More…]
But the irony of the situation is that if my friend the Minister for Education and Science - and I am a broadminded Socialist and am still prepared to call him a friend despite his heretical politics - cared to send his children every day by some bus service from near Hamilton a distance of 10, 15 or 20 miles to the most expensive school in Australia, he would get the transport free. [More…]
But the moment the Government raises the payment to 5c a person who has 3, 4 or 5 children - and families consist of this number of children not only in the ACT but everywhere else in Australia - is affected and hardship is caused in thousands of homes. [More…]
The parents of children are contributing this year perhaps as much as $40,000. [More…]
What is the difference between the cost of the school building, the cost of teachers’ salaries and the cost of transport of children to school? [More…]
Once children live beyond a reasonable walking distance to school, transport is an integral part of the school service. [More…]
I believe that it is our duty to supply free transport of children to school. [More…]
My friend the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) pointed out to me that in Tasmania this year an amount of $1,600,000 will be spent on providing transport for school children. [More…]
On a proportional basis I should think that the Government would be prepared to spend approximately $500,000 to transport children to school in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Therefore, I believe that the Minister for the Interior is following a false pattern in attempting to recoup the cost of the transport of children to school. [More…]
I believe that the transport of children to school is part of the education system. [More…]
I believe that the principle which applies throughout most of Australia for thousands of Australian children - that no matter how far they are from a school, transport to the school is provided free - should apply in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The 10th annual report of that organisation for 1970-71 given by the general manager, Mr Arthur Cowan, makes critical or strong comments or raises doubts about such matters as the Australian content in television programmes, the future of musical and variety shows, the difficulty of children’s programmes, the veracity of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board’s research, the credit loading on good class documentaries and current affairs programmes, the restrictions on election telecasts, the criticism of television stations over cigarette advertising and the restrictions on Sunday morning programmes. [More…]
It appears to be in line with the Postal Department’s general policy of centralisation in this field but the savings are not being passed on to the public licence holder, in particular the pensioner or the widow who has the misfortune to have to care for a growing family who are reaching their teens and who go out to work and who, because of the miserable income these children bring in, is charged a full radio and television fee. [More…]
Sometimes 1 tremble about the consequences of television, after reading many reports about it and considering the number of hours that children are subject to its influence as against the number of hours that they go to school. [More…]
Thirdly, 6 hours of first run indigenous drama must be televised between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Fourthly, for 4 hours a month programmes must be provided for school age children. [More…]
That is in complete distinction from preschool age children. [More…]
It seems to me that as time goes by the outback children who are unable to attend school but who will be serviced by television stations at Alice Springs, Darwin, Port Augusta and other outlandish places - if I may use that phrase - will need much greater provision than the rather paltry 4 hours monthly which is required to be made available for educational purposes. [More…]
But in the meantime, I make the small point in passing that I think that this is something the Government should look at in view of the changing circumstances I have tried to describe which may affect the future of children in the outback areas away beyond the limits of the electorate of, for instance, Angas. [More…]
The Aboriginal infant mortality rate is over 200 per thousand children or about 10 times as high as the infant mortality rate for white children. [More…]
The new Mount Gillen Hostel was opened on 5th February by the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), allegedly to help Aboriginal mothers to learn about hygiene and also to assist with adequate accommodation for Aboriginal children who are convalescing. [More…]
There are numerous cases of children who are extremely ill but there is only one paediatrician on the staff. [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…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science had a number of representations made to him concerning the problems of isolated children? [More…]
Is he aware of the great difficulties faced by many families out of reach of any local school, where mothers must not look after the home, but often help work properties end in addition attempt to educate their children? [More…]
Is he aware that a number of children are being prejudiced by the downtown in the economic fortunes of remote areas which has made it impossible for these children to be sent to boarding schools? [More…]
What I was saying, commenting on retention rates, was that because of the additional costs involved - 1 say this in amplification to try to penetrate the understanding of the honourable member for Kennedy - those who seek to send their children to one of the areas of independent education obviously have, because of the educational costs involved, a concern. [More…]
I then went on to say that unfortunately not all parents give as much encouragement to their children as they should to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
Again I was seeking to make the point that no matter what governments might do to upgrade the quality of capital facilities in schools the active encouragement of parents is essential if we are to achieve full educational equality, and it is an unfortunate fact that while an enormous number of people who send their children to government schools have a great concern for education, and evidence this daily by the interest they show in parents and citizens groups and by the other active measures they take to support their schools and to bring pressure to bear on governments and Ministers, there are still some parents who do not give their children the support they should to encourage them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
The Government is concerned for the education of all schoolchildren in all schools and it has demonstrated this by a great variety and diversity of programmes. [More…]
If, as a result of what I have said, there are some families who become more concerned to support their children than otherwise might have done, I will be content. [More…]
It has been extremely carefully calculated that as a result of the policy followed by the New South Wales Liberal and Country Party Government approximately 65,000 men, women and children have been retained in New South Wales country areas who otherwise would have had to find job opportunities and housing facilities in metropolitan areas. [More…]
I think that the Australian people living in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne have realised that if Australia continues to develop along the lines on –which it has developed a serious social and economic problem will face their children in the years that lie ahead. [More…]
Thai all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House while not refusing a second reading to the Bill, is of the opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and nongovernment primary, secondary, and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities’. [More…]
The report of the Central Advisory Council for Education in England entitled ‘Children and their Primary Schools’ submitted to Sir Edward Boyle, the Minister for Education at the time, says that there are very great differences in educational opportunities for children and the whole purpose of the report is to try to even these. [More…]
I agree that children are penalised if their parents are indifferent and that they are rewarded if their parents are concerned. [More…]
But the Minister appeared to accept that as a desirable state of affairs and that fie should leave the children to be penalised if their parents were indifferent or leave them to be rewarded if their parents were concerned, I remind the Minister that the statement in the New Testament that ‘to him that hath more shall be given and that to him that hath not shall be taken even that which he has* is a spiritual principal, not a financial or educational one and we ought to be concerned to ensure that to him that bath not educationally more is given and to him that hath - while I would not take anything from him - we do not have to be so concerned that more is given. [More…]
In Chapter 3 we tried to disentangle some of the principal influences that shape the educational opportunities of children, and to assess and compare their importance. [More…]
But policy makers and administrators must act in a world where other things never are equal; this, loo, is the world in which the children grow up, where everything influences everything else, where nothing succeeds like success and nothing fails like failure. [More…]
The outlook and aspirations of their own parents; the opportunities and handicaps of the neighbourhood in which they live; the skill of their teachers and the resources of the schools they go to; their genetic inheritance; and other factors still unmeasured or unknown surround the children with a seamless web of circumstance. [More…]
In 1968, the 490,818 children in Catholic schools represented 18.46 per cent of children attending schools in Australia. [More…]
Were Catholic parents to have chosen fee-paying education for their children in the same proportion as is chosen in the rest of the community . [More…]
The writer has made the point that if Catholic schools charged the fees on average that are charged in the greater public schools, instead of having 490,000 children enrolled. [More…]
, 45,000 children would require some 1,870 teachers. [More…]
In fact Catholic schools enrolled in 1968 II times that number of children, and were staffed by 8 times that number of teachers (14,229). [More…]
That Catholic schools have been in a position io enrol children from homes of a considerably wider range of income levels than have other independent schools. [More…]
In principle there was no difficulty in defining in general terms what was meant by an ‘educational priority area’: the Plowden Report itself speaks of areas where ‘educational handicaps are reinforced by social handicaps’ and the Department’s circular 11/67 refers to children in districts that ‘are suffering from multiple deprivation because of the combination of several disadvantages in their environment’. [More…]
children unable to speak English [More…]
The reason for this was that for schools in the pilot study between 67 per cent and 85 per cent of the children lived within I mile radius of the school. [More…]
The actual measures taken were respectively: the percentage of employed males in the area in unskilled and semi-skilled jobs, the percentage of children living in households containing more than 6 people, the percentage of households over crowded, i.e. [More…]
Similarly, it should be noted that the measure of family size was in fact a measure of large households which contained children. [More…]
Children receiving free meals (criterion 4 above) [More…]
Children of low ability (criterion 7 above’ [More…]
The Authority has no general information on families receiving cash and other supplementary help, and therefore the percentage of children receiving free meals was taken as the most accessible measure of this criterion. [More…]
Children unable to speak English involves considerable judgment on the teacher’s part, and therefore the percentage of immigrants was considered a more satisfactory measure. [More…]
Finally, the percentage of handicapped and disturbed children in the school cannot easily be reduced to a standard scale, whereas the routine transfer procedure used by the Authority gives comparable information on the distribution of pupils’ abilities and performance and these are measured by verbal reasoning scores. [More…]
This was not regarded as a very good measure either of truancy which in the primary schools anyway is low, or of the physical health of the children. [More…]
the social and educational deprivation of the children. [More…]
When it comes to the physical property that can be seen, the Government is forced to use common sense, but it is not common sense to make the same kind of grant to a greater public school with fees of more than $1,000 a year as is made to a poorer private school which has much lower fees which may have many migrant children who need to be taught English and which has all sorts of difficulties and disabilities which the more privileged schools do not have. [More…]
For many years now the independent schools have educated about the same proportion of children (a slight drop is reported recently) and its social composition can be fairly readily checked. [More…]
Forty-eight per cent of the children leaving from independent schools had fathers who were farmers, professionals and higher administrators compared with M per cent from government schools. [More…]
It is quite obvious that if there is a high level of fees, children from parents of a high income group will attend that school. [More…]
Obviously if there is a crash in wool prices and there are great pastoral families who have been prosperous and have developed the habit over generations of sending their children to a school like Geelong Grammar, such families will either pay for their sons out of capital or will have to withdraw the children from the school. [More…]
he said: ‘I got ideals out of Geelong Grammar so that I do not have an income that enables me to send my children to Geelong Grammar*. [More…]
So if it is true that it gave him high character and self-sacrifice in the community and he did not have much of an income, then he could not send his own children to the school that he had attended. [More…]
It would have been much better for Australian children if this decision had been made in principle. [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…]
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…]
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…]
When one looks at the principles involved in education it is always wise and appropriate to look a little into history to see the wriggling of the Opposition over its understanding and comments on the rights of all children to educational grants. [More…]
In that year the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) made his own situation perfectly clear, and rather tragically clear, because he indicated that his own view was that assistance would go to all schools and all children only if the children of nongovernment schools were allowed to go up the road and utilise the facilities otherwise available in State institutions. [More…]
Children were to be placed in an obviously and clearly secondary position. [More…]
But it is too clear to see if you deny basic rights so they developed a new policy of saying: ‘We are in favour of assistance to all children but, of course, the assistance will be on the basis of needs’. [More…]
The alienated comfortable who have become the new avant-garde of the Labor Party have adopted a most sophisticated form of supporting the principles of flat denial operative during the 1950s and 1960s because these principles are an effective denial of rights and, unfortunately, it amounts to an effective denial of the rights of children at all schools in Australia. [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…]
All children have rights. [More…]
The best way to observe those rights as applicable to all students is not to place a false and an unwieldy needs test upon children. [More…]
They propose all kinds of incredible family proposals at all levels but the only area in which they would make divisions and in which they promote division is in the rights of children at all schools within Australia. [More…]
The challenges that I make to the Opposition, and which I invite the Opposition to answer, are these: Will it affirm that all children should have rights in education - even the children of the honourable member for Hindmarsh? [More…]
It would disadvantage all children at Australian schools. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are not doing anything about it and we are not doing very much about it but at least we can guarantee to all children in any of those 3 systems that they will get a better deal than the Government is giving them. [More…]
If only I could do something a little bit stronger to get some sort of retribution for the children whom I represent and to whom that man is giving a second rate education. [More…]
All he can show is an arrant smirk when it comes to the needs of the 75 to 80 per cent of children who go to Catholic and government schools. [More…]
No wonder children are attracted to them. [More…]
No wonder the children of those parents win the Commonwealth scholarships. [More…]
The Government at present provides assistance at a rate of $1.50 a day for children, under 16 years of age, who are accommodated in handicapped persons homes approved as such under the National Health Act. [More…]
00 basis to eligible organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Is it the intention of the Government to extend the school dental service to all school children in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
In addition to giving further consideration to increasing Australia’s financial contribution to the United Nations for the relief of the 5 to 6 million East Pakistani refugees in India, will he appeal to all Pakistani and Indian doctors; now in Australia, to show some patriotic interest in the sufferings of their fellow countrymen, women and children and return immediately to East Pakistan or India where their medical skills are much more urgently needed than they are in Australia. [More…]
The offer of the payment of $46.20 a week to a man who has a wife and 2 children means that he would be receiving $4 below the poverty line of $50 in Melbourne. [More…]
A man with a wife and 4 children would be $19 below the poverty line of $60 and a man with a wife and 6 children would be almost $30 below the poverty line of $75. [More…]
The income offered would only force many children out of school. [More…]
The Government should instead provide allowances and scholarships to all student children of farmers who need them to enable them to complete their education to their limits. [More…]
Not all children of farmers want to go back onto the land. [More…]
Many children of farmers are from the time they are at school training themselves for some other job. [More…]
It is interesting to note that hepatitis is capable of affecting European children by way of the germ penetrating the sole of the foot, but Aboriginal children, their feet being tougher, are affected by the germ going up through the toes. [More…]
Alternatively, if the existing unit of pension scheme were to be retained, the Board suggests that any remaining surplus assets should be applied to a further extension of pension benefits with particular reference to those provided for widows and children. [More…]
Children’s and orphans’ pensions would be 10 per cent and 20 per cent respectively of the invalid benefit. [More…]
When existing superannuation pensions were increased last year orphans whose pensions are calculated by reference to the widows pension were the only children who benefited directly from the increases. [More…]
Those in receipt of the fixed rates of pension specified in the Act that apply to future pensioner children and orphans as well did not receive an increase. [More…]
When introducing the Superannuation (Pension Increases) Bill, the Government said that the position of orphans and children would be given special consideration when the results of the quinquennial investigations of the Superannuation and Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Funds become available. [More…]
Later, after considering representations from the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, I told the Council that I would look at the situation of children and orphans again as soon as I received the Actuary’s report on the Superannuation Fund. [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…]
However, a survey conducted in the area following your enquiry showed that there were 31 children’s names on the waiting list for admission to pre-school at the close of the 1971 school year. [More…]
All children were dependants of military personnel and civilians resident in the Puckapunyal area. [More…]
The number of children who attended Seymour Primary School is not known, but it is believed to be quite small. [More…]
The pre-school at Puckapunyal was attended by 135 children, who were dependants of military members and civilians resident in Puckapunyal and military members resident in Seymour. [More…]
All Service children attend the Puckapunyal kindergartens. [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…]
in his work ‘Education Through Art’: Why is it that almost exclusively children display an amazing and exciting creative activity in a whole range of creative activities when they are in their primary years at school, but by the time we get them through to the secondary years we are so determined and so dedicated that we churn these people out into increasingly colder, responding inputs for industry instead of vital, dynamic, creative individuals who are each different and have something valuable to offer through this difference to our society? [More…]
This led to the rescue of a husband and wife and 3 small children who were in danger of finishing up on one of the reefs. [More…]
Leaving aside the seemingly trivial injuries or illnesses all of which may require only reassurance and little or no technical treatment - apart from the anti-tetanus injection following trivial injuries which has almost stopped deaths from te:anus, the surgical cleaning, dressing and advice on wound care which greatly reduces the possibility of dangerous infection particularly in children, the antibiotic which has helped to reduce dramatically the once common complications of scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, pneumonia and bronchiectasis - just consider the neurotics. [More…]
It is required to provide swimming pools, children’s playgrounds, baby health centres, libraries, aerodromes and sporting ovals. [More…]
This leaves a balance of 106,000, many of whom are living with their children or relatives under conditions which they themselves would not wish to change; and some of the others are living in good standard accommodation which they rent from private owners at a reasonable rale. [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…]
The rationale of ‘State Aid’ to Catholic schools is that they are a traditional part of our total educational system to which parents who wish their children to obtain a distinctively Catholic education are entitled to send them, that their continued existence relieves the burden of government schools, and that such aid does not amount to subsidising a religion but to furthering the educational aspects of schools where religion is also incidentally inculcated. [More…]
The second Bill we are discussing, in case nobody remembers it by now, deals with the provision of Commonwealth capital grants to the States for state schools, the schools that look after 75 per cent of the children in our community. [More…]
I support aid for children in private schools or in nongovernment schools. [More…]
Is it any wonder that of those children who go to State schools and who proceed to high school only 28 per cent continue on to the higher school certificate? [More…]
I can never understand, quite frankly, why my Catholic friends would argue that the children in the best furnished great public schools should command exactly the same per capita grant as do children in parochial schools in the inner suburban areas of our great metropolitan areas where there are many migrant children. [More…]
Why should the same be spent on them as that which is spent on the children in the great and wealthy private schools? [More…]
Last year this legislation was debated and it provided that the Commonwealth Government would spend on children in government schools $36.83 per head whereas on students in non-government schools almost twice as much would be spent - $73.82. [More…]
Does the Minister really believe that the children who are going to the greater public schools need as much spent on them as do the children in the ordinary parochial schools or, in fact, those in the state school systems which have insufficient teachers, where children are being taught in buildings that were constructed in the 1890s, where many schools are without electricity or heating systems, where inadequate teaching aids are available and where teachers want to be transferred from schools as quickly as possible? [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 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…]
Is it not a commentary on our social priorities that these people should still be going out and running raffles to raise money for schools in which to educate their afflicted children? [More…]
I am referring to the Isolated Childrens’ Parents Association. [More…]
There is a need for continuing expenditure to provide accommodation for children in outlying areas. [More…]
I recommend to the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) that if he is looking for an underprivileged section of the community for which educational opportunities should be provided, he should consider isolated children. [More…]
People there are not able to send their children in to be educated. [More…]
Many parents who belong to the Isolated Children’s Parents Association are no longer able to send their children into these independent schools. [More…]
To safeguard the rights and promote the interests of parents and children in the field of education in Australia, and in particular the rights and interests of parents availing or wishing to avail themselves of the services of non-government schools for their children. [More…]
Can the taxpayer who is supplying this $34m get his children into Canberra Grammar? [More…]
If he turns up here tomorrow, with his 3 or 4 children, can he get them into Canberra Grammar? [More…]
Having surrendered to the fact that after all, they would have to end up like the rest of us and send their children to a State school, they would turn up and knock on the door, and the State schools probably would say: ‘Yes, we are full, but come in’. [More…]
There are some schools which, through misfortune, have to support their children practically out of their own private funds, but it is false to say that these schools are private schools. [More…]
As a result of that, there was an 800 per cent increase in the number of children attending science classes at the school. [More…]
There was an increase from 1 to 8 in the number of children attending science classes at the leaving and matriculation levels. [More…]
In denying last Sunday that the quality of education in government and Catholic schools was poor, the Minister illustrated and emphasised his utter indifference to tha overwhelming majority of Australian schools which are so much less adequately staffed, housed and equipped than those to which he and his colleagues send their children. [More…]
On 23rd April 1970 he answered: ‘Statistics are not kept of the numbers of children in schools who do not speak English as their mother tongue’, although he was able to advise me that in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory the percentage who did so was greater at non-government than at government schools. [More…]
This answer obscures the fact that it is upon Catholic schools and not upon the other non-government schools that the burden of educating the migrant children of the non-government school system has fallen overwhelmingly. [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…]
We shall achieve equality of access to pre-school education in this country only when a Labor government establishes its pre-school commission and provides for ail children pre-school centres as good and pre-school teachers as well qualified as those the Minister and his colleagues provide for Canberra’s children alone. [More…]
It would not make an adequate education equally available and accessible to children of deprived parents and in developing regions. [More…]
The Labor Party seeks instead for all Australian children an equal opportunity in life and an opportunity in life as good as is enjoyed by children in comparable countries. [More…]
the primary obligation of the governments to provide and maintain government school systems of the highest standard open to all children; [More…]
All over Australia parents and children are grateful for what the Government has done. [More…]
But there are additional standards sought by parents of children is independent schools. [More…]
I would remind the House that not all rich people send their children to independent schools and that many thousands of sons and daughters of rich people go to state schools throughout Australia. [More…]
The children themselves have a right to a proper education, as their parents require in this country. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, in common with nearly all the State governments, has chosen to provide per capita payments for all children in primary and secondary schools without any kind of means test. [More…]
Also there is the question of economics and the right of the parents to choose their children’s schools. [More…]
Parents do have a right to the choice of a school for their children and as taxpayers they are entitled to have a part of the cost of educating their children met from government revenue. [More…]
Those parents who prefer to send their children to independent schools are entitled to expect governments to contribute directly to the cost of running those schools, provided the parents continue to accept a reasonable share of the cost themselves. [More…]
As I have said before, I do not quite see the logic of spending some $ 1,600m, as the States and the Commonwealth are spending on education this financial year, to provide our children with an opportunity of developing mentally, physically and emotionally, if they miss out on spiritual development. [More…]
Most of the parents make great sacrifices to keep their children at independent schools, and their main reason for doing so is that they want them to receive a well-balanced education. [More…]
The Government has missed an imcomparable opportunity to raise school standards for all children in government and non-government schools. [More…]
He referred to the fact that there were a great many children occupying a classroom of this school in which the soil formed the classroom floor. [More…]
So while Government supporters may use whatever methods or tactics are available to them in this debate to endeavour to drive a wedge between the parents of children who attend government and non-government schools in Australia, the fact remains that no-one on the Government side who has spoken in this debate has denied that there is a crisis in education, that these inequalities do exist. [More…]
With respect to the Minister, it seems that he conceives the education of country children in terms of getting them to boarding school. [More…]
He may protest, as he did on television the other evening, that he has at various times sent his children to a 2-teacher government school near his home in Victoria. [More…]
The Government has done nothing to meet the special problems of country children in maximising their education opportunities. [More…]
He claimed that parents who sent their children to private schools had a greater concern for education and therefore encouraged their children to stay at school longer. [More…]
In the Minister’s view much too large a proportion of families with children at state schools didn’t give their children the encouragement in their home environment to encourage them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
This sort of argument would have much greater force if the Government did anything at all to assist poorer families to keep children at school. [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…]
the primary obligation of governments to provide and maintain government school systems of the highest standard open to all children. [More…]
Thirdly, the Minister called on the Leader of the Opposition to cease dividing children and their parents along the lines that he outlined. [More…]
I suggest that it is an attempt to divide the community into those who send their children to government schools and those who do not. [More…]
Within that division there is perhaps an even more pernicious and more dangerous division and that is the division between parents who send their children to Catholic schools and those who send them to Protestant schools. [More…]
The Victorian State Government spends $333 a year on primary school pupils and $31.50 for children in non-government schools. [More…]
I trust that the young Turk from Diamond Valley is listening carefully - for primary school children were big steps forward in education. [More…]
the House, while not refusing a second reading to the BUI, is of the opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and nongovernment primary, secondary, and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities. [More…]
The Government seems able to make large sums available to private schools but it is not prepared to spend similar sums to ensure that the younger children, particularly the children of the underprivileged section of the community, are given any education until they are old enough to attend the generally accepted State schools. [More…]
In my electorate there are approximately 65 schools with a population of about 40,000 children. [More…]
There would be as many children of pre-school age. [More…]
They know very well that Liberal State governments such as this Liberal Government have a belief in an elitist education system where there is great public patronage of wealthy private schools to prepare the children of the rich to become rulers in their turn. [More…]
These principles are: Firstly, a greatly increased expenditure on education; secondly, expenditure on education to be allocated on a basis of need so that education will overcome the disadvantages of those children from families with limited incomes - in other words, to provide equality of opportunity; and thirdly, decentralisation of decision making and devolution of power so that maximum autonomy is given to teachers and students. [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…]
This scheme supposedly was devised to help those children to complete their secondary education who would otherwise, through lack of money, have had to leave school. [More…]
The present Minister told the House this week that if some parents are less concerned than others about their children’s education, the States should not do anything about it. [More…]
What this means of course is that these children, without special assistance, will grow up, like their parents, without a special concern for education and this attitude will be passed on to their children. [More…]
I agree that the parents of children at private schools are concerned with their children’s future. [More…]
So concerned are members of the Cabinet for their own children that they send them to private schools. [More…]
The Ministers have so little faith in the government schools that they have all bought their children out of them. [More…]
But what if these children now at private schools went to government schools? [More…]
This would be a tremendous help to children whose parents were less concerned. [More…]
However, under the present situation, the under-privileged children go to the State schools and more of them drop out before completing secondary schooling. [More…]
Not all children need to complete a full secondary course to undertake a chosen career. [More…]
Like it or not, Labor will remove these inequities, and when all children get the opportunity they deserve, they certainly will not want to do the dirty work either. [More…]
Honourable members will know that on ‘Monday Conference’, which has been misinterpreted and misquoted by the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) and by one other honourable member, my purpose was to demonstrate that the concern of parents is important in establishing educational opportunity and no matter what governments might do, those children who have parents who are concerned about education will be advantaged compared with those who have not. [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…]
Children would go to a government school and like it. [More…]
It is my great fear that, if the Labor Parry came to power and introduced its policy on independent schools, and these schools were to fade away as surely they would under a Labor government, children would be forced to go to the schools which the bureaucrats dictated, with no choice for the individual. [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…]
For the Government to try to provide facilities for all children at government schools would place an impossible, burden on the taxpayer. [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…]
There is no doubt that added costs and higher fees are forcing children to move from independent schools into the government schools. [More…]
In 1965, 26.6 per cent of Victorian children were educated at independent schools. [More…]
Parents with children at state schools also contribute and work to improve the standard of the school. [More…]
Virtually the only source of income for independent schools is the fees they receive from parents, and these are rising steeply - so much so that many parents are finding it impossible, despite their sacrifice, to keep their children at these schools. [More…]
That is the reason for the drop of 2.3 per cent in the number of children attending independent schools. [More…]
Surely it would be wrong if fees of independent schools were to rise to such an extent that only the children of wealthy parents could attend these 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…]
This should be based on the fundamental right of parents to choose the kind of education their children should receive. [More…]
This seems to be the only thing they can think of; but one thing is certain and that is that under a Labor government a deep rift would be created in the community between those people whose children attend a government school and those whose children attend an independent schools. [More…]
All children in this country are born equal as Australians. [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 to the Bill, is of the opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary, and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities’. [More…]
At the school I attended, De La Salle college at Bankstown, not too many years ago the children were plodding through mud and ashes in the playground to get to portable timber classrooms. [More…]
He has to give his life up to the children and get $15, $20 or $25 a week. [More…]
Their argument is that we should not discriminate against children at the larger schools, the basis of the argument being that the parents of pupils at the smaller schools do not try - to use the words of one of the persons who spoke to me. [More…]
Admittedly, many of the parents of pupils at the smaller schools cannot afford to send their children there. [More…]
It is not interested to see whether children get a fair go but merely to ensure that it can push its own barrow on the question of education, particularly in respect of non-denomination schools. [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…]
Everywhere I travel in my electorate I am approached by parents of these children asking that our governments, both State and Federal, give some consideration to the problem of these children. [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…]
Where does the cash come from to pay for boarding fees for the rest of our 6 children? [More…]
Looks as if there will be thousands of country children sadly lacking in education if we do not receive help soon and I mean very soon as believe me the people in the country areas are very worried indeed, as we just cannot see how we can educate our children. [More…]
These petitions clearly point out the injustice being done to the children who cannot go to school. [More…]
I have not heard anyone oppose the case of these children. [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…]
While there are a few independent hostels in rural areas, these are not adequate for the numbers of children requiring accommodation. [More…]
There is no means test for entry to government schools or for bus travel, yet one is applied to the meagre living away allowance which is at present given by the States to children forced to live away from home in order to attend school. [More…]
Some of the things that the parents of isolated children are asking for are as follows: [More…]
$10 per school week allowance for all children forced to live/board away from home to attend school and that this be reviewed annually; no means test. [More…]
That$400 per annum per family be allowed for a supervisor for children doing school at home. [More…]
That there be a taxation concessional allowance of $800 for isolated children’s parents and that this be carried forward in year of loss. [More…]
(a) That travelling allowances for taking children to school or bus daily, weekly or monthly be 7.5c per mile per vehicle. [More…]
That isolated children should be issued with free travel warrants to school and return each term. [More…]
That the objectives of the Association be applied to all children irrespective of where they get their education and there be no discrimination where children are schooled across State borders. [More…]
That some assistance towards costs be allowed for parents forced to maintain a second home to give children access to school which would otherwise be unavailable. [More…]
I am aware of some of the problems being faced by parents of children in remote areas in providing proper education for their children and my attention has been drawn to specific difficulties of parents in certain areas of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth assists the States in meeting their responsibilities in education, including special forms of assistance for parents of children in remote areas, through general financial assistance grants. [More…]
Details of special provisions made by the States to assist parents of children living in remote areas are included in my Department’s publication entitled ‘Government Grants, Allowances and Subsidies for Primary and Secondary Schools and their pupils’. [More…]
Proposals put to me by organisations representing parents of children in remote areas have bugetary implications and must be considered within the general context of Commonwealth assistance to students and in the light of priorities relating to the distribution of funds allocated for education purposes. [More…]
However, I am not unsympathetic to special claims of these children for assistance and I shall keep under examination ways in which the Commonwealth may assist in raising the level of educational facilities and opportunities available to them. [More…]
In the case of funds for recurrent expenditure, the Commonwealth Government and most of the State governments provide per capita payments for all children in primary and secondary schools without a means test of any sort. [More…]
Parents who, for one reason or another, choose to send their children to independent schools are entitled to expect governments to contribute directly to the cost of running those schools provided that the parents continue to accept a reasonable share of the cost themselves. [More…]
After all, taxpaying parents contribute indirectly to the cost of maintarn ‘ng government schools, even though their own children may be attending independent schools. [More…]
But I wonder why no-one has seen fit to examine the need to provide libraries for those children who attend primary schools. [More…]
1 think it is utterly ridiculous to offer children maximum availability to good class literature at a secondary school if those children have not had the same opportunities in primary school and in their pre-school education, which in most cases does not even exist. [More…]
It is all right for those children who are lucky enough to come from families which have available to them a substantial body of literature and in which the parents have a substantial body of learning. [More…]
It is all right for those children who are fortunate enough to go to schools, both state and non-state, which have adequate facilities in this area, but unfortunately the schools which are most likely not to have adequate facilities are those schools attended by children whose parents are most likely not to have had an adequate basis of literary knowledge and an adequate supply of the educational literature which it is desirable that young people have available in their homes, with the end result that those children who start off culturally under-privileged arrive at secondary school, in many cases, without having had the opportunity to make any great progress in their cultural development. [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…]
The teachers were concerned that, being of a middle class background, they were completely unable to communicate with the children in the schools in that area, whose class background, whose cultural background, whose ambitions and the ambitions given to them by their parents, were totally different. [More…]
These children for that reason were serving their time out in school rather than obtaining an education. [More…]
Some children were obviously aware of the benefits of education and were seeking to gain the maximum possible benefit out of a poor situation, but they were hampered by the general attitude which was adopted to school work. [More…]
The children at that school spent the first 4 years of their secondary education in portable classrooms, with not one permanent building in the place, with no sewerage and with nothing except mud on the ground in the winter. [More…]
These children were going to a government school. [More…]
In many cases school libraries and science blocks are allocated to a lesser standard in the State school systems for the numbers of children attending than are available to comparable secondary schools in the same area. [More…]
Another area which should be examined carefully relates to the problem which confronts children of parents who are economically underprivileged. [More…]
These parents have to send their children, under the same conditions, to government schools. [More…]
They have to meet the costs associated with sending their children to secondary schools, but it is not possible for them to do so. [More…]
Poverty begets poverty because in many cases such children cannot continue their education for economic reasons. [More…]
This is especially so of children of invalid pensioners and other recipients of social services. [More…]
The cruellest people in the world are children, as we all know. [More…]
It is for this reason that these children become second class citizens within their own school population and it does not matter how much teachers or others try to help them. [More…]
They have far greater difficulties in obtaining an adequate level of education than do normal children. [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…]
He indicated to the parents that the only way in which adequate educational facilities could be provided for their children would be for the Government to stop contributing towards their education and for the parents themselves to meet the cost. [More…]
He contended it would involve the parents more and make them more receptive to the educational needs of their children. [More…]
With the money saved the parents could pay for the education of their children instead of the Government doing it for them. [More…]
Having listened to this debate and having heard Government supporter after Government supporter putting forward their policies in respect of the government school system, which has to accept children whether it likes it or not and has to provide an education for children whether it likes it or not, I think that the philosophy of not assisting government education is rife among the Government Parties at the moment. [More…]
It is obvious that they have no interest whatsoever in providing an adequate education for those children whose parents cannot afford to meet the cost, for those children who are unfortunate enough to be born underprivileged. [More…]
I believe the amendment proposed by the Opposition should be supported for the very good reason that it is well past the time that a serious study should have been undertaken on the educational needs of children, and an attempt made to meet those needs. [More…]
Children may be sent to school from the age of 6 if their parents can afford it and need stay only as long as the parents pay fees. [More…]
His speech was typical of the speeches of many other honourable members opposite who have absolute and complete contempt for the 75 per cent or 76 per cent of the Australian population who send their children to State schools and for another 20 per cent of the population who send their children to Catholic schools. [More…]
Let us look at how many honourable members opposite or how many of their children have entered State secondary schools. [More…]
Repeatedly surveys have been carried out, but never in the last few years have these surveys shown either that any Liberal Party Ministers have attended State secondary schools or that they have sent their children to State secondary schools, and I think that this is an important point to make. [More…]
In other words, even Mr Menzies realised that there were people in our community whose financial circumstances were preventing them keeping their children at school. [More…]
they’ve got a concern for education and they will therefore encourage their children to stay nl school as long as possible. [More…]
The Minister then went on to attack the 75 per cent of parents who send their children to State schools. [More…]
When you come to the State schools, the Government schools, unfortunately there are still some families who don’t give their children- [More…]
Then, as he said only some families he corrected himself - perhaps much too large a proportion of families- that is, whose children attend State schools - who don’t give their children the encouragement in the home environment which helps them, or encourages them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
He completely ignored the proposition that there are people in our community who cannot afford to keep their children at school until they are 18 or 19 years of age. [More…]
He insulted a large number of parents of children in both Catholic schools and government schools because less than 30 per cent are able to keep their children at school until matriculation. [More…]
This compares with the 80 per cent and 90 per cent of parents who are well able to keep their children at the private schools which the Minister always defends and supports. [More…]
Therefore, whatever need there may have been in 1963-64 to provide scholarships of this kind’ to keep children at school, it appears that, except for a very small proportion of the students represented by this study, this is no longer necessary. [More…]
He is not interested in parents who send their children to deprived schools. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, everyone who voluntarily undertakes to educate his children outside the State system is saving the community nearly $600 a year for a secondary student or over $300 a year for a primary student. [More…]
This seems to stem partly from a dislike of schools run by religious organisations, and partly from a dislike of allowing people to spend their own resources on the education of their children. [More…]
With regard to religious schools, I feel parents have the right to influence the environment in which their children are educated, provided they are prepared to make some personal sacrifice to obtain it. [More…]
Honourable members opposite seem to think that all parents who send their children to independent schools are rich. [More…]
In fact, many such parents are not rich and make great sacrifices in order to provide their children with the education they think best. [More…]
On what grounds did the Governments in which he has served as Minister for Social Services confirm the practice that the dependent children’s benefit should not be provided for dependent student children over 16 years of age where their supporting parent is in receipt of sickness or unemployment benefit (Question No. [More…]
The Social Services Act provides that the additional benefit for children of an unemployment or sickness beneficiary shall cease at 16 years of age. [More…]
The rates of additional benefit payable for these children have been substantially increased by the present Government Any further liberalisations are a matter of Government policy and will be considered at the appropriate time. [More…]
I ask: Does the Commonwealth finance the training of teachers of English to migrant school children? [More…]
Finally, does this policy being pursued by the Victorian Government endanger the welfare of migrant school children and does the Minister’s failure to prevent it represent a dereliction of bis responsibilities? [More…]
The Government does pay the salaries of teachers who teach English to migrant children. [More…]
We are concerned with the quality of education in all schools and we are concerned, so far as it is possible to achieve it, to establish equality of opportunity for all Australian school children, and there is evidence to support that view. [More…]
Since about 1962 or 1963 the numbers of children staying for the last 2 years in government secondary schools have increased by about 85 per cent, in schools in the Catholic sector by much less than that - by about 49 per cent - and in other independent schools by about 25 per cent. [More…]
I would be much happier if it were a much higher proportion again, but the trend is in the right direction and I have no doubt that the proportion of children staying on in the matriculation grades will grow year by year. [More…]
This sort of criterion also takes no note of the fact that many parents send their children to independent schools at considerable cost. [More…]
The neediest schools in South Australia attract a total of $34 per pupil in the primary sector and this is less than what is paid to children in schools in at least 3 other States. [More…]
The Australian flag flies over every government school and the teachers, with the school children, stand before that flag. [More…]
However, it must not be forgotten that the Government must have regard to the interests of not only the teachers but also the community in general and the children in the various school systems. [More…]
It is a safeguard against bringing into this country people who the Minister or the Government believes are not satisfactory people to come here to teach our children. [More…]
1 am not an admirer of the violence or of the other unpleasant features that are plaguing the United States of America, but I thing it is very bad to say that the American teachers who come here would advocate those things to Australian children. [More…]
If the honourable member for Mcpherson wants to keep those features of American life out of Australia be had better have a look at the American television programmes that are seen here by thousands and thousands of children. [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…]
The 883m allocated in the last State Budget the increase of St .2m in loan funds and the proposed free text book scheme for primary school children were big steps forward in education. [More…]
The committee, under the chairmanship of the Director-General of Education, Mr H. W. Denman, had paid special attention to facilities available to children in rural and remoter areas. [More…]
But perhaps the greatest concern of all is the lack of education opportunities for the children who live in isolated areas. [More…]
At Bourke the people were concerned mainly about” the education of children from the isolated areas. [More…]
I was asked to visit the Church of England hostel which houses about 35 children, both males and females. [More…]
I moved from Bourke along the Wanaaring Road and at about 9 o’clock at night I arrived at a place called Goombalie to see the secretary of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. [More…]
People came as far as 60 miles to attend this meeting or to ask me what I had been doing to get education facilities for the children who live in this isolated area. [More…]
I think it does credit to the children in that area that they all turned up spotlessly clean. [More…]
They said they would like a practice net also so that the children could play cricket. [More…]
Keep out of reach of children. [More…]
My question concerns the cost of providing all eligible children with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
A creek between Deer Park and Albion flooded badly a few months ago and 3 children, in two different places, were washed into it on the way home from school. [More…]
I hope that it is still the normal thing for marriages to produce children. [More…]
This attitude creeps progressively and consistently through our whole educational system, quite apart from our social priorities, in that students now consider it quite reasonable that they should marry at the ripe old age of 18 or 20 and that somebody else should provide them with scholarships and living allowances, and more allowances if they have children, and so on. [More…]
In contrast, SAASSO caters for the welfare of children in all government schools in South Australia. [More…]
It is well known that if a Labor government is elected to power there will be a redistribution based on a one vote one value principle, not on the basis of those enrolled but on a basis which includes children and migrants not yet enrolled. [More…]
It relates to a book directed at school children aged from 12 to 18 years, the importation of which he has allowed. [More…]
The amounts shown comprise direct recurrent expenditure on primary and secondary schools, transportation of school children, and, administration. [More…]
The newspaper report to which the honourable member has referred was concerned with the experiences of Turkish migrants and in particular with the health of Turkish children who had come to Australia in the very early stages of the operation of the scheme. [More…]
Since then steps have been taken to ensure that all migrants travelling to Australia under the migration arrangements we have with the Turkish Government are medically screened by Australian doctors and that particular attention is paid to the health of children. [More…]
That the provisions of the Handicapped Children’s Assistance Act 1970 should be amended to include all the country’s physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
A fortnight ago I asked the Minister for Education and Science whether he himself had succeeded in estimating the cost or whether he had commissioned the Policy and Development Division of his Department to estimate the cost of providing all eligible children in Australia with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory and he replied that information available to him indicated that the capital cost alone would be SI 60m if not more. [More…]
If the South is unable to prevent the communist takeover of Vietnam, and if the inevitable mass liquidations occur, the blood of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children will be on the hands, not only of the leftists of Australia, but those dogooders opposite and in the pulpits, universities and trade unions who have done all in their power to sabotage allied assistance to the South and insist on a withdrawal ahead of military prudence. [More…]
Recently I was present at the opening of a further extension to a mentally retarded children’s centre where the older children were able to work in a sheltered workshop. [More…]
It is the Isolated Children’s Parents Association in which there is not a very large number involved. [More…]
Quite a few of these children are among the underprivileged In the Commonwealth, so I believe the Commonwealth either directly or through grants will have to provide the States with the funds. [More…]
Their children have health problems which do not apply to other children in the area. [More…]
Their children have problems with cultural deprivation and the like; malnutrition brought about by parents in receipt of low incomes or with no income at all; broken homes and the like. [More…]
Those children go to school with the children of people such as you and me - the ordinary people in the Australian community. [More…]
The planning of an Australia-wide study of Aboriginal health problems mentioned by my colleague, the then Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs, on 17th February 1971 referred to action being taken to implement the recommendations of the Workshop on the health and nutrition of Aboriginal children held in Sydney in December 1969. [More…]
That is to say, the Council asserted that iodine 131 would not endanger health, pro- vided the dose accumulated by children over a period of a year in consuming milk did not exceed 840 millirad. [More…]
The measurements indicate that radiation doses to thyroids of young children consuming fresh cow’s milk range from 4 to 62 millirad per annum for the milk supplies monitored. [More…]
Practical science is impossible for these children - 160 of them, virtually disfranchised. [More…]
In almost any one of those forms one will find more children enrolled who are in more urgent need than the children enrolled in the whole of the private school. [More…]
This is very good for those children attending that school. [More…]
Of course, at the end of this progress of education these children at Bendigo High School, other State schools and many Catholic schools, will have to compete against what I call the Fraser school pupils, those who attended the privileged minority of non-Catholic private schools which have been chosen for special rewards by this Government. [More…]
The kids at Bendigo and other schools like it will have to compete against the Fraser school children and they will find it hard because this Government has made sure that it bestows every benefit that it can upon the non-Catholic private schools. [More…]
Behind that cloud of evasive waffle lies the reality of impoverished State treasuries which in turn pass on their poverty to the State school children. [More…]
The children who are supposed to be going to this non-existent school are being boarded out in other high schools and primary schools, travelling back and forth for different periods. [More…]
What happens to their children? [More…]
Those people who live on stations or pastoral properties - indeed, on farming properties in some of the larger agricultural areas - are in many cases unable to obtain close to home even a primary education for their children. [More…]
I was informed that, in zone A or north of the 26th parallel of south latitude, the allowance for children up to the third year of schooling would be $160 a year and for fourth and fifth year children the allowance would be $200. [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…]
Let me quote the relevant part of a letter 1 received from the Prime Minister (Mr. McMahon) on 12th July last year in reply to representations I had made on behalf of the Kalgoorlie School of the Air Parents and Citizens Association concerning assistance for the education of children in remote areas. [More…]
The States, under the Constitution, have the primary responsibility for education, including the education of children living in the sparsely settled areas. [More…]
In fact, 85 per cent of all capital funds allocated to government schools for the provision of science laboratories, libraries and teacher training is allocated to 78 per cent of children - those in government schools. [More…]
I think all honourable members on both sides of this House shudder at the contemptuous attitude displayed towards those people who walk the streets knocking on doors to try to get consideration for the age pensioners, the handicapped children or people affected by the closure of post offices, a matter which some honourable members seem to treat in a light-hearted fashion. [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 amount required in 1971-72 for this purpose has been estimated as $674m of which approximately $65 7m is expected to be spent on age pensions, exclusive of wife’s allowance, children’s allowance and other ancillary benefits. [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…]
The new maximum standard rate of pension will be $18.25 a week, and the maximum rate of pension for married persons and widows without dependent children will now be $16 a week. [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…]
The situation of an unemployed man with a wife and 2 or 3 dependent children is in fact much more serious than the situation of many of these other people in that, with a meagre income and often with the sort of economic background related to work of so many of the people who find themselves unemployed, unemployment represents a monumental crisis because not only will he get a lesser return in benefits but also he will be involved in additional costs which the others would not have. [More…]
Additional amounts or allowances designed for specific purposes are also payable, separate payments are made to wives and children, and many receiving the Special Rate or its equivalent are also eligible for service pensions payable under repatriation legislation. [More…]
Honourable members will, of course, realise that war widows with children of school age receive considerable repatriation assistance for the education of their children, right through to completion of tertiary studies. [More…]
Free medical and related treatment is also provided for war widows and their children, as well as other fringe benefits, and so they should be. [More…]
A war widow with two children will now receive $40.25 a week from Repatriation plus education allowances and fringe benefits; and if she happens to qualify for age or invalid pension, a further $27.12 a week could be payable. [More…]
In the same period, most war widows have had their repatriation payments increased by $3.75 a week, or $195 a year; while a war widow with 2 children has benefited by $8.10 a week, or $421.20 a year since July 1970. [More…]
The major defects in the new benefits announced by the Minister for Repatriation relate to the general rate pension and to wives’ and children’s pensions. [More…]
But the Government has completely overlooked, not only in the miniBudget, but indeed in the last Budget and the Budget before that, all of the groups to which I have just referred - that is, the general rate pensioners, the wives of pensioners and the children of pensioners. [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…]
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…]
A war widow with 2 children will now receive $40.25 a week. [More…]
This is to be compared with the payment of $36.37 a week for a widow with no children who qualifies for the age or invalid pension. [More…]
A war widow with 2 children will receive an amount just in excess of that received by a war widow with no dependants at all. [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…]
But the end decision which the Australian people have to make in respect of themselves, their children and the future of Australia is: Can they place reliance on and trust in the Labor Party when it talks about defence alliances and Communism? [More…]
He has frequently been vilified by his own Party, but I would put my future and the future of my children in his hands. [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…]
I would not think It reasonable to expect that secondary teachers, who in the course of their training take a TESL method option should then automatically be used on teaching English to migrant children. [More…]
It will obviously be much easier for school children to be able to handle these measures, although when I was at school we learnt the metric system. [More…]
I understand that the idea in the schools now is to take the rulers away from the children. [More…]
The new method of teaching mathematics today is to give the children little sticks of different lengths so that they are able visually to see just what are the differences. [More…]
The information before me indicates that the number of men, women and children fleeing from the invading forces now exceeds 250,000. [More…]
People in this area urgently need a phone to enable them to arrange for the marketing of their goods, to help their children who are going to school, for the health of their families and for all of the other purposes for which one would require a telephone. [More…]
The lives of Australian men and women, both young and old, and of our children are being needlessly and wantonly wasted each day. [More…]
There is no doubt that road accidents in Australia are costing the lives of about 4,000 men, women and children and are maiming and injuring up to 80,000 people each year. [More…]
Of course we have a notorious situation in Queensland where, for instance, 7 out of every 8 children of pre-school age do not attend and cannot attend a pre-school centre because of this under financing of education. [More…]
But it does to me appear to be suggested by the honourable member for Sturt, by Senator Murphy and by the honourable member for Lalor, as quoted in this article, to be an offence for any man in this Parliament to deal with any organisation that may be prepared to take some action against those of the Left and against Communist infiltrators and subverted in this country in order to do something to protect our children in our schools and universities. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister noted statements by spokesmen, including the shadow Minister in this Parliament responsible for industrial affairs the honourable member for Hindmarsh, and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, that it is impossible for a family of a man, wife and 2 children to live at a decent level on the new Federal minimum wage of $51.10? [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…]
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…]
India’s invasion of East Pakistan quickly brought an end to the refugee problem but not before 400,000 children died of malnutrition and neglect. [More…]
On 18th April this year one Victorian State Minister, when asked what were the facilities in a given electoral province in his State, said that 48 centres existed giving places for 2,586 children. [More…]
Yet he had to add that it would not be possible to assess the total need for day care in any area even if the total number of children of appropriate ages were known. [More…]
Even children born here, if the borne language is not English, tend to score at the bottom end of the scale. [More…]
In my view the present migrant English programme is far too limited and thousands of western suburbs children are as a consequence permanently stunted. [More…]
But its most urgent need is a teacher for migrant children. [More…]
These children in many cases are the tip of the iceberg from areas which are deprived of educational advantage. [More…]
They talked of such things as the interruption of church services, the interruption of school procedures and the effect that it had on sick people, particularly at night time, and on young children. [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…]
Audrey is 21 with two young children. [More…]
Audrey sought help continually from church social workers and finally broke down and confessed that she felt she should leave her husband and return to her family in the country where her mother would look after the children and she could find work. [More…]
She made genuine efforts to maintain a good relation ship for the sake of her children. [More…]
He has no home and was left with seven children from 13 years to 2 years. [More…]
The children were placed in Church of England homes because of poverty - their father was not able to cope with a large family on a small wage. [More…]
He was totally unable to pay for the upkeep of the children due to debts, etc. [More…]
They have three children and had to sell their home to pay bills. [More…]
Marriage breaking up because of financial strain, wife trying to cope - living apart at present - children placed in homes. [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…]
In 1970 a Commonwealth Inter-Departmental Committee commenced a survey ofhandicapped children and the facilities available fortheir use. [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 it was something like $1.50 for the first child and nothing for any other children. [More…]
In one of the homes was a family comprising 10 children, a husband and wife who were paying $25 a week rent. [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…]
Back in 1949 a widowed pensioner with 2 children who was renting the family home and was entirely dependent on the pension received a total payment of $5.15 a week. [More…]
State of Queensland, if he has a wife and 6 children, is $4 a week better off than he would be on the minimum award rate working for a local authority on works financed with relief money provided to overcome unemployment, but still $12.60 below the poverty level. [More…]
Are his children entitled to better medical attention, better schooling, better holidays or better recreational opportunities than those whose father is a tradesman? [More…]
If the Prime Minister can devise a budget that will properly maintain a man, his wife and 2 children in food and clothing and to pay their educational expenses, transport expenses and house rent and so on on $70 a week, I will resign from the Parliament tomorrow. [More…]
All States provide assistance to various categories of women with children and subsequently claim reimbursement of proportionate amounts from the Commonwealth under the provisions of the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act. [More…]
A year ago, and at the end of the year before, I wrote to the Minister’s predecessor about the arrest and trial of Prince Sihanouk’s children by the regime which ousted him and in particular about the new government’s refusal to allow his aged and ailing mother to leave the country. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware that there are now 50 per cent more handicapped children at the Mount Eliza Special School in Victoria than the school was designed to accommodate? [More…]
Can he say whether these conditions are general throughout Australian schools for handicapped children? [More…]
Can he say which recommendations for the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare on mentally and physically handicapped children have been accepted by the Government and when these recommendations win be given effect to? [More…]
People do not have much chance of getting a Housing Commission house unless they have quite large family commitments in terms of numbers of children and the age of children. [More…]
Some of the particular areas where it is suggested that the age should be lowered are, as I have mentioned, marriage, wardship in children’s cases, contracts and the whole area of property, where it is suggested that a person should be able to hold a legal estate in land at ‘.he age of 18 years. [More…]
and children to live comfortably. [More…]
This is when they are dealing with sanctions, but when it comes to the wherewithal to live that determines the standard of living in a worker’s home and the type of education his children will receive, they do not give a damn about equality. [More…]
I would find it hard to see how a policy under which 40 per cent of the cost of education in government schools is paid in respect of children in independent schools could be regarded as weighting payments in favour of independent schools. [More…]
I can believe that people would have objection to it only if they felt that governments have not an obligation to all school children - those who have an education in government schools and also those who are educated in independent schools. [More…]
The Government believes it has a responsibility to all Australian school schildren and for the first time in Australia’s history the Prime Minister has taken steps that will give effect to that belief in a realistic and fair manner. [More…]
child labour laws were introduced in Great Britain and children were brought out of the mines and factories. [More…]
Yet if a pastoral worker who has a wife and 2 children stops work and goes on to unemployment benefits, he receives $43 a week, a gain of 50c. [More…]
But that 4.5 million people - I am speaking now of the male working population - have wives and children who are dependent upon them. [More…]
It would be better if we had a way to determine the sum on which a man, his wife and his children could live, as Mr Justice Higgins introduced in the Harvester award in the first national basic wage decision, and then a margin for skill. [More…]
This is paid to all mothers in respect of children born in Australia. [More…]
The allowance may also be paid in respect of children born on the journey to Australia providing that permanent residence is intended and no allowance is payable by another country. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article in the ‘Weekend News’ of Perth, Western Australia, dated 16th October 1971, in which it was announced that an Anglo-Burmese (Eurasian) family, consisting of a father and mother and 10 children, had arrived in Western Australia shortly before that date. [More…]
Putting this on a per capita basis, governments spend over $300 a head for children in government primary schools and significantly over $500 a head for children in government secondary schools. [More…]
That SI 4m will be provided for the 22 or 23 per cent of children in independent schools and $43m will be provided for children in government schools. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he has seen a report of comments made by Professor Ali Mazru of Uganda recommending a policy which encourages Aboriginal children to be educated with ot without the consent of their parents and suggesting that some degree of coercion is needed if Aboriginal children are to be separated from parental influence and absorbed, through education processes, into the mainstream of change? [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House what is proposed in Commonwealth administered areas to ensure that Aboriginal children are given every opportunity to overcome their present environmental handicap? [More…]
This scheme has helped a number of Aboriginal children to undertake a wide variety of post secondary school activities. [More…]
Also, since 1970 the Aboriginal secondary grants scheme has been in operation and has encouraged a large number of Aboriginal children to stay at school longer than they would have done otherwise. [More…]
Such a television channel could be made available for education of children and adults in remote locations. [More…]
Because both parents come home from work at night tired they are often unable to concentrate on the affairs of their children and give them the assistance they need in order to ensure equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
The case I wish to put is that until the Australian Labor Party’s policy of granting a scholarship to any pupil who has the capacity to go on to 5th and 6th year of his or her schooling is introduced it is essential that a means test be placed upon Commonwealth secondary school scholarships to ensure that there is equality of education for all children. [More…]
I refer to children who do not have a school located within reach of their home. [More…]
Many children must travel great distances to receive an education. [More…]
I believe there should be no discrimination and that all children should be given the same opportunity and consideration. [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 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…]
The government of the day decided that all men who were eligible for service could be conscripted in 5 classifications and among these classifications were married men and widowers without children, aged 18 to 35, and married men and widowers with children, aged 35 to 45. [More…]
1 am sure from what I saw at Rowville in the war period, with men of 35 with three or four children conscripted and in training, that had the Japanese managed to land anywhere in Australia and had they bombed Sydney these people would have been called up. [More…]
Both TEN and TVQ are at present meeting all the current requirements of the Board which call for 50 per cent overall content, 45 per cent content in peak viewing time from 6.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m., six hours of first release Australian drama each month in peak viewing time, and four hours each month of constructive programmes for schoolage children. [More…]
On the contrary, these unfortunate men, women and children are fleeing southwards. [More…]
Are we to act as children or are we to rise above that? [More…]
Do we simply say: ‘All right, with all the feeling that the honourable members for Moreton and Berowra have displayed about the importance and urgency of this legislation are we to act like children and say that we are not going to embarrass someone?’ [More…]
Provided that such basic information is sensibly presented we believe it could be absorbed by the children to whom it is being presented. [More…]
These children must be reached first because the smoking problem in 25 years time is the problem which will confront these young people, so they must have adequate education. [More…]
There is need for the production of special films - the sort of film which will reach schoolchildren at one level and another film for those at a different level. [More…]
It is aimed at secondary school children. [More…]
Of advertising in all the media, television advertising creates the greatest impression on children and adolescents. [More…]
When there is no lobby concerned as in the case of Stimovite Plus all sorts of clamps can be put on it, a relatively harmless drug that children eat and drink and buy freely. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party quite deliberately are pursuing a policy which is designed to try to divide one group of school children from another group of school children. [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 numbers and percentages of (a) married, (b) single and (c) all women accepted have been granted (i) the weekly maintenance allowance, (ii) the allowance for dependent children, (iii) payment for fees, fares, postage, essential books, equipment and other associated costs, (iv) the full-time allowance of $4 per week and (v) the $5 per week living-away-from-home allowance. [More…]
How many dependent children have there been in respect of whom an allowance was granted. [More…]
where the whole of the estate passes to the widow, widower, children or grandchildren of the deceased person - [More…]
where part only of the estate passes to the widow, widower, children or grandchildren of the deceased person - an amount calculated proportionately under (a) and (b) above. [More…]
The amounts of duty payable on estates (other than qualifying estates of decreased primary producers) passing to the widow, widower, children or grandchildren of the deceased person where the values for duty of the estates are the amounts specified in the honourable member’s question, are shown below. [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…]
It is not an attack on wealthy parents because he does not attack wealthy parents who send their children to government schools. [More…]
We should be afforded the opportunity to tell this House that, because of the type of testing and atomic plants in America today, 7 per cent of children are born deformed. [More…]
Mrs Wright’s 2 youngest children, Suzanne Mary (born IS.12.S7) and Paul Joseph (born 21.6.62) are also repatriation beneficiaries. [More…]
Her life has not been an easy one having brought up 3 children, 2 of whom are still of school age and also she has suffered the loss of her husband at the age of 38. [More…]
She has had 2 heart attacks, she is a widow with 3 children and she is trying to survive on a very poor living wage. [More…]
In the past, this hospital has been overcrowded, especially in the children’s ward and it serves as a base hospital for the area. [More…]
He had the misfortune to lose his married daughter who was a widow with several children in Czechoslovakia. [More…]
Now he has to return to that country to look after the children. [More…]
However, if one takes the case where an invalid pensioner dies abroad, leaving a widow and children, the position is rather more obscure. [More…]
Most of these migrants have come to Australia to seek a new life for their children, as they know that better opportunities exist in Australia, and even though they do not take out Australian citizenship, their children most certainly are Australians, as many have been born here. [More…]
As I said, these people are the parents of Australian children. [More…]
Tens of thousands of migrants went into deep debt to bring even their wives and children to join them. [More…]
How many of the children concerned were (a) adopted out, (b) kept in institutions and (c) kept by the mother during each of the last 2 years for which figures are available. [More…]
Are any estimates available of how many mothers who keep their children (a) subsequently marry the father, (b) subsequently wed a person other than the father and (c) remain unmarried. [More…]
What payments have been made to the States under the States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act since its introduction and is he able to estimate the proportion of this amount which is paid to single mothers with children. [More…]
What would be the estimated cost to the Commonwealth if payments to a single mother with children were taken over from the States and paid at the rate which applies to Class A widows under the Social Services Act. [More…]
Has he any information relating to the proportion of single mothers with children who receive (a) partial and (b) full benefits under relevant State legislation. [More…]
Can he ascertain the average length of time for which single mothers with children receive allowances. [More…]
Can he say how much of the $1.75 being charged for ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’ now on public unrestricted sale to adults and children alike in Canberra it repatriated overseas to the original Danish originators of the trash who retain copyright. [More…]
The Duke of Windsor enjoyed this personal standing with his brothers and their children in high degree. [More…]
I seek to demonstrate that the Government parties are the only parties that accept a commitment for all school children. [More…]
So that motherhood and children in such circumstances will not be penalised, will he consider a scheme of making weekly cash payments to mothers, perhaps taxed away by a tapered means test related to any separate personal income of the mother? [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…]
After all, men who are committed to the education of their children, to the upbringing of their families, suddenly find themselves out of work. [More…]
In this country the Government is denying people the right to earn a fair and satisfactory living and an opportunity to educate their children or to allow that education to be continued. [More…]
However, there is no hope of families having discipline in the homes if we, by administrative action, by parliamentary action or as a result of an action by you, Mr Speaker, do not indicate at some point that this sort of thing ought to stop because these children have to grow up in a community where morality is not destroyed. [More…]
Let the young people be protected from people of this type who, I understand, are having ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’ printed and are giving it to children. [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…]
But I can assure the honourable gentleman that, so far as the research which is available to me from my Department is concerned, there is no evidence which points to the fact that children of working mothers are necessarily more prone than others to juvenile delinquency, psychological problems or any form of disturbance of the type that I recall the honourable gentleman suggested. [More…]
The last figures which were taken out late in 1969 indicated that of approximately one quarter of a million children under the age of 6 whose mothers worked only 7 per cent were in registered child-care centres. [More…]
Who were the members of the medical team which the Minister announced on 1st December 1971 would visit Collarenebri to carry out basic tests to establish the Vitamin- C content of diets in Aboriginal children and its absorption by them [More…]
Did this team co-operate with the Collarenebri medical practitioner Dr A. Kalokerinos whose studies on Vitamin C deficiencies among Aboriginal children have extended over a long period. [More…]
Under the subsidised health insurance scheme, would a man supporting a wife and 6 children and paying rent or housing repayments at the rate of $10 a week from a wage of $72 a week be excluded from any benefits of the scheme, but be entitled to free public hospital outpatient treatment in the A.CT. [More…]
Also, numbers of children for whom education expenses were allowed in respect of the 1968-69 income year are shown in ‘Taxation Statistics 1969-70’, the Supplement to the 49th Report of the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
These statistics may provide a basis from which a broad indication of the numbers of taxpayers claiming deductions for education expenses incurred in respect of children attending [More…]
However, because of the various factors that influence the cost of allowing deductions to taxpayers who have children attending State schools or independent schools (or both types of schools) and other educational institutions, the statistics would not provide a firm basis for establishing the proportions of the total deductions for education expenses that related to education at (a) State schools and (b) independent schools. [More…]
As the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations claims that surveys show adult and peer behaviour is the main influence inducing children to smoke, will the Minister arrange for his Department to undertake or sponsor a similar survey to fmd what influences adults and children to stop smoking, or collate and publish existing findings on this subject. [More…]
Some children do not progress beyond this stage while others persist in experimentation until, at a variable time interval, a state of true dependence or habituation is reached. [More…]
Parental disapproval has an effect on the smoking behaviour of children and the attention of parents needs to be drawn to the fact that they can have a positive effect on their children’s smoking status. [More…]
Awareness of the health risks involved in snicking was iiic most powerful influence in those children who gave up smoking. [More…]
Health education campaigns have produced a tolerably wellinformed community among school children, but smoking among school children is still alarmingly high. [More…]
It is also possible that mass communications could influence opinion leaders among children. [More…]
Warning Keep out of reach of children. [More…]
The children of tourists had gone to the Embassy and collected signatures and Aboriginal literature. [More…]
In the Northern Territory alone 75 per cent of eligible Aboriginal children attend pre-schools, 90 per cent attend primary school and 70 per cent attend secondary school. [More…]
For other children under 16 the deduction will be increased from $156 to $208. [More…]
As is the case with the concession now provided to a parent for the education of children, the maximum deduction under the new concession in any income year will be S400. [More…]
To give just one example, if we lake the case of a widow with 3 children we will see that for them the Henderson poverty line - I emphasise that it is the Henderson line and not one which I am stating would be mine - is $44. [More…]
The House will see that in this Budget we have taken action to ensure that the amount that will be granted to a widow with 3 children will certainly be above that line, to the extent of probably $2 or $3. [More…]
Then we had the great march through Melbourne of school children. [More…]
But there is never a word said by either of those 2 gentlemen or the Leader of the Opposition in respect to the subversion and the other things that are going on in this country that affect the children of this country and the future of this country. [More…]
Also to be taken into account iiI C 203,800 school leavers who have to be found jobs this year, 77,000 migrants who have to be found jobs - these are official figures that I am citing - plus an unknown number, estimated to be 30,000, of rna.ried women wanting to re-enter the workforce after having reared their children to an age which makes it possible for them to do so. [More…]
A man with a wife and 1.8 children just cannot live on that sum. [More…]
It has been hidden and masked because, in a response to the difficulty of obtaining employment, parents have encouraged their children to stay longer at school to obtain higher qualifications. [More…]
For a man, a wife and 2 children, the unemployment benefit is nearly $18 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
In my electorate a man with an income of $65 a week, with 7 children, the eldest of whom is 10, is in debt for over $1,000 through just keeping his family surviving. [More…]
In the eyes of the Federal Government he should be able to live and try to raise a family of 7 children on $65 a week. [More…]
How many (a) adults and (b) children reside in Puckapunyal area. [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…]
Spouses, fiances, fiancees, minor unmarried children and aged parents (fathers over 60 years of age and mothers over SO years of age where there are no dependent children normally resident outside Australia); [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…]
Two Occasional Care Centres for pre-school age children are operated in Canberra by the Canberra Mothercraft Society which is subsidised by the Department of Health. [More…]
In addition we have sought to strike at particular areas of educational disadvantage such as Aboriginal and migrant children, by making supplementary funds and resources available for the benefit of those children in all schools. [More…]
Nearly $5m is provided for special education for migrant children in 1972-73, as compared with an expenditure of just over $3m in the last financial year. [More…]
I hope that this new scholarships scheme for secondary students will significantly assist able children from low income families to remain longer at school than they otherwise would. [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…]
While substantial progress has been made in many areas of education in recent years, I am concerned that further development should occur in meeting the needs of those children who are handicapped or who have special learning difficulties. [More…]
We have been able to agree on cooperation in exploring possible developments in a wide range of areas such as class size, school building design, the needs of technical education, the problems of isolated children, teaching of. [More…]
The ministerial statement insofar as it refers to Commonwealth scholarships foreshadows extending the system of scholarships to more children and introducing a means test It also shows how stubbornly the Commonwealth adheres to a restricted and confined view of education. [More…]
Wherever one turns one sees the same attitude, whether in its utter indifference to the needs of underprivileged areas for pre-school centres, its indifference to the leakage of students from secondary education in the first 3 years of secondary school or its refusal to come to grips with the problems of education for poor children and isolated children or the problem of dropping out for economic reasons. [More…]
I believe that many children of ability will be encouraged by this scheme to stay on at school for a longer period than they might otherwise have done, to their own benefit and that of the nation. [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…]
It was so in the case of my children, for instance. [More…]
But it is perfectly clear that the original objective declared by Sir Robert Menzies of enabling to stay on at school children who would otherwise not have been able to stay on at school, has not been achieved to any significant extent whatever. [More…]
Therefore whatever need there may have been in 1963-64 to provide scholarships of (his kind to keep children at school, it appears that except for a very small proportion of the students represented in this study- [More…]
However where theLabor Party would join issue with this ACER report would be in its last comment., I do not doubt that scholarship winners in real need should have financial assistance, but what of children in real need who do not reach the level of third year high school to tackle the scholarship and those who do not sit for the scholarship because, scholarship or no, the parental income will not allow them to proceed to the examination because they know they will not be able to continue. [More…]
As a system of testing, however, it ignores whole categories of children - above all, children with manual skills and those without linguistic ability for various background reasons. [More…]
There is no real grip on the problem of the education of migrant children, though the increase is welcome. [More…]
The Commonwealth is totally responsible for bringing migrant children to Australia and should tackle the problem of assisting their education with the same resoluteness and responsibility as, say, it tackled the Commonwealth reconstruction training scheme, which it acknowledged was fully its responsibility. [More…]
The form of assistance to the States still lacks any Commonwealth approach to create a fund to bring poor schools up to acceptable standards and to assist poor families whose children attend government and non-government schools. [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…]
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…]
This therefore makes pre-school education a litmus test of its concern for Australian children. [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…]
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…]
There is little doubt that there exists a social educational problem; a great deal of potential talent is wasted, or looking at the problem from a different point of view, the education of large numbers of working class children is below satisfactory standard. [More…]
Bereita and S. Engelma whose study of kindergarten policy successful in assisting to overcome disabilities of disadvantaged children is an important contribution, note: [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…]
I want to conclude by speaking about 2 other groups of disadvantaged children. [More…]
I speak first about the isolated children. [More…]
1 wish to see Commonwealth assistance to those private schools which wish to cater for their isolated children. [More…]
If some Catholic boarding schools, for instance, want to cater especially for isolated children from the back blocks, I believe that Commonwealth assistance to construct the facilities to help those disadvantaged children whose parents chose that form of education should be given to them. [More…]
1 believe also that the Department of Education and Science should be required to investigate methods for improving radio and television schooling, directed at the needs of isolated children. [More…]
We should look realistically at the amount of money which is given to the parents of isolated children to enable them to put their children into schools. [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…]
We must in sober earnest be aware that there are no ways that we yet know to ensure that all children enter this world equal in physical capacity, equal in mental capacity, equal in the opportunities that they will see, and take, to make the most of those capacities. [More…]
The people who really need to send their children to kindergartens just can’t afford it. [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…]
In this city of Canberra where the Government’s advisers - the civil servants - live a greater percentage of children are enrolled for pre-school education than anywhere else. [More…]
In 1970 as a percentage of the eligible school population the Australian Capital Territory had 52 per cent of children enrolled in pre-school centres. [More…]
This was the last effort by- the Commonwealth to assist underprivileged children in preschool education. [More…]
The result is that the great majority of Australian children are seriously deprived. [More…]
None of the educational experts such as Radford, whose work the Government circulates to every member of Parliament in spheres which suit the Government, would justify a position such as that in New South Wales where in 1970 only 3.1 per cent of eligible children were receiving pre-school education. [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…]
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…]
A longitudinal study in the United Kingdom which has followed some thousands of children from birth to maturity has shown that children from such homes begin school with a disadvantage which is liable to persist throughout the period of schooling. [More…]
The terra culturally deprived’ has been applied to these children, and in several countries, notably Israel and the United States of America, special kindergarten programmes have been developed for them which include short daily periods of instruction. [More…]
It never asks whether this ability is intrinsic, and except in the case of Aborigines it is not seeking pastoral care, remedial care or curative care of Australian children. [More…]
It would have to start training up the teachers to cope with the children. [More…]
It is sad, when one knows that the Commonwealth through its Gowrie centres over 32 years has received a flood of information on the significance of such centres for children in under-privileged areas, that it will not start to develop a kindergarten system firstly in the areas of the greatest need. [More…]
It really is only repeating the parent Bill of last year and extending the period during which money appropriated under the parent Bill can be spent, but as it relates to pre-school education one cannot neglect the opportunity to raise again the need for Commonwealth responsibility in the curative work and the creative work for young children in these pre-school centres. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, preschools are used with great effect as weapons for underprivileged Aboriginal children. [More…]
Therefore, it becomes a litmus test as to whether the Commonwealth Government cares tuppence about children or cares only about those educational issues in which there are votes. [More…]
But if it has a pastoral care for the children in this country, regardless of whether the electorate understands the significance of these schools, regardless of whether the underprivileged areas which would benefit most from their establishment understand them, it will, for the sake of the nation and because of the significant foundation that these places can provide for the education of children, set to work to develop a pre-school commission as its guide to establishing a preschool educational system. [More…]
I - think they care about the potential of the children of this country. [More…]
I know that 90 per cent of the professional and management workers in this country are able to send their children to preschool and that 60 per cent of skilled workers and 50 per cent of semi-skilled workers are able to do so. [More…]
But only about 3 per cent of unskilled workers have a chance to send their children off to the educational opportunities in the pre-school area. [More…]
These are children with great capacity. [More…]
Thousands of children are going to be denied pre-school education opportunities as a result of this delay. [More…]
That does not sound a lot in the spectrum of anything but if each of those 358 teachers were to teach just 20 children some 7,160 additional children could enjoy the privileges and the benefits of pre-school education. [More…]
A recent survey showed that over 149,000 children under 6 years of age, children of working mothers, are being cared for by relatives and other people. [More…]
In 1967 12.1 per cent of the pre-school population attended pre-school, and in 1970 the figure had increased to 14.8 per cent, that is, 14.8 per cent of 500,000 children who comprise the eligible pre-school population. [More…]
I want the House for a moment to look at the glaring differentiation in the incidence of children attending pre-school as a percentage of the eligible population for the year 1970. [More…]
In New South Wales 9 per cent of eligible children were in pre-school, in Western Australia 13 per cent, in Tasmania 13 per cent, in Queensland 13 per cent, in South Australia 17 per cent, in Victoria 29 per cent, in the Northern Territory 35 per cent and in the Australian Capital Territory 52 per cent. [More…]
Do not disparage the idea that there ought to be 52 per cent of eligible children attending preschool. [More…]
If pre-school education is needed for children in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory, it is needed for children throughout the length and breadth of this land. [More…]
New South Wales has 252,000 children in the 2 to 5 years age group, and only 17,000 of them are attending pre-school. [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…]
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…]
We wish to ensure that the children of these women have every opportunity for the fullest development in both the emotional and physical sense. [More…]
Employers and local government authorities were to co-operate to meet the critical need to care for the children of working mothers. [More…]
The extent of the Government’s declared intention is infinitesimal and it is incapable of confronting the problem of deprived children. [More…]
It should be the right of this substantial number of children from underprivileged families to break some even ground, to overcome the inequalities that exist in this country at the present time. [More…]
It costs $25,000 to build these centres to look after 25 children. [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…]
In making that point, I do not for a moment disagree with the findings which are now apparent, although I think it is only fair to say that there is a good deal more to be learned about the capacity of children to take on certain kinds of educational and informational matter when they are very young. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes said that 52 per cent of children eligible to attend pre-schools are living in the full blossom of privilege in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I would regard the comments of both the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) and the honourable member for Hughes about its not being adequate to leave the initiative to the States and so on as a very nice expression of what might be, but the States are in fact predominantly responsible for the education of children at that age. [More…]
Clearly in that sense education of children at the ages below 6 - mostly 3 to 5 years of age - is at the lowest level, in terms of age and chronology, of the education process. [More…]
When we coupled that with the real knowledge of the importance or apparent importance of this level of educational possibility and capacity in children, I do not really believe that the argument, that only the Commonwealth is responsible here, put by the honourable member for Hughes in considerably emotional terms at the outset of his speech, holds a great deal of water. [More…]
The response to that is to have somebody other than the mothers to look after the children at these low ages. [More…]
It could easily be argued that to provide pre-schools would be preferable to providing mere minding centres for children of an age who have the capacity to learn. [More…]
I am no expert on children’s education at this stage but an analysis of part of the position will reveal a great deal of the curricula, if that is the right word, engaged in pursuits which could largely be carried out in other circumstances were the parents sufficiently interested; that is to say, scissors and paste operations and activities relating to art in one form or another - highly expressive functions that bring out a great deal in the educational and social consciousness of the children. [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…]
We find that enrolments in major institutions or systems for the teachers who look after pre-school children have moved in this way. [More…]
I know that is not the whole story because not all children are accommodated in the appropriate institutions, if in fact all of them will ever be. [More…]
As honourable members opposite, particularly the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), have pointed out, the ball is at the Parliament’s foot, and we must move to a position where a much greater proportion of children, particularly those outside of the Australian Capital Territory, in the age groups of 3 to 5 nota bly, are able to participate, if their parents wish it, in pre-school education in a thorough-going, organised fashion. [More…]
The other matter to which I wish to refer concerns a mother of 1 1 children living at Emu Plains, New South Wales. [More…]
If a mother of 11 children can bc scandalously defrauded in this way, what hope is there of anyone having very much respect for the laws of the country which fail to take into consideration the extraordinarily difficult case of this lady. [More…]
It is true that he does not mention the school that Bob Hawke sends his children to. [More…]
He does not mention the school that Mr Dunstan in South Australia sends his children to or the school that the Leader of the Opposition sent his children to, but these arguments are not really relevant to the point at issue, because the honourable member for Bendigo is seeking to divide schools. [More…]
How many intellectually handicapped children are eligible for admission to a special school in each State and Territory Hansard, 12th August 1969. page 125). [More…]
Which States and Territories have established (a) special schools and (b) hostels for intellectually handicapped children. [More…]
How many eligible children in each State and Territory live more than 20 miles from their nearest special school. [More…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of such children is accommodated in hostels. [More…]
The most recent information available to my Department concerning the number of intellectually handicapped children eligible for admission to special schools in the States is that included in my answer to Question No. [More…]
Statements I have made leave no doubt about my concern that country children, along with any other groups who may be suffering disadvantages, should be assisted to achieve a proper realisation of their educational goals. [More…]
Commonwealth, in its own territories, have provisions to pay boarding and travelling allowances to children who must live away from home in order to attend school. [More…]
The Australian Education Council has expressed its concern for the educational problems of isolated children in particular and a meeting of Commonwealth and Stale officials has recently been held to examine their needs more closely. [More…]
I think I mentioned this morning also - if I did not, it remains a fact - that the revised programme of assistance for scholarships will do a very great deal to help an additional number of families to have their children pursue their education further. [More…]
We need to look at the economic conditions of many families who cannot put their children through a secondary education. [More…]
Those children do noteven reach the level at which they might have access to tertiary education. [More…]
One has only to consider the general position; in Canberra 52 per cent of children of the appropriate age attend preschools while in New South Wales it is 3.1 per cent, in Victoria it is 28.9 per cent and in Queensland it is 13.2 per cent. [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…]
At present there are nearly 2 million children in the primary schools in Australia. [More…]
We could divide that number by 4 or 5 to determine the number of children who should be in pre-schools; it is perhaps 400,000. [More…]
We have a handful of children in the pre-school system throughout Australia. [More…]
In the outer suburbs of Melbourne, pre-schools have waiting lists of literally hundreds of names of people desiring to get their children in to pre-schools, while in the areas in which the children perhaps most need pre-school education the parents are not aware of the necessity to make the greatest possible use of pre-schools. [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 desire to pay a warm tribute to those people who have dedicated themselves to providing pre-school education for children in many areas of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I believe that the benefits of preschool training will be recognised mee and more widely,- but at the same time I stress that it indicates in just one more way how handicapped are those children who are not within reach of pre-school, primary or secondary schools. [More…]
1 trust that the needs of these children will bc provided for as yet another of the expanding activities of the Commonwealth Government in the field of education. [More…]
Most of the people associated with pre-school kindergartens that I know of resent very much that they should be singled out in this way, that they have to make these kinds of sacrifices for their children. [More…]
They see no reason whatsoever why their children at this tender age should not have the assistance of government in the provision of their schooling, as do all other children. [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…]
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…]
I am presuming that these were mothers of pre-school age children. [More…]
I hope that one of the developments that will occur in industry and commerce in the very near future will be the far greater availability of part time work opportunities for mothers of young children. [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…]
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…]
Australia, the affluent country that it is, should be able to relieve many mothers of the necessity to go to work and enable them to stay at home to care for their children* They should not be debarred the opportunity, if they desire it, of subsequently sending their children for pre school education, for the reasons which I outlined at the beginning of my speech. [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…]
That is, the Australian Council of Educational Research - survey of the pre-school experience of children in Melbourne entering primary school reveals some striking differences among ethnic groups. [More…]
Only 26 per cent of children in non-English speaking families had been to kindergarten. [More…]
By comparison, 49 per cent of children of English speaking migrants and 70 per cent of Australian children had enjoyed some pre-school experience. [More…]
The point made in this statement is that while it is very desirable for our normal Australian children to have pre-school education it is all the more desirable so for children of families where English is not normally spoken. [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…]
When we start providing that kind of help for disadvantaged pre-school aged children in Australia we will have a social revolution. [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…]
It never ceases to amaze me why we in Australia have gone for so long without government accepting the responsibility of pre-school education and education for our handicapped children. [More…]
It is always a matter of great concern to me to see on the streets of a Saturday morning, parents running chocolate wheels, selling lucky numbers or using some other device to raise tremendous amounts of money to provide for the education of their pre-school children or handicapped children. [More…]
It is absurd to blame the Commonwealth for the present percentage of children attending preschool kindergartens. [More…]
If one wants to use the varying percentages of children at present attending pre-school kindergartens one should use them only as a basis for criticising the commitments of certain States to this aim. [More…]
Now that the Commonwealth has set a good basis for teacher training I hope that the States will improve their control and administration of pre-schools so that a greater percentage of children can benefit. [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…]
My wife was the president of a pre-school for some years and I am well aware of the calls that are made on people with young children - not only on people with young children - to help in this capacity. [More…]
In the discussion of this Bill mention has been made of groups of children who will benefit especially from pre-school education. [More…]
I agree that those groups will benefit, but I want to add another group - the country children. [More…]
It is difficult for children living on farms, even though they may be within reach of preschools by the use of modern transport, to mix and enjoy the social development of young children by learning to mix with other young children of their own age. [More…]
Pre-schools provide this facility, lt is of tremendous importance to them for their social and psychological development that, prior to attending school, they can mix with other children of the same age. [More…]
This applies especially to areas where what can be described as culturally underprivileged children reside. [More…]
The statistics for tertiary education show fairly clearly that these children have very little educational opportunity. [More…]
One of the means by which the educational opportunity for these children can be advanced is by giving them adequate pre-school education. [More…]
In those areas where the children are most in need of this form of education, the likelihood that they will obtain it is lowest. [More…]
So that the House will know the exact level of this: problem, let me say that in my electorate it would take more, teachers than those to man preschool centres to enable the bulk of children in. [More…]
In Victoria 27 to 28 per cent qf children obtain a pre-school education.. [More…]
I. think that if we could get a statistical breakdown, on these children we would find that in those areas where the. [More…]
children were most. [More…]
I refer to those children whose parents are in the semi-skilled, manual labouring area. [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…]
If we recognise the right of the children in need of this form of education to have this form of education, we must also recognise that, just as in other forms of education, the Commonwealth has to accept some degree of financial responsibility. [More…]
I think that some fairly serious discussions on this matter should take place between the Commonwealth and the States, and that the Commonwealth should accept the position that pre-school education’ : is vitally necessary for children who I Would describe as culturally under-privileged. [More…]
If we take the percentage of children in pre-schools between the ages of 3 and 5 in New South Wales in 1970 we get a figure of 2.9 per cent. [More…]
For example, Queensland has quite recently accepted a full obligation to provide pre-school education for one year for all school children. [More…]
The Treasurer’s typical family man - the average wage earner with a wife and 2 children - pays a higher proportion of his income in tax under the McMahon Government than under any government in Australia’s history. [More…]
The Australian whose real needs and aims, his hopes for himself and his children, are to be met in this way in 1972 not only is not typical; he is non-existent. [More…]
Because of its refusal a whole generation of Australian children is growing up without the enormous benefits that pre-school education brings. [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…]
Whether a family includes one young child or 4 young children, it is still a one-income family. [More…]
What’ I did say in another place was that the majority of taxpayers in Australia would be advantaged if we doubled the concession for families - that is for wives and children - and eliminated all other deductions. [More…]
Taking the Treasurer’s own tabulations, I would like to put forward the example of a taxpayer with a dependent wife and 2 children under 16 years of age. [More…]
with prices rising as they are, a married man with a dependant wife and 2 children who receives an income of $54 a week should pay over $3 a week in income tax? [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…]
Since the scheme began in 1964, some 253,000 grants totalling about $110m have been paid to assist young couples, and widowed or divorced persons with dependent children, to own and establish their homes. [More…]
Our children are being dragged from one end of the nation to the other. [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…]
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…]
She had 2 children clambering all over her. [More…]
But who has had to look after the children while she has been working? [More…]
There is no harm in naming it That centre looked after her children for $25 a week. [More…]
Heaven knows how many school children are staying at school because there are no jobs to which they can go. [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…]
The man with a wife and 2 children and a taxable income of $50 a week will receive a taxation benefit of 90c a week. [More…]
A family man with a wife and 2 children, receiving $5,000 a year, is to receive a tax reduction of $141 a year, yet he is alleged to be getting a princely benefit of a 17.6 per cent reduction - 2i times the percentage but only one-third of the amount. [More…]
Not only was this matter raised by me in the Parliament but I also drew attention to the case of the mother of 11 children who had handed $2,663 to representatives of Trelawney Developments Pty Ltd which, she was led to believe, would provide a dwelling. [More…]
People in country areas, including children - or, perhaps in relation to education, particularly children have the same right to a television service as people in the cities. [More…]
The proportion of married women in the work force is lowest in the lowest age group for the simple reason that when married women are young they are having their children and they have to look after their babies. [More…]
Having reared their children to the point where they can be cared for by friends, neighbours or in-laws after they finish school and until the mother returns home, these women are in a position to go back into the work force. [More…]
Another point that nobody seems to worry about is what has been the impact upon the children whose father and mother are both working in industry. [More…]
Do we really understand the psychological impact upon children who have never known what it is to walk into the kitchen when they come home from school and say: ‘Hello, mum. [More…]
I have seen some pitiful cases of civilian widows who have taken a job to try to earn something more to give their children a better education. [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…]
Consider the position of a B class widow - that is, a widow aged between 50 and 60 years with no children. [More…]
A married man with 2 children would receive $13 below the recognised poverty line under this arrangement. [More…]
Families with 3 children in 1949 secured in child endowment a sum equal to 11.5 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…]
The proposal is that working mothers will have places where their children can be properly cared for while they work. [More…]
Presumably the people who argue that way, although they do not say so, would be logically bound to go on and say: ‘Because we think this we do not care what happens to children who are left without mothers, whether they are locked up in the home without proper supervision or put in improper places where they do not get the correct supervision while their mothers are away.’ [More…]
There is a requirement that their children be properly cared for while the mothers are at work unless we wish those children to be at risk of growing up as delinquents. [More…]
They want a government to stop treating them like children about what they read, what they view and what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. [More…]
It is as idyllic for children as it is for parents. [More…]
To these figures twice the special allowance for children will also be added. [More…]
The Government has increased by 50 per cent, that is from $4 to $6 a week, the special means test allowance for children. [More…]
When wives and dependent children are added to this figure, one can say that there would be a minimum of 250,000 people either unemployed or dependent on unemployed persons. [More…]
An unemployed man, with a wife and 2 children, receives $38 a week to live on - $14 a week below the poverty line. [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…]
They will be: $10,000 for the best book of the year by an Australian author; $2,500 in each of 3 categories for the best book of the year by a young writer; and $2,500 for the best children’s book of the year. [More…]
In that area there are more young children than in any other area in the State, but we cannot get assistance. [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…]
A widow or deserted wife with 3 children still receives a pension of only $39.50 a week. [More…]
In other words, by its parsimonious attitude the Government is forcing women to go out to work, irrespective of the interests of the children. [More…]
Incidentally, there is also to be no increase in dependants allowances for the children of invalid pensioners. [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…]
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…]
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…]
We believe that the increase in dependants’ allowances will be widely welcomed and will help particularly the single income family with children. [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…]
Even though this most recent effort of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) contains a number of very objectionable measures; even though it aggravates still further many of the undesirable features of the general tax system which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer; even though it leaves so much unrecognised and uncared for in so many fields, such as educational opportunity and assistance for children in remote and isolated areas; even though it fails in regard to health, social services, repatriation, primary industry, decentralisation, northern development and so on; even though it will do nothing towards overcoming the serious and frightening unemployment situation; even though it does nothing to halt the continuing rapid increase in prices and the cost of living, it nevertheless would not be quite so bad if we could only trust the Government. [More…]
For instance, the man with a wife and 4 children with an actual income of $67 a week and other allowable deductions amounting to $500 will receive a tax reduction of 34.2 per cent. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
The proposed school will provide accommodation for 550 primary students and 50 pre-school children in the new developing area of Tennant Creek East. [More…]
The proposed schools will take the children of the families which will be living in this area. [More…]
Both the schools will be close to the proposed development area and the children who attend them will not have to cross any major or busy roads. [More…]
Traditionally schools have consisted of a collection of similar sized classrooms designed to cater for similar sized groups of children in care of one teacher. [More…]
In it children may move easily from large to small groups or to individual study and the teachers also move around to assist individuals or groups rather than teach in front of the children. [More…]
The atmosphere and general character of the open learning areas will be domestic and related to the needs of children. [More…]
All ‘open plan’ learning areas open onto semi-enclosed sheltered courts where infant and primary children will be able to undertake project assignments and other activities out of doors. [More…]
In addition, children have the opportunity of going immediately to open door learning areas which are screened and covered from the sun, which are aesthetically designed and which in a total way represent an appealing situation in which children can operate. [More…]
Children can move around the place and make noise which is absorbed. [More…]
In general, they are in a convivial, acceptable and happy situation in their learning process rather than being subjected to the oldfashioned disciplinary arrangement where the teacher seems to stand on one side and the children stand on the other side. [More…]
The children and teachers work together in a friendly way and they develop selfmotivation. [More…]
I believe that this kind of educational system will sweep out of the Tiwi and Wanguri schools and the other 2 schools that are being built at the moment - Nakara and Brunkin, which also are in Darwin and which incorporate this open class system - and find general acceptance because it is such an obviously desirable system that it will concern Australian children generally. [More…]
I am pleased that the people of Darwin will get the opportunity to use this process because I have no doubt that a very great result will be achieved in the educational standards of the children in the Tiwi and Wanguri school districts. [More…]
This course should never be contemplated as children can never repay their parents for the care and attention they have received over the years. [More…]
Money, which could and should stay with the taxpayers or go to the poor, the pensioners, the sick and the education of our children, is being wastefully sucked into the bottomless pit of the Public Service. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Looking at pediatric needs - that is children’s beds - the position is proportionately even worse. [More…]
This means that about 350 children from the outer western suburbs are in hospitals outside the area at any one time. [More…]
An extra 120 children’s beds will be at Westmead Hospital and the total deficit will then be over 500 beds. [More…]
In 1980 at any one time 500 out of 800 of the hospitalised local children will have to be treated a long way from home. [More…]
To this must be added many more children who have to attend specialist clinics at the Children’s Hospital, from 15 to 20 miles away, depending on where the children live. [More…]
Even now over 100 of the local children have to attend the hospital at Camperdown daily and many others have to go to the Prince of Wales Hospital at Randwick. [More…]
It must talk about how we will in fact develop an enriching process through the education system; how we will adjust and create a pre-school educational pattern which will reach out in this area; and what sort of resources we shall mobilise in the deprived suburbs not only for the very young children but for the older children who need this sort of enrichment. [More…]
We have to try to the extent that it is possible - and I regret it seems to be limited on the American experience - to enrich the parents so that they in turn can encourage and foster the sort of cultural enrichment processes that we are trying to reach out to children. [More…]
The unemployment benefit for a man, wife and 2 children is nearly $14 below the poverty level. [More…]
A person resident in the electorate of Mitchell who requires health treatment for herself or her children in case of sickness or injury probably has to go further than anybody else who would be said to live in Sydney. [More…]
It is also a fact of modern day living that the evolution of the so-called nuclear family tends to exclude, often through necessity rather than choice, the care of parents or grandparents in the same home as their children or other relatives. [More…]
The whole concept has been to stuff old people into nursing homes and not to provide the services which would allow them to stay in their own homes, to stay with their families, to stay in the suburbs where they have been born and bred, where they have reared their children and where they have a spiritual relationship, which is a very important thing and which has been wrecked and shattered to the great disadvantage not only of those people but also of society, because there are social costs involved in this sort of thing. [More…]
The Labor Party expresses concern for unemployment and showed its concern when last in office by paying an unemployed man with a wife and 4 children $5 a week unemployment benefit. [More…]
The Government pays to an unemployed man with a wife and 4 children unemployment benefit of $43 a week. [More…]
As the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) pointed out in the Budget Speech, a man with a wife and 2 children, in receipt of $98 a week, which is the approximate average weekly male wage, will gain an additional $2.75 a week. [More…]
If he has a wife and no children and receives $85 a week, the increase in his pay envelope will be $2 a week. [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…]
An increase of $1.75 per week in the pension paid to single age and invalid pensioners and widows with children brings the new rate to $20 per week. [More…]
The future education of children - which touches me more than anything - is in jeopardy. [More…]
Government supporters blamed that situation on the unions, but the unionists were fighting for justice and a respectable wage to pay off expensive homes and land, to rear and educate their children and to ensure them a decent footing in their own country. [More…]
I find that very strange coming from a representative of a government that is violent, a government that practises violence, a government that has blood on its hands from Vietnam, the blood of the children of Vietnam and the blood of Australian men. [More…]
The other necessary works must be deferred and on many occasions the deferment lasts until the children who required the services are grown and have spent their childhood without the benefit of these facilities. [More…]
A taxpayer receiving $67 a week who has a dependent wife and 2 dependent children will pay $1.21 less a week in -taxation. [More…]
A similar taxpayer with a dependent wife and 4 dependent children will pay $1.29 a week less. [More…]
A worker on that wage who has a dependent wife and 2 dependent children will pay $2.75 a week less in taxation. [More…]
A worker receiving $98 a week who has a dependent wife and 4 dependent children will pay $3.09 less a week in taxation. [More…]
Any aid we give is not for their sakes, it is for our own sake and for the future safety of our children. [More…]
Even school children are beginning to recognise that, but it seems as though we in this Parliament are unaware of it. [More…]
School children are aware of the fact that even with all the increased technological skills they are given they are finding it increasingly difficult to find and maintain a place in the world. [More…]
In the field of education this Government has again shown its particular concern for the education of all Australian children. [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…]
I always find it curious when conservative members of Parliament who send their children to some of the wealthiest private schools come out and gush and pine about the wealthy school? [More…]
One really wonders whether they live in the same world as most Australian people when they talk about subsidies to the rich private schools being aimed at ensuring that the children of all income sections of the community are able to go to these wealthy schools. [More…]
One can just imagine the tumult from all those children from working class and migrant families when Melbourne Grammar drops its fees from $1,050 a year to $1,025 a year or when Geelong Grammar drops its fees from $1,000 a year to $950 a year. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Deakin who has just resumed his seat is one of those people who has displayed his lack of confidence in the state education system by sending his children to the schools he is so busily financing here today. [More…]
A young married couple with 7 children was to be evicted by the Housing Commission of New South Wales. [More…]
The Queensland Government, for example, has made a firm decision to provide one year’s pre-schooling for all children within that State. [More…]
Quite obviously the demand will be greater if all States follow the example of Queensland and decide to provide one year’s preschooling for all children within a certain period. [More…]
When one looks at the New South Wales figures showing children from 3 to 5 years of age in pre-schools, New South Wales appears to be doing very badly. [More…]
At present an estate is exempt from duty if its value is $20,000 or less and it passes to the spouse, children or grandchildren of the deceased. [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…]
At that time 5 shillings a week was granted to children under 14 years of age. [More…]
Prices have gone up out of reach for them and pressure has been placed on mothers to leave their homes in search of work, to the neglect of their children. [More…]
I put it to the Government that if there is one area in which this Budget has failed - and failed in a most grievous way - it is in neglecting the children, and also the mothers of families who carry the great burden of high costs at present. [More…]
No word has been said about any submission on this matter having been taken to Cabinet and no action has been taken to deal with this important question of decentralisation, to provide for the development of this country and to locate people in country districts in order to give them the opportunity to live better and healthier lives in an environment which would be to their advantage and to the advantage of their children. [More…]
For example, a man on average wages with a wife and 2 children to support, with the increased dependants allowance will gain an overall reduction in tax of approximately 17.5 per cent. [More…]
We had been indicating that there is a case to provide, for instance, a mothers allowance so that mothers who wish to stay at home with their family will be able to do so or so that other mothers who work will at least have the opportunity of meeting the cost of providing adequate care for their children while they are at work. [More…]
1 think that the former issue is probably the more important one, namely, a mother’s allowance so that a mother can remain with her children. [More…]
In regard to education, the Leader of the Opposition would set up a huge commission in Canberra to control all education in Australia, taking away all State rights - that is what it would mean with control in Canberra - and indeed the inalienable right of parents to send their children to whichever school they choose. [More…]
Consider the case of a taxpayer with a wife and 2 children who has a taxable income, after making all other deductions besides those for dependents of $5,000. [More…]
Is it narrow to extend the help and financial strength of the national Government to Australian children in Australian schools? [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…]
I simply took as an example a man with a dependent wife and 2 children who was enjoying the magnificent income of $54 a week. [More…]
If they think it is too5 much, do they think they are paying too much in comparison with the man with an income of $2,800 with a wife and 2 children who is still paying over $3 per week? [More…]
There is no doubt that in Australia at the moment, even after these tax reductions, the married man with a nonworking wife and with children to support is still paying too much tax. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
What would be the loss to revenue, compared with the revenue obtained from the abolition of the deduction from taxable income for dependent children, if that deduction was replaced by a standard deduction from tax payable of the amount given in answer to part (2). [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…]
For a man with a wife and 3 children and a taxable income of over $15,000, the percentage rise in after tax income is 5.3 per cent. [More…]
He said <that he was referring to a wife and 2 children. [More…]
The income of a man on $55 a week with a wife and 2 children should not be taxable. [More…]
The dependant’s allowance for the second child and additional children equally has been increased by $52 from $156 to $208. [More…]
While we have a government like this in office, which tells the Arbitration Commission that it should not award even $51.10 a week for a man, wife and children to live on, these people will always need a second job to get sufficient money to live on. [More…]
Before then the idea was that factories could not work unless small children crawled into holes that bigger people could not get into. [More…]
Most of them want to raise that standard of living through better social services, greater development and more of the good things of life for themselves and their children. [More…]
What was the (a) average age of widows accepted for training in 1970-71 and (b) the number of children dependent on each widow. [More…]
Will the Minister also eliminate the anomalies that prevent single mothers under 16 years of age and deserted wives with young children receiving pensions immediately after their desertion, thus removing the possibility of many people becoming known to the police? [More…]
Does the Australian Broadcasting Commission intend to scrap the children’s programme ‘Adventure Island’? [More…]
Is this programme not the finest children’s television programme available in Australia? [More…]
ls it not also in all senses wholesome and educationally stimulating to children? [More…]
Will he endeavour to expand the whole range of educational television programmes offered by Australians for Australian children? [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…]
Children collected signatures and went away with embassy literature. [More…]
In December 1967, after a brief illness, a young resident of Muswellbrook in my electorate was flown to Sydney and admitted to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children for observation. [More…]
I am advised also that in order to provide safety for vulnerable groups such as high fish consumers and unborn children, it is necessary to apply a safety factor of 20 to this, which reduces the safe intake, at the level of 0.5 parts per million, to one oz per day. [More…]
The Government believes that the only way of ensuring non-government schools of continuing basic support is to tie that support to a proportion of the recurrent costs of educating children in government primary and secondary schools throughout Australia. [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…]
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 Commonwealth has invited the States to join with it in providing the nongovernment schools with an assured basis for assistance by themselves undertaking to make contributions towards the running costs of those schools equivalent to 20 per cent of the national average cost of educating children in the government schools. [More…]
Under both the capital programmes for government and non-government schools and the recurrent grants for nongovernment schools, the Minister will be able to exercise a discretion to enable special schools, as, for example, those for handicapped children where the courses of study do not parallel those in government primary and secondary schools, to qualify for assistance. [More…]
When the Prime Minister announced the new policies which are to be brought into operation by this Bill he said that they would represent a milestone in improving the education of all Australian children. [More…]
Under this measure the National Parliament will accept a basic obligation to provide supplementary support for the benefit of all school children and will do so in a manner which ensures both government and non-government schools of continuing support. [More…]
If we look through these measures and at the various types of facilities that we are discussing, such as the Meals on Wheels programme, assistance to handicapped children, sheltered workshops and the home care programme, we see, of course, that they were all introduced by this present Government or its immediate predecessors. [More…]
I hope that one day, if it is found that the employment of Aboriginal teaching students as teachers at Kormilda College is a step in the right direction, provision will then be made to house their wives and children. [More…]
Mr Wesley Smith also referred to the work of Japanese Professor Mazrui, a world authority on education who teaches children of 4 years of age to play the violin. [More…]
Mr Wesley-Smith emphasised that the basis of the professor’s success lay in teaching the mothers of the children to play the violin. [More…]
There are approximately 6,000 Aboriginal children in schools in the Northern Territory, and the likelihood is that many of them will leave their home towns and come to one of the 3 residential colleges being provided in the Northern Territory region. [More…]
With the 610 students able to be accommodated at Kormilda, there will be at any one time approximately 700 or 800 children in these residential colleges. [More…]
Obviously this is a matter which has to be thought about very carefully because it involves taking the children of this race of people in substantial numbers away from their tribes and villages. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) spoke of the beneficial efforts on children who attend Kormilda College. [More…]
Doubtless there have been some very beneficial effects, but there is obviously a need for the people in the departments who are responsible for these children to have a very good, hard look at the situation. [More…]
We cannot blame the result on the Aboriginal children, many of whom go to these colleges with great anticipation, great hopes . [More…]
She mentioned also that there were psychosomatic symptoms among many children. [More…]
This is not always easy because the children come from far-off places, but it is important to ensure that facilities for parents are provided and for them to be encouraged to come to the College from time to time and participate in the community life. [More…]
She believes that the children are left to their own resources to too great an extent after school hours and that more staff should be available to service these periods. [More…]
In fact after the Committee had virtually completed its inquiry it decided to re-open it because at that stage not one Aboriginal person had given evidence, nor had any representatives of the missions from which many Aboriginal children come. [More…]
During the war years he was moved from the Northern Territory down to an area in my electorate known as Otford where a number of Aboriginal children came, and he said that the desirable thing was to get them out of this segregated atmosphere and maybe have a residential place for them to live but otherwise to send them into community schools where they could obtain an effective association with the white community. [More…]
The need to promote the best type and standard of education for our Aboriginal children should give us great concern. [More…]
Kormilda College, with all its adventurousness and with the new concept that we hope will develop inside it, will still be faced with tremendous problems with the Aboriginal children who come here. [More…]
I refer to its utter loneliness and to the fact that children will be taken from their total communities 300 miles or 400 miles away and be placed into another community where basically the people who run it are not of their race. [More…]
But if in the future the Aboriginal parents are to agree to their children going to Kormilda and other similar colleges much will depend on the effect that their time at Kormilda has had on these young people. [More…]
We cannot expect to bring these Aboriginal children into our’ society and up to our standards of education without looking at their side too. [More…]
We frighten many of these children off with our education because they do not understand what we are trying to do for them. [More…]
The College could be successful providing we take a proper attitude towards the environment there for these children. [More…]
Supplementary food assistance has also been made available for children and expectant mothers on settlement communities throughout the State of Queensland, and New South Wales continues to subsidise, from our grant, voluntary organisations working in the Aboriginal health field. [More…]
In discussions with the States it was decided that one of the main targets to be aimed at in the educational sphere during this year would be the further development of pre-schools and pre-schooling facilities so that Aboriginal children would be suitably prepared for entrance into the school system. [More…]
But we can be seen to be making progress, and Aboriginal children will soon be emerging from secondary schooling with educational prerequisites for higher levels of employment. [More…]
The housing programmes aim primarily to assist families, whose children will benefit thereby; a great deal of health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist schoolleavers. [More…]
the cases of children of people living in country districts, who are sick and require medical attention. [More…]
I refer also to the disadvantaged parents of children in isolated areas who are required to take their children when ill to the hospital in the nearest country town. [More…]
No consideration is given to the costs incurred by parents in making such journeys, say, once a week, or in taking their children to school, bringing them home at the end of the week, or the costs involved in education generally. [More…]
During the initial period of 6 months such a woman may be assisted by the State Government if she has one or more children and is suffering hardship. [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 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…]
This report was prepared some time ago and initially rejected because it made comparisons between the physical fitness of Australian children and that of their overseas counterparts. [More…]
The report makes reference to proposed comparisons with American children but states without explanation: [More…]
Australian children compare most unfavourably, with those of similar countries. [More…]
Even the survey of the handicapped children’s schools, which could have been done efficiently, was also a monumental shambles. [More…]
He very promptly replied that I had overlooked the handicapped children’s schools that also had not supplied him with evidence. [More…]
The chronic thing about his survey of the needs of handicapped children is that only 20 per cent of all the schools in the private handicapped sector that was circularised replied. [More…]
For example, the 2 private preparatory schools which feed pupils into Melbourne Grammar, the Minister for Education and Science’s old school - namely Wadhurst Preparatory and Grimway House - between them get more in per capita grants than all that is given to handicapped children in the entire State of Victoria. [More…]
These 2 schools between them last year received a total of $31,000 in per capita grants from the Commonwealth Government whereas the schools of handicapped children throughout Victoria received only $24,000. [More…]
That is an indication of just how sincere the present Government is about handicapped children. [More…]
They are not merely schools that are attended by children from affluent parents as representatives of the independent schools associations said on television last night. [More…]
If that money were used in the state sector alone or the Catholic sector, it could bulldoze and demolish some of the decaying and antiquated inner suburban and country schools where children from working class and migrant families are suffering under the most squalid physical conditions. [More…]
Compare this with the White Hills primary school in my electorate which a number of children from the St Luke’s Toddlers Home in White Hills attend. [More…]
Many of the children from the St Luke’s Toddlers Home are from broken families. [More…]
They are disadvantaged children. [More…]
They are children who urgently need remedial teaching. [More…]
The children are taken out of the school, because of lack of space in the primary school itself, and are sent to the White Hills reading room nearby. [More…]
This school has the clearest demand for extra accommodation from the State Government for these children who urgently need assistance. [More…]
It has not the slightest hope over the next 5 years of receiving any assistance, to build even as much as a portable classroom with grants from the State Government because the State Government says that there are too few children there and, in any case, there are areas of colossal need which must be met before the needs of the White Hills primary school and the children of the St Luke’s Toddler’s Home. [More…]
I regard it as an act of discrimination against under privileged children like these that while such huge grants are being paid out to schools such as the Methodist Ladies College at Kew, which is receiving over $500,000, and to Xavier Colleges, which are receiving over $250,000 - to children who do not need a cent from the Commonwealth Government - we have these under privileged children attending the White Hills Primary School who are receiving nothing from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
There is a strong argument for that, because one can argue on the need for decentralisation, that is, the desirability of permanently settling in country areas as many families as possible, that is, settlers who will raise their children in those areas as distinct from, say, itinerant workers and who would form the nucleus of small country towns. [More…]
The largest highways in Sydney, the Great Western Highway and the Hume Highway, the ones where most of the cranial* surgery is made necessary, the areas in which most of the people are born, are 20 or more miles from the most advanced surgical or children’s facilities in Australia. [More…]
Why does the 1971-72 report omit such important information as the 1970-71 report gave on the age groups of men and women who were unemployed for long periods, the areas in which there were concentrations of men and women unemployed for long periods and the number of children in the families of the unemployed? [More…]
If the homes savings grant scheme has been introduced as an incentive to young people of 23, 33 or 26 years of age to save, why should those couples who marry beyond 36 years of age and their children be disadvantaged, or more appropriately, considering the reason for the introduction of the Bill, why should the same incentive to save and to build or purchase their own home not apply to the over 36 age group. [More…]
What provisions has the Government placed before this House over the last 23 years to stop the ever-increasing spiral of costs and to arrest the tremendous burden being imposed on our children and on our children’s children? [More…]
If we have nothing to worry about, why does not any honourable member on the Government side stand in this place and say to me that the high rise development in Melbourne, 36 storeys high, to house women and children in little boxes is the desire of the people who inhabit them? [More…]
His name is Dominic Iorfino He was given permission to migrate to Australia with his wife and 8 children. [More…]
He parted from his wife and was unable to keep the children. [More…]
Both the State reports highlighted the importance of tertiary education not only in generating jobs but also in reassuring new settlers that their children can secure professional qualifications without leaving home. [More…]
Perhaps we should look also to the area of education and ask: Are some of our children cramming too much? [More…]
In Britain and Canada there are strict safety standards, particularly for children’s articles. [More…]
Basically the story is this: She is a deserted wife with 2 children, boys aged 13 and 10 years. [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…]
The Queen Elizabeth Home; (ii) Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind (MultiHandicapped Children’s Unit); (iii) Nil. [More…]
Queensland- (i) Lauriston Centre for Sick Aged; (ii) Queensland Bush Children’s Home, Redcliffe, Sevenoaks Residential Home for Adult Spastics, North Queensland Society for Crippled Children (Cootharinga), Harold Crawford House; (iii) Nil. [More…]
South Australia - (i) Central Mission Homes for the Aged Inc., Flora McDonald Lodge, Masonic Memorial Village, Home for Incurables, Lutheran Old Folks Home, Winchester Rehabilitation Hospital, Walkerville Nursing Home; (ii) Crippled Children’s Home, Spastic Home; (iii) Northfield Wards (Royal Adelaide Hospital). [More…]
Tasmania - (i) Nil; (ii) St Giles Home for Crippled Children; (iii) Nil. [More…]
Has the Minister any indication that Australian Army instructors in Vietnam have been required to train children for war? [More…]
I can assure the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that there is no question whatsoever of the Australian training group in Vietnam deliberately setting about the training of Cambodian children. [More…]
I am interested in the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund to which the Minister has referred in the appendices. [More…]
Under this Bill the standard rate of pension for single people and widows with children is to be increased by $1.75 per week to $20 per week. [More…]
This increase will apply to approximately 509,000 age pensioners, 112,000 invalid pensioners and 50,000 widow pensioners with children. [More…]
The married rate of pension, which is also payable to widows without children, is to be increased by $1.25 per week to $17.25 per week. [More…]
This increase will apply to an estimated 324,000 age pensioners, 27,000 invalid pensioners and 43,000 widow pensioners without children. [More…]
Secondly, the allowance for children in computing means is to be increased from $4 each to $6. [More…]
Expressed in terms of income this will mean that an age or invalid pensioner without children whose property is less than 5420 in value may have income of up to $20 a week and still receive the full standard rate pension of $20 a week; some pension will be payable until his income reaches S60 a week. [More…]
A married couple without children whose property is less than $840 in value may have a combined income of up to $34.50 a week, and still receive full pensions of $17.25 a week each; some pension will be paid until their combined weekly income reaches $103.50. [More…]
Put the other way, where his means consist entirely of property an age or invalid pensioner without children may have assets to the value of $10,800 and receive a full pension; some pension will be payable until his property reaches $31,600 in value. [More…]
For married couples without children the comparable figures are $18,740 and $54,640. [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…]
Let us take the case of a man with a wife and 2 children. [More…]
It is cheap to throw these people into unemployment and to provide a man with a wife and 2 children with benefits $18 a week below the poverty level. [More…]
In the case of a parent who is drawing unemployment benefit dependent student children over 16 years of age are excluded from any benefit at all by this Government. [More…]
One can see cases where people from low and moderate income earning families are struggling valiantly to put their children through university. [More…]
For those sorts of people to be on the unemployment benefit is not only unreasonable, discriminating and repressive for them but is terribly unfair for their children who have never done anything wrong in society except perhaps to be born into a lower socio-economic family and accordingly attract the sort of penalty from the conservative Government of which I speak. [More…]
Laursen quoted a 4 1 -year-old Dane who sold his paint shop and house to take his wife and 3 children to Australia in an effort to escape from long working hours and high taxes. [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…]
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 class A widows are the ones with dependant children. [More…]
These people who are to be thrown into this despairing state often would like to lift their standards of living and the standards which their children should enjoy. [More…]
Firstly it is intended to raise the age and invalid pensions payable to single pensioners and to widows with children by $1.75 to $20 a week. [More…]
Under this legislation widows without children are to receive an increase of SI -25 a week to a new maximum rate of $17.25 - not $20, as is the case for an age pensioner. [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 is $32 for the second child and $35 for subsequent children. [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…]
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…]
Another appeal which has been made by widow pensioner associations to various members including myself is for an educational allowance for the children of a class A widow. [More…]
A class A widow is a widow who has dependent children of school age. [More…]
These organisations think that a class A widow is just as entitled to an educational allowance for their dependent children as are war widows. [More…]
For example the Bill contains no provision to increase the allowance for dependent children of widow, age ot invalid pensioners. [More…]
No provision is made to increase the guardian allowance or the allowance to mothers, dependent children of class A widows or long term sickness beneficiaries other than the adult himself. [More…]
No extra payment is to be made for their dependent children. [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…]
Under this legislation single pensioners and widows with children are to receive an extra $1.75 a week which takes their pension to $20. [More…]
This benefit will be received by 671,000 aged and invalid pensioners and widows with children. [More…]
Secondly, the allowance for children in computing means is to be increased from $4 each to $6. [More…]
It will be remembered that in June 1966 Professor Henderson set down a poverty line of $33 which he applied to what he called the standard family, which was a man, wife and 2 children paying rent. [More…]
We can speak of the single pensioner, the married pensioner couple or the widow with one, 2 or 3 children and so on. [More…]
The Bill also increases the pension rates in respect of the children of deceased seamen coming under the Act. [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…]
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…]
On top of this, no increases have been granted in the present Budget to the wives and children of the general rate pensioners. [More…]
If the Government is going to increase the general rate pension, which has not been increased since 1964, why not increase the rate that is paid to the wives and the children of those general rate pensioners? [More…]
If the general rate pension paid to ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen deserves to be increased, surely the rate of pension that is paid to the wives and children of those general rate pensioners also deserves to be increased. [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…]
The first is the great area over which these proposals are spread, involving substantial increases in members war pensions and allowances, and in war pensions and allowances for the widows and children of deceased ex-servicemen, together with the extension of benefits. [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…]
It is true that the soldiers’ children’s education scheme is one of the most effective and continuous forms of social service operating in this country, but the fact is that the deprivation of the family because of the loss of a serviceman, or the total or partial incapacity of a serviceman, is totally immeasurable. [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…]
Of course, if they have dependent children as well, benefits by way of pension and education assistance are available in various forms and at various rates until the completion of tertiary education. [More…]
If they have children undergoing education they receive the full benefits of the soldiers’ children’s education scheme which covers them till the completion of their tertiary education. [More…]
Apart from those benefits, war widows are entitled to repatriation medical facilities throughout life and their children are entitled to free medical treatment up to the age of 21 years if they are undergoing full time education. [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…]
If the couple have 2 children aged, say, 13 years and 15 years, the increase in service pension will be $6.61 a week for the TPI pensioner and $9.25 a week for his wife. [More…]
When the children’s pensions and education allowances are added, the family income will be $102.28 a week. [More…]
It will bring to life early Australian history to school children who have previously had to suffer the unutterable boredom of the average textbook on Australian history. [More…]
One point which has to be looked at very closely relates to estates going wholly to the spouse, children or grandchildren of the deceased. [More…]
For an estate which passes to the spouse, children or grandchildren of the deceased, provided it is a wholly rural property, the exemption is now lifted to $48,000. [More…]
This should be examined more carefully to ascertain whether greater benefits can be given particularly to those families in the categories to which I have referred, that is, immediate relatives and those who qualify under the classification of spouse, children or grandchildren of the deceased. [More…]
Should the Government decide to phase out duties in other areas, then this should come about as a follow-up to the giving of greater benefits to the wives, children and grandchildren of the deceased. [More…]
In the absence of another set of census statistics it is difficult to make a comparison, but the statistics of the number of Aboriginal young people in schools and universities that we do have show that there has been no appreciable improvement in that time and that the overall situation of Aboriginal children has shown no significant improvement on the figures revealed for the 1963 census. [More…]
Those who had ceased to live in the tribal state and had become fringe dwellers asked about conditions of employment, about the education of their children and about housing. [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…]
It refers to the situation of Aboriginal people and says that Aboriginal children provide at least 10 per cent of all infant deaths, at least 28 per cent of all second year deaths and about 9 per cent of the deaths in the 2 to 4 years age group. [More…]
I know that a number of Aboriginal children are going to the local high school in my area. [More…]
Some of these children have reached third and fourth year level and are equivalent in ability to quite a number of white children. [More…]
But I am afraid that once Aboriginal children receive an education they do not have the opportunity to get the jobs that they want. [More…]
I think that we are really courting trouble if we educate Aboriginal children in an urbanised or country town situation and then throw them back on to the scrapheap. [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 to the Bill, is of the opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities and that the application of this policy could not allow the continued acceptance of the provisions of the Bill and that therefore grants should not be made on the basis provided in the Bill in respect of any year after 1973’. [More…]
While it has been established beyond doubt that almost all scholarship moneys under this Government - 95 per cent of them - go to people who would send their children through a secondary education without those grants, in the United Kingdom all grants to enable children to get through a secondary education go to children in need. [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…]
It is not basically a question of which school gets the money; the fundamental question is what is happening to children. [More…]
The children who go to the greater public schools come from the more affluent sections of the community - from the professional sections of the community and from favourable family backgrounds. [More…]
We run on the formulation of the Australian Council for Educational Research an examination which picks up those children who are most advantaged in the cognitive use of languages, which means, of course, the children from the sort of family background of the professional groups in the community. [More…]
We devise a scholarship system which awards scholarships emphatically to those children who are in better off families and in the most privileged schools. [More…]
In examining its own work, the ACER has found that about 95 per cent of the scholarships go to children who would have had a secondary education without them. [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…]
It is time children in need were assisted. [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 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…]
I believe one of the greatest innovations we have yet had in the educational field is that recurrent costs of independent schools are to be allied to the cost of educating children in government schools at the level of 40 per cent, half to be contributed by the Commonwealth and half to be contributed by the States. [More…]
A study will show them that parents who send their children to independent schools will be saving the general run of taxpayers, other than themselves, about S75m a year by their input to the independent school system. [More…]
Keeping in mind the practicalities, the salient feature in the existence of independent schools is not that some people can afford to send their children to them and some cannot; it is not that the Government may subsidise in some small measure the private expenditure on education which otherwise would not exist; it is, in fact, that there is private expenditure on education. [More…]
A few months ago I asked a question on notice about tax deductions in respect of education for different categories of parents because I suspect that quite a significant part - not a major part - of income tax deductions for education is made by parents of children who attend State schools, Unfortunately such figures are not available in any recognisable form from Treasury sources. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle, of all people, repeated that the wealthy people send their children to independent schools and the poor people send their children to State schools. [More…]
There is a general proposition which is tenable that people who do not have high levels of income certainly will not be able to pay the fees of some of the non-Catholic independent schools, but considerable numbers of people with very ordinary incomes, as we have said many times in this House, send their children to independent schools. [More…]
People of quite ordinary means make considerable sacrifices to send their children to independent schools of varying degrees of quality. [More…]
Lest anybody has the impression that the proportions are wrong I point out that the allocation of $167m is 77.7 per cent of the total sum provided and roughly 78 per cent of the children attend government schools. [More…]
The expenditure of $48m represents the same proportion of the total expenditure as the number of children attending independent schools represents of the total number of children attending school. [More…]
Their children are deserving of support. [More…]
They will not get support to the detriment of state school children. [More…]
I have children of 16 and 15 years of age and I want to come in’. [More…]
Honourable members will probably say: ‘Oh, yes, but such and such a school takes children at 6 years of age or at 17 years of age or they take children of members of the clergy at half rates’. [More…]
How many Turkish migrant children are at Melbourne Grammar School? [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…]
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…]
What are we doing about handicapped people, slow learners, isolated children and the other special areas of education which form an almost endless list? [More…]
Thousands of children in Brunswick and Coburg are being deprived of the advantages of living in Australia because of the failure of the Government to tackle even that simple, direct and very noteworthy problem. [More…]
One of the more interesting things which again is a challenge to the sponsors of the independent schools, so-called, is that at least 2 schools, Newlands and Moreland, have taken up the challenge of the new generation of school children and the new look of education. [More…]
The children can proceed on project systems of all sorts which take them out into the community and give them a totally different classroom relationship. [More…]
People will argue about how much it costs to send children to a state school. [More…]
Commission, one would see that in Victoria, of the expenditure on state school education, some S8m or S9m goes in the transport of school children and $23m or thereabouts goes to the training of teachers. [More…]
More than 700 teachers are teaching English to 25,000 migrant children. [More…]
It seems to me to be a tragedy that in 1972 the Labor Party is pursuing a course designed to divide the community and to divide one group of school children from another by this attack on the so-called rich schools. [More…]
If the attack had been on wealthy parents the Labor Party would have had to include wealthy parents who send their children to government schools. [More…]
Even allowing for all that, in New South Wales about 3 per cent of all children get pre-school education and those children mainly are in the more affluent areas. [More…]
As we look around at the deprived areas in Australia and the deprived schools about which We of the Labor Party talk we see that they are, typically, in the working class area - the areas with larger families, the areas where both parents go to work, the areas where there is a greater concentration of migrants, areas where there are more families dependent on welfare payments and areas where more children have to leave school at an earlier age. [More…]
They are the areas in which, often, more physically and mentally handicapped children are to be found, ls it any wonder then that we get the resultant inequality that is shown up in such figures as this: That 3 out of 10 children in government mid Catholic schools finish secondary schooling. [More…]
Many able children in lower socio-economic groups have to leave school simply because their parents cannot afford to keep them there. [More…]
It is very important to recognise that at least 75 per cent of Australian children go to government schools. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Included in the groups of school children which visited Parliament House last week were scholars from the high school at Merbein, Victoria. [More…]
May I conclude by saying that 3 of my children - all those then of school age - did in fact spend many years in schools in the electorate of Cook. [More…]
Having studied both the statement and the document very carefully, I am most disturbed to note that, despite the fact that many representations and submissions have been made to the Government on behalf of children and parents in isolated and distant parts of Australia, not one mention is made in either the document or the statement which would suggest that the Government has any ideas about how to tackle this very serious problem. [More…]
The education of those children must continue to suffer unless and until a Commonwealth Government is prepared to provide a substantial amount of financial assistance for the specific purpose of ensuring full and proper opportunities to those children to obtain an adequate education at all levels. [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…]
The need for positive and specific assistance is due to the fact, and this cannot be denied, that a large number of parents cannot afford to meet the high costs involved in sending their children to cities or towns away from home where adequate school facilities and accommodation are available. [More…]
Between 2,000 and 3,000 New South Wales children are ‘isolated’ from their schools, the New South Wales Education Minister, Mr Cutler, said yesterday. [More…]
This is an urgent problem, where either those children are not getting an adequate education or in many cases the cost of sending them to school is breaking their families, he said. [More…]
Mr Cutler said New South Wales could need about $1.2m a year to make adequate arrangements for these children, but the State could not find this money. [More…]
Because the Commonwealth refuses to grant that finance we have the situation right now where the education of many children is almost completely limited by the financial circumstances of the parents. [More…]
Unfortunately, when one speaks of parents and children in outback areas, there seems to be a tendency in some quarters to believe that one is talking about rich pastoralists or cattle kings and their families. [More…]
At a rough guess I would say that in a number of cases it would cost the bread winner something like half his annual wages just to send one of his children to school in the metropolitan area or some other area where schooling is available. [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…]
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…]
In conclusion 1 say that children of the outback have equal rights with children living in the elite areas of the capital cities to a good education. [More…]
Assistance towards scholarships, science blocks and libraries is necessary and very acceptable in most areas, but it is of very little use or advantage to children who have no chance of qualifying for a scholarship or of attending a school of advanced education for the simple reason that their parents cannot face up to the costs. [More…]
By the same token migrant children, who could always be seen to have considerable need, basically because of the absolutely fundamental character of English expression and their ability to make their way in this society, have been allocated this year 4. [More…]
it is not common sense to make the same kind of grant to a greater public school with fees of more than $1,000 a year as is made to a poorer private school which has much lower fees which may have many migrant children who need to be taught English and which has all sorts of difficulties and disabilities which the more privileged schools do not have. [More…]
My children attend another school in my electorate. [More…]
It is an ordinary diocesan school and I would be paid the highest salary - 1 admit it - of all the parents who have children attending that school. [More…]
This money did not come from the pockets of the Commonwealth or the State governments; it came from the pockets of the people living in my electorate who have children attending this school. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that the Government’s attitude to education is broadly to achieve greater educational opportunities for all school children and to improve the overall quality of education. [More…]
We think that a tremendous amount of emphasis should be placed on the quality of education provided and we seek to provide this quality of education for all children in all schools. [More…]
One of the areas in which a lot remains to be done is that relating to isolated children. [More…]
The children falling into that category need more emphasis placed on their welfare by education authorities. [More…]
I am speaking particularly about children in isolated homesteads in the backblocks areas of Australia, about children in schools in (he smaller communities in Australia, about the problems of schooling children in new settlements which may occur as a result of some mineral discovery or ore processing moves - in other words the problems of children in areas in which educational facilities cannot be brought quickly and readily to bear. [More…]
I believe it is possible to cover or go a long way towards covering both these requirements - the needs of isolated children and the creation of a nation-wide open university - by Australia acquiring and utilising the facilities of its own communications satellite. [More…]
I believe that one of the television bands could be utilised or incorporated in the relay system of the satellite to provide school broadcasts aimed particularly at children in isolated areas but aimed also at providing an open university available to everybody throughout Australia. [More…]
In my view, it would do a great deal towards expanding the educational opportunities of a lot of children and a lot of adults who are at present virtually disenfranchised because of their geographic position. [More…]
Yet in Victoria at least 10,000 children are denied a pre-school education, and that is a conservative estimate. [More…]
For some children in Victoria to receive preschool education they must attend private institutions to which they pay about $50 a term. [More…]
The tragedy is that in relation to the distribution of the provision of pre-school education it is the already economically deprived areas, such as the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne, which are tragically short of such facilities and so the children in those areas are further disadvantaged in their future education. [More…]
One would think that members of the Australian Country Party, who help form the Government, would be a lot more active in seeing that these facilities were provided for country children in Victorian schools. [More…]
The first thing I want to draw to the attention of the House is the relationship between the drop-out rates of children in country schools in Victoria and those of the children in city schools. [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…]
In the central suburbs of Melbourne people can afford to pay anything up to $1,000 a year to send their children to fairly well endowed, affluent schools. [More…]
What is more, they can afford to keep them there until matriculation and thus increase their opportunities of going to university, increase their opportunities of receiving a Commonwealth scholarship at attend university, and increase their opportunities of obtaining job satisfaction and, for the rest of their lives, an income which is high by comparison with what the children in my own electorate will earn. [More…]
Of the children who attend state secondary high schools and technical schools, one in every 15 is from a family which earns less than the minimum wage. [More…]
Seven per cent or 350 out of the 6,200 children attending state secondary schools and technical schools in my electorate are from families which earn less than $51.50 per week. [More…]
These are the children who should be getting the maximum assistance from the Commonwealth Government so that they can complete their final year of secondary education and go on to tertiary education as far as their abilities will take them. [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…]
Those children will not win a scholarship now. [More…]
By now the Commonwealth Government has squandered probably a large part of the $45m spent so far on secondary scholarships on children who in any case would have gone on to their final year and who would have gone on to university regardless of the Commonwealth secondary scholarships scheme. [More…]
I can guarantee right now that not more than 30 per cent of the pupils who will get scholarships in the future will be getting the full allowance of $250, and that is a very generous estimate because the simple fact is that the children who come from low income families do not win these scholarships in the first place. [More…]
What it will mean is that more scholarships will go to children from families with average weekly earnings to the higher income families but the children who are in maximum need in the community will not get assistance at all. [More…]
The money should be provided first of all to children who need it and that means those children in the inner suburban areas and country areas. [More…]
So long as this policy of ignoring need continues there will be children whose abilities cannot be utilised to the maximum simply because they are victims of the family income situations into which they happen to be born. [More…]
However, I suggest that the raw statistics on the percentage of those children who begin secondary education and continue right through to completing that education are coloured somewhat by the number of country children who for no other reason, because it is the only way they can complete their secondary education, have to leave the State system in country areas and finish their education in the non-government section of education. [More…]
In many rural areas there are parents who cannot afford to send their children away to pri vate schools. [More…]
But if their children are to receive a secondary education they have no alternative to sending them to a private school. [More…]
I support the other forms of special assistance for education, such as migrant education, Aborigines and handicapped children. [More…]
I add my support to those speakers who have mentiond another special group of children who should receive some attention from the Commonwealth Government, and that is country children. [More…]
So far discussion on country children has been basically around isolated children. [More…]
I will support any move that the Government makes to help this group of children but the group of children about whom I want to talk is not those in isolated areas, it is the next group of country children who live in the small country towns or who live on farms surrounding these towns. [More…]
The alternatives for these children is to have a long school bus ride, sometimes involving several hours a day in travel; to be boarded privately or in a hostel in the nearest town which is of any consequence and which has some form of adequate secondary education or to be sent away to private boarding schools. [More…]
This is a problem in country communities and it will get worse because there is a drift in population away from some of these areas and this means that the facilities with which to educate the children will deteriorate rather than improve. [More…]
I have some concern for the education of country children. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government recognises the problem of living away from home as it affects country children in areas like the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I nsk the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to consider taking a new Commonwealth initiative to provide a flat rate living away from home allowance for those children who have to leave their home, whether it is in a small country town or on a farm, in order to complete or obtain adequate secondary education. [More…]
It is obvious that, once again, most of the scholarships - a disproportionately large number - will go to those children who have the best facilities and they tend to be those who come from the wealthier section of the community. [More…]
This scheme will assist Aboriginal children between 14 and 21 years of age to complete their secondary schooling. [More…]
1 believe that the making of grants for Aboriginal children at secondary schools is a very good step in the right direction and indicates the Government’s very keen interest in the need to improve the educational standards of our Aboriginal children. [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…]
The problems of isolated children really apply to a large, part of the farming community. [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…]
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…]
The problems of isolated children have been mentioned. [More…]
Because State activities have not been adequate for the changing requirements of isolated children requests have been made to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I remain in close communication with the organisations fighting in the interests of isolated children. [More…]
At the moment the Commonwealth is in the position at the time of the Budget where, because of much greater financial resources available to the States as a result of recent Premiers’ Conferences and Loan Council meetings, it believes that the States themselves ought to be able to make greater provision for isolated children. [More…]
A significant point which needs to be noted is that the Commission on Advanced Education has been asked to look specifically and directly in the course of its examination of teacher training facilities at the facilities available for remedial teachers - teachers of the handicapped and of children with special learning difficulties - which are required for particular purposes where there are certain difficulties that need to be overcome. [More…]
But I was thinking here particularly of children who suffer some kind of disadvantage or handicap. [More…]
I think that this has a special significance in the light of the views that have been put and the credibility which needs to be given to the case of those who are working to overcome the problems of children with special learning difficulties. [More…]
It now employs over 800 teachers and more than 30,000 children are benefiting under the programme. [More…]
While all children need to be encouraged and are encouraged, it is important under particular proposals of assistance provided by scholarships to take into account 2 things. [More…]
In talking to teachers and those associated with schools in areas where there are large numbers of children from migrant families, one is depressed by their extreme frustration. [More…]
It would be fair to say also that migrants come to Australia because of better job opportunities for the adults and better educational and job opportunities for the children. [More…]
The former Minister for Immigration, Mr Lynch, said that the Government ‘decided to finance the salary costs of teachers employed to teach migrant children in special classes and the necessary supervisory staff, special training courses for teachers in methods of teaching English as a foreign language, the provision of approved capital equipment of the language laboratory type for special classes, and the provision of suitable teaching and learning materials’. [More…]
Proper teaching of migrant children who have a disability with English demands that there should be appropriate accommodation so that they can be properly taught. [More…]
One does not need to think too deeply to realise the deep social and psychological upsets that would occur in children who are in a completely different and foreign environment with social conditions different from those that they have been used to and with an educational system that does not use their native tongue. [More…]
One could say that the areas in which those schools exist are relatively restricted - they are not hard to identify - and that it would not be difficult for changes to be made because it is not only the migrant children at these schools who suffer from this lack of accommodation, this lack of supportive staff, because if there are only a few children with difficulty left in a class there is an overflow effect on the ordinary children who are in the same class but who speak English quite fluently. [More…]
It is not just the mother, father and children but includes uncles, aunts, cousins and so on. [More…]
The migrants we have brought to this country and the Australian born children of those migrants have provided 53 per cent of the increase in population from 8 million in 1950 to 12.7 million in 1971. [More…]
Secondly, the provision of education for migrant children is still far from satisfactory. [More…]
I was pleased to hear the honourable member for Scullin mention in his short address this afternoon that we can be selective with our intake of migrants, because Australia must surely be a land of great opportunity for anyone who is prepared to apply himself to the task of establishing himself in this great country and taking advantage of the great opportunities that exist for him and his children. [More…]
It is to these children that Australia can really look for future Australians with our outlook on life and who are used to Australian conditions. [More…]
What is the position of schools in my electorate where 70 per cent of the children are immigrants? [More…]
I have had children at public schools; so I know something about them. [More…]
I suppose there would be quite a number of wealthy people who send their children to independent schools. [More…]
On the other hand there are hundreds of thousands of people who have to scrape and save to send their children to independent schools but who choose to do so because they are concerned about the situation that prevails at some government schools. [More…]
He went into the tax savings of people who send their children to independent schools. [More…]
The important thing is that people should be able to choose where they want their children to be educated. [More…]
After all the education of their children is a very important subject to them. [More…]
That is, her children - brought up in the Catholic faith, and this is why I choose a Catholic school, because I look on the school as an extension of the home, and in my home I have certain values I try and transmit to the children. [More…]
What has destroyed the capacity of society to contain its problems is that the American middle class has permitted its values to be destroyed in the minds of its own children by those it paid to teach them. [More…]
The important thing is that at least we have an opportunity of choice of education for our children. [More…]
Would I be happy to send my children to that school? [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…]
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…]
It constitutes in my opinion a policy of systematic and deliberate discrimination against the nation’s 2 million children who go to government State primary and secondary schools. [More…]
It is also an attempt to defraud parents of children at the less wealthy private schools by perpetuating poor student-staff ratios, temporary teachers and unqualified and under-qualified staff. [More…]
They will be closed to anybody who cannot put up the necessary $700 or $1,000 to send his children to them. [More…]
This scheme is aimed at providing for those people who have sufficient means to buy their children out and send them to a private school. [More…]
He has no contact whatsoever with people who send their children to government schools. [More…]
There are people who cannot buy their children out. [More…]
They cannot afford $700 or $1,000 and their children will be left to sink with the ship. [More…]
In fact it is a net loss to Victoria and a net loss to Victoria means a net loss to the children in the State schools there. [More…]
I am not opposing all this assistance but I am not prepared and nobody should be prepared to remain silent while this sort of fraud is being perpetrated on children who are attending government schools. [More…]
I am using these Victorian examples to show honourable members what has happened already to one of the Government’s State aid schemes and the way in which it punishes the children who attend government schools. [More…]
This is part of the reason why children in Victorian state schools are doing so badly in regard to science facilities and libraries. [More…]
One of the reasons for this will be that people are concerned about what is happening to their children in government schools. [More…]
There is always an insinuation that people who send their children to government schools do not care about them. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has virtually put himself into that position in public by saying that people who send their children to public schools do not care. [More…]
It is a very serious concern and people who are worried about their children and who want their children- [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…]
poorer schools and staffing for pupils of poorer parents and consequent loss of opportunity for higher education for children of working Catholics, compared with wealthy Catholics. [More…]
We could not judge that he would have any sympathy concerning their children or the other children of Australia. [More…]
The Government is prepared to treat all children as having only a 40 per cent entitlement. [More…]
But what about the poor, those who have never been able to get off the ground, from the point of view of building schools and looking after their children? [More…]
Honourable members opposite have the audacity to suggest that it is the unanimous opinion of parents of children who attend these schools. [More…]
I represent 6,000 children who attend what are called parish and regional schools in my electorate. [More…]
They are poor because they are not really interested in their children’. [More…]
Let no-one attack the Labor Party on the basis that it is not interested in children. [More…]
This is not a fight against children. [More…]
Last year he made a speech in which he said that per capita grants would be given to secondary school children in non-government schools on a means test basis. [More…]
There are class loads of more than 50, teachers who are not trained, facilities that are archaic and, as I say, thousands of children are placed in this situation. [More…]
Because the fees are so high most children are’ automatically excluded from attending these schools. [More…]
At the secondary level, the Catholic schools educate 4 children for $486 a year. [More…]
The cost of educating 4 children in a government school - it is not sufficient - is $2,400. [More…]
We are not against the needs of children. [More…]
But where people have been able to cater for the needs of their children for years and have built up capital assets, we urge the Government not to make the discrimination worse. [More…]
The Prime Minister implied that Catholic children were going into government schools in great numbers. [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…]
Of 170 schools which did not answer the questionnaire 83 were special schools for the handicapped, often providing educational opportunities for children for whom the States do not provide opportunities and 60 per cent of the remainder of the ordinary secondary schools that had not replied had fees below the total cost of education in government schools. [More…]
We are prepared to act upon that principle and put it into effect, while the Opposition is prepared to say that if children are sent to certain schools they are entitled to no support; if they are sent to other schools they are entitled to full support. [More…]
The Catholic schools will not be asked: ‘How many children do you have in this school from low income families?’ [More…]
They will not be asked: “What is the proportion of children who are dependants of widows or deserted wives or what proportion of children come from migrant families?’ [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…]
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…]
It is on record by the principal of Sydney Grammar School, for example, that his school will use the State aid grants it receives over the next 5 years to subsidise high level fees for children of the rich who can afford to go to that school. [More…]
He, a man with a wife and 2 children had to se” the family refrigerator to a neighbour for less than S30 so that they could pay a week’s board in advance at Springsure. [More…]
But this man had received no benefit payment at that stage, What is the use of sending a man, his wife and 2 children to a place 200 miles away with just a train ticket? [More…]
His wife and2 children cannot sit down and nibble at the rail ticket all day long for a fortnight waiting for the first pay to come in. [More…]
In fact, if they live elsewhere they probably see some Very good reason for wanting to move to the cities - reasons such as better and wider employment opportunities, better educational opportunities for their children and a wider range of social and recreational amenities than they could find elsewhere away from this metropolitan complex. [More…]
The States Grants (Deserted Wives) Act 1968 provides for Commonwealth grants to the States in respect of approved benefits provided by them for deserted wives and certain other women with children. [More…]
I refer to the debate on the States grants legislation in which the Minister said the Government would reject the concept of the application of the means test for the purpose of the current grants and the further statement that the Commonwealth had invited New South Wales and other States to make a contribution equivalent to 20 per cent of the national average cost of educating children. [More…]
What action does the Government contemplate to overcome the needs of children in New South Wales, particularly those in large families, who will be denied any State assistance at all because of the New South Wales means test? [More…]
Our wanton use of valuable and limited mineral and energy resources to create shoddy products of little or no real value is extremely short sighted in 1972 and will not only create animosity in the under-developed world but also will downgrade our own children’s futures. [More…]
There is a serious lack of schooling opportunities and facilities for the majority of children, particularly in the outback areas of this country. [More…]
They need to be shown what is required and what particular forms or lines should be followed in their own interests and the interests of their children, even the unborn children, in relation to such matters as malnutrition and health generally. [More…]
The children and the parents have to be taught that it is just as important to observe the standards of hygiene at home during weekends and school holidays as it is when the schools are in session. [More…]
This Government initiative is a tangible expression of its very real and proper concern for the welfare of children. [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…]
This legislation expresses the Government’s recognition of the rapidly increasing proportion of married women in the labour force and of the consequences of this phenomenon for the care of their children. [More…]
It is known that at the present time over 25 per cent of mothers with children under the age of 6 are in the labour force. [More…]
Some of these mothers are engaged in paid employment in their own homes and care for their children at the same time. [More…]
But there are over 150,000 preschool aged children whose mothers, or single fathers, work outside their homes. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Recurrent Grants with Respect to Children in Special Need [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…]
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 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…]
to accept applications for enrolment of children in special need in priority to applications relating to other children; [More…]
Centres will need to provide programmes of pre-school education for children as appropriate; [More…]
Persons in charge of centres will be required to seek the co-operation of family counselling and other local social welfare agencies including those operated by local governing authorities, especially in cases of family disruption and where parents or guardians are seeking to place very young children in centres; [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 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…]
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…]
There is a view, for example, that new forms of training are required to meet the needs of children in child care centres. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
No accurate statistics are compiled of the number of children of school age who are isolated in the precise sense in which the honourable member has used the term. [More…]
Costs in respect of individual children in rural areas are likely to considerably exceed the average cost. [More…]
An allowance is normally payable in cases where children must be conveyed by their parents to schools or to the school bus route. [More…]
Each State and the Commonwealth, in its own territories, offer other measures of assistance to children who are unable for geographical reasons to attend school daily. [More…]
The annual cost of providing an allowance of $15 a week for each of the 22,500 children I referred to in my answer to part (1) of this question is estimated to be $13. [More…]
The Commonwealth, in its own territories, pays boarding and travelling allowances to children who must live away from home to attend school. [More…]
The problem encountered by families in remote areas in educating their children are of concern to me. [More…]
An area of particular concern to the Senate Committee was the training of special teachers for handicapped children (Recommendations 18-20). [More…]
and (2) The number of people who can be accommodated in a migrant hostel fluctuates almost daily according to arrivals and departures, the size and composition of families including the age and sex of children, whether or not rooms are to be shared by members of families, and the number of rooms undergoing maintenance. [More…]
If it had not been for the Greater Port of Adelaide Development Plan at the time, which envisaged reclaiming land for factory purposes which would be fairly close across country to the new satellite town of Elizabeth, people could not have gone to that .-.iea in its early stages, bought land, built houses and gardens and bred their children there because they would have been too far from job opportunities. [More…]
Education of the children in the main centres is the responsibility of the Department of Education and Science. [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…]
The males in this position are not eligible for social service benefits or for the assistance of the kind which females receive who have lost their husbands and who have dependent children. [More…]
There are some very poignant cases of husbands who, by the death of their wives or for some other reason, have been left with 2 or 3 young and sometimes very young children to look after. [More…]
The result is that the husband has lost his wife, the husband may lose his job at least temporarily and the children certainly hove lost the benefit of the presence of both parents. [More…]
Also important is the ability of the children of country people to obtain a good secondary education because people will need to have a basic education to be able to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain other forms of employment. [More…]
If the Government says that the States are burdened by restricted Budgets why does it not, in the interests of the wives and children of men on this low wage and salary level, make grants to the State governments to enable them to lift those wages by at least 20 per cent? [More…]
How do you expect people to exist on the lousy pittance that you give to an unemployed bloke with a wife and 2 children? [More…]
You do not realise what you inflict on a wage earner when you push him into unemployment and deprive his children of the proper facilities for education, particularly beyond the primary school age. [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…]
Our wonderful Government had tightened the purse strings and finance, for people like us, by now in our forties with 5 children ages from 5-19 was just not obtainable. [More…]
A school is to be built to accommodate 210 infant school children, 340 primary school children and 50 pre-school children. [More…]
This is regarded as the contemporary, modern and efficient way of educating children. [More…]
My Department has made a check with parents to see what view they took of this matter and I was somewhat surprised to learn that not many parents objected to their children being involved in what would be a political propaganda film. [More…]
If there are parents who wish to have their children in a film at that time after the end of the school day no doubt they will be able to make appropriate arrangements with the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
Has he noticed the latest evidence to the effect that the capacity of school children fully to utilise library facilities in secondary schools is related to their learning pattern in libraries in primary schools? [More…]
These are not schools for handicapped children unless the Minister is applying a very special definition to handicapped children. [More…]
It is easy to talk about 30,000 people - mothers, fathers and children - who have broken bones or who are dead. [More…]
It is the place in which it is reasonable to expect a young couple to rear children. [More…]
They will be of very great benefit to the country towns in the vicinity, not only from the point of view of adult entertainment or educational value but also from the point of view of the great advantage they will afford to the school children and the students in the area. [More…]
People in the community who are associated with school committees, parent organisations and so on do not get one cent in return for the hours they devote to the welfare of children. [More…]
Not one skerrick of consideration is given to whether a widow has 3 children at school. [More…]
School children receive concession rates on the railways and country interests receive special treatment. [More…]
He has a young wife and 4 children. [More…]
With a wife and 4 young children this man is in very difficult circumstances. [More…]
A university would fill out the range of tertiary education opportunities for their children. [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…]
I particularly mention the children in the age group from 16 to 21 years who are helped in the taxation field, who are helped in so many other areas, but who are neglected in this area. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
If a mother takes sick, the neighbours come in and help with the housework and take care of the children. [More…]
I have on numerous occasions known of the breadwinner passing on and leaving a wife and children behind and then the friends and neighbours taking up a collection or holding a raffle to assist in paying the funeral expenses and also to provide some cash to help the family carry on. [More…]
Thirty-five per cent of the married women of Australia are now working and 25 per cent of the married women of Australia who are working have children under the age of 6 years. [More…]
That is the sort of committee we want to safeguard the interests of the children. [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 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…]
The recurrent grants are towards the salaries of staff and in respect of children in special need. [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 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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
children in special need, within the meaning of section 12 of this Act; and [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…]
), 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…]
We want to safeguard the standards of concern for the children. [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…]
There are various formulas for calculating the number of children who are receiving assistance and this leads to a mystic formula that the amount per week ascertained to run the organisation be accordance with the formula ab + cd. [More…]
where - a is an amount determined by the Minister in relation to children who have not attained the age of three years . [More…]
c is an amount determined by the Minister in relation to children who have attained the age of 3 years . [More…]
These children need to be considered. [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…]
The first amendment will, if accepted, have the effect of including in clause 4 children in orphanages as being eligible to go into these kinds of centres. [More…]
The direction of focus is of getting women into the work force rather than care and consideration for young children. [More…]
Why should its concern be so much with the children of mothers who are in employment? [More…]
Surely it is very important that the children of mothers who are not going out to work should also be catered for. [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 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 Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) emphasised that this really is a measure to meet some practical problem that has already arisen - the problem of coping with the number of working mothers whose children have to be cared for while they are at work. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton said that the Bill is restricted to the children of working mothers. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle and the honourable member for Barton both expressed some disapproval of the idea that this scheme should be under the competence of the Department of Labour and National Service, although looking after the children of working mothers is not the scheme’s only purpose. [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…]
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…]
Although we can argue about the merits of women in the work force, whether they should leave children at home or at some other place and at what age they should leave their children, there is no doubt at all about the existence of the problem. [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…]
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…]
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…]
I do not like to think of very young children having to be set aside from their mothers. [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…]
However, I will conclude by saying that rather than honourable members opposing this Bill they should give the Government great credit for displaying initiative which not only will fill a great need in the care of children but will also do so in a manner best suited for their maximum development and progress in the future. [More…]
The honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) raised the question of very young children. [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…]
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…]
Neither do we care for your children, once we have paid a miserable lump sum to them’. [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…]
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…]
more than one person who is a widow for the purposes of this Act, with or without any dependent children, but no other dependants; or [More…]
a widow or dependent widower and one or more dependent children, but no other dependants, a weekly payment of an amount equal to the employee’s average weekly earnings before the injury is, subject to sub-sections (7.) [More…]
in a case to which paragraph (a) of this sub-section applies - to the widows, or, if there are any dependent children and the Commissioner so determines, to the widows and dependent children, in such shares as the Commissioner determines; or [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 deceased employee leaves one or more dependent children and, thereafter - [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…]
I cannot agree with his suggestion that Australia does little to help underprivileged children or students enter universities or pursue their course through secondary schools. [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 any action intended by the Commonwealth Government in its civil aid programme in Vietnam to sustain the lives 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…]
The net cost of tax concessions in 1969 to a man in New South Wales who was in receipt of the average weekly earnings and who bad a wife and a couple of children of covering himself for public ward and medical insurance was $48. [More…]
I would like it noted that I have made the following speeches on welfare: On 5th March 1970 in my maiden speech; on 12th March 1970 on Aborigines; on 3rd June 1970 on handicapped children; on 17th September 1970 on the Social Services Bill in relation to pensioner poverty; on 22nd October 1970 on Aboriginal advancement; on 1st April 1971 on the Social Services Bill; on 15th [More…]
If so, ‘ will he, when addressing the assembly, justify his Department’s consistent refusal to feed certain categories of deserted wives and their children or, alternatively, explain ‘ why he refuses to ascertain from the New South Wales Social Welfare Department why that Department refuses to succour deserted wives at least to the extent provided by law? [More…]
Subject to conditions yet to be determined, de facto spouses and illegitimate children will be recognised for pension purposes; [More…]
Children’s benefits payable to students will be continued until age 25; [More…]
Children’s and orphans’ pensions in both the DFRB and superannuation schemes are expressed as fixed amounts, although there is an alternative basis for assessing orphans’ pensions. [More…]
The manner of determining children’s and orphans’ pensions in the DFRB and superannuation schemes is at present under consideration and any decisions taken will be incorporated in whatever scheme emerges. [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…]
We act for Mrs X and on her behalf we obtained a Consent Order against her husband for maintenance at Newcastle Children’s Court on 2nd May 1972. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said that Gregory, who had seen a lot of children in Rome, said in Latin: [More…]
We must maintain its prestige and its respect among all the people throughout Australia, and there must never be any attempt by any pressure group outside this Parliament to try to run the Parliament or to denigrate members of the Parliament who have served this country with great sacrifice to themselves and to their wives and children by their repeated absence from their homes. [More…]
I used to be able to tell my children and my grandchildren: ‘Look at the man in the moon’. [More…]
as far as the children were concerned it was no longer a fairy tale. [More…]
As a gentle postscript to the adjournment debate tonight I want to refer, on behalf of 12,249 Australian children, to a petition to the Government which they have written and prepared with great skill and dedication. [More…]
These children have written and asked that the television programmes that are offered to them in our country should be suitable for them and should be Australian in content, so that they are not chained to the watching of overseas programmes of doubtful standard. [More…]
Out of a total of 400 viewing hours every week, 40 channels in Australia are screening only 16 hours of locally produced children’s material. [More…]
But 12,249 Australian children have responded to one of the programmes, ‘Ad venture Island’. [More…]
They said: These are the things that we Australian children like to see. [More…]
A small committee comprising the honourable member for Bendigo, Mr Race Matthews who was formerly on the staff of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), and me, got together the views of a large number of children. [More…]
These letters - these original documents - from more than 12,000 children are a testimony to their native talents and their native abilities which will be extirpated as far as Australia is concerned if the present trends in television are maintained. [More…]
I would hope that because of the children’s pleas, not because of the plea of the committee of 3 to which I referred, there might be second thoughts about a further step in extirpating Australian television. [More…]
In the dying hours of this Parliament I hope that the voices of 12,000 Australian children will be heard. [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…]
These are a good reminder to me of my children while I am in this place and they are an indication of the sort of artistic enthusiasm which this programme ‘Adventure Island’ brings out in children. [More…]
These show how enthusiastic children are about this splendid show on the ABC. [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…]
Has a survey shown that infant mortality rates of Aboriginal children in these areas is much higher than for the general Australian community. [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…]
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…]
There is no discrimination in the law regarding liability of a father to contribute to the support of his children. [More…]
In addition to a means test free war pension, a war widow is entitled to free medical treatment including hospitalisation at Repatriation expense for herself and her eligible children. [More…]
What are the enrolment fees for children attending pre-school centres in the Australian Capital Territory covering the age groups 3 years and 4 years. [More…]
Will he undertake a comparison with the charges at Narrandera pre-school kindergarten for the children of the 24 families contributing to the kindergarden. [More…]
Fees for children attending pre-schools in the A.C.T. [More…]
Frequently there is pressure on mothers from the older men not to seek medical help for sick children but to rely on traditional methods for treating illness. [More…]
The Service Departments have no requirement to maintain statistics - on the treatment of wives and children of servicemen as in-patients or out-patients’ in civilian hospitals. [More…]
How many (a) wives and (b) children residing with servicemen in the Townsville area were treated as (i) inpatients and (ii) outpatients in civilian hospitals during the latest year for which statistics have been collected. [More…]
The Service Departments have no requirement to maintain statistics on the treatment of wives and children of servicemen as inpatients or outpatients in civilian hospitals. [More…]
How many (a) wives and (b) children residing with servicemen in the Richmond area were treated as (i) inpatients and (ii) outpatients in civilian hospitals during the latest year for which statistics have been collected. [More…]
The Service Departments have no requirement to maintain statistics on the treatment of wives and children of servicemen as inpatients and outpatients in civilian hospitals. [More…]
My Government will accordingly give preeminent importance to the reform of Australian education and the care of Australian children. [More…]
The great objective which my Government has set for itself is to ensure genuine equality of opportunity for all children now embarking upon their education. [More…]
Apart from Tom Burke’s political work he was active in many fields of community welfare and, in particular, played a major part in, and for many years was the guiding light of the slow learning children’s group of Western Australia. [More…]
Outside of the Parliament he was closely associated with the work of the slow learning children’s movement and he did very great and very compassionate work in that connection. [More…]
He really thought that a form of education should be given to these children which would make them effective citizens. [More…]
Handicapped children are eligible for assistance under the isolated children’s scheme if they have to attend schools for the handicapped. [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…]
If there were another 2 children it would not begin to operate until $5,100. [More…]
There were categories of requests about the training of teachers - for instance, specialist teachers for handicapped children and the training of teachers as librarians - which any State government could have made. [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…]
One of the most objectionable aspects of the practices of the previous Government was the complete denial of any benefit at all for dependent full time student children over 16 years of an unemployment or sickness beneficiary. [More…]
Henceforth these student children will attract full benefit rights irrespective of age. [More…]
In view of the insignificant cost of this proposal - $600,000 in a full year and $200,000 for the remainder of this year - the dogged persistence with which previous governments have clung to this practice of denying and depriving the dependent student children of the needy unemployed is beyond any reasonable comprehension. [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…]
War Pensions for Student Children [More…]
The Government’s policy on war pensions for student children, which is reflected in the Bil], is that they should be continued until completion of full-time education in respect of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance or living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowances payable under the Repatriation Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme. [More…]
Service Pensions in respect of Student Children [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…]
Thirdly, at the present time some de facto wives and some ex-nuptial children are recognised under repatriation legislation. [More…]
As has been slated in connection with the Repatriation Bill, the Government’s policy on student children of war pensioners which is given effect to in this Bill, in conjunction with the Repatriation Bill, is that benefits should not terminate at age 21 but be continued until completion of the student’s full-time education. [More…]
This applies only in respect of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance or living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowances payable under a repatriation children education scheme. [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…]
It is essential that increased labour mobility reaches the farms of Australia and that the children of farmers are exposed to a range of options in regard to their own future careers. [More…]
Unless these children have this choice they may be condemned to a life that they do not enjoy, and the country as a whole will forgo the productivity that can flow from contented and properly adjusted workers. [More…]
The Government has also announced the provision of boarding allowances for isolated children. [More…]
I would like some consideration to be given to wives and the mothers of children who are isolated and away from any assistance that would be available to them if telephones were provided. [More…]
It had no concern for the homes or for the children who suffered and whose future perhaps was impaired because they failed to get an education. [More…]
A reduction in the real purchasing power of money is a problem suffered by the employee and his family - by the little girl who tries to buy the meat that the children need to give them sustenance. [More…]
Now I am pleasantly surprised to find an increased involvement even on the part of my own children who are still only at secondary school and their increased concern for what they consider to be the ills of this society. [More…]
In fact, only last Friday I received, from a European country, a telephone call which indicated that a grandmother, who was aged 97, died while awaiting approval to visit Australia to see her grandchildren. [More…]
I am pleased to advise the honourable members that these rules have been changed and where there is a desire for a visit by a member of the family, particularly parents and grandparents who want to come to see their children or their grandchildren in Australia, the application will be dealt with not in 6 months or 9 months but in a matter of delays - I mean in a matter of days. [More…]
At the present time some 35,000 migrant children are receiving special assistance and special counselling. [More…]
I am quite sure that we shall see from this Government a new deal for children at all stages of their education and especially fop those children in our community who suffer mental, social, or physical handicaps. [More…]
A useful step in the process of world integration would be the teaching of the international auxiliary language Esperanto to all children all over the world, lt is easy to learn and expressive and would enable people in this day of extensive world travel to meet and converse with ordinary people no matter where they might go. [More…]
A staggering 76 Commonwealth scholarships were secured by the children of advantaged parents. [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…]
The Governor-General’s Speech acknowledges the failure to provide such diversity to the majority of children by introducing legislation to establish a schools commission and a pre-schools commission. [More…]
As more than 75 per cent of children attend government schools, it would seem right that more emphasis be given to encouraging diversity in this sector of Australian education. [More…]
It is therefore pleasing to note that another of the terms of reference for the schools commission will be to have regard to the primary obligation of the Government to provide and maintain government schools systems of the highest standard open to all children. [More…]
Education, and its true role in linking it to the life of the community, has to become more available to all our children, encouraging them to make the most of their potential. [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…]
For instance, a man with a dependent wife and 2 children who was out of work for more than 6 weeks because he could not get a job currently receives $34 a week, but a man with the same sized family who was out of work because he was sick for that period of time receives $37 that is, S3 more. [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…]
I will work in this Parliament and in my electorate as a member of a government which is pledged to work for equal opportunity in education for Australian children; greater employment opportunities; a better deal for pensioners; a real attack on poverty; a proud and progressive Australia a vote for the 18-year-olds in the community and recognition of the status and rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The education of the children of mine workers has been upset by the changes in the coal rnining industry in the Hunter Valley region. [More…]
Where there is a widow or a wholly dependent widower and one or more dependent children, or grandchildren, the weekly payment we propose is an amount equal to the full average weekly earnings of 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…]
The Government expanded the secondary grants scheme so that Aboriginal children would receive grants immediately they entered secondary school. [More…]
Yet it also features schools where children are taught in century-old firetraps, where 800 children are forced to play in a quarter acre of asphalted playground space and where children are forced to use school toilets which were condemned in 1928. [More…]
Under this Bill it is possible for a married couple with 3 children of 16, 17 and 18 years of age - all unemployed - to receive a total of $102 a week for not working. [More…]
Predictably enough, anguished voices have already been raised against the fact that, at the new unemployment benefit rates, a man with a wife and 3 children will . [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 great tragedy of this situation is that it breeds a mentality of acceptance not only in the adults but also in their children. [More…]
For example, the welfare and education of our children and the needs of young families must be of primary importance in establishing pur priorities. [More…]
This situation is highlighted by the findings of the Melbourne survey which indicated that large families with at least 4 dependent children, and particularly those with more than 5, were poor or marginally poor. [More…]
They have the responsibility of sending their children to school as well as the responsibility of seeing that their children are reasonably well dressed. [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…]
If this report is correct the State Director has a very strange attitude because in some classes 75 per cent of the pupils are, in fact, migrant children. [More…]
I have been advised also that in one case there has been such concern about migrant education that a teacher has given his services without pay for some time in order to help the children. [More…]
I cannot understand the philosophy which says that, although a class of 75 per cent migrant children needs to be looked after, until the general staffing is adequate the children will just sit. [More…]
It must be ended because otherwise children literally will be doing nothing. [More…]
I hope that this action has the support of all sides of the Parliament and that there will be a special effort to help migrant children. [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 Bill also extends the rights in relation to student children engaged in full time education. [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…]
Thirdly, at present some de facto wives and some ex-nuptial children are recognised under repatriation legislation. [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…]
Children will be recognised as dependants of -war pensioners as are the children of recipients of social security benefits. [More…]
The Government has acted swiftly in recognising de facto wives and ex-nuptial children. [More…]
They reared 6 children. [More…]
At the time he was speaking to me 2 of the children were still dependent upon him. [More…]
He had to continue to work for $47.40, or whatever the wage was at that time, to support his de facto wife and his dependent children. [More…]
The Minister wrote to me and said that as this gentleman’s de facto wife and dependent children were not eligible for consideration under the Repatriation Act any application for a Service pension he may lodge must be assessed on the basis that he was a single man. [More…]
The Minister said, however, that if he married his de facto wife or legally adopted his children consideration would be given to granting him a Service pension and the assocated benefits. [More…]
The Department would not recognise his children and he was ineligible for a single pension. [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…]
The woman had to make separate application to the Queensland Department of Children’s Services to receive money for the child. [More…]
I have a deep sympathy for all those people who have suffered, including the soldiers’ widows and the soldiers’ children. [More…]
The sick, widows, including working widows, the infirm, invalids, children, public servants and people in almost every sector of the nation will be given new hope and security. [More…]
Children whose mothers as well as fathers have to work to pay the high rents are now referred to as latch key’ children. [More…]
After school they roam the streets, to join the ranks of the ever rising number of delinquents who daily find their way into the children’s courts. [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…]
Increasingly, a citizen’s real standard of living, his health and that of his family, his children’s opportunities for education and self-improvement, his access to employment opportunities, his ability to enjoy the nation’s resources for recreation and culture and his ability to participate in the decisions and actions of the community are determined not by his income or by the hours he works but by where he lives. [More…]
I am not casting any doubts upon their right to do as they like, but I believe the people should ponder on these things and reflect on the type of government they have elected and ask themselves: ‘Is this the type of example which should be set for my children by the supreme authority in this country?’ [More…]
The theory is that this material can be kept away from children and made available only to adults, but I do not believe that in practice this has any hope of working out. [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…]
The second couple had 4 children after 6 years of marriage. [More…]
These people will probably live in rented premises, at least until the children are grown up and able to fend for themselves, by which time of course the parents will be barred from any home savings grant assistance by the age limit. [More…]
I might add that the needs survey also did not take into account the specific financial needs of children such as isolated children or Aboriginal children or grants that may be made in the future for children whose families are in need of financial assistance. [More…]
Children of 18 are going to school and with the rising school leaving age, it will become increasingly so. [More…]
It is essential, however, for parents and children alike to be aware of the possibility of such insidious attempts developing inside our high schools in an attempt to mobilise young people for political purposes. [More…]
They can marry with consent; they can raise children; they can divorce. [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 would further hope that from time to time, perhaps on a regular basis annually, the body that is set up to supervise this operation - that is, the teaching of government, politics, call it what you like, to children in the 2 or 3 years preceding age 18 in the schools - will report to this Parliament. [More…]
If he and his conservative companions were in government and had their way and we were not in opposition to their thoughts, they would still have children working in the coal mines. [More…]
Others who have established sound and understanding communication with their sons and daughters, will see in it the blossoming of independence and character of their children. [More…]
Older people urge security on their children when they are choosing a career. [More…]
The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) spoke about the need for political education in schools and somebody satirised him by saying that in the near future we will be hearing children chanting: ‘Subsidies for dairy farmers, subsidies for dairy farmers’. [More…]
For example, Aborigines, migrants and electors with young children are not uniformly dispersed throughout the various regions. [More…]
We have taken action to develop fundamental improvements in the procedures for migrant selection and counselling; emergency interpreter services; citizenship centres; and special programs for migrant children in schools. [More…]
It will be a matter for each university to determine who should receive, assistance but I would expect that grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by breadwinners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the breadwinner; loss of earning power by the breadwinner for any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
In Australia, as in America, two-fifths of all illegitimate children are born to teenage mothers. [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…]
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…]
Our former Government increased enormously the likelihood of unwanted pregnancies, abortions and unloved children by refusing to promote sex education in schools or to assist the States, local government bodies and voluntary agencies such as churches in the establishment of family planning clinics through which information on birth control techniques, Including for those who prefer it the ovulation method, could be disseminated effectively. [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…]
I refer to families which, in many instances, are increasing the number of children within them - families which are aware of the difficulties that they will encounter in giving to their children the care, education and opportunities for the future which they would wish to give. [More…]
There are other families growing in numbers who do not have a realisation of the proper opportunity and equality that should be made available to their children and, for the objective observer, these families are creating a situation in which there is likely to be a perpetuation of the less advantaged people in the community. [More…]
Already local government bodies have established - I hope I use the correct term - baby health clinics to which all young mothers can take their children. [More…]
I give an instance, of which I have personal knowledge, of a mother with, I think, 5 children who feared that she would become pregnant again. [More…]
Unfortunately she had no-one to look after her 5 young children while she attended the clinic. [More…]
A couple of people minded some of the children and she took the remaining children with her. [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…]
To adopt an attitude that In some way we must assume a propensity on the part of young women to do this and to make sure that they do not have unwanted children is totally unreal. [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…]
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…]
It is terribly important that we face up to the reality that a quarter of a million children between the ages of 2 and 6 whose mothers are employed need care. [More…]
Unwanted pregnancies result in criminal abortions, battered babies, emotionally deprived children who become juvenile delinquents, deserted and neglected children whom the State must support, and children with inadequate education. [More…]
In Australia birth control is not so much a question of community affluence, as it is in underdeveloped countries, but is consequent upon a pressing need to space children in a society that demands higher education standards and other non-material benefits. [More…]
Women should have a right to plan a family and space their children. [More…]
Parents should have the right to decide how many children they want and when they want them, and they should be freely given the means to make that decision. [More…]
What appears to be far more important in this problem of unwanted pregnancies, unwanted children and abortions, is the moral outlook of the community. [More…]
If we in this Parliament are sincere in our desire for all children to be wanted children and that many young adults, and I presume older adults, and unwanted children are to be spared the miseries of the sort of life that follows some of these mistakes then one of the very important issues must be the moral attitude of the community to the general question of permissiveness. [More…]
I would hope that in the removal of this sales tax the members of this Parliament do not overlook the more important question of community attitudes to the matter of moral permissiveness when we are talking about whether or not a particular measure will do away with the miseries of unwanted children, abortions and so on in the future. [More…]
What we should be thinking about is giving children a fully rounded education. [More…]
In this respect it is most important that parents be given the right sort of education and encouragement so that they can pass their knowledge on to their children. [More…]
I think most honourable members will agree with me that it is not easy for parents to give their own children a fully rounded sex education. [More…]
One of the things we must consider and one of the things that this Government can do through its education policy is to use the Commonwealth Department of Education to give a lead to the States, to provide the finance and the facilities to give children and parents a fully rounded sex education. [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…]
Family planning clinics should give advice not only on contraceptive techniques but also on the proper spacing of children, how to manage a budget - especially in the case of young parents where the wife can no longer work - and family organisational problems. [More…]
Far too many children of migrants were given their schooling in areas where facilities and accommodation were inadequate and, in some cases, deplorable. [More…]
Previous governments overlooked the responsibility that they had to migrant children. [More…]
Despite the serious situation which now confronts the Labor Party as a government, I believe that resolute steps should be taken to see that migrant children receive education which is equal to the best, not the worst. [More…]
If we are to control the number of abortions we must do everything possible to see that all children are wanted and that all pregnancies are desired. [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…]
So, on the one hand, the Australian Labor Party wishes to control the natural increase of Australian born children while on the other hand allowing the uncontrolled immigration of people into Australia, irrespective of their country of origin and including nonEuropeans, merely on a family basis. [More…]
So, we will stop the increase of Australian born children and encourage the increase of foreign born children. [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 almost impossible to advance any reasonable argument in Australia to support the contention that a woman who has more than 2 children is harming this country. [More…]
In any case, even if families with more than 2 children were harming this country I think that a woman is perfectly entitled to weigh the pluses and minuses and to come to her own decision. [More…]
I wanted to raise the point in the House tonight that there are quite reasonable and intelligent people - and I am therefore surprised at their attitude - who will argue that there is some right on the part of the state to tell women not to have children, but will accept the proposition that there is no right on the part of a state to tell women to have children. [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…]
I believe that it is long overdue and that it will make a great contribution to people in the community who have played their part in bearing children, educating them, showing them loving warmth and training them in citizenship. [More…]
It is appropriate that reasonably priced contraceptives should be within the means of people who, having done their duty to the nation, feel that they do not want more children. [More…]
I wish to raise a matter which concerns the future well being of literally thousands of children in New South Wales. [More…]
Obviously here was a Minister for Education seeking to do the best not only for his teaching staff by endeavouring to employ these additional teachers but also, and much more importantly in my view, to bring about extra quality of teaching for the children of New South Wales. [More…]
The educational opportunities for literally thousands of New South Wales children are being shoved aside by this Minister - this socalled bastion of the people who alleges to bring educational opportunities to children throughout Australia. [More…]
If he rejects this application then he is depriving the children of New South Wales of quality teaching and depriving them of the facilities and the opportunity to make something of their lives. [More…]
There are items in the series which I will mention which spoke for instance of training for 75 teachers for children with disabilities, training for so many teachers to be librarians. [More…]
I have always said that if there was a specific request about unemployed teachers then I would sponsor that request with the Prime Minister but if a request comes couched in, terms that every other State might equally make a just claim upon - the training of teachers for children suffering from disabilities - then that is clearly a matter that ought to go to the Interim Schools Committee which is recommending to the Commonwealth Government the grants that it should make in &11 these categories. [More…]
After all, one does not think that a teacher who teaches 50 children is responsible for greater productivity than a teacher who teaches 25. [More…]
The housing programs aim primarily to assist families whose children will benefit thereby. [More…]
A great deal of Health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist school leavers. [More…]
Most Aboriginal children will attend State schools. [More…]
Aboriginal children who are Catholics may attend Catholic parish schools. [More…]
We have patterns of assistance for children who live in isolated areas and who have particular disabilities. [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…]
There was a complete disregard for the health problems created by such conditions and we failed to meet the educational needs of the children or provide employment opportunities for the adults. [More…]
We still see many areas where our efforts have only scratched the surface of what needs to be done to rectify all the injustices, the shocking health problems that exist in some areas, the lack of decent housing, the provision of full educational opportunities for the children and also, of course, employment opportunities. [More…]
After the February 1971 flood about 20 families were moved from the low lying areas surrounding Moree to what is called the Mehi Crescent and were provided with emergency accommodation in caravans, and 16 of those 20 caravans are still providing shelter for approximately 110 Aborigines - more than 30 adults and 80 children. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the Sisters of Charity at the Pope Pius Mission who, for the past few years, have been providing pre-schooling for more than 100 children and a health clinic for those children. [More…]
The doctors in the town are providing honorary services to the children. [More…]
The benefit that has been flowing to the children who have been attending the Pope Pius Mission has become evident in the infant and primary schools during the past 2 or 3 years. [More…]
The children have a far better chance of completing their high school education than wouk have been the case, say, 10 years ago. [More…]
Does this circular go on to say that since teachers trained in the teaching of English as a foreign language have other teaching methods they may not be used to teach English to migrant children if this leaves vacancies in relation to their other methods? [More…]
I do not think that in any school, even in the schools in my electorate, of which I am very proud, I have ever met a body of more dedicated men and women who want to help the children of whom they are given charge. [More…]
In the school I visited 81 per cent of the children come from migrant families. [More…]
At the same time the question of additional teachers for migrant children was raised. [More…]
The children need the help and I think we must try to break the deadlock as soon as we can. [More…]
It was Gupapuyngu, the language spoken by my Aboriginal friends at Milingimbi in Arnhem Land, and although it may sound strange to your ears, to them it is ‘the language of the heart’ and to their children it is their mother tongue. [More…]
like most Aboriginal languages, is about as different from English as one could imagine, yet until this year little 5 and 6-year- old Aboriginal children for whom it is their mother tongue, going to school for the first time, have been faced with a European teacher speaking to them in English - which they must very soon learn to read and write or drop hopelessly behind in all of their school work. [More…]
Assisting the European teacher there has often been one of their own people who does her best to help these small children understand. [More…]
Children belonging to the populations concerned shall be taught to read and write in their mother tongue, or, where this is not practicable, in the language most commonly used by the group to which they belong. [More…]
The Federal Government will launch a campaign to have Aboriginal children living in distinctive Aboriginal communities given their primary education in Aboriginal languages. [More…]
The Government will also supplement education for Aboriginal children with the teaching of traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills mostly by Aborigines themselves. [More…]
They advocate a bilingual approach with most of the children’s early schooling in the appropriate Aboriginal language, leading to the acquisition of literacy skills in that language. [More…]
This will be followed by a transition to literacy in English and the use of English as the medium of instruction for a substantial component of the children’s later schooling. [More…]
There will be increased emphasis upon the teaching of traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills and this will continue through the entire period of the children’s schooling. [More…]
The educational aim of such an approach is the development of children who are thoroughly competent in their own language and able to read and write it, who are more proficient in English than they would have been under the present system, and who are better at all their school subjects because their schooling, and their early schooling in particular, has been more interesting, enjoyable and meaningful to them. [More…]
One can also confidently expect psychological benefits from this recognition of the children’s language and culture, and more enthusiastic support from the parents for the schooling their children are offered. [More…]
As 1 mentioned earlier, there are communities where as many as 9 languages are spoken, <ir where the dominant language has not yet been linguistically analysed and written down, or where the dominant language is not the language of the country, or where the language used by the children is a form of pidgin detested by their elders. [More…]
In one class, young children were so riveted by a lesson being given in their language by an Aboriginal woman teacher that they paid no attention to the invasion of their classroom by more than a dozen adult Europeans. [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…]
I support what the honourable member for MacKellar (Mr Wentworth) has said with regard to the speed and pressure that is put on Aboriginal children at various levels of learning in regard to whether they should learn their own languages or English. [More…]
I see the scheme as a way of encouraging Aborigines to be interested in teaching their own children in their own areas so that the children will grow up with respect for and knowledge of their own circumstances and traditions. [More…]
Many children are rapidly growing into a European way of life. [More…]
I hope that the people will be found to teach the Aboriginal children throughout the length and breadth of the country. [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…]
Let us take the hypothetical situation - this could well happen - of a husband and a wife with 3 children over the age of 16 and under the age of 21 - or any age over 16. [More…]
I ask the House: What will the conscientious, hardworking person, whether he be Australian born or a migrant, on $65 a week, with a wife and 3 or 4 children say about working for that wage when he can go to the unemployment office with his family and draw in excess of $102 a week without doing a tap of work. [More…]
The children of some families leave school and decide that they do not want to work. [More…]
I would, strongly support any move to make generous unemployment benefits available to, for example, someone who is redundant, someone whose firm has been taken over and which does not have a vacancy for him or a sick wage earner such as the head of a family who has children. [More…]
It will be a matter for each college of advanced education to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that the grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by bread-winners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the bread-winner; loss of earning power by the bread-winner or any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
The nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs undertaken by the Australian Education Council has provided clear evidence that government education in the various States is failing children on a massive scale. [More…]
The following conditions at the Gladesville Infants school give further evidence of the needs in the State education system: Indoor toilet facilities for children and teachers. [More…]
I suppose it is unfair of me to say that because I see very little television but I do notice my children at home looking at all sorts of film entertainment and the like which I would not regard as being a very useful way in which to spend my time. [More…]
The population of a division includes ‘the children, migrants and everybody in the area. [More…]
On the one hand they will praise the virtues of country life - good, clean, pollution free air, healthy outdoor life and a far better way to bring up children - and on the other hand they will tell how disadvantaged they are by living out in the bush. [More…]
They are confronted with thick, acrid smog, dirty depressing slums, decaying old schools with little or no recreation areas or playing space for children. [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…]
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…]
Perhaps with the indulgence of the House, I could read a report that was made by a social worker who represents a group involved with spastic children. [More…]
All but 2 situations involved dependent children. [More…]
Hie average number of children in no-income families was 4. [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…]
It specifies, in effect, that the representations shall be in relation to the numbers of people; that is, the total population of the States including children, migrants and - since 1967 - Aborigines. [More…]
Under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act voluntary organisations and other non-profit bodies may receive grants of $2 for $1 towards the capital cost of training centres and residential accommodation units. [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…]
Under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act grants of $2 for $1 are available to eligible nonprofit organisations towards the capital cost of premises for use as training centres for handicapped children or to accommodate such children who are receiving training. [More…]
Each claim for assistance is examined having regard to the need of the handicapped children concerned. [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…]
Each class has approximately 30 children and the waiting list for entry is 2 years. [More…]
Will the Minister for Education advise me what action is being taken, or can be taken, to increase the training of these children within the education system? [More…]
During the period of the late Government our predecessors conducted a Senate inquiry into the education of handicapped children, and my predecessor also appointed the Cowen Committee to inquire into the training of teachers. [More…]
Chapter 6 of this report deals with the training of teachers for children with disabilities. [More…]
The population of a division includes the children, migrants and everybody in the area. [More…]
Members of this House do not represent only those electors who voted for them or even just the electors; they also represent those who do not have the vote those migrants who have elected not to take out Australian citizenship and the thousands of children too young to vote. [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…]
It will thus in future be possible for pensioners to visit, or live with, their children or other relatives who have settled or are working overseas. [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…]
This means that teachers and children are working in sub-standard accommodation comprising staff rooms, cloak rooms, store rooms, offices, corridors, sick bays and even shower rooms and laundries. [More…]
If this were not bad enough, the survey also shows that the migrant children who attend classes in these uninspiring surroundings are the lucky few. [More…]
Only one-third of the children in these schools who have difficulty with English are actually attending classes and, of this one-third, 40 per cent are not receiving sufficient tuition. [More…]
Effectively, only 20 per cent of the children in the schools surveyed who need English tuition are receiving enough of it. [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…]
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…]
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…]
He did not say it, but the fact is that it had been begun and there was a willingness and a determination to improve it, to provide the maximum opportunity for migrant children. [More…]
There is one point to which the Minister did not draw attention - maybe he did not because it overlaps into areas of other ministerial responsibilities - and that is that this problem of migrant children, or of children generally from underprivileged families and underprivileged homes, cannot be tackled or solved solely in the school itself. [More…]
I know of some that have national nights for those of Greek origin or for those of Italian origin so that the families can come along to the school to see what happens and to participate in school activities, and to encourage a real concern for what their children are doing. [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…]
I hope that the response will be taken further, not only to look at the school environment but also to look at the total environment of the children who are now in part the Minister’s concern but still significantly the responsibility of the States. [More…]
Throughout the election campaign, I made no apologies to the electors of Eden-Monaro for the fact that my children enjoyed the facilities of pre-school education in the A.C.T. [More…]
It was the policy of the Australian Labor Party to provide that same facility for the children in Eden-Monaro. [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that the Australian Broadcasting Control Board will police the guidelines laid down by it in the Television Programme Standards booklet, particularly those dealing with sound and visual items in programs televised at times when the audience is likely to contain large numbers of children. [More…]
No-one would begrudge the most generous possible payment to a widow, particularly if she has children. [More…]
That citizens of this Division place great value on the sanctity of human life, and on the physical, mental, and social welfare of mothers and children; [More…]
Likewise the Bill provides that the oath or affirmation of allegiance shall be taken by all, except children under 16, regardless of former nationality. [More…]
Additional appropriations amounting to $4 1.4m required for departmental other services include $0.7m for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs; $8.6m for the Department of Education of which $5m has been provided for Commonwealth scholarship schemes to cover increases in university fees and the extension of the Aboriginal secondary grants scheme to all children of Aboriginal descent attending secondary schools and classes from the beginning of 1973; $2.5m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and $0.7m for educational services in the Northern Territory; $3m for the Department of External Territories to cover special assistance to facilitate the transfer of functions to the Papua New Guinea Administration, emergency assistance to alleviate food shortages in the Papua New Guinea highlands and salary increases for overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service; $5.9m for Colombo Plan and other aid; $2.8m for broadcasting and television services; $1.2m for the final payment of compensation to sulphuric acid and pyrites producers following the termination of bounty payments; $11. [More…]
Further appropriations of $10.2m are sought for departmental other services including S8m for assistance for children in isolated areas and $1.4m for tuition fees and living and travelling allowances under the Commonwealth Pre-School Teacher Scholarships Scheme. [More…]
Let us consider, for example, the many thousands - indeed, many tens of thousands - of people who have lived in Australia, perhaps as children, and are now resident in either New Zealand or the United Kingdom. [More…]
She is a widow for widow’s pension purposes and, indeed, there may be more than that because the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) announced some time ago that he would give the widow’s pension to the mothers of illegitimate children. [More…]
unemployment benefits for a man, a wife and 2 children were $18 a week below the updated poverty line, and they have been below that poverty line for a very, very long time. [More…]
Those who came as children or were born there have had the benefit of primary and secondary education. [More…]
We have almost 3 million school children, a considerable proportion of whom are cyclists. [More…]
If drivers were less selfish, less aggressive and less thoughtless and more responsible, more careful and more considerate of others many homes would not be mourning the loss of parents or children. [More…]
But it is a daily occurrence for the visitors to be in tears as they explain to the people involved in this project that it is impossible for them, paying $35 a week for a rental home, possibly with a bring home pay of $65 a week and with one or two children, ever to look forward to the possibility of owing their own home. [More…]
They had 3 children, one of whom was very ill and required expensive medical treatment. [More…]
However, as a small boy during that term of 40 days and 40 nights - as spoken of by the Prime Minister - on behalf of the assembled school children in the small town of Allora I had the great privilege of extending to him, as Prime Minister, a few words of welcome. [More…]
Speaking personally, I can only say to the honourable member that I made one small contribution in one daughter, but I suppose I could say to the honourable member, who has 8 children - I think 5 boys and 3 girls - ‘Well, I did my part, you seem to have contributed to the imbalance’. [More…]
The result is that children have to walk to school on the roads and parents have to walk to the shops on the roads until such times as the local council can accumulate funds to provide footpaths. [More…]
I submit to the Minister that aged people’s homes should be built in areas where aged people can live near their children. [More…]
Consideration should always be given to the fact that, if the children of aged people are prepared to look after them and to keep an eye on them, the aged people’s units should be made available not too far away from the suburb in which their children live. [More…]
Australian Theatre for Young People, $7,777- Assistance to set up children’s and teachers’ film and television training services for schools. [More…]
Cheryl Pullen, $745 - To assist in costs of training in film and video techniques with the aim of introducing visual media for creative and educational purposes for Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, (e) Other purposes: [More…]
Pending consideration of the whole policy by the Government, the Department was instructed in the interests of dependent wives and children, not te suspend unemployment benefits anywhere in Australia prior to Christmas or during January. [More…]
Pre-school Centres for Sub-normal Children (Question No. [More…]
Can he say whether there is an urgent need in Brisbane for pre-school centres catering for subnormal children. [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Social Security whether he is aware of the financial hardship caused to parents of children over the age of 16 years receiving the invalid pension and needing costly nursing care at home. [More…]
Will the Minister give consideration to introducing legislation to apply the provisions of the domiciliary care benefit to the parents of such children? [More…]
The position of orphans and children, however, is under further consideration in the comprehensive review of the present superannuation scheme currently being undertaken by my Department. [More…]
These activities of IWS are concentrated on the 4 main end uses of wool - carpets, women’s outerwear, men’s outerwear and knitted outerwear (excluding children’s wear). [More…]
I understand that the allowance cuts out when the annual family income, after concessions for dependent children, reaches $2,800. [More…]
Let me mention by way of example the saturation bombing, the removal of peasants from their traditional homes, the effects of the war on the Vietnamese people themselves, the degradation, the refugees and the children orphaned by the war. [More…]
That man of God, the honourable member for Lyne, did not raise his voice when napalm was raining from the heavens on women and little children. [More…]
T remember going to Vietnam some time ago when the Press of Australia was full of the story that incendiary bombs were being flung around at random in the countryside and on towns and causing dreadful burns to women and children. [More…]
Where appropriate the mother is required to take legal action for maintenance from the father of her child or children. [More…]
I point out that they include women, children and men. [More…]
The sufferers of baldness, particularly the children and the women’s experience, as one can imagine, countless frustrations. [More…]
On visiting the Dandenong Technical College recently I was told by the principal that the college’s most urgent need - the children at this college have 13 portable class room buildings - is a middle school complex. [More…]
It is establishable that children from those areas have a greater’ need for availability of literature and libraries than would exist in areas where parents have a higher educational background. [More…]
The culturally under-privileged children have a greater need in this area, yet they are the very people who have not been provided with libraries under the existing State policies. [More…]
I wish to look also at the administration of any such assistance and in particular from the viewpoint of my electorate and other rural electorates at the value of such aid in promoting an equality of opportunity for educational achievements as related to children living in rural areas. [More…]
I am also concerned not only that many of our students, and particularly rural children, have limited opportunities to make use of our scholarship system, but also that the knowledge of any available assistance provided for in the Bill is not freely available to secondary headmasters far enough in advance of an academic year. [More…]
It is also desired to give parents a full understanding of the reasons why their children need a higher level of training than has been required in the past so that they will provide encouragement for their families to become more highly qualified. [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…]
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…]
Speld deals with children who have specific learning difficulties, and it is from these words that the composite word ‘Speld’ is derived. [More…]
Speld aims specifically to assist children who have an average or above average intellectual capacity - in other words, high IQ - but who suffer from subtle misfunctioning of the central nervous system, particularly with regard to perception, integration and expression. [More…]
Children with glasses and hearing aids are commonplace today. [More…]
These children are not ridiculed for their problem. [More…]
It is now essential that people realise there are children who cannot recognise letters, figures or shape forms because of purely physical disfunction. [More…]
Many of these children have for some years been a heartbreak to their parents and a dreadful loss to the community. [More…]
The children were thought to be lazy and unco-operative when in fact all that was needed was specialised, understanding, remedial teaching with special equipment and other facilities. [More…]
These children do exist. [More…]
There are already more in the community than can be assisted and if one takes the statistical figure of 10 per cent of the primary school children in Australia there are thousands in Queensland and at least 1,200 in the Darling Downs area. [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…]
During the first years an experienced teacher should be able to notice children who have different development from the other students in the class. [More…]
When children show any social difficulty this is a possible indication that they may have either a sight or hearing problem. [More…]
The fact that these children have specific learning difficulties does not mean they should be sent to a special school. [More…]
The acquisition during initial teacher training of a basic knowledge of how to teach children to read provides an invaluable foundation on which to build. [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 object can be achieved only by a greater public awareness of the problem and needs of children who have these problems. [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…]
Up to the present, there has not been general recognition on the part of the Australian genera] public for the needs of children of normal and above normal intelligence who require usually for short periods, remedial assistance. [More…]
Feasibility study for establishment of a special class for 6 children with advanced specific early learning problems in Toowoomba. [More…]
A special class in every school with more than 6 diagnosed children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
I replied to him thanking him for the care and compassion of his letter on the needs of Victoria in the area of handicapped children. [More…]
I also said that there was a report of a Senate standing committee and that I would shortly be tabling the report of the Cohen Committee, which was established by my predecessors, on the training of teachers for handicapped children. [More…]
The fact that it disadvantages the workforce in a community - fellow workers - and that it makes life intolerable for those people who rely on electricity, transport, power or bread and children who enjoy drinks and ice cream, matters not when a political strike is called for the trade unions’ purposes. [More…]
Millions of women, men and children, both born and unborn, can be affected by this Bill which will be introduced by those 2 honourable members. [More…]
Secondly, it provides that all prospective citizens except children under 16 years must take an oath or affirmation of allegiance. [More…]
For the same reasons the Opposition would like to see a continuation of the preferential treatment afforded to British subjects in relation to the proposal that an oath or affirmation of allegiance be taken by all except children under the age of 16 years, regardless of their former nationality. [More…]
These are for toothbrushes, sunglass lenses and children’s night clothes. [More…]
That for children’s night clothes is based on a standard for the flammability of fabrics involving an entirely new method of measuring the ease of ignition of textiles. [More…]
They include inequalities between pre-school children, depending upon whether they live in the Australian Capital Territory or in the various States; inequalities between our children, depending upon which school they attend; inequalities between men and women; inequalities between the wage earner and the prices setter, inequalities between the electors in the State electorates and particularly in Commonwealth electorates, depending upon the electorate in which they leave; inequalities between migrants, depending upon the country of their origin; inequalities between overseas visitors and more particularly between migrants, depending upon the country of origin; and, of course, inequalities between applicants who seek eligibility for citizenship under the terms of the Act enforced by the previous Government - the Act which this Bill seeks to amend. [More…]
The claims of Yugoslavia extend even to the children of foreign nationals of Yugoslav origin. [More…]
I think that most migrants would want to be at one with their children, and their children, whether the parents like it or not, surely will grow up as Australians. [More…]
I think it is a great thing for the parents to be on a parity with their children. [More…]
In making assessments of applicants, account will be taken in all cases of the size of the family and the age of children, the presence of relatives in Australia and the assistance expected from relatives and friendsin this country. [More…]
In a 4 to 3 decision the Court held the statute unconstitutional on 2 principal grounds: Firstly, that the phrase ‘Necessary to preserve life’ was so vague as to be violative of the due process requirements for a criminal law, and, secondly, that the law was in violation of a woman’s fundamental rights to life and to choose whether to bear children. [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…]
Parliaments have not protected all the rights involved when they force women to bear children against their will. [More…]
Laws are made by men, sanctioned by a male dominated church hierarchy and imposed largely by policemen, and yet we will never bear children ourselves. [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 authorises the intentional destruction, ultimately on simple request, of unborn children in the first 12 weeks of their existence. [More…]
We are taking very seriously the views of unions which point out the possible dangers of fallout from French atomic tests to unborn Australian children - a danger by radiation. [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…]
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…]
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 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…]
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…]
Again, we are told that there are many children born who are unwanted and because they are unwanted they suffer. [More…]
To me, these trends must result in a weakening of those institutions - marriage and the family - which provide the best environment for the upbringing of our children. [More…]
Should we not be seeing to it that mothers of young children are given the help they need in caring for them? [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…]
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…]
I ask the Minister whether when his wife was carrying their children and they knew she was pregnant did they refer to that baby as a blob of jelly or did they refer to it, from the time that they knew she was pregnant and they were going to have a baby, as a foetus or any other name but baby? [More…]
They talk about unwanted children. [More…]
There are no unwanted children; there are only unwanting parents. [More…]
Even if the parents do not want them, there are thousands of childless couples crying out to adopt children in the hope of building a family. [More…]
Recently an article appeared in the ‘Melbourne Herald” which stated: ‘The adoption list to close’ and went on to say that there were not enough children to meet the demands of parents who wanted to adopt them. [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…]
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…]
Let us call to mind the beginnings of this worth while organisation, to pay a tribute to those excellent people who have, over the years, laboured in the interests of the young children. [More…]
This would have the effect of relieving the community of the teacher proportion of fees, thus helping to bring to all sections of the community free pre-school education, so that it would be available not only for the rich or the lucky but also for the children of the basic wage earner. [More…]
I do not know where the idea of a Cities Commission fits in with the Labor Party’s idea of reducing the immigration intake and its advocacy of a zero population growth, limiting families to 2 children, as has been stated by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) on various occasions How do we build a country in that way and how will development survive? [More…]
How such housing developments will be handled to avoid, for example, social problems connected with children remains to be seen. [More…]
In the case of orphans and children, this is now under review and it will be considered by Professor [More…]
Often Commonwealth contributors living, say, in country towns are placed in the position where to get better education for their children, possibly to provide better employment opportunities for their children or perhaps for a healthy reason, they are required to resign from a Commonwealth job and move to the city. [More…]
(b) an increase in children’s and orphans’ benefits, (c) automatic adjustment of pensions based on a cost of living or similar index, - [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…]
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…]
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…]
The Minister referred recently to a study his Department is undertaking into anomalies in and possible extension of the domiciliary care benefit, including the parents of children over the age of 16 years who are receiving an invalid pension and needing costly nursing care at home. [More…]
Win he consider including the parents of handicapped children in the domiciliary care scheme where the children are unable to be accommodated in a special home or institution and are therefore ineligible for any of the forms of assistance under the National Health Act? [More…]
Does he consider that these parents who are unable to have their children accommodated or who feel it is their duty to care personally for their children are being penalised financially at present and that the extension of the domiciliary care benefit would provide some justice to them? [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…]
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…]
There are many people - parents and children too in this day of enlightenment; children themselves are concerned more about what is going on around them, as well as teachers and other educationists - who have gained the impression that the areas of need that would be identified by the Schools Commission or, in the interim period, by the Interim Committee and that in respect of these needs, once a commitment was made for them, the money allocations would be made available as soon as possible. [More…]
The point that I wanted to emphasise in asking the question was the importance of the additional education facilities being available for the nation’s children at the earliest opportunity. [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…]
Minister places before the Parliament and the people the report of the Interim Committee and that at an early date following his study of the report he will make an announcement as to emergency or advanced grants so that additional educational resources will be available to the children of the nation. [More…]
In Victoria there is a waiting list of 2,000 for residential places for mentally retarded children. [More…]
About 12 months ago a type of air gun toy which made a very resounding noise was withdrawn because it was felt that it could cause deafness to children if it was used in a certain manner. [More…]
Let us look, for instance, at what is happening in regard to handicapped children. [More…]
The Government has a policy concerning the welfare of handicapped children but it is not always able to implement it. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) invited a Victorian Government committee to give information to the Interim Schools Committee so that the Commonwealth could assist in the education of handicapped children in Victoria. [More…]
Many schools are operating with short staffs, with the consequence that school curricula are severely curtailed and a full option of subjects is not offered to children in some schools. [More…]
With such disregard exhibited by the State Libera] Government towards education, the morale of the teaching staff is low and I receive countless letters from parents complaining of the interruptions to their children’s education. [More…]
They are anxious about the future of their children and the lack of education that they receive, despite the determined and dedicated teaching staff. [More…]
This Parliament and this Government are becoming more involved in providing education for young children at a standard higher than ever before. [More…]
The sort of thing I have in mind would be much broader than something merely for invalid children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
As I previously mentioned, it will place all supporting mothers with children in the same position as widows with children and will remove the unjustifiable discrimination which has hitherto existed. [More…]
Its effect will perhaps be felt mainly by the children of the women concerned. [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…]
To what extent will the revised arrangements include the following features of a new scheme as indicated in the report: (a) an increase in pension benefits to widows and resumption of the payment of widows’ pensions under certain conditions, (b) an increase in children’s and orphans’ benefits, (c) automatic adjustment of pensions based on a cost of living or similar index, or to notional variations in final salary, (d) variation in the calculation of retrenchment benefits, (e) in the case of single pensioners, a payment to be made to the next of kin of any excess of contributions over pension received, (0 interest to be paid on refunds of contributions to those members leaving the Fund, (g) rates of contributions to be limited to a maximum percentage of salary in accordance with age at entry to the scheme, (h) provision for limited benefits for those contributors not meeting the full medical standards of the present scheme, (i) voluntary retirement and payment of an adjusted pension at 55 years of age and (j) a provision to be made for commutation of the pension to alump sum on age retirement. [More…]
Then we provided millions for isolated children, the most neglected children in the whole of Australia. [More…]
We found some millions for these children and they are getting help for the very first time. [More…]
Many parents on rural or pastoral properties are faced with the high cost of transport, boarding fees and so on in providing their children with a proper education. [More…]
It was not until the present Government came into office that those parents and their children received any proper consideration. [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…]
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…]
We can only end by saying that this is not because we think parents should never discourage their children’s marriages but because this is not the way to do it; not because we think well of marriages made in defiance of parents but because we think the law now contributes to the defiance, not because the family is too weak to use this weapon but because it is strong enough to do without it. [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…]
They have seen the family strain which occurs when there is parental opposition and children have to go before a magistrate to get consent to marry in defiance of their parent’s wishes. [More…]
The point I am making is that while I will agree to let this Bill pass - because it is simply a game of numbers and when one puts 124 members of this House against one member the one member has no chance at all - I decry the fact that parents will lose all control of their children. [More…]
The principal reason why the Opposition supports this legislation which provides for a benefit to be paid to people termed supporting mothers is the beneficial effect the Opposition believes the legislation will have on children who otherwise could suffer subsequent disadvantages. [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…]
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…]
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…]
If the benefit were across the board - available to the children of all families - such an intrusion of the private lives of people would not be necessary. [More…]
The honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) and the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) have both, T think very rightly, drawn attention to the need to look after the normal family to a greater extent and particularly to the need to look after the married couple at the birth of their first and second children. [More…]
The first is a measure to help widowers with dependent children and the second is a measure to cure an anomaly regarding the application of the means test in sheltered workshops, particularly as it presses upon those at the bottom of the scale who by reason of their incapacity are earning perhaps only $3, $4 or $5 a week. [More…]
I refer first to widowers with dependent children. [More…]
But one pocket that was left and one which I had hoped very much to have an opportunity of clearing up, at any rate in this present year, was that of the widower with dependent children. [More…]
Very often it is a terrible thing for such a man that when he is faced with the loss of his wife, at the same time, because of the fact that he receives no social security benefits or help, he is faced with the loss of his young children because he is unable to keep them at home. [More…]
There is another case which unfortunately is becoming more common in the community, and that is the case of the deserted husband whose wife has left him with young children. [More…]
Therefore, in Committee I shall move an amendment designed to place the widower with dependent children on the same footing as the widow with dependent children. [More…]
This is something which by reason of the operation of the means test, of course, will not mean that a man earning a wage will receive the full pension, but under the measures which the last government brought in, by the tapering of the means test and by the raising of the free area of income from SIO to $20 a week, those men who perhaps have 2 or 3 dependent children and who are earning, say, $80 to $90 a week will still receive a considerable help. [More…]
There is a need for the mothers concerned to be provided with the benefits contained in the Bill, Those benefits will give the supporting mother the assistance necessary to engage her to provide for the children under her care and control. [More…]
In Waver ley there are very many children. [More…]
They are the children of parents who have bought their own houses and they have mortgages and repayments to meet. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [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…]
There are those who have lost their wives and still have young children, which is a terrible thing for a man to experience. [More…]
The second class consists of the deserted husbands whose wives leave them with young children. [More…]
Not only that, these men and youths assist in the development of still younger people - the children - in the sport of surfing, in the recreation of the surf and the beach, and also in the development of a spirit of service to other men and women. [More…]
Over 700 have received the minimum isolated children’s grant of $350 plus the living allowances. [More…]
When we launched this scheme an appeal was made to the State governments to continue their forms of assistance monetarily, their travel warrants, rail warrants and so on that assist isolated children. [More…]
All isolated children are entitled to a minimum of $350 and it is vitally important that all their applications come in so we can get a clear picture of where we going in what is after all a new scheme as far as the Commonwealth is concerned. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that the incidence of scabies among Aboriginal children in east Gippsland threatens to reach epidemic proportions? [More…]
What is the amount of Commonwealth estate duty payable in cases where an estate passes to a widow, widower, children or grandchildren, and where the dutiable value of the estate is (a) $19,999 or less, (b) $25,000, (c) $30,000,(d) $40,000, (e) $50,000 and (f) $100,000. [More…]
What is the amount of Commonwealth estate duty payable in cases where an estate passes to a widow, widower, children or grandchildren, and where the dutiable value of the estate is (a) $19,999 or less, (ft) $25,000, (c) $30,000, (d) $40,000, (e) $50,000 and (/) $100,000. [More…]
For example, parents might well buy them for their children. [More…]
Many mothers consider this time to be when their children start school; others consider it to be later. [More…]
But there are many young mothers who are forced by economic pressures to re-engage prematurely in paid employment when, according to their better judgment, they would be serving the interests of their children to greater advantage if they remained at home to provide their children with the mother care that they need. [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…]
For the young mother of today the question is no longer whether to go to work or raise children but how to make the necessary arrangements to do both. [More…]
In doing both young mothers neither want to deprive their children of the mother care they need nor do they wish to depress their children’s standard of living and opportunities in future life. [More…]
In endeavouring to make the arrangements of continuing to work and providing their children with the mother care that they need young mothers are put under immense pressures because of the difficulty of choosing between the limited range of alternatives that are available to them. [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…]
By enabling a young couple to draw on their savings without the loss of value due to inflation the young couple will be better enabled to provide for themselves in the situation where the mother wishes to be at home in the interests of her children. [More…]
I believe the community as a whole accepts that it is in the best interests of the community, the children and the families who make up the community that the mother should be at home to care for her young family. [More…]
I therefore urge this House to enable this Bill to be studied in detail, in the total context of the need for us to make it easier for the normal young family to bring up Australian children. [More…]
My children would not have been taken to infant welfare centres, they would not have been able to find places in pre-school centres, there would have been no open space in which they could roam, no playing fields on which they could participate in team games, no libraries from which they could borrow books, no social workers to advise them and no youth clubs to enrich their recreation, if it had not been for local government. [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…]
As the babies of the postwar boom reach this age, marry and begin to rear children - I stress this point - they will want to see their dream of a home of their own translated into a bricks and mortar reality. [More…]
A weakness in the past has been the inability of local government, especially in the outer metropolitan areas of the cities where mushroom growth has taken place because of the erection of war service homes and housing commission homes and the construction of homes by private builders, to provide the amenities that are so essential to the making of home life more comfortable, particularly where children are concerned. [More…]
Let us consider the variety and diversity that renovations would preserve, not only for keeping things because they are old, but also for keeping them for the good effect that variety and diversity have on the imagination not of adults alone but also of the children who are growing up in the community. [More…]
Tonight I wish the attention of this national Parliament to be drawn to the plight of the isolated children in some of the remoter areas of Australia. [More…]
I believe that this Government has acted in good faith in introducing the present scheme of assistance to these children. [More…]
When we launched this scheme an appeal was made to the State governments to continue their form of assistance monetarily, their travel warrants, rail warrants and so on that assist isolated children. [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…]
If that is not implied, I can assure the Minister that members of the Isolated Children’s Section and the Hostels Association and such people are most concerned. [More…]
I have said that the Honourable W. R. Withers has had the strongest representations made to him from people concerned about isolated children, including Captain David Perry who is the chairman of the Port Hedland Hostels Association. [More…]
There is an across the board grant of $350 to all isolated children. [More…]
At the wage level for the people I have mentioned they could not afford to send their children away from home to high schools under the present system of allowances unless the wives worked to bring in extra money. [More…]
One must remember that areas such as Kununurra and Wyndham have no school hostel and the children have to travel to the nearest high school hostel which is at Port Hedland, approximately 1,000 miles away. [More…]
The people and the children are today left in a worse position than they were in 12 months ago even with the best endeavours of the federal scheme. [More…]
She is very involved with isolated children. [More…]
She has 4 children of her own and she lives out at Meekatharra. [More…]
The ALP sees education as a total concept with equal opportunity for all children. [More…]
Mr Kim Beazley, M.H.R., said that disadvantaged children would automatically be taken care of, and therefore, there would be no need for this piecemeal approach, where associations such as ours had to plead the cause of the underprivileged. [More…]
First of all I have to apologise to the House and to the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond) for misinforming him in my answer to a question this morning when I said that 700 isolated children had received the grant. [More…]
The second thing that I should like to say is that when this scheme was started Victoria’s isolated children’s scheme was insignificant. [More…]
But when this scheme was adopted in January we just picked up the means test scheme of the former Government’s scholarship program and applied that to isolated children. [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…]
The mortality rate of children between the ages of 7 and 12 was among the highest in the world and a frequent killer was hookworm which could easily have been rectified had the unfortunate parents of those children been able to afford medical attention. [More…]
Some of the other features of the new scheme are: Commutation of retirement pay will be a right for members who retired after 1 October 1972, subject only to applications for commutation being made within one year of retirement or such longer period as may be necessary in special circumstances; management of the scheme is to be vested in a statutory authority on which all the Services will be represented; reversionary benefits will be extended to de facto widows and the member’s illegitimate children, in certain circumstances, and dependent widowers of female members; the rates of pension payable in respect of children and orphans will be increased and, provided they are receiving full time education at a school, college or university, will continue in payment until age 25 years; invalidity pay will no longer be subject to suspension solely on account of earnings from civil employment; a contributing or recipient member may, if he is dissatisfied with a decision of the authority in relation to invalidity classification or any other matter of general administration of the Act, have his case referred to an invalidity review tribunal or any administrative appeal tribunal, as appropriate, for hearing and decision. [More…]
It goes further, however, in that it incorporates certain beneficial provisions of the new scheme that relates to children and invalidity pensioners. [More…]
In other words, pensions payable in respect of children and orphans are to be increased to the levels recommended by the Jess Committee and invalidity pensioners, as well as having access to an invalidity classification review tribunal, will no longer be subject to the suspension provisions insofar as they relate to remuneration from civil employment. [More…]
In Melbourne people who suggest that they do not want to buy a home are offered accommodation on the 30th floor of a concrete prison, where their children will see a blade of grass only once a week and where a mother cannot attend her children - they are left to play all day in corridors - and where there are all the other accompanying problems. [More…]
Sex education and guidance, including assistance to parents who find that they cannot adequately provide such training to their children. [More…]
In regard to the Commonwealth’s isolated children’s scheme in conjunction with the Commonwealth secondary scholarships, without means test any student could get $150 from the Commonwealth scholarship scheme plus $350 from the isolated children’s scheme which would make a total of $500. [More…]
I want to stress, however, that according to the means of the parents, under the Commonwealth’s isolated children’s scheme it would be possible for a Commonwealth scholarship holder to get $150 plus $350 and the $654 of the isolated children’s grant, this being the full potential for families whose means justify the total grant. [More…]
We cannot afford to ignore in the context of that responsibility the way in which the health of Aboriginal children in East Gippsland is undermined and their education is disrupted by an outbreak of scabies which threatens to reach epidemic proportions. [More…]
Last Thursday at question time 1 drew the attention of this House and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant) to the incidence of scabies among Aboriginal children in East Gippsland. [More…]
I asked the Minister whether he would arrange for Commonwealth medical officers to visit this area as a matter of urgency and for a permanent medical centre to be established in the interests of treating not only this particular outbreak of scabies but all the other chronic illnesses by which Aboriginal children are handicapped. [More…]
On Friday evening Mrs Nora Cockrell, an Aboriginal resident of Nowa Nowra which is 15 miles north of Lakes Entrance, was quoted in the Melbourne Herald’ as saying that she had never seen scabies so bad among Aboriginal children. [More…]
I would like to quote briefly from the rough transcript of a meeting which I attended 2 weeks ago in the pre-school centre which is conducted at Nowa Nowa by the Save the Children Fund. [More…]
Just before Christmas, Aboriginal families, especially the children, had a real doing with scabies. [More…]
The discharging ears of these children have a terrible smell, too. [More…]
Children are avoided at school because of this smell. [More…]
The children suffer badly with worms. [More…]
That is, the State Ministry- has all this’ officially on the files about the children they looked at. [More…]
No amount of evasion on the pari of the Victorian health authorities can conceal the fact that the state of Aboriginal children in East Gippsland is a disgrace to Australia. [More…]
The bodies of these children are scarred by old infestations of scabies and scabbed with current infestations. [More…]
His staff and the nursing staff of the Victorian Department of Aboriginal Affairs do not seem to be equipped, either by training or by temperament, to provide the health care services of which Aboriginal children stand in grave need. [More…]
In particular, trained nursing sisters employed by the Victorian Department of Aboriginal Affairs as ‘health educators’ will neither treat Aboriginal children nor advise their mothers on treatment. [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…]
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…]
It was to the welfare officer of the Save the Children Fund and not to local representatives of the Victorian Department of Aboriginal Affairs that the Aboriginal children of Nowa Nowa turned yesterday when they were refused admission to school. [More…]
The welfare officer last term was cleaning up the sores of up to 14 pre-school children in a day so that they could go on receiving the benefit of a pre-school education. [More…]
She was asked at the time by officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to discontinue this treatment and to send home those children who were infested with scabies. [More…]
The attitude of the Department is that if children are sick the responsibiliy for their care should be accepted by their parents. [More…]
The attitude of the welfare officer is that a vital part of tha process of educating Aboriginal children is beeping them well enough to attend school. [More…]
The health of Aboriginal children in East Gippsland may not be bad by comparison with the health of those in some areas where infant mortality has won this country international notoriety. [More…]
The future of these children may be bright compared with the future of children in areas where the whims of Europeans are still enforced by violence and fear. [More…]
There should have been & spirit of co-operation abroad between local and state governments that would have enabled an agreement to be worked out whereby these facilities could have been used on the weekends by the community and through the week, 9 till 4, by the school children. [More…]
There are a great many middle income earners, single people and wage earners, whose children are self supporting and who will be sacrificed in the name of ‘the welfare state’. [More…]
I say this because there are a number of people, particularly pregnant women in Australia, who are extremely concerned about the effects of radiation upon their unborn children. [More…]
There has been insufficient discussion of the initiatives which might be taken to assist women with children in their employment, either in the Commonwealth or in the private sector. [More…]
It is also of considerable significance in considering this type of legislation to realise that the latest figures show that 8.3 per cent of all children born in 1970 had unmarried mothers. [More…]
In 1970, 15,000 children were borne by single mothers between the ages of 15 and 24 years. [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…]
It will allow young women to have their children and return to employment either to pursue a career or to provide funds for the purchase of a house or some other necessity of life. [More…]
Frequently there is a situation of grave sociological consequences when young children are left virtually unattended while the mother is absent in hospital during her confinement. [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…]
I believe that in many cases where the mother has to go into hospital it is necessary for the father to take care of the children. [More…]
Insofar as allowing a father to have a week’s leave to care for his children, I do not object to this provision as such. [More…]
The Honourable Deputy Leader of the Opposition will be aware that the Board has determined Australian content requirements calling for 50 per cent of Australian content in overall programming and in peakviewing time, as well as quotas in first-release Australian drama and programs for school-age children. [More…]
The Board has informed me that according to its calculations national station ABV Melbourne, which is fairly representative of all national stations, during the period covered in the table achieved an overall Australian content figure of 49.6 per cent and 42.8 per cent in peak-time including four hours of Australian drama, and one hour of school-age children’s programming. [More…]
There are handicapped children for whom quite inadequate opportunities for schooling exist. [More…]
In addition to the recommendations amounting to $660m referred to above, there will be in 1974 to 1975 substantial expenditures arising from existing legislation: $4.5m for nongovernment school buildings; $11.5m for secondary school libraries; $16.5m for science laboratories in both government and nongovernment schools; and considerable outlays on expanded programs for the education of Aboriginal children and children of nonEnglishspeaking families. [More…]
Special education for physically and mentally handicapped children - $43 . [More…]
5m, including - $lm in grants for training courses for teachers of handicapped children; $8. [More…]
3m in grants for replacement of teachers in training; $ 10.2m in grants for recurrent expenses in special education; $4m in grants to States to assume responsibility for schools conducted by voluntary bodies; and $20m in grants for education departments for new and replacement facilities for handicapped children. [More…]
The pursuit of equality in the sense of making, through schooling, the overall circumstances of children’s education as nearly equal as possible; [More…]
In summary, this Committee has presented recommendations designed to provide a general upgrading of facilities, special consideration for the needs of disadvantaged children and improvements in the quality of education. [More…]
I am glad to see that in respect of pensioners who left the Services before 1 October 1972 the Government has accepted the full benefits which the Jess Committee recommended for children. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that the benefits for children have become grossly outdated. [More…]
There is the problem of educating children. [More…]
Even moves from one State to another can cause great problems and children may have to be left behind and often arrangements made under other legislation to help them. [More…]
On occasions when a serviceman is sent overseas his children have to be sent back to Australia or perhaps sometimes to England to get the education that they need. [More…]
Subject to conditions yet to be determined, de facto spouses and illegitimate children will be recognised for pension purposes; [More…]
Children’s benefits payable to students will be continued until age 25; [More…]
I rise tonight to say a word of thanks to the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) and to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant) for the expedition with which they acted in the matter of the health of Aboriginal children in East Gippsland, demonstrating that at least on the part of the Australian Government there is a readiness to recognise problems when they occur. [More…]
The truth about the health of Aboriginal children in East Gippsland has begun to emerge despite the efforts of health authorities in Melbourne to suppress it. [More…]
The Health Officer of the Tambo Shire, Dr H. M. L. Murray, revealed yesterday that in the East Gippsland hamlet of Nowa Nowa alone there are 16 children under the age of 11 who are infested with scabies. [More…]
Of 5 of the children he examined yesterday he said: [More…]
It’s like a mange the children can’t stop scratching. [More…]
A woman had to take her S children to Bairnsdale to be immunised. [More…]
They have objected to the Save the Children Fund people de-lousing, worming and treating the scabies of children and also to them giving meals. [More…]
At the request of Dr Langsford, a medical officer of the Victorian Department of Health went to Nowa Nowa today to investigate the incidence of scabies among the children at the Nowa Nowa school and the Save the Children Fund kindergarten. [More…]
I hope that it will lead to a situation in which scabies is something about which Aboriginal children may read but from which they will never suffer. [More…]
Did he have anything to say about the new deal for handicapped children? [More…]
Did he have anything to say about the needs being met for migrant children? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security: In addition to his comprehensive program for social welfare will he give urgent consideration to the problems of families, and the need to provide increased family assistance so that mothers will not be compelled by economic circumstances to seek employment which would disadvantage her children? [More…]
Will the Minister examine the feasibility of paying an allowance to mothers who remain at home to care for their children? [More…]
One will enable full concessional deductions for expenses incurred in connection with the education in spite of the new benefit for isolated children. [More…]
One is assistance to and payment of premiums for an initial period for dependent children until they are able, to assume responsibility for their own premiums. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on the action it has taken under this legislation and particularly for the grants under the isolated children’s education scheme. [More…]
Recently I attended the annual conference of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association at Bourke. [More…]
Another anomaly could arise if we assume that there was a more than 50 per cent change, over the 7 year period in which a loss can be carried forward, in the beneficial ownership of a company’s shares due to family circumstances such as sons and sons-in-law coming into the business, trusts for infant children being created and so on. [More…]
The figures are as follows: New cases 258; number of adults 1602; number of children 2373, making the total number of persons helped 3975. [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 following table shows the number of aliens of each nationality who were granted Australian citizenship between 1 January 1945 and 3.1 December 1972 (includes children under the age of 16 years included on the Certificates of their parents). [More…]
What was the date that children’s crossings were placed on the streets adjacent to each of the schools. [More…]
All of us feel deeply for his wife and 4 children. [More…]
On behalf of my colleagues in the Liberal Party, 1 offer Mrs Munro and her children our deepest condolences and the comfort of her knowing that we know and understand their sorrow. [More…]
Members of the services should be given War Service Homes, repatriation health benefits, civilian rehabilitation training, scholarships for their children and generous retirement and resettlement allowances. [More…]
Married men and their wives and children face disadvantages with respect to housing, education and shifting of postings. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service is responsible for the education of large numbers of Aboriginal children. [More…]
3 ) No; without denying in any way at all the importance of the right referred to by the honourable member, my responsibility and primary concern is to see that funds continue to flow to meet the assessed needs of the children in the schools in question. [More…]
The third Bill introduced a completely new benefit known as the supporting mother’s benefit to assist unmarried mothers and married women who are no longer living with their husbands to adequately care for their children. [More…]
I note that the Minister said that one of the main responsibilities of the Commonwealth Teaching Service will be the teaching of Aboriginal children and that they will be taught in their own language.- I wish the Teaching Service every success. [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…]
Each artist told the children the story of the painting. [More…]
I refer to soft drinks - that commodity which is so important to all school children, to mothers with families and to everyone else. [More…]
Supplementary funds will be made available to schools identified as being disadvantaged on the basis of certain characteristics of their catchment areas so that they can respond to the particular educational difficulties faced by groups of relatively poor children. [More…]
The Government’s needs policy requires that special attention and resources be devoted to the education of those groups of children who in the past have had least public money spent on their education because they leave school earlier and gain no benefit from expensive tertiary education facilities. [More…]
If the revolution in accessibility to education is to be achieved we must discriminate in favour of those children in greatest need. [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…]
We all want to see equality of opportunity for all children. [More…]
We all want to see disadvantaged children given special assistance so that they may have a proper opportunity to take their full place in Australian society. [More…]
One need only look at the inner city schools of Melbourne and of Sydney, those especially with a high percentage of migrant children, and those with a high percentage of parents who very often are unable to speak English, to know that there are many problems in this area. [More…]
That specialist committee also was charged with the responsibility of making recommendations in regard to the training of teachers of the handicapped and children with special learning difficulties because it had been the view of the previous Government that this was an area that had not had sufficient and adequate attention. [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…]
I am glad to see that there is provision for isolated children. [More…]
The proposals for isolated children, foi technical education, for pre-schools, and as incorporated in part of the Karmel report, the primary school libraries, were proposals of all political parties before the last election, as also were proposals for specific disadvantage schools, whether those schools be government or non-government schools. [More…]
We want our new citizens to be completely free and safe from seditious influences that seek to undermine and veritably destroy the liberty and freedom of their children. [More…]
We hope that the Minister will show initiative in this regard and will safeguard the lives of children, for example where one parent being a Yugoslav journeys to his homeland and that country claims jurisdiction over the children of an Australian born citizen. [More…]
As a result of this action, children’s soft drinks will bear a rate of sales tax of 15 per cent but adults’ wine, whether it is apple or grape, will be free of sales tax. [More…]
In other words, I would like to see a phasing out period for per capita grants given to category A schools, time for adjustments to be made by schools to their financial arrangements so that they do not have to increase fees and thus penalise the less wealthy parents of children going to those schools, time for adjustments by some parents and children where fees may have to be increased, and time for adjustments by the Karmel Committee where it may have made understandable mistakes in making its assessments because it had to do such a mammoth task in such a short space of time. [More…]
I ask the workers of Parramatta to remember that the average wage earner with a wife and 2 children, who, according to the Prime Minister, paid a higher proportion of his income in tax under the McMahon Government than under any government in Australian history, is paying an even higher tax under this Labor Government because it has not seen fit to alter the inequitable tax scale. [More…]
Just before the 1972 election, in my electorate of Lilley a vicious campaign was waged by the National Civic Council, the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberals and pseudoLiberals - cum-DLP-supporters who stooped to every undesirable tactic to instil fear into the minds of people about the future education of their children. [More…]
If we have to choose whether we pay a few cents extra on a pack of cigarettes or a gallon of petrol, against an improvement in the education of the children of this country, the lifting of the standard of living of our pensioners and making a better country for everybody, I will choose the course that has been taken by this Government. [More…]
<5) It is the policy of the ABC that imaginative material should be a permanent feature of its television for children. [More…]
Is it compulsory for all Aboriginal children to register as students or is it only compulsory for adopted or urbanised Aboriginal children. [More…]
There are no restrictions imposed because of Aboriginality; on the contrary, special efforts are made to adapt the curriculum of schools and pre-schools in distinctive Aboriginal communities to the needs and the background of the children living in these communities and special efforts are made to encourage Aboriginal children throughout Australia to continue through secondary school and to go on to tertiary education. [More…]
Extensive development of special pre-schooling facilities for Aboriginal children throughout Australia has been supported financially and otherwise by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
In all States, education is compulsory for children between certain ages whether they are Aboriginal or not, and the conditions for exemptions granted on such grounds as remoteness or physical or mental disability also apply to all children. [More…]
New South Wales: Under the Public Instruction (Amendment) Act schooling is compulsory for all children, including all Aboriginal children, in New South Wales between the ages 6-15. [More…]
Victoria: School is compulsory for Aboriginal children as it is for all children. [More…]
Queensland: The provisions of the Education Act in Queensland apply to all Aboriginal children as well as white children. [More…]
South Australia: All children are under compulsion in this State. [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…]
Tasmania: No distinction is made between children of Aboriginal descent and other children. [More…]
Education is compulsory for all children from 6 to 16 with provision for exemption at an age earlier than 16 in certain circumstances common to all students. [More…]
The present legal position in the Northern Territory is that no children are under compulsion to attend school. [More…]
My Department is reviewing the existing legislation governing the education of children in the Northern Territory [More…]
This Bill is designed to serve the same purpose in relation to training centres, training equipment and residential units for handicapped children. [More…]
It is probable that with the introduction of the recommendations of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, relating to the education and training of handicapped children, there will be a reduction in the assistance sought by voluntary and religious organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Indeed, some voluntary organisations have already announced that they plan to concentrate their future efforts on providing residential accommodation, especially for mentally retarded children. [More…]
While local governing bodies in Australia have not concerned themselves greatly with the direct responsibility of meeting the needs of handicapped children, this Bill will open the way for them to do so by the use of borrowed money. [More…]
We believe that the most important place to start is with our school children. [More…]
Whereas shares in the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust were assigned 2 years ago to 33 adults and 58 children, the number of shareholders currently living at Lake Tyers is 19 adults and 15 children. [More…]
The aspirations, determination and self-respect of the Aborigines of Lake Tyers, no less than the health of Aboriginal children throughout East Gippsland- [More…]
Mr Carter’s wife is dead, and he went to prison leaving his 14-year old daughter in charge of 5 younger children. [More…]
Friends arranged instead for the younger children to be fostered away from Lake Tyers, despite the insistence of a high official of the Ministry that they should be returned to the care of a 70-year old grandmother who was not in a position either physically or financially to accept the responsibility. [More…]
Nobody commented on her 8-month absence from school, because it is taken for granted by the Ministry that Aboriginal children will be kept home not only by their frequent illnesses but also bv jobs like bean-picking. [More…]
As a result children now have to pay more for soft drinks. [More…]
People can argue that Coca-cola or some other soft drink might not be much good for children. [More…]
But I would prefer to see children encouraged to drink soft drinks that some other liquids. [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…]
But when will some form of special benefit be provided for the parents of handicapped children who cannot send their children away to a special home? [More…]
If children go to the Royal Easter Show in Sydney they will find great increases in the price of goods. [More…]
I would have thought that he at least would have had a word of sympathy for the children who are crammed into cloakrooms, cellars and other makeshift meeting places to learn the language of their new country. [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…]
In country areas a great percentage of children most needing this milk are Aboriginal children - honourable members opposite do not want to hear this - and yet the Treasurer told this House last Tuesday week that there was now no need for this nutritional addition to the diet. [More…]
At the same time honourable members opposite are going around the country screaming that Aboriginal children are suffering from malnutrition. [More…]
If there are not 2 incomes, the choice is between the principal bread winner having a second job or subjecting his children to privation. [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…]
Was that secret fomula callous indifference to the needs of children? [More…]
He has endeavoured to hold a line in justice to and in the interests of the education of children attending these schools. [More…]
This is a shoddy aspect of what is a comprehensive report - a report that talks about equality of education and equality of opportunity for children. [More…]
This will cripple these schools which have served the needs of people living in country areas where often parents have no choice but to send their children to boarding schools. [More…]
The decision by the Government is vicious and discriminatory against country parents and children who, in many cases, as I have said, have no alternative but to send their children to boarding schools. [More…]
Hie Karmel Report and the Government, either deliberately or inadvertently, ignored the fact that in New South Wales, with the exception of two or three agricultural high schools, there is not a state school that has boarding facilities for children. [More…]
It ignores the sacrifices that parents have made and are making in order to send their children to the boarding schools of their choice. [More…]
I know how many parents are in this situation and the sorts of sacrifices that they have made to educate their children. [More…]
I know that enough of them will be bringing their children home from boarding schools halfway through their education. [More…]
I wish to make it quite clear to members of the Government Party that I am not just concerned about those children who attend independent schools. [More…]
I am concerned about the education of all children and the educational rights of all children. [More…]
The article continued: all children, whether at state or private schools, would be equally the concern of a Labor government. [More…]
It would cost only about $2m or $3m to keep up the payment of grants for all children. [More…]
It is more than a little nauseating to hear the sons of privileged and the fathers of privileged advocating the perpetuation of privilege with an enthusiasm they never brought to the interests of those children of this country who have always been disadvantaged and would have remained disadvantaged if honourable members opposite had remained in office. [More…]
Let me for the information of the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) bring this debate back into focus by putting the subject where it belongs - with the children who for so long have put up with a ramshackle, hopeless situation of education not only in government schools but in parochial schools conducted by the Catholic Church and for that matter in non-systemic, non government schools. [More…]
And it is not to be compared with Melbourne Grammar which was put up in roughly the same year - housed nearly 800 children, more than 40 per cent of them from non English-speaking families, and 33 of them Aboriginal, on a site of 1.2 acres. [More…]
There were two full-time migrant teachers, but no regular teacher spoke any of the languages used in the homes of most migrant children. [More…]
If there is to be passioned debate in this country surely that is the sort of school it should be about rather than schools which almost without exception honourable members on the Opposition side themselves attended and to which without exception they send their own children. [More…]
They opted out of the system years ago and left the vast majority of children in Catholic and government schools to rot. [More…]
The honourable member for Balaclava believes that we should delay the attainment of equality of opportunity in Australia so that the children of the electors he represents can go on enjoying an input of recurrent resources of 270 units, while the average student at a government school has an input of 100 and the average student at a Catholic school has 70. [More…]
Regularly, the spokesman on education for the Labor Party pleaded with the government of the day to recognise the needs of disadvantaged children in Australia. [More…]
The Migrant Task Force Committee of Victoria, in its report which we have just received, stated: effectively only 20 per cent of the children in the schools surveyed who need English tuition are receiving enough of it, and [More…]
Education of children in the English language was a matter for which the former Government accepted nominal responsibility. [More…]
It washed its hands of the disadvantaged Australian children. [More…]
I hope that we can draw the conclusion from the Minister’s persistent interjections that he will come before this Parliament with legislation guaranteeing to every independent school grants representing 40 per cent of the recurrent costs of educating children in the State systems. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out in this debate this morning that, following the previous Government’s announcement that it would continue aid to the independent schools at the rate of 20 per cent of the cost of educating the children in the state system, the Prime Minister, then Leader of the Opposition, said that a Labor government, if elected, would continue aid at the rate at which it was then being given. [More…]
We assumed that the Labor Party undertook to honour its election promise that it would continue the real value of grants to every independent school at the rate of 20 per cent of the cost of educating children in the state system and then, if over and above that, the question of needs were to be looked at, it could be looked at in an objective fashion and considered according to its merits. [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…]
They will maintain an atmosphere of confidence, but what of the attitude of parents who want the freedom of choice to send their children to independent schools? [More…]
Insofar as they will be deprived of the opportunity of exercising that free choice of sending their children to an independent school and decide as a result of the economic pressure imposed upon them by this Labor Government to send their children to a state school, they are slowing down the increase in educational output from the state system. [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…]
That the Bill be read a second time - be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: the House, while not refusing a second reading to the Bill, is of the opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities and that the application of this policy, could not allow the continued acceptance of the provisions of the Bill and that therefore grants should not be made on the basis provided in the Bill in respect of any year after 1973’. [More…]
For far too long Australian children have received an education which in many cases and in many areas was inferior to that provided in countries with a similar standard of living. [More…]
How fortunate it is for the children of parents and teachers in the Australian community that education will not be forced to undergo yet another period of stagnation. [More…]
8m has been provided for assistance in the education of isolated children. [More…]
The Aboriginal secondary grants scheme will attract $5.7m and $2m has been provided for the purchase of demountable school rooms for migrant children attending special English classes. [More…]
Most of the parents in the 25 per cent group send their children to category A schools. [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…]
We will not be put off carping criticism of honourable members on the other side of the House in implementing the recommendations of the Karmel report and helping Australian children. [More…]
We want to see a series of community schools which the community feels are its schools and in which the children will have some relation to the community around them. [More…]
We will do this and it will go down in the history of education in this country that this Australian Labor Party Government has changed the whole face of education in Australia for the benefit of the children, the parents and the community. [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…]
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…]
There are financial problems present, probably work pressure problems and problems with the children, of personal adjustment in the parents, and many other problems, all of which need attention. [More…]
It is based on the philosophy that for most of the things we do in life we are educated to a high pitch, particularly in this age of specialisation; but for the thing which is probably the most important thing with which a human being is entrusted, namely raising children, there is virtually no training and no education except that which may or may not be passed on by parents. [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…]
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 married couple with 2 children seeking non-public hospital accommodation and earning $100 a week now pay $1.55 but under the national health scheme they will have to pay $1.82 and will be forced to go into a public hospital. [More…]
Despite the election undertaking of Mr Beazley that all children whether at state or private schools would be equally the concern of the Labor Government, Labor, without a whimper from the Minister for Education, has blindly followed the Karmel recommendation of discrimination against the independent schools in certain classifications. [More…]
With the extra finance we certainly hope that the Department will be able to carry on and provide a decent education, decent buildings and so forth for the children in the more remote areas. [More…]
We also note that in- the Budget the Treasurer is prepared to make allowances of up to $304 a year for children from low income families. [More…]
This will certainly give an opportunity to many children who now do not have an opportunity because of the poor economic background of their parents, to take up adecent education and have the advantage of what is available to them. [More…]
The appropriation of $2m fo assist in providing facilities for the teaching of migrant children must be a great help to the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby). [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…]
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…]
I acknowledge the comments made by the honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis) concerning my work in connection with isolated children. [More…]
I should also like to say that the headquarters of the federal body of the isolated children’s scheme is situated in the electorate of Darling. [More…]
They both agreed to assist isolated children. [More…]
With an estimated expenditure of about $12,168m it is amazing to find that school children will be denied their free milk ration. [More…]
In the interests of the health of school children, if the supply of milk was to be discontinued it would have been appropriate if fruit juice had been supplied and the cost offset by the savings made as a result of the lifting of tax concessions on soft drinks containing fruit juice. [More…]
Petrol is going to cost you so much more that you won’t be able to spend any on social calls or neighbourly tennis matches’ or children’s sports. [More…]
We won’t let you send your children to the school of your choice, well, not unless you pay a lot extra for it. [More…]
A few moments ago we heard a member of the Country Party, the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) talking about children in the outback. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) earlier today talked about children in rural schools not being provided for because, if their parents sent them to Sydney to school, they would miss out because they were category A schools. [More…]
But what honourable members opposite did not tell the Parliament was that, in accordance with the recommendations of the Karmel Committee, the Government has established an isolated children’s allowance of up to $1,000 a head for children living in excess of 2 miles from their schools. [More…]
So, all this talk about not looking after rural children is just not on. [More…]
We have tried to do something about the great majority of poor children who never get a chance, and all we have heard is a debate about 105 schools, most of which have levels of fees ranging between $300 and $900. [More…]
If a person is earning $4,000 a year he does not send his children to those schools. [More…]
It is mostly people in those income brackets who send their children to those schools. [More…]
We hear people talk about equality of opportunity for the children. [More…]
This year we will pay those wealthy parents out of Consolidated Revenue by way of tax rebate for educational expenses $55m, which is more than Karmel has allocated for disadvantaged children. [More…]
Eighty per cent of the children who attend GPS schools go to universities. [More…]
Honourable members opposite in the Liberal Party and the Country Party represent what is the greediest section of the Australian community, and that is the parents of children going to GPS schools. [More…]
So they have held the poor parish Catholic schools with children playing in mud playgrounds and being taught in portable huts to ransom for the per capita figure, which is also to go to the wealthy school. [More…]
We will allocate money as it is needed to children who deserve an opportunity. [More…]
No concern is shown on the other side of the House for poor Catholic children. [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…]
Education should be available to all children at minimum or no cost. [More…]
Our education policies, in my view, are a blueprint for the Australian community and are so long overdue through inadequate legislative measures by previous tory governments which gave inadequate financial aid to the children of the low income groups. [More…]
Now it will be seen that more of our universities will be able to house more children of the lower income groups. [More…]
A university education was regarded as too good for the children of the workers or of low income groups. [More…]
The allowance for dependent children of widows and aged and invalid persons will be raised to $5 a week. [More…]
In the glories of the increases announced, we propose to implement a new benefit of $10 for orphan children whose both parents are deceased. [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…]
This rate will also be available to full time trainees who are widows or widowers and have the care of one or more children. [More…]
However, the Bill amends the principal Act to apply the increased rates of service pension payable in respect of some children and to incorporate in the principal Act the same principles that will aply to age pensions under the Social Services Act. [More…]
A small pension of 25c a week presently payable to certain children of service pensioners, but not payable to children of social service pensioners, will be discontinued, but this will be more than offset by the increase in the rates payable to parents in respect of those children. [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…]
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 domestic allowance, which is payable to approximately 97 per cent of war widows, either because they have children, including student children, or because they are at least 50 years of age or are permanently unemployable, will be increased by $1 to $9.50. [More…]
Soldiers’ children education scheme allowances for other than tertiary students will be increased by various amounts ranging from 65c to $3.35 and the new weekly rates will range from $3.25 to $16.65. [More…]
The Bill also increases the pension rates in respect of the children of deceased seamen coming under the Act. [More…]
It takes no regard of the facilities of a school or what is required to give children at that school a decent education. [More…]
The latchkey children can expect assistance from the funds allocated for sporting centres, etc., in schools. [More…]
The schools have lived through a tremendous rural recession in the course of which it was quite common for children to be taken from their school and to remain at home. [More…]
If it had not been for the fact that more city children than usual were attracted to these country schools and for the many instances of the influx of Asian students to these schools, the schools would have gone to the wall before now. [More…]
To enable children in this group to attend the last 2 years of secondary school an allowance will be paid to low income families. [More…]
In welfare, I commend decisions on Aboriginal advancement, road safety, the increased subsidy to senior citizens centres and Meals on Wheels organisation and assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
Labor has created justifiable anger in the Australian electorate because of its basic injustice in this matter to parents, children and schools. [More…]
We believe that country people should not be discriminated against any more than their city cousins, whether they be isolated children seeking an education, country women who have to travel long distances to seek medical help, farmers seeking to improve their productivity and thus contributing to national growth, or rural city and town businessmen and wage earners providing necessary goods and services and some offset against the -growth of the major metropolises of Australia. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition indulged in a couple of exercises designed to show that a wage earner with a wife and 2 children to support would be worse off, or at least no better off, in real terms in this financial year than he was last year. [More…]
It will rob the school children of the nation of the real improvement in education that all would like to see and and that many have come to expect will be achieved by this Budget. [More…]
It will rob young men and women of their earnings and of the opportunity to establish homes of their own where reasonable standards of living and adequate opportunities can be provided for their children. [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…]
Some will pay more for the freedom to choose to have their children educated at independent schools. [More…]
For the last 23 years children have been neglected in obtaining a reasonable education standard, other than students whose parents were in a financial position to pay, or whose parents were prepared to go without the luxuries of life. [More…]
Supplementary funds will be made available to schools identified as being disadvantaged on the basis of certain characteristics of their cachment areas, so that they can respond to the particular educational difficulties faced by a group of relatively poor children. [More…]
The Government’s needs policy requires that special attention and resources be devoted to the education of those groups of children who, in the past, have had least public money spent on their education, because they leave school earlier and gain no benefit from expensive tertiary education facilities. [More…]
If the revolution in accessibility to education is to be achieved, we must discriminate in favour of those children in greatest need. [More…]
A couple of examples in the field of education are the $304 per annum means tested educational allowances to assist the children of low income families to complete the final 2 years of secondary school, and the grants to provide additional places for much needed trainee social workers. [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit is being doubled. [More…]
Because my Department is concerned that applicants for pensioners are made aware of their full entitlements, a combined .pension claim form will also be available on which claimants will be able to test their eligibility for supplementary assistance, additional pension for children or fringe benefits, if they wish to do so. [More…]
The understandings with the States on the matter of assistance for the education of isolated children have actually been the work of officers of the Commonwealth Department of Education and the State education departments. [More…]
I had the impression that New South Wales did not have a scheme of assistance for isolated children at all and that assistance was given to isolated children on the basis of their winning scholarships but not on the basis of remote residential location. [More…]
We did not ask any State to vacate the field if it was taking action to assist the education of isolated children. [More…]
I cannot refrain from expressing my support for the special assistance to be given to children from disadvantaged families and to the many schools throughout many areas of this nation whose facilities are not yet up to the appropriate standard. [More…]
The Government is carrying through aid programs for education and applying this principle to schools which cater for many of our disadvantaged and handicapped children. [More…]
A judgment of such schools based only on the capital value of assets or facilities and not on the particular needs and requirements of children and parents served by that institution is wrong. [More…]
The voluntary schools for the deaf, blind, crippled and many of our handicapped children, schools that have been supported and financed by parents who in the past have banded together out of sheer necessity should be entitled to the same level of aid as any’ future or present government school catering for children with the same type of handicap. [More…]
We have seen the new deal that has been dealt out to many independent schools which are serving isolated children in rural Australia. [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…]
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…]
House will be aware of the heavy financial impact that befalls the family man should one of his children require dental treatment under present conditions. [More…]
We hope that the Australian school dental service will save a lot of children’s teeth as well as a lot of taxpayers’ dollars, because at the present level of dental charges many parents just cannot afford to send their children to the dentist for preventive dental care. [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…]
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 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…]
We should acknowledge that by failing as a society to make proper arrangements for matters such as sex education and family planning, we have allowed ignorance and irresponsibility to make rich men of many abortionists, parents of many couples who have neither the inclination nor the temperament for parenthood and battered babies of many children of whom it can be said quite literally that they would have been better off if they had never been born. [More…]
The number of children at risk appears to be increasing - increasing to the point where it would appear that their plight and number constitute the largest single public health problem awaiting solution. [More…]
The Medical Superintendent of Brisbane’s Mater Children’s Hospital was quoted in the Sunday Mail’ of 20 June 1971 as saying: [More…]
Children, beaten by a parent in a fit of wild rage, come in with broken bones, and skulls, and covered in bruises. [More…]
Only last Saturday the ‘Medical Journal of Australia’ listed battered babies, emotional and physical diseases in children, juvenile delinquency, marital upsets, divorce and depressive illness as aspects of what is called the enormous social and medical problems associated with unplanned children’. [More…]
This inquiry like the royal commission for which I moved in May is not concerned with abortion in particular but with responsible sexual behaviour, the welfare of children and their parents and the shortcomings in fertility control of which abortion is one aspect. [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…]
Nor does the rise in legal abortion mean that there is any drop in the number of illegitimate children born. [More…]
In England and Wales in 1966 the number of illegitimate children for every 1,000 live births was 79. [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…]
In our rich and lucky country, the number of women who have had children but are experiencing economic problems is far greater than the number of abortions in any one year. [More…]
When we investigate, in accordance with the amendment, all circumstances relating to abortion and children and families, I hope we will also find time to spare a thought for those women who prefer to have their unplanned, possibly illegitimate babies rather than face an abortion. [More…]
It could produce remarkable results for children and, certainly, for our families. [More…]
If we can make the lot of women, children and families any easier and their lives any happier, surely even the most shortsighted and cynical male will be lucky enough to derive residual benefits from such a changed world. [More…]
There are 3 categories in this area of unplanned children. [More…]
As the honourable member for Casey said, the majority of unplanned children are born to parents who are either poor or young. [More…]
I will detail the 3 categories of unplanned children. [More…]
As the honourable member for Banks interjected, some of the happiest accidents in the world are unplanned children born to loving parents. [More…]
I refer, secondly to those children who are unplanned and unloved and are allowed to grow up in a home without care, affection and love. [More…]
The other category to be considered is that of children who are unplanned and in fact are aborted. [More…]
I am concerned with what people say in regard to people who have an abortion, that the chance of danger to further children is increased. [More…]
We are interested in the rights of children as well as the rights of women and the value and worth of the family unit, rather than the concept of sex without responsibility. [More…]
We also want to assist people who want children but whose circumstances are such that family planning, even family limitation, is not only desirable but also necessary. [More…]
He claims that about 200,000 children are unplanned and unwanted each year. [More…]
Very few children are born in the community who remain unwanted for very long. [More…]
Even in those cases where they are unwanted by their mothers, thousands of others want those children. [More…]
I reject completely the false, confused and illogical assertion that about 200,000 Unplanned and unwanted children are born each year. [More…]
These children have life but no voice. [More…]
The same moral issue arises in respect of unborn children. [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…]
Honourable members may have seen their ‘AS’ mark, for example, on some brands of car seats for children and on life jackets. [More…]
In considering this point we should keep in mind, for example, the disappearance of the 2 girls in Adelaide the other day and the character of sexual offences against children by people who tragically are mentally deranged and are concerned not one iota about the lives of other people. [More…]
It is instructive to examine why the draconian 18th century laws of England were watered down - laws under which there were more than 300 offences which warranted the death penalty, starting from stealing more than 5s or cutting down an ornamental tree, and under which children aged 7 were hanged. [More…]
An eminent Sydney doctor, Dr William McBride who alerted the world to the dangers of thalidomide to unborn children, has recommended capital punishment for drug smuggling. [More…]
As the honourable member said, even quite young children were sometimes hanged. [More…]
Yet, because of the hysteria that existed, a man and his wife - a young Jewish couple with young children - were executed, burnt in the electric chair. [More…]
1 can understand that human life must be sacred but I do not concede that one should be concerned more for the life of a criminal than for the lives of men, women and children who are citizens of this country. [More…]
What he did not say was that there is a class of people who deserve even more assistance - that is, the widowers with dependent children. [More…]
On the other hand an ordinary tax paying couple with 2 dependent children, on the Sydney minimum wage of S60.80 a week, allowing for normal deductions would pay tax of $170.70 a year. [More…]
The simple fact is that we cannot make an extra privileged class way above all the other people who are starting off in life building a family and building a home and doing all the other things that have to be done by a young family - sending children to school, clothing them and the rest of it. [More…]
With the various provisions for assistance to people such as unmarried mothers and widows, we are rapidly reaching the stage where the Government must look seriously at some proposition to assist those mothers who do not qualify for any form of assistance but who prefer to stay home and rear their young families in the best manner possible - that is, by being with the children at home - instead of chasing financial gain by going out to work. [More…]
These people are putting their children first. [More…]
Even the married worker with a wife and 2 dependent children paid $359 in tax, a sum almost 3 times as great as that paid by the married pensioners. [More…]
It would be completely unjust if they had to continue carrying a tax burden for a redistribution from modest and low income earners with heavy financial commitments and young children to support so that benefits could be given to millionaires in their retirement. [More…]
There is provision for increases for children of ex-servicemen. [More…]
How does taxation affect (a) an age pensioner couple without dependants and (b) a wage earner with a dependent wife and 2 dependent children earning the amount indicated in answer to (i) part (1) and (ii) part (2). [More…]
At income levels equal to the amounts mentioner in 1 and 1 above the following table compares the tax which would be payable at existing rates by an age pensioner couple (assuming that all the income is received by the husband) with that which would be payable by a wage earner with a wife and two dependent children. [More…]
I refer to the charging of rents below par for company owned houses in which they live; generous expense accounts which are made available; extravagant superannuation schemes which are for the privileged few; the business trips to Honolulu and elsewhere on which the family is taken along and which consists of one 10-minute interview - the total cost is on the house; the payment of school fees for children under company executive scholarship schemes; and the provision of motor cars and the payment of running costs. [More…]
However, there are many other students who need assistance and the honourable gentlemen will recall that we have introduced a form of scholarship assistance for children of parents whose income is a long way below the national average. [More…]
There are some 10,000 children of widows, deserted wives, invalid and age pensioners and others who have struggled through to the fifth and sixth forms. [More…]
The honourable gentlemen will recall that our scheme for isolated children varies between $350 and $1,004 according to need. [More…]
This is a very distressing situation and I am indebted to my colleague the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Cooke) for reinforcing my statements to this House and pointing out that because of this strike, inspired by a member of the Communist Party who contested an election under the banner of that Party and who, when his boss left, stirred up trouble, many innocent children and many people who unfortunately have been afflicted with mental problems were denied their rightful place and hospital care and attention. [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…]
Firstly I would like to say to the honourable member that the isolated children’s scheme is undergoing assessment at the present time by officers of the Australian Government’s Department of Education and the various State governments. [More…]
About 11,100 families are receiving assistance under the isolated childern’s scheme and this involves about 15,500 children. [More…]
Of the 15,500 children concerned, about 1,500 are doing correspondence work at home and 14,000 are boarding. [More…]
As far as children doing correspondence work are concerned in my statement on the Government’s initiativies in education I drew attention to the fact that under an international agreement there is to be a change of transceiver. [More…]
I think it is of interest to know that Tasmania has more claimants than has South Australia, for instance, and Tasmania, possibly because of the relatively depressed condition of the fruit industry, is receiving a somewhat higher proportion of the additional grants to assist the children in that State to go and board in order to get an education. [More…]
As far as financing is concerned, the Australian Government will meet all capital and training costs for the dental therapy schools, all capital costs for the clinics for school children and threequarters of the running costs of these clinics. [More…]
Following the experience in this field of New Zealand, Tasmania and South Australia in particular, we are sure that these proposals will make a major impact on the problem of dental caries and routine dental care of children generally. [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…]
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…]
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…]
The life that Aborigines lead might well be austere, but to assume that they ill-treat children is quite wrong. [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…]
Aboriginal children; and thirdly, the role of the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service in this field and in general. [More…]
It is a vitally important matter for the children of Australia today. [More…]
Twenty-five per cent of Aboriginal children born today suffer from brain damage due to malnutrition. [More…]
The general health of Aboriginal children is exceptionally low. [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…]
This Branch decided where children were placed and what they did. [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…]
It is the intention of this Government to establish the Commonwealth presence in centres all over Australia so that we might be able to get the priorities right; so that not necessarily those people who make the most sound will get the most action but that we might apply the money that is available from the Government in the right direction; so that everybody might get equal share of the money; so that we might be able to build houses in the places where houses should be built; so that children might be educated in the places where they should be educated; so that we might provide employment for those people where they need employment. [More…]
In many instances Aboriginal children who attend school where there is a predominance of white children have never obtained the right education opportunities, frequently finishing up in opportunity classes and never able to progress. [More…]
It is quite interesting to note that the standard of passes of the Aboriginal children invariably is much higher in schools where there is a predominance of Aboriginal children than in schools where there is a small percentage of Aboriginal children. [More…]
So there is a great need for these children, who may come from an illiterate family, whose mother and father have had no formal education, who possibly live in a humpy with earth floors and no water or electricity laid on to it, who are without the advantage of a television set, a radio or even a clock in the house, as is frequently the case, and who cannot take school books home because there is nowhere to put them where the smaller children will not get at them and destroy them, to be brought into a pre-school situation, as has been mentioned by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Ashley Brown). [More…]
But it is a fact that in the infants section of these schools, where we members of Committee were able to speak to the teachers, there has been a great improvement in the standard of the children. [More…]
So there is a great need, firstly, to house the people so that the children, when they come home from school, can have the advantage that other children have and, secondly, to provide pre-schools to give them the opportunity to reach the standard that is necessary for them to start on their endeavours in education. [More…]
The children cannot get the right nutriment and value from their food because they are not getting the right type of food to provide these things for them. [More…]
So there is a great need for us to be able to improve their quality of life and their health so that the children will have an equal opportunity and so that when they grow to adults they can grow to healthy adults and in turn will be able to raise their children. [More…]
There is a need for an education program as well as a need to try to improve their general standard of living so that they can appreciate the need for the proper types of food for their children. [More…]
On Palm Island off the Queensland coast almost the whole of the younger population has been suffering from a number of complaints, including worms, which of course contributes to the malnutrition of the children. [More…]
As an example I will speak of the honorary probationary service of the childrens’ court in Victoria. [More…]
The Government realised that there were not enough paid social workers or welfare officers to cope with delinquent children and it handpicked with meticulous care adult citizens to act in a capacity of honorary welfare officers. [More…]
The third Bill related to assistance for unmarried mothers and married women who no longer live with their husbands in order to help them to care for their children adequately. [More…]
These burdens are being imposed in many directions on young families seeking to establish homes, to buy them, to build them, to set them up and to bring up young children. [More…]
As a consequence, young families expecting children are now faced with an added burden. [More…]
It was pitiful to see the families which had spent years and years in the Latrobe Valley having to send their children away from home to get employment because employment opportunities had ceased as a result of the sabotage of the industry to which I have made reference and to which our friend has been alluding. [More…]
The Government accepted the Commission’s recommendations in entirety including the recommendations for special grants for the particularly worthy purposes of accelerating the development of teachers college libraries, of fostering research into aspects of teacher education, of increasing the numbers of students undertaking courses to prepare teachers for handicapped children, and of extending teacher education facilities in existing colleges of advanced education. [More…]
First, consequent upon the Commission’s report on teacher education and the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission I have written to the Chairmen of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities Commission asking them to report to me on the grants that should be made to ensure that adequate provision is made for the training of teachers of handicapped children. [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…]
A series of promulgations was brought in and an amount of money was made available so that the salaries of special teachers could be paid to provide special instruction to migrant children and to purchase approved capital equipment of the language laboratory type for use in special classes to be established. [More…]
We expect that close on 60,000 children will be receiving instruction in special classes this financial year. [More…]
I was particularly interested to read the report of the Queensland Migrant Task Force, which detailed some of the problems occurring in Queensland in relation to, in particular, pre-school education of migrant children. [More…]
Children are raised in a non-English speaking environment and on reaching primary school arc unable to participate in school activities … On 11 January 1973 the Director-General of the Queensland Department of Education approached the Department of Immigration for funds to establish pre-school facilities for migrant children in existing centres in West End and Paddington in Brisbane. [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…]
I was also interested to read that part of the report of the Queensland Migrant Task Force which stated that consideration should be given to a review of the requirement that only Australian Government funded teachers should take classes for migrant children, that a regular staff teacher could take special classes for migrant children and that salary reimbursement should be made for the appropriate time. [More…]
The New South Wales Migrant Task Force Committee also investigated in some depth the problems of migrant education, particularly in relation to children. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration in his second reading speech referred to one aspect of the problem; that is the urgent need to extend to the fullest possible extent the present system of teaching migrant children English as quickly as possible. [More…]
It was found that this had unfortunate results for many of the children. [More…]
One aspect concerns young children, as I have already mentioned. [More…]
I believe the Government should be looking more closely at young children of preschool education age. [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…]
Despite agreement on these assumptions, we know that the education of migrant children in our schools is presenting problems which are not susceptible of an easy solution. [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…]
We need, above all, a sense of passionate outrage if we are to end this shocking deprivation of migrant children’s rights. [More…]
We cannot in fairness expect our teachers and their institutions alone to end the deprivation of cur migrant children presently at school. [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…]
All of them learn that school is the path to secular salvation, and resolve that their children shall climb higher on the ladder than they did. [More…]
For example, there is a misunderstanding in the community that migrant children are naturally bi-lingual. [More…]
But despite this, the Department is insisting that instruction not only for adolescent and older migrants, including those who will hardly be involved in the wider spheres of community life because they are confined to the home, but also for children, should be by the situation method as though the study of language or the proper use of words can be divorced from the study of the history and literature that produced those words. [More…]
Those of us who view education from the outside, neither as teachers, nor as pupils, nor as employers, cannot escape the conclusion that no matter how much money we pour into schools they are not going to succeed in developing or freeing the potential of our children or of our adult migrants. [More…]
If we are to improve the chances of success of migrant children - and native Australians - we must compensate for the backgrounds that are deficient - in books, magazines and communications media on the one hand and, on the other hand, lack of proper study facilities, such as warmth, privacy and freedom from noise and interruption. [More…]
The achievement of these ends may necessitate the building of boarding schools in the inner suburbs which the children could attend for limited periods on a voluntary basis, and the provision of houses in these areas where children could study away from school in a satisfactory environment. [More…]
The Bill provides as an emergency measure supplementary class-room accommodation for migrant children. [More…]
I think it is advisable at this stage to recall that in April 1970 the Liberal-Country Party Government introduced a program of special assistance to schools in areas where there was a lack of knowledge of English among migrant children. [More…]
This handicap, in fact the total problem of communication, is the greatest factor limiting the integration of migrant children into the total Australian society. [More…]
This applies particularly to the children of migrant people. [More…]
Most migrant children are usually completely exposed to a new environment amongst people who are unaware of these difficulties. [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…]
It is little wonder that under these conditions so many migrant children fall by the wayside. [More…]
In my electorate of Mallee - and I refer particularly to the towns of Robinvale, Swan Hill and Mildura - large numbers of migrant children require this special instruction and they require special class-room accommodation. [More…]
Some schools in these areas have up to one-third of their total enrolments made up of migrant children or children of migrant families. [More…]
Despite these difficulties the development of the migrant children education program has been substantial in the past. [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 needs of children from migrant families whether they be Australian-born or not is one such area and the Australian Country Party is pleased to give its support to this Bill. [More…]
The first costs in any program are always the cheapest and, in the long run, any funds used to overcome the serious communication problems faced by migrant children will be more than offset by the future advantages to the whole community. [More…]
For many years, previous governments treated the education of migrant children like so many other aspects of migrant welfare - it was ignored. [More…]
In fact, it was only in recent years that the previous Government showed any signs of coming to grips with its responsibility for a continuing interest in the lives of migrants and their children. [More…]
The Bill that is now before the House provides for an emergency grant for the supplementary classrooms that are needed for the accommodation of children in our schools who require this special education. [More…]
The grant is to be provided to state and independent schools catering for large proportions of migrant children. [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…]
That meant that the teachers and children were working in sub-standard .accommodation. [More…]
The previous Government certainly recognised, reluctantly, some responsibility for the education of migrant children lacking knowledge of the English language. [More…]
Time will not permit me this evening to quote from it to any great extent or even to refer to it, .but I certainly suggest to honourable members who have a copy of it to read through it because it is a typical indication of how the education of migrant children is struggling for survival in various areas of Queensland! [More…]
It was disclosed to the House recently in reply to a question that I asked him in regard to the rigid system and methodology, of teaching that had been used for English language training for migrant children and for adult migrants over a long period of time. [More…]
They would come here with a knowledge of the English language and they would be able to combine their talents to the great benefit of the migrant children concentrated in many of the schools, in the inner city areas particularly, of our major capital cities. [More…]
The introduction of these teachers into the schools will be of added benefit to the children when they have their opportunity in the near future to enjoy the benefits of these temporary class rooms that it is the intention to provide under this legislation. [More…]
However, giving credit where credit is due, I compliment the previous Government - perhaps belatedly - for the fact that in 1971 it became aware of the need for the provision of teachers and for the provision of finance for the instruction of migrant children. [More…]
That Act recognised the need for the Australian Government to support the governments of the States in filling gaps in their education programs insofar as those programs related to the education of migrant children. [More…]
The previous Act, which is today the subject of the amendments we are debating, provided funds for the salaries of special teachers to give special instruction to migrant children. [More…]
Another aspect I would like to draw to the attention of the Minister is the fact that this program we are now debating will not be the be all and end all of migrant children’s education. [More…]
There are many schools with a very high proportion of migrant children. [More…]
These children undoubtedly need special instruction by teachers who have had special training and who have available to them adequate teaching aids. [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…]
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…]
This is possible in many schools where there is a migrant education problem because many of the schools where the problem exists have a very high proportion of migrant children. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Minister the urgent need to study this problem to ascertain the extent to which some of the difficulties confronted by migrant children in progressing through the education system derive not from the lack of motivation on the part of their parents but from the lack of understanding of the parents of what the schools are trying to achieve. [More…]
Yet in spite of these disabilities they have an instinctive appreciation of the importance of education for their children. [More…]
Nevertheless, they very often suffer from the disability that they do not know what the education process is trying to achieve for their children. [More…]
Whereas I commend the Minister for introducing this Bill which will provide better facilities within the schools to enable these children to be given a better head start to overcome the lack of ability to communicate because of language difficulties, I draw to his attention the rising need to make provision so that the schools can communicate with the parents of these children. [More…]
Yet at very few of these schools are there teachers who themselves have come from the country of origin of the majority of children attending those schools. [More…]
In some cases where there are teachers from the country of origin of the migrant children, although they have become integrated into the Australian way of life, they are somewhat reluctant and hesitant to use their background knowledge of the cultures of their country of origin to act as communicators between the school community and the parent community. [More…]
Of course the problem is not resolved, if for example, a school with a large number of children of Italian origin has an Italian-born teacher because at that school there may be children from half a dozen different Italian communities whose cultural backgrounds are significantly different. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that in the near future he will find, if he has not already found, the need to provide schools with funds to enable them to engage liaison officers whose job would be to act as representatives, to go out into the community and into the Italian households to talk to the parents in their own language with a full knowledge of their own cultures in order to explain to the parents the objectives that the school is seeking to achieve in the education process being provided for their children. [More…]
I have also come across many teachers who also wish they had the opportunity of communicating in a more real fashion with the parents of these particular children. [More…]
We must train the teachers so that they have an understanding of the cultural backgrounds of the children they are teaching. [More…]
I think, too, the teachers should be trained so that they can help the Australian children or the children from other countries to understand the cultures of children with whom they are mixing within the schools. [More…]
From the other bank of the cultural gap is a need for a liaison officer to go out into the community to help the parents of migrant children in their understanding of the education process. [More…]
I would therefore urge upon the Minister that he give serious consideration to seeking Cabinet approval for the provision of funds so that liaison officers, specially trained in the cultural backgrounds of the children attending particular schools, can help to bridge this cultural gap. [More…]
in reply - We are discussing a matter which concerns the nation’s most precious capital - the children coming on. [More…]
I suppose that I might lay a modest claim to, shall I say, a national record in that I represented a school which at one time contained a class comprising 99 per cent migrant children of recent arrivals. [More…]
My concern is not that that will be enough by any means but that we will be able to get the material, make the plans and actually have classrooms available quickly for use by the children. [More…]
It certainly relates to migrant children in their early stage of settlement. [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…]
We have to bring a whole generation of migrant children into the schools system in a proper and sound way. [More…]
By doing this our own children have exposure to the broadest possible base of language and culture. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee was very rightly concerned about the migrant children in rural areas. [More…]
We would certainly like to see the withdrawal system applied mainly to migrant children at the primary level where the loss of normal class time is less important than for the children at the secondary level. [More…]
In the 1972-73 financial year some 200 newly arrived children at the secondary level received intensive instruction in education centres in migrant hostels before passing on to the normal school system. [More…]
I would say that the ultimate objective would be for all teachers to be trained to take classes in their usual subjects in which there are migrant children. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill 1973 and the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Bill 1973 are both laudable pieces of legislation and have the support of the Country Party. [More…]
I am informed that at present there is a waiting list of handicapped children seeking admission as boarders and students at these special establishments in some States. [More…]
On admission to a boarding home the Commonwealth helps in the upkeep of such children with an amount of $3 a day. [More…]
Additionally, there is an isolated children’s allowance, where applicable, administered by the Department of Education. [More…]
We are concerned with the plight of children who cannot gain admission because of inaccessibility or lack of facilities and who are cared for at home. [More…]
No allowance either financial or domestic is available for parents or friends who care for subnormal children, spastic children or mentally retarded children in their own homes. [More…]
People who, for a variety of reasons, have to keep these children at home deserve the commendation and encouragement of the nation. [More…]
Social psychologists have quite often expressed some agreement that these children are better in the close family environment. [More…]
I therefore appeal to the Minister to consider some extension of or modification to the present domiciliary nursing benefit so that these people, who, through circumstances, are forced to care for these afflicted children in their own homes may receive that benefit. [More…]
Handicapped children become eligible for an invalid pension on reaching the age of 16 years provided that they are at least 85 per cent incapacitated. [More…]
People who teach in schools for handicapped children do not have their salaries subsidised by the Commonwealth Government although the States do assist. [More…]
The salary of a matron at a boarding accommodation centre for sheltered workshop people is subsidised on a dollar for dollar basis while the salary of a matron at a handicapped children’s residential is not. [More…]
I share his wish that sheltered workshops, accommodation and education facilities for handicapped children shall be available all over the Commonwealth. [More…]
In the Spastic Centre at Toowoomba there are 14 adults, and there are 15 children in the kindergarten section. [More…]
The Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association, Darling Downs Branch, controls the Hamewith Day and Boarding School and the Endeavour Farm and Endeavour workshop. [More…]
The Darling Downs area cares for 252 mentally retarded children and, in addition, provides 91 beds for residential purposes. [More…]
The Association commenced operations in Toowoomba in 1954 with 5 children in a rented Army hut in Newtown Park, and it has grown and obtained assets through community involvement. [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…]
It is just not possible to look after all these children and their parents. [More…]
I submit that there is a very special case for the parents of handicapped children who can and often do require the assistance of trained personnel to help them cope with the extra pressures that are thrust on them following their children’s illness: I hope that the Government may be able to devise a scheme whereby parents of children who suffer from autistic and other complaints can have access to medical advice so that they may be in a better position to cope with their children and with their own special problems resulting from their children’s afflictions. [More…]
The Opposition supports these 2 Bills - the Sheltered Employment (Assistance)’ Bill and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill provides for extensions similar to those I have just outlined, but in addition provides for training centres, training equipment and residential units for handicapped children. [More…]
Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act: was introduced in 1970 and provided for subsidies of $2 for $1 to be paid to eligible organisations towards the capital cost of premises to be used for the training of handicapped children; the cost of equipment to be used for or in connection with such training; and the capita] cost of residential accommodation for handicapped children receiving training. [More…]
As at 30 June 1973, more than 12,000 children were attending handicapped children’s training centres subsidised under the Handicapped . [More…]
Children (Assistance) Act, an inc. ease of about 1,000 during the financial year. [More…]
The Bill recognises the need to encourage further provision of facilities for handicapped children and workers. [More…]
The numbers receiving benefit under the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act are approximately 7,500 and 12,000 respectively - a small proportion df the total handicapped population. [More…]
An estimate by ,the Department of Social Services of 1971 put the number of handicapped children between the ages of 0 and 20 years in Australia at a minimum of 44,000. [More…]
I conclude with one comment on the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill makes no provision comparable with the provision already in the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act providing for a subsidy for salaries of professional counselling and medical staff in workshops. [More…]
There seems to be no reason for the distinction and why subsidies on salaries of counselling staff should be provided for elderly people and not for handicapped children. [More…]
It would seem that younger children would be more amenable to and just as much in need of professional care as handicapped adults. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill opens the way, as I prefaced my introduction, **r local government to contribute to the welfare of the handicapped. [More…]
The Karmel Committee recognised that the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act 1970 provides for assistance for a range of facilities wider than purely educational ones and it notes that the education of mentally and physically handicapped children is a particularly complex area both by reason of the range and the degree of the handicaps to be catered for and by the diversity of organisational arrangements that have developed over the years in the various States. [More…]
The Committee observed that about 33,000 children throughout Australia are receiving full time education in special schools and classes for handicapped children. [More…]
These bodies are composed mainly of parents who have come together by sheer necessity in order to establish a school so that their children may receive an education. [More…]
In Victoria, the Mental Health Authority is the agency responsible for subsidising most voluntary bodies to provide education and training for moderately and severely intellectually handicapped children. [More…]
The Karmel Committee believes that in the great majority of cases the diffusion of effort and resources in this way is wasteful and often deleterious to the education of the children concerned. [More…]
The delegation of responsibility for the education of intellectually handicapped children to health authorities appears to represent a carry-over from the traditional belief that such people are in need of constant medical supervision. [More…]
The Committee notes that in recent years Great Britain has transferred the educational responsibility for these children from health to education authorities. [More…]
The Committee, while conscious of States rights in this matter, feels it should register its belief that the interests of handicapped children would be best served if responsibility for their education were placed in the hands of State Education Departments. [More…]
There is a critical shortage of specialist teaching staff for handicapped children and pupils with learning disabilities. [More…]
One of the reasons why the Victorian Government has been tardy in taking initiatives in this area is that it has excluded handicapped children from their right of free education under the Victorian Education Act. [More…]
However, the Victorian Government finally has responded to the pressures of the parents, the voluntary bodies, the religious bodies and the findings of the Karmel report and has extended section 61 of the Education Act 1958 to make the Education Department, not the parent - I want honourable members to note that - responsible for the education of mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
Because of these initiatives there will be a change in emphasis in the program of expenditure under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [More…]
There will be a concentration now on residential accommodation for mentally retarded children. [More…]
Many of them are severely retarded children whose parents are unable to cope and are under psychiatric care. [More…]
Until that time I had a fleeting understanding and a peripheral concern for the families of handicapped children. [More…]
There will be grants made of $2.25m, which is $250,000 less than last year’s total but that had to cover education of the handicapped children as well. [More…]
This project was originally started by the mothers of the children who attend the special school in Broadmeadows. [More…]
It seemed to the mothers of these children, and I think our society generally would agree, that it is a great waste for these young men and young women who have a handicap, whether physical or intellectual, at the age of 16 to have to leave the school which they have been attending in familiar surroundings and under the care and the guidance of the teachers of that school. [More…]
Yet these women are so concerned about the future of their children that they did try. [More…]
In my long experience in this House I have never known an honourable member to be able to rise on a notice of motion given to be heard on the next day of sitting, interrupt a debate, particularly one such as this, and then seek to make cheap political capital out of suffering children and others. [More…]
In the middle of a debate on the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Bill and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill - the poorest section of the Australian community; the most suffering section. [More…]
I was pointing out that the Government thinks more of handicapped children and sheltered workshops than it does of the cheap political stunts of wealthy people opposite in this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon wandered into the chamber at 10 minutes to 10 this evening and, in a dramatic gesture, he - this wealthy exponent of the rights of the individual, caring not a hang for the children in sheltered workshops and other institutions - wanted to table a particular document forthwith. [More…]
This present instance is blackmail of a State and tens of thousands of ordinary workers, housewives, women and children, people in hospitals, people in convalescent homes, by the power unions which will not accept the arbitrator’s verdict, the umpire’s verdict. [More…]
It mattered little that in the process a man in hospital died when power was cut off from his ward, that children received third-degree burns when candles ignited their cots or that a man with a heart attack died because the doctor who was called to help him could not find a light. [More…]
I understood that there were two Bills before the House for debate, namely, the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Bill and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Bill. [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…]
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…]
It has been defined as a man, a woman purporting to be his wife, 1.27 children, plus 2 social workers. [More…]
Other organisations include local hospitals, domiciliary health care clinics, nursing homes, nursing care services, aged persons’ homes and the various voluntary agencies such as Legacy, the civilians widows’ organisations, the Returned Services League, the war widows’ organisations, the handicapped children’s organisations, sheltered workshops and various community service clubs such as those catering for age and invalid pensioners and senior citizens together with the parents without partners and birthright organisations. [More…]
How does he think an extra $400m for education will affect the family man and his capacity to provide a decent education for his children. [More…]
When we look at the massive additional expenditure on health, social welfare, housing and all these other things, I think that for the man in the street the increased fuel charges, which probably could be absorbed by the petrol companies anyway, and the increase on spirits and cigarettes is only a very small price to pay for the additional services given to him through health services, to his children through better education and all the other facets of Government expenditure in the way that they affect people. [More…]
They want to be able to decide for themselves where they want to go, what type of house they live in, die area where their children should be educated and where they will live in future years. [More…]
They comprised a number of families and their children. [More…]
The group has been able to provide a facility through which it can supply school children with a hot meal during the day. [More…]
The local language has been used in the teaching of children. [More…]
It is very fortunate that some Aborigines who are full time teachers on the staff of the Education Department of South Australia are from that area and, as such, are able to teach the children in their own language. [More…]
Their efforts are directed towards communal activities, with special emphasis on the welfare of their children and their aged. [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…]
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…]
I have given a great deal of thought to methods of overcoming this problem of a desire to work in groups instead of working as individuals as far as education is concerned, and I have advocated previously the establishment of trade training centres for coloured children only. [More…]
The payment of funds to Aboriginal parents who send their children on to high school has done much to encourage Aboriginal children to go on to higher education levels. [More…]
But it is of no use turning out numbers of Aboriginal children at higher school certificate standard if no employment is available for them to use their educational achievements to advantage. [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…]
Firm commitments have been made for free school bus services as from 1974 for all children who live more than a mile from a school, and that stipulation will be progressively eased. [More…]
I also want to speak tonight on the education of children and students who come from outlying areas. [More…]
Many of the people in these areas have to send their children away to school and consequently they are dependent on schools which provide boarding facilities. [More…]
Every parent in this nation is entitled to send his or her children to government schools irrespective of the financial position of the parents. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to provide education in government schools for the children of wealthy parents without any discrimination as far as wealth is concerned then why should there be discrimination in relation to independent schools to which the Government pays only part of the costs? [More…]
Let me repeat that all of those schools providing education for those 58,000 pupils are saving the Government the difference between the per capita grant that they would have received and the cost to the Government of providing education for those children. [More…]
All Australian children are entitled to an education which will enable them to attain their full potential, intellectual, social and physical. [More…]
Parents, not the State, have the right and duty to choose the type of education their children shall receive. [More…]
Since he is in the chamber, I should like to say that I appreciate the assistance that has been given to the Isolated Children’s Association which I discussed with him before the change of government. [More…]
I hope that in all fairness he will give serious consideration to trying to provide aid to those schools which are willing and able to provide the boarding facilities which many of these children are forced to use. [More…]
If seven-eighths of his time was spent in the boarding school, looking after the children in resident and only one-eighth of his time as a teacher, he would not be worth $10,000 as a resource of that school but only $1,250. [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…]
If the honourable member wants to talk about assistance to parents, the isolated children’s grant is the phasing in form of assistance to parents. [More…]
There are special grants for the education of handicapped children, where there are very big gaps. [More…]
Next year many people in the country will probably be sending their children to boarding schools who withdrew them in 1972. [More…]
The staffing ratio of schools from which a lot of children had been withdrawn in 1972 could rise. [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…]
New South Wales grants $75 a head to schools at the primary level and at the post primary level it grants $88 for families towards paying their children’s fees. [More…]
What is the Australian Government’s involvement in the migrant education program and the catering for latch key children in Brunswick North Primary School in Melbourne and in similar projects in other parts of Australia? [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 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…]
My attention was drawn to a Press report this week which detailed the imposition of a $1,000 fine on a Geelong company for the emission of a high quantity of sulphur dioxide on a day on which there was a temperature inversion layer over the area and which resulted in 14 children and 3 adults being affected. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that this Government extended the Aboriginal secondary grants scheme to cover all children at secondary schools. [More…]
Programs to overcome this situation have been approved by me and include support of teachers colleges carrying out courses in Aboriginal education; compensatory teaching programs for children in primary school; support of a special college of Aboriginal education at Torrens in South Australia where a range of basic skills is taught, leading to further education or improved employment. [More…]
As more children stay at school until they reach a higher level, more find places in technical colleges, universities, colleges of advanced education or teachers colleges. [More…]
Be that as it may, the point I seek to make here is that while we are committed to a broad based education of high quality, improving the opportunities for all children, especially those who come from disadvantaged families and disadvantaged groups and especially those who require special treatment and specially trained teachers - matters which we put in train over a year ago - and while we are committed to better conditions in schools, to which we became committed over a year ago, we are not necessarily committed to the techniques and methods which the Minister is using to achieve the result that he thinks to be necessary, because we are not committed to centralisation of education in the Commonwealth’s hands. [More…]
It will not ensure adequate representation of appropriate people on the schools commission itself and it will not ensure that the purposes of the Bill, as set out in clause 13, will properly meet the education needs and requirements of all Australian school children. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in government or independent schools. [More…]
We are establishing for the Commission an obligation to look at the needs of all children, not just of some children. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
the obligation for governments to provide and maintain schools systems of the highest standard that are open to all children without fees; [More…]
They have had no concern whatsoever for those schools at which Australia’s least privileged children receive their education. [More…]
I refer in particular to children who are handicapped by being born into socially and economically disadvantaged households, children who are drawn from migrant households in which the language spoken is a language other than English and the cultural assumptions are other than those of our own society, and children who are born mentally or physically handicapped in some degree. [More…]
Although any community should acknowledge a great and overriding obligation to those 3 groups of children, it is these children who, under the government of the honourable member for Wannon and his predecessors in the Education portfolio, have missed out. [More…]
Recent surveys and reports Indicate that: effectively only 20 per cent of the children in the schools surveyed who need English tuition are receiving enough of it . [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 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…]
I bring these very few instances to the attention of the House and to the honourable member for Wannon because I am convinced that the great contribution that the Australian Schools Commission will make to the affairs of education in this country is to bring before the attention of the public, this Parliament and the State Parliaments not only the great and glaring problems of education in which we all share most directly but also those problems of special education, special services, education for handicapped children and education for migrant children which have so long been swept under the mat and which will not receive the attention to which they are entitled until they are regularly exposed to the light of day. [More…]
That would be a tragedy for this nation, for its schools and for its children. [More…]
Another point I want to make concerns the vital matter about which the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke - the preservation of freedom of choice for parents and school children. [More…]
Clause 13 (3) (a) speaks of a primary obligation of governments in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children. [More…]
Do not look very much for the welfare of the handicapped children in our community because they are still running chocolate wheels to raise funds to maintain their own schools. [More…]
The former Minister for Education has the hide to say: ‘Our concern is for a high standard of education for all children and our particular concern is for those most in need’. [More…]
Does he remember what the previous Government did not do about the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare which was tabled in May 1971 in respect of the welfare of the mentally and physically handicapped children in Australia? [More…]
We went to the election on 2 December and all those handicapped children in Australia, not only those in private schools but also those not able to get into any school at all, were deprived. [More…]
The least of God’s children, you might say, were deprived by this former Minister for Education who now expresses his concern for all children. [More…]
At this stage 40 per cent - and the percentage is rising every year - of the children who would have liked to go to, say, a Catholic school have been denied that choice because those schools could not be maintained. [More…]
I want to talk about handicapped children again. [More…]
How much did the previous Government provide directly for such children in 1972-73? [More…]
Overall in 1974 and 1975 this Government will provide almost $44m for handicapped children. [More…]
Let all parents who have such children, or citizens with a humanitarian concern for such children, take note of the vastly improved status and opportunities that they will have. [More…]
They were the forgotten children. [More…]
Then there is the question of the disadvantaged schools, the ones which are so characteristic of our inner city areas, the schools frequented by the lowest in the socio-economic scale and those where the greatest congregation of migrant children happens to be, the children who were brought here by the previous Government and then forgotten. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) was critical of the former Minister for Education and Science for what little the previous Government had done to try to improve migrant education and the education of handicapped children. [More…]
Also, a considerable amount of work was done by the former Minister for Education and Science to improve the general standards of education applying to handicapped children. [More…]
He was looking at the need to provide special facilities for teachers to teach handicapped children. [More…]
In my own electorate of Gwydir we have a great number of Aboriginal children, many of whom are now starting to flow into the high schools. [More…]
I think it is absolutely essential for schools within the States to have a more diverse and more flexible approach to the educational needs of our children. [More…]
Far too many parents are putting pressure on their children, wanting little Johnny and Mary to be university students. [More…]
I wonder what our schools are in fact doing to try to get the ‘best out of our children. [More…]
I comment now on the socio-economic background of many of these children. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) referred to the problems of children who are underprivileged because of language difficulties - those children of migrant origin. [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…]
He talked about handicapped children and children with specific learning defects. [More…]
It is only in recent years that educational techniques have advanced to such a stage that learning defects in children can be diagnosed and treated and that persons have been trained as remedial teachers and placed in schools. [More…]
Instead of maintaining the independent schools at their admitted high level of operation, it seeks to cut down aid to independent schools and to lower their standards rather than to try to pump money into the government school system to improve government schools and to bring them up to the same acceptable high standards which independent schools have achieved very largely at great financial sacrifice to the parents of the children who attend those schools. [More…]
I do not accept for one second that all parents of independent school children are wealthy. [More…]
So, dealing with the need of an individual school, presumably one must find out what objectives the parents of children at that school set for the school and what wealth in the society is available to finance those objectives. [More…]
If parents are saving in order to pay school fees at a particular level and that school still has not the facilities necessary to give their children a decent education, surely one would say that that school is in need. [More…]
If so, it is a blatant discrimination against the parents of those children who go to independent schools. [More…]
One thinks immediately of the rebuilding of old schools and the provision of facilities for children with special needs. [More…]
When one looks at clause 13 of the Bill one realises that the Schools Commission is directed to pay particular attention to the needs of disadvantaged children, children with special needs, migrant children, Aboriginal children and other areas of education such as physical education. [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…]
Yet very often these inner city schools cater for children who come from the low income suburbs. [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…]
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…]
The honourable member for Casey also accused the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other members of the Opposition of having no concern for underprivileged children. [More…]
He mentioned, in particular, children belonging to the lower socio-economic groups, migrant children who have been disadvantaged because of the lack of knowledge of the English language, and handicapped children of various natures. [More…]
It is our intention to provide all our children - I repeat, all our children - with the best quality of education and the greatest quantity of educational aids which the resources of the nation will allow. [More…]
We believe it is positively good that various avenues to education should be open to Australian children and therefore, of course, we support the independent school system as well as the government school system. [More…]
It is directed to all children, no matter what sort of school they go to. [More…]
We believe, firmly in instilling in all families a concern for the needs of education and a desire to encourage their children to maximise their potential. [More…]
Unfortunately many of the parents of children in the state school system do not have sufficient concern for the needs of education for their children. [More…]
As I have already said I believe that we should do what we can to maintain an independent school system so that this very necessary aspect of the individual rights of people in Australia - that is freedom of choice in the education of their children - should be preserved. [More…]
In relation to the functions of the Schools Commission we have mentioned specifically in our amendment Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states very specifically that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [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…]
Had such a policy statement backed by action come in the past from the Government of the day, now the Opposition, the Committee would not now be reporting serious and widespread deficiencies in the quantity and quality of human and material resources in government schools, which, I need not remind this House but it can bear repeating, carry the bulk of community responsibility for the education of disadvantaged children as well as for the great majority of all Australian children. [More…]
The first qualification or term of reference for the Commission is to ‘have regard to the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children’. [More…]
Parents should have the right to educate their children at private schools. [More…]
It is strengthened because unless you have the economic resources of 80 per cent of the parents of children at private schools you do not have a choice. [More…]
Many parents sacrifice their own pleasures and convenience for the sake of their children getting a better education because they cannot find it at the moment in the present government systems. [More…]
I would like to take just one or two moments to praise the efforts of those who in the past, under the desultory system of the previous Government, had to sacrifice to give their children what they thought was a better education. [More…]
Now, because we see equality of education as the goal to equality of performance, enjoyment and contribution to society, we take the wider view that all Australian school children should have this right of choice. [More…]
By involving ourselves in the school and by speaking to the teachers, to those in areas of responsibility in school councils and to the principals we can have not only a greater understanding and involvement but also have a greater say in what our children should be taught and how they should be taught without interfering with the rights and the benefits that come from having fully trained teachers coming from the expanded now governmentfinanced tertiary institute of teaching colleges. [More…]
There are groups of children in our community who have been seriously disadvantaged by a system that unfortunately, in the past, due to the demands and the clamour for education, has been catering mainly for the majority. [More…]
I cannot, however, accept the emotion or the drama of the honourable member for Casey in speaking about our disadvantaged children. [More…]
Whilst I believe his concern is genuine I assure him that he is not the only one in the Parliament with a desire to help these children. [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…]
I believe our aim must be in providing individual children with the experience of being a member of a diverse group of people, while still acquiring basic skills and knowledge. [More…]
The freedom of choice of individuals and students is a basic right in our democratic society, as is the basic right of all children to equal opportunity and equality of education. [More…]
This Bill gives the Commission, with the sanction of the Minister, authority to set up specialist committees which might relate to deaf children or might deal with equipment of some kind. [More…]
Most of the children that pass through our schools will pass that way once and if this is not done for them this time their opportunity has gone for good. [More…]
To find out one only has to get on the telephone and ask whether it would be all right to take 6 children along tomorrow. [More…]
the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children; [More…]
the educational needs of handicapped children and handicapped young persons; [More…]
Paragraph (a) of sub-clause (3) states: the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children; [More…]
We do not deny the Government obligation in that area but at the same time we believe that there are obligations to all children. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in Government or independent schools. [More…]
The Minister is quite right when he points out that the part of Article 26 which we believe to be important and relevant is the third paragraph, which states that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
This is what the Minister sought to ridicule this afternoon - government schools systems of the highest standard that are open to all children without fees; lt was really an unnecessary comment by the Minister which he might regret tomorrow morning. [More…]
We stress the obligation for governments to provide government school systems of the highest standards open to all children, the pre-eminent position of the States in relation to their government schools and of independent authorities in relation to theirs. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in Government or independent schools. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
the obligation for governments to provide and maintain schools systems of the highest standard that are open to all children without fees; [More…]
the educational needs of handicapped children and handicapped young persons; [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in government or independent schools. [More…]
the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children. [More…]
That the Commonwealth should make to the States grants to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities. [More…]
The emphasis that originally pointed to the importance of examining the rights and interests of students and children of our country has been translated into a concern for schools rather than for children themselves. [More…]
But I believe it is quite significant that there has been this change in emphasis away from a concern for the Australian children to a concern for schools because in expressing that concern for schools the legislation that we are now considering places great emphasis upon the schools run by the States and by the Australian Government in the Territories that it administers. [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…]
I draw to the attention of the House the fact that our concern is a concern for every Australian student and for a much larger number of children at independent schools than is made out. [More…]
In fact, if one looks at the recommendations of the Karmel Committee one finds that, for more than 50 per cent of the children attending independent schools in the nonsystemic section of independent schools, the aid being given by the Australian Government to those schools will be reduced in real terms in the forthcoming year as against that which they would have received under existing legislation. [More…]
We seek to amend the legislation to include reference to the provisions in the United Nations Charter which deals with the right of every parent to choose the kind of education that shall be given to his children. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
Yet the Government of which he is a member went against the recommendations of the Committee and presumably against the Minister’s recommendations and as a result destroyed or reduced the right of choice that Australian parents have to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
Why should not many more parents have the opportunity, within their financial means, to exercise a choice as to whether or not they will send their children to a state system school or to an independent school? [More…]
In fact, this legislation contains a criterion - an obligation upon the Commission to pay regard to the primary obligation of governments to provide and maintain school systems that are of the highest standard and open without fees or religious tests to all children. [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…]
Persistently, almost double the expenditure will go to about a third as many children. [More…]
But the bite came from the honourable gentleman when he said that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
One matter on which I agree with the honourable member for Wannon is that the drafting of this legislation is bad and it may need polishing up in the Senate because it has in it statements like the one that the Schools Commission is to note the obligation for governments to provide and maintain school systems of the highest standard that are open to all children without fees’. [More…]
Is it saying that it is an obligation of the Schools Commission to maintain Geelong Grammar School open to all children, without fees? [More…]
He is a man of great integrity and of great intellectual insight who, in Christ Church Grammar School, has developed a magnificent section for brain damaged handicapped children as well as having a school with children of the highest academic ability. [More…]
We intendto introduce further legislation for isolated children, Aboriginal students and students receiving benefits under the Government’s new secondary allowances scheme. [More…]
In that State where you have a first class mind dealing with handicapped education, whether in government or nongovernment schools - I am thinking now of a non-government school in Western Australia, Christ Church Grammar, which has an extremely good centre for brain damaged children - you may want such a teacher as a board member. [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…]
In these areas, we find a tremendous housing project which has been completed, spoiled by the fact that, apart from houses, there were no amenities in any shape or form and great problems were created, particularly with regard to the children going to a park, a place of recreation, a community centre and so forth. [More…]
Then there are special allowances for children and so on. [More…]
I also bring to the attention of the House the need to protect children. [More…]
We still see small children unrestrained in vehicles moving in heavy traffic where the driver may need to stop suddenly. [More…]
We still see small children moving about in fast moving vehicles on our major highways. [More…]
We should be able to design seats for these children and educate people to see that that sort of thing does not happen. [More…]
I think that those sorts of things could be brought home to children even when they are at their most immature stage of life. [More…]
They include the setting up of a national authority on road safety and standards, the collection of statistical information to assist in a narrowing of the major areas of the problem and the need to develop a conscious desire to achieve a high degree of road safety by education including educational programs to influence children, drivers, pedestrians, passengers, cyclists, manuf acturers and the general community. [More…]
Is it not a fact that negotiations for the transfer were initiated as a result of repeated representation from the pupils, teachers and others interested in the welfare of the school children in this district? [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Health to the Budget proposal to phase out the issue of free milk to primary school children. [More…]
The first concerns the health aspects associated with the phasing out of the provision of milk to school children. [More…]
In fact, New Zealand discontinued its scheme in 1967 and Britain discontinued its scheme for all children over the age of 7 years in 1970. [More…]
The nutritional position is roughly this: When the scheme came in over 20 years ago there was some evidence that there were areas in Australia where children were deprived of protein and calcium. [More…]
Of course, the schools that have have r st benefited by this have been those schools that have been able to put in refrigeration and make the milk attractive to the children; they have a good percentage of consumption. [More…]
It is also appropriate to point out that commercial radio, not national radio, also contribute largely to projects such as Legacy appeals, Father’s Day appeals for spastic or sub-normal children. [More…]
All of us are agreeable that measures should be taken to assist those who are handicapped in one way or another - for example, mentally or physically handicapped, migrant children, children with specific learning difficulties and children in slums. [More…]
Nobody ever seems to think about the values that are instilled into the minds of children. [More…]
The things that are going into the minds of children through television are quite deplorable, yet we do nothing about it. [More…]
In many cases, unfortunately because it is not the fault of the parents, the homes are not able to supply what is best for the values of the children. [More…]
Vittorino da Feltre realised that it was a question not only of the intellectual development of children but also of the development of their characters, the development of their bodies and rounded personalities. [More…]
I am not able to add, however, to the fact that the late Government’s policy was to make, through the Department of Social Security, grants on a $2 for $1 basis for nongovernment efforts for the education of the handicapped while no grants were made to State government efforts for the education of handicapped children. [More…]
The first complaints I received as Minister were from Liberal Ministers in State governments about the fact that they could set up schools attached to hospitals, and that they had about 85 per cent of handicapped children in state schools but got no grants. [More…]
We believe that the individual differences of children must be recognised. [More…]
There is to be a great increase in expenditure on the education of Aborigines, migrant children and isolated children. [More…]
The proposed grant for 1973-74 of $2m for emergency supplementary classroom accommodation in state and nongovernment schools to facilitate special instruction of migrant children is, I believe, a very worthwhile move. [More…]
Particularly pleasing, I feel, are the proposals for assisting special groups such as Aborigines, migrant children, soldiers children and isolated children. [More…]
Schools were not visited by the Committee, and the way in which many schools were categorised caused confusion, resentment and uncertainty, and cut across the basic principle of freedom of choice in relation to the education of all children. [More…]
It is true, I believe, that the pressures and tensions on children and adolescents today are too great and too continuous. [More…]
Parents, in particular, should resume a greater responsibility for the education of their own children. [More…]
We also acknowledge that many parents make sacrifices for their children to attend those schools because of the deplorable state into which Liberal governments at both State and Federal levels have allowed government schools to fall. [More…]
One could have more sympathy if perhaps admissions to these schools was not only confined to the children of past pupils or to those able to win scholarships to them. [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…]
If he can be satisfied that 25 children out of 160 in form 3, who would be roughly in the 14 to 15 year age group, have a reading range of 10 - and there are many others in this way - it is a pretty poor state of affairs. [More…]
1 do think that in the estimates for the Department of Education there lies some hope for the future of our children” in these schools by overcoming these difficulties that are forced on them of not having adequate facilities and adequate training to be brought up to the ordinary reading range that would be suggested at their levels. [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…]
I regard it as absolutely imperative, based on moral and distributive justice, that payments should be equal for all children at similar levels of education irrespective of the school they attend and of the financial position of their parents. [More…]
They were established in the days when rural industries were able to pay their own way, but following a succession of droughts, declining world prices and increased costs rural people are having problems in educating their children. [More…]
We find that these schools do not have the enrolments of the large city schools but they require a headmaster, bursar and so on to look after their enrolments of 200 or 300 just as the same positions are required to look after 1,000 children in the big city schools. [More…]
These schools are all caring for children who on most occasions have to attend boarding schools because they live too far away to travel daily to school, although transport is often available. [More…]
I pay tribute to the principals, the teachers and staff of these schools for the great contribution they are making to moulding the characters and basic motivation not only of Queensland children but also of children from faraway places, sometimes from overseas. [More…]
There was never any protest in the past about the fact that most of the senior secondary scholarships - 25,000 last year, tenable this year - went to children in the higher socio-economic bracket and that as a consequence of that most of those who go on to tertiary education come from that socio-economic group. [More…]
I have 41 children in my class and there are 42 in the other. [More…]
I remind honourable members that in the rural area concerned the children have no opportunity for kindergarten experience. [More…]
I gather from the teacher’s comment that she means she must button up the shirts and tie up the shoe laces of the children. [More…]
By the time the children reach fifth grade with 2 years still to go, naturally conditions have not improved. [More…]
They are children who through the previous grades have just missed the boat. [More…]
The teacher just has not the time, despite his best efforts on behalf of the children. [More…]
I do not suggest that all children should be educated, no matter what, to university standard, but some of the third I have mentioned leave school with not more than the very basic skills of reading and writing. [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…]
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…]
The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) tonight produced a remarkable explanation for the difficulties to which the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) referred - the low rate of reading competence among children in the early years of secondary education. [More…]
He is a man who enjoys, in the Victorian secondary teaching service, an unusual and perhaps a unique reputation for the warmth of his relationship with the children he has taught over the years. [More…]
Yet, the honourable member for Bradfield, having heard the honourable member for Holt say how much he wished that the children he had taught had had the advantages enjoyed by students at those schools now classified in the Karmel Committee report in category A, said: [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…]
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…]
I refer to the ridiculous argument that, because parents of the children attending some schools have worked to provide better facilities for those schools, those schools by some simple reasoning become so-called wealthy schools, and that parents of the children attending those schools hence must be penalised for their initiative in improving the facilities at those schools. [More…]
They have classified 105 Australian schools as wealthy schools - a horribly class conscious term that could emanate only from socialists, such as the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews), who is interjecting - and as a result this Government intends to deprive the children attending those schools of any government assistance. [More…]
But he makes his children a charge on the community. [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…]
Parents, partly due to the fact that up to 40 per cent of mothers are in part or full time employment primarily to keep their children at schools of their choice, pay equal or more in taxation than those parents who by choice or circumstances send their children to government schools. [More…]
Surely they are entitled either by direct refund on presentation of receipted accounts, or by means of per capita grants to the particular school at which their son or daughter attends, because the educational cost allocation should extend to their children’s benefit also. [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…]
Bui 75 per cent of state school children do not go on. [More…]
Let us deal with groups of children at the moment. [More…]
SPELD, with its specific learning difficulties policy, is dealing with handicapped children. [More…]
5m for handicapped children, which is the field in which SPELD deals, and $ 10.2m for the training of those who are already teachers to be teachers of the handicapped. [More…]
But since 80 per cent of the recurring costs of education are teachers’ salaries, if one school of 500 children has 50 teachers it must necessarily have a high degree of affluence. [More…]
It has opposed off-shore legislation, assistance to local government and isolated children’s grants. [More…]
87 (Hansard, 2 May, 1973, page 1626) in which he asked what action had been taken to ensure that specialist bilingual teachers would be employed in schools to improve the education opportunities of migrant children. [More…]
In its interim report the Victoria Task Force has recommended, inter alia, that a survey be made to ascertain the number of teachers who are bilingual, that where there are significant numbers of migrant children attending individual schools opportunity should be available for all children to learn the languages of major ethnic groups and that a bilingualbicultural transitional school be established to explore the possibilities of this kind of induction to the Australian educational system. [More…]
The honourable member will be aware also that I have asked that consideration be given to the possibility of a program of Integration Fellowships, so that qualified teachers from the principal migrant source countries can come to Australian schools as fellows or as additional staff members to assist in the instruction of both migrant and Australian-born children. [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…]
actually legislating to permit such things and at the same time religious education is being limited or eliminated and our children are being taught that even right and wrong are only relative. [More…]
Our children are subjected to the constant glorification of sex whilst only pitying sneers are given to the age-old ideals of integrity, national pride and self-sacrifice! [More…]
Don’t want to see our children exposed to drugs, sex, homosexuality and violence! [More…]
In other words he was saying that the funds would be invested in such areas as urban and regional development, which concerns the building up of local areas where people can get out of the central areas of the metropolis and be able to carry on their occupations, if necessary supported by some kind of government activity, and be able to live their lives and have their children educated and looked after without having to live in the somewhat suffocating atmosphere of a great metropolitan centre such as Rome or some other continental part of the world. [More…]
There was a program for free milk for school children. [More…]
How many people have taken home milk from schools when children did not want it? [More…]
We saw children catching fish at the London Bridge - something which has not been seen in England for perhaps 100 years - simply because of the great control that has been exercised over the emptying of waste into this wonderful river. [More…]
Do handicapped children have access to these clinics. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) achieved a confrontation with State education authorities as soon as he came into office, and then by refusing the per capita grants to the children in the private schools he broke a promise made by the Prime Minister, by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) and by himself. [More…]
Children at school - at whatever school they attend - should have a per capita grant. [More…]
He advocated the bombing of women and children in the People’s Republic of China, which was figthing for a new way of life. [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…]
If parents decide to send their children to other independent schools or to government schools, will there be sufficient classrooms and teachers to accommodate those children if some of the independent schools cannot carry on? [More…]
How many extra teachers would be required to teach those children who had been provided with teachers by the dedicated independent schools throughout the Commonwealth? [More…]
What is the saving per capita and in total of expenditure to the Government through children being educated at independent schools? [More…]
The whole body of independent schools, whether they are classed as needy schools or schools which by the generosity of the parents of the children attending those schools are in a better position, right across the board all should receive a per capita payment. [More…]
I believe that the Government should give more assistance to boarding schools because that is where people have to send their children because there are no school facilities available in outlying areas. [More…]
They are providing hostels for children to enable them to get some education. [More…]
I urge the Government to give consideration to assisting those people who are prepared to provide hostels and boarding facilities which the children in the outlying areas - the underprivileged children of this country - so sorely need. [More…]
They say that private schools provide an avenue for parents to buy privilege for their children and this is exactly the same sort of thing that the Labour Party in Britain is advocating. [More…]
I wonder what they will say to their children when their children come home and say: Daddy, why is your Government cutting off aid for our schools?’ [More…]
I am a great believer in the principle that parents and the community generally ought to be far more involved in the school because after all the schooling of their children is of prime importance to the parents. [More…]
Children learn not only from going to school. [More…]
Children learn a tremendous amount from their parents. [More…]
After all, they are employed to teach children at schools, not to tell parents the way in which their children are going to be taught and what they are going to be taught at school. [More…]
Let me highlight some of the problems and dissatisfaction of parents who must send their children to government schools. [More…]
The most prevalent problem is the lack of concern which teachers have for the children. [More…]
That is what their contributions to the debate have been all about, not about the quality of education or the equality of opportunity for all Australian children regardless of their denomination or whether they attend a State school. [More…]
Honourable members opposite want that money to continue going to these schools, regardless of the children in poor schools throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party recognises this and believes that children in Australia should get a better opportunity. [More…]
But unfortunately, the whole debate has ranged around category A schools and not the enormous benefit that will go to the children across the length and breadth of Australia, regardless of denomination, because of the policies of this Government. [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…]
If the children of the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and people like him are not receiving a subsidy by going to the schools which their parents attended, Mr Santamaria believes that the LiberalCountry Party will no longer be interested in aid to denominational schools. [More…]
One can see the shabby, lousy, miserable politics that members of the Opposition played with Catholic children just to prop up an iniquitous per capita grants system so that wealthy people like them who do not wish to pay out money to educate their own children will receive a per capita grant from the Commonwealth of Australia on the same terms as a parent in my electorate who has perhaps an income of around $3,500 or $4,000 a year. [More…]
At the same time I acknowledge that the closer that parents can be tied to and involved with a school, obviously the better it will be for their children who are attending that school. [More…]
This is not due solely to the ability of the children; it is due to the quality of teachers that are available and their interest in the children. [More…]
When the teachers decide, in their 32 hours a week, that they should really work for the children and be prepared to put a little time into teaching them, we will see results. [More…]
But the teachers were prepared to put the time, effort and hard work into providing the necessary studies and the program for those children to succeed. [More…]
If money is being allocated by the Government - we congratulate it for that - to provide amenities, I point out that amenities will not teach the children. [More…]
It is the person at the helm, the teacher, who educates the children. [More…]
The parents of the children involved are all taxpayers. [More…]
All of us, irrespective of where our children go to school, pay taxes. [More…]
His children go to a public school. [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…]
In Cooma, there is a hostel for these children. [More…]
This is an example of money being taken from those children who must leave their homes and attend boarding school. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government in that State is the one which has withdrawn money from children attending boarding schools. [More…]
If one makes this forecast and is most conservative in one’s estimates, the result suggests that there will be a 10 per cent annual increase in the cost of educating children in State schools, reflecting itself in the cost of education in the independent system. [More…]
We are worried for those parents who wish to exercise the freedom of choice to send their children either to a State school or to an independent school. [More…]
The decisions of the present Government will have that effect and will make it extremely difficult for many parents to finance the fees necessary to pay for the education of their children in independent schools. [More…]
Many parents of these children today are making supreme sacrifices in order to provide their children with the sort of education which they want to give them. [More…]
It strikes me as extraordinarily strange that at a time when we are talking about community involvement in education we should deny to a community of Catholics, a community of Jews, a community of Anglicans, a community of Presbyterians or a community coming together because the people have particular attitudes to a style of education, an opportunity to choose to send their children to a school because we impose upon them their obligation under the law to meet their taxes and at the same time require that they pay the total cost of their children’s education at an independent school if that school reaches a particular standard. [More…]
One suggestion I would like to put to the Committee is that consideration should be given to providing funds to enable the appointment of not caretakers but people with a greater sense of vocation and training - perhaps recreation officers or activity officers - with responsibility for the care and custodianship of the school facilities so that neither the school committee nor the staff will refuse to allow the use of school facilities by the parents or the school community because of the current concern that their hard won and hard worked for assets, gained for the use of the school children will run the risk of being damaged. [More…]
If these recreation or activity officers were attached to schools they could serve a very useful purpose in providing maximum use of school facilities and greater opportunities for the school children in out-of-school hours still to use the excellent facilities of school libraries, school playing grounds and the other facilities that exist in the schools. [More…]
They are concerned with the problems of the wealthy schools - not the parish schools, not the small schools, not those schools which take the children, whether they be Catholic or otherwise, of people who are workers. [More…]
In another high school a mathematics teacher tried to explain to the children present that there were 31 days in February and accordingly lost all control of the class. [More…]
The honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe), who is a member of the Country Party, is not concerned about the future of those children being taught by teachers of that standard. [More…]
This is the way in which the children in some areas are deprived. [More…]
The criterion by which the nation will judge the education capacity of its children is the effective expenditure of funds. [More…]
I can name country towns in my own electorate where the taxpayer has financed magnificent libraries at schools, marvellous libraries, and some of those towns do not have a library for children to use when they leave school. [More…]
The debate on the Estimates in this House and the other place is meant to provide an opportunity for honourable members and Senators to look at the expenditure of departments and to criticise it constructively if possible and to whether better effective expenditure can be made for the sake of the people and the children of this nation. [More…]
The Government should patch up its taxation system, because from taxation it can get funds to treat those people who are not so well off in an unequal manner so that their children may have some equality in life when their turn comes. [More…]
Having done that and got the funds it should let people choose where to send their children to school. [More…]
I say again to the Government: Make the taxation levels different if you must, but let the people of this nation choose what they want to do and use their parental responsibility in bringing up their children in the fashion they consider right and proper. [More…]
I think it would be agreed that from the point of view of the Government the starting point - this strangely has been missing in the debate so far - is children and the opportunities open to them. [More…]
We believe that all children, from pre-school age through to university, should have every opportunity to equality in education. [More…]
3m; and to special groups - Aboriginals, migrant children, isolated children and the like - by $19.5m. [More…]
There has been preoccupation with the situation of category A schools - a preoccupation with the 2 per cent of children who attend those schools and almost a refusal by members opposite to talk about the other 98 per cent of children in other schools, whether they be independent schools or government schools. [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…]
Any one of a Country Party member’s constituents who wishes to have his children educated will get roughly a lead from this. [More…]
One of the things that comes to my mind when I listen to the class-conscious utterances of the Australian Labour Party is that thinking people recognise that in children who are being educated in our society differences in potential arise from biological inheritance, family background and aspirations, influence of school and church and wider influences of the media and society at large. [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…]
Clear differentiation must be maintained between grants for recurrent expenses, which should be the right and expectation of parents on behalf of their children on the one hand, and the capital position of needs of schools on the other hand. [More…]
It has been stated time and time again in this Parliament that if independent schools are closed, the children from those schools will be forced to attend state schools and so state school children will be deprived of better education because of the increased number of children at the state schools. [More…]
Some elements of taxable pensions, such as allowances for the payment of rent or for the support of children, will remain exempt and, in the latter case, concessional deductions will also be allowed in assessments for the maintenance of children. [More…]
They are worried mainly about the phasing out of the free milk scheme for school children which will cause a 4 per cent drop in sales which will not be regained for at least a year. [More…]
The Government had to make an assessment of whether the health of the children of this nation is more valuable than $10m or $12m. [More…]
The Government has gone for the money instead of the health of the children. [More…]
Frankly, I thought that Goebbels was without offspring, but I must say to the members of this Parliament that I believe his children are well represented, all of them, in terms of propaganda, because really the performance of the Country Party in the last few months has been pathetic. [More…]
We provided the first assistance ever granted to isolated children in country areas. [More…]
Some members of the Country Party, I think, on earlier occasions have referred to this measure as taking the lollywater out of the mouths of children. [More…]
If they want to suggest that Coca-Cola or products of a like nature are good for children, then I just cannot agree with them. [More…]
What I would like to see the children of Australia drinking is pure apple juice. [More…]
I believe that the argument used on the Government side, that is that after all this juice is only being used in the manufacture of soft drink and that soft drink is not of much good for anybody is a very doubtful argument, particularly when at the same time as making soft drink more expensive for the children of Australia and also for adults who like soft drink, by imposing a 15 per cent sales tax levy, the Government is taking away free milk from children. [More…]
The Government cannot very well say that it is not doing anything to knock the children of this country, even if it can argue that perhaps children should be drinking milk rather than soft drink. [More…]
The Government is knocking the children in relation to milk as well as soft drink. [More…]
I would prefer to see the children of Australia drinking soft drink at as cheap a price as possible, particularly with the addition of some fruit juice to make it of better value, than to see them drinking wine or something like that. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Murray has mentioned already that free milk is to be denied to the school children of this country. [More…]
In fact it is a snide way of taxing a field that has not been taxed before, because it is a tax that will have to ‘be paid largely by the school children and the school tuckshops. [More…]
Now, of course, the school children - by far the largest section of the consumers of soft drinks - either must pay more for their soft drink or the manufacturers may decide to make a smaller can for which. [More…]
This section of people, these children, have already suffered from the decision of the Government to abolish the free milk scheme for schools. [More…]
Spouses and children are in many instances the victims of the various addictions. [More…]
In their book entitled ‘The Health of a Metropolis’ Krupinski and Stoller found that psychiatric morbidity was to be found among 12.8 per cent of children, 14.8 per cent of male adolescents, 13.5 per cent of female adolescents, 16.5 per cent of male adults and 23.8 per cent of female adults. [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…]
So, for low income families, the difficulties of the passage through university of their children will, I think, be just as hard and just as great. [More…]
The disproportionate number of scholarships per enrolment won by children in independent, nonRoman Catholic schools has helped to develop a feeling in the community that this element of government aid enlarged rather than reduced the gap between privileged and underprivileged students which already existed in our schools. [More…]
That may be a pious hope in some instances but certainly this Parliament should be a watchdog in that area and should raise these matters constantly so that the public and the parents of these children are aware of what can and should be done. [More…]
In addition to the assistance that is outlined in this Bill, assistance will be given to the children of low income earners who are in the last 2 years of high school - I propose to say more about this later - to children living in isolated areas, and to Aboriginal children. [More…]
The children were asked to indicate whether they were certain to remain at school or whether they possibly would remain at school on the completion of their school certificate. [More…]
The isolated children who live way out in the never never have received living allowances which will enable them to board in at schools. [More…]
The Karmel Committee report picks out disadvantaged children and specifies them, and instead of their receiving the least help, as they used to receive, they will be over compensated, if I may put it in that way. [More…]
For many years handicapped children have been denied opportunities. [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…]
He stated that the previous Liberal-Country Party Government gave no assistance to isolated children. [More…]
He is claiming for the present Labor Government the entire credit of the assistance to isolated children but that is not so. [More…]
Therefore the people who are sending their children to school or who are receiving assistance from the Government under the isolated children’s scheme need to have a substantial increase because of the situation which has been brought about by the policies of the present Labor Government. [More…]
We hear a lot about privileged people having all the wealth to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
I imagine that the policy that the Government is espousing is that it is trying to help the children of families who could not attend post secondary and tertiary institutions if they had to pay fees. [More…]
This portion of the Bill refers to isolated children. [More…]
I would like to know why senior secondary students who are receiving assistance under the isolated children’s scheme will not be eligible for benefits under this new scheme. [More…]
It is possible that someone has looked at the figures and said: ‘Yes, I realise the isolated children are getting $350 per head without a means test and possibly another $350 if they satisfy a means test’. [More…]
The costs of sending children from an isolated area either to a school in a southern city or to a main educational centre, boarding them and bringing them home are astronomical. [More…]
I know because I had to do this with 4 children. [More…]
The point I make is that we hear a lot about assistance to iso lated children, but I do not think that anyone realises the tremendous cost and the hardship that devolves on the people who send their children away. [More…]
If people in those areas wish to have their children educated to the standards that they think they are entitled to demand - I refer to people in the Northern Territory, and no doubt the same would apply to people in the northern part of Western Australia and the north-west of Queensland - they have to send them somewhere for their secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
It is all very well for the public school boy from Sydney to do so when I am talking about the cost of sending children away to school from thousands of miles in the inland when he possibly just walked down the street to go to a public school. [More…]
I am talking about isolated children and the hardships that are involved in sending these children to school. [More…]
I would like the Government to give some real assistance to people who are forced to send their children thousands of miles to secondary schools, universities and tertiary education institutions. [More…]
I emphasise that I would like the Government to look very hard at the isolated children’s assistance to see that isolated children are given at least a fair go from the point of view of getting tertiary and senior secondary education. [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…]
Nearly half the students entering were the children of professional and managerial fathers, who constitute 17.5 per cent of the population in the age group likely to be their fathers. [More…]
Industrial workers represent nearly 60 per cent of that population but their children account for only 22.6 per cent of students entering the 4 faculties. [More…]
The only conclusion that can be drawn is that among tertiary students of all kinds the children of manual workers are under-represented and those of higher status families over-represented. [More…]
To the extent that higher education is financed from taxes it has thus a somewhat regressive effect; poorer people contributing to the cost of education of a group in which the children of richer parents predominate and from which recipients can expect to draw higher than average incomes. [More…]
I believe that in the United States of America, for example, the Government spends 10 times more on the education of the 10 per cent of its children on the top of the socioeconomic scale than on the 10 per cent at the bottom. [More…]
The process in which the social selectivity of tertiary institutions is as an end point of education goes back into the schools and beyond them, into the families where children are conceived and raised. [More…]
The children of some social groups stay longer at schools than do others. [More…]
Migrant children from working class or lower middle class families have virtually no chance at all of getting a Commonwealth secondary scholarship according to a Monash University survey. [More…]
This assistance is not fully inclusive because we must also remember the Government’s initiatives and expansion of schemes to help isolated children and Aboriginal students. [More…]
The secondary allowance scheme will assist families with limited financial resources to maintain their children at school for the final 2 years of secondary education. [More…]
The object of education, the true aim of the school, remains what it was in my day - to keep children out of mischief, meaning for the most part, from worrying adults. [More…]
We must come a long way to realise that all parents do not wish the education of their children, nor do the children themselves wish their education, to be geared entirely to the industrial world. [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…]
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…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) raised the question of isolated children and the appropriate benefits. [More…]
I think he is mistaken in the assumption that isolated children will be at a greater disadvantage than they are at present. [More…]
In the first instance, isolated children’s benefits include an amount of $350 free of means test, an amount of $350 subject to a means test and an amount of $304 for special hardship cases. [More…]
But isolated children are not necessarily excluded from receiving secondary scholarships and in some cases neither are children from low income families. [More…]
It became completely obvious to anyone who was listening that the Opposition speakers were determined to do nothing but be frivolous and irresponsible and to act like petulant children, notwithstanding that by common recognition by every critic and writer on the subject in Australia this Bill is terribly important. [More…]
Take the example of a married couple with 2 children and only the husband working at a salary of $100 a week. [More…]
At the present time a man with a wife and 2 children in receipt of $70 a week pays $76 a year net of tax concessions for public ward and medical insurance in New South Wales. [More…]
Is the Opposition really suggesting that our children are twice as ill as the children in America or England? [More…]
For example, Aborigines, migrants and electors with young children are not uniformly dispersed throughout the various regions. [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…]
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…]
Much more could be said, in favour of paying the mothers of handicapped children for the service they perform, in relieving government expenses which would otherwise undoubtedly be incurred. [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…]
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…]
The initial aim of the Australian School Dental Service is to provide dental care for children attending infants and primary schools after which the scheme will be expanded to cover pre-school and secondary school children under fifteen years of age. [More…]
As the dental scheme progresses, a dental therapist should ultimately be able to handle an annual average of 500-600 children in areas where the drinking water has not been fluoridated. [More…]
In those areas where the water has been fluoridated, the average annual workload for each therapist would be approximately 900 children. [More…]
In discussions with representatives of the States, it has been pointed out that as the Australian School Dental Service progresses, each dental therapist should ultimately be able to handle an annual average of 500-600 children in areas where the drinking water has not been fluoridated. [More…]
In those areas where the water has been fluoridated, the average annual work-, load for each therapist would be approximately 900 children. [More…]
I think that we are getting to the stage where most children go to school until they complete tertiary or technical education. [More…]
It is a good thing that the Government is doing something for children who have lost both their parents. [More…]
Another related group that should be helped are widowers with dependent children. [More…]
I suppose that one has to extend the definition of widower to include deserted husbands and divorced men whose children are still dependent upon them. [More…]
If one talks about equality of the sexes, something has to be done for those men, whose wives have died, have dependent children and find it difficult to carry on. [More…]
Not very long ago it was fairly uncommon for a woman to leave her husband and abandon him with the children. [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…]
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…]
For example, a widow pensioner with 2 children would get a total of $39 a week in pension. [More…]
The deserted husband, of course, is placed in a very difficult situation when he finds himself responsible for the upkeep of his children. [More…]
For example a case which came to my attention involves a male divorcee with 5 children aged from 9 to 15 years. [More…]
On the other hand a female divorcee earning the same amount - keep that in mind; earning the same amount per week - with the same number of children would be entitled to a pension of $44.45. [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…]
He too may stay at home to care for the children whilst receiving social service benefits. [More…]
who does run the home and care for the children? [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…]
I must make reference again to women of some 45 years of age who, if their children turn 16 years of age, are expected to work until they reach 50 years of age. [More…]
A card for the children in a family will be given to their mother or guardian. [More…]
The Minister quoted the case of a man with a wife and 2 children in the State of New South Wales, earning $70 a week and paying $77 a year for medical and public ward hospital insurance after tax. [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…]
If the teenage children work during the school holidays. [More…]
I must assume, because of what I see around me, that this Government and the Minister have no sympathy for the children, the wives and the workers. [More…]
Does he realise that, while the racing tradition is still vigorous, the majority of urban Australians have lost touch with the remainder of this tradition so that many city children have not even had the opportunity to touch a horse, much less ride one? [More…]
Does he agree that it would be desirable if these older Australian associations with the horse were maintained and made more readily available, especially to city children from less affluent families? [More…]
For example, the Department of Education requires an additional $1,834,000 to meet payments under the assistance scheme for isolated school children, and for Aboriginal secondary grants and study grants. [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) raised the point of a man deserted by his wife and left with 5 children, who receives $65 a week and pays $16 a week rent for accommodation for himself and his children, leaving $49 a week for all of them or a little over $7 for each of them. [More…]
The idea that children, young people, are like adults who can pick and choose and know what is good and what is bad obviously has no basis in reality. [More…]
If one is dealing with children, censorship is entirely justified and freedom of speech, in the old sense, has to be modified. [More…]
I merely pick at random great figures in the field of education over the centuries, and none of them has had any doubt whatsoever that one should indoctrinate children with the ideas of excellence. [More…]
A big percentage of our visitors are large groups of school children, throughout the area. [More…]
At that time, the Treasurer also announced that the handicapped children’s ‘benefit would be doubled. [More…]
This is a proposal to change the Constitution of the nation and the future destiny of our children and our grandchildren. [More…]
But the whole question of the people’s choice and their ability to ensure that they and their children do not have to reside and attend school in a noise polluted area should be looked at. [More…]
Yet most of the parents in my electorate devote a great deal of time and energy in order that their children can have the benefit of tertiary education. [More…]
Then we have this incredible atmosphere, which has made the job of the Opposition spokesman that much more difficult in the past few weeks, in relation to the isolated children’s grant. [More…]
Their colleagues in the States felt so deeply about the problem of the education of isolated children that in response to the Australian Government’s grant they withdrew State assistance of just on $80. [More…]
He is saying this to people whose children could not get work for more than 12 months after they left high school. [More…]
Ultimately when they were compelled to strike on one or two days in order to show their determination to do the best by the children for whom they were responsible, the Askin Government moved to seek the deregistration of the Federation. [More…]
The education of handicapped children was characterised by omissions to meet need which bordered upon the callous. [More…]
Some States had no schemes for the assistance of isolated children worthy of the name of assistance. [More…]
A scheme existed through the Australian Department of Social Security to assist the education of handicapped children by private charities, but not in State schools. [More…]
Knowledge of the medical, psychological and physical characteristics of young children, and their home environments, was a closed book to the first teachers enrolling them at school. [More…]
Disadvantaged children and handicapped children suffered greatly in this situation. [More…]
The crisis in Australian education - though the expression crisis is not used by the Interim Committee - is perhaps summed up in a few words of the Interim Committee’s report in paragraph 5:1 on page 48 of Schools in Australia, where it points out that in too many schools the level of resources employed: is below that required to implement modern educational methods, and to prepare all children, irrespective of their rate and style of learning, for full participation in a complex society. [More…]
In both government and non-government sectors there are schools where the quality of personnel, buildings and equipment reflects an attitude towards children which, whether it arises from public indifference or ignorance is incompatible with the manifest values of our society. [More…]
Many of these schools are attended by children of relatively poor families, a significant proportion of them migrant or Aboriginal, whose schooling should offer a measure of redress for the economic and political disadvantages of their background rather than a compounding of them. [More…]
The Interim Committee asks for action which will attempt, both within the schools and beyond them, to supplement the opportunities open to children whose general conditions of life are least conducive to the development of scholastic ability. [More…]
The chapter establishes beyond doubt the appalling variations in opportunities available to Australian children, the cruel and senseless waste of potential skill, and the callousness with which this situation has been allowed to drift through the years. [More…]
Children in disadvantaged areas are constricted in a vicious circle. [More…]
I interpose the comment that the articulate sections of the population active in the interests of their children are very much to be commended, not to be condemned. [More…]
But the children who have no perceptive, intelligent and active advocates are not to be neglected. [More…]
Low income parents, being generally ill educated themselves, do not establish habits associated with a high level of literacy as examples which their children might follow. [More…]
Children and young people in disadvantaged schools are likely to be the early leavers. [More…]
There will assuredly be no high quality in Australian education as long as there continues to be public indifference and official complacency about the fate of children in disadvantaged circumstances. [More…]
The years 1974 and 1975 will see the beginning of an effort to solve the very formidable problems in special education for handicapped children. [More…]
We will continue with the grants under our predecessors’ Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and also with grants for training teachers for special education under our teacher education programs in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Local communities and local governments should become much more actively involved in supporting action for the families of handicapped children and for the handicapped children themselves. [More…]
Our Department of Education, enlightened and guided by the Pre-School Commisison and the Schools Commission - or in the event of the destruction of the Schools Commission by the Senate, the Interim Committee of the Schools Commission - should consider itself as having a special obligation to children and young people up to the age of 18 who have these special needs. [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…]
That would include children, those who have not bothered to enrol and, of course, those who do not have Australian citizenship. [More…]
Today they still live in the same house but their children have grown up and have gone off to new suburbs. [More…]
In those new suburbs there are young families with three, four or five children. [More…]
In certain parts of the metropolitan areas the population consists mostly of young families with a lot of children. [More…]
In many city suburbs there are large numbers of children. [More…]
Again, the Prime Minister wants the parents to have proxy votes on behalf of their children. [More…]
Indeed the proposal must discriminate against those who have raised their families and whose children have moved to other electorates. [More…]
I refer to the elderly, the young couples with few or no children and single people. [More…]
In many families the children act as interpreters. [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…]
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…]
While on the subject of education, it must be remembered that not only children but also adults are in great need. [More…]
There must be good educational facilities and, as has already been mentioned, increased sums are being made available to educate the children of migrants and, indeed, the migrants themselves. [More…]
The first is the popularisation of knowledge by the use of such things as colour slides and tapes to make available to Australian farmers, to Australian children, to Australian researchers - to the people who are interested - the correct nomenclature not only of Australian plants an animals but also those that have been introduced into Australia. [More…]
It has more children living in it than certainly any other place in the whole of this country. [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…]
I should like to go on record because in the years ahead these debates will be read by other people, by those who follow us and, who knows, perhaps by some of our children. [More…]
If he applies for a further passport certain requirements have to be met which are designed mainly to ensure that no matrimonial difficulties have arisen in the meantime and to ensure also that protection is given to children. [More…]
The honourable member might know that one of the difficulties that we have been encountering in recent times as a result of the increased mobility of the population is that when there is a breakdown of a marriage there is a tendency for one of the partners to decamp with the children. [More…]
There have been great difficulties in this respect; there are scattered across the world in a number of countries separated parents and children who are presently the subject of international litigation in which my Department is involved because the parents, being Australian citizens, turn to the Department and request help from it. [More…]
There are about 55,400 people who are married but have no entitlements for their dependants and, accordingly, have to take out private insurance for their dependants and, if there are children, that insurance has to be taken out at the married rate. [More…]
Persons in receipt of: age pensions invalid pensions widow’s pensions sheltered employment allowance service pensions certain persons undergoing rehabilitation persons receiving an allowance under the Tuberculosis Act dependent wife (or other female) children or student children of the foregoing persons persons receiving unemployment, sickness or special benefits low income families entitled to medical coverage and hospital benefits migrants who have joined a scheme - paid for by government for the first two months [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…]
It is true that Aboriginal children attending secondary school receive, without means test, an allowance from this Government. [More…]
But it is true also that we do this without means test for isolated children throughout Australia, regardless of the means of their parents. [More…]
Clearly this Government has taken such a sweeping decision without regard to the health and well being of Australia’s young school children. [More…]
The modified scheme, as it will operate from 1 January, means that free milk will be provided only for children attending specified schools. [More…]
But can such a saving and such a blatant attack on the health and well being of school children be considered in entirely monetary terms? [More…]
Can a government experiencing such difficulties in managing Australia’s economy blatantly say: OK, let us slash a few million dollars off the milk scheme’, thus leaving hundreds of thousands of Australian school children without the nutritional value that time has proved so important to their mental and physical development? [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…]
There is substantial agreement among health authorities that continuation of the scheme cannot be justified on purely nutritional grounds and there are expert views to the effect that any benefits to the diet from a free milk scheme are likely to be minimal beyond the age of seven, even at ages up to and including 7 years of age, its general usefulness has been questioned on the basis of current income levels and on the grounds that adequate nutrition can be provided for children from other sources. [More…]
In ‘New Scientist’, July 1971 Dr George Lynch and Dr Sylvia de la Paz of the Social Nutrition Research Unit at Queen Elizabeth College, London, report that their survey of 4,000 children showed a significant proportion malnourished and many more relying on school meals and free milk to make a poor diet adequate. [More…]
In accompanying editorial comment the ‘New Scientist’ says ‘But the decision to withdraw free school milk for 7 to 11-year-olds in Britain is an outrageous sacrifice of straightforward fact and, more importantly, children’s health, to what looks like a simple but vicious principle of penny pinching*. [More…]
School milk was shown to be important in providing protein which would otherwise be deficient in the diets of many children, particularly those from less affluent homes. [More…]
It should continue to be made available and children encouraged to drink it regularly. [More…]
They are people who have had a lifelong desire to acquire a farm which will support them in order to give their children a new area of opportunity. [More…]
I ask: Why should somebody, merely because he is over 65 years of age and is in receipt of a certain aggregate income, pay less tax than somebody of a lesser age who has a wife and children to support? [More…]
This means, of course, a continuing effort by all governments, Commonwealth and State, to achieve equality of opportunity for all children with the consequent responsibility to provide special assistance for disadvantaged children. [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…]
I am particularly pleased also to see emphasis being put on the preparation of teachers for handicapped children. [More…]
I would agree with those people who point out that handicapped children, whatever the nature of the handicap, should have special treatment, special resources and a special place in the thinking of governments, whether they be at the federal or State level. [More…]
Again, I commend the Government for its emphasis on the education of handicapped children - an emphasis which I point out once again was contained in the recommendations of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education set up by the previous Government. [More…]
Now, we are getting down to the really nitty-gritty - to primary and secondary education and to disadvantaged children. [More…]
The committee at that school is most anxious that social workers should be associated with the staff of the school to deal with many of the problems facing the children at the school. [More…]
The present Government accepted its recommendations entirely, providing special grants for teachers college libraries and research teacher education and increasing the number of teachers to teach handicapped children. [More…]
Unfortunately there appears to be no provision for funds to train teachers in the education of children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
Perhaps I have misread the Bill, but I hope that if this provision is not included the time will soon come when the Government will assist the parents of children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
The SPELD organisation has not been anxious to have its children classified as handicapped children. [More…]
Many of the children suffering from specific learning difficulties have very high or above average intelligence quotients. [More…]
I believe that the Government has made a worthy and generous attempt to provide for all children of ability an equality of opportunity in all fields of education. [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…]
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…]
But there are still children, even in that municipality, who do not receive the one year of pre-school education which most people who understand the work in this field believe is necessary. [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 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…]
I mention these changes and these challenges because it is to the teachers, to responsible professionally trained young men and women, that the future course of the lives of our young children will be moulded. [More…]
He was interested in the position as regards funds for the training of teachers of handicapped children. [More…]
3) provides $1.5m for the training of teachers of handicapped children, and that will cover- [More…]
For instance, a man with a wife and 2 children in New South Wales receiving $400 a week pays about only $53 a year after his taxation concession for private ward and medical insurance. [More…]
One of these, of course, was the decision to establish the Cohen committee, as a sub-committee of the Commission on Advanced Education, to examine the needs of teacher training throughout Australia, especially the needs of teacher training as it affects handicapped children. [More…]
That measure is one which should do a great deal to ensure that more well-qualified teachers are available in Australian schools and especially that more well-qualified teachers are appointed who will have the capacity to understand any remedial problems that might be involved with particular school children and be able to meet the difficulties imposed by children with special learning difficulties. [More…]
Areas where I think the Opposition has a similar approach to the Government include pre-schools, attitudes to technical education, remedies for the sorts of problems that are faced by isolated children, and the special programs that are being introduced to meet the needs of handicapped children of all kinds. [More…]
We want to make sure that the powers of the Commission spell out the necessity for the Commonwealth to be concerned with all school children and not with giving paramount importance to one group of children at the expense of another group. [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…]
I know that teachers would argue that they need all the holiday periods they can get and all the holiday periods that are available to school children. [More…]
The Bill also involves grants for handicapped children, capital and recurrent grants for government schools, recurrent grants for nongovernment schools, but not capital grants for non-government schools, because I understand that there might have been a belief that the non-government schools in that area would want to come within the ambit of government supervision and authority. [More…]
We are or will be doing much in physical terms to provide equal opportunity for all children, but we will need to do a good deal more to make sure that what happens in schools old and new is of the highest possible quality. [More…]
There can be no certainty that some of the present or modern methods of teaching will advance the cause of education and the cause of children. [More…]
Teachers therefore need to be much more cautious in their approach to experimentation when dealing with school children than a chemist or physicist might have to be in a laboratory. [More…]
Surveys conducted by the Inner Suburban Education Committee in Melbourne have shown how a comparatively small number of schools which include Melbourne’s oldest, least well equipped and least generously staffed schools, have been obliged to bear the brunt not only of the influx of children who speak little or no English, but also of the children from low income families and broken families who are attracted to the inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney by the availabilaity of low cost housing commission accommodation. [More…]
It was interesting to note that the Migrant Task Force for Victoria, established by the present Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), gave emphasis in its report to the fact that no more than 20 per cent of nonEnglish speaking migrant children in Melbourne were receiving the special sort of language assistance that they needed if they were to take proper advantage of the educational opportunities available to them or, failing taking proper advantage of those opportunities, merely functioned on an even level with the children around them who had no language disability. [More…]
I believe that it is the record of the State governments in relation to disadvantaged schools and schools for handicapped children which raises the gravest doubts about this proposition. [More…]
It has been very clear from what has happened in past years that the children who, by reason of special disadvantages, stood in greatest need of educational assistance were at the same time the children least likely to receive that assistance while the initiative was left to the States. [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…]
In these circumstances, the shortage of remedial teachers, of psychology and guidance staff and of speech therapists has been a tragedy for an enormous number of Australian children and for the parents who feel for them. [More…]
It is of the utmost encouragement to these parents to see that their long fight - the fight waged in particular by SPELD, the organisation of parents of children with specific learning difficulties - has paid off and that long and arduous public agitation has at last won recognition for the special needs of these children and guaranteed that their disabilities will be overcome. [More…]
If we are to proceed to a better quality of the end product, that is the children who are graduating from our schools, it is necessary that we attack some of these sacred cows in education. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) mentioned the necessity for early diagnosis of children with specific learning difficulties and I agree with that proposition. [More…]
I think that something like 15 per cent of the children in our schools are suffering from some learning difficulty but only about 5 per cent of those have hard core problems. [More…]
It is essential that these children be diagnosed at a very early stage and I suggest that the first year of primary school education is the best time for them to be diagnosed and picked out of the class. [More…]
Because of the nature of what remedial teachers try to do for the children they must have very small groups. [More…]
It is impossible, I suggest, for them to come under the provisions of this Bill which deal with handicapped children and special schools. [More…]
To be effective the remedial teacher must diagnose the children early and then proceed with them in small groups and tackle the problem which each of them has. [More…]
If the Government is serious about making educational opportunities available to all, surely the place to start is at the primary level to make sure that children with specific learning difficulties, such as with reading or doing sums, have their difficulties remedied quickly so that they can take advantage of later years of education without feeling left behind. [More…]
It is impossible for children to receive a proper education when, as has happened in schools in my electorate on occasions, a teacher change is made 3 times in the course of one term. [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…]
I believe that this legislation marks the turning point of a new deal for Australian school children. [More…]
Also per capita grants have been made to non-government schools to the extent of $62 per head for primary school children and $104 per head for secondary school children. [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…]
Nearly half the entering students were the children of professional and managerial fathers, who constituted 17.S per cent of the population in the age group likely to be their fathers; industrial workers were nearly 60 per cent of the population but their children accounted for only 22.6 per cent of students entering the 4 faculties. [More…]
We then move into the area of library grants, disadvantaged schools, special schools for handicapped children, teacher development and special projects. [More…]
His hypothesis that the Australian Government is closer to the needs of the people living in the States is one which assumes that the State Governments are unable because of political considerations to administer education within their boundaries for the benefit of the children of needy people. [More…]
So it is very dangerous to assume from that that a Canberra based government can minister to the needs of the people more adequately than a government based in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne or that a Canberra-based government can minister more adequately to the needs of the children of Moree than the general administrative structure in Sydney of the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
This action will result in heavy increases in fees to be paid by parents sending 33,000 children to category A schools next year, all for the sake of $2m in 1974 and $lm in 1975. [More…]
Yet any one of these 33,000 children will now have the right to enter universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary colleges without payment of fees. [More…]
It is clear that such policies, while assisting substantially needy schools, should not discriminate against parents who choose to send their children to schools of their choice. [More…]
Having pointed again to that dark cloud that casts its shadow over the better aspects of this Bill, I want to express my general support for the long strides that the Government has taken to assist the handicapped children, the funding of libraries in primary schools, the general building grants program, the provision of funds to the States for the housing of teaching and other staff in country areas, the disadvantaged schools program, the teacher development program for assistance to in-service teacher training and the special projects program. [More…]
I also welcome the assurance in the second reading speech of the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) that the States will retain responsibility for their own construction program for their own State schools and the schools for handicapped children. [More…]
In the interests of common sense and the education of our children the desire for centralised control of education must be cast aside. [More…]
I return now to the education of handicapped children. [More…]
The Government is to be congratulated for making substantial funds available for the 33,000 handicapped children throughout Australia - $20m for a building project for government schools, $14. [More…]
There is additionally the $2 for every $1 now available for building projects at non-government special schools under the handicapped children’s assistance Act. [More…]
Before the debate concludes I hope that the Postmaster-General will give a clear indication to this House that those children with specific learning difficulties as distinct from handicapped children will be taken into account with respect to remedial teacher training. [More…]
SPELD has been advocating assistance in this direction for two or three years and I hope that the Postmaster-General will give an assurance that children suffering from specific learning difficulties will be covered under the terms of this Bill. [More…]
They represent 10 per cent of all students in nonsystemic private schools, not counting the vast number of private school children who go to parish schools. [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…]
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…]
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…]
It had the information about handicapped children that was provided by a special Senate committee, which information lay idle for 1*8 months and about which the former Liberal-Country Party Government did nothing. [More…]
The education of handicapped children was characterised by omissions to meet need which bordered upon the callous. [More…]
Some States had no schemes for the assistance of isolated children worthy of the name of assistance. [More…]
A scheme existed through the Australian Department of Social Security to assist the education of handicapped children by private charities, but not in State schools. [More…]
Knowledge of _ the medical, psychological and physical characteristics of young children, and their home environments, was a closed book to the first teachers enrolling them at school. [More…]
Disadvantaged children and handicapped children suffered greatly in this situation. [More…]
We are reminded - and I want to remind the House - that the school is not the only agency in the community that helps to educate our children. [More…]
It needs to be more emphatically recognised - I really want to drive this home if I can - that children are born into a wide range of environmental circumstances. [More…]
The assumptions in the Bill are that all children, and indeed all persons, should have the opportunity to develop their own particular socially desirable talents to their fullest capacity. [More…]
In addition to the greatly increased capital, recurrent and library grants which will apply to almost all students, there will be extra millions of dollars in each of these and other aspects of education for those in disadvantaged schools - children of lower income families, many migrants with low incomes and language and social adjustment problems, Aborigines and children living in isolated areas. [More…]
One of the problems of migrant education which has been highlighted by some people recently is that the children of migrants, and of recently arrived migrants are involved in an environment at school which is in so many respects foreign to that which they have left behind in the old country. [More…]
Let us talk more about the need for the school to understand the culture from which these children have come. [More…]
Another area of this Bill provides assistance for special education for handicapped children. [More…]
at which special education is provided for handicapped children, or if education other than such special education is provided at that school, that school in so far as it provides such special education; [More…]
It would hit at parents who wished to make additional provision for their handicapped children. [More…]
It would hit at parents who wanted their handicapped children to receive an education with a particular religious or philosophic bent. [More…]
It would do nothing to aid the integration of children needing special education with normal children in ordinary school situations. [More…]
It has a small unit set up for deaf children and provides them with highly specialised training in the broader context of an ordinary, normal, day to day school environment. [More…]
I should have thought that we would all agree that wherever possible that is precisely the way we should be educating handicapped children. [More…]
Yet the outpourings and the ultimate upshot of the report is that it strikes a cruel blow against countless parents who have given so much beyond their tax towards educating their children. [More…]
The handicapped, migrant children and isolated children received little or no help to overcome their impossible burdens. [More…]
This Bill will put into effect the recommendations of the Karmel Committee so that we can start eliminating the deficiencies, equalising the equality of access to education for all children and compensating for handicaps suffered by children because of physical, social, mental, sexual or geographic factors. [More…]
All parents will be expecting a better deal for their children next year, and they must not be disappointed. [More…]
The report establishes beyond doubt the appalling variations in opportunities available to Australian children. [More…]
Many children of migrants have special problems requiring specialist teaching. [More…]
None of the secondary schools in the La Trobe survey had class space or specialist teachers to provide special education for migrant children. [More…]
Each of the secondary schools had about 30 children who required individual specialist coaching in English. [More…]
One rural primary school of 50 children - all of whom needed special migrant English lessons - did not have one specialist teacher. [More…]
In another similar school 20 per cent of the children were in need of specialist English teaching. [More…]
One government secondary school stated simply that all children required counselling as part of their secondary education. [More…]
There will never be equality in education as long as there is no compensatory education and counselling for children in disadvantaged circumstances. [More…]
One might well ask why parents send their children to non-government schools. [More…]
Parents who send their children to schools outside the State system have usually done so for 3 reasons. [More…]
The second reason is that parents have wanted to provide their children with a particular religious background in their education - mainly those going to Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Adventist and similar schools - or they may do so for diversity, an experimental or unique education. [More…]
I turn to the words of an old friend who told me that the common denominator of religious faiths was the belief in the brotherhood and sisterhood of mankind and that those professing religious affiliations cannot show a better attitude to others than by application of brotherly love in positive discrimination on a needs basis to children who must overcome financial, social and even family background problems, among their own, other religions and non-believers. [More…]
It should be remembered that the Commonwealth per capita system has applied only to pupils at independent schools and not to state school children. [More…]
The per capita system disregards needs and gives the same grant to the children of poor parents as to the children of wealthy parents. [More…]
Parents who wish to educate their children outside the system should be free to do so, but their choice should not be subsidised beyond that needed to provide adequate education. [More…]
Never before has a Federal government tackled the huge problem of education with such enthusiasm and with so much concern for all children as has been exhibited by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
This Bill puts into effect the Karmel Committee’s recommendations designed to provide a general upgrading of facilities, special consideration for the needs of disadvantaged children and improvements in the quality of education. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I can go no further than to repeat what I have said and to exhort the Opposition to drop its sham amendments, to realise that per capita grants will never mean equality of access to education and that the report of the experts who formed the Interim Committee and the legislation that has been carefully and thoroughly drafted around that to put it into effect is the only way we can uplift the standard of all school children to a high level by the end of this decade. [More…]
I am particularly pleased to see the emphasis which has been placed upon educational provisions for disadvantaged children. [More…]
I point out that we should not look at the contents of this Bill as providing all the answers for disadvantaged children, regardless of what type of disadvantage is encompassed. [More…]
There have always been disadvantaged children. [More…]
There are disadvantaged children at the moment and there always will be disadvantaged children. [More…]
A continuing effort must be made by the Government to see that the needs of these children who for whatever reason are disadvantaged, are assessed and that provision is made to help overcome the disadvantages they face. [More…]
We all know of children who come within the definition of disadvantaged children, if one can use that phrase, because they have learning difficulties although those learning difficulties are not perhaps serious enough to warrant their being classed as disadvantaged children. [More…]
I cannot see within the Bill - at least it has not been made plain within the Bill - how SPELD type children, if I can use that phrase, are to be assisted by the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
I am very concerned about ensuring that teachers at schools not classified as special schools or disadvantaged schools have an opportunity for in-service training so that they are equipped to detect and assist children who need remedial treatment just as soon as those children appear within the school system. [More…]
Other parents with children at private schools are equally taxpayers. [More…]
His electorate is very similar to mine and his problems with disadvantaged children, migrant children and children from broken homes, high density living and low income families are similar to mine because I represent an inner western suburb of Sydney and the honourable member for Casey represents a suburb of Melbourne. [More…]
I should like to take these honourable members around my electorate and show them the requirements of an electorate in an inner western suburb of Sydney, where children are being taught in school corridors. [More…]
I have seen the children of migrant families trying to teach other migrant children the English language. [More…]
We will give these children, whether they be our own children or migrant children who are entering these schools, a decent education. [More…]
I rise purely to debate this rather vexed question of equality of opportunity which seems to me to be rather difficult to understand, after all the years in which we have listened to members of the present Government refer to what happened to children brought up in certain areas, in certain ways or by certain parents. [More…]
It is said that certain children are disadvantaged in comparison with children brought up in other areas, in other ways and by other parents. [More…]
I think one can perpetuate just as must injustice by an over-insistence that disadvantage is a fact of life today; as one can cause by an assertion that there is a very great variation between the homes in which children are brought up in one area as against another. [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…]
The big problem that occurs to me at this stage in relation to this Bill is that a lot of the initiative and a lot of the enterprise is to be taken from the process which develops a pride in children, no matter what section of the spectrum they may have been brought up in. [More…]
Let us look at the basic variables in relation to the education of our children. [More…]
Honourable members on both sides have seen brilliant children born of brilliant parents, where academic learning is a matter of great ease to them. [More…]
These children are fortunate in that because of their genetics they have this capacity. [More…]
We see the range of ability in children, depending on what their parents are. [More…]
We know of brilliant parents who have children without much ability and people without much apparent ability who have brilliant children. [More…]
There will be some brilliant children, some dumb children - if that is not too unkind - and a hell of a lot in the middle of the range. [More…]
At this point of time one would think that the Government would be saying quite plainly that it sees the time coming when the environmental grounds in which all children are brought up are so level in this country that all children will be able to have pride, no matter where they were born, in being able to get up and say: ‘I won a government scholarship’. [More…]
In this way we get real initiatives and real sense into the problem of training children to a work pattern which will benefit them in later life. [More…]
The problem is whether the right procedures have been adopted to achieve worthwhile results on behalf of the future children of this nation. [More…]
It goes to those education authorities in the States no matter whether they are dealing with government or nongovernment areas, and they will allocate those resources into the classroom and amongst the children. [More…]
We propose a new charter for the children of Australia. [More…]
Sure - we can have education on the cheap … but our children will be paying for it for the rest of their lives. [More…]
Such children are not deemed to be handicapped children within the meaning of the Act. [More…]
There is an acknowledged need for increased specialist assistance to children in normal classes experiencing specific learning difficulties. [More…]
It will not be able to implement properly the library grants mentioned in clauses 17 to 25 or the grants for disadvantaged schools, the grants in respect of special schools for handicapped children, the grants in respect of teacher development or those applying to innovations which are referred to as special projects. [More…]
In the process the Opposition wants specifically to deny the primary obligation of governments to provide government schools of high standard open without fees or religious tests to all children. [More…]
Four members will be appointed on the recommendation of the Australian Education Council - of which the Australian Minister for Education is in fact Chairman - one of whom will be involved with the education of handicapped children or children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
It would be a national tragedy for our schools and the children who attend them if the work, the assessment of needs and the supervision of the program of assistance to schools to which we have given attention today had to be carried on by an interim committee with all the limitations that that involves. [More…]
11 to clause 13 and the concept of article 26 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and in particular the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
children which are of the highest standard and which recognise the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children and where provided and maintained by or on behalf of a government ensure that these opportunities are open without fees or religious tests to all children. [More…]
What we are seeking to do is to protect the children of Australia and the organisations concerned with the education of children in Australia in the future. [More…]
I do not want to say any more about the matter, but it is atrocious that children are being used in a political concept in amendments of this nature. [More…]
This is a recognition of the fact that the curriculum in the ordinary secondary schools is not well adapted to the needs of Aboriginal children. [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…]
When we think of their health we think more particularly of the health of the infants and small children. [More…]
If anything contributed to the health of Aboriginal children it was the half pint of milk, or whatever the quantity was, that they received each day. [More…]
I have appealed to the Treasurer (Mr Crean), and I do so again, to reconsider what was a pretty petty decision - the decision to take free milk away from the children, particularly the Aboriginal children of the outback. [More…]
They are trying to start a scheme to provide a hot meal daily for the children attending the local high school. [More…]
With reference to the recent reports of the high death rate of wild donkeys being transported from Derby, Western Australia, to the eastern States for children’s pets and pet food, will he investigate the position of the protection by Western Australia of these animals and ascertain the need to confer with State authorities to ensure the humane treatment and protection of the donkeys. [More…]
What percentage of eligible children attend preschool centres in (a) the Australian Capital Territory and (b) the Northern Territory. [More…]
How many children are there in each of these centres. [More…]
(a) A survey of children newly-enrolled in primary schools in the Australian Capital Territory in 1972 indicated that 84 per cent of these children had attended pre-school within the twelve months prior to their enrolment in primary school. [More…]
Total enrolments at pre-school centres in the Northern Territory as at July 1973 represented approximately 52 per cent of the estimated number of 3 and 4 year old children. [More…]
The numbers of children enrolled in each of these centres are shown in the following lists: [More…]
The honourable member for Darling is also distressed that these people might have to face Christmas with a house full of children and no work. [More…]
The Opposition believes in equal opportunity for all children. [More…]
Mr Lionel Bowen - You will deprive all the children of these benefits. [More…]
MIGRANT EDUCATION Mr BIRRELL- Can the Minister for Immigration confirm that the Melbourne education task force has advised him that only 20 per cent of Melbourne’s non-English speaking migrant children are receiving adequate educational opportunities? [More…]
Does the Minister anticipate that serious harm will be done to the migration program and to the capacity of migrant children to take advantage of the opportunities open to them in Australia if the Government is forced to divert to schools which are already highly privileged, the funds which were to have made up the Karmel Committee grants? [More…]
In one Queensland school the language class for migrant children is held in a cellar, and there is a series of desks made out of trestle tables. [More…]
I have noticed the articles on the cultural deprivation and the educational hardships of migrant children at the Glebe. [More…]
They are, of course, paralleled by the deprivations and disadvantages and the handicaps of migrant children in particular in a great number of inner suburbs around Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
There is no possibility of the children of migrants in those circumstances achieving an equal opportunity in life in their new country unless the Commonwealth provides the resources to get more teachers, particularly specially trained teachers, and better accommodation and better equipment in the schools. [More…]
How many migrant children go to category A schools? [More…]
How many children from disadvantaged localities or families go to category A schools? [More…]
I think of, firstly, inflation, secondly, the broken promises that children should have per capita education grants; thirdly, the promises to the wine industry which, in the view of the Premier of South Australia have been broken; fourthly, the wrecking of the defence structure of Australia; fifthly, the wrecking of the mineral industry and the petroleum exploration industry. [More…]
This per capita grant to all school children existed at that time. [More…]
Twenty-two per cent of all Australian children attend those schools, and this affects every one of them. [More…]
In the secondary schools, categories A to F - which contain about half the children in the private schools and the Catholic parochial schools - are to be worse off under the Karmel Committee’s report. [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…]
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…]
How many Australians listening to me today would think that the Opposition would play politics with the children of Australia? [More…]
So, here is a complete repudiation of Labor’s promise; a breach of faith with the parents of school children in Australia. [More…]
The Government knows in its own heart that it has broken an undertaking that it gave to Australian parents who were sending their children to independent schools. [More…]
The Government has failed to honour undertakings that the Prime Minister himself gave, whilst Leader of the Opposition, to parents with children at independent schools. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party came to power on the firm pledge that it would do right by Australian education and by the school children of Australia who needed assistance. [More…]
If that is not holding a gun at the head of the school children of Australia, who are represented well toy the Labor Government, I do not know what is. [More…]
It does not want anything for the children who go to schools in Surry Hills, Balmain or Glebe. [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…]
What about the school children in Glebe, Surry Hills and Balmain. [More…]
If they are really concerned about the wealth of individual parents, why do they not move against the wealthy parents who send their children to state schools? [More…]
Where is the hypocrisy that they suggest is in us when we say that all children, no matter where they come from and no matter what their background, should be treated basically as equals? [More…]
What we seek to do is to provide a fundamental right for all Australian children to support from the Australian Government - to all Australian school children, no matter what school they are at - free of religious bias, free of class bitterness as put forward particularly by the Minister for Secondary Industry. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), backed up by the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar), claims that 53 per cent of children will be worse off. [More…]
In fact 96 per cent of the children attending secondary schools in Australia will be better off - and much better off. [More…]
Twenty-nine per cent of the children fall into categories A to C and 71 per cent of all children, primary and secondary, fall into the other categories where they clearly get more. [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…]
Young people with young families may very well want to live further away from the city centre; but, as the children grow older and leave home, the parents who are left on their own may very well want to live in the closer city area. [More…]
Pedestrian deaths, I repeat, comprise one-quarter of all Australian road deaths, and in most cases little children or older people are the victims. [More…]
The Radburn principle of planning, in which there are overpasses and underpasses, where children can play safely and walk to school, to playing fields and to shopping centres without ever coming into contact with a vehicle, is, I believe, the hope of the future. [More…]
It may be a small, gradual industrial growth, perhaps just to take care of the unemployment situation which still exists in rural areas, and to take care of the children of the district who are growing up and who wish to stay in the district and seek employment. [More…]
This unit also accommodates long term crippled children. [More…]
There are still some parts of Australia where for various reasons Aborigines do not receive the full benefits available to the rest of the community and there are some advantages, such as the secondary school allowances, which are payable to Aboriginal children and only to selected groups of non-Aboriginal children. [More…]
It reads: the House, while not refusing a second reading to the Bill, is of the opinion that it should provide for the establishment of an Australian Schools Commission to examine and determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary and technical schools, and recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to assist in meeting the requirements of all school age children on the basis of needs and priorities and that the application of this policy could not allow the continued acceptance of the provisions of the Bill and that therefore grants should not be made on the basis provided in the Bill in respect of any year after 1973. [More…]
What we wanted and what we still want is to achieve a situation where not just the children in category A schools but all children will receive per capita grants. [More…]
This device could have saved the lives of 3 young children of a family a week or two ago. [More…]
For some years before this the Commonwealth had been providing hearing aids free to children, repatriation cases, serving members of the defence forces, persons in receipt of allowances under the Tuberculosis Act and in cases where the Commonwealth had a liability under the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act. [More…]
Deaf children who suffer the profound and continuous limitations of deafness also warrant preferential treatment if they are to be assisted in adjusting to their problems and making a successful run in life. [More…]
The Bill also includes reference to other matters, such as an increase in the benefit for handicapped children from $1.50 to $3 daily to have effect from 1 January 1974. [More…]
First, I refer to the handicapped children’s benefit. [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…]
The point I want to make relates to the contradiction that parents of handicapped children face. [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…]
Such parents already carry a heavy financial and emotional burden in having handicapped children. [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…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that the Government proposes to deprive a small number of children of the subsidy given to all other children in Australia because their parents have chosen to send them to what the Government describes as ‘wealthy schools’? [More…]
Is it also a fact that many thousands of children of wealthy parents are given free education in public high schools? [More…]
Is the Government proposing to give free education to all children attending universities irrespective of the wealth of their parents? [More…]
Why does the Government discriminate against the children attending the small number of schools classified as ‘wealthy’ even though their parents are not wealthy? [More…]
The whole purpose of the Government’s policies is to see that by 1979 - in 6 years time - there will be an equal opportunity for all children attending school in Australia. [More…]
I only hope that prices do not escalate too much and that the building program is able to keep ahead of the development of the city and the increase in the number of children. [More…]
We say this because we not only guarantee in the powers that we would want to subscribe to the commission that that commission would have to take into account the requirements of all school children and of all school systems but also take into account the prior and major responsibility the States have for their State schools and independent authorities for theirs. [More…]
It must look after the interests of all students and all children. [More…]
These people say that it is marvellous to have schools where there will be admission fees of $700; that keeps many other children out. [More…]
The Opposition caters for privilege and is masquerading behind the statement that it is interested in the education of all children, whereas it is not. [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…]
That man wants his wife or his children to have intermediate or private ward accommodation. [More…]
In Australia, where doctors are paid on a fee for service basis, he found on a sample of over 8 million services - he used all the health fund statistics - that the tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy rate, in this country, mainly for children, was seven per thousand. [More…]
Are we suggesting that Australian children are twice as ill as American or English children? [More…]
I should think that many people would claim that our children are healthier than in either of the 2 countries, because we have fewer people who are less well-off and living in less adequate conditions. [More…]
In the case of a married couple with 2 children with only the husband working, if the gross weekly income is $120, under the present scheme the rate is 52c, whereas under the new scheme it will be $1.52. [More…]
Working married couples with no children who earn $120 a week contribute under the present scheme $1.08, with the rate for the new scheme being $2.20. [More…]
The position of a working married couple with 2 children would be somewhat similar, with the new contribution of $2.08 comparing with the present contribution of $1.08. [More…]
For preferred accommodation for a married couple with 2 children, with only the husband working and receiving $120 a week, at present the contribution is $1.44 and the new contribution will be $2. [More…]
Does the Minister for Health recall the strong representations that I have made to him both in a personal capacity and on behalf of many individuals and organisations about the provision of milk to school children? [More…]
The matter of the modification of the milk for school children scheme was considered by a meeting of State Ministers with me in September. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House what criteria were adopted by the Government in reaching the decision he announced this morning that the Government would not provide even one drop of milk to needy school children from 1 January next, despite the provision made in the Budget for this purpose? [More…]
Does this mean that he now believes that no health disabilities exist among remotely located school children and particularly Aboriginals in Australia? [More…]
It is not true that we deny anything to needy children, but it is true that needy children have not been identified. [More…]
In the expert information that has come before me there have been at least 2 studies which indicate that the consumption of milk by children of school age has not increased under the school milk scheme; in fact, there has been overall a slight reduction which may not be statistically significant. [More…]
On the contrary, I think that the parents show great wisdom in getting milk as a readily available component of diet that is given to their children rather than spending on something else which may be of very much less value nutritionally. [More…]
When the school milk scheme was introduced there was evidence that among the Australian community there were significant percentages of children with deficiencies in protein and calcium intake. [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…]
We learnt today that free milk for school children, costing $10m, is cut out completely but on the very same day a holiday handout of $27m is offered to a section - a privileged section - of the community. [More…]
The honourable member should look closer to home at the Royal Children’s Hospital in his own city and inquire whether the standards of that institution - the centre of specialised paediatric care for the sick children of 2 States - are in doubt because the whole medical staff is employed on salaried and sessional arrangements. [More…]
The objectives, as set out in its terms of reference, are the opportunity of one year of pre-school for all children and day care services for pre-school age children of working parents and underprivileged familiies. [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…]
The true facts of life are that, because of the present inequality, we can help all children in all schools only by giving the needier schools greater amounts. [More…]
One trade union man was even prevented from returning to Mount Isa to visit his wife and children. [More…]
I would have thought that this was basic economics of the sort our children are taught if not in the final year of their high school courses, then certainly in their first year of university. [More…]
The Government has also sought to have the Schools Commission established as an independent statutory advisory body which will recommend measures for raising the standards of education in schools and for eliminating inequalities in opportunity among Australian school children. [More…]
For many years a campaign was waged to achieve justice for the school children of this country. [More…]
But in the Karmel Committee report a phasing out of assistance for a certain number of children in this community was recommended. [More…]
The only defence to having their grants reduced is to sack teachers to increase the student-teacher ratio so that the school can be put into a lower category such as D or C instead of staying in A simply because the parents are prepared to make that greater sacrifice for their children. [More…]
A narrow group of schools will develop at which the students will be the children of the very wealthy who will start to try to establish a hegemony of influence in Australia economically and socially. [More…]
As for a double dissolution, if the Government wanted a double dissolution on this issue it would take place in March or April next year and the people of Australia would have gone through a month in which school children, the schools and the school teachers would have been deprived of all the benefits proposed in the Karmel Committee report. [More…]
We know that many parents who send their children to private schools are by no means wealthy. [More…]
But they are prepared to make sacrifices so that they can send their children to schools which they believe offer extra opportunities for their children. [More…]
In other cases, parents are forced to send their children to private schools because there is simply no other school available to them - and this applies in particular to many country children. [More…]
In still other cases, of course, there are special circumstances within families which necessitate children attending boarding schools. [More…]
These amendments will ensure that, firstly, the Commission consults and cooperates with State departments of education and the authorities responsible for and connected with non-government schools; secondly, the highest standards are achieved in both government and non-government schools and that the parents of all children are given the right to choose the kind of education they wish their children to receive, and, finally, that it will he mandatory for the Minister to prescribe by regulation the composition of the State advisory boards and the functions of those boards. [More…]
Mr Chairman, faced with a situation in which there was a danger that the result would be far worse, and that the entire education program stood to be held up, the Country Party felt that efforts had to be made to bring about a resolution of an impasse which was not in the interests of the education of the children of Australia. [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…]
These children are taught in the same forum and, in the main, through the same education system. [More…]
We have given a new deal to the children of Australia. [More…]
1 1 December: Care and Education of Young Children - A Report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee - Tabled by Mr Bowen. [More…]
the interests of the children and the communities in which they live will be best served if the Australian Government directs its funds towards improving and extending schools and educational facilities in ‘remote’ towns, and establishing hostels in these areas where necessary. [More…]
This will result in fewer Aboriginal children having to leave home to attend school, and those who must still live away from home will at least be within easier reach of their families. [More…]
Does either the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act or the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act provide capital subsidy to organisations to enable hostel accommodation to be provided for handicapped adults, aged between 21 and 65, who are so severely physically handicapped that they cannot be employed in a sheltered workshop. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Spastic Children’s Society has had to defer further planning for a hostel at Keilor, Victoria, which could now be meeting the needs of 60 severely handicapped adults if only a subsidy were available. [More…]
I am also advised that the Spastic Children’s Society of Victoria has not yet made formal application to my Department for a grant towards the cost of the eligible areas of its complex. [More…]
(a) and (b) Had these evictions been enforced and the employees and their families been required to move elsewhere the education of the children, and the family life of the people involved, would obviously have been affected. [More…]
For example, a man with a wife and two children in the State of New South Wales earning $70.00 per week gross would pay about $77.00 per year for medical and public ward hospital insurance after tax concessions are claimed. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a recent report in the United States of America which points to some relationship between smallpox injections of children and multiple sclerosis in later life. [More…]
P. aircraft by Ministers’ wives and children. [More…]
Ministers must seek the prior approval of the Minister for Services and Property for other travel within Australia by their children at official expense. [More…]
Travel within Australia by wives and children of private senators and members is determined by the Minister for Services and Property. [More…]
Dependent children of the Member for the Northern Territory and of members whose homes are in Western Australia or north of the Tropic of Capricorn may travel to Canberra at Government expense once each financial year. [More…]
On such occasions the member’s wife may accompany the children without the travel being debited against her entitlement of four return trips to Canberra. [More…]
The general criteria for travel by wives and children of members of the Australian Parliament are set out in the 1959 Richardson Report on the Salaries and Allowances of Members of the Commonwealth Parliament’ at paragraphs 58a and 59 on pages 21, 22 and 23. [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…]
The proposal is to construct a school to cater for an initial enrolment of 250 primary students and 60 secondary students with a further 50 children attending the pre-school. [More…]
We are seeing moves to bring about greater equality in Australia for men, women and children and the various other matters which have been the main planks of our platform. [More…]
The Government is asking the average income earner, after allowing concessional deductions for a wife and 2 children, to pay some 40 per cent more in income tax this year. [More…]
How is it possible to evaluate the effect on the future wellbeing of men, women and children who fall into the cold category of flood victims? [More…]
I would say that this represents schools in which 80 per cent of the children in nongovernment primary schools are enrolled. [More…]
By the elimination of the supply of free milk to school children the Government hopes to save $12m. [More…]
We contribute to financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and to a variety of international and regional programs like the United Nations Development program, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation and the World Food Program. [More…]
Three factors were evident in his excellent report: The unbelievably high proportion of aged people, the growing numbers of young families with children and the need to provide improved health care in the community and at home. [More…]
If he has a wife and 2 children his tax has risen, as a result of the extra $1,000 income, from $970 to $1,320. [More…]
If one concedes that food prices have increased by 23 per cent and he has a wife and children to keep, he is positively worse off. [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…]
He said that those works were the start of construction on a unit to treat emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. [More…]
One asks: Is $2.1m of the $4m allocated for the Westmead teaching hospital to be used on additional facilities for Marsden hospital for handicapped children? [More…]
No relief can be given to the hundreds of mothers who have to take their children 20 miles to the Camperdown Children’s Hospital each day because no hospital in their area has the necessary consultants who can deal with their children’s sicknesses. [More…]
Recently, the Morrabbin Association for the Intellectually Retarded’ purchased a property to use as a day training centre for about 100 retarded children. [More…]
It is well known that under the system of Commonwealth secondary scholarships the honourable member for Henty advocated, fewer than 4 per cent of the children who got awards would otherwise have been obliged to leave school. [More…]
I refer to the grant for isolated children, the increased expenditure on schools, the assistance to local government and the preschool grants. [More…]
It was a request from a citizen of the area asking that her son and his wife and their 5 children should be allowed to come to Australia. [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…]
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…]
It shows that, despite advantages that this country has, something like 1 in 10 of its men, women and children - old people, married people on low incomes and children - is suffering from what might be called some degree of poverty. [More…]
A developing world in which children under age 5 account for only 20 per cent of the population, but for more than 60 per cent of the deaths. [More…]
A developing world in which two thirds of the children who have escaped death will live on, restricted in their growth by malnutrition - a malnutrition that can stunt both bodies and minds alike. [More…]
We have seen other school children sitting in overcrowded classrooms. [More…]
We have seen some school children being taught in corridors. [More…]
As usual the Victorian Education Department was years behind in its planning and, of course, those who suffer for this inefficiency are the school children. [More…]
As we supply free buses for the children of Canberra it may well be appropriate to do the same in this case. [More…]
In my view there has been an over-emphasis on the need for children to achieve a university degree of some kind of another or to enter upon an academic career. [More…]
These subjects surely should have some relevance to local employment opportunities available to children once they leave school. [More…]
I find in my own area that very often the curricula available to the children often have insufficient relevance to the opportunities awaiting them once they complete their Higher School Certificate. [More…]
I mention this because it is apparent to me that in my electorate, where there is a great number of Aboriginal children in towns like Moree, there is not much incentive for many of the Aboriginal pupils to continue with their secondary education because the curriculum that they are following has little relevance to job opportunities in the local area. [More…]
We tried to deal with him last year by extending to technical education the isolated children’s grants. [More…]
This exclusion however is not applicable to enrolments by Australian residents enrolling in correspondence courses from overseas - for example, children of diplomatic personnel. [More…]
An interesting thing about one of the schools at Minto is that the Council is actually coming in to provide heated pools for handicapped children attending the Minto school. [More…]
There will be an assessment centre for mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
At last the handicaped children in this country are beginning to get a better deal. [More…]
He has a wife and 5 children and he maintains them on unemployment benefits, reporting to my officers that it was better than working. [More…]
The wife was found to be below average intelligence, the 5 children below standard physically. [More…]
I would say that to burden ageing parents with such a family - a man, wife and 5 children would be too much, even if I had the authority to spend Australian taxpayers’ money on such a case. [More…]
In January 1974 it was announced that the Federal Government would contribute $160,000 a year towards the cost of free dental services for school children up to the age of 15 years. [More…]
There has been no talk about justice for the poor parents, or the relatively poor parents, who happen to send, or struggle to send their children, to certain schools. [More…]
In 1949-50, a year in which taxation revenue was determined by a Labor budget, the income paid in tax by a worker receiving average weekly earnings and having a wife and 2 children dependent upon him was 2.9 per cent. [More…]
School uniforms for her children are unprocurable. [More…]
Australians who have the interest of government and Catholic schools at heart are not going to forget easily or soon how the honourable member for Wannon held up the States Grants (Schools) Bill late last year in a last ditch effort to exact $114m overwhelmingly for the benefit of children who already enjoy an education of very high quality. [More…]
This would leave hundreds of children with no kindergartens and would lead to retrenchment of teachers and other staff. [More…]
I think that we all attach great importance to pre-school kindergartens because these institutions condition the children for primary school life in the immediate future. [More…]
For existing pre-schools, Australian Government assistance would contribute to staff salary costs and be available to avoid the need for parent contributions in respect of pre-schools catering especially for children in need. [More…]
When we came in with our isolated children’s grants, they were additional in the case of most States but - heaven knows how it has gotten away with it - New South Wales never had an isolated children’s grant at all. [More…]
He has come forward and is a fine man, married to an Australian, has children, and has never committed any crime or done anything out of place. [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…]
Will the Minister ensure that the needs of school children from low income families are fully protected by the Australian Government? [More…]
We have no information on the plans of the New South Wales Goverment to undertake research into the needs of disadvantaged children. [More…]
Yet, for a married man with 2 children the tax on that amount increased by $3.50. [More…]
That was all the increase a working man with 2 children got during the year. [More…]
Because of the present rate of inflation rents are being increased and it costs more to rear children. [More…]
At the moment there is before the court an application for an increase in minimum wages which, even if it is successful in full, will not produce a minimum wage of $79 a week, yet that conceptually is to provide not only for a married couple but for 2 children as well. [More…]
These include continuation of war pensions for children in full time education, regardless of age, the recognition of de facto wives and ex-nuptial children and continued payment of [More…]
These include the war widow’s pension and domestic allowance, the pensions for war orphans and widowed mothers and the allowances under the soldiers’ children education scheme. [More…]
The Government has been unable within these priorities to increase the pension rates for wives and children. [More…]
by leave - The Opposition would support a provision which would provide for better and more extensive training for teachers of handicapped children, taking ‘handicapped’ in its broadest terms. [More…]
While substantial progress has been made in many areas of education in recent years, I am concerned that further development should occur in meeting the needs of those children who are handicapped or who have special learning difficulties. [More…]
Pay particular attention to the means by which the training of specialist teachers notably for handicapped children may, be improved. [More…]
The penalty of children will be present at every level of income dependent on the size of the loan and the income received. [More…]
We maintain that the children of Australia are entitled to decent housing and that adequate help should be given to the families of those children to achieve that end. [More…]
The variation arises because of a difference in the estimated cost savings associated with the abolition of taxation deductions for dependent children. [More…]
All reports which the Government has commissioned have been tabled; for example, the Coombs Task Force report; the Priorities Review Committee report; the Green and White Papers on Health Insurance; the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission - First Report; the Protection Commission Inquiry; a report from the Social Welfare Commission concerning Aged Person’s Housing; the First Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Tenures; the Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments; the Care and Education of Young Children - a report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee; report of the Advisory Committee on CES Employment Statistics, and many others. [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…]
In subsequent years savings from the removal of the taxation concession for dependent children will be of the order of $25m a year. [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…]
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…]
Another point which is even more fundamental in terms of the taxation fabric in the society relates to taxation deductions for dependent children being abolished. [More…]
What is not spelt out in the report and what the Government has not said in its response - and this is not criticism of the Government is that if taxation deductions for dependent children are abolished there will need to be a massive restructuring of the taxation schedules. [More…]
A developing world in which children under age five account for only 20 per cent of the population, but for more than 60 per cent of the deaths. [More…]
A developing world in which two-thirds of the children who have escaped death will live on, restricted in their growth by malnutrition - a malnutrition that can stunt both bodies and minds alike. [More…]
These include $2.4m for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to provide for award wage employment of Aboriginals formerly employed under the training allowance scheme in the Northern Territory; S5.285m for the Department of Education, including $l.lm for secondary grants to Aboriginals and $1.3m for assistance to isolated children; SI 1.5m for the Department of Foreign Affairs for payment under the National Wheat Agreement - Food Aid Convention; $5.1m for the Department of the Media for increased costs of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; S1.5m for the Department of Minerals and Energy for oil search subsidies; SO. [More…]
Dr Nyerere said that only half of Tanzania’s children attend primary school, infant mortality is ISO per thousand live births, and the per capita national income is only SA70 a head a year. [More…]
The President of the World Bank is now stressing the needs of a developing world in which children under 5 account for only 20 per cent of the population but for more than 60 per cent of the deaths. [More…]
A developing world in which two-thirds of the children who have escaped death will live on, restricted in their growth by malnutrition . [More…]
I had my wife and 3 children with me and I was paying, I think, S35 a night. [More…]
We were in a weatherboard shack with the 3 children’s beds stuck alongside each other. [More…]
It was amusing to listen to his colleague, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), who told a story of the bark hut in the north, where all he had was a tiled floor, and his 3 small children were in wooden beds. [More…]
The tenant of the house was a fettler who had only recently been transferred to Cook with his wife and children. [More…]
In 1973 there were 3S1 Aboriginal children of school age in the Yirrkala area. [More…]
Approximately 120 children had an attendance record of over 90 per cent. [More…]
Included in the figure of 351 were 45 children at the newly formed outstations at Garrthalala (Caledon Bay), Gurrumuru (Arnhem Bay), Gurrka (Trial Bay), Gangan (Koolalong River) and Barniyala (between Trial Bay and Blue Mud Bay)’. [More…]
Of these 13 children were still enrolled at Yirrkala Area School at the end of the 1973 school year. [More…]
Schooling for Aboriginal children at Yirrkala, or at any of the schools formerly administered by the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior, was not compulsory until December 1973, when by amendment to the Northern Territory Education Ordinance, compulsory education was extended to all Northern Territory children between the ages of 6 and 15, subject to accessibility to school facilities. [More…]
the setting up of local education committees to ensure that children will be more strongly encouraged through the deeper involvement of the local Aboriginal Council. [More…]
the provision of a mobile school complex for the settlement of Garrthalala (Caledon Bay) which could cater for a large number of children living some distance from the Yirrkala Area School. [More…]
and (2) Acts administered by my Department under which local government bodies, together with other types of organisations, may receive subsidies, either directly or through the State Government, are the Aged Persons Homes Act, the Aged Persons Hostels Act, the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act, the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act, the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and the States Grants (Home Care) Act. [More…]
Even the children of Australia are concerned about the tragedies of the Whitlam administration. [More…]
In many cases orphan children should receive some greater benefit because often they are in great need. [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…]
It gets to the point where, at a meeting I had last Monday, a young woman with young children told me that the burden of taxes and prices on her family was such that though she did not want to do it - she wanted to remain home with her young children - in order to preserve her family’s standard of living she was going to be forced to take employment. [More…]
In the last few years under the previous Go.ernment estimates were given that the state of Australian education, that all-important matter of Australian education - our children growing up - was so sick and sorry that $ 1400m over 5 years was required to put it right. [More…]
The fact is that the present means test for deciding eligibility for the pensioner medical service for a couple without children is $86.50 a week, whereas a couple without children cannot be admitted to the subsidised health benefits plan unless they have a weekly income of $69.50 or less. [More…]
I ask the Minister to refer to matters relating to his own portfolio insofar as they relate to the training of these children, and not to offer any opinion on what any other Party thought. [More…]
The Minister should just answer the question relating to the training of children. [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…]
For instance, as Minister for Education in Canberra I have noted that there are 2 Catholic schools, built not so very long ago, that now have no children in them. [More…]
I commend these 2 Bills to the House for these purposes, and for their value to every Australian citizen who desires to be able to determine his own affairs and those of his children in the future [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…]
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…]
1 said I thought that the Report of the Karmel Committee was correct and I believed that all children attending independent schools should be entitled to per capita grants. [More…]
Those of us who live in rural areas and understand the very great difficulties of country men, women and children iri obtaining access to technical education are appreciative of the new idea of the making available of money for the construction of residences for students who attend technical colleges. [More…]
For too long the emphasis placed on the education of handicapped children has been open to criticism. [More…]
We proceeded on the assumption that young people have plenty to say about their community life and we gave them their first opportunity ever to interfere in their own lives- all this in a happy departure from the old maxim that children are to be seen, not heard. [More…]
It is fashionable to refer to the generation gap, as some sort of explanation for the apparent communication difficulty between parents and children. [More…]
The benefits of the scheme are now available to single people as well as married couples and family groups with children. [More…]
Following reports of an outbreak of gastroenteritis amongst the children on the Island, my predecessor requested a medical team from the University of New South Wales to go to the Island. [More…]
The Australian Pre-Schools Committee in its recent report ‘Care and Education of Young Children’, tabled in Parliament on 11 December 1973 estimated the following numbers of Day Care Centres: [More…]
Did he receive a letter from Mr Thompson, former Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, requesting that a subsidy be paid to families based on the number of children. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) I have no record of having received a letter from Mr Thompson, former Minister for Community Welfare in Western Australia, requesting that a subsidy be paid to families based on the number of children. [More…]
These are: protection for the weaker sections of the community; a firm, commitment to the principle of full employment; equity in sharing sacrifices as well as prosperity; and the need to ensure that any deferment of expectations shall not be made at the expense of those for whom deferment could mean a lifetime of deprivation - for example, children at school and migrants. [More…]
The primacy the Australian Government gives to our most precious resource - our children - remains undiminished. [More…]
A major initiative in education during this Parliament will be the development and implementation of programs for the care and education of pre-school children. [More…]
I clearly remember when I was a schoolboy his visiting my area, meeting countless school children, going from one school to another and being happy to shake hands and to speak to as many people as possible. [More…]
If the beneficiary is entitled to full cover for himself, but has a wife or children, he will be entitled to relief from one-half of the levy that would otherwise be payable. [More…]
In his electorate he might have many children, many Australians who are not naturalised and many people who are not on the electoral roll. [More…]
Has the Minister for Health received representations from the Victorian Minister for Agriculture regarding restoration of the free milk supply to Preston North East State School in my electorate because of the number of underprivileged children at the school? [More…]
About that time there was evidence of widespread areas or at least pockets of malnutrition amongst Australian children. [More…]
1 held a conference to which not only Health Ministers but also Agriculture Ministers were invited, and the net effect was that they asked for retention of the scheme for certain broad categories of children - particularly children at the pre-school, infant, or early primary school levels, at schools for the handicapped and in areas where there are many Aboriginal children. [More…]
For as long as 6 months later, I have been receiving representations from areas that I consider have special needs; for example, children’s homes which look after children younger than 2 years of age. [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…]
Yet we are told - not only members on this side of the House but also the newly elected Australian Labor Party members - like little children in primary school that we must conclude all our arguments on this momentous issue in just 2 hours. [More…]
Not only is this document the product of considerable consultation but also it goes into detail about the problems of the low income earners, the pensioner medical service and the paramedical services concerned with mental health and with all sections of the Australian community, particularly children. [More…]
The standard rate pension payable to single people and widows with children is to be increased by $1.25 to $17.25 a week. [More…]
It will discriminate against families with children as compared with those without children. [More…]
I quote the case of a constituent earning $95 a week this time last year and supporting a wife and 2 children. [More…]
Those principles, most of which have guided the Australian Labor Party for many years, are: Protection of the weaker sections of the community; a firm commitment to the principles of full employment; equity in sharing sacrifices as well as in sharing prosperity; and, lastly, the need to ensure that any deferment of expectations will not be made at the expense of those for whom deferment could mean a lifetime of deprivation - for example, children at school and migrants. [More…]
By way of example, a husband, wife and dependent children are treated as one income unit, as also is an aged mother, an unemployed son or a daughter attending university full time. [More…]
Nobody wants to deprive those children of a school. [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…]
I do not know whether the Minister for Manufacturing Industry or the honourable member for Wentworth can tell me whether this legislation would be effective in Saudi Arabia or some other of those Middle East countries to which it might ultimately be revealed that some of these 135 teenage children from Australia, who are generally fair haired and blue-eyed, have been taken in a drugged state. [More…]
When we talk of the pensioner population we direct our attention not only to the aged but also to the invalid and, possibly more importantly, to those pensioners who are widows and deserted wives who have dependent children and who are facing a most terrible problem in meeting the day to day costs of living. [More…]
In Brisbane and in other areas milk supplies to housewives and children are being held up because of industrial stoppages. [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…]
That is the most petty and miserable action since this Government took milk from the children of this nation last year. [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…]
Certainly it is probably very nice to come home to a meal all ready to eat, to children who are all ready for bed and who know that they must not bother dad because he has had a hard day at the office, and to an evening in front of the television. [More…]
The present position in Wangaratta concerns people who have their homes there, people whose children are in the middle of a school year there and people who, together with their sons and daughters, comprise a vital part of the previously progressive, stable community of Wangaratta. [More…]
The percentage for married women with children under five years of age is not available. [More…]
The number of children in Australia at 30 June 1973 under five years is estimated to have been 1,277,300; and the number under six years 1,516,100. [More…]
Has the Government considered providing a form of domiciliary benefit to those caring for children seeking admission, or those who would benefit from admission to training and accommodation centres provided for physically and mentally handicapped children but who are cared for at home by parents because such accommodation is not available. [More…]
887 (Hansard, 10 October 1973, page 1908) what is the purpose of each training and accommodation centre subsidised under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
What type of children is catered for at each centre. [More…]
How many children attend each centre. [More…]
How many children are currently on the waiting list of each centre. [More…]
What is the estimated number of children in each State requiring training and/or accommodation at centres of this type who have not been able to attend them. [More…]
What is the percentage for each State (a) that the children attending such centres represent in relation to all children of similar age and (b) that the children attending such centres or seeking to attend such centres or children who could benefit from attending such centres represent in relation to all children of similar age in the community. [More…]
Before such details could be provided it would be necessary to contact each of the 301 training centres for handicapped children that have been approved by my Department up to 30 June 1974. [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 number of children attending each centre also varies greatly, ranging from about 10 to 300 and having regard to such factors as the location of the centres and the type of disability catered for. [More…]
Some organisations provide for specific disability groups such as blind, spastic or autistic children while many others cater for all types of mentally or physically handicapped children. [More…]
About 14,500 handicapped children attend centres approved by my Department throughout Australia. [More…]
From the available information there are comparatively few handicapped children on waiting lists for admission to day training centres although it is generally recognised that additional residential accommodation facilities are required. [More…]
This problem is gradually being overcome with the assistance provided under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Fifty-seven residential centres catering for about 700 handicapped children have been subsidised since the inception of the subsidy scheme. [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…]
… 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…]
It has been re-elected but those children will now have to go without that care. [More…]
Does the Minister see any justice in a man who has been deserted by his wife and who has been left with 4 children to care for receiving no assistance under the social welfare program of the Labor Government? [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…]
I had 5 children at school when I went on the pension. [More…]
I will remember asking in astonishment how we were expected to live on that amount of money and know the children could stay at school. [More…]
Department of Education I would get special dispensations for my children to leave school at the age of 14. [More…]
On looking into the situation, 1 found that 1,400 special dispensations were given in one year and on looking further into the matter I found that the majority of them were children of pensioners. [More…]
So what honourable members opposite did was to make the widow a second class citizen and her children third class citizens and, after doing that, made quite sure that they stayed there. [More…]
He loses his wife, either by death or desertion; he has young children and he finds that in addition to the loss of his wife he may now be faced with the loss and dispersion of his family which he cannot maintain. [More…]
If we are talking about women’s lib and things like that, as we do, why should we deny to the supporting father with dependent children the same kind of privileges a3 we give to the deserted woman or widow? [More…]
I would have liked him to develop that subject a bit further and to ask him whether he would have expected the supporting fathers to stay home and look after the children on the same social security payments that were paid to the widowed mothers. [More…]
The first one is the very difficult, if not impossible, budgetary task of abolishing the means test, keeping pensions at 25 per cent of average weekly male earnings and also increasing supplementary benefits, dependent children allowances, etc., to compensate for inflation. [More…]
Pensioners who are paying rent or who have dependent children have had no movement in their supplementary benefits for some time. [More…]
Dependent children’s allowances should be likewise increased. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Security what he intends to do about handicapped children. [More…]
In an election speech he made considerable reference to the handicapped but said nothing about the greatest area of need which is those handicapped children who are too young - that is, under 16 years of age - to receive the invalid pension and are unable to be accommodated in a home. [More…]
If they are not accommodated the parent has to meet the additional expense of keeping them and the problems associated with those children and receives nothing at all from the Commonwealth. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Social Security to say whether his Government has considered the possibility of introducing a special benefit for handicapped children, reducing the age qualification for receipt of the invalid pension or introducing some other means by which these people can be accommodated. [More…]
Consider the situation of a young person with a wife and several children, who has to pay off a house and pay for furniture, a car - an essential item for most people these days, just by the nature of labour requirements - education, health and a multitude of obligations which we all accept, and gladly accept, in our desire to give our families an opportunity. [More…]
Where was the moral concern in those 23 years, when nothing was done for these unfortunate children? [More…]
He said, as I remember him - and I quote figures roughly - that the minimum wage is about $68 a week now but a man with a wife and 3 children can get $70 a week on unemployment benefit. [More…]
Not he nor anyone on the Opposition side, nor anyone on this side of the House, should feel any satisfaction with a situation where a man, with a wife and 3 children, on unemployment benefit and thereby getting more than the minimum wage, is still below the updated poverty level established by Professor Henderson. [More…]
The South Vietnamese authorities have been unable to establish conclusively the number of children or, therefore, the number of orphans, fathered by allied troops or by any one nationality of those troops. [More…]
The Australian Government accepts responsibility for any orphans or other children in Vietnam who have established Australian citizenship. [More…]
Is he aware that some schools with grave deficiencies in terms of staff, accommodation and equipment have received no assistance as yet - and the position is aggravated by a high proportion of children of non English-speaking parents in the school population - and have been given no prospect of such aid? [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…]
Lastly there was the Prime Minister - Women and Children Last Whitlam. [More…]
Their policies mean that once again …. Australian children …. will be set back in their opportunities …. Let our opponents say clearly, honestly, unequivocally, that their weapons in the fight against inflation in Australia are to be the children of Australia. [More…]
To put it briefly, as one writer did - women and children last. [More…]
The abolition of free milk for school children last year is but one example of these campaigns. [More…]
The withdrawal of the subsidy for free milk, in spite of evidence that the milk fulfils useful nutritional needs for school children throughout Australia, has placed many farmers in a difficult position. [More…]
Mr Phil Pepper has nominated the Save the Children Nowa Nowa Fund - [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition and other honourable gentlemen were to read the report of the committee of inquiry into preschool education by Miss Fry which was tabled about 8 months ago, the report by the Australian Social Welfare Commission which was tabled yesterday and the report by the Priorities Review Staff which also was tabled yesterday, they would see that this is a very complex matter; that in fact there are very great difficulties in carrying out a program of care and education of children before they go to primary school, particularly in the light of the varied circumstances in the different States. [More…]
The program for the care and education of children before they go to primary school will not be as extensive or expensive as we had thought it would be this financial year, but I can assure honourable members that we will embark on a program which will in fact cater for children with proper economic and social priorities. [More…]
One can conceive of the average taxpayer in this country - the average family man with 2 children - on a conservative estimate being up for something like $100 extra, or probably more, over and above the insurance levy which he has already paid to the Government fund by way of an insurance levy. [More…]
I admit that there are gaps and weaknesses in the present subsidised health benefits scheme, but the Opposition has stated quite clearly that it is its policy that the scheme should be amended and improved to allow the number of children and other factors to be altered so that a complete cover is provided for these people without any special taxation levy being imposed and without an insurance premium being charged. [More…]
Under the proposed scheme the 1.35 per cent levy will cost $63 per annum at the taxable income level of $4,700 per annum, that is, roughly $6,200 per annum before allowing for deductions for a wife, 2 children and 10 per cent of income for other deductions. [More…]
This Government’s plan will not hurt them but it will deny top quality medical care to the countless hundreds of thousands of Australian people - men, women and children - who at the present time in certain areas have access to 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…]
The Government’s program for these children reflects the recommendations of the Pre-School Committee, whose report was tabled last December, . [More…]
500,000 children will benefit from Whitlam’s child care programs by 1977. [More…]
In some of the most advantaged areas like Toorak there are a lot of disadvantaged children and a lot of disadvantaged people. [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…]
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…]
The motion deplores the callous manner in which the Government has seen fit to sacrifice the interests of women and their children. [More…]
Let us hope for the sake of Australian children that at least this matter has been settled within the Government. [More…]
The Government by its actions and its promises has let down the Australian people generally and our women and children in particular. [More…]
These allowances will increase the inflow of money to the Treasury by $40.5m a year but they will have a disastrous effect for the industry especially in the denial to school children of adequate school milk. [More…]
After 2 children were killed on the Preston overpass over a reservoir we saw the spectacle of the Premier the next day taking kiddies across the road by hand. [More…]
These people are representatives of widowers with dependent children and of deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
It is a terrible thing for a husband to lose his wife by death, particularly a young wife, because it is only comparatively young women who have dependent children. [More…]
How can a deserted husband leave his children unprotected, unguarded and not looked after at all. [More…]
He may be lucky and have a mother who can take in her grandchildren, or a sister who can take in her nephews and nieces. [More…]
I make the plea to the Government that in this Budget some recognition be made of the special needs of these people - the supporting fathers, the widowers with dependent children and the deserted husbands with dependent children. [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…]
Until last year children in the rural areas of this country did not receive equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
What about his rights, his children, their educational facilities? [More…]
How could the mothers of pre-school children trust it? [More…]
People are being trained to be therapists so that the children of the nation- our children, the most valuable investment we will make in the future of this countrywill, among other things, have adequate health services available to them in the school grounds through the services being developed. [More…]
Take the position of a man with a wife and 2 children in New South Wales who wishes to cover himself and his family for intermediate hospital and medical cover. [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…]
It is those people and their children more than anyone else who need the scheme to cover their health needs. [More…]
The Bill says, in effect, that no Australian should be placed in a position where his health or that of his family can be jeopardised by his lack of money or where his health or that of his children can be further jeopardised by worry over his ability to pay. [More…]
It gives the example of an average family, comprising a husband, a wife who works, and 2 children. [More…]
One woman said: ‘Why watch that bunch acting like children when you can see the real thing in “Romper Room”?’ [More…]
Can he tell me of any married couple in that situation who do not have to pay 3 times to send their children to a private school? [More…]
Is there any person whose wife works and is in receipt of an income who does not pay taxes for the public school system at the same time as he pays for the private schooling of his children? [More…]
I will show him surgeries located for miles around his home, which is situated in my electorate, in which sick people, frightened people, crying children and victims of accidents waited hours this morning for medical attention, as they wait each day of each year under the Liberal health arrangements which did not occasion him any concern in 23 years. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are no more able to understand the state of ordinary medical and hospital services to which they would never dream of entrusting themselves or their families than they are able to understand the ordinary schools to which they would never send their children. [More…]
1 ) Has the survey undertaken by the National Health and Medical Research Council into the smoking habits of Australian school children been completed; if so, when. [More…]
The survey undertaken by the National Health and Medical Research Council into the smoking habits of Australian school children, a comprehensive study involving over 26,000 children, has been completed. [More…]
care and education of young children [More…]
The Government has decided to proceed with its full-scale program for the care and education of young children. [More…]
A Children’s Commission will be established to assume responsibility for administering all existing commitments in this area and for developing the new program. [More…]
Meanwhile, an interim Children’s Committee will be set up. [More…]
Details of the Government’s decisions on the care and education of young children will be the subject of a statement by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister. [More…]
For example, a taxpayer with a dependent spouse and two dependent children and with average other deductions earning $70 a week paid $213 in tax on 1973-74 income; on 1974-75 income no tax will be payable. [More…]
I want to talk about an incident which happened here in Canberra recently on the occasion of a visit by some school children. [More…]
I made arrangements for the fifth and six grade school children from St Joseph’s School, East Maitland, to visit the Federal Capital. [More…]
The instructions on the box containing the article that these children purchased were as follows: [More…]
His excuse for the sale to the children in question was that the staff were new to the job. [More…]
Finally, having checked the statutes of the law, the inspector informed Father Gahan that the articles purchased would be regarded as pornographic and obscene and that the children in question were minors under the law. [More…]
Young children in this country are being subjected to pornographic material of this nature which is coming from foreign countries such as Hong Kong. [More…]
When a farm property passes in direct succession to children or a surviving spouse, will the person or persons to whom the property is assigned be liable for capital gains tax in addition to estate and probate duties? [More…]
The town of Cootamundra has a population including women and children of about 6,500 people. [More…]
The Government has set aside $ 1 1.6m for an isolated children’s allowance. [More…]
They are the people who would not give an isolated children’s grant. [More…]
Great hardship is experienced by families with sick children when they have to get ill children medical attention. [More…]
A total of 9 days schooling has been missed by children in a period of 14 days. [More…]
But above aU there must be continuing growth of employment so that families can stay together when children go out to find their first jobs. [More…]
The sure sign that this is happening is the demand for kindergartens, casual care centres, day care centres and other types of flexible facilities for young children. [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 introduction of an allowance for handicapped children who are being kept at home will be a relief to parents, and I think it is welcomed by all honourable members. [More…]
A special section staffed by psychologists, a physicist and a technical officer is being set up to investigate central hearing dysfunctions associated with hearing disabilities in children. [More…]
The article contained the complete implication that, although children may derive bias from many quarters, they derive bias from the one quarter which is under the control of the Government-school textbooks. [More…]
There is a new proposal to give assistance to handicapped children living at home. [More…]
Substantial increases in financial assistance are being made available for education, not only to cope with the effects of inflation but also to assist in upgrading existing educational services in order to provide children with a better chance of attaining the level of education from which they are capable of benefiting. [More…]
On the Budget’s own assumptions the average wage earner, married with 2 children, will suffer a net decline in real income of over 1 per cent during 1974-75. [More…]
I believe, as does the Minister, that the people of Australia want to get down and work and that the families, wives and children of people employed in industry, whether it be the building industry or any other, want to be able to rely on receiving a weekly income that is not interfered with by any person outside or any influence which they themselves do not commission. [More…]
They should take their families and their children around Millers Point and the Rocks area and Woolloomooloo and have sufficient courage to tell them who it was who saved those areas. [More…]
The Minister referred to grants to various universities for the teaching of handicapped children, and this is welcomed by us all. [More…]
We are as yet a distance from doing all of those things that we should do with respect to helping those children who have difficulties thrust upon them by dint of physical handicap. [More…]
I should like to mention the one which makes grants available for research and the training of teachers of handicapped children, including those children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
The teaching of handicapped children in Australia at this time falls well behind the times. [More…]
The Senate report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education which came out in 1972 revealed that within our state education systems the provision for training teachers to teach mentally retarded children was virtually non-existent. [More…]
There are few specific courses for training teachers to teach even mildly or moderately handicapped children. [More…]
This is not only a huge problem for these teachers but also it is a huge problem with children who have complications, emotional disturbances, speech and other learning difficulties as well as the common disability of mental retardation. [More…]
The limiting factor, as I said, in providing the opportunity for all our handicapped children to have the quality of education that they deserve is qualified teachers. [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…]
It recognises the need for these same services for children whether they be looked after at home or elsewhere. [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…]
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…]
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…]
It is not possible for even moderately wealthy people to organise an education system for the education of their children. [More…]
We propose to set up a Children’s Commission to look after child care and pre-school education. [More…]
To Lady Harrison, to his children and to Judith, his step-daughter, I would like to extend my personal sympathy. [More…]
The fact is that low income earners, superannuitants, pensioners, widows and children without parents rely substantially on investment income to maintain their standards of living. [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 work load over the years has increased and I think that areas of abolition of fees, new programs, the developments in special education, etc., and the provision of allowances for needy children emphasise the fact that this work load has increased, changes have taken place and that it is necessary to expand the membership and the work of the Commission. [More…]
That net figure assumes that the present concessional deductions for children would be abolished, at a saving estimated in the report of $260m. [More…]
Last year alone over 40,000 children from the outer western suburbs attended or were admitted to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children at Camperdown. [More…]
Those who know the geography of Sydney know that the people from the outer western suburbs have to travel a very great distance to visit their children or to take their children to hospital in urgent cases. [More…]
Relatively common conditions in children require fairly specialised treatment. [More…]
A 120-bed specialised children’s unit has been proposed in the new Westmead Hospital. [More…]
Healesville is a small town, but it has its own percentage of children and young people who desire recreation outlets and who desire cultural outlets. [More…]
The care and education of the young, and young children in particular, is recognised with the commitment of $75m- a program of the highest priority that every member in this House- even the Leader of the Opposition- will I am sure support. [More…]
The decision by the Government to recognise the plight of parents with handicapped children is one of the most pleasing features of the social welfare document. [More…]
I forget the word he used- it was ‘diabolical’ or something to that effect- but he criticised the reduction of the taxation deduction for the support of children at school. [More…]
He completely ignored, as my colleague the Minister for Education said, the subvention that we have put into the education system through the isolated children’s scheme. [More…]
The honourable member overlooked the fact that there are taxation deductions for the maintenance of children, anyhow. [More…]
He spoke of the terrible fate of the young children of Australia who would be forced to leave a private school and to attend a state school! [More…]
There has been no greater area of neglect both by the Australian Government and the State governments in the past than in the field of migrant children’s education. [More…]
The schools in my electorate have been tortured by the influx of migrant children for whom no provision could be made. [More…]
I know a number of working class families for whom the load was lifted by this Government’s action because no matter how good their children were many of them would not have obtained scholarships. [More…]
Also there has been support for isolated children. [More…]
The situation of the Aboriginal children was a disgrace. [More…]
The situation of migrant children as well as Australian born children in schools in the industrial electorates of Australia was a disgrace. [More…]
Features of Crestwood Estate include parks where children can play, can visit their friends without crossing a street while walking through lawns and going through parks and along underpasses. [More…]
The road system within Crestwood meets the home on the street side while the other side of the home becomes the main frontage opening onto parks and a pathway system, both of which keep children from playing on the streets and allow residents to move or play freely throughout the entire area and to attend school without ever crossing a roadway. [More…]
Any citizens in Australia who can donate sleeping bags, bed sheets, face towels, children’s wear, knitting wool or any other commodities like these can contact the Cypriot communities in Adelaide, Melbourne or Sydney, who have details of the great needs of the Cypriot refugees. [More…]
One of the most significant advances in the law of accident and sickness compensation proposed in this Bill is the recognition of the right to compensation of non-earners, such as housewives and children. [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…]
You see, Mr Speaker, very few people of the Riverina drink filtered purified water, more than half of our dwellings are unsewered, many of our children travel an incredible 7,000,000 kilometres each year to attend school, and many of these are travelled over shocking roads. [More…]
Buses have to be pulled by tractors in the wet season and in one shire during the current year the school children on one bus route lost 1 1 school days through the state of the roads. [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…]
I am referring to children attending state high schools and staying at high school hostels, not those attending private boarding schools. [More…]
Yet the Opposition is prepared to stir up fear by its mythcreating activities around the countryside taking peoples minds away from the real need of the elderly, the sick and the children in the community. [More…]
It is a Budget which is utterly devoid of any effective measures to control inflation and a Budget which reveals a contempt for the wageearner in 2 categories that affect him the mosthis security of employment and his capacity to borrow for his house, car and the education of his children at a reasonable rate of interest. [More…]
But the sheer irresponsibility of the present Government is such that if an out and out loafer, his wife and three late-teenage loafer children care to lead the idle life they can between them get a handout of over $5,000 each year. [More…]
Our children and our grandchildren would have had nothing left. [More…]
Playgroups are specifically referred to in the Terms of Reference for the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission. [More…]
The Government wants to take away from many parents the right to choose to send their children to private schools. [More…]
A lot of people- not wealthy people- make sacrifices in order that their children can attend independent schools. [More…]
In the case of schools for handicapped children the amount has again almost trebled by similar figures to those to which I have already referred. [More…]
The grant in 1972 for children in, say, a regional Catholic primary school of $50 per head has gone up to $ 163; it has trebled. [More…]
Who is going to support the children in the far west? [More…]
Do you want to remain an individualist not only for yourself but also for your children and your children’s children or do you want a giant welfare state where initiative is taken away from you, incentives are abolished and the people of this nation fade into a murky oblivion?’ [More…]
I like to see the $75m that is to be spent on the care and education of young children. [More…]
There was a lot of individualism available to the poor children in schools, for instance, in my electorate, who never had the chance of tertiary education and never had anything more than an intermediate certificate standard or school certificate standard of education. [More…]
But there was not a word about all the Government has done for underprivileged children, people who are underprivileged, superannuated persons and people on pensions. [More…]
By this Budget the Government has appropriated $ 1,600m for education and additional sums of money for handicapped children’s pensions, supporting mothers benefits, and many other benefits which the Liberals never thought about. [More…]
-At least the children are getting a reasonable education. [More…]
The status of illegitimate children was discussed. [More…]
Legislation to remove so far as practicable the legal disabilities of children born out of wedlock was discussed. [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…]
That in the opinion of this House some provision should be made for assistance to widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
It seems that those responsible for making this decision are of the opinion that all parents of children attending nonGovernment schools can be regarded as affluent. [More…]
Many parents are making great sacrifices to send their children to the school of their choice, and in so doing are making a considerable contribution to the total cost of Australian education. [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…]
My friend made reference to the handicapped children. [More…]
This Government in this same Budget has acknowledged what no one else has ever acknowledged; it is making a special weekly payment of $10 a week for handicapped children. [More…]
It introduced the isolated children’s allowance, which could have been introduced by the previous Government. [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…]
We have given an extension in the direction of handicapped and isolated children and given it by making direct payments to those who have the circumstantial need, not relating them by accident to the need in association with the income of the parent. [More…]
Above all, the value of the taxation deduction for education expenses, quite apart from all other revenue assistance given by the Government to education, be it in the Government sector or in the private sector, is that it gives an identifiable cash amount to the parents of children attending either a government or an independent school. [More…]
It is therefore possible for a parent to choose without any consideration at all, without any dictation or restriction, to some extent the type of school and the particular school to which he will send his children. [More…]
If I have criticisms, and I do have a number, of the education policies of this Government, if the Opposition has criticisms of those policies, they are that too much the Government has looked towards the specific physical resource needs of schools rather than the educational needs of the children who attend those schools and the desires and aspirations of the parents of those children. [More…]
There are thousands of parents throughout Australia who are prepared to make above average, very real sacrifices to send their children to these socalled privileged schools. [More…]
Once again we have the Government looking not towards the aspirations of the parents, not towards the educational needs of the children, but looking to the physical resources, the external appearances, whether a school happens to have large playing fields or not. [More…]
What matters are the real needs of our children, the learning facilities, that our educational institutions should provide. [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…]
I return to the position of handicapped children. [More…]
It is necessary for those children to have additional tuition by private teachers outside of school hours. [More…]
The expense of that tuition will be far greater now to the parents of children placed in such unfortunate positions. [More…]
In that respect I do not mean the boarding schools in the traditional sense that many honourable members on the Government side of the chamber immediately think of, but the boarding schools which are of social value to children of broken homes, in particular, and to the children of families who live in country areas. [More…]
We also believe that the responsibility of the Government towards education is to assist in meeting the requirements of all school-age children on the basis of needs and priorities and that our primary obligation in government is to provide and maintain a government school system of the highest standard that is open to all children. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong also talked about discrimination against handicapped children and the boarding schools that are necessary to accommodate isolated children. [More…]
Let us examine the allowance for isolated children. [More…]
We spent $9m last financial year on the isolated children’s allowance. [More…]
We have also increased the handicapped children’s allowance. [More…]
That action split its coalition understandingto support the funding of the Karmel grants so that the children at all schools in Australia would have money to continue with their education. [More…]
The Coombs Task Force said: … the concession has been of particular benefit to those taxpayers wishing to educate their children at the more expensive private schools and in so doing it has, no doubt, been of indirect benefit to the financial viability of those schools. [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…]
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…]
The latter concern changes in the residence qualifications for invalid pensions, widows’ pensions and supporting mothers’ benefits, payment of additional amounts for children in the care of Class B widow pensioners, the payment of additional benefit for de facto wives of unemployment and sickness beneficiaries and the repeal of the ‘not deserving’ and ‘character’ provisions of the Act. [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 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…]
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…]
It is estimated that some 20,000 children will qualify for the allowance and that the annual cost will be approximately $ 10m. [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…]
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…]
While de facto wives of pensioners are treated for pension purposes in the same way as legal wives if the relationship has existed for not less than 3 years, de facto wives of beneficiaries only attract additional payments if they are accepted as unpaid housekeepers, that is if they are keeping house for the beneficiary and one or more of his children, provided they are substantially dependent on the beneficiary and not employed by him. [More…]
In the case of a married person with 2 children the allowance would amount to $69.50 a week. [More…]
This new initiative on the part of the Australian Government will be welcomed by those interested in improving both the quality and availability of education to all Australian children irrespective of their financial circumstances, their parentage, thenreligious beliefs or where they live. [More…]
The Bill provides for an increase in the addition to service pension on account of children and an increase in the rate of supplementary assistance, or as it is often referred to, rent allowance. [More…]
Increases are now proposed in the rates of pensions payable to the children of veterans who died from service-related causes. [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…]
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…]
That, in the opinion of this House, some provision should be made for assistance to widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
The next cab on the rank, and one which I would have hoped to have moved off the rank earlier, was the matter of help for widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
I want us to consider the position of the young husband with children whose wife has suddenly died. [More…]
If he remains in employment who is to look after his young children? [More…]
They have lost their wife- that is perhaps as big a tragedy as can occur to any man- and they then find the position compounded by the fact that their young children cannot be kept at home because they have not the means to do so. [More…]
I refer to the deserted husband with young children. [More…]
I say with some regret- unfortunately the statistics establish this- that although the deserted husband with young children was comparatively rare a few decades ago, he is now becoming more common. [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 know that special arrangements have been made by this Government and I give it credit for the maintenance of children in institutions. [More…]
But it is not quite what the young husband who wants to keep his children with him would prefer. [More…]
The first and most readily available remedy would be to make such fathers eligible for widow pensions on the same basis as women with dependent children are thus eligible. [More…]
If a widow with dependent children is eligible for financial help should not a man similarly situated also be eligible? [More…]
I find that this is not altogether a watertight argument because if one followed it to its natural conclusion one would say that a widower without dependent children should be eligible in the same way as a widow without dependent children. [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…]
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…]
But I ask the Minister for Social Security whether he would consider moving, when that social services Bill is being debated, an amendment which would put the widower or deserted husband with dependent children on the same footing as the widow with dependent children. [More…]
It does not meet the position of the man who needs to go out to work if his children are to be raised above what is in reality a threshhold starvation level. [More…]
Even if it allows a little income for the men who work to enable their children to be home at weekends, that would be something. [More…]
For the future, I believe that our policy has to be tied up with a review of the means test as it applies to widows with dependent children. [More…]
But it does seem to me that we have to be looking at the widow with dependent children as well as the widower and that the means test as it applies to the widow as well as the widower is defective and in need of fundamental overhaul. [More…]
For that reason, I believe that here and now we could make widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children eligible for pensions on the same basis as women who are widowed or deserted. [More…]
I would agree with the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), who has just spoken, that the subject of the needs of widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children is one which gives most people in the community considerable cause for worry. [More…]
I refer first to the allowance for handicapped children. [More…]
We introduced this allowance- it is now $11 a week- for children, both of whose parents are dead or one of whose parents is dead and the whereabouts of the other parent is not known. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [More…]
I say the Government is sympathetic about the position of the people we are talking about today- the widowers and deserted fathers, either of whom have dependent children. [More…]
In any case, the Government is exploring this area and when it brings in this system of guaranteed income it will cover people such as widows, widowers and deserted fathers with dependent children. [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…]
That, in the opinion of this House, some provision should be made for assistance to widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
Surely he does not mean that that does not exclude widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
That, in the opinion of this House, some provision should be made for assistance to widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
The essential ingredients are that these unfortunate menwidowers and deserted husbands with dependent children- do not have adequate benefit at this stage. [More…]
I intend to refer specifically to the appropriation of $187,000 to establish an interim committee for the Children’s Commission. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Councils are now providing open space for recreation, adventure playgrounds for children, increased parklands and gardens, and as their role in society has changed dramatically over the past years their opportunities for raising money have stayed back in the Victorian era. [More…]
As is well known, the Prime Minister’s Department is a rather grab bag Department and embraces a large number of outrider organisations, including such diverse things as the Industries Assistance Commission and even the Children’s Commission. [More…]
I assume that the Children’s Commission is to go into the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
Attention must be directed towards involving children in all the arts expressions because, as T. S. Eliot has said, culture is basically the way of life of any community and if we are to increase the expectations and cultural aspirations of our people, we must involve the young. [More…]
We must, therefore, provide finance so that the children of parents of all socio-economic levels are able to express themselves. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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 suggest to the Minister that some of the sunshine talk in the documents from which I have quoted should be translated into some form of activity which is tangible, which can be seen by the community and which is available to children now in this area. [More…]
We are educating their children, we are introducing all of the people in their electorates to the arts and we have also given them one of the finest leaders Australia has ever had. [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…]
There are 365,000 children in need. [More…]
There are many people who are experienced in the practicality of looking after children. [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…]
Special attention is paid to school children. [More…]
Many years ago in Port Augusta few Aboriginal children went to high school. [More…]
Now I think more than 120 Aboriginal children attend high school. [More…]
The Aborigines are striving to provide the Aboriginal children attending primary school with a hot midday meal. [More…]
By providing this hot midday meal, they are ensuring that these children will get at least one nourishing meal a day. [More…]
Will a woman whose husband continues to provide adequately for the family and who is able to undertake training on her own behalf, be given the same opportunity to take advantage of the retraining scheme as for example a woman with dependent children. [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…]
It takes patients and their relatives, including parents of children, hours a day to visit the hospitals where they are at present located in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. [More…]
But there would be a reduction of government expenditure in areas which it has been the purpose of the Government to maintain throughout because we have a responsibility to ensure that people who depend upon social services do not lose through inflation, that people who expect a better education for their children should not have that set back during an inflationary period, that people who want to see development of a better health service in this community should not have that set back because of an inflationary period. [More…]
Let us take the case of a family consisting of a husband, a wife and 2 children, on a mere $100 a week wage and whose income just keeps pace with inflation. [More…]
For example, when there is an alteration in the rate of taxation deductions for education this raises the real price of goods such as fares for children, the cost of goods, the cost of apparel, clothing and uniforms. [More…]
The people who called were concerned about the Government’s attitude towards the taxing of compensation payable to the unfortunate thalidomide victims by a German drug company which was warned of the malformation of children which could result from the use of the drug. [More…]
Fortunately, not many children in Australia were victims of the hungry profit making of this German drug company. [More…]
I know that the Treasurer will explain and clarify the Government’s attitude towards taxing the compensation that has been made available to these unfortunate children, born without arms and legs as a result of the hungriness of this international drug company. [More…]
In the near future we will get an updated, modern and rational set of divorce laws in this country with provision for custody of children and settlement of property disputes between spouses. [More…]
They are the innocent, broken bodies of our wives and children. [More…]
It is like teaching children to swim and then taking away the beaches when they are adults. [More…]
If we do not give good public library faculties to the children to whom we are now giving services via the Karmel report, then of course there will be a great deal missing from their lives after they leave school. [More…]
What evidence exists that States have so restricted their social welfare budgets that in order to obtain revenue they have to rob children who have been deprived of their parents? [More…]
It is true that following the introduction of the double orphans benefit several States have reduced outlays for these children for which they were responsible prior to the introduction of the double orphans benefit. [More…]
For children under 15 years the payment was $10.80 a week plus 50c pocket money. [More…]
In Tasmania no payments are now made where payments were made on a range of criteria for children between 7 and 14 years and overprimary school children. [More…]
Secondary school children still receive an allowance of 50c a week. [More…]
In this case I suggest that the people who have been disadvantaged are the double orphans themselves, the children and the adults who have been catering for them, and I sincerely regret that the States have behaved in this way. [More…]
We allowed war pensions to continue until the completion of full time education for certain student children and student children were recognised for service pension purposes regardless of age. [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…]
The Minister went on with a long spiel in his speech about the situation of children who have lost both parents or one parent and the other parent cannot be found. [More…]
The Bill introduces a handicapped children’s allowance of $10 a week. [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…]
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…]
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…]
The honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) made a number of remarks about the allowance for handicapped children. [More…]
I hope also that the money is paid to the handicapped children and does not become another form of revenue taxed to the extent of 100 per cent by the State governments, because that is the evidence. [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…]
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…]
One could ask whether the Opposition would be prepared to swap the handicapped children’s allowance for this proposition it has advanced because those are the sorts of priorities with which any Minister, no matter from which area of politics he comes, is confronted when he must prepare a budget. [More…]
That all words after ‘that’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘prior to the second reading of this Bill this House requests the Government to consent to the incorporation in it of a provision making widowers and deserted husbands with dependent children eligible for benefit on the same basis as widows and deserted wives ‘. [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…]
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…]
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…]
But in the case of desertion or divorce overseas, when the woman has returned to Australia, perhaps with children who were born overseas, the residence qualification has been 5 years. [More…]
I know of a number of cases in my electorate of women who have lived in Australia until the ages of 1 8, 20 or 25, then gone overseas and perhaps married overseas and had children. [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…]
She had 5 children. [More…]
But this woman had no pension and no income at all during this time and one of the children actually was taken into protective custody. [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…]
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…]
There was a proposal to have included in this Bill an allowance for supporting fathers, if we can call it that, treating the widowed, the deserted father, the supporting father with dependent children in the same way in which widows are treated. [More…]
The Government is aware of the difficulties that can be faced by widowers of relatively small means who are left to care for a family of young children. [More…]
There is the handicapped children’s allowance’, which they had 23 years to introduce but never did; ‘there is the double orphan’s allowance’, which they had 23 years to introduce but never did; ‘there is the incentive allowance’, which is a means test-free allowance for handicapped people working in workshops which they absolutely resisted introducing when they were in government for more than 2 decades. [More…]
We have taken steps to introduce new benefits including, for example, the supporting mothers’ allowance, the double orphans benefit and the handicapped children’s benefit. [More…]
Government policies on telephones and taxation deductions for education, without increases in the isolated children’s allowances, are most severe in their effect on people in new land areas. [More…]
As I am a guest speaker at a number of school prizegiving nights in the coming month, I ask the Minister what advice should be given to the children who are leaving school about prospects for finding employment early next year. [More…]
Widows under age 56 lose benefits after 12 months unless they have to support children or aged relatives. [More…]
Her children were provided with compensation but they were not to get it until they were 2 1 years of age. [More…]
Widows under 36 lose benefits after 12 months unless they have to support children or aged relatives. [More…]
What does that do to his wife and children? [More…]
The first and most important is the welfare and wellbeing of the men, women and children of Australia in the future who are going to be entitled to the benefits which this Bill is designed to provide. [More…]
They include foster children under the benefits of the legislation and take out the onus of proof provisions. [More…]
The current provision of sub-clause ( 1 ) of clause 43 of the Bill is restrictive, and the amendment ensures that foster children are eligible for children’s benefit. [More…]
The new subclause (3a) after sub-clause (3) of clause 43 provides that children’s benefits are not payable in respect of a period before the dates fixed by proclamation where the person who died has died as a result of personal injury before 1 July 1976 or, in the case of death as a result of sickness, the date proclaimed for the extension of the Act to include sickness. [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…]
But that is all they are- words without action- and in the process of implementing Labor’s policies to restructure our society the first casualties have been the very people Labor claims to represent- the low to middle income earner, the family man struggling to maintain a wife and children and the frail aged. [More…]
When their children grow up, get married and leave home the elderly people cannot cope with a full sized house and would be quite happy to have accommodation in a unit. [More…]
When the honourable member for Bendigo is praising the Victorian Government for various things he might draw to the attention of the House the 4-year lag on the Victorian Housing Commission home waiting list for people with 4 children. [More…]
If you go into the Victorian Housing Commission to apply for a home you will be told to have another baby because people with 5 children go to the top of the list. [More…]
Mr Edmunds asked how many tenancy and purchase applications respectively were outstanding in the following categories of families in the metropolitan area: (a) up to 3 children; (b) 4 children, and so on. [More…]
If I might just briefly build a word picture, a man draws one of these blocks, gets an advance which he has to supplement with other finance, and then he moves out with his wife and usually three or four children. [More…]
Provision is made here for the general welfare services and community activities of $1.5m to provide for the maintenance of State wards and other children, assistance to missions for the care of children, maintenance of mental patients and the care of those people in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
The only vested interest I have is in a viable, vibrant and happy Australia, and with half a lifetime ahead of me I am disgusted at the manner in which the present Government has run this country for the past 22 months, because honourable members opposite are not only destroying my opportunity for the future but they are destroying the opportunity for their own children, who will be handed an Australia which is but a shadow of the Australia of yesteryear. [More…]
Many of these education centres were set up in the first place through the initiatives of teachers, both in government and non-government schools who gathered together to organise these centres in an attempt to do a better job for the children who were around them. [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…]
I am delighted that at a number of secondary schools at present it is much easier now for adults to go back to school and to sit alongside people who could well be their children. [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…]
A tremendous number of migrants have a wish and a very strong compulsion to send thier children to particular sectarian schools. [More…]
Not only are these people affected by the economic policies of the present Government because they are usually the ones who get sacked first- if one looks at the unemployment figures one will find that migrants are the hardest hit of any section of the community by the present unemployment wave- but also they will be doubly hit because their taxation deductions for education of their children attending independent schools that they previously claimed will now be taken away from them. [More…]
They do not know what is going on around Australia with people making sacrifices trying to send their children to these schools. [More…]
Obviously this is an area which engenders some emotion in the chamber, but I should like people to understand that this Government that holds itself out as the supporter of those people at the lower end of the economic spectrum and seeks to denigrate those people who wish to have some choice about the place of education of their children in fact is denying parents this choice. [More…]
It is making it virtually impossible for parents on the lower economic scale and the middle income groups to send their children to the school of their choice. [More…]
I think it should be clearly understood by those people who previously have supported this Government that in fact the policies that the Goverment is pursuing both in the economic field and with these taxation deductions for education, will mean that these parents will not have the choice that they previously had in relation to their children’s education. [More…]
Listening to the honourable member for Moreton or the honourable member for Warringah one would not have supposed that there are many thousands of children in Government and parish schools in Australia who have been unable to receive an adequate education because nobody bothered to teach them the language in which education is given in this country. [More…]
While the honourable member for Warringah was weeping his crocodile tears for the migrant population of Australia, did he for one minute think back on the 23 years during which honourable members opposite were responsible for the scandal of migrant education in Australia, for the lost educational opportunities of the children who were brought to this country from countries where languages other than English are spoken, and who never took up seriously the business of raising a corps of teachers qualified to meet the educational needs of these unfortunate children who year in, year out, had to sit in bafflement and frustration while instruction went on in their classrooms in a language that they did not understand? [More…]
This is a tragic individual loss to the children concerned and a tragic loss of human resources to this country as a whole. [More…]
One would not have supposed that it has been established by investigations carried out by the psychology and guidance officers of education departments that in forms 1 and 2 of the secondary system the incidence of children being unable to read, even at a grade 4 level, is 45 per cent and that the incidence of children who for all practical purposes are illiterate is of the order of 25 per cent. [More…]
But the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) were more concerned about taxation policies than the practical nuts and bolts problems of how the children in our schools are to get the sort of instruction that they need. [More…]
It would not have been thought from what the honourable member for Moreton and the honourable member for Warringah had to say on this subject tonight that upwards of 20 per cent of the children in our school systems are still being educated in schools which were constructed before the end of the last century, in schools which have been grossly outstripped by the development of educational thinking and which are no longer in any way adequate for the tasks with which they are entrusted. [More…]
It is $ 1 less for making available the remedial teaching services that the children having difficulty with the basic subjects need so desperately. [More…]
It is $ 1 less for making available the specialist language teaching resources that migrant children need in this country. [More…]
The Queensland figures are enlightening because 100,000 children are receiving secondary education, 217,000 are receiving primary education and 4,190 are receiving special education. [More…]
But we are concerned that all children in Australia should have access to preschool education. [More…]
I refer to the areas of gifted children and handicapped children. [More…]
No encouragement, no recognition and no direction is being given at present to the education of gifted children. [More…]
No encouragement is given to children who undergo training in early life in music, drama or the arts. [More…]
No help is given to parents, be they rich or poor, to allow their children to reach a standard which will permit them to gain entry to tertiary education institutions. [More…]
I submit that children who have special gifts and who are interested in the arts also are entitled to be given encouragement to pursue worthwhile careers in that sphere. [More…]
Handicapped children in rural areas face very special difficulties. [More…]
In many cases parents often transport their children over 100 miles in round trips twice a week to allow them to participate in remedial teaching. [More…]
A project is to be undertaken to teach the children not only in English but in their native language to try to integrate the ethnic groups by involving not only the students but also the parents. [More…]
He made recent public statements on his concern about the education of Aboriginal children in the Kimberleys. [More…]
He pointed out that studies had shown that there were problems with Aboriginal children at school because of possible irreparable brain damage before birth and that it was useless confining the action on this problem just to education authorities. [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 second is the reduction since this Government took office of per capita grants, which adversely affects parents who send their children to a school other than a government school. [More…]
A large number of parents in my electorate send their children to independent schools and it is on their behalf that I speak today. [More…]
His children attend Camberwell Grammer School, classed by this Government as an A class or wealthy school. [More…]
He points out that he comes from a working class family, is not wealthy and that an independent school education for his children is resulting in considerable sacrifices for his family in other areas. [More…]
The Labor Party seems hellbent on destroying the independent school system for reasons that are founded on the assumption that all parents who send their children to independent schools are wealthy. [More…]
The savage and discriminatory measures the Government is taking against parents of children attending independent schools is going to mean that many parents, including myself, will be placed in such a financial position that they will have no choice but to withdraw their children from independent schools and try to get them accepted at a Government school. [More…]
The school is not wealthy, the parents are average, not high, income earners, and the decision, therefore, imposes a severe financial burden on people who are already, in many cases, finding it difficult to finance their children ‘s education. [More…]
As the result of the taxation allowance being reduced, it is inevitable that some parents will withdraw their children from Independent schools, and certainly there will be some effect on Catholic schools. [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…]
According to a recent survey the gross average family income of parents with children attending independent schools is between $10,000 and $12,000 per annum. [More…]
If they have 2 children attending such an independent school somewhere around 40 per cent of the net family income would be spent on the education of the 2 children. [More…]
Obviously they will have no choice but to withdraw their children and place them in government schools, thus overcrowding, downgrading and increasing the costs to taxpayers of running government schools. [More…]
The more children are withdrawn the more the fees of non-government schools will rise until only the children of the really wealthy can afford to attend these schools. [More…]
They will become what some people in the Labor Party would like to see, purely elitist schools attended by only the children of the wealthy, easily isolated, with the vast mass of children attending government-run schools. [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…]
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…]
By any criterion which looks at incomes across the board in our community, the parents who send their children to these schools are wealthy. [More…]
An average salary of $10,000 to $12,000 a year is received by parents who send their children to independent schools while two-thirds of the population is getting an average salary of less than $7,000; yet the honourable member claims that the parents of those children are not wealthy. [More…]
Let us really consider the true situation and just what sort of people can afford to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
How many families with an income of $4,000, $5,000 or even $6,000 a year can afford the freedom of choice to send their children to independent schools which have school fees of $300, $400 or $500 a year? [More…]
Children just cannot use that library while a class is in that room, which is most of the time because the school is short of facilities for ordinary teaching purposes anyway and has to send children home in the middle of the afternoon. [More…]
I know of another State primary school which has such poor drainage faculties that in wet weather, particularly during winter, children often have to be sent home because the toilets have been closed as the septic tanks have overflowed. [More…]
What I object to above all about the reduction from $400 to $ 1 50 is the extent to which it has robbed the parents of children from access to a diverse system of education. [More…]
Before leaving that matter, I refer particularly to the very serious effect that this has had on the parents of children with specific learning difficulties or the parents of children who are mildly handicapped as well as parents of children who must travel very long distances. [More…]
I know that the Government has provided in the Budget- I congratulate it for this action- a subsidy of $10 a week to parents with handicapped children. [More…]
But I do not think that in any way cancels out the real financial loss that the parents of these children have suffered. [More…]
The first one I refer to is the handicapped childs’ allowance of $10 a week to be provided to parents and guardians of physically or mentally handicapped children up to the age of 16, when presumably they would receive the invalid pension. [More…]
The $10 a week will be given to parents and guardians of children who require special care or attention in their homes. [More…]
I say ‘in their homes’, but my inquiries indicate that the provisions will not preclude handicapped children who do go to special schools. [More…]
A second and allied feature in this Budget was the increase by 16 per cent in the provision for handicapped children who are in approved institutions. [More…]
There is to be a doubling of the subsidy rate for construction, rental and maintenance of sheltered workshops, handicapped children ‘s training centres and associated accommodation facilities. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act 1973 is designed to serve the same purpose in relation to training centres, training equipment and residential units for handicapped children. [More…]
Also the replacement cost of certain equipment under the terms of both the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act will receive the same generous subsidy. [More…]
These programs will be regarded as training for the purpose of attracting subsidy under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Eligible organisations may receive capital subsidy when establishing training centres for handicapped children. [More…]
Also some persons are able to obtain taxation concessions for elderly relatives in much the same way as at present under the Australian taxation legislation it is possible to obtain taxation concessions for dependent children. [More…]
It has been my opinion also that handicapped children should be moved as often as possible back into the normal State school environment instead of being segregated as they are at the moment. [More…]
While it is necessary for them to have younger people and children around to keep them in the mainstream of living it is also great for them to be able to reminisce with people in their own age group. [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 he is a family man with four or five children he can today draw social service benefits of approximately $70 a week. [More…]
It is excellent to see that the benefit for physically and mentally handicapped children under 16 years of age is to be increased. [More…]
The religious and charitable organisations caring for such children are to receive an increase of 50c a day to $3.50 a day. [More…]
Of course, parents of handicapped children under 16 years of age will welcome the $10 a week allowance. [More…]
Think of the widows and children. [More…]
Will it be in respect of benefits or facilities for handicapped children? [More…]
So many widows with dependent children are today seeking part-time employment and the information they want is how much they can earn in a week without affecting their pension and how much they can earn in a week without disentitling them and their children to fringe benefits. [More…]
I believe a change of that type would be very beneficial to the widow pensioners with dependent children. [More…]
She is less able to increase in real terms the benefit to her children by earning. [More…]
My second plea to the Government is for it to have a look at the threshhold level at which the impact of the means test bears upon the pension of a widow with dependent children and lift it in accordance with some index so that a widow can maintain her position in real terms. [More…]
In fact, it is my belief that the means test in relation to the widows pension, where that pension is paid to a widow with dependent children, should be abolished altogether and, if it cannot be abolished altogether, at least it should be abolished in relation to the widow’s earned income so that she can, as so many widows do today, seek part-time employment in order to improve the real position of her family. [More…]
I urge the Government to look at this aspect of the operation of the means test in so far as it relates to the widow with dependent children. [More…]
When we look at the present estimates and the present policy of this Government we can applaud, as we all do, the improvement in assistance for handicapped children, particularly when it will help them to remain at home. [More…]
Criticism was made of the level of unemployment benefits received by a man with a wife and four or five children. [More…]
I would like him to indicate how much lower than $71.50 a week he would like the unemployment benefit to be for a man with a wife and 4 children. [More…]
However, I am pleased to say that it will now be possible for my Department to issue affidavits in lieu of passports, where circumstances warrant this action, to enable the migration of spouses, dependent children and dependent parents of Australian residents to come here. [More…]
Today the school children of Australia have access to the impressive range of publications produced by the AIS and made available overseas. [More…]
The advertisements on the functions and operations of the Parliament are now sought as handy aids for the education of school children. [More…]
The school children and their teachers have found this material invaluable and free from bias of any kind. [More…]
Daughters of Australia, Church of Christ, Department of Social Security, Good Neighbour Council, Grail, Church of England, Homefield Aged Persons Home, Mackay and District Senior Citizing, Mackay and District Development Bureau, Mackay Home Help Services, Mater Hospital, Methodist Church, North Queensland Society for Crippled Children, One people of Australia League, Parents without Partners, Queensland Association of University Women, Queensland Bush Children Health Scheme, Right to Life Association, West Mckay Rotary Club, Mackay R.S.S.A.I.L.A., Seventh Day Adventists, Presbyterian Church, St Vincent de Paul, Young Women ‘s Christian Association. [More…]
Can the Minister also say what sum each of those countries has contributed to the following United Nations voluntary funds: (a) U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF), (b) U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, (c) U.N. Capital Development Fund, (d) U.N. Development Program, (e) [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…]
Pursuant to section 7 (7) of the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973-1974 I table the Remuneration Tribunal’s determination of remuneration to be paid to members of the interim committee for the Children’s Commission. [More…]
to inquire into the incidence of all forms of specific learning difficulties among Australian children and adults; [More…]
to recommend action that can be taken by the Federal Government or by the Federal Government in co-operation with State and local governments as well as voluntary organisations to alleviate the difficulties and in particular to examine the need for wide-spread screenings of young children to detect the existence of specific learning symptoms so that adequate remedial programs can be recommended from an early age. [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…]
Minimal brain dysfunction is the term used in relation to children or adults of near average, average or above average intelligence- some with an extremely high intelligence rating- who have certain learning and/or behavioural disabilities ranging from mild to severe, which are associated with deviations of function of the central nervous system. [More…]
Notwithstanding that the education system is good or that the teachers are good there are still children emerging from the system with an incapacity in language, in reading or writing or expressing. [More…]
We recognise the difficulties physically and mentally handicapped children face. [More…]
Polio, tetanus, diphtheria are common household words; parents recognise these disabilities and ensure that their children are immunised against them. [More…]
How many are able to recognise it in their children? [More…]
We are allowing a significant number of children to progress right through the education system without learning to use what is a solely human perquisite- our language. [More…]
For example, Dr Chester Poremba of the Colorado Children ‘s Hospital has found in his studies that 90.4 per cent of children who had become deliquents had suffered learning fatigue and learning failure. [More…]
As an instance, 50 per cent of children referred for psychiatric treatment to the Victorian School Medical Service have had diagnosed a specific learning disability as the main cause of their problem. [More…]
It has been a personal concern of mine for some time that there is no adequate attack on the problem of children and adults with a specific learning difficulty. [More…]
Nevertheless, surveys have indicated that at least 1 S per cent to 20 per cent of Australian children and adults are affected. [More…]
We also discussed the composition of your Government’s proposed Children’s Commission in this context. [More…]
I am confident that the passing of this motion will represent a commitment by each member of the House to SPELD, but more particularly a commitment by each member of this House to all Australian children and adults who have suffered from a specific learning difficulty, that we will not cease in our efforts until there is a marked improvement in the alarming and, I must confess, depressing picture of which I have been speaking today. [More…]
As early as 1963 the International Reading Association came up with the disclosure that whereas 82 per cent of children with specific learning difficulties who had received assistance in the form of remedial assistance by the end of their second school year were able to overcome their difficulties, only 8 per cent of those who had to wait till their sixth school year were able to overcome those difficulties. [More…]
Of course over the 10 or 1 1 years which have elapsed since those survey results were published the overwhelming majority of children in this sort of need have been obliged to wait until grade 6, and in many instances even longer to receive help. [More…]
Surely we should be alarmed that a survey conducted in the affluent eastern suburbs of Melbourne could come up with the revelation that 45 per cent of children in forms 1 and 2 of government secondary schools needed remedial teaching if they were to gain any benefit whatsoever from their secondary education and that 25 per cent- one in every four- of those children were functionally illiterate. [More…]
The Committee recommended that $1.1 3m should be made available for the conduct of full time in-service teacher education courses mounted by the education departments in the education of handicapped children; $8.25m for the replacement of teachers in government schools engaged in training courses for teachers of the handicapped; $ 10.25m for recurrent expenditure in special schools and classes additional to that provided to the States in general recurrent expenditure for schools; $3.91m to enable State education departments to assume responsibility for the recurrent operations of those non-government schools for handicapped people which elect to become part of State systems and to make increased subsidies available to those which elect to remain outside those systems; and $20m to enable State education departments to provide additional faculties for the education of handicapped children and to replace and upgrade existing facilities. [More…]
While the parameters of that program are much wider than the specific learning difficulty children alone, they include that 10 to 15 per cent of our school population which falls into the specific learning difficulties category. [More…]
On the side of research, to which the Leader of the Opposition referred in his motion, I could read out to the House- perhaps if I sought leave to have it incorporated in Hansard this would suit the convenience of the House better- a list of research projects specifically involving the interests of specific learning difficulty children with which the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Barnard) has provided me. [More…]
I was concerned by the remark made by the Leader of the Opposition in his speech- I think in fact he was quoting an authority- when he described children with specific learning difficulties as the last large group of handicapped children and adults for whom special provision has not been made. [More…]
In a moment’s thought he will conjure up the many children hitherto regarded by State Departments of Education as being ineducable and therefore left to the care of minding centres which had to be organised on a voluntary basis, and very largely financed on a voluntary basis, by groups made up of the parents of the children concerned. [More…]
He will remember the migrant children from countries where a language other than English is spoken and who still overwhelmingly are deprived of the instruction in English as a second language or the opportunity to receive their education in the languages of the countries of their origin. [More…]
He will be aware too of the children from the low income groups in the community who are the victims of educational deprivation on a massive scale. [More…]
But how much of the Karmel Committee funds went towards correcting the problems of children with special learning difficulties? [More…]
The committee established by the honourable member points up the vital requirement to identify early those children with special learning difficulties and the need to train teachers who can adequately deal with the problem. [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…]
It is well known that the Department of Education has made a $lm grant for handicapped children’s training and other grants for teaching in this area. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a Press statement dealing with a study of communication disorders in children which has been approved by my Department. [More…]
STUDY OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS IN CHILDREN [More…]
A Health Department officer has been awarded an Australian Government Postgraduate Scholarship to study communication disorders in children. [More…]
The Minister for Health, Dr D. N. Everingham, said Mr Dermody ‘s study would be directly connected with the work of a new scientific group being established at the National Acoustic Laboratories, which will develop more detailed auditory testing procedures to detect children who have a learning difficulty. [More…]
The particular children in whom Mr Dermody is interested generally have normal hearing sensitivity, but are unable to correctly recognise, distinguish or process sound in the usual way. [More…]
Testing procedures will be aimed at early detection and diagnosis of these problems so that remedial treatment can be offered sooner, and to a greater number of children, than is possible at present. [More…]
It is also anticipated that at least some of the testing procedures, when applied to deaf children seeking assistance under the Australian Government’s hearing aid scheme, will provide additional information for hearing aid selection and use. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I would like to mention at this point that this legislation will in no way supersede the operation of other legislation under which the Australian Government assists the provision of residential accommodation for disabled persons engaged in sheltered employment or for handicapped children receiving training. [More…]
I refer, of course, to the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act respectively. [More…]
Legislation was passed by the Parliament in last year’s Budget session, enabling local government borrowing to attract subsidy under the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act, which are ‘companion’ Acts to the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]
Old customers keep coming back, and now I ‘m getting the second generation- the children of customers whose TVs we repaired in the early days. [More…]
A mother in an out of the way area might have sick children. [More…]
Is it more important to have a 20-square house or parks in which the children who live in that house can play? [More…]
The Apollo Parkways Estate near Greensborough in my electorate and the Crestwood Estate in Western Australia are 2 outstanding examples of the modified Radburn system under which children can walk to school - [More…]
I refer to the very unfortunate and very dangerous practice of the sale to children of chocolates which are packaged to resemble cigarettes and which are put in packets which look like very authentic replicas of the most commonly sold brands of cigarettes. [More…]
We bring to the notice of all concerned with the well-being of children the insidious encouragement to smoke by the presentation of chocolate lollies in a seemingly authentic cigarette wrapping and box. [More…]
In an interview on Channel 2’s ‘This Day Tonight’ (21.10.74) with the headmistress and children of the Magill Infant Demonstration School the variety and number of simulated cigarettes available were shown. [More…]
and the Mothers’ Club are concerned that such immoral, unethical and insidious advertising should be levelled at young children. [More…]
The power of advertising was highlighted by the interviewer’s report that the children showed preference for one brand of chocolate because of its association with the catchy TV and radio commercials for that brand of cigarette. [More…]
We are aware that children are happy to copy adults, and it is therefore to be expected that the pleasant chocolate flavour of the simulated cigarettes would not only confound the warnings that ‘smoking is a health hazard’ but prove a very subtle indoctrination at their most receptive age. [More…]
It is directly encouraging people to take up this habit or to regard the habit of smoking by adults as something that children should emulate. [More…]
It was established after the sinking of that vessel and the tragic loss of life of crew members, in order to raise money to assist the dependants, particularly the children. [More…]
Queensland- weekly wage, or the basic wage plus flat rates of compensation in respect of his wife and children, whichever is greater, for first 26 weeks. [More…]
Where a Testator dies and leaves a life interest in the income from the estate to his or her widow or widower, as the case may be, and on the death of that widow or widower the estate is then to be divided amongst the widow’s or widower’s children, will capital gains tax be assessed not only at the time of death of the Testator, but a second time when the widow or widower dies and the estate passes to the children. [More…]
Any increase in the value between that time and 15 years later would be subject to capital gains tax at the later time in the hands of the trustee, and the children would be deemed, on their mother’s death, to acquire the assets at their value 1 5 years from the husband ‘s death. [More…]
If the wife survived for less than 15 years, the children would of course be deemed to acquire the assets at their value for capital gains tax purposes at the time of the father’s death. [More…]
I refer to representations made to the Treasurer on behalf of the parents of thalidomide children in Australia requesting exemption from income tax in respect of income from trust funds set up for children seriously affected by the use of this drug. [More…]
We are discussing the power to regulate television advertising, particularly the type of advertising that takes place during children’s programs. [More…]
We are also discussing the power to regulate the degree and amount of violence which might occur during children’s programs. [More…]
Australian Film Commission Bill which is a similar measure to enable proper and responsible programs to be produced for the benefit of Australian children. [More…]
But in response to a letter I arranged to meet the school welfare clubs for a discussion and an exchange of views on the question of children’s television, particularly in regard to the advertising that takes place. [More…]
I invite the attention of the House specially to the latter provisions because ever since there has been talk of the introduction of television into Australia, genuine fear has been expressed by large sections of the community that the introduction of television would have unfortunate effects on some sections of the population, particularly children. [More…]
I speak of the children of this community for whom the Broadcasting Control Board has laid down specific standards of protection much more widely honoured by commercial managements in the breach than in the observance. [More…]
Honourable members, including the honourable member for Moreton, will know from their own experience the discrepancy which exists between these standards and what is presented to our children day in day out through their television screens. [More…]
It is recommended that there should be regular sessions for children, designed: [More…]
d ) to cater for children ‘s propensities for sport, and hobbies such as handicrafts and the care of animals; and [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…]
We have a situation in which the bodies of our children are sacrosanct but their minds are at the mercy of anybody who has enough money to finance the preparation of an elaborate submission to back up his application for a licence, enough gall to suggest that his programs will in some way serve the public interest- and enough bullying bravado, the amount of which needed to overawe a Broadcasting Control Board which is in fact impotent, is not very great. [More…]
We would prosecute with the utmost rigour of the law anybody who inflicted physically on our children the sort of harm they suffer throughout the period of their childhood from their television screens. [More…]
When the honourable member for Moreton invites us to water down the legislation which is currently before us, he asks us to prefer the exploitation of our children to the regulation of commercial interests which are profiting from what has been described as a community conferred licence to print money. [More…]
This is to be amended and updated from $43 a week to $57 a week, from $ 1 1 a week to $ 1 5 a week for a dependent spouse and from $5 to $7 a week for dependent children. [More…]
I believe that the Association has played some part in bringing about the introduction of progressive legislation such as the Family Law Bill, which I feel rather happy about because it seeks to simplify the method of divorce and to obviate the public washing of dirty linen by marriage partners, which more or less brings about a situation in which the children of that marriage have to bear the stigma of that dirty linen being washed in public. [More…]
She had 2 children to him. [More…]
My advice to her was that she should not spend a penny on having the form of marriage dissolved because it was an invalid marriage, that virtually she was like a single woman who had had 2 children out of wedlock and that she was free to marry whom she wished. [More…]
Although the ex-wife had a criminal history, and, a history of homosexuality, it was ignored by the Court, as well as the late neurotic condition of my ex-wife, and the fact that the children were dirty and neglected at the hands of my ex-wife whilst living apart. [More…]
Although my ex-wife assured the trial Judge that she would not remove our children out of the metropolitan area she immediately did so and took them to Cairns. [More…]
My ex-wife and the children cannot now be traced. [More…]
Her solicitor Mellick of Cairns claims that all access to the children is in his hands. [More…]
Searches by the Childrens Service Department have been futile and it cannot now be proved that the children are still alive. [More…]
Maintenance cheques to support the children are paid to an address in Brisbane but are being paid into a Bank 1,200 miles away to redeem a debt that has nothing to do with the interest of the children. [More…]
Why is it that in these circumstances children are not made Wards of the Court and their care given to the Childrens Service Department? [More…]
Maximum quantities which would allow six months supply of a drug on the one occasion may result in increased hazard from accidental ingestion, particularly by children, increased deterioration due to storage under possibly sub-standard conditions for a longer period, and possible wastage of unused quantities of the larger amounts supplied. [More…]
If the present tax deductions of up to $400 for educational expenses of children were replaced by flat tax rebates, so that the taxpayer is given a rebate equal to a certain percentage of his expenditure up to $400, what would be the estimated cost to the Commonwealth if the percentage of such expenditure rebated was (a) 10 per cent, (b) 20 per cent, (c) 30 per cent, (d) 40 percent and (e) 50 percent. [More…]
Based on the most recent relevant statistics, which relate to the 1972-73 income year, it has been estimated that if the deductions allowed in that year in respect of education of children had been replaced by flat rebates equal to certain percentages of such expenditure up to $400 the effect on income tax revenue would have been as follows: [More…]
This Bill, which repeals the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act, consolidates and extends the Australian Government’s programs of assistance to voluntary organisations that have assumed responsibility for the welfare of handicapped people. [More…]
The Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act has been in operation for more than 7 years and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act for more than 4 years. [More…]
Although the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act will be repealed, the main provisions of those 2 Acts are to be continued and expanded. [More…]
It is designed to cater for the needs of handicapped children and handicapped adults who do not require constant medical attention but who, nevertheless, need special facilities to enable them to take their place in the community. [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…]
It caters for physically and mentally handicapped children and adults most of whom require assistance by way of training, supervision, employment or accommodation if their lives are not to be wasted. [More…]
It will also be necessary to ensure that the assistance provided for handicapped children is coordinated with the activities of the Schools Commission. [More…]
Widows’ pensions and the ‘additional’ pension payable in respect of eligible children will be increased in proportion to the increase that would have applied to the deceased serviceman if he were still alive and drawing pension. [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…]
Children cannot be kept on $2 a week, and to make distinctions of that nature is to make a mistake. [More…]
It still seems that Hargreave’s Law applies with respect to the family situation and it still seems that families with more than the average number of children tend to be poorer families. [More…]
Above all, in the family context it enables them to be a good parent and to give their children a better environment in which to grow up. [More…]
I am a supportive mother (separated) with 2 young children. [More…]
A man with a wife, 2 children and perhaps one on the way, with a take home pay of $102 a week obviously cannot pay $25 to $40 weekly, even for a modest home. [More…]
The situation of the family that is cooped up in a small flat, with no play area for the children and no way in which the parents can have some privacy from the rest of the family, breeds a dangerous condition of frustration. [More…]
Children who are constantly ‘shushshushed’ because of thin walls and close neighbours lose their spontaneity. [More…]
Even if a person has $40 a week to spare for rent, just try to rent a house when mentioning that one has children One will find that landlords just are not interested. [More…]
I cannot imagine where they expect people with children to live. [More…]
I rang around real estate agents last week, when the Parliament was not sitting, offering $40 a week in rent, promising to pay the bond money asked, and each time when I said: ‘Oh, yes, they have 3 children’, I received the same answer ‘The owners will not have children’. [More…]
They do not seem to mind cats and dogs, but children are taboo. [More…]
For example, a taxpayer with a wife and 2 children with a taxable income of $2,732 after allowance of dependants’ and other deductions will be freed from tax. [More…]
The tax payable by a taxpayer with a taxable income of $4,000, after deductions for a wife and 2 children, will be $303.52 for 1974-75, compared with $608.30 for 1973- 74- a reduction of over 50 per cent. [More…]
By way of illustration, a man supporting a wife and two children is entitled to maintenance deductions of $832. [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 is no doubt about one of the reasons why the State governments try to keep such a tight rein on local authorities and why they always want to remind the Australian Government of the fact that the local authorities are the children of the State government and reiterate that they want it kept that way. [More…]
But local authorities today- and I wish some Government members would move around in this area- are like disillusioned children for they have learnt who Santa Claus really is. [More…]
How many children would be unable to find places in schools at the beginning of a new school year following the implementation of these measuresnot the cut of $ 1 ,000m that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition talked about, but a cut of $2.3 billion in the present expenditure programs of Australia? [More…]
For me it is an article of simple but nevertheless of deep personal faith that parents have the right to choose where their children are educated. [More…]
Most of the students attending it are children who come from families of modest circumstances. [More…]
-The children suffer, as my honourable friend says. [More…]
This new initiative on the part of the Australian Government will be welcomed by those interested in improving both the quality and the availability of education to all Australian children, irrespective of their financial circumstances, their parentage, their religious beliefs or where they live. [More…]
With the rising costs of running schools, in particular where the salaries of teachers have risen properly and remarkably in recent years and where there is higher inflation in building costs, parents face the threat that they will not be able to pursue for their children the interest which they have displayed in an independent education. [More…]
The point is that thousands of parents slave to send their children to these schools. [More…]
I understand that the income of parents cannot lead one to the conclusion that all parents who send their children to these schools are wealthy. [More…]
I understand from facts established last year that the average income of fathers who sent their children to independent schools in Victoria during 1973 was of the order of $12,000. [More…]
The average income of parents who sent their children to schools with lower fees- typically, of course, the Catholic parish schools- was much lower. [More…]
The average income of fathers who sent their children to these schools was well under $9,000 last year. [More…]
I understand that almost half of all the fathers who sent their children to independent schools in Victoria last year were in receipt of incomes of under $10,000 a year. [More…]
Certainly, there is a small number of very rich parents who happen to choose to send their children to these schools. [More…]
However, other parents are very rich because they do not send their children to these schools. [More…]
But the fact is that most parents slave and struggle to give their children an education of their choice. [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…]
Let us say for argument ‘s sake that such a person in receipt of $150 a week last year had 2 children at secondary school. [More…]
With fees and taxes up dramatically because his income is up- I repeat again that the talk of tax deductions through the year is nonsense; more taxes are being paid because incomes have increased- and the predictions of the amount of further increases of fees are quite horrific, and with education deductions down, that taxpayer will have to find an extra $1,330 for extra taxes and extra school fees just to keep his 2 children at independent schools next year. [More…]
This burden is frightening many parents and potential parents who are sending or who wish to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
From a check that I made at a number of schools in Melbourne it is clear that probably thousands of parents have already cancelled or deferred the enrolment of their children to start at the independent schools in future years. [More…]
So thousands have cancelled future enrolments and hundreds are to withdraw pupils at the end of this year all because people are frightened of the cost problems which face them and not because they have taken a deliberate decision to send their children to a government school for other reasons. [More…]
The cost problems make it impossible for them to continue to send their children to schools of their choice. [More…]
I do not blame him one iota for being concerned about children from any sector of life or socio-economic circumstance. [More…]
I have no particular illwill about his feelings for those children we have designated as A category school children. [More…]
He said not one word about the Government of that time giving in massive proportions grants for scholarships to those who were best able to engage coaches so that their children could get secondary scholarships, as they then were, university scholarships or other tertiary scholarships. [More…]
The vast majority of these scholarships went to the children of the richest parents in the community. [More…]
It is no wonder that anyone who accepted for 23 years that kind of attitude would find it somewhat difficult to accept the attitude of another government with a completely different perspectiveone that is concerned for all those children who by accident of birth were born into poverty, near poverty or less opportunity. [More…]
As a government, we feel that we must try to rectify that circumstance of birth by making sure that resources go to those children. [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…]
This is a genuine attempt to do something for the education of all children and for all people throughout their lives. [More…]
Children who attend these schools still attract certain taxation concessions, they are still in the field for scholarships, and they have free access to all tertiary education if they are able to get enrolment in tertiary institutions. [More…]
We are saying to those schools that have fairly adequate facilities: ‘Wait a while until those educationally dispossessed children have had a chance to catch up’. [More…]
We are also concerned about schools for handicapped children. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee did not mention that under the Liberal-Country Party Government country areas were not provided with funds by way of assistance for isolated children. [More…]
There are many parents who might like their sons and daughters to have the advantages that some other children have. [More…]
They might like their children to go to Melbourne Grammar or to Tinturn or to any of the other well known schools around Australia, but they have not the wherewithal to spend on that. [More…]
This Government’s policy is aimed at breaking down the financial barriers which so often have meant that children have been denied a full and proper education. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) was a teacher and so was I. I have mentioned before in this House the terrible conditions under which some children in Victoria and all over Australia suffer because proper educational facilities are not provided. [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…]
We feel a responsibility to provide money for the education of children at the primary and secondary levels and also in other areas at all levels. [More…]
The Opposition has only to do a few simple arithmetical sums to see that this Government is providing money which was not provided before and that the children of Australia will benefit. [More…]
We consider this decision to be both discriminating and grossly unfair to parents with children attending nongovernment schools. [More…]
The school children of Australia are the ones who have to suffer insofar as there will be fewer new classrooms built and fewer innovations and facilities available for them. [More…]
I want to comment in this debate also on what will happen to many children following the decision of the Labor Government to reduce the concessional income tax deductions for educational expenses. [More…]
This is a most underhand attack on children from certain sections of the community. [More…]
I refer to the children of people who, through their circumstances and through no fault of their own, are obliged of necessity to send their children to boarding schools. [More…]
I know that you are different from them, Mr Deputy Speaker, because you have gone off the bitumen occasionally, but some of these fellows have lived on the bitumen all their lives and they cannot appreciate the fact that children in the bush, who surely make up the heart of this nation, have to be sent to boarding schools. [More…]
The parents of these children are being savagely affected because the educational allowance has been reduced from $400 to $150. [More…]
The table is based on a family with the wife not working and three children all dependent and attending nongovernment schools. [More…]
These schools have to contend with the added difficulty of attracting staff to them because of the difficulty that the members of the staff have in finding jobs for their children in rural areas. [More…]
Additionally, because these schools usually cater for specific children from farming areas, it is most desirable to have included in their curricula special courses designed for the boys and girls who will return to rural areas either as members of the Public Service or as people engaged in primary industry. [More…]
It is absolutely essential that these children have the opportunity of pursuing an agricultural type of education, bearing in mind that the farmer of the future will be a business man, an economist and a philosopher. [More…]
These schools are never mentioned because they are the schools of the most abjectly poor children in this country. [More…]
At least under legislation that we have introduced, we are trying to grant to every person with an income below $3,500 a year who has children in fifth form or sixth form an amount of $450 next year and $304 this year. [More…]
Personally, we hope that the States will be able to appropriate all the money that is being made available and make it available in the interests of the children. [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…]
I have vivid memories of when I was in the teaching profession and participating in the making of films, of the gold rushes, at the Doveton and Pakenham high schools where the children had the opportunity of actually taking part in history. [More…]
We would like to see Film Australia produce good pro-social films for showing in children’s television programs. [More…]
I think most honourable members would agree that the quality of children’s television programs is not all that it ought to be. [More…]
Surely, it is necessary to produce good prosocial programs with an Australian content which can be shown during children’s viewing times. [More…]
In that regard, I think that perhaps something could be said of the degree of violence on children’s television programs. [More…]
Is this not a good chance to do something about this, to have a public authority which can produce good quality programs for children’s television? [More…]
Perhaps the reason why I feel so strongly about this matter at the moment is because I have been visited in Canberra by one of the schools in my electorate- the Williamtown Primary School- and the 34 children and 2 teachers who are making the visit will be stranded in Canberra tomorrow because of the pilots’ strike. [More…]
Inconvenience will be caused not only to this group of school children which happens to have come to Canberra from my electorate, but also to many members of the travelling public, including businessmen. [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…]
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…]
On the legal side, measures are now being taken to improve the situation facing ex-nuptial children. [More…]
As honourable members may be aware, the New Zealand Government has acted as an initiator in this process by passing a Status of Children Act 1969 which has as its main aim the statement of the concept that all children should be of equal status and that the relationship between every person and his father and mother shall be determined irrespective of whether the father and mother are or have been married to each other. [More…]
As an example of the kind of attention that we ought to be giving this question, I refer to the study undertaken by the Children’s Bureau in the United Kingdom and the results of national studies undertaken there. [More…]
In 1958 the children of a whole week’s births were included in a perinatal mortality study. [More…]
This included 17,000 births, both legitimate and ex-nuptial children. [More…]
Since 1958, children have been studied in follow up surveys as part of the childhood study. [More…]
The findings of the study which have been summarised in a report by the National Children’s Bureau are quite disturbing. [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…]
Adopted children were the best readers, then nuptial children next with ex-nuptial children faring worst being on average one year behind in reading the level of the other children. [More…]
That is, ex-nuptial children- . [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…]
I have previously announced that a future Liberal-Country Party Government will establish a children’s bureau in the proposed Department of Community of Development. [More…]
That bureau will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers concerned with specific aspects of the welfare of children. [More…]
I would expect that some of the questions studied by the United Kingdom’s Children’s Bureau to which I have referred would be considered by the Australian Children’s Bureau. [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…]
I am aware of the New Zealand Status of Children Act 1 969, as well as the report by the Law Reform Committee of Tasmania. [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…]
The Department of Community Development to be established by the next Liberal and Country Party Government will include a Children ‘s Bureau in its structure. [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…]
This necessitates the formation of a central unit, which will be the role of the Children ‘s Bureau. [More…]
I do not accept that the present Government’s intention to allocate all administrative responsibility for childhood services to a single Commission is either desirable or practical Consequently, I do not support the concept of a Children’s Commission as advocated by the Labor Government. [More…]
By contrast, the Children’s Bureau under the LiberalCountry Party Government will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers who will retain the responsibility for the administration of programs within their specific portfolios- e.g., health, education and social welfare. [More…]
The Children’s Bureau will not administer programs nor control funding of them. [More…]
I trust that the ready acceptance of the House of this motion that I have moved will give the indication to the Council and to the children and mothers it represents that each of us recognises that we have inadequately considered the needs of ex-nuptial children in the past and that we will accept the responsibility to remove to the maximum extent possible disabilities facing them. [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…]
As society becomes more sophisticated the number of children born out of marriage will increase. [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…]
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…]
The facts are that on 1 August the Government, speaking in the Senate through the voice of the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) declared its commitment to the removal of” the distinction between ex-nuptial children and other children. [More…]
I take your point, Mr Speaker, but surely the emphasis has to be given because the Family Law Bill touches directly on the issue that was raised by the Leader of the Opposition and dealt with in a follow-up way by the honourable member for Hotham: It deals with children; it deals with custody; it deals with maintenance; it deals wirh access and other matters of that sort. [More…]
I will not take very much more time, but I am reminded of some facts that the honourable member for Hotham mentioned when he talked about 40 per cent of the unmarried mothers of today not adopting out their children but seeking to keep them. [More…]
I am reminded of a figure- I cannot vouch for its accuracy, but it is in my mind from some past piece of reading somewhere- to the effect that something like 60 per cent of all first children are conceived out of wedlock. [More…]
The matter I chose to put forward two weeks ago was the establishment of a committee of the House on a totally non-political basis to look at the very serious problem of word blindness in children and the associated problems of dyslexia and the incapacity to absorb education even though the intellect is in advance of the level of education etc. [More…]
There is not a man on this side of the House- I hope that there is not one on the other side of the House- who does not regard the continuance of social attitudes towards exnuptial children in the fashion that they have existed up until now as being wrong. [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…]
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…]
The fact that the Opposition is supporting this legislation indicates that the Opposition realises too that it is necessary in this time, in this generation, to assist Aborigines generously in some cases in order that they and their children might enjoy real equality with other Australians in the next generation. [More…]
Broken homes do not just occur in the western and northern suburbs nor do we have disturbed or deliquent children in only the northern and western suburbs. [More…]
The Aboriginal population in the area served by the Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth is something like 3.5 per cent of the total population, yet at this children’s hospital something like 13 per cent of admittances are Aborigines. [More…]
It is dangerous from a traffic point of view to pedestrians, particularly to school children. [More…]
Of course, this will place an additional burden upon the wife and children who are left at home. [More…]
1 ) Australian Government contributions are provided by my Department under the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act, the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act, the National Health Act, the Aged Persons Homes Act and the Delivered Meals Subsidy Act. [More…]
Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act [More…]
Capital grants are not made available under this Act: The Government does make available hospital, nursing home and handicapped children’s benefits to assist patients in meeting the cost of their care and treatment in approved premises rather than as a direct contribution towards the current expenditure of organisations. [More…]
Statistics relating to benefits under the National Health Act (Handicapped Children’s Benefit). [More…]
For instance, a taxpayer on $100 a week with a wife and 2 children to keep will have his tax cut by 54 per cent by this measure. [More…]
In the last financial year in which a Labor government was in office before Labor was returned to office in 1972-that was in 1949-50 when we were in office for almost half of that financial year- the proportion of income paid in tax by a wage earner receiving average weekly earnings and with a wife and 2 children as dependants was 2.9 per cent. [More…]
For a man on average weekly earnings with a wife and 2 children to keep, his proportion of income paid in tax this year will be about the same as that paid last year. [More…]
It will pose unwarranted financial burdens on Australian parents, and therefore on their children, whether the school in question is public or private. [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…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $ I SO seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and, further, that the Bill specifically: [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…]
Prior to that the Chifley Labor Government had a rebate system which gave an across the board flat rate reduction in respect of a wife and in respect of dependent children, for example- an equal amount irrespective of the individual. [More…]
A very good example would be the case of a man with a wife and 3 children. [More…]
A man with a wife and 3 children who had a taxable income of $4,000 a year would receive an actual rebate in tax of $208 whereas a man with a wife and 3 children who had a taxable income of $40,000 would receive an actual tax rebate of $696. [More…]
In other words, just as some people get a rebate in respect of their wife, their children and other dependants, so will they be able to receive, as from 1 January, as a result of a consequential regulation to be introduced, tax rebates in respect of interest payments on home loans. [More…]
Should the tax burden on a single man be the same as that imposed upon a man with a dependent wife and 2 young children? [More…]
As my colleague says, it is a scheme of penalties which imposes a harsh burden on the family which has a strong desire that the mother should stay home to look after young children. [More…]
One would think, in the light of such evidence that is available, that the incentives should be directed to encouraging mothers of young children to be at home, certainly while their children are in the pre-school age group. [More…]
There is an education allowance, which is being drastically cut in the Budget, imposing heavy burdens on all taxpayers who have school-going children, no matter to which school they go. [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…]
I put to him the example of a family comprised of a man, his wife and perhaps 2 children which has a net income of $4,000. [More…]
Yet people living there, school children and pensioners, rely on public transport. [More…]
States known to have reduced or terminated payments made in respect of children following grants of double orphans pension are Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
I hope that the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation will give every possible assistance to the Murray Valley Centre for Intellectually Handicapped Children which was recently granted a lease on what was Army land. [More…]
Areas of open space in which children can play can often be built into such areas. [More…]
There are also a number of provisions in the Bill to effect machinery amendments to the National Health Act to delete provisions relating to the payment of handicapped children’s benefits, to clarify the provisions regarding directions by the Minister under section 73b and to enable provisions in the National Health Act relating to the supervision of registered organisations to override State laws where the statutes are inconsistent. [More…]
At present the number of friendly society dispensaries with full approval to dispense benefits to the public has been taken up in both Queensland and South Australia and there are currently 7 dispensaries in Queensland and 5 dispensaries in South Australia which have only a limited approval to dispense benefits to members of the society, their wives and dependent children under the age of 1 6 years. [More…]
The Bill further provides that full-time student dependants of members, up to the maximum age provided for in the rules of the friendly societies concerned, be afforded the same benefits as parent members and children under the age of 1 6 years. [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…]
If the beneficiary is entitled to full cover for himself, but has a wife or children, he will be entitled to relief from onehalf of the levy that would otherwise be payable. [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…]
I have spoken to the parents of handicapped children. [More…]
I request this Government, which has a passion for publishing documents at taxpayers’ expense, to prepare a simple document explaining to the parents of handicapped children the kind of facilities and help that is available to them. [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit has been increased by 50c from $3 to $3.50 a day and the salary subsidy in respect of approved staff will be increased in the majority of cases from a 25 per cent level to a 50 per cent level. [More…]
One such area, for example, concerns special schools for handicapped children that were built by voluntary associations with assistance from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Some people not currently eligible for hostel accommodation under the Handicapped Persons (Assistance) Act and the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act- that is, persons too old to be in handicapped children’s homes and too severely handicapped to be employed in sheltered workshops- will be provided for under the extended provisions of the Aged and Disabled Persons Homes Act 1974. [More…]
The Bill will cater for the needs of both handicapped children and handicapped adults who do need special faculties if we are to help them to rejoin the mainstream of living. [More…]
I acknowledge that previous governments introduced the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act, which of its kind was good, and the Handicapped Children’s (Assistance) Act. [More…]
This Bill provides a subsidy of $4 for $1 for establishing sheltered workshops for handicapped adults, training centres for handicapped children and hostels for children and adults. [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…]
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…]
The voluntary organisations have given this nation a basis for magnificent care for mentally and physically handicapped children and adults. [More…]
-The Handicapped Persons Assistance Bill, which has the full support of my colleagues in this Parliament, is really a Bill to repeal the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Attached to this handicapped persons’ institution is the MaiWel handicapped children ‘s school. [More…]
It is wonderful to visit this school and to see the dedication of the teachers and the way in which they encourage handicapped children in various methods of learning. [More…]
At Muswellbrook in my electorate there is a handicapped children’s school. [More…]
When we were in government both the Sheltered Employment (Assistance) Act and the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act were introduced and implemented. [More…]
The Bill provides for the needs of handicapped children and handicapped adults who do not require constant medical attention but who, nevertheless, need special facilities and encouragement to take their rightful place in the community. [More…]
It is noted that the subsidy for the establishment of sheltered workshops, training control for handicapped children and hostels for children and adults has doubled from $2 to $4 for every $1 raised by voluntary organisations. [More…]
The doubling of the subsidy by the Government should further encourage local organisations to get behind this movement and to provide further amenities and facilities for handicapped persons both in the sheltered workshops and in the schools for handicapped children. [More…]
It is pleasing to note that in the Bill the benefit for handicapped children has been increased from $3 to $3.50 a day and also that consideration will be given to these children being paid this amount when they are not attending the school but are at home over the weekend with their parents. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the subsidy extends to sheltered workshops for handicapped adults, training centres for handicapped children and hostels for both children and adults and that it will be doubled, as previous speakers have already mentioned. [More…]
I am thinking here of those centres that are attached to schools for physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Children who have turned 16 years of age no longer qualify for aid from the State. [More…]
The very schools that train the children while they are of compulsory school attendance age or up to the age of 16 when they become invalid pensioners, have attached to them a training centre but in the past they have not been able to qualify for approval as sheltered workshops. [More…]
I have two such centres in my electorate, one is the Southaven Sub-Normal School and the other is the Sunnyhurst Sub-Normal Children’s School at Penshurst in Sydney. [More…]
I have read articles by the Sub-Normal Children’s Welfare Association which state that it is all very well to subsidise the establishment of buildings but it is another matter to keep up with the running costs of those institutions. [More…]
An example is the savage punitive discrimination in unemployment benefits where a man with a wife and children got much less if he was drawing unemployment benefits than he would have obtained if he was receiving a pension of one form or another. [More…]
I might mention also that the committee members already include 2 teachers, one of whom has worked with children with specific learning difficulties, and the Government is moving to add a doctor of medicine, whose experience will be invaluable. [More…]
Briefly, the history of this resolution is that it resulted from a concern which I personally have about a great number of children who have word blindness, and beyond that such things as an intellectual capacity which is not matched by the education they actually receive at school, and they are emerging from the school system not properly and fully educated. [More…]
I hardly think that it will be possible for the Committee to be partisan on a question of specific learning difficulties and I do not think that the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews), who as a teacher has been concerned about children with disabilities, would exercise his chairmanship of the Committee with anything other than compassion and objectivity, the clashes in the House notwithstanding. [More…]
Teachers do not know whether children coming into their schools come from battered homes, whether they are brain damaged or whether they have various forms of disability. [More…]
This is specifically the case in regard to specific learning difficulties which seem to be at the basis in some cases of the mystery of why so many children cannot learn to read. [More…]
Places will not be available in school for children coming on, additional burdens will be imposed on the teaching staff and additional finance will be necessary to maintain the education system. [More…]
considers what is happening in Warringah and throughout Australia- people out of work, finding it hard to maintain their financial commitments, and children being denied opportunities. [More…]
An amount of $56m has been allocated for an animal health laboratory in Geelong; $28m is to be made available to the dairy reconstruction scheme outlined in this legislation; $40m is being spent in the first advance on wheat $28m is being spent on rural reconstruction overall; $45 m is being spent on the National Disaster Fund; $ 11.5m is being spent this year on the isolated children’s allowance throughout country districts; $21m is being allocated this year to rural universities- it was only $6m in 1972; $47m is being allocated this year to colleges of advanced education in rural areas- it was only $ 12m in 1972; and $880m or 46 per cent of our expenditure on social security payments goes to rural districts. [More…]
To protect the welfare of the children, who are the real victims of broken marriages. [More…]
If there are young children, it is obviously important that they be given every opportunity to have a continuing relationship with their parents after divorce, and this is why there must be encouragement of an on-going relationship between theparents, if at all possible, after divorce. [More…]
This help would also be available after divorce proceedings, and this would, as I have already indicated, be of great importance where there were young children. [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…]
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 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…]
Whereas the existing legislation devotes little attention to the needs of the parties other than at the divorce stage, the Bill provides the means of helping the parties at all stages, from when marital trouble is first encountered through to the post-divorce stage when the parties are readjusting their relationship to each other and to their children. [More…]
It would seem that as children who are now at primary and secondary schools move on they will be travelling many miles each day to get to centres of tertiary education, whether they be colleges of advanced education or universities. [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…]
I hope that we will be able to finance half-way houses for those women and children who live in fear of being beaten, and who are probably being beaten daily or frightened of being beaten daily. [More…]
She has children to look after. [More…]
I hope also that the program will eventually recognise and cope with the problems of the men and women who batter their children either physically or mentally. [More…]
Those parents who make up Parents Anonymous show a tremendous amount of courage in acknowledging their own deep psychological problems and the fact that they batter their children either physically or mentally, but we do not give them any help. [More…]
Anyone who has had four or five children in pretty poor circumstances understands exactly what these people are going through. [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…]
I support the principle of providing financial assistance for these voluntary agencies and organisations providing shelter for the homeless and for wives and children escaping violence. [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…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not opposing the positive sections of the Bill which relate to nursing homes, handicapped children and surgical appliances, this House is of the opinion that the Bill should be withdrawn and re-drafted to omit those provisions which relate to unnecessary ministerial control over health insurance funds and the additional provisions which relate to friendly society dispensaries. ‘ [More…]
I do not know how often they have been increased but I know that my children, who are apprentices, are paying something like $29 every 3 months for health insurance. [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…]
The Opposition has made it quite plain that it is in favour of certain parts of this legislationthe positive provisions of the Bill which relate to nursing homes, handicapped children and surgical appliances- but it believes most emphatically that the Bill should be withdrawn and redrafted to allow these positive aspects to become law but to omit those unsavoury aspects concerning unnecessary ministerial control over health insurance funds as well as what we believe are unnecessary additional provisions relating to certain friendly societies in South Australia and Queensland. [More…]
The Opposition has no quarrel with the nursing home and handicapped children’s proposals. [More…]
The Opposition will move for the deletion of these provisions from the Bill but it will support the positive aspects, including those relating to nursing homes, handicapped children, surgical appliances, and the change in the definition of a junior for the purpose of friendly societies. [More…]
The King Island people have to rely now on a small twinengined plane for their flights to the mainland regardless of whether they are pensioners in ill health or school children trying to arrange excursions. [More…]
These include university students, people entering the Public Service for the first time, school children, young children attending preschool centres and young married people who have to face the facts of life in regard to housing. [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…]
The success rate of our learn-to-swim activities was 20 per cent, that is, only 20 children out of every 100 children we tried to teach to swim were successful in learning. [More…]
By doing so, that Government denied the people of the Australian Capital Territory the opportunity to teach their young children to be safe in the water and to be able to look after themselves. [More…]
Nowhere else in Australia are so many 4-year-old children attending pre-school. [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…]
It does not matter whether you want to put that discretionary dollar of yours into further education for your children, to add a room on to your house or use it for some other function ‘. [More…]
The chances are that he has delivered other children from that woman. [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…]
No government has done more for those most in need, for the working man and his family, for women and children. [More…]
The fluoridation of Canberra’s water supply was commenced in September 1964, and the dental health of children who have lived in Canberra since fluoridation commenced is assessed annually. [More…]
The Table below shows the progressive improvement in the dental condition of children aged six to twelve years. [More…]
1 ) How many applications have been accepted since June 1974 for nominations involving (a) spouses, (b) dependent children, (c) dependent parents and (d ) fiances. [More…]
In the period July to September 1974 nominations within Category A dispatched to overseas posts for action included: 848 spouses; 1,327 dependent children; 775 dependent parents and their children; 719 fiances, fiancees and their children. [More…]
Based on the trends evident to date, it is estimated that in the period July 1974 to June 1975 nominees within Category A included in nominations dispatched overseas are likely to total: 3,392 spouses; 5,308 dependent children; 3,100 dependent parents and their children; 2,876 nances, fiancees and their children. [More…]
Will he provide more detailed information to me concerning the nature of the following research projects that will be undertaken in 1975 with Government grants following the recommendations of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education: (a) to develop a screening test that will differentiate children with motor development problems that could be alleviated by a special physical education program (Miss J. Calder), (b) a program to develop the cognitive skills of visually handicapped children (Mr P. J. Doherty ), (c) development of language problems based on the developing oral language structures used by 2Vi, y/i, 4VS, 5Vi and 614 year old children (Dr N. W. M. Hart) and (d) information technology and the education system (Professor D. M. Lamberton). [More…]
By tabulating the most frequent oral language sequences used by children of the 2<A, 3VS, 4Yi, 5’A and 6!? [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…]
The basic question is whether the institution can be accepted as a school in the sense that it provides an educational program which is geared to the capacity of children under primary school age. [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…]
What percentage of Australian parents claimed the full allowable tax deduction for education of children attending primary and secondary public schools during 1970-71, 1971-72 and 1972-73. [More…]
No statistics are available of the number of taxpayers who claimed the maximum deduction allowable for education expenses in respect of any of their children. [More…]
The only related statistics are those of the number of children in respect of whom the maximum education deductions were allowed. [More…]
The statistics for the 1967-68 income year, the latest for which this information has been compiled shows that the number of children in respect of whom the maximum deduction (then $300) was allowed was 124,046. [More…]
This number is estimated to represent about S per cent of the total number of children in respect of whom deductions for education expenses were allowed in that year. [More…]
In general, except for children in family groups, they will be adults or near adults. [More…]
If a young woman under 1 8 years arrives in Australia other than in the care of a relative or is not joining a relative who will accept responsibility for her, legal guardianship is vested in my colleague, the Minister for Social Security under the provisions of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act. [More…]
1 ) How many Australian school children are now receiving free dental services as a result of Federal Government funds. [More…]
How many dental therapists will be required by 1977 so that all Australian school children will be provided, as promised, with free dental services. [More…]
Will all Australian school children be receiving free dental services by 1977. [More…]
1 ) The numbers of school children who completed courses of free dental treatment in 1973/74 as a result of Australian Government funds were [More…]
The following reply does not include information in relation to the Children’s Commission and the Arts, details of which are still being compiled. [More…]
a multi-lingual pamphlet on the flammability of children ‘s clothing entitled ‘Clothes Burn-So Do Kids ‘. [More…]
30,000 went to the Royal Children’s Hospital. [More…]
There has been the social impact of injury to the dignity of men, women and children. [More…]
The education of the children of the working people of Australia has been greatly improved by this Government. [More…]
I know of personal bitterness and the personal crises which have occurred as a result of the decision to evacuate the city of Darwin- to separate wives from their husbands and children from their fathers. [More…]
-I happened to be working on the tarmac and evacuating children from schools in buses while a Labor senator was strutting around like a peacock doing nothing. [More…]
The Minister’s method was to combine in one Bill these measures related to voluntary health insurance with certain welfare measures which have a strong emotive content, including provisions for benefits for handicapped children and for the sufferers of kidney disease. [More…]
All that has happened as a result of this cynical exercise is that these people- that is the beneficiaries of the handicapped children’s benefit and the sufferers from kidney disease- have been denied benefits for some months. [More…]
Firstly, the reason why provisions related to handicapped children and sufferers of kidney disease were included in the same Bill. [More…]
We have to speak as a nation and speak up for the children ofthe future on the basis that this is a great country with a good democracy and we know how to manage our own affairs and our own resources. [More…]
In the early hours of Christmas morninga time when children throughout the world are thinking in their sleep of a fatherly visit from Santa Claus- a cyclone code named Tracy ripped through Darwin and the surrounding areas. [More…]
It is a place for people where they can live and raise their children, study, work and enjoy their leisure. [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…]
God only knows what would have happened if the cyclone had struck in the middle of the day with people walking around and children at school, even though there was ample warning. [More…]
Do the people of Australia want such a law that will reduce marriage to a purely temporary union with little or no protection for women and children? [More…]
Deserted wives are supported provided they are not big, healthy, independent persons and the offspring become latch-key children. [More…]
the adoption of children; [More…]
the guardianship, custody or maintenance of children; or [More…]
The Court will of necessity be located in the capital cities and will not have jurisdiction over the adoption of children, guardianship, property matters and trustee matters relating to children in the States which fall under State jurisdictions. [More…]
Fourthly, the consequences of broken homes on children of such marriages will be increased in proportion to the numbers involved. [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…]
that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage; [More…]
that there is need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent; and [More…]
However, many of the social responsibilities of the family remain, particularly the rearing of children, although even here educational and other state responsibilities impinge upon the role of the family. [More…]
The legal supremacy of the male and the entrenched legal inferiority of the female are removed without removing the commitment of one party to honour obligations of maintenance towards the other or towards children where the courts’ deem this to be appropriate. [More…]
St Thomas Aquinas and other theologians believed that the family was more directly of divine origin than was the state and that the state would be exceeding its authority to interfere with the relationships between spouses and between parents and children. [More…]
The tensions created by such unions are well known as are the legal discriminations which then existed against de facto spouses and the children of de facto unions. [More…]
It is the duty of the Parliament to provide laws to enable the courts to protect the interests of children and certain spouses. [More…]
For reasons I shall give in Committee, I believe that this Bill does enable the courts to protect those women who have lost income as a result of spending years at home raising children and contributing to the professional and financial development of the husband. [More…]
Moreover, I am convinced from the experience of welfare workers that it is far better for children to a broken marriage to be reasonably content with one parent and to see the other occasionally than to be tormented by the strain of living with 2 parents who find that they are not compatible. [More…]
This Bill, if it is passed, will allow a man or a woman to walk out on his marriage partner, and their children, move in with his or her fancy of the moment and after 12 months demand a divorce. [More…]
In the future we could well see young couples, perhaps our own children, standing before some paid appointee of this Government at a marriage ceremony, not entering marriage as a contract to be maintained for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, till death does them part. [More…]
Where does all this leave the children? [More…]
Children need both parents, and people who enter into the marriage contract must realise that not only themselves are involved but also that the lives and future of their children are of paramount importance. [More…]
People cannot afford to be selfish in marriage, either in regard to their partner or in regard to the children created by that marriage. [More…]
It calls for a woman to pay her own costs, and a mother with a young family who has chosen to stay at home and care for the children will be liable to pay for costs of proceedings which may not have been initiated by herself and which she may not be able to afford. [More…]
The maintenance clauses of this legislation which call for women to be equally responsible for the support of the children surprisingly have been supported by the Women’s Electoral Lobby. [More…]
The general majority of women cannot command an income capable of supporting a family, give them adequate housing and security, and then in addition face long hours of domestic work and supporting activities with their children out of school hours. [More…]
It overlooks that for a lengthy period of time a woman with children is unable to support herself. [More…]
What is the situation of the older woman in her fifties or sixties who has raised her children? [More…]
It is not possible for this legislation to transform human nature, no matter how much it may try to do so, for when one partner to a marriage contract feels wronged and hurt he or she, despite the divorce laws passed by this Parliament, will dispute with just as much determination, passion and personal expenditure matters of money and property and, naturally enough, the custody of the children. [More…]
Of course, it cannot solve every problem which arises between a man and a woman and their children before, during or after their marriage. [More…]
It also means that most children are brought up by one or both parents. [More…]
When the marriage has broken down, the place of the law should be to extend the principles of common law to provide justice to the parties and to the children of the union. [More…]
Of course, there are other safeguards such as those affecting the maintenance of children, and properly so, but these appear elsewhere in the Bill. [More…]
Because maintenance and custody of children are involved the question of fault must be brought in. [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…]
This Bill is a sensitive document which emphasises the need for counselling, the need to minimise added friction at this difficult time and the need to consider the physical and emotional needs of the children involved. [More…]
This friction between mother and father has a deep and abiding effect on the children. [More…]
This cost is measured in the children’s courts. [More…]
This cost is measured in terms of the personalities of children which are distorted by the fact that the 2 people dearest and closest to them are subject to constant warfare in such a close and intimate way that the children cannot escape; more importantly in such a way that the children are almost privy to the friction. [More…]
The children of the family are confronted with a dilemma in human relationships which needs understanding and sympathy but all it attracts from the community outside is harsh judgement. [More…]
These children, who are not yet able to control their own emotions, are confronted by one of the major disasters in human relationships. [More…]
All responsible people in the Australian community want a law on marriage and divorce that embodies just and humane provisions for all parties concerned- husband, wife, and children of a marriage. [More…]
A longer period of separation might be particularly important where young children are involved. [More…]
If the question of conduct in a marriage is to be transferred to the area of maintenance and custody proceedings, it can hardly be considered less essentially degrading and humiliating to restrict the bitterness in a divorce to costly legal battles over money and children. [More…]
I believe that on this relationship the very stability of family life rests and most particularly does the welfare of the children rest. [More…]
Let me trace what it will mean for a wife in a not uncommon case in divorce- the woman who, because of her husband’s persistent cruelty and violence, is required to leave home with her children for her own and the children’s safety. [More…]
By the Bill’s insistence the court is to make no inquiry into his conduct which caused the distress to wife and children and which precipitated the marriage breakdown. [More…]
She, in the meantime, has been required to bear the responsbilities for her children and maintaining herself. [More…]
She may be more cautious about making a home and providing for the home care of her children- or in having children at all- if these interfere with the anxiety of ensuring her own financial welfare. [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…]
If a man has fathered 5 children and for some reason, while those children are fairly young, decides that he does not wish to continue that marriage and obtains a divorce, I believe 100 per cent that whether that unfortunate event occurs under this proposed system or under the existing system, that man has a total obligation to maintain his ex-wife and his children while she is incapable of providing anything for herself. [More…]
The point I wish to make at the outset is that the backbone or the heart of this country is still the family- is still the father, mother and children who work hard at looking after each other- and is still that despite the everincreasing pressures being placed upon the family from every possible direction. [More…]
This is the time to think about the consequences of this legislation for all men, all women and all children of this generation and future generations in this country. [More…]
Those of us who oppose this legislation are not unmindful of some of the problems associated with parents living together with a certain amount of distrust and certain differences of opinion and the effect that that has on the emotional life of children of the marriage. [More…]
Capital Equipment in Activity Centres: This will extend all of the subsidies available to sheltered workshops and handicapped children’s training centres to activity therapy centres catering for handicapped persons who are below sheltered workshop standard. [More…]
Rehabilitation and Recreational Assistance for the Handicapped: The $4 for $1 subsidy for facilities of this nature (including holiday homes and camps) which are ancillary to sheltered workshop, handicapped children’s training centres, activity centres and associated hostels are provided for under the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act. [More…]
Replacement of Equipment in Centres for the Handicapped: The cost of replacing items of equipment in training centres has been eligible for subsidy under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and has been extended to cover sheltered workshop equipment that is not income-producing. [More…]
Rental subsidies have also been extended to handicapped children’s training centres, activity therapy centres and residential projects under the provisions of the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act. [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…]
Therapeutic Training Programs: Programs such as physiotherapy, dental care, etc., have already been accepted for the purpose of attracting subsidy under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
Forty Grade 7 children (aged 12-13) of Larrakeyah Primary School, Darwin, spent two periods residing with the Tiwi people on Melville Island, where local people gave them instruction in basket weaving, carving and local culture. [More…]
To assist in these activities, the Australian Government is actively involved in promoting the development of suitable well-researched materials on Aboriginal Studies for use by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children. [More…]
One of the deceased had a wife and 2 children at the camping site and the enforcement of the regulations would have protected them as well as the deceased. [More…]
It can certainly affect the right of access to and the right of custody of one spouse or the other of the children. [More…]
All of us who have done this sort of work in the courts know of cases where the inheritance of the children is dissipated because the parties have been encouraged to hate each other to such an extent that they fight on. [More…]
We have all known cases with silk on both sides, sometimes several silk, which have gone on for years and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent with the result that there was nothing left for the children. [More…]
You have to fight otherwise you do not get the matrimonial home or you do not get the share that you think you are entitled to- so the lawyer tells you- and you might lose some degree of access to your children. [More…]
The whole thing takes on an unreal aspect and it prejudices the civilised resolution of the property settlement which has to be a feature of any system of dissolving a marriage and certainly custody and access of children. [More…]
It is this, that subject to proper and satisfactory arrangements being made for the welfare of children, and particularly if there are no children, what adult people do is primarily a matter for themselves as long as they do not break the criminal law, do not offend their neighbours and are not guilty of breaking the law of torts. [More…]
I will be introducing an amendment that will say that, in the case of consent, where satisfactory arrangements are made for the children, if the parties are adult and responsible the period can be reduced to, say, 3 months. [More…]
My children are grown up. [More…]
Children, that is- given the right to separate representation, and this is particularly necessary . [More…]
Then, of course, there are provisions for the welfare and custody of children and the general requirement that proper arrangements in all the circumstances have to be made for the welfare of the children before the decree nisi becomes absolute. [More…]
In dissolution by consent provisions it has been proven that it is easy for the interests of children to be swept aside. [More…]
I think that this Bill makes real marriage- the stability for marriage from which children derive mental stability- depend more heavily upon custom without the benefit of legal support. [More…]
Whether it be a question of finance, a question of help in the home or a question of help with the children, obviously it is the duty of the appropriate government- State or Federal- to come in and help. [More…]
The Opposition also objects to the isolated children’s grant which is another very important policy initiated and developed by the Government. [More…]
We have concentrated our efforts on social areas such as those involving isolated children, education and improved community facilities. [More…]
It is quite tragic to read of cases where a man, his wife and his children are unable to see how they will be able to survive. [More…]
There are cases where a man, his wife and his children doubt whether they will be able to buy next week’s bread. [More…]
It is very hard not only on the farmer but also on his wife and children. [More…]
Some of the children have been taken out of schools. [More…]
In my electorate I know of innumerable instances of children no longer being able to go to school because of the decline in cattle receipts. [More…]
Certainly it is not going to help immediately the men, women and children of whom I spoke a little while ago. [More…]
Some$800 was provided towards that festival and the sum of $3,010 was provided to the Children’s Free Embassy, under the care of Mr Gil Weaver of 33 Herring Road, Eastwood, for materials, tutors and expenses for arts, holiday camps for disadvantaged children. [More…]
These include a payment of $2m to the Medical Research Endowment Fund and contributions to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and to the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, $500,000 each; $ 1.1m for the Department of Labor and Immigration for additional staff; $ 1.35m for the Australian Film Corporation; $723,000 for the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission, $650,000 for additional staff for members and senators; $500,000 for grants to eligible organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act; $537,000 for Expo 75 at Okinawa; $lm subsidies on ship construction and amounts of $6.2m and $5.3m for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory Education Services respectively for additions to staff establishments and other increased costs. [More…]
That has enormous ramifications on the Australian economy not only for the 5000 or 6000 people who are suddenly dumped out the window as industrial fodder to be looked after, with their wives and children, by somebody else, but also for businessmen who deal with the company, the component manufacturing side of the industry, and involves another 20 000 to 30 000 people. [More…]
These people have lived in this area and have brought up their children there and all their friends live in this area. [More…]
If the Government has any concept of what it means to these people to live in a society or district where they have spent all their lives, where they have brought up their children, where they have their friends and where they are faced with these ever-increasing and crippling costs, I appeal to the Government, to the Treasurer and to a man who professes to have some humanity, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren), who is at the table, to look again and to reconsider the decision to limit the total amount deductible for rates to $300. [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…]
It is because the hire purchase companies- those secondary institutions, the illegitimate children of the banks- the merchant banks, and the overseas finance corporations are opposed to this type of scheme. [More…]
This is particularly important where young children are concerned. [More…]
In this area the factor of conduct or fault has been accepted in the Bill in regard to the custody of children. [More…]
It is also reasonable to argue that if conduct or fault can be established in regard to the custody of children and in respect of maintenance, it must be possible to establish conduct or fault as a factor in relation to divorce proceedings. [More…]
In the case of dissolution, provision shall be made for the necessary protection of any children. [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…]
Secondly, it should achieve this in a way that is just to all concerned, including the children as well as the spouses, and which causes them the minimum of embarrassment and humiliation. [More…]
Above all it should seek to take the heat out of disputes between husband and wife and certainly not further embitter the relationships between them or between them and their children. [More…]
It should not merely bury the marriage, but do so with decency and dignity and in a way which will encourage harmonious relationships between the parties and their children in the future. [More…]
At present if a husband is able to prove that his wife has committed a matrimonial offence she may be disentitled from obtaining a maintenance order in respect of herself whether or not she is employed solely in the care of the children of the marriage and has no private income of her own. [More…]
She does, of course, obtain maintenance orders in respect of the children in her care, but on their attaining the age of 1 6 years or a further order of the court that maintenance may then cease and she may be left at an advanced age with no income save pension entitlements or income from her own personal exertions. [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…]
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…]
In my view it will contribute to the dignity and security of life in Australia and give needed assurance to the children of the participants of the marriage that has failed. [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…]
The other example refers to a drunken spouse who beats the other party every day and every night but the other party maintains the marriage until the last of the children of the marriage is married. [More…]
The accompanying bitterness, embarrassment and distress, including the insistence on guilt and innocence, can be psychologically destructive, not only to the marriage partners but to their children as well. [More…]
As well as providing pre-divorce application reconciliation facilities, this arm of the court would act as a clearing house for information on the consequences of divorce, financial and custodial proceedings, particularly concerning the effect on children of the marriage. [More…]
It deals with the family- the duties of a husband and wife to each other, their children and also their property rights. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
This may be the case in some professional families, but in the majority of working families where the wife has no professional qualifications it would impose severe hardship upon her and, if there are some children- in most cases they wish to remain with their mother-it would also impose severe harship on these children. [More…]
.the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
It encourages de facto relationships that do not have the full protection of the law and which must yet run the gauntlet of a social stigma that can be very hard on children in particular. [More…]
The majority of the clauses of this Bill deal with the procedures by which marriage may be dissolved and with the procedures that will protect the parties’ and the children’s respective interests. [More…]
This simple concept preserves every marriage that is of value or likely to become of value to the parties and the children. [More…]
It is true that the question of fault may rear its ugly head if the custody of children should be disputed or if the present or future division of income or property is disputed. [More…]
The clearly intended two-fold thrust of this Bill is to support the family and to allow the humane and dignified dissolution of those marriages that have become a burden to the couple, to the children and, I suggest, to society. [More…]
that there are no children of the marriage who have not attained the age of 1 8 years; or [More…]
that the only children of the marriage who have not attained the age of 1 8 years are the children specified in the order and that- [More…]
proper arrangements in all the circumstances nave been made for the welfare of those children . [More…]
Where there are no children areas of maintenance and property can be involved and it takes time to resolve those issues also. [More…]
It has been said by them that a wife with no children under 18 years will be left to fend for herself. [More…]
Athough this Bill does away with the concept of fault in the situation of divorce, it does not do away with the concept of fault or responsibility where the maintenance and custody of children are concerned, and those clauses which particularly aim to protect wives and children I certainly support. [More…]
How many of us know of the decent, home-loving wife with three or more children who is nothing more than an economic slave? [More…]
I understand that in fact under sections 4, 8 and 9 of the Victorian Maintenance Act of 1965 women are liable already to maintain themselves, their children and their husbands under certain conditions. [More…]
The matters referred to in clause 75(2) include any fact which the court thinks should be taken into account, including age and state of health of the parties, the care and control of children, the extent to which the party claiming maintenance has contributed to the income, earning capacity, property and financial resources of the other party, the duration of the marriage and the extent to which it has affected the earning capacity of the party whose maintenance is under consideration, and the property arrangements. [More…]
Many lawyers with whom I have discussed the Family Law Bill are of the opinion that it is completely fair to women and amply protects their interests and those of the children [More…]
The Bill has been denounced as unchristian, a marriage breaker, a nation destroyer, one which neglects the rights and obligations of women and men and the rights and welfare of children. [More…]
For example, one suggestion was that a woman would allow, under the new Family Law Bill, her husband to flaunt his intimacy with his mistress - 1 suppose the same goes for a woman flaunting u. intimacy with her lover- for 12 months in the same house in front of her and the children and that still she would have no comeback. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependant children; [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare. [More…]
For most people a marriage is not the legal shell but the relationship between the spouses and the children. [More…]
The future of the children of a broken marriage needs consideration by the best possible tribunal assisted by the skills of welfare officers and other counselling staff wherever needed. [More…]
What the opponents to this Bill are trying to preserve are unstable and unhealthy marriages where the relationship has broken down and become embittered; an environment in which children are likely to be greatly affected and exposed to pressures and tensions that develop insecurity and anti-social behaviour later in life; and huge incomes on which some lawyers- only somespecialising in divorce proceedings wax fat. [More…]
This Bill provides for the establishment of a family law council and an institute of family studies which I hope will adopt some of the more progressive ideas and attitudes of, say, Canada where children, through a gradual increase in content of the preparation for marriage in their school syllabuses, in turn are able to assimilate a greater understanding of marriage, and to study the responsibilities- financial, moral and so on- that come with a marriage. [More…]
It is also pleased to see the opportunity taken for the introduction in the Bill of a uniform Australian law concerning maintenance of spouses and children. [More…]
There are provisions for the welfare and custody of children and a requirement that proper arrangements are to be made for the welfare of children before divorce becomes absolute. [More…]
Similarly a father, or a father with the custody of children, could well find himself worse off under the provisions to which I have referred. [More…]
In a broken marriage it is the children who suffer. [More…]
A broken marriage is a nightmare, and the basis of the greatest source of insecurity for the children. [More…]
If too many of our children suffer the consequences of broken marriage that could arise from the easy provisions of this Bill, the stability of our whole society must suffer. [More…]
Where children are involved, too often we forget that they are the greatest losers, that they are the real victims. [More…]
If marriage can be dissolved so easily as this Bill provides, the fate and security of our children are being ignored. [More…]
Firstly, it does not satisfy reformers such as the Divorce Law Reform Association, certain groups within the Women’s Electoral Lobby and the other groups which are seeking divorce law reform, even though the Bill does remove fault as the basis for dissolving a marriage and even though it embraces the concept of equal responsibilty by the parties to a marriage in respect of the children of the marriage and also embraces the concept of their own independent individual responsibility for themselves after dissolution. [More…]
On the other hand, the Bill does not satisfy those who want to see reform brought about but who object to the sole ground for dissolution being 12 months separation and those who also see in the maintenance and property settlement provisions inadequate protection for the wife and children of a broken marriage. [More…]
This hotchpotch centres upon 4 things, namely, the grounds for divorce, the financial arrangements between the parties upon divorce, protection for either party and the children of the former marriage and, fourthly, the administration of the law throughout this nation. [More…]
It seems to me that they are these: Firstly, the need for reform in the law and its administration; secondly, the indignity of divorce by fault as it presently is found should be removed; thirdly, that irretrievable breakdown of marriage should be the test to relieve the parties of the legal ties of marriage; fourthly, that the wife and the children should be protected upon divorce; fifthly, that so far as possible, the financial affairs of the family should be settled once and for all upon divorce; and sixthly, that administration of divorce law should be as efficient and dignified as human hands can make it, and the courts and the protection of the law should be available to all who need it, irrespective of costs. [More…]
In this debate opposing speakers have affirmed their belief that the family is the basic and stable unit of Australian society or that marriage should be buttressed or that full and proper recognition should be given to wives, mothers and children. [More…]
I very strongly believe that, a married couple having decided to have children, and in our society it is quite possible for them consciously and deliberately to exercise this choice in a way that was not possible a generation ago, it is the prime responsibility of both of them- not just the wife- to defer their own interests to the interests of their children in their early years. [More…]
Characters are assassinated and- worst of all- the children in the marriage suffer dreadfully as a result. [More…]
Sub-clause (b) provides for the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
Sub-clause (c) provides for the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare. [More…]
They are enlightened and overdue, and enshrine an ethical approach that will effectively protect both parties and children of the marriage. [More…]
This brings me to the next 2 fundamental provisions of the proposed legislation- Parts VII and VIII relating to the welfare and custody of children and to maintenance and property, which are the 2 areas where so much litigation now takes place and Part IV relating to family courts. [More…]
The passage of time and the Standing Orders for debate prevent me from expressing my opinions on each of these matters, but I do want to say something about the welfare and custody of children, the family court and the proposed amendment to Parts VII and VIII of the Bill which should be made. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Whilst the very words of the song ‘The Second Time Around’ sound morbid to me, the second marriage, even when both parties have been married before and both parties have children, is often more contented and physically and spiritually more satisfying than past experience would lead the observers to expect. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe referred to children and the need for welfare workers. [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…]
As a community, does our philosophy of life take into account that, above all others, children require justice and that so many children are the victims of irreversible injustice? [More…]
Children are the victims of irreversible injustice if they are deprived of parents, love, security, discipline and the opportunity to be children. [More…]
I can only hope that, if the contingent motion proposed by the Minister for Tourism and Recreation is carried, the Bill will be redrafted in a sense that it will strengthen homes, strengthen families, protect women, protect children and help to advance this country. [More…]
The Bill does more for the care of children involved in divorce cases than the existing legislation does. [More…]
One reason for this close interest is that the procreation and rearing of children, which is the principal function of the family, is of interest to others besides the parents. [More…]
Precisely because children are automatically members of a family and can have no choice in the matter, and be- ….. they lIe subject try parental authority their - ——– j - - — ~j— j~ ——– ——- “j : - ~ - interests must be guaranteed by the state, as it must guarantee the rights of a member of any association which exercises effective power. [More…]
Moreover, other citizens have an interest in the matter, for it is of general concern that children should be equipped to become reasonably social and useful men and women. [More…]
The concern for children apart, there would be little point in drawing a legal distinction between informal sexual relations and formal and recognised marriage. [More…]
The state is concerned, of course, for the wife as well as for the children. [More…]
One answer may be that the wife’s independence lasts only until she becomes a mother, for then she usually loses the ability to fend for herself, except at her children’s expense, and becomes again dependent on her husband and in need of protection. [More…]
It states that the Family Court, which I concede may need looking at from time to time, shall have regard to the need to protect the institution of marriage and family life generally, the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare, and the means available to assist parties to the marriage to consider reconciliation and the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
I do not want to go too much into my personal situation but my wife was married before and she had 3 children when I married her. [More…]
She had to fend for her children for 5 years. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare; and [More…]
the means available for assisting parties to a mar- riage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
Divorce law is mainly necessary to provide for the problems arising from shared property and for maintenance and children. [More…]
But the Bill provides for the means of tidying up things after the breakdown has occurred with as little acrimony, and pain and expense as possible for all the parties involved, including any children. [More…]
While obviously not all marriages are permanent or secure, that is the objective to which the law ought to address itself, insofar as it possibly can with fairness to everyone involved - that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as wife and mother; that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage; that there is need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent; [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…]
The population of Darwin was in the vicinity of 47 000,I think, at the time of the disaster and it is now down to about 23 000.I am told by the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) that the present school population, both public and independent, is in the vicinity of 3000 which is somewhere near half what it was in pre-cyclone conditions and that the children of Darwin have adequate school accommodation available to meet present needs. [More…]
On the weekend that I was there the number of people who had returned to DarwinI have not heard a later figure- was something like 24 000 or 25 000, with 3500 school children. [More…]
There are a very great number of programs including those for aged and homeless and handicapped persons, isolated children, health centres, legal aid offices, meals on wheels and so on which will be brought down if the Liberal State governments’ challenges in the High Court succeed. [More…]
Nothing can overcome the problems of families when children come home from school and say: ‘Why is my father not at work today? [More…]
Army landing barges were made available to provide ambulance services across the river for urgent cases and for buses taking children to special schools, retarded children centres and so on. [More…]
It does not seem to understand or care that its effect is measured in broken lives, human suffering, destruction of self-respect and dignity, and even the crying of hungry children. [More…]
That assistance will be provided not only for the construction people but also for the citizens- the family men and women and their children. [More…]
For example, it included some subsidies for nursing homes, changes in the payments concerning handicapped children, the wider provision of surgical aids and medical aids and appliances and the extension of full approval rights for certain friendly society dispensaries. [More…]
Experience in Australia and overseas has demonstrated the benefits that can accrue to children and to their schools from the concentration of relatively large funds and other resources on curriculum development on a national scale. [More…]
If maximum benefit is to be gained from these expenditures, and if the innate talents of our children are to be developed to meet the calls of society in the present and in the future, then proper arrangements for the continuous review and development of the materials and methods of teaching and learning in schools are essential. [More…]
In establishing the Curriculum Development Centre the Government emphasises its recognition of the importance of curriculum development in improving and enriching the education of children and young people. [More…]
A particularly tragic aspect of the road toll is the death of so many young children. [More…]
In 1970 there were 82 children under 7 years killed who were passengers in cars; by 1973 this had risen to 98, an increase of 20 per cent. [More…]
It will even be a battle to make clear that it is fundamentally a people’s battle and not just a battle for women’s rights, but a struggle to proclaim that every section of society, all men, women and children born and unborn will benefit from sweeping changes in attitudes to women’s rights. [More…]
As an example I point to the establishment of Halfway House in Melbourne, which has recognised the need for refuge for women and children forced to leave their homes. [More…]
There are all too many people, both men and women, who are still unaware of their vital responsibility to other people- people whose right to eat, breathe clean air, have shelter and freedom of choice and a future for their children is as valid as yours and mine. [More…]
This means that pensioners and others who at unbelievable sacrifice saw their children through the fifth an sixth forms now have the assistance of a scholarship which is worth $900 over 2 years. [More…]
In addition, approximately 17 000 children, many of whom are secondary students, have become eligible for the isolated children’s allowance which is worth between $350 and $1,150 a year. [More…]
In addition the Schools Commission is investigating ways of assisting gifted children across a wide range of subject matters, not merely in the old ACER tests which tested numeracy and verbal skill; but perhaps giftedness in many other fields will be considered for assistance by the Schools Commission. [More…]
Reversion to the old system would mean that those families who, at very great sacrifice, have got their children through the fifth and sixth forms on very low incomesthis would involve some 14 000 children at present- would lose vital assistance. [More…]
The dissolving of a marriage should not result in either partner of the marriage being unfairly treated either at the time of dissolution or subsequently and most particularly the children of a marriage which is being dissolved must be disadvantaged to the minimum extent. [More…]
I believe it is impossible for children not to be disadvantaged at all because it is a most unfortunate thing particularly for the children of marriages when marriages do dissolve, but we must take every possible care and ever possible action to ensure that the children of failed marriages are disadvantaged to the minimum extent. [More…]
It could also mean that the wife may have to sustain herself after the children of the marriage have reached 1 8 years of age if she could be said to have the physical and mental capacity to do so and if, of course, her husband requires her to do so. [More…]
The Bill would substantially improve upon the present unsatisfactory arrangements for settling and enforcing maintenance and custody, and thus more effective and fair consideration will be given to the wishes of children involved in a family breakdown. [More…]
Also, it can be shown that the breakdown of the family and divorce proceedings have a traumatic effect on the children as well as the adults. [More…]
After 12 months we are quite sure it is over and I desperately want to start again, perhaps marry and have more children. [More…]
I feel a percentage of men are equally as capable of looking after children as a percentage of women. [More…]
But the Bill then also outlines provisions for dealing with matters of custody of the children and property. [More…]
When one mentions custody, of course, one must give considerable thought to the conduct of the parents, or the principals, in terms of their fitness to continue in custody of the children. [More…]
The same applies in the case of property, perhaps with greater vigour; because with our materialistic attitude to things property may have a greater attraction in many cases than the custody of children. [More…]
I believe that we are here to legislate to see that our laws accommodate the changing attitudes and aspirations or our citizens and to see that such legislation operates to resolve or moderate the conflicts of marriage on a just and compassionate basis, particularly in relation to the children of the marriage. [More…]
I am not prepared to vote for a perpetuation of the cruelty and conflict created in the minds of children who are placed under great pressure quite often to choose between two parents as a part of the legal process in establishing fault in one parent which is often quite contrary to and in conflict with their natural affection for hoth parents. [More…]
But I think too that most people would also agree that it is inevitable that some marriages will break down, that families will be placed under stress, and that human failings, bad judgments, community pressures and all sorts of other influences will place many people in situations which they can no longer tolerate, which they should not be expected to tolerate, and which are bad for them, for their children and for society. [More…]
When that happens, as it does on only too many occasions, then I am sure most people, but not all, accept that those concerned should be able to extricate themselves from that situation with dignity, with fairness, with self-respect, with a minimum of legal and financial burden, with the least damage io iiic persons involved, especially the children, and also- this is important- with the least damage to the society of which those persons are members. [More…]
I welcome this Bill for the attempt it makes to improve divorce procedures and to protect the children of marriages that break down. [More…]
Although I accept the new single ground for divorce- that of ‘irretrievable breakdown’ based solely on evidence of a period of separation- I would think that when such matters as the custody of children, maintenance and so on are being considered, some attention will have to be paid to the previous behaviour of the partners. [More…]
At the moment, long after a marriage has been dissolved, in many cases there is a running battle over the custody of the children of that marriage. [More…]
I believe that the clauses in this Bill which concern the custody of children are a very great improvement on the situation which exists at the moment. [More…]
Surely such protracted proceedings can only damage a husband and wife and their children. [More…]
Nothing in the field of human relations could be so calculated to damage what residue of good feeling remains between the marriage partners or to jeopardise the future welfare of their children. [More…]
The effect of contesting divorce on the basis of fault is damaging both to the husband and wife and more importantly to any children of the marriage. [More…]
In addition, children who are affected by such proceedings are frequently handicapped in their inability to contract happy and stable marriages in the future. [More…]
I cannot agree with the arguments of people who say that they stand for the stability of the family subjecting the children of the failed marriage to the mental cruelty which often exists at the moment. [More…]
All that is achieved is 4 wasted years- 4 years of misery and unhappiness, 4 years of suffering for the children of the marriage. [More…]
The members of this House can by their vote strengthen family life and give real happiness to many people who are now the victims of an unhappy relationship and at the same time lessen the most tragic effects on the lives of many thousands of children. [More…]
It can be argued that many people enter into marriage for the wrong motives and, consequently, there is a growing need to ensure that marriage counselling is introduced at the high school level so that all children are taught to have a respect for and an appreciation of the institution of marriage which, I believe, will remain the foundation of our society for many years to come. [More…]
I emphasise that I support the realisation by society of the principle that women have every right to plan and conduct their lives in a manner which gives them a wider choice as to the role they may wish to play both within society and within the marital relationship, an important part of which, of course, is the bearing of children and ensuring that they are adequately cared for. [More…]
I fully support the presumption that both partners to a marriage are equally responsible for the physical welfare of the children of the marriage. [More…]
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…]
They are there also because when we talk about custody, maintenance and other things there has to be some judgment as to what type of climate the children might have to live in, what type of life they will have to live and what are the circumstances under which they will be brought up. [More…]
It is the one way to guarantee that children will have a good family environment. [More…]
In 1973 in New South Wales 527 children of married people were committed to and left in institutions as being neglected- a sad result of the parents not even being interested in the children. [More…]
In other cases the children have to be removed from the parents in their own interests. [More…]
We ought to understand this even though we may believe that it is good to get a better termination of this unhappy situation without having unnecessary or adverse publicity which could well affect children. [More…]
So what we have to do with this sort of legislation is to say: ‘Look, if you are going to make the family a worthwhile unit in society’- and so it should be- ‘guarantee there is no poverty, guarantee there is a good housing situation and a good atmosphere in which children can be brought up, guarantee an opportunity is given to stop drunkenness and cruelty’. [More…]
I am entitled to the children because my conduct has been impeccable and the other partner is at fault’. [More…]
I have 3 children who are under the age of fifteen. [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…]
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…]
Anyone who has been associated in any way with the adversary situation or anyone who has been involved in a divorce court, either as a legal practitioner or as a participant, will know the tremendous suffering which flows, particularly to the children but also to the parties of the marriage, as a result of the present requirement in the divorce laws that one party must set out against the other a cause of action. [More…]
In the Committee stage I will be supporting and perhaps promoting amendments to ensure that a wife who is one of the parties to a severed marriage is adequately protected, that in terms of the custody of the children as well as the maintenance of the wife there is adequate protection for the individual and that the measures which, to my mind, at the moment seem to be somewhat inadequate are framed in a more comprehensive manner. [More…]
They preserve animosity between a husband and a wife, and they certainly generate within the children a reaction which I believe is most regrettable and very harmful to any continued association. [More…]
I think therein lies problems for the future and problems in the psychological attitude of the children of the marriage in their future life. [More…]
Yet I believe it is preferable that that one ground be there so that from that base there can be a more equitable distribution of the property of the marriage and a greater opportunity for the children to preserve some affection for each of the parents. [More…]
I am concerned that a wife should be placed in a position where she is prejudiced within the legislation, even though she might have given away a profession or a career of some sort and sacrificed some years of her life rearing children. [More…]
I think each has a responsibility within the marriage contract, but I believe that there is still a continuing responsibility for a man to maintain his wife and children. [More…]
I think there is a responsibility that he must fulfil after the divorce which must provide some compensation for the years that his wife has given to his children and to maintaining the home. [More…]
I preface my question by stating that Australian health regulations permit a maximum lead content of one per cent in paint used on children’s bicycles, toys, etc., manufactured in Australia, yet imports in this field have been found to contain up to 8 per cent lead content. [More…]
Does the Minister consider this ratio of 8 per cent lead content in imports a danger to children? [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…]
Let me go back a little in ancient history and cite Sir Paul Hasluck- Mr Hasluck, as he was- in December 1950 when the States Grants (Milk For School Children) Bill 1950 was introduced. [More…]
This Bill is designed to provide free milk for school children. [More…]
The action which has attracted most attention is of course the bringing of children to Australia. [More…]
In this matter, the sole role of the Australian Government was to bring eligible children to suitable adoptive families as promptly and as safely as possible. [More…]
Australian Government authorities found that many of the children evacuated from Saigon were the subject of uncompleted off-shore adoption procedures in South Vietnam by Australian nationals. [More…]
Faced with this fact, my Government determined that it could do nothing in the matter of allocating children to families as this was clearly a State responsibility and therefore if there was to be any disagreement between adoptive families about the children then it was a matter for the States to determine. [More…]
That aircraft did not take off, following advice from our Ambassador in Saigon that the South Vietnamese authorities decided not to release any more children as they wished to reconsider their policy on adoption by foreign nationals. [More…]
It should plan to take to Australia if necessary some thousands of refugees, adults or children, if consultations with South Vietnam indicate that that is a desirable course. [More…]
In November 1974 we supplied UNICEF-I doubt whether the Opposition would understand what UNICEF is, but it deals with children- with $1.5m. [More…]
Indeed, the testimony given by Warrant Officer Ossie Ostara to which I referred in a question to the Prime Minister today, is another testimony to the degree to which these communists who are taking over South Vietnam and who are at the moment taking over Cambodia are likely to demonstrate little concern for the men, the women and the children whose lives and well-being are of no consequence to them. [More…]
In circumstances of conflict, a head in the sand rigid attitude of ideology, the advancement of ideology insensitive to the sufferings of men, women and children and the exploitation by the Government of the concern of” the Australian people for human causes provide no excuse for a foreign policy. [More…]
Last November the United Nations Children’s Fund received some $550,000, Red Cross received $100,000 and the refugees received another $500,000. [More…]
Handicapped Children Assistance [More…]
An additional $3m is provided for assistance to handicapped children reflecting an increase in the number of eligible organisations seeking grants under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
A principal of a local school stated recently: “The South American children at this school are causing a lot of problems’. [More…]
There were 2 young children aged 1 and 3 years in the family. [More…]
For far too long our children have been fed in their schools, in their places of learning, a view of the Aboriginal that is inaccurate, racist and discriminatory, a view that not only denies the Aboriginal rightful recognition of the contribution he made to the history of this land but also denies us as white Johnny-come-latelys access to the wisdom derived from 45 000 years living and working on this continent. [More…]
Some months ago I was able to assist an Aborigine with a wife and 4 children to find a job. [More…]
He visited every real estate agent near where his children were going to school in an attempt to find a modest family home. [More…]
I have got 4 children who are at least two to three years behind white children of the same age. [More…]
To encourage and assist young married persons, and young widowed or divorced persons with dependent children, to buy or build their own homes, and to reward savings made towards that objective. [More…]
Australia’s assistance of $150,000 will be provided to a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project in Zambia. [More…]
An officer of the Australian Mission in Nairobi has visited the refugee camps in Zambia and his observations indicate that the support currently given to the women and children in these camps is extremely limited. [More…]
I am also concerned about the attitude expressed in paragraphs (d) and (e) of the amendment, namely, that full and proper recognition be given to the status and rights of a woman as a wife and mother and that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage. [More…]
Those who have experience in counselling in these situations know that very often the male is the one left with the children, accumulated debts and all sort of problems. [More…]
Even worse are the stratagems that have been used so that one party can be seen to be at fault or can be seen to be guilty, although in fact no guilt may attach, or the situation when a marriage has irretrievably broken down and the procedures could have been gone through quietly and with the rninimum of ill will but the concept of matrimonial fault has led to an extreme adversary situation which results in a lifetime of ill will and which is reflected on any children of the marriage. [More…]
It seems to me that the Bill places the welfare and custody of children on a reasonably enlightened basis. [More…]
Once proceedings have reached this level of confrontation great damage occurs to the human relationship, huge cost and expenses occur and the fracturing of the family ties where children are involved is often irreparable. [More…]
But when a marriage is wrecked by one or both parties failing to observe their vows it is our obligation as parliamentarians to legislate in a manner that will bring the least harm to all concerned, particularly to the children of that union. [More…]
Clause 43 deals with family provisions, the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage, the need to give the widest possible protection and asistance to the family, the need to protect the rights of children and the means available for assisting parties to the marriage to consider reconciliation. [More…]
The worst feature of the Bill is the way it discriminates against middle-aged wives with children. [More…]
My wife is at home looking after the 3 children and I am the one who works. [More…]
But under this legislation she would have to support herself and wait for 12 months or continue to live in the same house with her husband and their children. [More…]
As passed by the Senate, the major provisions of the Family Law Bill provide for the establishment of a family court in Australia for the first time; the establishment of State family courts for the first time; the ability to seek matrimonial relief in the family courts, the State supreme courts or the magistrates courts without first proceeding for divorce; the abolition of all fault grounds for divorce; joint custody of children and joint responsibility for their maintenance; widely increased use of welfare officers to help in custody disputes and in the ongoing relationship between parents; the financial responsibility of each party to a marriage and to maintain the other; criteria for the provision of maintenance for spouses and children based on the applicant’s need; the establishment of a family law council and an institute of family studies; and greatly increased counselling opportunities relating not merely to divorce and reconciliaton but also to the on-going problems of divorced persons, particularly in relation to their children. [More…]
Even fewer people would deny that the cost of divorce is high, that the procedure is long and complicated and that the grounds for divorce, such as adultery, desertion and cruelty, promote bitterness and hostility between the parties, alienate them further from each other and have a harmful effect on their children and on everyone associated with them. [More…]
The provisions in the BUI governing the welfare, maintenance and custody of children are important because the protection of children is probably the strongest justification for intervention by the state to regulate the dissolution of marriage. [More…]
The more extreme denunciations of the BUI have suggested that it Will enable husbands to abandon their wives, leaving them and their children without protection. [More…]
It has also been asserted that it is better for children to be brought up in a home with both parents. [More…]
However, if parents are so opposed to each other, expert opinion is very far from being unanimous that it is still better for the children to be brought up by both parents together. [More…]
Certainly there would be cases in which it would be not only preferable but necessary for the mental and physical well being of the children if their parents separated and the children lived with one or other parent. [More…]
There is a question of whether children have been left without protection by the Bill. [More…]
The existing law requires parents to maintain their children; so does the BUI. [More…]
The existing law prevents a divorce decree from becoming final until the court is satisfied that proper arrangements have been made for the welfare of the children so does the BUI. [More…]
In addition to continuing these measures and introducing uniformity where the existing law is State or Territory law, the Bill contains some additional provisions such as those for separate legal representation of children in proceedings, enforcement of custody and access orders and greater use of welfare officers. [More…]
I can find nothing in the Bill to suggest that wives left by their husbands will be deprived of rights that they now have regarding maintenance and custody of their children. [More…]
The inclusion of such matters as the age, state of health, income, property of the parties, a standard of living that is reasonable, the duration of the marriage and the terms of any property order, as well as the care of young children, seems to me to meet the objection of critics who claim that wives will be left without adequate means and without entitlement to maintenance. [More…]
Parties to divorce proceedings may be spared these consequences towards making the effect of divorce on the children less traumatic than it is at present. [More…]
I believe that the children of a marriage are the most important people of all and I feel that their interests have been forgotten to a large extent during the course of this debate. [More…]
I emphasise that, because although the parents may have made a mess of their lives, surely the most important thing of all is to ensure that our laws are such that the children can make a success of their marriage. [More…]
When one looks at legislation which will affect families and family life and which will have an effect on children, the relationship between parents and the interdependence of one individual on another if a relationship is to continue no longer, I believe that there must be- and it is very difficult to escape from- a situation where fault is taken into account. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
Women, in accepting the responsibility of bearing the children, take upon themselves a position which must be respected by the males in our society. [More…]
that there should be full and proper protection of the wife and children in the event of the dissolution of a marriage; [More…]
that there is need for children to be reared and cared for by a present parent; and [More…]
The most objectionable parts of the Bill in its present form are the dissolution and maintenance provisions, particularly those which relate to the maintenance of the children of a marriage. [More…]
The social and economic implications for Australia that will follow from the inevitable increase in the divorce rate if this Bill is enacted in its present form are completely unknown, but what is known is that no serious study has ever been made, either by the present Government or by the previous McMahon, Gorton or Holt governments, of the causes of divorce in Australia or the effects of divorce on the persons and children involved. [More…]
Children need a stable and secure family environment. [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…]
The wife has the diversion, if one can call it that, of caring for the children of the marriage. [More…]
Because of the domestic demands made upon her by the children of the marriage, she has less time and less energy to devote to her own personal causes. [More…]
But the fact that as a result of such adultery the lady in question is pregnant may well mean that the wife must accept less maintenance for herself and her children. [More…]
It is not justice that the good wife who has done nothing to end the marriage, who has been deserted by her husband for another woman and who wants to contest the divorce or contest custody of children should have to pay her own costs even if she wins. [More…]
I believe there should be some reform regarding divorce but I also most firmly believe that the rights of children and marriage, if we are to continue living under our present socio-economic structure, must be protected and after perusal and deliberation I have reached the conclusion that this Bill will only undermine our society, irrespective of one ‘s religious persuasion. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
If they are people worthy of having been married in the first place and if they are worthy, responsible citizens, then they would make appropriate arrangements for their children. [More…]
If they are persons who will disregard entirely the rights of their children and if it is the husband who is at fault, I would venture the view that the wife is well rid of the wretch and the sooner she can get separated from him the better and any talk of limiting the separation period before a divorce may be obtained to 12 months or 12 days is really superficial comment. [More…]
That would preserve the 12 months concept for 2 people who do not have children or property where they can both file an application and, within 12 months, a divorce would be granted. [More…]
In cases involving the custody of children and maintenance the question of behaviour must be looked at. [More…]
I think that when maintenance is considered, particularly in respect of children, the question of the behaviour of both parents must come into consideration, as must the fact that a woman may have given up her profession to be a faithful and conscientious wife. [More…]
Under the additional proposal which I suggested, if both parties without children make applications conjointly by consent, without contest they should be granted a divorce within 12 months. [More…]
As the honourable member for Blaxland suggested, in cases of incest, the discovery of homosexuality on a honeymoon, cases of drunken beatings of children and other such matters I think it is proper that the application for divorce should be allowed immediately in those circumstances. [More…]
I think that it is quite obvious to all honourable members that there is a much more valid reason for a divorce when 2 people, having brought up their children, they having left the family nest, then decide that they have struggled on for some years under difficulties and want a divorce. [More…]
I think that the House should try to distinguish between those people who have been married for 10 years and perhaps have a family of 5 children and the other cases that I have mentioned. [More…]
If there is any possibility- I cannot perceive any- within the framework of this Bill, short of incest cases and short of beating up of children and wives; this situation should be looked at by the House as being in a much more difficult category of divorce than the other two extremes I have already explained. [More…]
In other words, so far as I can see, better counselling services are provided under this Bill for a young couple with several young children than were provided in the previous legislation. [More…]
I do not want to get dramatic about this but it is usually a situation where a woman, usually a fairly young woman, is left with two or three children and suddenly finds that she has to do a number of things. [More…]
How many women in Australia are still trying to work out how they are to sustain their children and educate them during an agonising ordeal? [More…]
I suspect there were some’ children in the party who were not orphans, but it was possible for the children to come here in circumstances which would have made it impossible before last year’s conference. [More…]
The Australian State governments require that people who are to adopt children or who are to be foster-parents must be approved by them. [More…]
The Australian Government ‘s role, as we see it and as we expeditiously fulfilled it, was to make it possible for the eligible children and the suitable parents to be brought together as quickly and safely as possible. [More…]
If a married couple has children, an unemployment benefit of $5 a week is payable in respect of each child. [More…]
A man on the dole- one of the dole set- he could be a married man with 4 children- currently receives $7 1.50. [More…]
Or was it just when the Press arrived to see the Minister for Science greeting the children to Australia? [More…]
Would it be possible for him to give a demonstration in this House of his tremendous worry and compassion for those unfortunate children? [More…]
Let us have a look at the plight of these children from the time it was decided to bring them from Saigon. [More…]
It took 26 hours to get those unfortunate children to Australia. [More…]
I simply ask the question: Why was not the Boeing sent to Saigon so that these unfortunate children, instead of suffering the hours of heat and the hours in a plane not equipped to take them, could come direct from Saigon to Australia if we were concerned with people and not politics? [More…]
Government members and those who sit behind them are seeking today to condone their actions of recent years by holding up small children and saying: ‘Look what we are doing for the orphans. [More…]
Furthermore, he never said anything when napalm bombs were being dropped on children in the villages and when they were being sprayed with burning liquid. [More…]
I was fully engaged in ensuring that the children- particularly those who had been critically ill on the flight, who were taken to the Camperdown Hospital- were moved from the plane as quickly as possible. [More…]
The purpose of my visit was to see how the childrenparticularly those who had been very ill on the flight- had fared during the night. [More…]
At a news conference on 8 April, as telecast by Channel 7 in Sydney that evening, Mr Lewis claimed that the children who were flown out from Bangkok were denied adequate care. [More…]
Mr Lewis further contended that the World Vision nurses were told not to help the children at all. [More…]
provide a year’s free pre-school education to all children throughout Australia? [More…]
In 1949-50 the tax paid by a worker in receipt of the average weekly earnings who had a wife and 2 children to keep was about 2.9 per cent of his total income. [More…]
On 19 September 1974 I tabled in this House a statement in which I announced the Government’s decision to establish a Children’s Commission. [More…]
The Government’s firm intention is to provide an imaginative and comprehensive range of services so that all children in Australia will have access .to services that are designed to promote their well-being, to enhance the quality of life and to promote equality of opportunity for them and their parents. [More…]
To do this I expect that the Children’s Commission will work in cooperation with appropriate government and community organisations and will call upon the expertise and involvement of all relevant sections of the Australian community. [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 first emphasis of our childhood services program will be in areas of particular need, with priority going to provide services for children of working, single, sick or other parents who are unable to care for their children during the day. [More…]
Priority will also be given to families in economic or other distress, and to groups with particular needs such as Aborigines, migrants, handicapped children and isolated children. [More…]
Where a service is sponsored by a Government body, representatives of the community, and of the parents whose children use the service, should be actively encouraged to participate in planning, managing and conducting it. [More…]
There are many options available which would enable many more children to participate in services in those facilities. [More…]
We must get away from the idea that bricks and mortar can provide the answer to caring for children. [More…]
And the answer is in people who know how to look after children. [More…]
We must not be one-eyed when we consider the differing requirements for looking after children. [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…]
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…]
It has been carefully drafted to meet the needs of Australian children and their parents. [More…]
I am sure honourable members will wish to see the Children’s Commission established to continue the work started by the interim committee and to develop programs which will make Australia a forerunner in the provision of an extensive network of integrated and meaningful services for our children. [More…]
The curriculum may be of a high technical standard, but it may have little relationship to the needs of children living in a rapidly changing world. [More…]
Will it see its task as being concerned with such areas as resources, sequencing of learning activities, teacher-pupil interaction, organisation of the learning situation and the teachers’ general approach to children and teaching? [More…]
The increasing mobility between States results in more and more children suffering from what can be described as curriculum shock. [More…]
Many children are seriously affected by the impact of such change. [More…]
Without the dangers and disadvantages of a single uniform curriculum, we should aim to achieve a degree of commonality between education systems so as to minimise the difficulties created in the educational development of children in an increasingly mobile society. [More…]
We think that the establishment of this centre has the potential to make a significant contribution to the improvement of the education offered Australian children, and we hope that the potential will be realised. [More…]
-The Australian people for some years have been aware of the need for a higher standard of education for their children. [More…]
Apart from the fact that many Australians are therefore seriously concerned and are wondering whether in fact they are getting the value from education expenditure which they would expect, the Opposition sees the need to establish an environment in which Australian children receive equal opportunity in education irrespective of whether they come from the cities or remote parts of the continent and regardless of the economic or social position of their parents. [More…]
We see the Curriculum Development Centre as being a tool to enable the administrative authorities at both the Federal and State levels to achieve the equality of opportunity which is essential if all Australian children are to be given the real opportunities they, so rightly deserve. [More…]
Many Australians are dissatisfied with the substance of the education being given to their children. [More…]
I hear from many of my own parents and citizens associations and others the constant question: What is the relationship between the work our children are being expected to do at school and their future lives and the environment in which they anticipate living in the future? [More…]
Consequently curricula must include the totality of normal life experiences as well as try to bring children into an environment where they will be trained and able to face the very real changes which quite obviously will be part of their lives. [More…]
For example, I put to the House a series of questions which children do ask today and which unfortunately existing curricula do not adequately cover. [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…]
That we have to admit in this day that 90 per cent of some children at that level have not achieved this standard is a shocking indictment of the education system that we have applied for far too long. [More…]
In this context when we talk about curricula, are we just considering formal studies or are we to relate the environment in which children are expected to live in the future to what they learn at school? [More…]
For example, it is very difficult to teach children, even in places like Liverpool, about animals, fish, the sea and so forth when some of them have not even seen the sea. [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…]
My friend the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly) referred to his recent visit to Green Valley and the illiteracy among the children out there. [More…]
It was discovered that one of the reasons why these children are illiterate is because, except for kindergarten teachers, hardly any other kind of teacher at the primary or secondary level is taught how to teach children to read. [More…]
Not much authority was devolved on the regional or local groups of schools for the children who attended them. [More…]
I hope that this Bill, along with other measures that this Government and its predecessors initiated, will go on to do those sorts of things and that young children will not feel that ‘education ‘ is a slavish activity or a distasteful activity but rather something refreshing, relevant to their needs, and something which will not only be helpful to them to earn a living or to pass an examination but will also be a rich living experience. [More…]
If maximum benefit is to be gained from these expenditures, and if the innate talents of our children are to be developed to meet the calls of society in the present and in the future, then proper arrangements for the continuous review and development of the materials and methods of teaching and learning in schools are essential. [More…]
I would like to refer in particular at this stage to the position of disadvantaged groups of children within our community. [More…]
We can all think of various groups of disadvantaged children in our community for whom particular regard must be taken. [More…]
Handicapped children and isolated children are just 2 groups that spring readily to mind. [More…]
The section I would like to bring forward today for some degree of emphasis relates to migrant children or the children of migrants in Australia. [More…]
When one looks at the problems being experienced by migrant children or the children of migrants- they are not necessarily the same thing- one is impressed by the immensity of the situation in terms of the total number involved and the immensity of the situation in terms of the spread of disadvantages within that particular group. [More…]
The teaching of the English language to nonEnglish speaking children is an absolute must. [More…]
I believe that a great deal of attention should be given to not only the teaching of the English language but also the teaching of other languages to not only Australian born children but also overseas born children. [More…]
What we are seeing happen in many instances is the development of inter-cultural differences between parents and their children because the children are being taught in Australian schools under Australian conditions and Australian curricula with very little attention being paid to the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of themselves and their parents. [More…]
So I would like to see the Centre looking at such things as the inclusion of ethnic cultures within the curricula which is available to children throughout Australia and the particular ways in which the richness of the various ethnic cultures at present represented in Australia can be brought home not only to the children who have some ancestry relating to those cultures but also to the Australian born children or the children of Australian parents, whose own culture would be immensely enriched by some knowledge of various other cultures. [More…]
Subjects could be taught in 2 languages and books and lessons could be available in 2 languages so that children who are not as proficient as their class mates in the language in which the subject is being taught- and that, at this stage, is of course English- may have the opportunity of keeping up with the levels of attainment of their classmates who are more proficient in the language. [More…]
Again I instance the fact that many migrant children or children of migrant parents fall into the category of being disadvantaged children simply because in most cases they do not have the knowledge of the language that will enable them to integrate, keep up and go forward at the same rate as their school mates. [More…]
Because of the immensity of this problem and because of the range of problems which affect the teaching of migrant children, could we give some close consideration to the appointment of people who have a degree of knowledge, a degree of commitment relating to migrant education? [More…]
In other words, I would like to see people of an ethnic background appointed to advisory committees or supervisory committees, people who have an intimate knowledge, who themselves were migrants or the children of migrants who really have a first-hand working knowledge of the problems which these people face. [More…]
Of course, although this Curriculum Development Centre only applies, as I understand it, to teaching in schools- and, therefore would only apply to school children- this problem of education which faces migrants is not confined to children at all. [More…]
We are dealing today with the Curriculum Development Centre, which relates to school children. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister in his attitude and in his talks with his advisers and his officers to look at the inclusion of migrants on advisory or supervisory committees, and I urge that we keep very much in mind the problems being experienced by this very large group of Australians or soon-to-be Australians, the migrant children. [More…]
I refer to the Children’s Commission. [More…]
It is partially an education commission and partially concerned with health and welfare and family care for children at the pre-school stage. [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…]
Children are also victims of accidents involving drunken drivers. [More…]
I will read out the words that I note are included in a Bill presented to the House today which related to a Children’s Commission. [More…]
People are starving, women and children are dying. [More…]
But having failed to do that, there is a responsibility on every decent person in this region to try to ensure that representatives of international agencies, representatives of the United Nations, representatives of governments of this area are in those towns that are being taken over by communist aggression to ensure that justice is being done to innocent people; not to soldiers, not to those who chose to- go out and fight on the battlefield, but to the women and children who are suffering the great consequences of this conflict in South Vietnam. [More…]
We accept that local government authorities come within the constitutional responsibility of State governments, that they are the children of State governments. [More…]
If the Opposition intends to regard local government authorities as the children of the State governments, then I would say that the States have been starving their children for years -in fact, since Federation. [More…]
Evidently they have now fought against their mother or father- whichever the States are presumed to be- if they are their children. [More…]
The Branch also commissions and arranges for the funding of outside projects such as a project evaluating the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme, the Tertiary Education Entrance Project, a project examining the unsettling effects of periodic movement faced by soldiers’ children. [More…]
There are also research projects on the English proficiency of migrant children and the bi-lingual teaching of Aboriginal children. [More…]
He does not know the seriousness, the suffering and the terrible position that the children of Darwin are going through at the present time. [More…]
Taxation deductions must be given on the basis of compensating parents for the obvious financial disabilities suffered in regard to clothing, accommodation, travel and other matters involved with the education of their children. [More…]
We recognise the need to achieve a balance between the conservation of the environment and economic growth in the knowledge that people not only demand a better environment for themselves and their children but demand also jobs, better houses, better nutrition and better services. [More…]
They have absolutely no interest in the children who attend the poor State schools and the poor parish schools. [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…]
It is not just a question of looking after the children between one and five years of age: What about the Government’s whole education program? [More…]
The parents of the children at the 46 schools in my electorate, which are considerably like those in all other underprivileged electorates in this country, are, because they pay their taxes, work in industry and produce the wealth in the private sector of which honourable members opposite are so proud, entitled to see that their children are given an equal opportunity of education. [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…]
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…]
Does the Opposition want to abandon the expenditure for assistance to handicapped children? [More…]
There is the subsidy of $4 for $ 1 for establishing sheltered workshops for handicapped adults, training centres for handicapped children and hostels for handicapped children. [More…]
Over the years that house was extended to accommodate children, was furnished, acquired a garage and a garden. [More…]
My children and their friends expect that they will move into the whole shebang instantly. [More…]
This means that a taxpayer supporting a wife and 2 children, on $ 100 a week has a saving of some $6 a week. [More…]
The contribution of the schools that the honourable gentleman has mentioned towards being able to cope with the growing numbers of children in Australia is very slight indeed. [More…]
I raise the matter again tonight because I am concerned that because of the present Government’s policies, the so-called A class schools are becoming purely the province of the children of wealthy parents. [More…]
Under previous Liberal-Country Party Governments, parents were assisted by a system of per capita grants to send their children to schools other than state schools if they so wished. [More…]
Now however, a trend is clearly emerging that those parents who wish to send their children to independent schools are finding the fees too high and are either sending their children to government schools or deferring the enrolment of their children in non-government schools to a later stage of schooling. [More…]
A number of parents defer the enrolment of their children and, instead of entering them at junior school level or even Form 1 level, they enter them at Form 3 or even later. [More…]
A recent survey conducted by the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria showed that the average income of parents with children at independent schools was approximately $ 14,000 a year. [More…]
It also showed that 44.8 per cent of mothers with children in high fee schools work to supplement their husbands’ incomes with the clear intention of putting their children through these schools. [More…]
Parents are not transferring their children from nongovernment schools by choice. [More…]
This Government’s policy towards what it calls A class schools is not preventing the wealthy from sending their children to these schools. [More…]
These schoods are becoming purely the province of children of wealthy parents, and I believe that this is very wrong. [More…]
This comes about because St Leo’s aims to keep its fees low so that education at that school may remain within the reach of the average Catholic parent who wishes to choose an education other than a State school education for his children. [More…]
This scheme has as its aim the provision of financial assistance to parents with limited financial resources to enable them to keep their children at school during forms 5 and 6- a commendable aim, I think we would all agree. [More…]
Surely now that tertiary education is free, we should also endeavour to see that as many as possible children of parents on below average to low incomes should be assisted to remain at school in these vital years if they are to have equal opportunities with other children of proceeding to tertiary education. [More…]
Bearing in mind that this Government has reduced the amount of tax deduction allowed for education from $400 to $150 and the high rate of inflation, parents on adjusted incomes of $5,675 or higher clearly will be struggling to keep their children at school in these crucial years. [More…]
It has been decided to allow the entry into Australia for temporary residence of the following categories of persons having Vietnamese citizenship: Firstly, the spouse and children of Vietnamese students at present living in Australia and, secondly, the spouses and the under 2 1 -year old children of Australian citizens subject to completion of Australian citizenship formalities, instructions on which have been telegraphed to the Australian Embassy in Saigon which will allow the issue of Australian passports to such persons. [More…]
The principal features of this Bill are substantial increases in the basic rates of pensions and benefits, an increase in additional payments for children, implementation of the second step in the Government’s program to abolish the means test on age pensions, provision for the payment of unemployment, sickness and special benefit weekly in advance instead of weekly in arrears and provision for the immediate payment of special benefit to persons newly discharged from gaol. [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…]
Guardian’s allowance and additional payments for children will continue to be subject to the means test, as will wife ‘s pension. [More…]
We deliberately have made, and shall make, local government a vehicle for our legislation dealing with aged persons homes and hostels, sheltered employment, handicapped children, meals on wheels, home care and nursing, nursing homes, homeless men and women. [More…]
When we look at children’s programs that are allowed to be shown time and time again we ought to hang our heads in shame. [More…]
It showed a film of the absolute delight of people and little children under the new order at Da Nang, prancing around and dancing. [More…]
In fairness, ‘This Day Tonight’ gave a very good coverage to Mr Don Sewell who explained that the communist occupation of Da Nang- I am still referring to the Bill- was such that the communists did not kill off all the children; they slaughtered only those from newly born babies up to children 12 months old. [More…]
It provided that amounts of money be put aside for the immediate future when people are reestablished in Darwin and when problems arise, with children going to school and in trying to find decent accommodation. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Social Security and refers to the high cost of orthondontic treatment for children with a cleft palate or a Up condition. [More…]
Our community is somewhat obsessed with the belief that all education is good, that the more education we give our children the better citizens they will be, the longer and more intensive the courses for medical students the better doctors they will become, the more intensive and the longer the courses for lawyers the better legal practitioners they will turn out. [More…]
In particular, I compare the Bill that we have before us with the Children’s Commission Bill which is presently before the Parliament. [More…]
Such an amendment would bring the wording more into line with the corresponding provisions in the Children’s Commission Bill. [More…]
I felt there was some merit in the honourable member’s suggestion, and indeed I felt there would be merit in amending sub-clause 15 (1) to bring it fully into line with the wider provisions of the Children’s Commission Bill, which refer to a matter rather than to a contract. [More…]
An adequate crop of sultanas this season will provide an opportunity to promote dried fruit products to school children aged between 8 and 14 years and housewives aged between 24 and 35 years. [More…]
You, Mr Speaker, would appreciate that this is a very serious departure from the whole principle of the Karmel report which was directed at ensuring that all Australian children get an equal opportunity to develop their capacities and have similar educational facilities at their disposal, irrespective of the sorts of schools they attend, the sorts of incomes their parents receive, the places they go to church, the areas in which they live or any other factor. [More…]
One of his children is a student in Australia. [More…]
My nation, my family, my beloved children are drowning . [More…]
During the detailed planning and implementation of the program, it became obvious that the target of providing free dental services to all Australian school children by 1978 could not be achieved, due to the shortage of dental manpower in Australia and the time required for the planning and building of dental therapy training schools. [More…]
The aim of the scheme is to provide free dental treatment to all primary school children by 1980 and then further expand the program so that all children under fifteen years of age would be covered by 1985. [More…]
In May 1974 we announced that in the case where there was genuine hardship, where a man with 3 children had been sacked from the job that it was inequitable that he had to wait a week for the unemployment benefit. [More…]
He would have no income coming into his house to feed himself and his 3 children. [More…]
They are: To make a substantial increase in the basic rate of pensions and benefits; an increase in additional payments for children; the implementation of the second step in the Government’s program to abolish the means test on age pensions; provision for unemployment, sickness and special benefits weekly in advance instead of weekly in arrears; and provision for the imediate payment of special benefit for people newly discharged from prison. [More…]
I mention the Repatriation Acts Amendment Bill, the Children’s Commission Bill, the National Compensation Bill, the Road Safety and Standards Authority Bill. [More…]
I cite this figure because one must remember that the single rate of unemployment benefit is $36 a week, the rate for a married couple is $60 a week, for a married couple with 2 children it is $74 a week and for a married couple with 3 children it is $8 1 a week. [More…]
This Bill also provides for an increase of $1.50 a week for dependent children of pensioners and supporting mothers. [More…]
The overall increase for a single pensioner with 2 children will be $8 a week. [More…]
The allowance for dependent children will be increased by $1.50 a week. [More…]
I turn to the supplementary benefits and dependent children’s allowances. [More…]
I think it is conceded generally that the areas of greatest need concern pensioners at the lowest level of income who either need rent assistance or have dependent children. [More…]
However, it could not be said that there has been an 80 per cent increase in supplementary benefits or dependent children’s allowances since Labor came to power. [More…]
There are more than 20 000 fathers with dependent children in this category in Australia. [More…]
I think that we need to look at the problems of single fathers in a different way altogether and provide something for their children, certainly up to a certain level of income. [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…]
The principal features of the Social Services Bill are the substantial increases in the basic rates of pensions and benefits, the increase in additional payments for children, the implementation of the second step in the Government’s program to abolish the means test on age pensions, provision for the payment of unemployment, sickness and special benefit weekly in advance instead of weekly in arrears and provision for the immediate payment of special benefit to persons newly discharged from gaol. [More…]
-The purpose of this Bill is to establish a Children’s Commission. [More…]
This Commission’s functions will be to ascertain the needs of the Australian community for services for children and to make recommendations with respect to those needs. [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…]
There has been much report writing about each of these areas of concern, but little attempt to define a comprehensive philosophy as to the care and education of children. [More…]
The Fry Committee’s report, though entitled ‘Care and Education of Young Children’, concentrated heavily on the educational role of both pre-school and day care centres and the need to use professional and sub-professional staff in each. [More…]
The Social Welfare Commission in its report entitled ‘Project Care- Children Parents Community’ put greater emphasis on the urgent need for good quality custodial care and other childhood services, especially for those in greatest need. [More…]
Perhaps this is because the platform of the Australian Labor Party with regard to childhood services deals primarily with the care of children other than that provided at home by their parents. [More…]
The definition of ‘services for children’ contained in the Bill besides including the education of pre-school age children includes only services to children ‘not being cared for in their own homes’ other than services to those children who are described as having special needs. [More…]
The reference to general assistance to parents in relation to raising children does not appear to contemplate the provision of comprehensive assistance. [More…]
Increasing public concern is being expressed at the ad hoc approach to policies and programs relating to children. [More…]
Without a philosophy there is danger that ad hoc decisions designed to help individually deserving cases will promote trends which will not be in the overall best interests of the community in general or children in particular. [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…]
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…]
It is a sad commentary on a socalled affluent society when only the children of the well off can expect to enjoy continuous access to their mothers from birth to the age of 3, or even 5 years. [More…]
In the case of mothers of infants and pre-school children the decision is often taken with misgivings- a sense of guilt on the part of the mother and feelings of inadequacy on the part of the father- often with resulting tensions and disruptions to normal family life. [More…]
Another factor that helps to perpetuate the working mother syndrome in respect of mothers of young children is that everybody is doing it. [More…]
The emphasis now being placed on personal fulfilment for women in their non-maternal role provides further incentive over and above the economic necessity which compels many a mother into the work force while her children still need her presence at home. [More…]
The economic necessity and social pressure which force mothers of young children out to work against their better judgment have been developing steadily over a decade or so and, I believe, are now approaching a serious stage. [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…]
Women’s groups, educationalists, social workers and the medical profession have all gone on record in recent times advocating the need to make it possible for mothers to stay at home to care for their young children if they choose to do so, instead of being forced by economic circumstances to go out to work. [More…]
Pressure of opinion is building up in favour of measures designed not to prevent mothers who, for personal reasons, want to continue their careers, from doing so but aimed at helping those who, solely for economic reasons, feel obliged to leave their children in the care of others so that they can earn a second wage for the family. [More…]
In speaking of the hallmarks of the development of the policies of the Liberal Party of Australia and the new National Country Party of Australia, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) recently said: … to give effect to our concern for those who need our help we would be developing policies to assist mothers forced to work who would sooner be at home looking after their children. [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…]
In addition to reducing the financial pressures which prematurely force women out of work there is a need to help parents to understand and provide for the needs of their young children. [More…]
Community situations in which parents can, with growing enjoyment and confidence, make best use of their own knowledge and resources in the development of their children must be promoted. [More…]
Equally important is the design of policies and programs which will enable the mother of young children, while giving primary importance to her role as a mother, to maintain her interests and social contacts in such a way that the combination gives her, taking life as a whole, adequate opportunity for self-realisation, both within and apart from the family. [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…]
By contrast a children’s bureau, structured as proposed by the Liberal and Country Parties, would provide a central source of input to a committee of ministers who would retain responsibility for the administration of programs within their specific portfolios. [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…]
There will, however, always be those children for whom substitute care must be provided. [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…]
If programs result in the home based care of young children becoming more difficult for a community that would prefer to provide such care, policies and programs must be appraised and redesigned to produce those results which are wanted by the community at large rather than those sought to be imposed by those who would seek to press substitute care of children upon a community which wants mother care to be available for them when mother care can be made available. [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…]
I refer to items such as assistance to parents in connection with the care of their sick children in their own homes at a time or times of the day when the parents are engaged in employment; such matters as meeting the needs of children suffering disadvantages for social, economic, health, ethnic, locational, cultural, lingual or other reasons and encouraging diversity, flexability and innovation in the provision of services for children. [More…]
Already the Interim Children’s Commission has approved day care centres in areas of need. [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…]
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…]
When school closes there is a period of 4 weeks when children are without supervision. [More…]
If this were applied across the board without some subsidy for those whose parents were fully committed financially, those children would be precluded and this would defeat the purpose of the Bill. [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…]
Unfortunately, as has been pointed out by the leading speaker for the Opposition, the Bill lacks a specific statement of Government philosophy towards the education and early care of the children of Australians. [More…]
In May 1973, according to the Bureau of Census and Statistics, there were 28 1 700 persons in the labour force responsible for some 365 000 children under 6 years of age. [More…]
Approximately one in three of these children remained at home in the care of relatives or friends and about one in ten attended nurseries, creches or home day 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…]
On the basis of statistics which I have available there is good reason to suggest that in the philosophy behind legislation of this type more attention should be given to ensuring that all parents, whether they be single or dual parents, are given as much opportunity as possible to make their own decisions as to whether they wish to enter the work force or, in the case of mothers, remain at home to look after their children, especially in their earlier 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…]
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…]
There is still a real need which has not been covered adequately in my opinion in this legislation to establish again at local government level sufficient facilities so that all women and all single parents, including men, are given the opportunity to put their children into adequate day care centres even if only for a short time so that the mother or the father may, for instance, go to the dentist. [More…]
She said that although she wanted to put her children into pre-schools she noted that at the present time, according to her examination of the Sydney telephone directory, the ratio of preschools which are non-profit organisations to pre-schools which are presently run allegedly on a profit-making basis is 40 to 240. [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…]
Ultimately, I want to see a situation in which every suburb in Australia- certainly every shopping centre in Australia- has adequate facilities so that children are able to be cared for on a full day basis or on a short time basis depending on the needs of the parents and their financial capacity. [More…]
We said that far more attention would be paid to children than the previous government had ever dreamed about since it was here that the future of [More…]
Apart from our education commitments we saw the need for children to be considered in other aspects as well. [More…]
This included both pre-school programs and, for older children, out of school programs. [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…]
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 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…]
Other improvements include the raising of the per hour attendance rate for children with special needs under 3 yean of age from 25c to $ 1 and for those over 3 years, from 15c to 60c. [More…]
When passed it will establish the Children’s Commission on a firm base with continuing programs of assistance that will eventually have a profound influence on the development of Australia. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister reiterated the policies of the Australian Government, its emphasis on the particular needs of the people, of working, single or sick parents of Aboriginal, migrant, handicapped and isolated children. [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…]
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…]
-Having the opportunity to speak briefly on the Children’s Commission Bill 1975 I do so conscious that the program of the House requires some abridging of our remarks. [More…]
I should like to make an observation or two regarding a proposal which must immediately attract the support and sympathy of all fair minded Australians, all those who are conscious in this society of ours today that there are groups of people, particularly among children, who are not being afforded the full opportunity to grow to adulthood having fully exploited their native talents. [More…]
In this Children’s Commission Bill we have a most comprehensive program and objectives to remove entirely, it would appear, all the vicissitudes that assail the young in Australia. [More…]
It accepts the latch key children as an essential part of modern society. [More…]
Again it may be argued whether we have to ‘accept a situation in which more and more of these children will be left to their own devices without moral guidance. [More…]
Sub-clause 3 (g) simply calls for the promoting of the physical or mental development of children. [More…]
the care of physically or mentally disabled or handicapped children at a time or times of the day when they are not being provided with a prescribed service and are not being cared for in their own homes; [More…]
I am heartened to find in that sub-clause the suggestion that some of the brain damaged children in my electorate who are receiving assistance, instruction and direction under the scheme for the achievement of human potential which has currently defied the best offices and intentions of the Government, will be relieved of some of their most pressing problems. [More…]
As the honourable member for Darling Downs says, the mother who stays at home must now bear the brunt of the financial and social hardships because her deprived children suffer discrimination among their peers in their schools and in their social activities. [More…]
Whereas the superficial purpose of that amendment was ‘to expand and improve the provision of educational services to young children in Western Australia’, in order to find the real reason for that amendment one has to go back to an extravagant election promise made by the then Leader of the Opposition, Sir Charles Court, prior to the 1974 State election. [More…]
The Western Aus.tralian Government then proceeded to apply for capital assistance from the Australian Government, via the body which in September last year became the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission, to expand its program for pre-primary centres. [More…]
However, later in December last year the State Minister for Education announced that $871,000 had been made available by the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission to provide another 1 1 of these preprimary centres. [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…]
But the amendments went on to empower the Western Australia Minister for Education to direct that any facility so provided, ostensibly for children under 5, could be handed over to the Education Department. [More…]
The only reason such a facility would be handed over to the Education Department would be to provide a pre-primary centre for children of 5 years of age for the year before they attend primary school proper, that is, in the year in which they turn six. [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…]
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…]
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…]
-The Children’s Commission Bill 1975 establishes a new commission with a ne,w title. [More…]
No honourable member would object to what ought to be the aims of the Children’s Commission as given to us in terms of its title. [More…]
But in a few words, the work of this Commission will be judged on the balance that it achieves in relation to the care of all children. [More…]
The first one is that this Bill is intended to care for over 160 000 children but that ultimately- this is the second point- according to the principles of the Commission, all children in Australia within a certain age group are to be cared for by the year 1980. [More…]
It is in relation to those 2 matters that one has to judge the balance that will occur in the care of children as determined by the Children’s Commission. [More…]
I am concerned that that balance be preserved and that artificial measures of need, artificial measures of poverty or artificial measures of care are not put upon the children who are, after all, still the children of their parents. [More…]
I detect that under this Bill there is to be attempted an unnecessary bureaucratisation of the care of children in Australia. [More…]
After all, if the $75m which is proposed to be spent under this measure becomes a substitute for money that would otherwise be spent on family assistance available to parents of children in the home, are we to say that that represents a net improvement in respect of the care of children? [More…]
When people write rules- especially when a central government writes rules- with respect to children it ought to be remembered that those children are still their parents’ children and belong to nobody else. [More…]
But at the same time one must bear in mind that the family assistance available to parents of children to spend in their homes for a family has declined from 1.7 per cent of the gross domestic product to .4 per cent of the gross domestic product. [More…]
They were available to parents to spend money on their children as they sought and as they desired. [More…]
The progress of a people- naturally, I refer to the progress of the Australian people- is very intimately connected with the progress of Australian families and the progress of the children in those families. [More…]
I would be less than frank if I were not to say that I am concerned at some of the definitions of services for children which are involved in this BUI, and if I were to deny that I was concerned at the way in which community services for children are to be determined. [More…]
But whether mothers work or look after children in their homes, it is the mothers who are satisfied with their roles, whether they work or not, who have the best adjusted children. [More…]
What are these rates for (a) single male, 18-20 years old, (b) single adult male, (c) married male and (d) married male with two children. [More…]
1 ) Can the Minister say whether the New Zealand Dairy Board has signed or is about to sign a contract with the Government of Iran for a school milk program for 5 million Iranian school children? [More…]
How many children in each State and Territory are currently awaiting adoption. [More…]
How many of these are Aboriginal children. [More…]
How many children went to adoptive homes in each State and Territory in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
How many of these were Aboriginal children. [More…]
Bedford Industries Rehabilitation Association Inc. Panorama, S.A. Phoenix Society Inc., Torrensville, S.A. Children’s Association Inc., Smithfield Plains, S.A. Sisters of the Good Shepherd Laundry, Hobart. [More…]
However, the Department has been examining this problem for some time and in fact was represented on the Standards Association of Australia drafting committee for Australian Standard 1647-1974 Children’s Toys and Playthings (Safety Requirements). [More…]
I range as widely as that because, on the Government’s words, this was its deal with respect to the children of Australia. [More…]
Obviously that meant it was the Government’s deal with respect to the families of Australia which are raising children. [More…]
Ultimately, when a government intrudes into intimate institutions such as the family and when it intrudes into the responsibilities of families with respect to children, the power of that government will play a very great role in determining ultimately the values of the community. [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…]
Is that $75m an addition of resources available to children in the community and to the families caring for children in the community? [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…]
Some years ago family assistance for 2 children would have bought 18 loaves of bread in a week. [More…]
One must take into consideration the amount involved in lost taxation deductions for the education of children which, for many families, represents an extra cost of $2 per week. [More…]
In all of this, through the power of the purse, the power of an interventionist government, there is a decreasing of the ability of families to make their own decisions concerning their own children. [More…]
In fact, ultimately what is involved here is a bureaucratisation of children and a decreasing of the ability of parents to make their own decisions. [More…]
That has to be stated because, on the basis of the Government program and the Minister ‘s second reading speech, ultimately this Commission will be designed to take care of all children. [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…]
The Government’s initiative springs from its concern for the welfare of children of working mothers. [More…]
Further on the then Minister said: … a substantial number of such mothers cannot make satisfactory arrangements for the care of their pre-school aged children is yet another fact. [More…]
I suggest that the decision to establish the Children’s Commission is a thought-out approach and one on which some work has been done before. [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…]
The temptation, of course, in a measure such as this is to take the simplistic view that bricks and mortar and some well-trained teachers and supervisors can fulfil the needs of all children. [More…]
Last night the honourable member for Lilley spoke of the unnecessary bureaucratisation of the care of children in Australia. [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…]
I note that Mr Bawden has also made a submission to the Interim Children’s Commission for a creche to be built at his school for the use of teachers and parents. [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…]
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…]
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…]
-The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) and the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) have dealt with the philosophical approach to the position of children in our communities. [More…]
This Children’s Commission Bill is one of the most important pieces of legislation to come before the Parliament. [More…]
I ask honourable members: What could be more important to the well-being of our nation in the future to ensure its stability, progress and enrichment than caring for, properly nourishing and educating, and giving adequate parental affection to our children? [More…]
Obviously the family unit must reign supreme if we are to breed children with the desired qualities to maintain Australia as a great nation, keeping it abreast of the ever changing world and, indeed, if possible keeping it in the forefront with other great nations. [More…]
For these reasons I am convinced that too much emphasis cannot be placed on the careful upbringing of our children. [More…]
Of paramount importance must be the giving of love and affection to children until they reach manhood or womanhood. [More…]
Certainly it cannot be measured purely in cold terms of making dollars available for projects involving children. [More…]
However, the Opposition would have preferred to see a children’s bureau established. [More…]
To see this one only has to look at Part 1, the definition of ‘Services for Children’ and then at Part 11, the ‘Functions and Powers of Children’s Commission’. [More…]
It is well conducted with the warmth of people who really care for children. [More…]
I want to sound a note of warning about family unit care that is being looked at by the Interim Commission and will no doubt be continued by the Children’s Commission. [More…]
The concept is to have up to 4 children in a private home. [More…]
One can imagine the effect if people undertaking this work become unsatisfactory for the conduct of such a centre and the damage mentally that will be done to the children if the atmosphere for some reason or other becomes undesirable. [More…]
Surveys have shown that children in family or home groups do not receive the same benefit and stimulation as is available in larger group institutions. [More…]
I commend Part VI of the Bill under which it is proposed to establish Children’s Commission Advisory Boards in the States and Territories. [More…]
Some out of necessity will have to work and, provided their children are well cared for and loved, one surely could not quarrel with this. [More…]
Some mothers will stay at home, some will go to work, but whatever happens we all agree that the children should not be neglected. [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…]
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…]
My plea is that the social and economic implications of the program for the Children’s Commission should be fully examined before money is spent for I believe that it must be redistributional otherwise there is no point in spending money at all. [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…]
These are areas where there are a lot of so-called latchkey children. [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…]
The fourth suggestion I should like to make is that we must balance the needs of children against other social priorities of the community. [More…]
I do not believe that expenditure through the Children ‘s Commission should be sacrosanct just because it is expenditure on the recommendation of a commission. [More…]
After the Children’s Commission has said what its priorities are, we must consider those needs along with other needs in the Government’s program. [More…]
It seemed to suggest that the trend will be for the proportion of children in the community during the next few decades to fall, whereas the proportion of aged people in the community is likely to rise. [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…]
the care of pre-school aged children at a time or times of the day when they are not being cared for in their own homes; [More…]
the education of pre-school aged children; [More…]
the care of children other than pre-school aged children at a time or times of the day when they are not being provided with an educational service and are not being cared for in their own homes; [More…]
the care of physically or mentally disabled or handicapped children at a time or times of the day when they are not being provided with a prescribed service and are not being cared for in their own homes; [More…]
assistance to parents in connexion with the care of their sick children in their own homes at a time or times of the day when the parents are engaged in employment; (0 assistance to, and counselling of, parents in relation to the raising of children; and [More…]
other services, not being educational services or other services prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, provided to children, or to the parents of children, that will be conducive to meeting the needs of children having special needs or to promoting the physical or mental development of children; [More…]
If my amendment is accepted, under ‘ services for children ‘ paragraph (e) would state: assistance to parents in connection with the care of their sick children in their own homes at a time or times of the day whether or not the parents are engaged in employment; [More…]
There are occasions when such assistance would be appropriate to children and, consequently, to their parents when they are being cared for by a mother who is at home, who is not at work and who is not outside the home. [More…]
It is an amendment the philosophy of which could have been applied to a number of the other definitions of ‘services for children’. [More…]
For example, in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) reference is made to the children not being cared for in their own home or the parents being engaged in employment. [More…]
Regrettably, speaking in committee I cannot take time to commend the interim childrens commission program. [More…]
I particularly want to address myself to clause 3 of the Bill which deals with services for children. [More…]
the care of pre-school aged children at a time or times of the day when they are not being cared for in their own homes; [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…]
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…]
The needs of both sides- of the children and of the mother who wants to go out to work- have to be met. [More…]
I believe that the mother ought to have freedom of choice to be able to stay at home if she wishes and, if she feels that because of her vocation or for her own satisfaction she wants to be involved in the work force in a productive way, her children should be able to be cared for in facilities such as are proposed. [More…]
The centre accommodates 40 children. [More…]
If we are going to achieve an effective child care program the parents have to be involved with the children. [More…]
I am not being critical of people who are dedicated to this issue but according to the Statistician’s figures there are 400 000 children who are the responsibility of employed persons, females or permanently separated, widowed or divorced males. [More…]
The Government is not saying that it will deal with children only in that category. [More…]
It wants to help children in all areas. [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…]
to ascertain the needs of the Australian community for services for children and to make recommendations to the Minister in respect of those needs, including recommendations in relation to- [More…]
organized means of providing and financing services for children; [More…]
the financial assistance to be provided by Australia to, or to organizations established by, the governments of the States and Territories and local government authorities, and to charitable organizations and other organizations and persons, for the establishment, development and maintenance of means of providing services for children or for research and planning in relation to those services; and [More…]
the education and training of persons involved, or to be involved, in the provision of services for children; [More…]
to investigate means of securing, and, with the approval of the Minister, to arrange for, the representation of Australia or of the Commission on organisations established by the government of any State or Territory or by a local government authority, being organisations that are involved in services for children; [More…]
In the performance of its function, the Commission shall, to the greatest extent practicable, consult and cooperate with Departments of State and with authorities established by or under laws of Australia, being Departments or authorities 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…]
to ascertain the needs of the Australian community for services for children and to make recommendations [More…]
If this is a Bill concerned with children - [More…]
In sub-clause (1), paragraph (a), omit ‘the needs of the Australian community for services for children’, substitute the needs of children, parents and guardians of children for assistance in the home and for organised community services’. [More…]
That would appear to me to be a much more satisfactory form of judgment and form of question to be asked in determining the needs of children. [More…]
In sub-clause (1), paragraph (a), before sub-paragraph (i) insert the following sub-paragraph: ‘(ai) means of assistance to parents and guardians for assistance to children in their homes;’. [More…]
This is the last opportunity the Government has to make it clear to the Australian people and to all those who have the care and responsibility of children that where children are being cared for in their homes, whether they are sick, whether the adults in that home are sick or whether the children are physically or mentally below par, those children are not to be disadvantaged because they are being cared for by their parents in their homes. [More…]
The philosophy of this Bill at the moment, as put over and over again, is that if parents are caring for those children in their homes they will not receive any of these services for children. [More…]
One family with 2 children may have both parents working. [More…]
If the children of those parents fall sick, because the parents are working assistance will be given to those children in the home. [More…]
That family may have three or four children with the mother at home looking after those three or four sick children. [More…]
But because she is not working and because she is home caring for the children, this Bill, as presented so far, states that the Government will not allow assistance to be given to her. [More…]
That is the situation which I am trying to retrieve and in which I am trying to allow there to be some opportunity for freedom of choice with respect to the parents and those who have the responsibility for children. [More…]
Accepting the sense and the balance of these amendments in terms of the functions of the Children’s Commission the Bill should at least do something to retrieve what I think is a very unbalanced and unfair and a very narrow interpretation of what are the needs of parents and children in Australia. [More…]
I am in some difficulty at times in dealing with this Children’s Commission Bill because I do not know who is leading for the Opposition in this debate. [More…]
Is he suggesting that they are trying to deprive children of a mother’s care? [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…]
The purpose of this amendment is to enable the schemes recommended by the Children’s Commission to be funded through that section of the Constitution which enables State programs to be funded. [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…]
There was a Pre-School Interim Committee, like the Children’s Commission, which consisted of people drawn from all over Australia. [More…]
The statement has been made that the training of the personnel to handle these children is in the hands of the States. [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…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall, to the greatest extent practicable, consult and co-operate with Departments of State and with authorities established by or under laws of Australia, being Departments or authorities 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…]
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…]
No suggestion is made in the legislation- and certainly not in the comments of the Minister when he talks about the need for cooperationthat the Commonwealth will assume a monopolistic role in the provision either of care facilities or pre-school education for children. [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…]
I hope the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) will note those words ‘including parents’- responsible for, or connected with, the provision of services for children in the State or Territory, the Minister may, in relation to each State and each of those Territories, establish a Children’s Commission Advisory Board, or Children’s Commission Advisory Boards, for the State or Territory. [More…]
I was hoping to say something about the Opposition’s attitudes towards this Children’s Commission Bill during the second reading debate on the Bill but was not able to do so because of the time limitations. [More…]
I hope that most of the realistic people in the States recognise that the Government’s approach is a more realistic way than the Opposition’s of going about financing the work of providing these day care and other facilities for children aged between one and five years and their parents. [More…]
It is interesting that the care of children under 5 years of age in Australia is not the sole prerogative of educationalists. [More…]
I am interested in the care of children under 5 years of age. [More…]
Such a person, with a wife and 2 children, under this scheme will save $145 during the year. [More…]
It helped only married couples in the first year when they usually do not have children. [More…]
If you were a single parent, if you were deserted or widowed- I ask honourable members to remember that no widows or widowers without children were assisted- it is just as important to maintain your house and to keep it as it is to get one in the first place. [More…]
On average 2 children can be born in 3 years. [More…]
If you get children of old Australians unable to find work, seeing migrants getting jobs, there could be sociological problems. [More…]
From the outset the scheme provided such benefits as full pension on invalidity retirement during service, pensions for widows and children on the death of the member and the opportunity to purchase full pension on normal retirement after reaching age 60. [More…]
This improvement will extend to present scheme pensions as will an improvement in children’s pensions. [More…]
Subject to the improvements in spouses’ and children’s pensions, pensions already in existence at 30 June 1975 will continue to be paid at the levels provided by the present Act and be updated annually in accordance with the 1.4 times formula I have previously explained. [More…]
It applies to spouses’ and children’s pensions that are payable or may become payable in the future under that act the levels of benefits provided in the new scheme and applies also the wider eligibility provisions of that scheme. [More…]
Foodstuffs are being supplied to refugees in IndoChina through the joint operations of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, which is closely linked with the work done by Red Cross organisations. [More…]
I say that it applies only if there are no children or if the parties have made proper arrangements for the children. [More…]
If there are no children to be considered society has little interest in the matter. [More…]
It affects employers, neighbours and the children themselves. [More…]
If some person behaves in an outrageous fashion obviously that person would have slender opportunity of being given the custody of young children, and to the extent that that process is conducted there is a determination as to where fault lies. [More…]
They were obliged to admit that those considerations had to be included when one looked at the welfare and custody of children and appropriate amendments to that effect were made during the course of the Senate’s deliberations on the Bill. [More…]
There is also the situation in which there have been children to the marriage and a party has stayed in the marriage believing, notwithstanding the substantial cruelty that has occurred, that relief may be sought at a time when the children are independent. [More…]
I believe that there ought to be another course of action in such a situation in which the party has been unable to get that immediate relief because of the children. [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…]
It is an institution on which our society as a Western society is built and we must not forget that a product of marriage is children who are human beings and who can be hurt by the irresponsible behaviour on the part of parents. [More…]
I believe that those 2 people are entitled to make a decision to break that contract, but it has to be done responsibly, with the minimum of hurt to society and to children. [More…]
What is being said then in relation to all of these cases where there is an innocent party, whether the marriage has been a short one or a long one and whether there are many children or no children, is this: ‘We will commit you to injunctive procedures which are complicated, which are tenuous and which can be very expensive’. [More…]
I believe that the extension of the time period to 2 years where one party is against the divorce is desirable, particularly where young children are involved. [More…]
The amendment to be proposed by the AttorneyGeneral in regard to the definition of ‘welfare officer’ seeks to insert after ‘children’, the words ‘being an organiation that has been approved by the Attorney-General ‘. [More…]
Inside, they had seen about SO men and women and about 15 children around a TV screen on which they could see a girl dancing. [More…]
The person who produced the film and showed it on television in the presence of young children as well as adults was subsequently prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to 28 days imprisonment in the Adelaide Jail. [More…]
It would also permit an Australian court to order maintenance and grant custody over any children born of the relationship. [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…]
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…]
In urging this amendment I do not intend to suggest that steps should be taken to force people to live together in circumstances in which they are unhappy and their children are unhappier. [More…]
Much has been said about the concern for children living in unhappy circumstances. [More…]
If the marriage has irretrievably broken down, it should be dissolved; but it should not be presumed that the breakdown is irretrievable, particularly where there are children, unless every effort has been made to restore communication so that the children can have the opportunity to live in a stable, happy, 2-parent family. [More…]
I recognise that it involves counselling a large number of families; but the price involved in providing that counselling for a large number of families, if it gives a happy family life in a 2-parent situation for a significant number of children, is worth paying. [More…]
In the interests of the children affected by unhappy marriages, I urge that this amendment be accepted. [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…]
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…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare; and [More…]
the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
It refers to ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage’, ‘the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’, the responsibility for the care and education of dependent children, ‘the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare’, and ‘the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage ‘. [More…]
The amendment would seek to protect the position of a woman who believes that marriage and looking after children is a lifetime and honourable vocation. [More…]
Part of the atmosphere of support that has been generated for this Bill has been among those who have felt in the past that our laws have presumed far too much, and that to far too great an extent the only role for a woman in marriage is the traditional role of a wife and the bringing up of children. [More…]
I would be the first to concede that perhaps in years past there has been an undue bias in that direction and what ideally speaking we ought to achieve is a situation where, with proper regard to the interests of children, women are in a position to exercise a choice as to whether they should fulfil a full-time wife and mother role or only a parttime one. [More…]
I hope that it is the sort of amendment that some people I see sitting opposite might be prepared to support in order to stop this drift and to recognise the fact that a woman who stops at home and looks after the children may be entitled in the coming years to some sort of wage. [More…]
As the position now stands, if a wife with children merely did washing for a man in relation to whom it is open to the plainest of intent that some application should be made for a dissolution of the marriage, that in itself may, one way or the other, inhibit the application. [More…]
My understanding of the word ‘ancestor’ is that it applies in a straight up and down line and that the wording in these provisions would prohibit marriages between parents and children. [More…]
Whatever our views may be with respect to the primary matter, we are dealing here with matters which concern the whole happiness and circumstance of those children who are thrust into custodial proceedings. [More…]
Would the Attorney-General, as the principal law officer of the country, seriously contend that a judge should say to a woman who has been so utterly bereft of family and parental responsibility that merely because sheisthe mother she should not have custody of the children? [More…]
She must be burdened with the obligation of supporting herself rather than looking to her husband who has been the breadwinner with the obligation within our society to maintain her and their children. [More…]
Whatever the differences of opinion may be between and among the members of the Committee as to the grounds which should exist with respect to the granting of a decree of divorce, I trust that we can accept the one short thesis I propound, namely, that the position of the children should be paramount. [More…]
A wife who will have the obligation to maintain children could have a benefit available to her which would consist of the possibility of those children being cared for in some state institution covered in this Bill to which she has an objection. [More…]
If she refuses to allow the children to be kept in some kind of circumstance which is available to her but of which for philosophical, social and personal reasons she does not want to avail herself, then to that extent the party seeking maintenance under that clause will be disadvantaged. [More…]
The amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition not only makes it more sufficient but also encourages those who wish to pursue their lives as mothers of children. [More…]
In other words it encourages mothers to look after their children. [More…]
When I became involved in the great political party which has made such a contribution to the development of Australia over the years- the Australian Labor Party- I was reared on the credo, on the thought and on the belief that what we were trying to do for women was to take them out of industry- take them from the mines and from the workshops- and give them a position of dignity in their own home in which they could care for their children, be greatly respected and preside over the moulding of the character and human quality of our people and the building of our nation. [More…]
The only way she will be able to discharge those debts is by leaving her children, leaving her home, and not being permitted to do the things that this amendment would ask that we allow her to do. [More…]
This undoubtedly is an attack upon the mothers and an assault on children, for how may a mother care for her children if she is compelled to go out to employment in order to meet her financial obligations- to become the breadwinner? [More…]
The court will not look upon her as the woman, the mother, the wife, the bearer of children, the one responsible for the upbringing of the family; it will look upon her as just another person, another party. [More…]
I would carry it a little further and say that it is a little difficult to see how she could continue to be a mother if she did not have any children. [More…]
The court has custody and control of the children. [More…]
Is this meant to encompass her future maternal role or is it meant merely to cover the position of looking after children that may be left to her by the custody of the court? [More…]
Honourable members who oppose this amendment are not against motherhood; they are not against the protection of small children. [More…]
Therefore under this Bill all children less than 1 8 years of age automatically receive the protection which is advocated by the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition and supported by the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock). [More…]
that the agreement does not adequately protect the interests of any child or children of the marriage; or - [More…]
Indeed if, as I have said, there could be no reconciliation the proceedings should leave behind them to the parties and to the children the minimum of bitterness. [More…]
In some cases this cannot be avoided, but wherever possible let us have the maximum opportunity of reconciliation and the minimum risk of bitterness for the parties and their children. [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…]
I instance the case of a mother with children in whose favour a decree for maintenance or property rights has been made; in other words; for example, an order for the payment of alimony or a payment in respect of the upkeep of the children and of their education. [More…]
It certainly has not been explained adequately and it ought to be explained adequately, but above aU there ought to be some situations which exclude the proceedings to be taken under this clause and they ought to be interpreted far more precisely than they are at present, otherwise this could represent an unnecessary danger to a marriage and certainly not a protection to the parties, the property or the children concerned. [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 quite clear that the Australian Government has a mandate for the welfare of children. [More…]
It has the constitutional facility to provide welfare opportunities to children. [More…]
There would be nobody in Australia who would want to challenge a program to benefit this year 165 000 children under the age of five. [More…]
I have expressed strong opposition to the ending of the free milk program for school children but again I cannot give you an undertaking that the program would be reinstated. [More…]
This not only affects those who are age pensioners; it also has a particular bearing on many families where the children of the family are supported by a widow. [More…]
Many of those widows, for their own good- to enable them to have contact with other people as well as for the financial benefit it provides for their children- want to seek part-time employment. [More…]
It has stated that it will seek to encourage people to provide more for themselves to give them greater incentive to increase their incomes, to do more for their children if they are widows, and to do more for themselves if they are single or married age pensioners. [More…]
This morning we had the National Country Party members grizzling about the Labor Government, in favouring school children and other groups, favouring people in the cities; yet by its own definition, by its own rules of the game as a sectional party- it should accept the verdict once in a while- all it is doing is looking after its own sectional interests. [More…]
In 1971 there were more than 42 000 children of school age or younger; in other words, well over one-third of the populations. [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…]
On both claims the woman described herself as the foster mother of the children. [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 submit that the nation must look after those who are less fortunate than many of us- the unemployed, the sick, the accident victims, the aged, the disabled, the deserted mothers and their children- and not encourage the creation of more ‘less fortunates’ as appears to be the case with this Government. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the Australian Medical Association has suggested that young people should, as a matter of course, be directed to doctors rather than optometrists because of the dangers of inappropriate or inadequate treatment which could cause life-long visual problems for children. [More…]
Not the least of the sufferers has been the children of Australia. [More…]
There is another matter into which I think an inquiry into tertiary education could properly address itself and that is the question as to whether our children, our young people, should be moving directly from high schools, the secondary stage of their education, to the tertiary stage. [More…]
How many people are estimated to be eligible if the guidelines are extended to include families of Australian Vietnamese nationals or residents such as brothers, sisters and their families, including perhaps spouses and children? [More…]
I point out that on a previous occasion I prevented the Minister for Science from making a personal explanation in response to matters relating to children of which he was in charge on exactly the same basis. [More…]
He has a wife and 2 teenage children. [More…]
She has 5 children and a husband to look after. [More…]
where there are 3 eligible children- 95% per centum; or [More…]
where there are 4 or more eligible children- 100 per centum. [More…]
These amendments relate to the widows’ pension formula and the children’s pension formula. [More…]
There is a flat rate addition for children. [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…]
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…]
I would like the wives and/or widows of all Australian public servants, plus their children. [More…]
If one’s home happens to be the unfortunate target and one’s wife and children are killed- fortunately this did not happen but it could happen- there is no provision at aU under the old Act, nor is there satisfactory provision in this Bill, for an adequate coverage in respect of these dependants, I suggest that the Government examine this matter and that appropriate arrangements be made to cover the second party to a marriage and other dependants who may lose their lives while overseas on government service. [More…]
proposed new scheme are: Contributors or their dependants have the option of taking part of the benefit on death or retirement as a lump sum; provident fund contributors are to be given the same benefits on retirement as other contributors and much improved benefits on death or invalidity; children and orphans are to get better benefits; and the position of temporary public servants is to be improved. [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…]
In some cases it has prevented them from spending money on education for their children. [More…]
I believe also we should increase the widows’ pensions, widen the eligibility for spouses and increase children’s pensions. [More…]
I agree, similarly, to the option of guaranteed pension for widows and children in the case of death in service and a guaranteed pension on invalidity retirement during service. [More…]
They are the ones who will pay, who will have to forfeit their holidays, the right to own their own homes and property to educate their children. [More…]
The Judge’s findings were made public but the report itself was kept confidential as it included names of children, events, times and places which should not be made public. [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…]
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…]
In a few words, I believe that the introduction of summer daylight saving time has meant an increase in the leisure time of adults at the expense of the health of children. [More…]
Recently we read in the newspapers that school children in New South Wales were seen to be falling asleep in class and were not attentive during class periods. [More…]
I suggest that one of the causes is the long days which young children have to experience as a result of daylight saving and the difficulty which they have in getting to sleep in daylight hours. [More…]
Adults have difficulty in trying to get children, arbitrarily between one day and the next, to adjust to a whole new time scale in their living habits. [More…]
Family circumstances, young children, sport activities and livelihood, as with a farmer, for instance are the main determinants of these opinions. [More…]
Rural school children have to travel by bus to school. [More…]
In some cases children are required to leave home shortly after the sun rises in times of daylight saving and stay up late, as I have said, at the end of the day. [More…]
It is a fact which I think any parent of young children knows that it is very difficult to get young children to go to bed when it is still in daylight hours. [More…]
The children want to enjoy themselves. [More…]
Daylight saving in its modern form was good for city people but not for farmers and graziers … the farmer was concerned it affected dairying, hay cutting, vegetable growing and especially the dispatch of school children from the country early each morning. [More…]
I think it is a very real problem for the children themselves because of its impact upon them and for the parents. [More…]
Florida seeking end to daylight time after 8 children die. [More…]
But the newspaper article points out that there was an increase in deaths and accidents of children because they had to rise early in the morning and travel around in the dark of the morning hours. [More…]
Because time is running out I ask the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to arrange for a survey to be carried out into the impact of daylight saving on the study habits and class attitudes of school children. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) to seek information on the impact of daylight saving on the health of school children. [More…]
What of the housewife with young children? [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…]
One day after being carried out, the redistribution would be incorrect because children would be born, people would die and others move, and so the number of people within electorates would change. [More…]
In substance, the Children’s Commission Bill provides in clause 5 that the Minister can make grants on such terms and conditions as the Commission determines of any type of financial assistance of the kind referred to in that paragraph. [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…]
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…]
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…]
There are 165 000 children who will receive the benefit of this program. [More…]
This program is the greatest breakthrough ever in the care of children. [More…]
The Opposition should stop playing politics with the care of children. [More…]
We spoke to another Minister, a very reasonable man who has an interest in the welfare of children. [More…]
What is wrong with the Australian Government funding children who need these facilities and people who need these services? [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…]
If he is so sure about his assurance, why is he unprepared to have this provision written into the legislation: That consultation takes place between the Children’s Commission and departments of the Commonwealth Government as well as departments and governments of the States? [More…]
We sought to write it in- the Senate asked that it be written in- yet the Minister, professing to co-operate on the one hand, and on the other hand is unwilling to include in the formal structure of the Children’s Commission a provision that requires it to consult with the States. [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…]
They are not allowed to leave the Islands, and children are denied secondary education and are refused permission to leave the Islands to get 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…]
A great deal has been said about States being tardy in taking up their allocations of Schools Commission money, and even more about the fact that many of them are still bumbling and chundering on, way behind in the use of the funds available to them for handicapped and disadvantaged children. [More…]
One has to deplore such delays, not only for their opportunity-cost to the schools and the children involved, but also because it is seemingly unncessary dissipation of Federal money. [More…]
It is the helpless, the needy, and those who do not vote who will suffer in the long run- the children. [More…]
There will be people who will say that education expenditure has not achieved the results hoped for, that only slight advances have been made and that it is not the children who have gained from Karmel but other people and groups. [More…]
Slit the throats of their children and drag them over the mourners’ bench and the pulpit and allow them to drown in their own blood, and then see if they enjoy singing these Hymns. [More…]
I remember that on my first visit to the Soviet Union I was most anxious to see the kindergartens because I had been brainwashed and led to believe that the children there were taken away from their parents, against the parents’ wishes, and brought up in and brainwashed to the communist system. [More…]
I found that working couples voluntarily allowed their children to go to the kindergartens because those couples placed a high degree of importance on producing essential goods for the Soviet Union. [More…]
Conservative organisations, such as Rotary Clubs, in my electorate of Hunter are working feverishly to establish kindergartens so that children will be cared for while the parents are at work because it has become commonplace for both parents to go to work. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on Educational Turbulence among Australian Servicemen’s Children by Lindsay Mackay and Brian Spicer of the Faculty of Education, Monash University. [More…]
It has been directed against women, children and persons with no involvement in the Middle East who happen to be at airports or in aircraft. [More…]
-On 5 December 1974 in answering a question asked of me by Mr Snedden (Hansard pages 4852-4) I undertook to provide information on children’s programs administered by my department in a supplementary answer. [More…]
CHILDREN‘S PROGRAMS [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…]
The right honourable member will be aware that the Children’s Commission Bill has been introduced into the Parliament. [More…]
The Childhood Services Program is directed towards the provision of services for children before school age and for school children out of school hours. [More…]
The State level committees forward proposals to the Interim Committee for the Children ‘s Commission which subsequently makes recommendations to the Special Minister of State, in his capacity as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister. [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…]
It was considered to be more convenient for parents for their children’s names and numbers to be on a single family card. [More…]
What I and others like me are concerned about is that ultimately this Government intends to use the Superior Court to rule on all manner of matters such as discrimination, environment, children, women, motor accidents, the stock exchange, corporations and trade unions. [More…]
I refer specifically to the taxation concessions for education- a vital matter for people in country areas aiming to provide adequate education for their children- and also to the petrol price equalisation scheme, which similarly was of great importance to rural industries and to people living away from the capital cities. [More…]
Then, we come to one very important matter, the withdrawal of the free milk for school children. [More…]
Despite that, and the pleading letters of the widow who is a mother of 4 school-age children the company has continued to refuse to make payment. [More…]
Their benefits will soon be flowing to the Australian people and the particular groups who need them- the low-income earners, the children, the sick, the handicapped. [More…]
In the same spirit we introduced legislation to establish a Children’s Commission. [More…]
The Commission will administer a comprehensive range of services for children- pre-school, day care, part-time and emergency care services, after school and holiday projects. [More…]
Approximately 165 000 children have been catered for under this new program. [More…]
What is the anticipated expenditure on the Isolated Children’s Allowance Scheme during 1974-75. [More…]
Since the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme was introduced in 1973, the level of benefits provided have been kept under regular review. [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…]
There were reports of retribution killing and of killing of mixed race children which appeared prior to the surrender of Saigon. [More…]
To assist eligible organisations to meet the cost of providing and operating, for handicapped children and adults, the following services- [More…]
Voluntary, religious and similar organisations that provide an approved service for handicapped children or adults are eligible to apply for assistance. [More…]
The Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act commenced in 1970 (now repealed). [More…]
Is it intended to provide orthodontic treatment to all school children under the scheme. [More…]
Will dentists or dental therapists be used in the school dental program for children over the age of 1 2. [More…]
Within the Australian School Dental Scheme both dentists and dental therapists treat children under the age of fifteen years; dental therapists of course work under the supervision of dentists. [More…]
In New Zealand, the School Dental Service uses dental therapists to treat children in the pre-school, primary and intermediate school levels, which include children aged 13 years. [More…]
When honourable members read the headline in the Australian newspaper referring to myself they should bear in mind that I have a family and children who go to school. [More…]
the disabilities of families with handicapped children; and [More…]
Botanic Gardens for Children [More…]
409 concerning studies into specific learning difficulties, will he provide a list of all studies being supported by the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education which are concerned with methods of early identification of children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
What sums are paid to the States to enable them to employ people to engage directly in the actual identification of children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
However since recurrent expenditure and special education teacher training courses are general programs, it is not possible to attribute particular sums as being for persons employed in the identification of children with learning difficulties. [More…]
The Australian contribution was allocated for a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) project in Zambia which was designed to assist women and children under the care of a number of liberation movements, including the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), the South-West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO), the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the African National Congress (ANC). [More…]
Has the attention of the Treasurer been drawn to radio reports this morning about a taxpayer with a wife, 4 children and a weekly income of $106, who feared that he would be worse off as a result of last night’s Budget? [More…]
If he had 2 children, currently he would be paying in excess of $6 a week in tax. [More…]
He would be probably paying less if he has 4 children. [More…]
But in any case, whether he has 2 children or 4 children, under the new scheme he will pay no income tax. [More…]
The latest cuts follow cutsagain I am not aware of the order of the cuts for a man on that income with 4 children, but they were substantial cuts- made earlier this calendar year which benefited the average weekly earner with 2 children and a wife by the order of some $6 a week. [More…]
For instance, a man with a wife and 2 children, on average weekly earnings, who makes average claims for deductions under the taxation scheme, with a taxable income of $5,372 will make no tax contribution under the new scheme. [More…]
Will the Treasurer indicate what the proposed new income tax arrangements in respect of education expenses incurred by parents on behalf of their student children will mean as compared with the existing provisions? [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…]
Can he tell the House whether Table 7 of the comparison of tax payable in the schedules that he distributed last night is correct when it indicates that individuals with incomes of $7,000, $8,000 and $9,000 a year and with 2 dependent children under 16 years of age who claim rebates under the new system equivalent to 10 per cent of their income in fact will be paying more tax and not less tax under the new system? [More…]
A single wage family with dependent children will overwhelmingly be much better off. [More…]
She has 4 children to support. [More…]
Schools Commission did a survey on the Australian schools system after we took over after 23 years of government by the present Opposition there were no fewer than 809 government schools classified as disadvantaged and no fewer than 211 Catholic schools classified as disadvantaged, making a total of 1020 schools with a total enrolment of almost 400 000 children that were going to schools classified as disadvantaged. [More…]
There were 400 000 children who were just disadvantaged; there were many other schools on the border but those children were the ones whom the Schools Commission thought it could help most readily. [More…]
But under the previous Liberal Government almost half the number of children who went to university or colleges of advanced education came from 17 per cent of the community- the professional classes. [More…]
It was an absolute waste of ability of children who were going to those schools. [More…]
In an equal situation there will, of course, be high flyers and slow plodders within all groups of children. [More…]
Should children from disadvantaged suburbs not have opportunities to complete secondary school and university simple because their parents are poor? [More…]
Of course what has been exposed by the Karmel Committee report and the carrying out of the policies by the Schools Commission is that those children are not less able. [More…]
The Schools Commission gives all children an equal opportunity. [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…]
If people want to send their children to a private school they can; if they seek to send them to a public school they can. [More…]
All the Government has done has been to try to see that all schools in Australia are fit for children to go to. [More…]
As the honourable member for Port Adelaide mentioned, when we came to power in 1972, there were 1020 schools described by the Schools Commission as being sub-standard, affecting 400 000 children. [More…]
When the Leader of the Opposition talks about enforced equality in education what he means is that all the previous benefits will return to the upper crust and that tax deductions will be there for them to send their children to the greater public schools and the rest. [More…]
The family man with a wife and 2 children on average earnings last year paid 12 per cent of his income in tax. [More…]
The deductions were originally designed to encourage people to provide for themselves and their children, and that is a proper objective of government. [More…]
When it deals with a statement of deductions for a spouse or for children, it says this: ‘Maximum deduction for each dependant’. [More…]
Under the tax proposals which Mr Fraser condemns 100 000 single parents raising children on thenown will become entitled to a new $200 solo parent rebate, and the education tax deducation of $150 will be replaced by an education rebate of $250. [More…]
I have a pride, too, in new educational opportunities opened up for children from isolated areas, children who have physical or mental handicaps, children from homes where if English is spoken at all it is as a second language, Aboriginal children, children with socio-economic disadvantages and just ordinary children whose need for teaching staff, accommodation and equipment has simply never been met by the state or systemic education authorities which are responsible for them. [More…]
A man on an income of $5,000 with a dependent wife and 2 children will pay nothing. [More…]
Perhaps he still seems to think, as he said in a statement in my electorate, that it is only parents who send their children to a private school who are interested in education. [More…]
The Budget helps young families with children. [More…]
It is paradoxical that when in individual families wives and children are rejecting the notion that father knows best the Labor Government is acting as though it knows best. [More…]
-They are forced to do it to retain the eduction standard for their children and to meet growing interest rates and other items. [More…]
These young couples will actually pay more tax than they do under the present system and they will’ pay more even though they have dependent children. [More…]
This particular woman had 5 children, including 2 teenagers, who at that stage were living in a caravan for four in a person’s backyard. [More…]
The shires of Carrathool, Hay, Balranald, Wakool, Murray and Jerilderie- names Government supporters have probably never heard of, because they are not interested- need money to build allweather roads so that children, Australia ‘s greatest asset, can get to school in wet weather. [More…]
So for a start if the Opposition cuts back on the spending on education, as it intends to do, it will not only deny the children in my electorate and in many other well represented electorates an education not based on the depth of their parents’ pockets; it will also stop a source of supply into the building industry through Government action. [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…]
Because of the serious economic situation in the back country there were many school-age children in my electorate who never had a schoolbag when I first came into this Parliament. [More…]
It was not until this Government introduced the isolated children’s grant that some of those children were able to receive a better education. [More…]
How much of that money has enabled children to have a better educative background in their own households? [More…]
How much of it has enabled parents to keep their children at school longer than they would otherwise be without the pressures of unemployment? [More…]
We have had greatly increased payments for the unemployed, for children dependent on pensioners and children depending on the unemployed. [More…]
We have allotted a $10 a week allowance for handicapped children. [More…]
He referred to the single income family with children, especially a large number of children. [More…]
I point out that even the single income family with one or two children will be significantly better off as a result of this Budget. [More…]
In tonight’s Sydney Sun is prominently featured a letter from a person who complains that he used to be able to deduct $1,040 for his wife and 3 dependent children but now he will be able to deduct only $1,000. [More…]
The trouble is I am never certain whether she is more interested in the well-being of the children or the teachers. [More…]
1 ) When the Government provides money to community groups to purchase equipment such as in the case of the new hot-water system for the New South Wales Protestant Federation Children’s Home, or office furniture for the New South Wales Good Neighbour Council Migrant Information Service, does this property, once purchased by these societies with Government funds, remain the property of the Government [More…]
I have visited and talked to children in schools and was surprised at first to see that they knew as much as or more than thenAustralian counterparts about the various systems of government. [More…]
The most tragic part of the education section of the Budget is that assistance to isolated children has been reduced while every one of the other special group allocations has been increased. [More…]
I believe that isolated children rank as perhaps the most under-privileged section of the Australian community. [More…]
Their needs have been placed before this Government constantly by the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. [More…]
Members of the deputation pointed out to him that the increases in allowances for the education of isolated children have not kept pace with inflation. [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…]
It includes new projects for a women’s refuge, a handicapped children’s home, a YMCA hostel and additions to the Goodwin Homes. [More…]
It works out that a taxpayer who has a dependant spouse and 2 children and who earns about $160 a week saves about $7 a week or about $350 a year. [More…]
Young newly-married couples with no children who in the past have both worked in the early years of marriage to save for a home, are being offered no incentive and no help to save. [More…]
A young man earning $7,000 a year, with no children and a working wife, saving to buy a home will pay an additional $256 in direct income tax as a result of this Budget in the coming year. [More…]
It would be fair to say that the Government’s record in education in respect of the Government school system has been a good one in the past although its policies towards independent schools and the parents of children attending independent schools has left much to be desired. [More…]
The example is also given of a man with a nonworking wife and 2 children. [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…]
Does the Leader of the Opposition really support the old system under which the wealthy with their children at the major private schools could obtain a rebate as high as 67c in the dollar while at the same time lower income earners got only 20c to 25c in the dollar- much less for each dollar spent on educating their children. [More…]
But thank God since Labor came to power the children who attend these schools are now receiving the same educational opportunities as everyone else. [More…]
They include schools in the inner city areas and schools with a large proportion of migrant children who need specialised teacher training, particularly in English. [More…]
A tax rebate system has been introduced which will greatly favour the single income family with dependent children. [More…]
A married man in receipt of an income of $7,000 a year- not a large sum- with a dependent wife and 2 children will, under this new Budget, pay $427 less in this year- 1975-76- than he paid in the year 1974-75. [More…]
Let them go to the hostels and look at the children under 16 years of age. [More…]
No pensioner, no sick person, no parent concerned for the education of his children obtained any comfort from the silence of the Opposition on these matters. [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…]
Another way of looking at it is to take the percentage of income paid in tax by a worker on average weekly earnings with a wife and 2 dependant children. [More…]
Clearly, the test of profitability of the day has caused us to condone and, in fact, to justify policies for which our children and our children’s children may well condemn us. [More…]
A taxpayer with a dependent wife and 2 dependent student children in receipt of an income of less than $5,372 a year will now pay no tax. [More…]
The increase in family allowances are far greater than in any previous Budget so that the average earner’s tax saving for a dependent wife is more than doubled and his saving for dependent children is increased by 50 per cent or more. [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…]
Among the first items that we attacked on coming to government were the problems that had faced outback children for many years. [More…]
We introduced the isolated children’s scholarship. [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…]
The Government has not only increased the standard rate of pensions and unemployment benefits but it has also increased the amount allowed for children. [More…]
These 5 groups take in the sick, the old, the handicapped, the disadvantaged and the children both in and out of the schools. [More…]
The saving will be made where it has always been made, and that is in the areas of the 5 groups I mentioned before- the ones which always have been deprived- the sick, the old, the handicapped, the disadvantaged and the children and out of schools. [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…]
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…]
They include a free of means test incentive allowance of $5 a week to all disabled people employed in approved sheltered workshops and an increase in the rate of existing capital and equipment subsidy to sheltered workshops and handicapped children’s training centres from $2 for $1 to $4 to $1. [More…]
Firstly, the Central Districts Mentally Handicapped Children’s Association of Smithfield Plains has been paid a subsidy of $43,000 for capital building costs and equipment. [More…]
Where new bodies have been established, such as education commissions, the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the Children’s Commission and the Australia Council, from the very outset my Government has appointed women to them. [More…]
Education today, as always, is a matter of acquiring skills, although there has been a shift of emphasis away from the drilling of facts into children to making them learn how to ferret things out and how to apply them. [More…]
When the value of money falls as rapidly as it is doing now, people cease to think of the future or of their children and they cease to look backwards to the problems of the aged; they think only of the present, of themselves. [More…]
The deductions were originally designed to encourage people to provide for themselves and their children, and that is a proper objective of government. [More…]
The Budget penalises those families that save, through life or superannuation policies, for their own old age and that want to provide a different kind of education for their children. [More…]
In any case, he chose as his typical taxpayer a man with 2 children earning $9,000 a year, who paid $1,000 a year in mortgage interest. [More…]
In addition to that the Government is appropriating funds in its Children’s Commission program and in its area improvement program which will relieve unemployment. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would do well to have a close look at what is being done in the area of technical and further education so that children in rural areas and in the country towns will have the opportunity to be trained in skilled employment, thereby making it possible for employers to start industries in those regions. [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…]
Quite frankly, I have never adhered to the theory that people would have children only if the taxpayers subsidised them to have them. [More…]
There are many valid reasons for people having children and there are many valid reasons, I suppose, for people not having children. [More…]
Of course, it is true that people who have dependants- spouses and children- will benefit very considerably from this Budget. [More…]
As the Treasurer pointed out in his Budget Speech, the take home pay of a wage earner earning between $100 and $150 a week with a dependent wife and 2 children will probably rise by about $5 a week as from 1 January next as a result of this change. [More…]
It may well be that the question that ought to be asked in Australia is whether the system that we have lived under all our lives Will continue to provide for the community the type of society that we want to see for our children and for their children to come. [More…]
An amount of $205m was handed back directly in income tax cuts and there was a reallocation within the income tax scales so that the married man with a wife and children got a go at the expense of married people without children and with both partners in occupations. [More…]
Perhaps honourable members opposite would like to see a return of the situation where Aborigines were locked up at Moore River Missionthe children put in Wandering Mission- the children forcibly taken from their parents under the provisions of an Act and educated somewhere other than with white children. [More…]
But leaving aside the more spectacular areas, the mistakes which I think all of us will admit have from time to time been made, there is a basis of very solid achievement within this program, real achievement in terms of approximately 12,000 children of Aboriginal descent now at secondary schools compared with the mere hundreds attending such schools before the program of Aboriginal secondary education grants was established; the substantial number of Aboriginal people who are now living in better housing than they were before; the numbers of Aboriginal children who are now receiving a better education in pre-schools, and schools whether those schools be conducted through the State system or whether the children go away and board; and, of course, the Aborigines who are assisted through Aboriginal enterprises. [More…]
They want to be equal and to be like our children. [More…]
How can Aboriginal people or children be equal? [More…]
If one goes into a State high school in central western New South Wales- I do not propose to mention townships- one finds that four or five times as many Aboriginal children are attending today as were attending five or six years ago. [More…]
The people in those townships say that this is discrimination in favour of Aboriginal children, but if one goes to the places where some of the adults live and where some of these Aboriginal children live one finds very often that they live on a reserve and, notwithstanding the large amounts of money that have been devoted to Aboriginal housing, they may still live in a corrugated iron shed or shanty without electric light or a water supply. [More…]
The younger children at home would tear up the school books, and the school children could not do their homework at home because there is no electric light there. [More…]
If someone suggested to me that by abolishing this system of Aboriginal secondary education grants all those children would be made equal, I would remain to be convinced. [More…]
It has been obvious to me since I have been a member of this Parliament and a representative of a large Aboriginal community along the Murray River that a restrictive factor in the education of Aboriginal children is their inability to identify with a European education system or to adjust to the conflict between preservation and change, between autonomy and ancestry. [More…]
Their duties would include liaising with parents, teachers and children, to help involve parents in school activities and vocational guidance and counselling. [More…]
Malnutrition is becoming evident in children as well as adults. [More…]
Malnutrition is becoming evident in children as well as adults. [More…]
Every person who lives in the electorates of St George, Barton, Grayndler, KingsfordSmith and in electorates around them should realise that if Liberals were elected to both Federal and State Governments they would extend Kingsford-Smith aerodrome and cause the children in schools and the people in homes for the aged to suffer unlimited agony. [More…]
It has made available nearly $12m this year for the isolated children’s allowance to help rural parents get their children to centres of higher education. [More…]
This has been of tremendous assistance to our isolated children in lifting the standard of their education and giving them the same chances as children in the cities. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) mentioned that there was money granted to assist, I think he said, disadvantaged children. [More…]
A person on an inadequate income may have freedom of choice to send his children to the best schools or to choose the best doctor, but he will find those freedoms meaningless. [More…]
It was an argument indicative of the concerned mind of a person who believes in the adequate housing of all Australians- the mums, the dads and the children from all areas. [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…]
If that challenge succeeds the whole children’s program of this Government is in peril because it operates in precisely the same manner as the other schemes. [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…]
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…]
It involves licensing women who are chosen for their suitability for looking after children. [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 figures show that 970 films were examined by the censors, of which 174 were classified for general exhibition and another four were so classified after cuts; 202 were classified not recommended for children; 248 were classified for mature audiences; 180 were classified ‘R’; 18 were classified ‘R’ with cuts; 23 were rejected outright and 121 were classified to be shown in special conditions such as at film festivals. [More…]
I should like to say a good deal more about the spate of pornography which is reaching even to our children and is starting even to invade our television and enter our living rooms. [More…]
Only the most agressively militant pushers of expensive hearing aids on to pensioners and children, such as the firm for which Mr Carr works, have used such intemperate abuse as he has. [More…]
-The report was prepared by a Mr Michael Norman, B.A., B.Ed., B.D., who is 40 years of age, married with 3 children, two of whom are teenagers. [More…]
Again, the Convention unanimously recommended that matters relating to legitimacy, including family inheritance as it affects children legitimised by legislation of this Parliament, adoption and maintenance, other than in divorce proceedings, should be the subject of references of power by the States to the Australian Parliament. [More…]
If the car plants in South Australia close up, it will affect everyonetheir incomes, their property values, their job opportunities, and their children’s future. [More…]
At present sick children lie on a couch in the passageway outside the headmaster’s office. [More…]
How much better would it have been if the $100,000 offered to Germaine Greer by this Government to make a sex film had been used to provide better facilities for children at a school such as Forest Hill Primary? [More…]
The people and children of Australia as a result got poor value for what was spent on them. [More…]
The function that is special to a commission is, surely, that it offers public advice not only to the Commonwealth Government but also to the community, to the other governments which still have the major role in education in Australia, to the educationists and to the children, and the parents even. [More…]
Nobody would ever be satisfied with the quality of education his children are to receive or do receive. [More…]
I will show them secondary schools where local initiatives by parent groups and teachers are providing rural children with a component of technical tuition specifically orientated towards future employment in their own district and environment. [More…]
There is also the matter of the education of our handicapped children. [More…]
If it were within the competence of State governments to handle these matters, one wonders why for so long, these very deserving children were so neglected. [More…]
-Children who are poor, children who are black, children who are female, children from families where English is spoken, if at all, as a second language, children from country areas or children who suffer from mental or physical handicaps, including specific learning difficulties, have been victims of educational deprivation on a massive scale. [More…]
It will be a slow and painful process, a slow and expensive process making good the years that the locusts ate up- the 23 years when educational expenditure in this country at the Federal level and at the State level was low and misdirected because overwhelmingly it was the children I have catalogued whose schools were the most crowded, the oldest, whose classes were the largest, whose equipment was the most inadequate, who overall received the worst possible deal educationally. [More…]
For those children who came from homes where education was valued, where achievement was encouraged, for those children what encouragement was available educationally was given but it would be a mistake for these Estimates debates to be concerned exclusively with expenditure. [More…]
No amount of expenditure on schools can wholly compensate those children who come from homes where little or no value is placed on education or where the education process is ill understood. [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…]
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…]
Subsidies to Missions for maintenance of children of Aboriginal descent. [More…]
If he were doing tonsillectomies he could certainly do 7 tonsillectomies on children in that 356 hours and at $84 it would work out at $588 a session. [More…]
The number of women who would be having curettes, the number who would be having cauterisations of their cervixes, the number of children who would be having tonsils out, would double and treble if Medibank was paying for them as public patients on a fee for service basis. [More…]
People in country areas are faced with increased costs in transporting their children to secondary schools in order to get an education, and again if there is any sort of serious illness in their families. [More…]
Sporting fields at schools should not be the exclusive preserve of the children who attend those schools, but this seems to be the position today. [More…]
It should not be left to the personal whim of some selfish school principal to decide that all of these facilities are to be used only by the children of his school during the hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and also that they will be left completely unused for 3 months of each and every year. [More…]
We are channelling money through organisations like the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund to provide humanitarian relief, not bullets. [More…]
In 1974-75 Australia allocated $150,000 for mothers and children in Zambia under the care of a number of liberation movements. [More…]
Organisations such as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund and the Red Cross provide humanitarian relief programs for those affected by the struggle for liberation in a number of southern African countries. [More…]
In 1974-75 the Australian contribution funded assistance for mothers and children in Zambia under the care of a number of liberation movements. [More…]
It has been shown to impair intellectual development and is one of the explanations for the birth of imperfect infants and some so-called minus children, and of hyperactivity, autism, dyslexia and so on. [More…]
De facto wives are now recognised and provision has been made under this Government for ex-nuptial children. [More…]
The school dental scheme aims basically at prevention, preventive dental care and educationeducating the children and their parents in proper dental care. [More…]
It does aim to achieve a comprehensive cover for all primary school children in Australia and eventually all children up to the age of 15 years. [More…]
I believe if this were to apply in this case there would be a good deal of inequity in the distribution and access of school children to proper dental care. [More…]
Dental therapists can do all the basic things required to treat children. [More…]
They X-ray children’s teeth and perhaps most importantly they carry out general education programs for the children in the schools, and they ask the parents to come along as well. [More…]
We have more teachers but it does not necessarily mean that we have better educated children in Australia. [More…]
Surveys carried out before the scheme was introduced showed that children in poor areas tended to have much worse teeth than those in better off areas. [More…]
In this respect the school dental health program provides a quality of children’s teeth of uniform excellence. [More…]
Therefore there is a significantly greater benefit provided to those children in poor areas who have the worst teeth. [More…]
If that were the case it would be a very sad day for the state of health of children’s teeth in Australia. [More…]
There is one sin of omission to which I want to draw particular attention and that is the failure to do anything for the motherless family, for the man who has to support and look after his children because his wife has died or because his wife has deserted him. [More…]
Mothers were without refrigerators to keep milk cool for their children- one can imagine that in the tropics during the summer time or the wet season- women were without basic clothes, women needed to know that other Australian women cared for them. [More…]
Profile of Vietnamese granted permanent residence- 119- spouses, minor dependent children and aged or otherwise dependent parents of Australian residents 63- persons who met the occupational requirements for migrant entry 42- persons admitted on compelling compassionate grounds or accepted by religious orders in Australia 203- selected in Hong Kong at the request of the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong. [More…]
Profile of Vietnamese admitted for temporary residence- 46- family reunion including spouses and children of Vietnamese students in Australia. [More…]
Many of them, of course, are having children educated at the Australian National University and it was envisaged that the university of Albury-Wodonga would be being developed. [More…]
They are an advanced form of secondary education that many of these employees desire their children to enter and there is no equivalent in Albury-Wodonga, so some of the things that were once in phase and in coordination have ceased to be so. [More…]
The Children’s Commission, the rebate system of taxation to apply from 1 January and the abolition of the superphosphate bounty are some of the things that have been suggested by the PRS. [More…]
The list is 4y2 years long if one has fewer than 5 children. [More…]
If one has 5 children the list is cut down to about 2 years. [More…]
At long last children in the Woy Woy district will have something to do after 5.30 at night. [More…]
Because of the economic situation in Australia, the Government has found it necessary to impose occupational restrictions on the entry of migrants other than those qualifying as the spouse, dependent children, aged or dependent parents or fiances of Australian residents. [More…]
They would all need homes, they would all need furniture, schools for their children and numerous other facilities. [More…]
He was a Minister in a government which had a priority of spending thousands of millions of dollars on the murder of South Vietnamese women and children and young Australians and which could not provide a few hundred million dollars for beef road schemes. [More…]
If we look at TCN9 in Sydney, $16,661 was deducted from the collections of the 1974 appeal for crippled children and only 79.9 per cent of the funds promised were collected. [More…]
Four categories of lead absorption, based on blood lead levels had been defined for industrial settings: less than 40 ug/ 100 ml- normal 40-80 ug/ 100 ml-acceptable 80-120 ug/100 ml-excessive greater than 120 ug/100 ml- dangerous These levels are not regarded as applicable to the population in general, and to children in particular. [More…]
While there appears to be a margin for allowance of several micrograms of lead per cubic metre of air for adults, there may not be such a margin for children. [More…]
Arrangements also were made on the movement of refugees to southern cities, for State tuberculosis authorities to carry out radiological examinations of adults and when considered necessary skin tests of children. [More…]
A Children’s Anti-Smoking Advertisement Contest aimed at the 9-14 year olds was intended to dissuade children from smoking, by the use of discovery-learning techniques. [More…]
$25,000 has been made available for distribution to State Governments and $75,000 is required to meet commitments on the Children’s Anti-Smoking Advertisement Contest. [More…]
Now it appears that children’s nightwear made of flammable fabric will be banned in Australia and governments are expected soon to ban all clothing made of flammable material. [More…]
I know that many in the ethnic communities, such as children in the playgrounds, listen to these broadcasts and that in particular the older people listen to the music and news broadcasts. [More…]
For instance, it is not understood that the schools there do not receive good television reception and the education of the children consequently suffers. [More…]
There are 127 children in the State primary school, 92 to 100 at St Joseph’s and 100 to 1 50 in the Seventh Day Adventist Primary school- a total of about 350 children in primary schools suffering in their education because they cannot get satisfactory television reception. [More…]
The Government which he supported, under its scale of priorities, had millions of dollars to spend on killing innocent women and children and young Australians in a political war but it did not have any funds at all for national sewerage programs, for housing programs, for cities, for highways or for regional groupings. [More…]
The introduction of cassette tapes has transformed the attitude of children towards libraries. [More…]
They have been transformed into exciting places for the children, the youth and the parents in these towns to visit. [More…]
In June this year legislation was passed to establish the Children’s Commission. [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…]
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…]
For persons with dependants, the threshold will range from $4,001 where the only dependant is a spouse, to $5,943 where there is a dependent spouse and 3 children, including two at school. [More…]
I refer to powers over restrictive trade practices, which the Opposition opposed; monopolies, which the Opposition opposed; the national Companies Act, which no doubt the Opposition will oppose; safety, efficiency and regularity in civil aviation; television and broadcasting; and the legitimation of children by subsequent marriage, which powers were valid. [More…]
The scheme, which provides the services of an experienced solicitor at all children ‘s courts, is probably the most extensive in Australia. [More…]
All sorts of voluntary organisations were making initiatives to help autistic children or spastic children or whatever. [More…]
The married taxpayer, with children, earning an average income will also pay substantially more 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…]
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…]
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 limit of income which just precludes payment of a pension to a single person without children and with no property affecting his pension, will be increased by twice the amount of the pension increase to $97.50 a week. [More…]
For a married couple without children, the equivalent limits of income and property will be $163.50 a week and $85,840 respectively. [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…]
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…]
The research projects were to examine the extent of the need for after school and holiday recreation and care for underprivileged children, the problems of integrating Aboriginal children into the total community, possibilities of interaction between active and handicapped children and the extent to which existing programs in these areas are effective. [More…]
When we introduced the Schools Commission Bill to give some justice to the underprivileged children of Australia, who opposed that legislation most? [More…]
We found that because of socioeconomic circumstances children who were bright and had a lot of ability did not finish their secondary schooling. [More…]
It drew attention to the fact that in the last few years increasing evidence has become available on the educational plight of immigrant children and that increasing pressure has been applied to have the situation remedied. [More…]
I rise to defend the pay of those 1700 men and to defend their wives and their children. [More…]
It is indifferent to the needs of business people, large and small, the working people, the pensioners, all the people in this country, the servicemen and the children attending schools. [More…]
There is an increase in the additional payment for children of pensioners, supporting mothers and unemployment and sickness benefit recipients from $7 a week to $7.50 a week, an increase of 50c. [More…]
The Social Services Bill also extends a double orphan’s pension to children with one parent dead and the other in a prison or mental home. [More…]
It is a fact that these people with children literally have not got the money to buy meals and clothing for their children; yet they cannot obtain benefits, whereas the person who works for them on their property as a labourer can, if things go bad, simply go to the social security office and qualify for some benefit. [More…]
Payments for children dependent on pensioners, unemployed and the sick have been increased significantly. [More…]
Parents of handicapped children now receive a $10 a week allowance. [More…]
The Labor Government faces a lot of argument about the abolition of the means test and the limit of income which precludes payment of a pension to single persons without children or property which affects his pension. [More…]
For a married couple without children the equivalent limits of income and property will be $163.50 a week and $85,840 in property respectively. [More…]
Nearly 12 000 Aboriginal children have been assisted under the Secondary Grants Scheme and 1400 Aboriginal people who had previously foregone further educational opportunities have been assisted under the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme. [More…]
Travel by wives and children of members and senators will be suspended. [More…]
But having regard to the question asked by the honourable gentleman, I would say that by about the middle of next month all pay of teachers in the Northern Territory, all expenses to move teachers in the Northern Territory from their schools to their homes, the allowances of 1 3 000 Aboriginal children, the expenses to move Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory to their homes or to feed them if they are not sent to their homes, a double allowance in the middle of November for 73 000 tertiary students. [More…]
2000 post-graduate students and quite a number of isolated children will not be paid. [More…]
A married taxpayer with a spouse and 2 dependent children- in the same low income group- will pay total tax. [More…]
For children other than the first child the previous deduction was $208. [More…]
The rebate is better for all taxpayers who have student children dependent upon them than was the allowable deduction of $260 under the old system. [More…]
In 1949 when Labor went out of office a person on average weekly earnings, with a spouse and 2 children to keep, paid 2.9 per cent of his income in income tax. [More…]
Members of the Opposition do not have any real interest in the Government’s economic programs at the moment which are designed to provide better educational opportunities for the ordinary children in Australia, better welfare, better urban development and a better environment. [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…]
If so, did the Minister for Social Security seek his advice before approving these projects to ensure they conformed with activities that the Department of Manufacturing Industry is pursuing in this area through the Children ‘s Commission; if so, when, and what was his response; if not, why not. [More…]
No, but I am informed that there was consultation with the Office of the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission before the grants were approved. [More…]
Will he make representations to both the New South Wales and South Australian Governments in an endeavour to obtain justice for the individuals who are awaiting their compensation payments, in particular, Mrs Ormsby, a widow with six children, whose husband died in an accident in 1971, and who has been waiting since that date for the sum of $ 10,000 owing to her by this company. [More…]
One waits for 2 to 2Vi years if one has 5 children or more, and one waits for 4 years if one has fewer than 5 children. [More…]
Of course families do better in houses where there is a garden for the children to play in and marriages fare better when the family is adequately housed. [More…]
In Victoria the needs test eligibility limit at present stands at $130 a week for a family with up to 2 children, while in New South Wales the figure is $133.71 a week. [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…]
Toward this end this Government has provided more than $54,000 to restore the school to a proper standard to enable it to give to the children of Captains Flat education at the level that we must expect in this day and age. [More…]
Why should some entrepreneur who makes a judgment about the profitability of his own company thus enhance the educational facilities for the children of this country? [More…]
They were self-determining; they reared their children to become selfsustaining and independent persons within family and tribal groups; they had well-defined and esteemed roles in their family and tribe; they had an appropriate identity, selfrespect and dignity; and they were motivated to participate as full members of their society. [More…]
The matters which gave the Committee cause for grave concern were the extent of malnutrition in children and of alcoholism in adults, and the lamentably ineffective programs for treatment. [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…]
The slogans for ‘self-determination’ and against ‘paternalism ‘ can be and, in the Committee ‘s opinion, are unwittingly used to the disadvantage of children. [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…]
It has been suggested in certain sections that the great deficiency in the Committee’s report and in this motion, which virtually seeks to implement the Committee’s recommendation, is that the shareholdings or pecuniary interests of members’ families- of spouses and children of members- do not have to be disclosed. [More…]
The Committee felt, and the Government in putting this motion feels, that it is not desirable at this stage to require the declaration of interests of spouses or dependent children of members of the Parliament. [More…]
In any event it is doubtful, to say the least, whether this Parliament has the jurisdiction or the authority to require that spouses and dependent children of members should have their interests disclosed. [More…]
I presume that the Opposition has added to my four, the fifth- the Children’s Commission, which comes under the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
Sometimes I cringe when I see school children in the gallery during some of the behaviour that occurs in this House. [More…]
The relevant Commissions will be asked to give close attention to measures designed to achieve greater equality in teaching and facilities, and in particular to giving effective educational opportunities to the disadvantagedhandicapped, Aboriginal, isolated and migrant children. [More…]
I ask honourable members to refer this promise to the children at the poorer schools and universities, and to the pensioners. [More…]
The Government did not tell us at the same time that Mr Fraser would make sure that the wealthy schools- those attended by his children and those of his Cabinet colleagues- would be better off than ever before. [More…]
I know that a woman and 2 children had to spend the night between the ceiling and the roof of a house. [More…]
-Yes, I will send mothers back to baking cakes because I believe that the mothers and the children themselves appreciate it a great deal more when they know that there is their own blood, sweat and toil involved in providing the sort of facilities that they want. [More…]
Surely it is desirable for a working man and his family to be able to move outwards to the closest suburbs without having to go miles and miles outside the metropolitan area from whence they would have to commute at expense and difficulty, and when the schools, hospitals and pre-existing amenities in an area such as St George would not be used because there would be fewer children and fewer people in the area. [More…]
We certainly hope that every member of this House would never wish to be ranked amongst what regrettably is a large host of politicians through history who have by bungling or failure to face up to these matters been guilty of a form of very serious lack of responsibility to their nations and to the children of their constituents. [More…]
1 issue in St George is Australia, its people, its children and its future. [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…]
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 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…]
Is this the Government of big business where women and children are expendable? [More…]
We are losing our children, we are losing our friends. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have behaved like petulant school children. [More…]
Those with a dependent spouse and two or more dependent children will be getting more under the new NEAT allowance scheme than they did under the old scheme. [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…]
They will return because it will become obvious that their children’s education and recreation depend on federal funding, because quality of life and expensive social capital expansion can be paid for only by Federal governments. [More…]
If anyone is doubtful about this they need only talk to the children’s teachers. [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…]
Inherent in both of those beliefs is a continued commitment to the objectives of the Children’s Commission. [More…]
We must recognise the urgent need to care for children before school age and to create opportunities for activity outside the home for those who need it after school hours. [More…]
We were told nothing of the cutbacks in the Children’s Commission, or the increase in pharmaceutical payments or the abolition of bridging finance and interest subsidies from the Housing Corporation. [More…]
It is the sick and the pensioners and the working mothers who must pay for dearer prescriptions and economies in the Children’s Commission. [More…]
So too are the cuts to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in respect of food including eggs for the Aboriginal children. [More…]
He has flamed a trail of horror through his economic policies, from royal commissions to deprived children. [More…]
The axe has already been felt, and those who have suffered are those least able to defend themselves- the pre-school children, the pensioners, the migrants, the poor and the disadvantaged. [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…]
They approached me and the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) who was the Minister in Charge of the Children ‘s Commission. [More…]
I wonder where that will go with the proposed $9m cut in the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Despite the fact that the Turkish group’s submission to the Interim Children’s Commission was given the highest priority, I wonder what is its future. [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…]
We poured funds into the education systems, both State and private, where investigation snowed that standards were inadequate and the children attending schools were being penalised. [More…]
Just bricks and mortar, important as they are where there are no classrooms, are no consolation to many poor children whose parents do not understand or appreciate the value of education, and who therefore offer no encouragement and even place obstacles in the way of their own children deriving the greatest benefits from their schooling. [More…]
With flexible approach offered to teachers in the innovations program there was some hope that positive discrimination could be provided, particularly in disadvantaged schools in areas of high migrant concentrations where the children have not mastered the language adequately, where they have very few facilities at home and very little encouragement, because of the difficult situation with their parents, to make the best of their education opportunities. [More…]
Who were the people getting supportjust pensioners, just children, just the ill? [More…]
But of course government spending goes into schools built by private enterprise, it goes into hospitals built by private enterprise to treat the private citizen and it goes into schools to educate the children of the private citizen. [More…]
They went to Beirut and there applied to join their relatives in Australia In that country at the present time there are numerous parents of children of people in this country. [More…]
They have close relatives here, parents, dependant children and others. [More…]
I refer to people with two or three children who suffer from, say, asthma. [More…]
For example, take the case of a family which has 2 children suffering from a chronic illness. [More…]
There could be a section, as there is now, for pensioners, who would not be charged; another section for children and people who are plagued by a chronic illness; then perhaps a further section for the ordinary people. [More…]
Sitting suspended from 1 to 2.15 p.m. CHILDREN‘S COMMISSION [More…]
There were a million children at disadvantaged school and some hundreds of schools were classified as disadvantaged both in the government and in the Catholic sector of education. [More…]
I hope, and I know that other honourable members from Tasmania hope that Tasmania once again will be able to provide sound, secure jobs for the young people, my children and their children. [More…]
Many of our children are still being taught by the excellent Queensland Correspondence School and by the School of the Air. [More…]
One of the first actions of the Labor Government on coming to office- and this possibly helped more Country Party candidates than other candidates in the election was the introduction of the isolated children’s scholarship. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) would agree, because I know he was vitally interested in this area, that until 1972 the Liberal-Country Party Government had done nothing whatsoever to give assistance to people living in isolated areas throughout Australia to ensure that their children had a decent opportunity to get a reasonable education. [More…]
One of the first acts of the then Labor Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley, was to introduce the isolated children’s scholarship. [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…]
I am thinking of the Commonwealth library in Doveton, the children’s centre in Dandenong and the scouts centre in Doveton. [More…]
That deficiency can cause very real feelings of isolation and despair, particularly amongst our womenfolk and our children. [More…]
At the same time the equivalent level of assistance is not available to needy non-Aboriginal children. [More…]
Enrolment in these schools consists almost 100 per cent of Aboriginal children and the level of teaching is specially geared to the level of learning ability of those Aboriginal children. [More…]
Because of that level of teaching, most of the non-Aboriginal children are sent off to Perth or Port Hedland or elsewhere to achieve a more satisfactory level of education. [More…]
He claims that excessive alcoholism is the major cause of the occupancy of one in 5 hospital beds, one in 5 battered children, one in 5 drownings and submersion cases, two in5 divorces and judicial separations, about half the serious crimes in the community, half the deaths from road crashes, half the deaths from pancreatic diseases and two of 3 deaths from cirrhosis of the liver, reduced resistance to a wide range of illness as yet largely unmeasured - [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…]
There have been many queries over the effect on children’s services of the Federal Government’s announced cut of $9m to the original Budget allocation of $74m for the Children’s Commission. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
In every electorate there are people interested in the care of children, whether they be in Mittagong, Macksville, Bathurst or Bendigo. [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…]
There was no way in the world, with the economic situation as it was- with a $4, 700m deficit -in which this Government or any other government could have met the ambitious forecasts that were made at the time the Children’s Commission Bill was debated. [More…]
The Fraser Government is concerned about the welfare of children. [More…]
The Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission, which was operating when this Government took office, is continuing in the meantime to administer the childhood services program. [More…]
The poor little children! [More…]
We agree with this policy of linking up existing services for children and bringing them together by making maximum use of Australia ‘s pre-school buildings. [More…]
Speaking of health, I am pleased to say that there is close cooperation with the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission in relation to areas within my own portfolio responsibility, particularly the community health program. [More…]
A significant number of health services for children are being supported under that program at State request. [More…]
I want to make it perfectly clear to honourable members in this House that the Government is committed to the welfare of children and is concerned with their problems. [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…]
On the other hand, he is happy to dash the hopes of thousands of parents and children throughout Australia. [More…]
Almost every cutback in expenditure he has introduced has been aimed at the weakest and least protected groups in our communitythe pensioners, the Aborigines, the migrants, the people who are trying to re-establish themselves by means of retraining schemes, the unemployed, and now the children. [More…]
These programs represent the living, breathing hopes and the involvement of thousands of parents and children. [More…]
Senator Grimes asked the Minister for Social Security whether she would give a detailed statement on cuts to the proposed Children’s Commission expenditure. [More…]
There should be no Taj Mahals set up as kindergartens to accommodate very few children for a brief period of time. [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…]
The Fraser Government, on coming to office, tackled the fundamental problems facing the Australian community, namely, to bring order where chaos now exists in the economy, to provide an economic climate where people can find employment, and to provide an economic climate where the stresses on the families of the nation are reduced so that mothers who wish to care for their children at home are able to do so. [More…]
Today many mothers in the Australian community find that because of the pressures of taxation and the impact of the constant escalation in the cost of living they need to seek employment and therefore need access to substitute mother care for their children. [More…]
If the economy were in better shape, if the tax burden on the incomes of their husbands were relatively reduced, they would be able to provide childhood services for their own children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Those with a dependent spouse and two or more dependent children will get more than they got under the previous scheme. [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…]
We have seen a period of 3 years of government in which people were not sure that they, their children or their grandchildren could look forward with confidence to freedom. [More…]
I know of my own assurance that I can now be sure that my children and their children can look forward to the same sort of heritage, the same prosperity and the same opportunities that I have been able to enjoy. [More…]
They are prepared to make sacrifices themselves for their children’s sake. [More…]
Because of this historic first national commitment to education at all levels, new hopes have been created for hundreds of thousands of children and adults. [More…]
In more recent years, many migrant adults and children have come to share their disadvantaged conditions. [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…]
I also express my appreciation to my brothers and sisters for their help, and to my wife Pat and the children for the many times I should have been at home with the family. [More…]
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the inquiry was that it revealed that there were 250 000 dependent children in very poor families in this country. [More…]
When Labor went out of office in 1949 a man on average weekly earnings with a wife and 2 children paid 3 per cent of his income in income tax. [More…]
I hope that we can give some relief to these families which now suffer and also bring about the end of that social disease known as latch-key children. [More…]
Does this reduction affect thousands of children suffering from asthmatic and other respiratory complaints? [More…]
to inquire into the incidence of all forms of specific learning difficulties among Australian children and adults; [More…]
to recommend action that can be taken by the Federal Government or by the Federal Government in co-operation with State and local governments as well as voluntary organisations to alleviate the difficulties and, in particular, to examine the need for widespread screenings of young children to detect the existence of specific learning symptoms so that adequate remedial programs can be recommended from an early age. [More…]
Mr and Mrs Piotrowski did not have any children. [More…]
The social problems, the effect on families, the effect on children and the effect on country communities are becoming quite serious. [More…]
In our examination of the situation at large these people produced their material, they showed what the whole subject meant and what they were doing in educating or endeavouring to educate children and adults. [More…]
What became apparent to us quickly was that learning difficulties do not affect just children or young children; they can affect people all through life. [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 concerns particularly children who have a protein need for a dairy milk substitute by virtue of their asthmatic and respiratory problems. [More…]
That children allergic to cows milk and other dairy products who often include asthmatics and sufferers of respiratory complaints depend on Soya Bean milk such as Isomil or Prosobee as a main source of protein; [More…]
I believe he should apply himself to this matter assiduously because the health of a large number of extremely unfortunate children is at stake. [More…]
Up to December 1975 some 32 290 prescriptions were issued for children in New South Wales affected by this matter. [More…]
So one can see it is not an isolated matter to which I am referring; it is a hard core of cases comprising a considerable number of children who have these asthmatic and respiratory problems. [More…]
Children who are allergic to cows milk, in a great number of cases are also allergic to butter, cheese, eggs, beef processed meats, etc., and as a result- except for lamb and fish- their main source of protein is Soya Bean milk such as Isomil or Prosobee. [More…]
These children, if they do eat any of the allergic foods, are faced with dermatitis, bronchitis, asthma or chronic infection. [More…]
Therefore by disallowing the subsidy to these children parents will be forced to: [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…]
She has 2 children. [More…]
One is a lady who has 3 children. [More…]
In this case her 3 children, all take Isomil, the Soya Bean milk substitute, instead of cows milk to which they are highly allergic. [More…]
The Minister’s action has reduced the eligible age from 6 years to 18 months, so this lady’s 3 children are affected. [More…]
All of the children suffer from bronchitis and are markedly better when taking Isomil rather than cows milk. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes and other honourable members of this House have brought to my attention some concern among those parents who have been using the substitute milk product for children who have been suffering from various forms of allergies. [More…]
The reduction in the eligibility age of the children from 6 years to 18 months has been made in accordance with the recommendation to which I have just referred. [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…]
In one case raised with me, which would not be an isolated case by any means, a widow with a couple of dependent children receives $96.80 in allowance and earns $30 per week for part-time work. [More…]
However, to earn that much additional income she almost certainly would require full time work or at least far more work time than would be possible if she were doing a full time retraining course and trying to raise 2 children single-handed. [More…]
Another example that would not be uncommon is that of an unemployed man with a wife and 2 children. [More…]
He referred to the case of a widow with 2 dependant children. [More…]
Those with a dependent spouse and two or more dependent children will get more than they did under the old scheme. [More…]
Thirdly, the allowances paid under the scheme will reflect the individual needs and circumstances of the trainee so that the really disadvantaged, such as those with a dependent spouse and two or more dependent children, will get more under the new arrangements. [More…]
The migrant teachers- will be in a unique position to understand and assist with the social and learning problems facing migrant children. [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…]
Children’s and orphans’ pensions will also be related to the level of the member’s pension. [More…]
It extends to spouses’ and children’s pensions that are payable or may become payable in the future under that Act, the higher reversionary benefit percentages provided in the new scheme and applies also the wider eligibility provisions of that scheme. [More…]
The fact that this saving will be made at the expense of pensioners, children and the sick is blithely ignored. [More…]
Young children will suffer from cut-backs in the Children’s Commission programs, and so will the parents who needed those childhood services desperatelyparents who can least afford to do without such services. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Whether the organisation is Meals on Wheels, the surf life saving movement, handicapped children’s centres or whatever, the Government must not only accept its proper financial responsibility to those in need and unable to cope or care for themselves, but also it must encourage the voluntary organisations in our communities. [More…]
It must be embarrassing to many members of the Government and its supporters to be associated with a political machine that seeks to take $40 from pensioners in the most worrying time of their lives, when they have to suffer the departure of their near and dear, such as wives who have reared their children. [More…]
Wages and salaries were recently increased by 6.4 per cent, but the effect on a man with a wife and 2 children earning $160 week has been to increase his tax burden not by 6.4 per cent but by 1 8 per cent. [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…]
There are many other variations, such as the definition of family incomethe division of family income by a factor which takes account of the number of dependent children. [More…]
He said that where parents could keep their young children the government would not pay them unemployment benefits. [More…]
Clearly he is concerned that the staff cuts could affect the operation of the hostel for intellectually handicapped children at Bruce. [More…]
This, of course, leads to a lack of pride on the part of the individual and a lack of pride in his family which, quite often, is reflected in the children of that family. [More…]
Those places are unsuitable for the people because the family must have children before it can be provided with accommodation by the Victorian Housing Commission. [More…]
So the family has children- two or three children, sometimes more- and it is moved into these monstrosities which are unsuitable for that sort of habitation. [More…]
Each home has at least Vh children. [More…]
On anybody’s arithmetic, there would be about 500 school-age children as soon as the houses were constructed. [More…]
But we will correct the situation, because we believe that one of the main social considerations of our time is proper homes for all Australians and their children. [More…]
A family consisting of a husband and wife and 9 children, the husband being employed in a State government operation, namely, the Tasmanian railways, and having been transferred from Launceston to Hobart, found themselves having to wait week after week after week for a house. [More…]
This is a case involving a husband and wife and 9 children. [More…]
I came across a deserted wife living with her 3 children in a garage in one of the inner suburbs of Hobart. [More…]
I came across another case of a supporting mother and 3 children living in a tent attached to a caravan. [More…]
I encountered another case of a supporting deserted wife with 3 small children occupying a flat on the third floor of a Department of Housing building. [More…]
It is going to be difficult for you to get your own little piece of Australia upon which you can build your own little home which you can develop, which you an improve and which you can pass on to your children.’ [More…]
There are more young children in that area than in any other area of similar size in Australia. [More…]
Honourable members should bear in mind that it was once said that west of a line drawn north and south through Parramatta are born approximately half the children in New South Wales. [More…]
In terms of the family responsibilities, not only the men in those family groupings but their wives and children are likely to suffer. [More…]
We do need, however, information which covers the main areas of expenditure and enables a proper assessment of progress made towards meeting the learning needs of children. [More…]
The limit of income which just precludes payment of a pension to a single person without children, and with no property affecting his pension, will be increased by twice the amount of the pension increase to $ 102.50 a week. [More…]
For a married couple without children the equivalent limits of income and property will be $171.50 a week and $90,000 respectively. [More…]
In one case it referred to a dairy production area where one farmer with 5 dependent children claimed that his family had only fried onions to eat. [More…]
We see them kill 50 000 to 60 000 defenceless women and children just because they did not agree with their philosophy and they claimed that it was a threat to their security. [More…]
We have sought to do everything in our power to give priority to spouses, dependent parents and of course children of Australian residents of Lebanese extraction. [More…]
In view of the closure of the embassy at Beirut, what steps are being taken to protect young Australian children who are temporarily residing in Lebanon with grandparents or other relatives? [More…]
For demographic purposes, fertility is a measure of the actual numbers of children born, not the ability to bear children. [More…]
There are people who suggest that Australians should be encouraged to have more children as a substitute for immigration. [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…]
If we include the children born to migrants after arrival, some 3.7 million of the total 6.2 million increase in Australia’s population since World War II is due directly to migrants. [More…]
Time after time the parents of young people complained to me about their sons or daughters, who were 1 6 or 17-year old children, entering the work force as apprentices, being useful Australians for the future of Australia, receiving actually less income than their friends who had gone straight on to the adult rate of the unemployment benefit and who were making a mockery of those people who were actually working and trying to do something for their own future and for the future of Australia. [More…]
Consider the case of a breadwinner who for health reasons, related either to himself or his children, is forced to move from one area to another. [More…]
Including spouses and dependent children of the unemployed, about 400 000 people rely on unemployment benefits as their only income. [More…]
The Committee reported however that ‘There is a growing conviction that the imposition of larger taxes might be used successfully to retard the growth of smoking among adults, to reduce adoption of the habit by children, and to move the consumer away from the more hazardous forms and brands of the smoking product’. [More…]
Parents of children suffering from leukaemia, for instance, must travel great distances at their own cost to metropolitan cities and then must pay board for months and months while their children get treatment. [More…]
One thing which this Government has established repeatedly is that it is a government intent on attacking the little people, the groups in our community least able to defend themselves- the pensioners, the migrants, the children in need of day care, those who need retraining opportunities and the like. [More…]
For example, I am sure I do not have to remind honourable members that in many schools children completing their final year of study were being given an application form for the unemployment benefit. [More…]
For example, one had to be resident in Australia for at least 3 years; to be married, or to be widowed or divorced with dependent children; to be under the age of 36; and so on. [More…]
This Bill penalises the dependants, the innocent children of pensioners, by ignoring them and depriving them of a justifiable increase in the dependants allowance which would cost somewhat less than $lm for the rest of this fiscal year. [More…]
The dependent children of pensioners are going to suffer too. [More…]
In the case of a family with 2 children where both husband and wife are pensioners, instead of what is a reasonable expectation in the circumstances at the present time that they will get an addition of $1 a week to their pension income as the adjustment in the dependants’ allowance because of the 6.4 per cent increase in the consumer price index, which seems to have flowed to every other sector in the economy, they are going to get nothing- not even cold comfort. [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…]
When we came to office a class A widow with 2 dependent children, one under 6 years of age, was receiving a pension a little over 80 per cent of the poverty line. [More…]
When we came to office the rate of unemployment benefit payable to a man, a wife and 2 children was 67 per cent of the poverty line. [More…]
We increased children’s allowances 4 times in 3 years. [More…]
We introduced the handicapped children’s allowance and as a result some 13 000 children are now benefiting. [More…]
That provision benefits about 36 000 mothers and about 59 600 children. [More…]
There would be few honest men in this Parliament who could not enumerate great numbers of incidents where women in this category had come into their offices and detailed not only the harrowing circumstances under which they tried to make ends meet and raise their children but also the problems of maintaining equipoise with their personality, maintaining their self-respect, maintaining their sanity in the light of the discrimination that existed in the past. [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…]
That refers to people with children and people in other circumstances. [More…]
We hear of a husband having just left a wife with 3 of 4 children. [More…]
Last year the widow or the deserted wife, for example, with 2 children, had an offer from the Federal Government, and that offer was this: We suggest that you do not accept social services or a pension for the rest of your life or for the next 10 years or 20 years; we will assist you under the NEAT scheme by giving you some assistance, which will be enough but not too much, to pay your rent, baby sitting fees or day care centre fees to enable you to undertake a 3-year course to become a kindergarten teacher or social worker or whatever. [More…]
It would have meant interrupting her whole pattern of life- of going back to study, of being away from her children for many hours of the day. [More…]
A deserted woman with 2 children, as in the example I gave, would have been receiving roughly $ 1 16 a week, which was barely enough. [More…]
It was a sound proposition from the Government ‘s point of view because at the end of next year a women would be qualified- I am talking now only about those who passed- would have gone back into the work force, would have resumed a normal, vigorous life, contributing something to society, and would have been a better mother to her children. [More…]
Such a woman is now allowed to have assets amounting to $419 if she has no dependent children. [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…]
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…]
The genesis of this additional pension benefit for children is quite interesting. [More…]
At 30 June 1975 more than 130 000 pensioners and more than a quarter of a million children would have been the object of this benefit. [More…]
There had been a denial of dependants’ benefits for student children over 16 years of pensioners all the time the Liberal-Country Party coalition was in office. [More…]
The supporting fathers benefit was introduced for those fathers who have to pay people to look after their children. [More…]
He has three or four school-age children but he is not eligible for any sort of special benefit or unemployment benefit. [More…]
Unlike the ordinary supporting father who perhaps may be able to help the children get ready for school early in the morning, he is out milking the cows. [More…]
The pension is also paid to widows with dependent children whose circumstances are very different. [More…]
For that pension on a long term basis to be merely related to the consumer price index will not ensure that those pensioner families, whether they be the aged or the widows with dependent children, share adequately and equitably in the growing wealth of this country. [More…]
Very often this pension is used to support a widow with dependent children or an aged person whose income has to support him or her in a single household. [More…]
A young widow in my electorate with 2 dependent children and with a part-time job is faced with the consequence that if she takes the money to which she would be entitled as a consequence of the rise in wage rates she will lose the fringe benefits which in her case are probably worth between $8 and $10 a week. [More…]
Until 31 January 1976 there had been 588 000 visitors, of which 316 000 were adults and 245 000 were children, and there were 27 000 pensioners. [More…]
But how can our sensible ideals be upheld, especially in this time of change when the heart of the home, the woman, the mother, is being inveigled out into the workforce and children are more and more being farmed out to professional quasiparents? [More…]
This may have surprised some but not anyone with any perception of how closely linked are women’s biological capacity to bear children and the deep instinctive desire of the majority of women to fulfil themselves through that capacity. [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…]
The work force at any time has to support children not yet active and people who are retired on the social contract assumption that when they retire they will be treated in an adequate way. [More…]
Its proposals accepted the provisions relating to uniform contributions, comparable benefits for members of the Provident Fund, improved benefits for temporary public servants, widowers, children and orphans, and greatly simplified and therefore less costly administration. [More…]
Equally, we were concerned for members of the Provident Fund, temporary public servants, widowers, children and orphans. [More…]
I suppose in a way it is Australia’s most generalised social security system, including as it does, benefits across the board from students’ allowances to support for soldiers’ children through housing and all the rest of it. [More…]
Next let me say that I am disappointed that so far the Government has not plugged what I think is the main weakness in the whole social service scheme, that is, the failure to do anything for the widower with dependent children. [More…]
It is true that the children’s allowances have not been included in the benefits but as the honourable member for Oxley well knows, because we could rightly say that he is responsible for most of the problems we now face, priorities have to be set somewhere. [More…]
I presume that when the member for Oxley was the Minister in charge of social security he faced the same problems in 1973 and 1974 when he did not include increases in children’s allowances in his autumn increases. [More…]
The Government will consider children’s allowances along with other benefits when it considers its next 6-monthly adjustments. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) tried to argue that the children’s pensioner benefit is an integral part of pensions and that it is an important principle that it should always be increased with other pensions. [More…]
This means that those eligible will be the spouses, dependant children and aged and dependant parents of Australian residents. [More…]
In respect of the persons in the present eligible categories I have mentioned- that is spouses, dependant children and aged and dependant parents- it may be necessary to dispense with checks, including health checks, if conditions do not permit them to be undertaken. [More…]
This means that those eligible will be spouses, dependent children and aged and dependent parents of Australian residents. [More…]
An application was made on behalf of a lady, whose breadwinner was shot in Beirut, and 4 children. [More…]
There are approximately eighty to one hundred children of school age at the hostel. [More…]
Prior to the refugees being accommodated at the hostel the Regional Director of Migration in Victoria made arrangements with the Victorian Department of Education in relation to the school-age children. [More…]
I believe that special provision has been made by the Victorian Department by providing 2 additional teachers to counsel parents and children before they go to school. [More…]
I am informed that the children have not yet gone to the Mitcham High School. [More…]
I believe that counselling will be taking place this week and that the Department has made available some portable classrooms to accommodate the extra children at the school. [More…]
It is not known how long all these children will be in the area; it is likely that families will be moving away from the hostel to other parts of Australia. [More…]
He too found that he had to defer- I presume, because of the economic problems he faced- the autumn increases for dependent children in March 1973 and March 1974. [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…]
I ask him to remember that old biblical verse: ‘Suffer the little children to come unto Me’. [More…]
Also one had to be married or widowed or divorced with dependent children. [More…]
Simply because one has been paying off a home for a period longer than 5 years does not necessarily mean that one does not need the benefits of tax deductibility because in many cases this is the time when young children are coming along and the like. [More…]
I ask whether this legislation will achieve the type of accelerated progress that the Labor Government envisaged would occur when the national government decided to play its pan in assisting in the education of all children in Australia. [More…]
Luckily for the people of Australia and most fortunately for the children of Australia the Country Party saw the wisdom of the Labor Party’s case and joined forces with us to vote against the Liberal Party. [More…]
We saw that we do not necessarily have to adopt, for example, the United States system of spending ten times more on the education of the 10 per cent of its children on the top of the socio-economic scale than on the 10 per cent on the bottom of the scale. [More…]
The tables on pages 1 7 and 1 8 clearly show that the children of the lower paid worker or the lower income family are not completing a secondary education and are certainly not even achieving entrance qualifications to the tertiary field. [More…]
A school for deaf, blind and backward children, housed in old, gloomy, unattractive and unsuitable buildings, poorly equipped to cope with its special learning problems and having inadequate provision for parent counselling. [More…]
A special school for 60 mildly mentally retarded children, many of them having multiple handicaps, housed in a 100- year-old building, renovated in 1912 and minimally maintained in the unfulfilled expectation that pupil numbers in the area would fall. [More…]
The toilet facilities were as old as the building … A speech thereapist visited the school for half a day weekly; there was no visiting teacher to assist deaf children; visits by psychologists were rare and there was no physical education teacher for the remedial physical assistance which many pupils required. [More…]
I have here a statistical table prepared by the Parliamentary Library setting out on bases of gross incomes of $8,000, $10,000, $12,000 and $14,000 what would be the difference, when there are 2 children, 4 children or 6 children under 16 years of age, between the old concessional Liberal Party philosophy method of tax concession and the current method of tax rebate. [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…]
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…]
Unless our conception of education broadens to enable schools to forge closer links with other socialising agencies, the possibility of providing equal life chances for children from all types of social backgrounds is severely limited. [More…]
The matters which I want to raise tonight deal with the Children’s Commission, particularly as it affects organisations in my electorate. [More…]
The Centre deals principally with children. [More…]
From the Children’s Commission it received $47,700, which allowed for renovations to the building, equipment for the toy library, materials, salaries and administration costs. [More…]
In total it received from the Children’s Commission $64,450. [More…]
Her job is to find women willing to look after the children of working mothers. [More…]
They have small children and have a requirement to have the children cared for during the day. [More…]
This person finds in the community women who are not working and who will care for the children of the mothers who work. [More…]
So the children of the working mothers are cared for in another mother’s home, along with the other mother’s children. [More…]
The Centre requires from the Children’s Commission after 30 June this year $46,000. [More…]
Its out of school program, which cares for children who are generally called latch key children because their parents work, cares for such children after school. [More…]
Even the adventure playground that the children use after school was designed and constructed by the children. [More…]
This organisation set up a subidiary to care for children in the area. [More…]
On this basis it sent a budget to the Children’s Commission. [More…]
I find it rather anomalous that the Australian Government is funding 100 per cent the Organisation’s program, through the Children’s Commission. [More…]
Wider participation in decision-making is also encouraged in recommendations about the participation of major ethnic groups in planning educational services for their children, in those recommendations related to Aboriginal education and in those concerned with operations of the Special Projects, Services and Development and Disadvantaged Schools Programs. [More…]
I now say without any fear of contradiction that if the Australian Labor Party had not been successful in getting the legislation through the Parliament in 1973, despite the opposition at the time from the Liberal Party of Australia, we would not have been able to make any progress in assisting the States throughout Australia to develop effective programs for the assistance of children in schools. [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…]
The schedules refer to subjects such as capital, recurrent programs, migrant education, disadvantaged schools, handicapped children, special schools, teacher education training in courses related thereto and the development of service activities. [More…]
The Opposition puts this to the Government: If it vacates the field, as we think it might as a Liberal philosophy, and it then gets the support of the Treasury because it will be cheaper to do it anyway and because the Government is more prone to vacate the field, it will be to the great permanent disadvantage of the children now at Australian schools, and they are still in great need. [More…]
The children are in conditions which certainly affect their chances of getting equality’. [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…]
Last night I incorporated in Hansard with the permission of the House a table which clearly showed to anyone who looked at the new system introduced in the last Labor Budget, namely the tax rebate scheme, as against the old concessional scheme, that the new scheme was an effective rebate system which gave more to the parents who had the most children. [More…]
I was able to show last evening that under the new scheme as against the old scheme for people on a taxable income of $8,000, with 2 dependent children under 16, there was a saving of $359. [More…]
On an increasing graduated scale we could say that on a taxable income of, say, $14,000 and where there were 2 dependent children the saving amounted to $827. [More…]
So we want to discount and reject the criticism that was made of us, particularly in the last elections, that we had introduced a scheme which was penalising people in the lower income tax brackets and the suggestion that it was valid criticism to say that the greater the number of children the heavier the penalty. [More…]
I repeat, there is some validity in the Schools Commission recommendation that in an area where government or non-government schools can borrow money for capital projects they should be encouraged to do so because unless the money is spent now, the children in those schools will continue to suffer disadvantages. [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…]
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…]
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…]
However, it gave a good run to the children of the country. [More…]
So that we could make education accessible to children in remote areas we introduced the isolated children’s grants. [More…]
So that we could make education accessible to the children of widows and others who are in 5th and 6th forms we introduced a special grant for children at those levels. [More…]
The assistance should have been extended to 4th form students because this is the stage at which most children are compelled to leave school. [More…]
In an attempt to try to make education accessible we extended the grants to all Aboriginal children in the secondary education areas. [More…]
When children from Cambodia and South Vietnam were cut off from the sources of funds they were given isolated children’s grants, tertiary scholarships, post-graduate scholarships or various other forms of grant to meet their needs. [More…]
This has made a very great difference to the qualifications of teachers who handle the problems of handicapped children and to the knowledge of where we are going. [More…]
We had a ridiculous and anomalous situation in which 1 -teacher schools with 15 children could easily buy a 10-listening post audio-instruction unit, colour television monitors or closed circuit television when there was no money to install an extra toilet or to repair a leaking roof in a shelter shed. [More…]
I welcome the assistance which was given at that time- that assistance is being carried on by this Bill- particularly in such areas as the assistance for isolated children scheme, per capita grants and capital grants for teaching, library and laboratory facilities. [More…]
Many children in country areas have no option but to leave home to go to primary or secondary school. [More…]
The result is that children leave school early and strike problems of unemployment or their parents are forced to move. [More…]
My mother-in-law had to leave her home for many years to live in a town so that the children could go to school daily. [More…]
There are many situations like this, where parents even are living in caravans in order to allow their children to go to school. [More…]
We heard from a former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), one who has had a long-standing, and in many respects a passionate interest in the educational welfare of Australian children. [More…]
Nevertheless, whilst it can be fairly and properly said that we have a commitment to maintain a level of spending on education such as that which is to be implemented through this Bill, education must, as must all other areas of national government, participate in the exercise in national economic responsibility upon which this Government is embarked at present, because, unless we follow that through, education, no less than any other area of government spending, will suffer, because real value will not get out to the people who really count in education, and they are the children of Australia upon whom the nation will rely in the years to come. [More…]
The honourable member for Calare (Mr MacKenzie) pointed up what needs to be pointed up whenever the subject of education is debated in this House, that is, the special problems which face country areas and the difficulties which parents face in seeking the highest level of education for their children on the basis of equality with what is available and much more readily accessible to children in the metropolitan areas. [More…]
They happen to be associated with education, with State areas and with the needs of children. [More…]
Let me make it clear: The Opposition is interested only in the needs of children. [More…]
The Service also requires in the Northern Territory teachers of very high quality, with similar dedication to deal with disadvantaged peopleespecially the Aboriginal sector of the community- and with perception and compassion to deal with children who suffer the disadvantages of isolation in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Minister says that, in line with the pattern in most other industrialised, developed countries, for demographic purposes fertility is a measure of the actual numbers of children born, not the ability to bear children. [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…]
It seems to me that the people who have come to this country as migrants have settled in an area of work in which, unless we do something about lifting their potential in the workforce, they are destined to remain, like a lot of the children who come from Greek families in my own electorate. [More…]
I suppose if one does not have children who go to schools, or if one does not get sick and need to go to a hospital, or if one does not get a pension the next Budget will not be hard. [More…]
Adjustments will, of course, be made to pensions paid to widows and to children who have an entitlement under the legislation. [More…]
Thousands of people from all over Australia- teachers, parents and children alikewill be coming because they know what the Government is going to do to the Schools Commission in this year’s horror Budget. [More…]
What effect will it have on the people of New South Wales, which is the largest and most populous State, when the Government tells them that it is going to cut the powers and the financial flexibility of the Australian Schools Commission and will take away from the Schools Commission all of the great advantages which were provided under the Labor Administration to the people and to the children? [More…]
That was the first real opportunity that was provided to the children who live in working class areas. [More…]
870m sought under Division 915 and $40.770m under Division 9 1 7 are for capital and recurrent grants for childhood and associated services which would have been met from an appropriation for the children’s commission if the Act establishing the commission had been proclaimed. [More…]
Tonight I want to speak about something that I know perturbs all of us at times and that is the fact that in Australia we and our children are eating a lot of food which is produced in other countries. [More…]
Is he also aware that such executions have included the bayoneting and clubbing to death of women and children and that many babies have been murdered by soldiers tearing their bodies apart? [More…]
How callous and ungrateful will this country look to our children, and to the people of neighbouring countries, when they look at Australian history 1942 to 1976. [More…]
I certainly do not want my children or the young Australians of today to have to be involved again in that area. [More…]
There has been a complete denial of the need to upgrade pensioners’ children’s allowances, and of course there is now strong doubt on whether the program for the elimination of the means test is to be proceeded with. [More…]
Indeed at Bexley North public school there are too few children. [More…]
One of the reasons is that the children there are in fact becoming few. [More…]
Gradually children are getting better facilities and we are getting the right facilities for every child in school. [More…]
Briefly this was that vehicles carrying 74 men, women and children, had been intercepted by a body of police at Skull Creek. [More…]
As the Minister has pointed out, some 74 men, women and children were on their way in a large-scale mobile party moving from Warburton to Wiluna for the purpose of a rain making and man making ceremony. [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…]
Along with the cutback in spending on the Australian Assistance Plan, the Children’s Commission, area improvement programs and grants to local government, there is a belief in the community that other areas of spending will be severely cut back. [More…]
The wife is bearing children and rearing them and is not always able to work. [More…]
He has 6 children at school and is in a much worse position to pay rates on his house which is exactly the same as mine. [More…]
lm in salaries and administration would certainly have been sufficient, if one had to keep the vote steady, to have wiped out things such as the maternity allowance of $7.6m, the handicapped children’s allowance of $7.8m, the orphans pension of $2m and the funeral benefit of $ 1.8m. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I have made the point before that this Government in making its cuts in expenditure and savings is bent on attacking those in our society least able to protect themselves- the poor, the sick, the pre-school children and those dependent on social security benefits. [More…]
I am sure that I do not have to remind honourable members of this House of the number of tragic drownings of the children of migrant parents who are not acquainted with the basic safety precautions that are second nature to most Australian-born Australians. [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…]
In another area, assistance for post-graduate studies in social work- this is an area that directly affects children in disadvantaged schools, and that in large part means migrant childrenthis Government has cut $58,000 off a total allocation of $2 19,000. [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…]
So were the Liberal Party’s other threats and cutbacks- cutbacks in the Children’s Commission, cuts in foreign aid, threats to the Australian Broadcasting Commission, higher pharmaceutical charges, reductions in drug supplies for the chronically ill, the abandonment of the housing corporation with its help for low income families, the abolition of funeral benefits for pensioners, penal clauses against unions, a campaign of harassment and intimidation of those on the dole and restoration of radio and television licence fees. [More…]
It is ridiculous to try to save such a small amount if by its expenditure some families could be prevented from breaking up with resultant deserted wives and children getting into trouble. [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…]
I ask honourable members to compare that amount with the $4,047,900 to be saved on education generally, especially migrant education and the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]
Of course we know why the Government has made such proposals- it represents people who benefit from being able to send their children to universities at no cost. [More…]
He should ask about the migrants and the children who are being taught in the schools in their own language. [More…]
He talked about asking the children about their schools. [More…]
I suggest that he should ask children how they feel when their parents are unemployed. [More…]
What is the present position regarding probate duty in respect of (a) the Commonwealth and (b) each State when property passes to (i) the surviving spouse, (ii) children and (iii) others. [More…]
If the whole of the estate passes to the widow, widower, children or grandchildren of the deceased, no Commonwealth estate duty is payable if the net value of the estate does not exceed $40,000 after talcing into account allowable deductions such as those for the matrimonial home, State death duties and debts. [More…]
If no part of the estate passes to the widow, widower, children or grandchildren of the deceased, the estate is exempt from estate duty if the net value of the estate does not exceed $20,000. [More…]
If the estate passes partly to the widow, widower, children or grandchildren of the deceased and partly to others, the exemption level or deduction is calculated on a proportional basis. [More…]
He has a wife and 6 children. [More…]
This evening when leafing through the Encyclopaedia Britannica I came across an entry on the Children’s Crusade. [More…]
Children’s Crusade, a religious movement in Europe during the summer of 1212 in which thousands of children set out to conquer the Holy Land from the Muslims by love instead of by force. [More…]
The first group of children was led by a French shepherd boy named Stephen from … a town near Vendome who had a vision in which Jesus appeared to him disguised as a pilgrim and gave him a letter for the French King. [More…]
attracting an estimated 20 000 children. [More…]
The fate of their leader, Nicholas, is unknown, but many of these children, like the French group, were sold in the East as slaves. [More…]
Today, looking at the Friends of the Earth outside the House, I was reminded very much of the Children’s Crusade. [More…]
I am sure that, like the children of the Children’s Crusade, they are utterly sincere, but I am sure that they are just as deluded. [More…]
These poor innocent little people, the Friends of the Earth, whom we saw outside the House today are sincere, decent and honest like the poor children of the Children’s Crusade 800 years ago. [More…]
It had something to do with a children’s crusade. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: What is the reason for the delay in proclaiming the operative sections of the Children’s Commission Act for which he has ministerial responsiblity? [More…]
How soon does he expect that he will proclaim those sections and appoint the members of the Children’s Commission and thus allow them to carry out the important functions for which appropriations were passed over 6 months ago? [More…]
The people appointed to the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission have been carrying out their functions all this time, as they were before the election last year. [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…]
It shows the tax saving of a taxpayer with a dependent wife and 2 dependent non-student children at various levels of income using the 1975-76 tax rates. [More…]
How many families would honourable gentlemen know who incur a level of hardship that they have not incurred before when children come along? [More…]
When people have two, three or four children and are faced with the responsibility of sending those children on to a secondary education and sustaining them as they go through tertiary education, do they not face hardship? [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…]
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…]
As far as custody is concerned, the problem of the disputes beyond the reach of the Family Law Act is part of a wider need for uniform State and Territory laws as to custody, including custody and rights of ex-nuptial children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
The income tax rates scale will be indexed and so also will the rebates for a dependent spouse or a housekeeper, the sole parent rebate and the $540 basic rebate; because of our decision in relation to the new family allowances, the question of indexing the existing children’s rebates will not now arise. [More…]
Although, as I shall refer to later, the Government’s new proposals for better and fairer family allowances entails the withdrawal of tax rebates for children, this will not exclude them from the basis for calculation of the zone allowances. [More…]
I have spoken elsewhere of the Government’s proposals for an improved scheme of family allowances and pointed out the reasons for the consequential removal of the rebates for maintenance of children from the income tax law. [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…]
This additional cost will be offset by the abolition of taxation rebates for children and students. [More…]
However, I am able to tell the honourable member that the normal entry criteria for people who have managed to escape from the situation in Lebanon and who have made application to come to Australia at one of the Australian posts surrounding that area of the world have been relaxed to the extent that the utmost priority is given to what are known as category A applicants that is dependent parents, husbands, wives and dependent children. [More…]
At the present time in Australia, as a result of the recommendations of the National Health and Medical Research Council, we are limiting availability of the vaccine on the medical benefits list to children under 5 years of age, to pensioners and to people with chronic respiratory and cardiac diseases. [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…]
They may be little worse off in the area of their general purpose grants in 1976-77 than they expected after the Premiers Conference, because the increase in taxes arising from the abolition of the rebates for children offsets the additional loss to revenue incurred from giving full indexation; but they will be decidedly worse off in future in relation to general grants as well as specific grants under the new revenue sharing formula, because the increases will not be as great as they were under the old formula. [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…]
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…]
Some relief is provided to the suffering of the poorest families in our community, particularly by a measure directed at the children of poor families and is deserving of support. [More…]
The package presented to the wage earnerthe plus items of wage indexation and increased endowment, combined with the minus of the Medibank levy and the loss of deductibility for children- was presented as a ‘sensible policy’ that would add to his, the wage earner’s, welfare. [More…]
It has been estimated that about 70 per cent of taxpayers do not claim rebates for dependent children, so their take home pay will not be affected. [More…]
While tax rebates for dependent children have been abolished, the rebates for a dependent wife, housekeeper and daughterhousekeeper have been raised by 25 per cent from $400 to $500. [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…]
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…]
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…]
-The Government believes that we can value children but it does not believe that we can value wives. [More…]
Mrs Crean does not have to because we have no children left of a dependent age. [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…]
Every married taxpayer will lose his entitlement to claim for children and therefore his weekly deductions will be so much less. [More…]
The papers are not carrying too many stories about the worker with a wife, four children and no job who is on the dole at $27 a week below the poverty line of the Henderson Commission. [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…]
A man who has a wife and 2 children and who is on the average weekly earnings will be nearly $1 a week worse off as a result of all of these proposals and in future years he will be worse off again as inflation comes down. [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 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…]
In other words, there is no longer any guarantee that the special needs of migrant children will be catered for adequately. [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…]
This being the case, I welcome the extension of that category to include non-dependent work force age parents and their dependent children. [More…]
A further most disturbing aspect of this inquiry was that it revealed that there were 250 000 dependent children in very poor families in Australia. [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…]
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…]
Proportion of the 300 000 families and their 00 000 children who do not receive the full benefit of the existing rebates for children and students and accordingly who will be among the principal beneficiaries of these measures. [More…]
The Government has recognised that the previous system of taxation rebates for dependent children benefited those in the high tax brackets and did little for the really poor families, particularly those who did not pay any income tax at all. [More…]
The rebates were of no value to them, but now their children will benefit substantially. [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…]
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…]
It means a much fairer and more reasonable pattern of expenditure on behalf of children. [More…]
I have alluded already to the fact that by redistributing the benefits of family allowances to the poorer families this money will be spent on more essential items for the children. [More…]
Conversely, because of this redistribution, if wealthier families wish to purchase less essential and more luxury items for their children, obviously more of this kind of expenditure will have to come from their own resources and less from the Government. [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…]
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…]
In those families where there are a large number of children- these are normally the poorest people in the community, particularly the non-British migrant families- the allowance will provide substantial regular income. [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…]
In my view, the Government’s latest measures are an excellent blend to meet our overall economic requirements and at the same time to meet a real economic and social need of those in our community who are amongst the worst off- namely, the very low income earners with children. [More…]
Special mention is made of the fact that zone allowances are to be indexed to the extent that they will increase in respect of the element of which is related to rebates for maintenance dependants and the allowances for children. [More…]
I refer to statements that have been made to the effect that the family allowance proposals will benefit the 300 000 families and their 800 000 children throughout Australia who could not take advantage of the previous system of tax deductions for dependants. [More…]
I believe that the new system is a real advance in our social welfare program, bearing in mind that it provides that the taxpayer no longer has the right to claim tax deductions for his dependent children. [More…]
These measures will help 300 000 low income families and their 800 000 children. [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…]
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’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…]
It is part of the package in which taxation rebates for children have been removed. [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…]
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…]
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…]
To qualify for entitlement to pharmaceutical benefits the pensioner must come within a means test on income and assets which has operated for many years and applies to all pensioners and their dependent children. [More…]
I point out that in this House on Tuesday, 25 May, in reply to the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith I informed the House: … the normal entry criteria for people who have managed to escape from the situation in Lebanon and who have made application to come to Australia at one of the Australian posts surrounding that area of the world have been relaxed to the extent that the utmost priority is given to what are known as category A applicants, that is dependent parents, husbands, wives and dependent 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…]
These are some other ways of illustrating how the money could be spent: The allocation for home nursing services in 1975-76 was less than $6m; the maternity allowance was less than $8m; the handicapped children’s allowance was less than $8m. [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…]
I quote the conclusions of David G. Jose, M.B., B.S., M.R.A.C.P., and John S. Welch, B.Sc, after the study of 2 250 Aboriginal children. [More…]
The children showing proper growth showed the normal distribution of academic abilities, not retarded academic abilities. [More…]
One of the most serious findings of the Committee in this inquiry was the lamentable state of public health at Yirrkala among young children . [More…]
They were extremely courteous and they spoke with great dignity about thenown concern for the future of themselves, their children and their land. [More…]
That is why it is a matter of high priority for my Government that not only must things like land rights be recognised; programs for bicultural understanding must also be implemented, reach a high level and pervade every section of the community from the children to the elderly, because only when the Australian people understand Aborigines, their traditions, their culture, their spiritual affinity with land, can they understand what is involved in the granting of land rights and why. [More…]
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 first point was that he considered that the tables illustrating the total effect of the package should have been based not on the rebate for children that had previously been allowable, $200, but on that amount as notionally indexed, $226. [More…]
It is not really relevant whether the rebates for children would have been indexed if those rebates had not been withdrawn. [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…]
What it basically amounts to is this: If you took this to its logical conclusion you could say that in the field of education everybody in the community pays an education levy so that they can have their children educated at school, but once a certain point is reached you can contract out and not pay the education levy but instead pay to have your children educated at a private school. [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…]
A family with 4 children will now receive $20.50 a week under the new scheme as against $5.75 under the old. [More…]
The history of the last 75 years of this century shows us too many examples- perhaps Germany was the best of all- of what can happen to a society when it is wrecked by inflation when people literally had to carry bucketfuls of money to buy a loaf of bread with which to feed their children. [More…]
We have acted on the basis of the Henderson report on poverty in Australia, which showed only too clearly that over 300 000 families with some 800 000 children live below the poverty line. [More…]
To assist those people we have carried out a massive transfer of community wealth to those who are obviously most in need- the underprivileged wives, the poor children, the single parents, the depressed minority groups. [More…]
I have here a document which points out that the roofs of the Toronto West Public School are leaking, that the classrooms are far too small and that landscaping is required to make the playground attractive for children so that they can get mental refreshment and enthusiasm to go to school and to study. [More…]
There is a large flat area in the school grounds at Toronto West that needs filling in order to make it suitable for the children to use for healthy sporting activities. [More…]
It is pointed out that a covered area for assemblies would help mould school discipline and settle children down. [More…]
There should be a weather shed in which children can take their lunch so that they do not have to go into the classrooms during wet weather. [More…]
I have a personal interest in the Toronto High School because my 3 children were educated there. [More…]
If it rains the children have to scatter for shelter, and in the sun sometimes some of the pupils collapse because of the heat. [More…]
At present gymnastics lessons are taken in a concrete playground where it is unsafe and where children could suffer serious injury. [More…]
Georgi Vins has been taken away from his wife and children for 10 years. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security aware of the situation in South Australia where a magistrate adjourned a number of applications for adoption of Vietnamese children? [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…]
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…]
Enquiries about inter-country adoptions are increasing because of the shortage of children in Australia available for adoption and the growing incidence of people seeking to adopt children from overseas. [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…]
On arrival in Australia, children admitted for the purpose of adoption become ‘immigrant’ children in Australia within the meaning of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children Act) 1946-73. [More…]
The Federal Minister for Social Security becomes the legal guardian of such children until they are adopted, marry, leave Australia permanently or attain the age of 18 years or are otherwise exempted. [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…]
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…]
The Federal Minister for Social Security will, of course, retain overall responsibility for the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act and the actions taken by the delegates under that Act. [More…]
The changes in the administrative procedures do not imply any lessening of interest in adoption matters, nor of concern for the children for whom the Minister for Social Security remains the legal guardian. [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…]
It is difficult for people in the cities to realise the reliance which people in isolated areas place on air services for their mail, for their supplies, and for such things as correspondence courses for their children who are educationally disadvantaged. [More…]
Hyperactivity in Children (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the recent ABC Science Program on the association between food additives and hyperactivity in children. [More…]
1 ) Yes, I am aware of recent ABC Television and Radio programs concerning the theories of Dr Benjamin Feingold on the association between food additives and hyperactivity in children. [More…]
At its 81st Session in October 1975, the National Health and Medical Research Council approved a research grant to a team of two psychiatrists and a doctor specialising in nutrition to conduct research into the possible relationship between artificial colourings and flavourings in food and hyperactive behaviour in children. [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…]
Immediate steps be taken by the Federal Government to ensure that legislation is enacted to require the wearing of restraints by children in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [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…]
The agonising period for parents until a learner-driver becomes competent is nevertheless the beginning of a never ending worry and concern for the safety of their children on the road. [More…]
A man with a wife and 2 children on a gross weekly income of about $ 1 70 will be paying a levy of about $ 1 86 a year. [More…]
Look at the anomaly of a person on low income- for instance, a widow with 3 children. [More…]
But they were both fundamentally aimed at producing an easily assimilated and easily digested source of protein through skim milk powder to be made available to needy countries, especially to the children of those countries, as a supplement to their diet. [More…]
They do not reach the very people whom we, as compassionate Australians, would like them to reach- the young children and those in the country areas of India and similar countries. [More…]
Living at poverty levels of existence imposes permanent disabilities on dairy farmers’ wives and families who are often called upon to work on the farm to survive, and this is often done at the expense of adequate education opportunities for their children. [More…]
Many of them have gone without a holiday year after year; many of them had to deprive their children of adequate education. [More…]
Because they live in remote areas the children do not have access to a school and the parents cannot afford to send them to private schools. [More…]
Children and parents and whole towns are concerned and affected. [More…]
For example, a lady in Kingston with responsibility for looking after children received $15 a week by way of an ex gratia payment from her husband. [More…]
1 believe it is important that at the very commencement of the proceedings it should be the duty of any judge, if he were satisfied that even the slightest possibility of reconciliation existed, to forthwith bring into operation the relevant section, as a good, permanent marriage and the security and the welfare of the children thereof is paramount to the wellbeing of any State. [More…]
That figure is not his gross income; that is the amount that is arrived at after deducting the following: Income tax, superannuation contributions, one-half of any board paid by the applicant, the rent or mortgage payments for a dwelling house in which the applicant resides, the municipal rates and water rates for the dwelling house in which the applicant resides, the maintenance payments to the spouse and children of the applicant and payments under hire purchase agreements and credit sales contracts for household goods and furniture used by the applicant in his home. [More…]
The Act covers some of these changes, such as the loss of consortium where a spouse is lost, or, in the case of children, the further loss of a parent’s care and guidance; but what allowance does it make for the multitude of other cases where an enormous range of criteria come into play? [More…]
The purpose of the demonstration, it was said, would be that the students, being white, would be indicating a protest at the way in which certain moneys were paid to Aboriginal parents of children attending school or undertaking education whereas those payments were not available to whites. [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…]
1 ) How many children are there of school age in the Electoral Division of Batman. [More…]
What percentage of these children are first or second generation Australians. [More…]
The number of children at school in local government areas in Victoria is contained in ‘Primary ana Secondary Education 1974’ published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria. [More…]
The Prime Minister has stated that the Government will abolish the Children’s Commission. [More…]
One forgets that about half the children of New South Wales are born in an area west of a line drawn north and south through Parramatta. [More…]
The eighth point was that the means test impedes socially desirable transfers of property from parents to children and penalises past transfers in a way that is sometimes inequitable. [More…]
Thousands of young Aboriginal children have been able to attend schools which they have not been able to attend before. [More…]
Today Aboriginal children are receiving a reasonable education. [More…]
Whether it be in Western Australia, New South Wales or the Northern Territory, where there is a continuance of reserves and a low standard of housing and where the Aboriginals on those reserves live in an impoverished economic state, to the extent that housing is fundamental to raising the standard of living of those people and to giving them a new hope for their future and for the future of their children, the Government decided that a reappraisal of those housing programs was necessary. [More…]
If a person wants to endow some of his children with some money and they put it in the bank they will be the lucky ones who will get $2,000- not the people who do not have rich parents or have non-affiuent parents such as I. [More…]
I think that an analysis of those speeches of members of the Opposition will make known to the Australian people the undeniable fact that the Opposition is pledged not to allow Australian families and their children to own their own homes. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission is considering making a grant to the in-service Advisory Committee of the Victorian Institute of Early Childhood Development. [More…]
and (2) The Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission has already considered an application from the Victorian Institute of Early Childhood Development for financial assistance for the Institute’s in-service training courses. [More…]
Mothers and guardians allowance and additional pensions for children have not been adjusted by movements in the consumer price index. [More…]
However, the new rates of family allowances recently awarded by the Government will be of great assistance to pensioners and beneficiaries with children. [More…]
What was the actual per capita expenditure on school children in the Electoral Divisions of Kooyong and Higgins in the same period. [More…]
1 ) In connection with his statement that the withdrawal of taxation rebates from the husband in respect of his dependent children would be approximately balanced by additional children’s allowances to his wife so that the total family income would be virtually unaffected by the contemplated financial package, is it possible that an anomaly could arise where a divorced husband is supporting his dependent children so that the new arrangements, in place of rearranging the family income, would result in a transfer of money from one family to another. [More…]
1 ) Under the new family allowances system, there will be a transfer between persons of immediate command over Budget-provided assistance for the maintenance of children. [More…]
The shape of the new scheme reflects its main purpose, to increase substantially the amount of assistance provided in respect of children in low income families. [More…]
The so-called toy- I call it that because I do not want to dignify the product with a name of something that children would legitimately use- is still on sale. [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…]
Does he share the concern that such priorities may lead to the sacking and under-payment of workers, the education of children of migrants and poor people in slum-like schools, the near starvation of pensioners and the humiliation and economic hardship of the unemployed. [More…]
The new system of family allowances, which is helping 300 000 families and over 800 000 children, was and is hailed as one of the most far-reaching social reforms in the history of Federation. [More…]
We have shown concern for handicapped children by increasing handicapped children’s allowances- again in a time of real stringency. [More…]
It is said that the President himself, having divorced some of his wives, had at least one of them killed and showed her body to his children. [More…]
They have been ‘ instrumental in saving many marriages that were destined for breakdown with all the consequential suffering and heartbreak not only to the parents but also to the children who always seem to suffer most in the long term. [More…]
I am not one who subscribes to the belief that just because a man served his country his widow, upon his death, should automatically become entitled to a host of benefits, but I do believe strongly that if a man’s life span is curtailed as a result of war service his widow or the children who are left behind are entitled to every advantage, every benefit and every protection. [More…]
At present the utmost priority is given to what are known as category A cases; that is, the parents, husbands, wives and dependent children of Australian residents. [More…]
Let me assure the honourable gentleman and all honourable gentlemen that the criteria in relation to family reunion being applied throughout the world apply to parents, husbands and wives and dependent children of Lebanese residents of Australia. [More…]
There is no concern for the special needs of women and children. [More…]
It is the same story with women, children, migrants, pensioners- all disadvantaged people. [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…]
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…]
These are the people who will pay an extra $30 a year for each of their children to travel by bus to school. [More…]
None of us or our children will ever be safe. [More…]
All I have been trying to do is ensure that we and our children and the rest of the world escape from the monstrous danger in which we stand today and in which we will stand for the rest of time unless somebody finds it in his heart to bring about the detonation of a bomb or, alternatively, unless a new way of thought envelops the whole of humanity. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has drawn attention to the significant area of isolated children. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs aware that at least 50 per cent of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory suffer from malnutrition? [More…]
Can he confirm that all supplementary feeding programs for Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory have been terminated at a saving of $200,000? [More…]
Are the Western Australian and Queensland Governments continuing at an increased rate supplementary nutritional programs for Aboriginal children in their States? [More…]
A number of nutritional programs for children are under way in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The supplementary food program for children is under review by me in conjunction with my colleague the Minister for Health. [More…]
What the Government is intent on doing is to provide the best benefit to the victims of the drug thalidomide but at the same time not to create problems in relation to other crippled and handicapped children of whom there are a large number throughout the country. [More…]
A major advance is the new family allowance scheme which will help 800 000 disadvantaged children and which will give their mothers an assured income. [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…]
This has made a very great difference in my electorate, particularly in the beef areas where I know of some large families with no income who were finding it increasingly hard even to feed their children. [More…]
Under our new policy, some 300 000 low income families involving 800 000 children and with income levels that previously derived little or no benefit from rebate schemes will benefit the most. [More…]
Allowances to handicapped children have been increased by 50 per cent. [More…]
Also the handicapped children’s benefit paid in respect of handicapped children in institutions has been increased from $3.50 a day to $5 a day. [More…]
These 2 increases will benefit about 2 1 000 handicapped children in this country. [More…]
This will assist voluntary organisations to set up and operate sheltered workshops, therapy and training centres, and to provide accommodation for handicapped children and adults. [More…]
For all of Australia’s handicapped children and adultsand the friends, relatives and guardians of the handicapped- this Government’s first Budget is a social document in the truest sense. [More…]
Write to the parents and invite them to leave the children there till 6 p.m. so you can give them a bit more tuition. [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…]
Above all, they face the mammoth task of convincing themselves and their children that they can manage alone. [More…]
Many men are not acquainted with the skills which are taken for granted in the running of a family home, for example, cooking, house cleaning, budgeting and buying of children’s clothes. [More…]
If the children are given tasks to do it may be too much for them. [More…]
The Finer report found that about one third of lone fathers had to leave their children to their own devices after school. [More…]
As well as the more tangible needs there is often a need for a lone father to relate to his children in a way which he has not done before. [More…]
Difficulties such as how to discipline children; how to provide the affection that they previously received from their mother, for example, the mother-daughter relationship, how to support the children when they are embarrassed or hurt by other children who jibe at them about not having a mother. [More…]
Quite apart from the problems of the lone father in coping with the household and children the lone father needs emotional support purely for himself. [More…]
The allowance for his 3 children brings his total unemployment benefit to $9 1 a week. [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 population has still shown a great propensity to have children. [More…]
If one considers the provision of this leave, it actually discriminates against a pregnant woman with a number of children compared with one who has a small number of children because the first woman has less opportunity to get back into the work force. [More…]
I want to discuss the Government’s decision to tax the incomes which thalidomide children obtain from their investment trust funds. [More…]
On 24 June this year, Mr Justice Cantor in the New South Wales Supreme Court directed that $2.25m be paid into the Thalidomide Foundation for approximately 25 children. [More…]
Two days afterwards the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) announced the payment of a lump sum of $150 000 to the Thalidomide Foundation which will act as a trustee for thalidomide afflicted children in respect of whom settlements have been made. [More…]
He described the Government’s decision as a gesture of sympathy with the children and their parents and warned that the grant should not be seen as a precedent. [More…]
In fact, there are many people in the community, including my own Illawarra thalidomide children’s group, who regard it as a gigantic swindle. [More…]
It is regarded as a precedent in every country where children have been affected. [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…]
This scandalous decision to subject the settlement income to tax comes as a serious setback for the families of these children, who for some 15 years have suffered anxiety and uncertainty in the protracted negotiations and legal actions aimed at securing compensation. [More…]
In other words, these children, who in many instances are grotesquely deformed and unable to earn a living, would have sought and won even greater awards if this change of policy could have been anticipated. [More…]
I know that he had put strongly, on behalf of the affected families and children, the case for total tax exemption. [More…]
The future security of Australia’s thalidomide children is not an issue that should vary with the political complexion of the Government. [More…]
What the Government is intent on doing is to provide the best benefit to the victims of the drug thalidomide but at the same time not to create problems in relation to other crippled and handicapped children of whom there are a large number throughout the country. [More…]
I believe that there is no substitute for the unequivocal commitment made by the Labor Government to exempt totally from taxation payments made in respect of these children. [More…]
I remind him that this Government has done more for handicapped children than has any other government since Federation. [More…]
The study focuses on the inequalities in schooling between country children and city children and between socially advantaged and disadvantaged children. [More…]
It reveals most dramatically the inequality which exists, and in particular the poor deal country children in Tasmania are getting at present. [More…]
A table at page 39 of the report shows that 1 7 per cent of children in urban areas reach grade 1 1, whilst only 9 per cent of country children attain that standard. [More…]
Further, 13 per cent of children from urban areas reach grade 12 but only 6 per cent of country children reach that level. [More…]
One of the suggestions which all the speakers made was that the widows and children of those who served should also have the opportunity to take advantage of the funds made available under the Bill, or the Act as it now is. [More…]
The Government has increased the handicapped children’s benefit for children in institutions from $3.50 to $5 per day and has made provision for an expenditure of some $121m over a 3-year period. [More…]
Additionally, the handicapped children’s allowance will be increased from $10 to $15. [More…]
This will be welcomed by the parents of more than 19 000 handicapped children. [More…]
This allowance is not taxable and is designed to assist with the education, training and general welfare of all handicapped children. [More…]
In the area of children’s services the Government has provided $73. [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…]
Children in deprived areas like my electorate of Melbourne for the first time had a government that cared about their educational needs. [More…]
Children in these areas could share the benefits of our educational system. [More…]
It intends to hand responsibility back to State government’s which have indicated, over and over again, their indifference to the needs of children in disadvantaged areas. [More…]
Under Labor, working mothers found for the first time a government that regarded children as a right. [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…]
The handicapped children’s allowances have been increased by 40 per cent to 50 per cent and this has been made possible by economies in other areas. [More…]
Part of this difference is due to the abolition of the rebates for dependent children, but even excluding the additional receipts from this charge, the increase in net PAYE is 17.3 per cent. [More…]
I have only 7 children, not 13. [More…]
At East Victoria Park, a suburb in my electorate, the Slow Learning Children’s Group of Western Australia will receive $320,000 for capital and $24,000 for equipment. [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…]
They were Mrs Judith Martin who had 6 children and Mrs Rosemary Window who had 5 children. [More…]
The new family allowances will assist some 300 000 low income families with in excess of 800 000 children involved. [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…]
Professor Henderson has noted that there are many low income families with children who constitute a major proportion of the poor in this country. [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…]
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…]
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…]
How many of those people have fallen within the normal entry criteria as either parents or children of Australian residents or persons with special occupational skills? [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the combined effect of the tax indexation proposals and the increase in family allowances plus the abolition of deductions for children and the Medibank levy or the payments required to be made to private health insurance companies will be that many people will be no better off as a result of the fiscal measures of this Government. [More…]
So far as the system of family allowances is concerned, what is important is that in low income groups- income groups where insufficient tax is paid to take advantage of rebates for children- the substantially increased family allowances are a net addition to incomes. [More…]
For 5 children, the new system of family allowances represents something like $27.50 a week or a cheque for $330 for a 12-week period. [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…]
But the other key aspect of the system is that at the same time the tax rebates for children have been abolished. [More…]
Indeed, about 300 000 low income families and their 800 000 dependent children are benefiting in this way. [More…]
Some 300 000 low income families with some 800 000 dependent children. [More…]
In keeping with its determination to help the disadvantaged, the Government has granted increased aid to handicapped children and pensioners. [More…]
Similarly approximately 300 000 low-income families with 800 000 children Will benefit by the excellent family allowance scheme. [More…]
How many (a) primary and (b) secondary school children are there in the Division in (i) State and (ii) independent schools. [More…]
How many (a) first and (b) second generation migrant school children are there in the Division. [More…]
There is no hope of providing Victorian children with the school facilities to which the Schools Commission thinks they are entitled. [More…]
The capital grants under this Bill are primarily designed to ease the interest burden on the States in financing their capital works such as schools, police stations, forestry activities, court houses, some hospitals- those that are excluded from the Medibank arrangements- children’s homes, orphanages and dams- all items for which debt charges are not normally recoverable. [More…]
It does not help the farmer who has no outlet for his stock or even one of the 10 000 children who starve to death every day on the sub-continent because they have no milk to drink. [More…]
If rebates for dependent children had been retained, is it likely that they too would have been indexed? [More…]
In view of this is it intended that family allowances which have replaced the rebates for dependent children will be indexed so that they retain their real value? [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to increasing in real terms those benefits which are paid in respect of young children of preschool age? [More…]
In considering the relationship between the labour market and the education system the Committee has been asked to extend its review into secondary education as appropriate, having regard to the fact that a significant number of children do not proceed beyond year 10 in secondary schools. [More…]
For example, a man with a wife and 3 children today receives $91 a week in unemployment relief. [More…]
The handicapped children’s allowance has been increased from $10 a week to $15 a week. [More…]
One other area that will be cut- here again, it has been quite evident in my electorate- is children’s services. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Invalid pensions are increased, the handicapped children’s allowance is increased by 50 per cent. [More…]
How important this is for those with handicapped children. [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit is up 43 per cent; the total of these 2 allowances and benefits is $6.4m additional cost to the Government. [More…]
Let me remind the honourable member also that there are no real benefits in the Budget for the taxpayer with dependent children. [More…]
The family allowances program, after allowing for the abolition of the tax rebates for children, will provide a net income gain for low income families which have a relatively high propensity to consume, as do pensioners, who with full and automatic indexation are assured of having their incomes increased proportionately by at least as much, and probably more, than the general working population. [More…]
4 is due to the loss of tax rebates for children, but this has been more than countered by the increased transfer payment to families through the family allowances scheme. [More…]
The Budget helps children, students, mothers, wage earners, pensioners, owners and operators of small businesses and private companies, local councils and shires, and all State governments, regardless of their political philosophies. [More…]
We have increased the handicapped children’s allowance by 50 per cent and the children’s benefit by 43 percent. [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…]
How many children does the honourable member have? [More…]
Both funds provided to the States to meet their obligations for educating our children and funds provided to colleges and universities to ensure increasing facilities for our young men and women, tike the allocations for social welfare, make allocations a few years ago seem like petty cash. [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 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…]
I simply reiterate that in my case, with 5 children, I lost $800 in tax rebates, which is $15.40 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…]
The so-called family allowance scheme is largely nothing more than a shifting sideways of the children’s rebate. [More…]
It was introduced because the Government wanted to avoid indexing the allowance for children under the new tax scheme. [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…]
Lists of spouses, dependent children and parents of Australian residents will be made available and the applications assessed speedily by my Department. [More…]
In fact, he indexed rebates for dependent children and then said that they would be abolished, apart from the special rebates available for people living in certain areas of Australia, above the so-called zone allowances. [More…]
The Treasurer made the specific point that for the purposes of these rebates, tax rebates for dependent children have been increased from $200 to $226 per annum. [More…]
You will know that cuts in the expenditure of the 1976-77 Budget affect the little people- pensioners, women, children, Aborigines, migrants, the sick and the infirm. [More…]
Either directly or by inference, he said he would increase expenditure on schools, roads, health services, sewerage, environment, women and children, Aborigines, the unemployed, public works, construction, shipbuilding, Medibank, State funds, growth centres, pensions, supporting mothers, unemployed school leavers, aged persons homes, destitute and lonely men- that includes most of the Opposition- supporting fathers, migrants, defence, nursing homes, hospitals, school dental services, refuges for women, national highways and last but not least, women. [More…]
I interpolate to say that the period referred to is between 29 March 1976 and 6 August 1976- more than 700 visas have been issued to Lebanese people who found themselves in these circumstances and it is estimated that about 70 per cent of these are the spouses and dependant children of residents of Australia. [More…]
At that stage we were concentrating on re-uniting families in category A- husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, dependent children. [More…]
But should he also have dependent children, then the fund would require that health insurance for his wife and children take the form of full family cover, which would include himself. [More…]
-Has the Prime Minister noticed the findings reported in the Australian Medical Association Journal that the death rate among newly born children on Cape York Peninsula is about twice as high as in the Brisbane area, that the death rate among the older infant group is almost 8 times as high on the Peninsula as it is in Brisbane, and that in one small area on the Peninsula with a high Aboriginal population there are 100 infant deaths for every thousand births? [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…]
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…]
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 Labor scheme provided for 2 return fares to enable the applicant to visit the spouse and children before they moved to the new area, that is, if he went ahead of them. [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…]
As a result, I wish to put to the House a little bit of interesting information about a meeting held by the Children’s Services Resources Group held at 9.30 a.m. in Pitt Street, Sydney, on 17 August. [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…]
What interested me was a copy of a letter I received from the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales telling me that 30 per cent of the children attending kindergartens and preschools in my electorate were in need. [More…]
I wrote back to the Union thanking it for its statistics which, I said, demonstrated quite clearly that 70 per cent of the children attending pre-schools in my electorate were not in need but nonetheless were in receipt of a 75 per cent subsidy. [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…]
Repatriation beneficiaries with full entitlement include the following groups of people: Disability pensioners at or above the 100 per cent general rate; service pensioners qualifying for fringe benefits; ex-prisoners of war; veterans of the Boer War and World War I; and widows, children and other dependants of those whose deaths are service related, or of totally and permanently incapacitated deceased. [More…]
As the situation stands, if the husband pays the family levy of up to $5.80 a week, which automatically covers his wife and children for public hospital ward and 85 per cent of medical costs, his working wife will still have to pay the single levy of up to $2.90 a week. [More…]
If we adopt the idea of the fee on the filing of a divorce petition we will never get anywhere in trying to reach the ideal situation under the family law legislation of reducing divorces, reducing friction and doing away with the hardship that is obviously caused by parties being unable to agree, particularly on matters related to the children. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not really have the constitutional power to deal with ex-nuptual children and others, and that is certainly going to affect the efficacy of the family law jurisdication. [More…]
In that way the whole ambit of custody and maintenance and exnuptual children could be covered. [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…]
The principal Act was the result of many years of campaigning to make the law relating to marriage breakdown more realistic and more humane and to ensure that those made most vulnerable in a divorce situation, normally the wife and children, are absolutely and adequately protected. [More…]
The principal Act, enacted last year, replaces the existing Australian laws of divorce and nullity of marriage and supersedes State and Territory laws of maintenance, custody and property relating to marriages and to the children of marriages. [More…]
In cases cited people are complaining that the courts are inclined to lean over backwards to protect the woman and they are not taking a great deal of notice of whether the woman should have custody of the children. [More…]
Prior to the divorce action 1 had been seeing the children regularly and in my application I therefore applied for joint custody. [More…]
He indicated that my wife would be given sole custody of the children and adjourned the hearing for one month at which time he proposed to finalize this matter and determine maintenance, property settlement, etc. [More…]
At the first hearing, the Court inferred that I was not a fit person to be given joint custody of the children; in sharp contrast, the Court, at the second hearing, was not the least interested in what had happened to the children, where and with whom they were now living. [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…]
Instead, they were to be treated as persons who had come to Australia and were to be given every chance for both themselves and their children, who were born here and were being brought up here. [More…]
The young children in my family tell me that there is a song on the hit parade entitled We Do It. [More…]
Families, particularly families with young children, have been and still are under immense pressure. [More…]
There is in the community a significant and vocal group which believes that the care of children from a very young age should be the primary responsibility of the state. [More…]
There is, however, in the large silent majority of families a strongly held view that the primary care of young children should be given by their mother in a comfortable, secure family setting. [More…]
One has only to read some of the literature that is available from time to time to discover that there are many who have an ideological commitment to changing the nature of society and replacing the normal family care of children with a substitute care- care by the state- of young children. [More…]
The family allowances that have been introduced will relieve to some extent the economic pressure on families that up until now have faced increasing difficulty in gaining sufficient resources to enable the mother to be the primary care giver of young children during the preschool years. [More…]
As I have said, there are many people in the community who would like to see the young children of this country become the primary responsibility of the State rather than being the primary responsiblity of their families. [More…]
This Budget, containing as it does provision for the necessary funds to enable the new family allowances to continue to be paid, will assist those young families to meet the financial commitments involved in caring for young children.In a question I asked the Treasurer about a fortnight ago I urged upon him that when reviewing family allowances he do 2 things. [More…]
Further, I asked the Treasurer to look into the possibility of raising in real terms the family allowances payable to mothers with young children of pre-school age. [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…]
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…]
I have placed considerable stress upon the need to provide added incomes for families with young children. [More…]
The final point I make is that one method of providing that added income is to carry out a review of our tax structure- a review designed to show concern that people should be given an incentive to work and to earn more, and that a careful examination should be made of the possibility of looking at the position of the single income family with pre-school children to ensure that it is not disadvantaged when compared with the 2-income family which has the same income as the single income family. [More…]
I think careful consideration should be given to the possibility of introducing in the case of the family with preschool children an optional income splitting system in the form of some concessional family tax that recognises the need of families with young children to have larger resources available to them than the present tax system allows. [More…]
But we are concerned also as employers for the future and welfare of our employees and our own children. [More…]
It is not unlike a book launched by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) in the not too distant past, in that it is a book which anybody could take proudly into his home and have no fear of his children thumbing through the pages and being confronted with pornography and things of that nature. [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 word ‘needy’ can be interpreted in so many different ways, and we feel most definitely our Centre caters for some of these children- such as children with a minor handicap, speech problems, emotional problems etc. [More…]
and if these children do not get this help from Centres such as ours, providing Sessional care, there is nowhere else for these children to go, as there are no other organisations to cater for such specific problems, thus meaning our children are deprived of Pre-School education and care. [More…]
We have 120 children enrolled at our Centre at present and we have 200 names on our Waiting List and these people want Sessional Pre-School, not full day care for their children, but they and many thousands more children in the future will be deprived of this, if the Government funding is to cease or decrease, as it will put the fees well and truly out of the reach of the people in our community, as the estimated parent contribution without the Government Grants would be approximately $3-$3.50 per hour, and as you can see, this is a completely unrealistic figure that could not be met by families, and here the Government will be affecting the group they most want to help- the needy children. [More…]
The Kindergarten Union has 78 affiliated Centres and cares for 6082 children which include- [More…]
b ) 49 children considered at risk [More…]
212 children causing concern- i.e. [More…]
82 medically referred- moderate to severe handicapped children i.e. [More…]
Spina Bifida, Down’s Syndrome, Aphasia, emotionally disturbed children etc [More…]
We are asking you to please consider this very carefully for the children now attending these Centres and for the many thousands who may be deprived of such a valuable community service in the future. [More…]
I would be more impressed by the honourable member for Macarthur ‘s attack on the parents in his electorate who are trying to send their children to the kindergartens if he were more consistent. [More…]
This Government is not prepared to help people to send their children to pre-schools but it is prepared to help overseas coal companies and the Prime Minister ( Mr Malcolm Fraser) who receives a subsidy of some $5,000 from the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
children may not be seen or heard in an advertisement for alcoholic drink in the United Kingdom. [More…]
However the exception is valid only if it is clear that the children are not drinking alcoholic beverages; [More…]
-Yes, I do, by the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) who claimed in a speech in the adjournment debate last night that I had in the adjournment debate on 1 5 September attacked the parents in my electorate who were trying to send their children to the kindergarten and that I supported a Government that is not prepared to help people to send their children to pre-schools. [More…]
I said: a letter I received from the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales telling me that 30 per cent of the children attending kindergartens and pre-schools in my electorate were in need. [More…]
I wrote back to the Union thanking it for its statistics which, I said, demonstrated quite clearly that 70 per cent of the children attending pre-schools in my electorate were not in need - [More…]
The whole burden of everything I said was that there should be support for people whose children are attending pre-schools and day care centres in my electorate when they were in need. [More…]
So other commissions were established, such as the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the Children’s Commission, the Cities Commission. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition’s rationalisation for utilising commissions is best summed up in his statement on the establishment of the Children’s Commission, when he said: [More…]
Others, such as the Children’s Commission, were to be concerned with the impact of the programs on an important section of the community. [More…]
As from 1 October 1976 the following persons normally resident in the Lebanon will be eligible to come to Australia, after meeting normal health and character requirements: Spouses and dependent children of Australian residents; parents, both aged and dependent and those who are nondependent and of working age, of Australian residents; nominated brothers and sisters of Australian residents; and persons eligible under the normal acceptable occupations list. [More…]
This requirement will not apply to nominations of spouses and dependent children. [More…]
The priorities I suggest, and which the RSL has researched and agreed upon, are as follows: Firstly, ex-servicemen and women suffering from vascular disease; secondly, ex-servicemen and women suffering from arthritic disease; thirdly the dependent wife and children of a totally and permanently incapacitated pensioner who is also in receipt of a part service pension; fourthly general rate pensioners of 70 per cent or more; fifthly, ex-servicemen and women suffering from other chronic complaints; sixthly, all returned exservicemen of World War II over 60 years of age- and that is a bit of a plug for me; seventhly, all other returned ex-servicemen and women from World War II; eighthly, all ex-servicemen of 70 years of age or more - [More…]
These services will be provided to all primary school children. [More…]
I wonder how many children or parents of children who receive attention at these clinics realise that the bulk of the funds is provided by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Lone fathers and their children have been discriminated against in welfare legislation for many years by all governments. [More…]
Further, the special benefit allowances cut out when the lone father’s children start school. [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…]
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…]
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 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…]
It is a very bad start in life for children. [More…]
Family allowances have been substantially increased and rebates for dependent children abolished. [More…]
There are 300 000 low income families with 800 000 children. [More…]
Their incomes are such that they previously derived no benefit or less than full benefit from the dependent children’s rebate. [More…]
There were 906 adults and children involved in the survey and only the 522 adults were asked that question. [More…]
There has been no increase in pensions for children, in guardian’s allowances or in supplementary assistance. [More…]
Two days after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General I decided to drive past Parliament House searching as usual for what my children affectionately call ‘Dad’s historical atmosphere’, and sometimes less affectionately ‘Dad’s excursions down memory lane’. [More…]
The Joe Gargerys of his younger days would have proved that they, rather than Sir Garfield Barwick, are the children of light [More…]
One such strike, which occurred 18 months ago during the school holidays, left many parents and children stranded in country centres. [More…]
It is understandable that the temporarily reduced funds for housing alarmed and worried many people, not least those Aborigines in need of housing, for without adequate housing there can be only limited improvements in health, limited opportunity for children to succeed at school and limited hope of gaining regular employment. [More…]
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…]
He should talk to a single income family with 2 dependent children and see what they think about the economic package. [More…]
All the parents of isolated children get some amount. [More…]
The Budget Papers refer also to the education of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
When it was revealed to us when we were in Government- it came through the education sectionthat large numbers of Aboriginal children in the Kimberleys were being born with brain damage, I wrote to the then Prime Minister and he asked for a conference of 3 Federal Ministers and 3 State Ministers. [More…]
There has been a breakage of that link in recent times which my colleague and I are seeking to re-establish, because as more and more Aboriginal children come through the educational stream education is worth nothing to them if there is no suitable work for them back in their own community or where they would wish to establish themselves. [More…]
It is an attack upon the relatives of people in Australia, it is an attack upon our refugee policies, and it is an attack upon migrant children. [More…]
There are significant measures in the field of education, namely, migrant education and education for migrant children. [More…]
We believe it is still realistic to promote a policy which provides that people who apply to immigrate to Australia should do so with the background that they wish to settle here permanently, bring up their children in Australia and contribute to the broader growth of Australian society. [More…]
Many of the schools that were promised such facilities now find that they have been taken away and there is no set date when these facilities will be available for the children. [More…]
On Monday I took my children to the Fremantle wharves to look at the Atlas Pioneer which is under a union embargo in Fremantle Harbour and on which sheep are beginning to die and rot. [More…]
We are not prepared to give the instructions that ought to be given to our educational institutions on preparing the children now going to school for what the work force will require. [More…]
We are still following traditional lines of education and preparing children for a society which may have existed in Australia 20 years ago. [More…]
I believe the drug pusher, the one who would import the drugs into this country, the one who would see the distribution of drugs, is nothing but a murderer in the first degree because he contributes to the death of children. [More…]
I lend my total support to the campaign to deal with them and I trust that in the years ahead we will see penalties invoked in this country that will really frighten the wits out of anyone who would use our children as bait for money. [More…]
The needs of the children of migrant working mothers, farmed out to relatives or friends, sent to day-care services or in some cases left alone at home, were a constant source of tension to the mother and among concerned neighbours and friends. [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…]
I have seen children of the age of 8 or 9 years take to alcohol in a big way. [More…]
Children of that age are dying from petrol sniffing. [More…]
Children are awake all night and have to sleep during the day while their parents are hung over. [More…]
Household money is often spent almost entirely on alcohol and the women and children have to go without food. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the Government’s decision to increase the rate of the handicapped children’s benefit as announced by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) in his Budget Speech of 17 August 1976. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the handicapped children’s benefit was first introduced in 1968 under the National Health Act 1953-1968 and was incorporated in the Handicapped Persons Assistance Act 1974 when the Act was passed in 1974. [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit is payable to an eligible voluntary, religious or charitable organisation, or local government body, which provides approved residential accommodation for handicapped children who are engaged in training programs. [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…]
The automatic adjustment provisions will not apply to unemployment and sickness benefits payable to persons under 18 years of age or to payments such as mother’s and guardian’s allowance, additional pension and benefit for children and supplementary assistance and allowance. [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…]
Labor’s legislation for an Authors’ Fund, which collapsed with the dissolution of Parliament last year, also made specific provision for payment of the public lending right to the widows, widowers, children or other dependents of deceased authors. [More…]
If children are not exposed to what the arts are all about in school they will be lesser adults for it. [More…]
We must see that our school children at an impressionable age are exposed to the various art forms- to what they are trying to do and what their language is. [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…]
It is equally important to serve the needs of housewives and children. [More…]
There has also been a reduction of $l.lm in the allocation for the isolated children’s allowance. [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…]
Most importantly it would help school children. [More…]
For many children pre-school experience is their first contact with their peer group outside of their own home and family environment. [More…]
Pre-schools play a vital role in preparing children for primary school. [More…]
Caring parents, thinking teachers and concerned employers have known Tor years that the so-called progressives have shortchanged our children in the classroom, but lacked the local statistics and documented evidence to refute the educational pundits and theorists, or to convince the deluded young practitioners who follow in their wake. [More…]
We must arrest this disturbing trend and eliminate the situation where children entering high school are incompetent in these basic skills. [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…]
What does one do with Moreland High School, which covers 1 V* acres and which has 700 or 800 children but which has no room for expansion. [More…]
What does one do about the thousands of children from overseas- the Turkish, Yugoslav and Lebanese children and the children whose natural language is Greek or Italian? [More…]
The State Government could find no satisfactory way of removing a school building, of handling the 1000 children for whom that school normally catered, and getting on with the job. [More…]
Money poured into the system for disadvantaged children of Australia often was disbursed geographically because it could not be handled in the areas where the problem concentrated. [More…]
While there will be only 8000 additional children in Victorian schools next February the Victorian Department of Educationothers will be in a similar situation- will have to provide 30 000 new places. [More…]
There seems to be a remarkable discrepancy- 8000 additional children as against 30 000 new places that will have to be provided. [More…]
I believe there would be great advantages in ensuring that teachers with these skills are put into schools where they can be used to explain to school children in their own language the concepts involved which the education system is trying to impart. [More…]
This would enable children to make the jump to the English language. [More…]
I have spoken to the staff of the local Mitcham High School, which is the school that takes most of the children at the hostel who are of secondary school age. [More…]
The staff reports that compared with most other migrant groups these school children are showing an exceptional ability to settle in and adapt to Austraiian cultural patterns despite the fact that one might think that they come from a rather different cultural background and that this might hamper them in their integration into the Australian community. [More…]
I know that I speak for all members of this House when I express our deepest sympathy to his family, to his wife and his children. [More…]
I join the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in expressing my sympathy and very deep regret to his wife and children. [More…]
Nothing pleased Ivor more than to return from a hectic week in the Federal Parliament and to see his children whom he had not seen for so long and was not able to be with because of his ministerial responsibilities over the period that he was in government. [More…]
I extend to Lola Greenwood and their 2 children, John and Deidre, my deepest personal sympathy. [More…]
I join with other honourable members in expressing my condolences to his widow Lola and to his children John and Deidre. [More…]
He talked then with enthusiastic anticipation of the planned visit with his wife and children to Hobart the following week and of the trip that we had planned for him to the magnificent South West National Park. [More…]
There are of course organisations called the Children of God, the Moonies, the Bubba Free John Movement, Hare Krishna, and the Universal Brotherhood, and others. [More…]
In addition, it extends the definition to include the children of de facto spouses and removes the existing requirement that, where a Social Services Act pensioner is involved made facto relationship, that relationship must have existed for 3 years before the de facto partner would be recognised as a dependant. [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…]
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…]
It is not available as a matter of course in country areas: We have many examples of dedicated parents who, at their own expense and on their own initiative and with great self-sacrifice of energy and time, transport their children to the nearest large centre of population to allow those children to have remedial teaching. [More…]
Surely, in justice, some money should be allocated to help those parents to transport their children. [More…]
It is true to say that any school system helps some children, but no system helps all children. [More…]
Another matter mentioned by some speakers in this debate was the isolated children’s allowance. [More…]
Employer, employee, new settler and politician- we are all Australians with one goal, a better place to live in and a share of the national wealth for our children and their children and for the future of our country. [More…]
-On behalf of the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, I present the report of the Committee titled Learning Difficulties in Children and Adults, together with the minutes of the proceedings. [More…]
A classroom teacher will, in the course of a normal career, encounter a very wide range of ability in children. [More…]
If the problem of underachievement in schools is to be contained then the answer lies in training the teachers to be able to cope with the learning difficulties that children have. [More…]
Teachers can qualify by completing courses of three or four years’ duration often providing them with a liberal education and yet not equipping them adequately to actually teach the skills of reading and numeration to children. [More…]
There is no way that sufficient specialist remedial teachers can be provided to deal with all the problems children have. [More…]
There should be pilot studies and evaluative procedures to ensure that integration benefits all children in the school, including children with learning difficulties, those who are average and those who are gifted. [More…]
Many parents complained of a lack of parent counselling or avenues of advice on sources of remedial help for their children. [More…]
This will involve continuing evaluation of the educational needs of migrant and Aboriginal communities, recognition of the important contribution that parents can make to their children’s education, the needs of isolated schools and communities, and the importance of cooperation between doctors, medical workers, teachers and parents of perceptually handicapped children. [More…]
Another area that the report refers to and makes specific representations about is that of education for migrant children and I acknowledge the special interest that the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) takes in this subject. [More…]
The Committee’s comment that it would like to be sure that departments of education make a great effort to recruit teachers, preferably from the relevant ethnic groups who are proficient in minority and migrant languages, who can converse with school children from ethnic minorities in their own language and with understanding of their background, is something that all governments should take into account. [More…]
The third and final area I want to refer to is that of children’s television. [More…]
There are advantages and disadvantages of children’s television as a teacher. [More…]
These 2 reports need to be read together in considering children’s television as a learning medium. [More…]
The mother and father were bazookaed out of their house and the children fled. [More…]
A few minutes ago I received a telephone call from a Mr Palazzolo reminding me that his daughter, Mrs Taweel, had arrived from Cyprus yesterday with her 4 children. [More…]
Many of them are supporting children and it is regrettable that the Government has not seen fit as a matter of common justice to provide some increase in this payment. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
I think that most honourable members in this House would know people who have handicapped children and would know the great strains, stresses and extra burdens that those people have to carry. [More…]
This benefit is payable to the parents or guardians of those unfortunate handicapped children who are under the age of 16 years. [More…]
I believe that it is desirable, if at all possible, that these children be kept in the atmosphere of the family home and not be institutionalised. [More…]
I believe that most of the parents of these children would prefer to keep their children in their own homes if at all possible. [More…]
Currently- I think that this was stated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman)- 86 homes or 1400 handicapped children are covered by this Act. [More…]
The allowance paid to dependent children is to remain at $7.50 a week. [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…]
Currently this benefit is being paid to 86 homes in respect of 1400 handicapped children. [More…]
The Government has also decided to increase the handicapped children’s allowance from $10 to $15 per week. [More…]
-I believe that it is of utmost importance that the community, through the Government, provide assistance at the family level for children requiring constant care and attention. [More…]
There has been some criticism, mainly through lack of understanding, that there has not been an increase in payment to handicapped children but in fact there has been a transfer of resources from the organisational level to the individual level. [More…]
A substantial increase in expenditure on salary subsidy as a result of extending the area covered by the subsidy to training centres and residential accommodation for handicapped children, and to activity therapy centres, was to be expected. [More…]
The rate of handicapped children’s allowances has been generously increased to try to overcome the impact of inflation, which is affecting families with handicapped children. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that all parties when in government show a great inclination to recognise the difficulties suffered by parents who have handicapped children. [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…]
The additional pension benefit for children was not taxable under any legislation introduced by the Labor Government. [More…]
The same kind of consideration applies to the additional pension benefit for children. [More…]
There are nearly 300 000 children who are direct beneficiaries of this kind of benefit. [More…]
I mentioned a little earlier that we find it thoroughly unacceptable that the Government has topped the practice that we initiated of regular increases in payments for dependent children of people entitled to social service benefits. [More…]
If one looks at a poverty scale concerning the period in which we were in government one will find overwhelmingly that most pension payments for individuals- the single person- for the family unit of a husband and wife and for the larger family units, including those with dependent children, were at or better than the poverty line by the time we had completed our term of office. [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…]
Asthmatic children are deprived of milk substitutes, and despite the incessant petitioning that has been going on in this Parliament for months nothing has been done to redress that grievance. [More…]
He expressed concern that in this Budget the Government had not increased the level of benefits available to children of pensioners. [More…]
I want to point out that the Government increased the benefits available to those children by 50 per cent. [More…]
The allowances under the family allowances scheme were made available not only to taxpayers, as were the rebates under the Labor Party’s rebate system, but to all families with dependent children. [More…]
As a result, 300 000 families with 800 000 children will receive family allowances in circumstances where those allowances in no way replace a tax benefit, because they were not taxpayers. [More…]
I found it necessary to make reference to the family allowances scheme as a whole to expose the dishonesty of the honourable member for Oxley in the manner in which he tried to deceive this House when presenting figures which implied that pensioners with dependent children - [More…]
Some of these family men with homes, wives and children to keep, have been employed at Bradford Kendall for up to 25 years. [More…]
These people do not magically change at 8.30 p.m. All the children who may be influenced or other people who may be badly excited by the nude form do not magically go to bed at 8.30 p.m. [More…]
Why in discussing the condolence motion on the death of Chairman Mao, was reference made to his deserting his wife and children, and that they were slaughtered? [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…]
Nowadays the children of Fairbridge are not necessarily from under-privileged homes. [More…]
Today they attend schools like any other children and learn a much wider variety of skills than in the days when the emphasis was exclusively on farming and domestics. [More…]
Moreover, where a family with more than 4 children migrates to Australia the additional children can be accommodated at Fairbridge. [More…]
In this respect Fairbridge plays a vital and extremely important role, because Commonwealth Hostels will not accept more than 4 children from one family. [More…]
Why cannot Commonwealth Hostels accommodate families with more than 4 children? [More…]
Children need the proximity of their parents at this time, and no less, parents need their children. [More…]
If there is a good reason why Commonwealth Hostels will not accept more than 4 children from one family, we in this House should know it. [More…]
F airbridge is open to the children of English migrants only. [More…]
Fairbridge is of extreme importance for English families with more than 4 children. [More…]
What happens to non-English families with more than 4 children who require Commonwealth hostel accommodation? [More…]
It would be tragic if the Commonwealth Government was not willing to build on his example and achievement by removing this inhuman and anomalous practice of limiting Commonwealth hostel accommodation to only 4 children from one family. [More…]
Allowances are made for a person with two or more children. [More…]
He has become part of the local community, his children go to a certain school, he is progressing in his own business enterprise or in the work in which he is employed and he is getting a higher income. [More…]
The inadequacy of public transport penalises the weaker members of the communityhousewives with young children, young children alone, teenagers, the elderly, the disabled and the poor. [More…]
Hardship caused to widows and dependent children and the innate complexity of the dual StateCommonwealth system of taxation giving rise to considerable administrative problems and costs in administration were also mentioned in the Asprey Committee report. [More…]
The level of funding provided by DAA in 1975-76 to pre-schools substantially conducted for the benefit of Aboriginal children is as follows: [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…]
Burketown Kindergarten Association- $46,010; Inala Save the Children Fund Branch-$74,600; Kindergarten Headstart $11,250; Creche and Kindergarten Association$22,500; Yelangi pre-school-$207,106; Bloomfield-$4,676; Cowal Creek-$49,266; Mornington Island-$ 13 1,090; Bamaga-$21,217; Thursday Island-$25,343; Lockhart River-$29,336; general and equipment grants-$ 109,709. [More…]
Aboriginal Social Club of Port Augusta-$30,650; Elizabeth Gooder Centre-$2,900; Kindergarten Union of S.A.-$ 15,700; Pukatja Community Inc. -$20,420; Save the Children Fund, Port Lincoln Branch-$15,188. [More…]
-I wish to ask a question of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications concerning children’s television. [More…]
Does the Green report refer to the declining standards of children’s television in Australia and does it make any recommendations in respect thereof? [More…]
The Queensland Sub-normal Children’s Welfare Association operates a school for sub-normal children at Ipswich where I live, in a very old building called Claremont, an historic building, a building totally unsuitable for use as a school for sub- normal children. [More…]
The money provided from the purchase would enable the Queensland Sub-normal Children’s Welfare Association to build a new school suitable for subnormal children, who are probably the most disabled and most disadvantaged children in our community. [More…]
Now that the subsidy has been reduced to $2 for $1, the Ipswich committee of the Queensland Sub-normal Children’s Welfare Association cannot afford to erect a school building. [More…]
When parents have about 6 or 7 children and it can be guaranteed that half of them will die before they are 2 years old, there is obviously a fundamental tendency for families to go for broke, so to speak, to increase the size of their families to the maximum extent in the hope that at least a reasonable number will survive and therefore be in a position to look after their parents in their old age. [More…]
Given that assumption, people should take extreme care not to think that there will be less duty to be paid by passing the whole of their estate from one spouse to the other on death instead of passing portion to their children at that stage. [More…]
Let us take the case of, say, a husband and wife and 3 children. [More…]
Under the proposed South Australian legislation the husband may feel that he will avoid duty by giving his estate wholly to his wife and leaving her the responsibility to pass it to their 3 children on her death. [More…]
Duty will then only be paid on the second passing of the estate from the wife to the children. [More…]
Under the old legislation the husband would probably have given a quarter to his wife and a quarter to each of his children. [More…]
Of course, this would depend on the size of the estate, but when his wife died she would undoubtedly pass the quarter she received or the remainder thereof to the children and they would have paid duty on that quarter, if it were a dutiable amount. [More…]
In South Australia, with ‘the sliding scale of duty payable depending on the size of the estate, it could quite easily occur that if the estate, as in my first proposition, goes as a whole to the wife and then on her death in one-third shares to the children, more duty will be paid on those 3 large estates than by the estate going in quarters to the wife and children and then the wife passing on her share when she dies. [More…]
Normal health and character requirements apply although they have been relaxed, where necessary, to permit medical checks to be undertaken in Australia by Lebanese spouses, dependent children and parents of Australian residents. [More…]
Since many pre-school children who have learning difficulties, such as the linguistically and economically disadvantaged, do not attend any educationally oriented institutions where such difficulties may be remedied, how and when does the Government intend to provide services in order that such children with difficulties will not be disadvantaged for the rest of their lives? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Post and Telecommunications aware that there is justified and growing public concern about the effects of television advertising upon children? [More…]
Does the Minister agree with my contention that television advertisements directed towards children or television advertisements in which children are used as promoters are psychologically damaging to children? [More…]
The resident medical officer for the Kimberleys, a servant of the State Government of Western Australia, revealed late in 1974 in a seminar that half of the Aboriginal children of the area were born with brain damage. [More…]
Of the 139 children under 1 checked, the figure was 62 percent [More…]
One in five of the children had perforated eardrums, easily the lowest rate of all the black communities visited. [More…]
The perforation rate was usually at least one in three, 70 per cent of children under 1 1 being affected in one area. [More…]
Undoubtedly malnutrition and the state of health of the children can in some ways and in some instances be directly related to the living conditions of the Aboriginal people and to the degree of alcoholism which occurs. [More…]
A study found that the death rate among newlyborn children on Cape York Peninsula was about twice as high as that in the Brisbane area. [More…]
How are we to overcome the neglect of children- the problem of children not being fed because their parents are drinking extensively, so much so that they cannot provide the care that is needed? [More…]
He is concerned that his family and children will have the same job opportunities that he has been able to enjoy. [More…]
It would be a very lucrative operation to set up a clinic of any description in a shopping centre and to provide a free medical service to every person one could get to agree, including groups of school children and anyone else who was passing by, whether the service was needed or not. [More…]
I refer to the standard of children’s television. [More…]
The House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties stated that there is a need to improve the overall quality of recreational and educational programs on television for children and that ‘there is evidence that television if used constructively can be beneficial in helping and motivating more people to read and can also be used in community education programs’. [More…]
I personally believe that television is a distraction for children and, as such, can inhibit children in becoming literate. [More…]
The habit of reading children a bedtime story regrettably is declining. [More…]
Morning and night, all television stations show unsuitable programs when children are viewing. [More…]
There is also a trend amongst young children to watch television early in the morning. [More…]
I suggest that probably many parents do not know that their children are creeping out to watch television early in the morning. [More…]
Some people say that the responsibility is on parents to control their children; but, whilst parents do have a role, the Government has a responsibility to ensure that proper standards are maintained. [More…]
I spoke to the Minister for Post and Telecommunications, who has just left the House, about this subject and he assured me that the Green report would not bring about a decline in the standard of children’s programs on television in Australia. [More…]
I have also discussed with the Minister the question of children’s television generally. [More…]
I have taken up with the Minister the question whether these can be made available and so add to the general debate on children’s television in Australia. [More…]
There are many people who are concerned about the standard of children’s television. [More…]
The Standing Commission on Television of the Victorian Council for Children’s Films and Television has been active and is seeking on all channels a time between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. when only appropriate children’s programs will be shown. [More…]
I commend the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) for raising what is a very important subject, namely, the quality of children’s television; but if he analyses it a little further he may find that the monopoly of the media in Australia has a great deal to do with the quality of presentation on radio and television. [More…]
There can be no doubt that it is the more legitimate complaint to talk about what is being served up for children, but everybody in Australia knows that if surveys are being taken of television stations at any given time the programs improve out of sight. [More…]
So, it is not just the children who are suffering from the presentation of programs by the media. [More…]
He suggested that we should supply skimmed milk powder and butter oil into that system to help needy people and children. [More…]
Tonight we heard the honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) speak about the quality of children’s television programs. [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…]
It is difficult enough for a parent of the last quarter of the twentieth century to raise children without having to fight commercially developed hang-ups relating to a false need to keep up with the Joneses. [More…]
Not only do we see small children in these advertisements chastising a parent for not using such and such a product, with the suggestion that the mother or father just does not know what she or he is doing, but also we see children, pumped by clever advertisers, being psyched into believing that if they do not have a particular toy their life is incomplete. [More…]
I wonder how many small children these days run home a moment after they fall over and scratch themselves and demand one of the famous products produced by the Johnson and Johnson organisation- the bandaid. [More…]
It might be appropriate to mention, although all the votes have not been counted, that President Ford had an advertisement on American television showing himself convincing a group of children of the virtues of voting for him. [More…]
At the same time we have an obligation not only to the present generation but also to our children and to their children to ensure that they have jobs which will give them a rewarding working life and that there will be places in Australia which people can enjoy for their leisure. [More…]
There were letters to the editor, letters containing cheques and revenue, and 3000-odd letters from ABBA fans, children who had been writing in on some kind of children’s competition. [More…]
It ought to be susceptible to community pressure by virtues of the composition I propose, namely, representatives from all the networksnational, commercial and public- as well as representatives from groups in the community such as those interested in children’s broadcasting and television, if you like, and other groups. [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral received reports as to the activities of a number of religious sects involving allegations of brainwashing and indoctrination of persons joining them and alienation of children from their parents? [More…]
I refer also to the subject of children’s educational television. [More…]
The Government forced commercial television stations to program in prime time children’s television programs which were subject to Government guidelines. [More…]
Principal among these are programs for disadvantaged country areas, to which I have just alluded, emergency aid for non-government schools in temporary financial difficulties, particularly in country areas, and grants for the education of children living in institutions. [More…]
The Government will be continuing the special purpose programs in 1977, generally at about the same level of activity as in 1976, for migrant and multi-cultural education; for disadvantaged schools; for handicapped children; for educational services and development; and for special projects. [More…]
Taxpayers’ funds which are being eaten up in unemployment benefits could be put to use for the needs of children. [More…]
That was indicated clearly in the earlier report of the Karmel Commission, which showed that people who were able to give additional financial support out of their own pockets could guarantee that their children would, in the main, complete the secondary course and be enabled to enter the tertiary field. [More…]
The children are the most important part of our heritage. [More…]
It is part of the Government’s thoughts that it ensures the future of those children and ensures that those children will be looked after and educated in a way which will solve the problems that would have occurred under the previous administration. [More…]
In drawing up the recommendations for the 1977 expenditure provision was made for the continuation of special purpose programs such as those for handicapped children, migrants and disadvantaged schools. [More…]
This is allied with a further substantial increase of SO per cent in the allocation of moneys to handicapped children which was brought down with the Budget and the real family allowance increase which was effective from the middle of June. [More…]
It is a great delight for me to sit down with my children, listen to what they are learning about and to read them the stories which are coming from the education system. [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…]
Talking more specifically now of the situation in Australia, in the early days the term ‘apprentice’ was applied to orphans and poor children who were used as cheap labour in farming occupations, husbandry and domestic service. [More…]
One of the revolutions for which I think we were responsible was free university education and I hope that honourable members opposite who may have had the advantage of it or whose children may have had the advantage of it will protect it. [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…]
I find it quite remarkable that a small country school can be battling to survive because it has perhaps 14 children, and if it drops below that number it will be closed. [More…]
Particularly I would like to deal with the area of specific learning difficulties and to draw the attention of the House to the problems of the children disadvantaged by these difficulties. [More…]
Secondly, many pre-school children who have learning difficulties do not go to pre-schools or any other educationally orientated place at which such difficulties may be remedied. [More…]
This includes such categories as linguistically disadvantaged migrant children, in whose welfare I have a particular concern, the economically disadvantaged and so on. [More…]
We need to know how and when the Government intends to provide services in order that such children with difficulties will not be disadvantaged for the rest of their lives. [More…]
For every month that passes more and more children reach that point of no return where it becomes too late to take such remedial action. [More…]
Those children are condemned to a life with little prospect. [More…]
They clearly show that a quarter of our children pass from primary to secondary school and on to the job market without ever acquiring the basic educational skills needed to take their place as functional members of the work force and citizen body. [More…]
Normal children should be able to read by the time they are seven. [More…]
In the far distant future children from my electorate of Melbourne will still be lamenting if the Minister does come to grips with the problem and lets the recommendation of the Committee go unheeded or shelved for the purpose of procrastination. [More…]
No one has been able satisfactorily to prove that there was ever a golden age in Australian education when standards of literacy were more satisfactory than they are at present; nor is it likely that we will ever have evidence to suggest that those in the generation of our grandfathers were better readers than those in our children’s generation. [More…]
What we can say with certainty- and this can be confirmed by the House of Representatives Select Committee of Specific Learning Difficultiesis that an enormous number of today’s children who clearly have the capacity to read are missing out on the learning process. [More…]
What matters is the decline which has occurred in literacy and the aspiration held by our community for all its children. [More…]
To do otherwise is to sell out our children on the basic freedoms of access to information, vocational choice and even political choice which literacy alone can confer. [More…]
It is readily obvious that the high proportion of Aboriginal and migrant children- particularly Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, as was indicated by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley)- who suffer from learning difficulties is seriously contributed to by general rather than specific problems. [More…]
There is a whole range of investigations taking place in all areas where migrant children go to school. [More…]
At the Stuart Park Primary School in Darwin there are 2 bilingual- Greekspeakingcommunity relations officers who are fundamental to the children in that area achieving to the maximum. [More…]
This action was to the detriment of the capacity and entitlement of the children in that area to be on equal ground with other children. [More…]
In Melbourne, where there is another screaming need for community relations officers, there are blocks of flats in which children are living in shocking circumstances. [More…]
In one block of flats in Collingwood, 80 per cent of the inhabitants are either unmarried or single mothers or deserted wives- women who are on their own trying to bring up their children. [More…]
It might well be that what is needed is a redistribution of resources for some period at least to catch up with and endeavour to relieve the plight of those in the underprivileged areas of our society- the Aboriginal children and the migrant children in particular. [More…]
We find migrant children in schools trying to cope with 2 languages- their native tongue and English. [More…]
If we are not prepared to do something about a redistribution of resources between now and the time when children from the primary schools are moving into the secondary school area, we will commit a number of these children into the wilderness in which other children find themselves. [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 have a special interest in this subject because of the work being done in the field of bilingual education for Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [More…]
We are teaching the children to read their own language for the first time. [More…]
There are families- men, women and children- involved. [More…]
It will be a better city, a city of more light and shade and, most importantly, a city with a diversity of employment opportunities for the children of its residents, which must be important to us all. [More…]
Study of the effects of alcohol and other dietary intakes on the development of the brain in unborn children. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government backed the action and this body began to develop the tact of not being divisive when it was on a station but of testing mum’s eyes, dad’s eyes and the children’s eyes and providing them with glasses and then having access to the Aborigines. [More…]
I have been thanked for being the founder of the isolated children’s grants and then denounced by the same people for extending scholarships to all Aboriginal children in the secondary level. [More…]
It can be proved that a family with an income of less than $150 after tax, after meeting essential living expenses, rental on a present residence, providing for children, has insufficient left for savings, particularly to the degree necessary to qualify for the maximum grant. [More…]
Having regard to the high interest which is being taken in the improvement of programs for children as well as those of more specific interest to women, and also the fact that considerably increased attention is being given to the social consequences of broadcasting, it has been decided to increase the minimum number of women on the commission to at least two. [More…]
It was later expanded to provide assistance to young widowed or divorced persons with dependent children. [More…]
The limitations of the present scheme- that applicants must be married or widowed or divorced with dependent children and under the age of 36, that migrants must have lived in Australia for 3 years; and that the value of the home must not exceed $22,500- have all been discarded. [More…]
We have seen increased safety risks, particularly with school children in buses. [More…]
Some of the 250 000 doses could have been available to my children, to the children of all honourable members and to children and adults throughout this country. [More…]
If a significant attack did come to Australia- for our children and their children may that never be- the cost to humanity and the cost to nationhood would be far far greater than any economic sacrifices we could make in the years to some. [More…]
In many cases people would be condemned to tragedy and hardship for the rest of their lives particularly the children of families if the breadwinners were involved. [More…]
The real problem is that nobody has taught our children the Constitution. [More…]
What facilities were made available by Telecom Australia or Australia Post to ATN Channel 7, Sydney, associated with the conduct of a recent telethon for the Children ‘s Medical Research Foundation. [More…]
Donations are being handled directly by the Children’s Medical Research Foundation administration using their prescribed procedures. [More…]
It means clearly that mothers will be paying a lot more for the clothing of their children and others in the household. [More…]
Clause 7, in addition to providing for some of the increases in benefits already mentioned, also includes provisions relating to the weekly payments in respect of dependent children in both death and incapacity cases. [More…]
Under these amendments such payments will be made in respect of children aged between 16 and 21 years who are full time students not ordinarily in employment. [More…]
Solar energy may be a solution to the energy problems of future generations but certainly not to our own or our children’s. [More…]
In conclusion, I urge the Government to take heed of the Fox Commission’s call for a full public debate before a decision is taken in respect of the establishment of new uranium mines and not to commit Australia to a role in the expansion of nuclear power which its citizens and their children may regret. [More…]
This man was tearing around the country saying that the Government was doing absolutely nothing about the health and welfare of Aboriginal children. [More…]
The Australian Council for Educational Research publication, entitled Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools, points to an alarming rate of deterioration in the literacy and numeracy of our school children. [More…]
Just a few examples of their findings will suffice to highlight the problem: Children who were required to write a simple narrative describing in words a picture sequence they viewed produced a 59 per cent failure rate; 9 per cent of children could not correctly add 9 and 6; 13 per cent could not subtract 9 from 17; and 27 per cent could not divide 56 by 7. [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…]
To suggest to this House and to the people of this country that teachers ought to say to children: You have no right to question these things; as your teacher my word is law’ is to place a teacher in the position of a person who rules a totalitarian country. [More…]
1 ) No data are available for women in the workforce with children under 5 years of age. [More…]
However, information relating to women in the workforce with children aged 0-5 years, i.e. [More…]
277,200 women in the workforce were responsible for children under 6 years of age, and [More…]
these women represented 27.1 per cent of women in the population who were responsible for children under 6 years of age. [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…]
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…]
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics population estimates for June 1 975 put the number of children aged 0-4 years, i.e. [More…]
under 5 years at 1 262 448 and the number of children aged 5 years at 250 135 making a total of 1 512 583 children aged 0-5 years, i.e. [More…]
The corresponding estimates for June 1973 were 1 277 280 and 238 824 respectively, making a total of I 516 104 children under 6 years of age. [More…]
Statistics are not available for the numbers of children under 5 years of age who have mothers in the workforce. [More…]
However, the May 1973 survey conducted by the then Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics revealed that 374 200 children aged 0-5 years, i.e. [More…]
under 6 years of age, were the responsibility of persons in the workforce, representing 2 7.7 per cent of total children in that age group. [More…]
The survey did not provide a breakdown to show separately the number of children who were the responsibility of females in the workforce, and the number who were the responsibility of males in the workforce. [More…]
Unfortunately, there are a good many men, women and children in this industry in Australia who are probably as impoverished as any other sector of the Australian community. [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…]
Another provision of the Bill will give effect to the announcement I made last month of the Government’s decision to exempt from tax the income derived by the Thalidomide Foundation as trustee for thalidomide afflicted children. [More…]
As a consequence of the exemption each of the children will be exempt from tax on his or her share in the income of the Foundation. [More…]
I go further to make this observation: Quite apart from the fact that in neither of these 2 reports are any critical comments made of Ministers- that includes my friend the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden)- critical things are said in the book of unfortunate officials and servicemen in Darwin who, in many cases, with their wives and children, felt the full fury of cyclone Tracy. [More…]
I might add that this formula is taken from the former Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 when it was used in relation to the children of a marriage. [More…]
In fairness to the Arbitrator I put it to the Minister that he ought to adopt a provision which has found legal utilisation and legal effectiveness given in respect of children who would otherwise be disadvantaged in the matrimonial legislation. [More…]
If so, how many children have gained dual Australian citizenship in this manner during each year since 1970 and with what other countries is this dual citizenship shared. [More…]
Children have, however, been born in Australia to women- both British and alien- who were granted visitor entry for other purposes. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that, with the abolition of dependant taxation claims, children can now earn over $2,500 without increasing their parents’ or guardians’ net income tax, and that many families have transferred investments and investment income into discretionary trusts so that their children can earn the income from these investments. [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…]
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…]
Recurrent support forpre-school education services under the Commonwealth Government’s Children’s Services Program is directed towards the salary costs of both pre-school teachers and assistants. [More…]
The Committee acknowledged that there was a need for cow’s milk substitutes for some children who are allergic to cow’s milk. [More…]
I ask: How many officers of his Department were involved in the raid on Children of God communes on the night of 29 November? [More…]
Was the prime purpose of the raids to harass and gather information about the Children of God? [More…]
Acting upon information which came to my Department, visits were made to communes which were occupied by people who described themselves as ‘The Children of God ‘. [More…]
Our children and our children’s children will be infinitely better citizens if they are cared for and brought up in the atmosphere of a home that is the property of the family. [More…]
I think we should look at a means of providing this health-giving food, fruit- apples and pears in particular- to the consumers in this nation at a cheaper rate so that the families, the children in particular, can enjoy and benefit from the fruit available to them. [More…]
Two children appeared in the Children’s Court Brisbane and were admonished by the Special Magistrate and discharged under the provisions of the Children’s Services Act. [More…]
The proposal is for the construction of an airconditioned primary school for 480 students plus 50 pre-school children. [More…]
Indulgent parents can ensure that their children receive every possible advantage. [More…]
They will not have the capacity to pass handouts on to their children so that they can have a lump of money which will attract this subsidy. [More…]
Then, if they have to reduce payments when the children come along, it is possible to do so. [More…]
It also increases payments in respect of dependent children of a deceased employee from $7 a week to $10 a week. [More…]
When one looks at comparative State legislation one can see that no State offers higher benefit for children of deceased employees than is provided in the Bill- that is, $ 10 a week, subject to a minimum of $1,000. [More…]
(a) Based on the 1971 Census figures and allowing for subsequent arrivals and natural increase as a result of birth of children in Australia it is estimated that there were about 53 000 people of Lebanese descent in this country as at 30 January 1976. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a statement by the Minister for Social Security relating to the children’s services program which will provide care for school age children during the coming Christmas school vacation. [More…]
In the body of the journal calculations are given for a taxpayer with a wife and 2 children. [More…]
My Association has been assisting a deceased member’s widow- with 3 dependent children- with her legal representation after her husband died in November 1973. [More…]
She was not thrown out of it on to the street but when she was asked to vacate the home she did so immediately and went to live in a caravan with her children. [More…]
Thirdly, clause 8 sub-clause (1) introduces benefits for student children aged 16 to 21 years. [More…]
We tried it in the area of children’s programs which I mentioned in a speech earlier when the guidelines for commercial television stations were set down. [More…]
Some expensive children’s programs were made but nobody watched them. [More…]
In recent weeks there has been growing concern in this country about the quality and effect of advertisements shown during what might be described as children’s hours, that part of the day set aside for viewing by children. [More…]
Children are frequently used in the advertisements and the advertisements are frequently directed towards children. [More…]
It would therefore seem that advertisements directed towards children pay handsome dividends. [More…]
Returning to the point regarding children being used as actors and being the focal point of advertisements, I believe there is a growing awareness in the community of what is happening in this area. [More…]
The only other point I make is that guidelines should be given to the Tribunal concerning children’s programs. [More…]
House has seen the so-called children’s programs shown during children’s hours. [More…]
They are not children’s programs. [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…]
All we are simply saying is that we believe it is necessary and desirable- bearing in mind the social impact, the educational impact and the concern for children in society- that at least two of the 9 people be women. [More…]
Some honourable members on the other side of the chamber, in earlier discussions, were speaking about the Opposition’s ignoring the need for children’s television. [More…]
The worst feature of the moment is fact that while I’m out milking and my wife is working, who looks after the 3 young children until the wife gets home? [More…]
The children have to help quite a lot. [More…]
Our son has been working on the farm for 4 years but with the economic problem he has had to find work away and it means that his work has to be done by the younger children still at school. [More…]
I have 6 children, I have been unable to work my property because of a disability for 8 years. [More…]
I have 3 children under 14 years. [More…]
My wife and family are milking, etc., as our income is at least $3,500 down and with student children, 18, 16 and 10 years, find it hard to make ends meet on a farm of150 acres milking 85 cows with low butterfat prices. [More…]
Any observer of the educational scene in Australia, indeed any parent with a number of children who passed through the State educational system within the last 10 years, knows very well that literacy and numeracy have been progressively de-emphasised and diluted by the inclusion of numerous laudable-sounding but vague and often meaningless aims’. [More…]
Nor does it appear to be in the list of virtues instilled into children by many teachers, or by many parents at home. [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…]
With classrooms where quiet attentiveness while a teacher teaches is a rarity, what hope have children of having fundamentals like good spelling, basic numeracy, and simply reading ability instilled into their young minds? [More…]
If honourable members have ever listened- as I have often have- to children discussing their teachers respect are those who will not stand for any rubbish, who insist on attentiveness in class and on a standard of disciplined behaviour. [More…]
The teachers the children laugh at and ridicule are the ones who demand no respect from their pupils. [More…]
Following the High Court’s decision in Russell v. Russell on the Family Law Act, the Standing Committee of Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General considered the question of uniform State and Territory legislation in the areas of matrimonial property and also maintenance and custody of children to the extent not covered by the Family Law Act. [More…]
The proposal for uniform matrimonial property legislation was referred to the Queensland Law Reform Commission for a report, and that uniform legislation on maintenance and custody of children outside the Family Law Act was referred to the Family Law Council, which has now been established and is due to hold its first meeting later this month. [More…]
Creating more livable, attractive and efficient settlements which recognise human scale, the heritage and culture of people and the special needs of disadvantaged groups especially children, women and the infirm m order to ensure the provision of health, services, education, food and employment within a framework of social justice; [More…]
children. [More…]
children and their parents. [More…]
I refer to the wholesale murder of men, women and children which has been perpetrated and which is still being perpetrated by the Cambodian communist regime for the purpose of terrorising the Cambodian people. [More…]
Has the Government any details of the recent incident when 26 Cambodian refugees, including children, were returned across the border by the Thai authorities and are said to have been forthwith beheaded by the Khmer Rouge, that is, the Cambodian communists? [More…]
He says that the poverty line for a man and his wife with 2 children going to a man and his wife with 4 children with the wife not working can go from $120 to $140 a week, averaged throughout Australia. [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…]
Australians have suffered a fall in real incomes, in their real living standards, in the quality of their lives, in their expectations for themselves and their children. [More…]
Take the case of the average wage earner with a dependent wife and 2 children. [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…]
In that way this Government has been able to assist some 300 000 low income families and 800 000 children of those families. [More…]
Under this Government more and more people are being forced not just below average weekly earnings but below the poverty line of $140 a week for a man and his wife and 4 children, as described by Professor Henderson. [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…]
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…]
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them. [More…]
But in Australian schools these children are as likely as not to be classed as dyslexics, and the moral responsibility for teaching them is offloaded on remedial reading staff outside the normal classroom. [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…]
But in the short term, if we do not act and act quickly, children are going to be committed to a lifetime of the emptiness that goes with failing to achieve progress in the literacy and numeracy area. [More…]
In chapter 2 of the report the Committee recommends that the incidence of learning difficulties among Australian school children should be determined at regular intervals by a nation-wide survey based on similar principles to the ACER study on ‘Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools’. [More…]
It proposes amendments to the legislation of some States which denies the responsibility of education departments to provide educational services to handicapped children. [More…]
The longer the delay the greater the number of children there will be whose futures are blighted and whose development will be stunted. [More…]
-I rise with great pleasure to speak on the report entitled Learning Difficulties in Children and Adults’, which is the report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties. [More…]
For instance, migrant children have problems, as do non-migrant children. [More…]
But I think that the problems of migrant children are perhaps more magnified than the problems of many Australian children because when children of migrant families go home at night, they probably converse in the native tongue of their parents. [More…]
I am old-fashioned enough to believe that this is fairly important in the process of teaching children to read. [More…]
In relation to migrant children, the Committee recommended: [More…]
I have referred to the problems of migrant children and migrant education by way of teacher training. [More…]
The incidence of learning difficulties among Australian school children should be determined at regular intervals by a nation-wide survey based on similar principles to the ACER study 1 Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools ‘. [More…]
I contrast this situation with paragraph 585 of the report entitled Children and their Primary Schools- the so-called Plowden report- published in the U.K. [More…]
Children of eleven have advanced by an average of 1 7 months since the first report was made, and backwardness now has a different connotation from that which it had in 1948. [More…]
The most important which remain are: what can be done to help the minority of children for whom learning to read is a slow business and for a few never achieved? [More…]
I hope its study of the capacity of Australian children in that regard will be noted. [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…]
In other words, children and young people do catch from adults a value placed on education. [More…]
One is that children have deliberately chosen to transfer to them because they want to get on with work. [More…]
How much of society’s resources ought to be provided to bring children and adults with the more difficult learning problem up to that level where society will see them live reasonably full lives? [More…]
It is essential that anything that is done- many things ought to be done- is evaluated carefully so that not only will we help some children in the immediate future but also we will build up knowledge with which we can help children in the more distant future. [More…]
I found that it was advice to no fewer than 23 different organisations involved with education-the 3 arms of government, the research institutions, the Schools Commission and many other organisations which have responsibility for the education of our children- including obviously, the State Education Departments. [More…]
The first one is that we do something about legislation in some of the States which denies the responsibility of education departments to provide educational services to handicapped children. [More…]
This has been one of the most callous areas of Australian education- the ignoring of our duty to handicapped children and to the parents of those children. [More…]
It has been an area of neglect over most of Australia, and it will be only through the action of some supranational authority that we will get equal opportunity in that field for those children. [More…]
The third point is the situation of the Aboriginal children of Australia. [More…]
Governments pre- 1972 took some steps which gave some hope to the Aboriginal children in that they established, I think, secondary grants. [More…]
The report which is concerned with the learning difficulties of children and adults consolidates some 4000 pages of public evidence and 400 submissions. [More…]
It was brought to our notice that one of the local service clubs in the small Queensland country town of Cunnamulla had donated $1,000 for the provision of a remedial teacher to bring this type of education to the children of the outback. [More…]
I express the hope that when governments get around to doing something positive about this matter they will do something about the requirements of isolated children. [More…]
I hope that governments will not just think of children in the metropolitan areas but they they will also have regard for children in isolated areas and the children of the Aboriginal community. [More…]
The needs of these children are very important and they are entitled to receive an adequate amount of resources to upgrade their education requirements. [More…]
The report pointed out that each of these 3 different areas has a great part to play in helping children as well as adults to play a useful part as members of the community and to develop fluency in expression, arithmetic and all the associated arts. [More…]
It is interesting to note that 25 per cent of children are in need of special assistance. [More…]
It is most regrettable that 10 000 children will leave school each year without the simple skills and 20 000 children will not have the ability to do simple multiplication, subtraction and so on. [More…]
A chorus of witnesses drew attention, as they saw it, to the problem of the inability of teachers to teach children. [More…]
Mr L. W. Engledow (Canberra Theatre Trust), Mr T. Z. Whitgob (Canberra Theatre Trust and Canberra Opera Society), Mr D. Walsh (Canberra Children’s Theatre Inc. and the Arts Council (ACT Division)). [More…]
Does the classification include Australian-born children of persons born outside Australia. [More…]
These adjustments involved the cost of indexation and the additional increase in the rebates for spouses and sole parents, estimated at $1,01 lm, the yield from the health insurance levy ($208) and the gain from the withdrawal of income tax rebates in respect of dependent children and students ($428m). [More…]
At the same dme married trainees with one or more dependent children are, as a result of the same revision, receiving more than they did previously from NEAT, provided income available to them from other sources does not exceed the amounts allowed by the income test which is applied to the allowances. [More…]
1 ) How many mothers in the electoral division of Sydney with children aged (a) 1 to 5 years, (b) 6 to 10 years, (c) 1 1 to 15 years and (d) 16 and over are in receipt of family allowance. [More…]
) How many children are there in the division in each of the age groups in part ( 1 ). [More…]
No information is available on the numbers of mothers in receipt of family allowances cross-classified with the ages of children. [More…]
It is estimated that there were 22 130 children in these families, for whom family allowance were paid. [More…]
Are free tickets given to those, such as pensioners and children, who may not otherwise be able to afford to attend presentations by these bodies. [More…]
Free tickets are not normally given to pensioners and children, but tickets at reduced prices are available to these groups. [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…]
3 ) How many of the children referred to in parts ( 1 ) and (2) were: [More…]
Aboriginal children and [More…]
non-Aboriginal children. [More…]
Statistics of the numbers of children in respect of whom family allowances were increased but income tax rebates for dependants were not allowed in the 1975-76 income year are not available. [More…]
However, on a very broad estimate it would appear that the children concerned numbered between 600 000 and 700 000. [More…]
Aboriginal children are not distinguished from other children for purposes connected with family allowances or the allowance of child rebates. [More…]
and (5) Rebates for dependent children were abolished with effect from 1 July 1976. [More…]
What is the proportion of children receiving financial assistance from Commonwealth revenue sources and what is the proportion of students of the relevant age receiving such assistance generally for the electoral division of Melbourne. [More…]
There is a capacity for all school children at Exhibition High School and in the Electorate of Melbourne to receive financial assistance from the Commonwealth. [More…]
I refer to the work carried out by the New South Wales Save the Children Fund. [More…]
Since 1972 the Save the Children Fund has operated 13 centres for Aboriginal pre-school children aged from three to five years. [More…]
The Save the Children Fund not only runs the pre-schools but also provides free transport to the pre-schools and a well diet balanced lunch. [More…]
For many of the children this is the only proper meal they receive throughout the whole of the day. [More…]
I emphasise that the scheme was introduced after the Save the Children Fund people had realised that one cannot teach hungry children. [More…]
I know that many people even in my electorate say that the Aboriginals themselves should provide their own transport and food for their children. [More…]
In any case we all know that it is not the fault of the children. [More…]
I believe that the children are entitled to a decent start in life. [More…]
I say this because a report from all centres carried out by the Save the Children Fund shows that the free lunch introduced children to sitting at tables and using utensils which they often do not have at home. [More…]
Many centres reported that the main diet of most of the children was fish and chips. [More…]
My observation, particularly where the children had drinking parents, is that most of their diet is chips and bread. [More…]
The Save the Children Fund also discovered that a balanced meal reduced the incidence of disease and susceptibility to worms and influenza. [More…]
In addition it assisted the children to communicate with each other. [More…]
I bring this matter before the Parliament because when 40 of the Save the Children Fund assistants attended a seminar in Sydney the Aboriginal Affairs Director in New South Wales, Mr Martin, questioned the transport and feeding policies of the Save the Children Fund. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs to continue their interest in the Aborigines in my electorate and not to allow any interference to the transport and feeding policies which are doing so much for the advancement of Aboriginal children. [More…]
Children of God: Raid on Communes (Question No. [More…]
1 ) How many departmental officers were involved in the raids on Children of God communes on 29 November 1 976. [More…]
51 immigration officers visited premises occupied by the Children of God on 29 November 1 976. [More…]
1239 that all passengers, including children, riding in a motor vehicle must wear seat belts when provided. [More…]
This means that in the interest of safety, children often are kept at home or within the close proximity of their home by parents. [More…]
This is not only because of the lack of proximity to physical recreational facilities but also because of the lack of time available to take children to the limited facilities available. [More…]
In this peculiar physical environment there has been developed a project to take children from the narrow physical environment in which they move to the limited open space that is available and, when at this open space, to confront their senses with new opportunities, with innovative toys, with toys of a size and scale which no home, not even the most affluent one, generally has, and with games that excite the imagination. [More…]
It is a project designed to open up to the children of families which are amongst the most deprived in our community an opportunity for at least some recreation which can develop their intelligence and their senses. [More…]
This is done through a bus which moves around the district, picks up children and takes them to other areas under supervision. [More…]
It caters not only for children who are taken from one place to the other but also for children in the immediate vicinity that the bus visits. [More…]
-The children need love and care. [More…]
It meant that no children were born brain-damaged. [More…]
Pensions payable to widows and the additional pension payable in respect of eligible children will be adjusted on the same basis. [More…]
Appropriate adjustments will also be made to the additional component of pensions payable to children. [More…]
He is frightened that this section might show the working people of Australia that they have rights against people of privilege who pull them out on bans that work very much against their best interests as breadwinners; as people who want to go to work; as people who want to buy consumer goods, and as people who have children to raise. [More…]
Members of the Australian Workers Union working on the lower Molonglo water treatment works told me last week that they are sick to death of being pulled out when they want to take home some pay for their wives and children. [More…]
They worked hard and long and raised their children here. [More…]
His children attend a free school. [More…]
If you think you are going to force the 5000 jobless in my electorate and in the electorates of Paterson, Hunter and Lyne, thenwives and their children into the streets, you are not going to succeed. [More…]
Are allegations against The Children of God concerning brainwashing, psychiatric damage to young people, exploitation of young people financially involving sums up to $2,500 and heavy sado-masochistic sexual emphasis in its literature matters within the jurisdiction of a State Parliament rather than the Commonwealth Parliament? [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral indicate whether his Department is investigating the Children of God or whether it is a matter far more appropriately left to State parliamentary inquiries? [More…]
Would such a parliamentary inquiry at the State level give the Children of God full, fair and ample opportunity to answer the allegations made against them? [More…]
Other benefits include sums to dependent relatives and children of deceased persons and the payment of funeral expenses. [More…]
I represent one of those divisions, and the vast bulk of my constituency work is concerned with representing the very great needs of persons who have come from overseas to make new lives in this country for themselves and their children. [More…]
I came to talk about the needs of human beings not all of whom, as I stressed, are yet citizens of this country, but many of whom want to become citizens and want their children to become citizens. [More…]
Those children are educated under the migrant education programs- programs which honourable members opposite know nothing about and programs which they oppose at every turn. [More…]
What are the present guidelines for children’s television programs to be telecast on both Australian Broadcasting Commission and commercial stations. [More…]
The present guidelines for children’s television programs are those which were drawn up by the former Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
These were published by the Board in a booklet entitled ‘Television Program Standards’ in which standards relating to children’s television programs may be found in paragraphs 1 1 to 16. [More…]
A Commitee set up by the Board in 1971 (the Children’s Television Advisory Committee) produced a report entitled Production Guidelines for Children’s Television Programs’. [More…]
This report was published with the intent of providing broadcasters and television production companies with guidelines in the production of better children ‘s programs. [More…]
not to proclaim sections 3 to 8 and 10 to 34 of the Children ‘s Commission Act 1 975. [More…]
The Prime Minister announced in this House on 2 June 1976 that the Government would not proclaim the Children’s Commission Act. [More…]
Has the attention of the Attorney-General been referred to recent reports that undesirable pornographic literature using children has been on sale in shops in Sydney and Melbourne? [More…]
It is literature which represents children in various sexual poses. [More…]
Having looked at the literature which is alleged to be of the same character I have certainly formed the view that it is literature that ought not to be available anywhere in Australia because it exploits young children. [More…]
That is with 80 per cent wage indexation and a 2 per cent increase outside indexation- while in after-tax terms (for a man with a dependent wife and two children, and including Medibank payments) the decline over this period is likely to bc 5 to 6 per cent, with the heaviest falls concentrated in the final quarter of 1976 and the first quarter of 1977. [More…]
What he is being told is that for a man with a dependent wife and 2 dependent children household disposable income is falling markedly at present and is likely to fall heavily over the 3-year period, but particularly in the last quarter of 1976 and the first quarter of 1977. [More…]
The Government should not try to argue that it can cut real wage levels without it really affecting household disposable income because of what it has done by way of tax indexation and family allowances, which were largely offset by the abolition of tax rebates for children anyway. [More…]
Anybody who is trying to live on a minimum wage of $ 101- from recollection I think that is the figure and I note that the honourable member for Gellibrand agrees with me that that amount is correct- and having to rear and educate children just cannot possibly get his head above the poverty level. [More…]
For example, in 1 97 1 an average family comprising a man, his wife and 2 children received a real income of $68.30 a week. [More…]
At the same time, a married man with 5 children would receive over $6,000 including his family allowance. [More…]
As we follow what the Minister for Transport has done and said nation-wide and what the honourable member for Braddon has suggested, the following situation emerges: The Minister for Transport has put people out of work; the honourable member for Braddon now says: If those people who are out of work seek some level of assistance to pay off their homes to feed their children and to educate their families, is it not reasonable that they should go out and dig some holes in the road, clean up some parks, or do some other kind of public work? [More…]
I draw to the attention of the chamber the case of a family with 4 children. [More…]
That constituent is experiencing great difficulty, with the present level of sickness benefit, in simply meeting his day-to-day commitments for educating his children and making his house payments. [More…]
3, relating again to a average young Australian couple- a tradesman with 4 young children who has been thrown out of work by the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd and who is unable to get work. [More…]
It would be a market for the little man, the person who we really want to get to subscribe to the bonds and who by subscribing would have the security of his income for life protected against the erosion of inflation, and the return of capital after death to his estate for the benefit of his children again would be protected from any inflation erosion. [More…]
I suggest that this is something which would be attractive to many people and particularly to many people who would like to split their capital and put some of it into bonds so that their children would have it erosion proof at the time of the investor’s death and some of it into an erosion proof annuity which would pay of course at a great deal higher rate than the bond rate so that they would have that at the higher income during the course of their life. [More…]
The throats of numerous children were slashed by the Khmer Rouge forces. [More…]
Many of the people already in Cyprus were category A immigrants, that is, mothers, fathers or dependent children of Lebanese people living in Australia. [More…]
Young children who do not know a word of English have to go to school but not enough teachers of English as a second language are being provided. [More…]
That resulted in the sponsorship of some 4300 spouses, children and parents and their dependent children. [More…]
We will pass on a sorry state of affairs to our children and to future generations. [More…]
In other words, the man who moves to a new city or town, the family that voluntarily travels interstate, the breadwinner who returns to work after disability or illness, the employee who resigns because of poor wages or conditions or to seek new opportunities, the person who quits work to care for children or a relative- no such person, whatever his or her needs, would receive any help from the community if he could not get work. [More…]
Clearly the people who sit on my geographical left- never shall they sit on my political left- apparently do not have in their electorates children whose parents were born in Australia. [More…]
They should represent an area such as that which I represent, which is the most populous electorate in Victoria and which shares with other metropolitan areas a very high percentage of children who were not born in Australia and, of course, whose parents were not born in Australia. [More…]
That school has an enrolment of 390 children. [More…]
Of those 390 children, 1 10 have parents who were born overseas. [More…]
Of that one-third of school children the parents of one-half do not speak English in the home. [More…]
Take it from there and what you have really is 110 children at that school who need special attention. [More…]
That school used to have a teacher who had an understanding of languages and who was able to communicate with these children and pass on knowledge to them. [More…]
Those 1 10 children have to do the best they can to muddle their way through the education system. [More…]
The children in that area have a real difficulty in understanding what their teacher is saying to them because the language is strange. [More…]
No matter where their parents were born those children are Australian students. [More…]
Telephones give families, particularly the women and children, a sense of security so necessary in remote areas. [More…]
It is relatively easy for men to live in the bush, but for our women and children it is a lot harder. [More…]
So Australia’s heavily burdened taxpayers are subsidising the profits of those engaged in the sole business of killing unborn children. [More…]
His profit is being made from a trade that deals death to Australia’s most desirable prospective citizens- innocent unborn children. [More…]
Within my electorate, at Revesby, there is a school called the Caroline Chisholm Special School which is attended by SO children who are fairly heavily retarded and who come from an area of approximately 100 square miles. [More…]
Most of these children leave school at around 16 to 17 years of age with certain skills; but those skills are not sufficient for them to go out into the wide world and into industry. [More…]
What is the opening for children such as these? [More…]
This problem was causing real concern to the parents of these children. [More…]
So the children who would be leaving this school would have nowhere to go. [More…]
They decided to try to set up a sheltered workshop for the children from this school and for others. [More…]
The question was: What was to happen to the children who would leave school this year? [More…]
After they discussed the matter with me, we tried to find out and to work out how we could set up some type of activity centre for these children when they left school, because they are not employable in the normal sense in outside industry. [More…]
It seemed that there would be no hope for the future, certainly not until after 30 June 1979, to set up something for these children. [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…]
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…]
There have also been disturbing reports from within Indonesia, including the remark to the press by Lopes da Cruz, a former UDT leader, who is now deputy governor of the provincial government of East Timor, early last year that 50 000 to 60 000 people ‘mostly women and children’ had been killed, and the report from church aid workers in Indonesia that in October last year as many as 100 000 Timorese, or about one sixth of the population may have been killed in the brutal military operation against this territory. [More…]
They told me of the frightening experience of 1 967 when they looked up in the morning and saw hundreds of Syrian tanks facing them a few hundred yards away from their families and children. [More…]
It is something else again when one’s wife and children are sitting in that home. [More…]
But it is not their children or family who will be exterminated if war breaks out again and if terrorists are allowed to return to the same areas and continue to do the same things. [More…]
They have gone as far as the murder of children, the murder of athletes and the blowing up of innocent civilians- people who often have had nothing to do with the thing, who are not Jewish, Israeli or whatever. [More…]
Children born in China had to be sold by the pound in the streets by their mothers. [More…]
These children were loved by their mothers just as much as white mothers love their children but they had to be sold because their parents could not afford to rear them. [More…]
-Tonight I wish to refer to an organisation for which I have a very great admiration, namely, the Isolated Children’s Parents Association. [More…]
So many of these children, of course, had to do that. [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…]
This decision has resulted in the arrival of over 3.3 million new settlers who, together with their children born in Australia, have been responsible for about half of Australia’s post-war growth from 7.4 million to 13.9 million people today. [More…]
Instead of counting voters, Labor would have counted the youngest babies, it would have counted children, it would have counted visitors to the country, it would have counted unnaturalised migrants and it would have counted aliens. [More…]
In 1912 in Western Australia there was an influx of Aboriginal children into white schools. [More…]
Many eligible Aboriginal children are still not enrolled in secondary education. [More…]
As you may well know, Mr President, railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by engines, which in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. [More…]
I refer to another matter that was introduced by myself as Minister for Education, the bilingual program for Aboriginal children. [More…]
They have researched into the process of learning to read on the part of young children and have established that many class primers and readers are couched in language totally unfamiliar to the children concerned- usually those who are finding difficulty in establishing literacy. [More…]
With computers they have determined the words in regular use among the children and have found that with reading material building upon this familiar basis the acquisition of literacy is accelerated on the part of children who are finding difficulty. [More…]
If these learning problems exist for children whose mother tongue is English and the medium of education is English, how crushing must be the problem of Aboriginal children, whose mother tongue is not English, who have no English, but whose medium of instruction in the school is English?. [More…]
When I was Minister for Education I went into the Northern Territory and went into the classroom where the Aboriginal children were being spoken to in their own language by the teacher. [More…]
When I went into class rooms where the medium for instruction was English and the Aboriginal children who did not have any English were struggling to understand what was being said everyone swung round immediately and looked at the party that had come into the back of the room because their attention span was nil and what they were engaged in was a miserable struggle which in no circumstances will ever establish literacy. [More…]
It has been established that if children first establish literacy in the mother tongue they can switch more readily to a second language. [More…]
The Lapps were having Swedish imposed on them in exactly the same way as we have imposed English on Aboriginal children. [More…]
Dubbed into French, the film has inspired the project that Indo-Chinese refugee children in France may have the benefits of a bilingual program. [More…]
The first was that it revealed incidentally and unintentionally the poverty, ill health and abject conditions of Aboriginal children. [More…]
I appeal- to the Government to look at this question of the staff ceilings as they apply in a case such as the one I have mentioned to see whether this absolutely valuable educational procedure, which is going to give those Aboriginal children a real command of English by establishing literacy in the first place in their own languages, can be exempted from the staff ceiling because it is a new program that has to expand and additional staff have to be recruited. [More…]
In the present Federalism impasse, Regional Councils are the ignored children of both levels of Government. [More…]
The Government took away the taxation concession for children. [More…]
In fact every tax payer with dependent children in Australia this year pays between $2 and $3 a week in tax more than he would have had to pay if the Government had not introduced the changes. [More…]
In the electorate of the honourable member for Holt (Mr Yates) there is a group which, without assistance from any government source, every Saturday morning has about 250 children attending classes in the Yugoslav language- in basic SerboCroatianand cultural acitivities. [More…]
There is a primary school in my electorate at which 70 per cent of the children are of Greek, Yugoslav or Italian origin. [More…]
Children, especially non-English speaking children who come to Australia and who are in their middle school years, are at an extraordinary disadvantage from which it is almost impossible for them to recover. [More…]
That means that the resources to house them, to give them jobs, to provide their children with education and to provide security to the older sections of the family who ought to have proper reunion rights must be made available to those people, hopefully in family units. [More…]
The report also refers to the practice of promoting children from one level to the next irrespective of performance and the problems that that creates. [More…]
I do not think that the Government will come up with any ideas that will attract a woman to have more children than she desires when she is first married and to give up the opportunity of going back to work. [More…]
As against that, none of us who have children ut school are training them for or hoping that they will be able to get a job on the assembly line. [More…]
We are not training our children either at school or in the home to take jobs in labour intensive industries. [More…]
As the Minister said when he introduced the Green Paper into the Parliament, the previous immigration policy which has operated in this country for nearly 30 years was responsible for bringing to Australia over 3.3 million new settlers who, together with their children born in Australia subsequent to their arrival, have been responsible for about half of Australia’s postwar growth from 7.4 million to 13.9 million people. [More…]
I often feel that it has overtones of 1984 that anybody should presume to tell me or any other Australian how many children I or they are to have. [More…]
It has pointed out to the community at large that poor parents send their children to these schools and that they have a just claim on the public dollar in the same way as has the public education system. [More…]
The plight of the migrant children should be well known by now. [More…]
Because of the confusion about teachers’ qualifications, the bureaucracy, language difficulties and cultural peculiarities, time and time again we see migrant children discriminated against. [More…]
It shows his attitude to migrant children when he treats what I am saying as blithely as he does. [More…]
The direct result of that is that the children who are trying to put their backsides on 2 stools, who are losing their mother tongue, who are trying to learn the English language, and who cannot get a text book to be able to compete on an even basis with English-speaking children are discriminated against. [More…]
Whilst our friends on the other side of the House may laugh their heads off, it is a fact that parents of the children concerned do not think it is terribly funny. [More…]
They are very incensed about the attitude of this Government, which has cut the amount made available for educating migrant children in Australia in general. [More…]
The needs of migrant children will not be met unless the Victorian Government is able to provide the extra teachers. [More…]
It is a disgrace that less can be done for migrant children in 1977 than was achieved last year. [More…]
The honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) well knows that the investigation into specific learning difficulties in this country highlighted the necessity for having specialist teachers available to ensure that migrant children had opportunities equal to those of other children in this country. [More…]
If members of the National Country Party had looked in the libraries of the schools in their electorates they would have noticed that the Australian Schools Commission which was established by the former Labor Government was able to furnish millions of books throughout Australia for school children and might have applauded the placing in the shelves of the book The Lucky Country. [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…]
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…]
The slower population growth would mean a slower growth in the labour force, possible labour shortages in the 1990s, smaller numbers of school age children and a progressive ageing of the population. [More…]
Day after day, week after week honourable members receive refusals to cases which they have submitted to the Minister because the applicants do not fall into one of the job categories or because they are not parents or dependent children of people already in Australia. [More…]
Their children are attending school there. [More…]
This is happening today in the treatment of families with young children. [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 available statistics indicate that the majority of mothers with children under 6 years of age stay at home rather than go to work. [More…]
This is in contrast to the fact that the majority of mothers with children of school going age have a job outside the home. [More…]
There are many good reasons why those with young children should remain at home. [More…]
Many do so because they choose to care for their own children in spite of the high price they pay by way of the personal income their families forgo. [More…]
But if the husband, because his wife chooses to stay at home to look after young children, takes overtime and earns $10,000 the family’s tax liability would be $1,779. [More…]
Emotional disturbances affect 12 per cent of children, and for every student who enters a university in New South Wales where a survey was made, an equal number will enter mental hospitals or undergo psychiatric treatment. [More…]
There will be a continuing increase in the proportion of children who are alienated and neglected and who become aggressive and criminal as a result. [More…]
Character structure is the result of what happens to children, adolescents and adults. [More…]
It has been shown that violence and other forms of anti-social behaviour do not occur when children are born, brought up and educated in a friendly, supportive atmosphere in which their natural needs can be satisfied in a balanced and an easy manner. [More…]
Apparently the children behave like all children. [More…]
I am sure that when the children are at school they are quite impressive. [More…]
In secondary schools there has been a new approach to the question of keeping Aboriginal children at school. [More…]
Until there is substantial opportunity for industrial employment there seems to be little point in taking children through the schools, so that in the end they have lost whatever they had of their Aboriginal culture and they have obtained no key to security in non-Aboriginal society. [More…]
Whatever may be its strange attitudes to future immigration, or even to the future of Australia, the Government is demonstrably at fault in its attitudes to existing communities of people born overseas and the children of parents born overseas. [More…]
They tended to form tightly-knit communities but they were diligent and thrifty, and they had an uncommon regard for the welfare of their children. [More…]
The plight of migrant children should be well known by now. [More…]
Due to confusion in regard to teacher qualifications, as I said the other day, bureaucracy and indifference, a substantial number of children, many of them born in Australia, are receiving second class education which will condemn them and their children to being second class citizenry. [More…]
Instead of some indication that the Government will assist the many children and adults with learning difficulties the Treasurer offers the prospect of further massive reductions in social welfare expenditure. [More…]
The nationwide survey of literacy and numeracy in Australian schools carried out by the Australian Council for Educational Research found that 29 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 textbooks and reference books they use in their classrooms. [More…]
Between 15 per cent and 25 per cent of children are passing from primary school into secondary school and ultimately leaving school altogether without even 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…]
Not the least of these is the reduced time that many parents and children spend in reading. [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…]
Honourable members who have attended Anzac Day marches will know how proudly so many wives, widows, mothers and children of servicemen wear their decorations. [More…]
I think that Mr Petersen is probably trying to get another couple of million dollars from the Federal Government and he is really taking it from the mouths of starving women and children. [More…]
During its 2 1 months of operation the Council has succeeded in obtaining community participation which has led to the establishment of a homeless persons shelter, an emergency shelter for women and children, various self help groups and projects throughout the area. [More…]
The Council was also instrumental in attracting the Remote and Isolated Childrens’ Committee into commencing operations in the remote areas north and west of Port Augusta along the Transcontinental line and the north-south line to Alice Springs. [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…]
It has relieved a great deal of unnecessary human hardship, not only for the mothers but their children. [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…]
It is wrecking creative programs for the health, security and welfare of women and children just as it is wrecking those for men. [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…]
The acceptable categories are: spouses, minor dependent children and parents of Australian residents, relatives who have employment skills and experience recognised and in demand in Australia. [More…]
The Minister might close his eyes to this situation, but later in my speech I will refer to East Timorese women who are sending money to East Timor to keep their husbands and whose children are in other countries. [More…]
In some instances children are now living in Hong Kong, husbands in East Timor and wives in Australia where they are earning a living to supply the wherewithal to enable their families to exist. [More…]
He talks about spouses, minor dependent children and parents of Australian residents. [More…]
The acceptable categories, which will be considered as announced by the Minister, are spouses, minor dependent children and parents of Australian residents. [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…]
The previous Administration did virtually nothing in spite of the establishment of the Interim Children’s Commission. [More…]
Apart from the loneliness and despair of the alcoholics themselves one cannot begin to contemplate the magnitude of the effect of their illness on their estimated 900 000 spouses and children. [More…]
I am alarmed that more than 9 per cent of Australian children between the ages of 12 and 17 claim to get very drunk more than once a month. [More…]
Thirty thousand secondary school children in Victoria and New South Wales are officially classified as having severe alcohol problems. [More…]
The Children’s Commission Act and the Inter-State Commission Act have not yet been proclaimed. [More…]
I accept the right of every woman to pursue basically what she wishes to pursue in life consistent with the law, but if women are forced through economic circumstances against their will to work when they would prefer to remain at home or to have additional children the resources of our society should be directed where possible to overcome that situation. [More…]
But it will not be good even for my children for the expected term of their lifetime. [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…]
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…]
There were no new projects in your Electorate in the latest approvals under the Children’s Services Program. [More…]
Some of the results will be a smaller increase in the labour force, possible labour shortages in the 1980s and the 1990s, smaller numbers of school-age children, and a progressive ageing of the population. [More…]
This saw the arrival in Australia of over 3.3 million new settlers who, together with children born in Australia, have been responsible for approximately half of Australia ‘s post-war growth from 7.4 million to 13.9 million people today. [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…]
This in turn has increased the opportunity costs or earnings forgone in having children. [More…]
If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates and a couple with one income and the benefits and rebates accruing to their family of, say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to the others. [More…]
Also she is much maligned by women’s activist groups who can see no merit in the role of the woman who stays at home to raise and care for her children. [More…]
Other surveys have revealed that 28 per cent of immigrant children in Victorian schools could be classified as ‘functionally illiterate in the English language’. [More…]
When I say a handful I mean that in a class of forty there might have been 10 migrant children. [More…]
Schools with 300 or 400 children saw their populations grow to 500 or 600, with 400 of the pupils perhaps coming from anywhere but the British Isles or from Anglo-Saxon stock. [More…]
That people call one another undesirable names, that children perhaps have scraps in the schoolyard. [More…]
These things used to happen among ordinary Australian children in my young days and I doubt that it has changed all that much. [More…]
We did not prepare schools for the arrival of these children. [More…]
He said the group was moving into several Brisbane suburbs and using children to follow postmen and steal the cheques. [More…]
1 million people who came to Australia in the last quarter-century from more than 100 countries and peoples around the world have produced nearly a million children. [More…]
If we look at the generations which are in the work force and especially at their children, we will see that there is a tremendous willingness to learn English, an ability to learn it, and an ability to go out into the work force and get jobs, no matter how limited their English is. [More…]
I have a note which suggests that in Germany and Italy several decades ago deterrent policies were applied to discourage couples from deferring having children. [More…]
The most significant example of an incentive program is in France where extremely generous family allowances and other material incentives were provided by government to encourage people to have more children. [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…]
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…]
It is important for children of the age of my grandchild - [More…]
When school numbers fall the principle of the school must automatically realise that the percentage of staff that he has will be downgraded and therefore he has to reallocate his staff to the number of children in the school. [More…]
They have taken a great deal of trouble to provide programs of education which will help to assist children coming from other schools. [More…]
All I ask tonight is that the Commonwealth Minister for Education and the Minister for Education in Victoria do their best to assist the Doveton High School, the Hallam High School and the school in Springvale with their staffing problems because the provision of adequate staffing is urgent, necessary and important for the children in my electorate. [More…]
There is now no concessional rebate available in respect of dependent children, regardless of income. [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…]
For a student in the final two years of secondary schooling, the Special Supplementary Allowance payable under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme is identical in its provisions to the Secondary Allowance. [More…]
Benefits under the Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme are not affected by payment of Handicapped Child ‘s Allowance. [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…]
I think that members on both sides of the House, as younger men and children, wore certain types of clothing which were manufactured in Australia under Australian brand names which over the years had reached an extremely high quality and standard. [More…]
But if as a result of what the Government does now children are bora with deformities it will be on the conscience of the Minister. [More…]
She has provided a service to deserted women, to women who have been bashed up by their husbands and to the children of those women. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that a large number of migrants to Australia of recent years have brothers, sisters and children over 18 years of age who wish to migrate to Australia, who would have guaranteed jobs in Australia, who are industrious and energetic but who are precluded from entry because of our present extremely tight migration quota? [More…]
It has been estimated that more than 225 000 Australians do not have the level of literacy demanded of most 10-year-old children. [More…]
Education authorities in Victoria have estimated that 40 per cent of secondary school children have extreme difficulties in reading, while 20 per cent cannot read at all. [More…]
The children who suffer most from the new, less formal methods of education are those of average ability and limited selfdiscipline. [More…]
The Committee said that the survey confirmed, however, that there is a considerable problem in Australian schools and a significant number of children are failing to reach adequate levels of literacy and numeracy. [More…]
No matter how good they are as far as ability is concerned, their lack of experience in terms of years spent as a practical teacher will restrict the capacity of these young teachers to identify and correct learning difficulties in school children. [More…]
Children can be stretched in their capacity to absorb and learn effectively. [More…]
One headmaster of my acquaintance believes that young teachers lack the experience to assess and use this capacity that is inherent in school children. [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…]
There are at least 700 000 Australian school children with a first language other than English, and many of them are experiencing serious learning difficulties, including serious learning difficulties with English. [More…]
Reduced levels of educational achievement among migrant and locally born children were almost universal in the schools studied. [More…]
This trend has alarming implications for Australian-born children; its implications for migrants are critical. [More…]
If the decline continues Australia will be culturally poorer and migrant children will continue to be socially isolated and to suffer in their education. [More…]
The disadvantages already suffered by nonEnglish speaking children in schools were noted by the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty. [More…]
The Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Grassby, in his first annual report also pointed to the impact of language difficulties on the progress of migrant children. [More…]
At present these children face the dual trauma of acquiring a foreign language rapidly and at the same time abandoning a hitherto developing mother tongue as functionally useless. [More…]
The report of the Committee on the Teaching of Migrant Languages in Schools showed that only 1.4 per cent of migrant children in primary schools and about 10 per cent of secondary schools were studying their mother tongues in [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…]
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…]
Yugoslavia which entered into force on 20 May 1970 requires Australian authorities to give the children of Yugoslav workers the opportunity of learning their mother tongue. [More…]
An exhaustive survey by Eva Isaacs of the education problems of Greek children in Sydney pointed to extraordinary hardships endured by Greek children from poor families. [More…]
) Investigate the means of supporting pre-school childcare centres in migrant areas, to cater for the special requirements of migrant children. [More…]
I know from having discussed this problem with school principals and parents how valuable they have found consultation in respect of primary schools in particular because migrant children who do not know or understand the English language can be much better prepared for their further education through communication in their own language. [More…]
I am sure it is recognised that it is the responsibility of teachers to see that their teaching is effective in respect of migrant children. [More…]
Of course, those teachers who are so equipped through these courses will be placed in schools with a high proportion of migrant children. [More…]
Listening to the Leader of the Opposition, one would have thought that any program that a government under him would embark upon would really be a scatter-shot program right through the community, not a program directed to the special areas of need where there are concentrations of migrant children at the primary level in particular and also at the secondary levels. [More…]
We are discussing a question which is a quite serious one for a lot of migrant people in Australia, the question of the language difficulties of their children. [More…]
They have established that English speaking children from homes where a different form of English is spoken from that used in the primers and the school books are finding great difficulty in establishing literacy. [More…]
Hart and Walker have established primers in the language those children actually use. [More…]
As a result, the children are acquiring literacy and are becoming able to transfer it to the more formal English of the ordinary school books. [More…]
If that is the position of Australian children who have an English speaking background, how much more disastrous is the position of children who do not have an English speaking background? [More…]
By that provision Western Australia effectively denies an education to Aboriginal children of a nonEnglish speaking background. [More…]
We in the Commonwealth introduced, and the present Government has continued, the bilingual program for Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory under which the schools at the moment are conducted in 20 Aboriginal languages. [More…]
It can be said that where that does not take place the children have very little chance at all of an education. [More…]
Many of its members were defeated, but I went on to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, which deals with the learning difficulties of children and adults. [More…]
Aboriginal children’s education is rotten in the States. [More…]
The education of migrant children, outside the Catholic sector, has rotted in the States precisely because there is no commission administration, there is bureaucratic administration. [More…]
There is no doubt that the school is an alienating factor in many migrant homes, particularly between the mother and her children. [More…]
Their children are, in many cases, more highly educated in terms of formal schooling than themselves. [More…]
This is something that needs to be dealt with in teachers colleges and in teachers unions- are openly intolerant of the expectations of migrant parents and believe that they should be ignored or destroyed, in the interests of the children. [More…]
Many of these children will get a first class effective education only if, where there is a high concentration of migrant children, there is a bilingual education. [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that at Randwick primary school 70 per cent of the children are Greek. [More…]
We have 25 1 000 children in primary schools who are from bilingual homes or from a home where the language is a migrant language. [More…]
In relation to children who do come from bilingual homes and are caught between 2 languages, if we assist them to establish literacy in their own language, as surely as night follows day we will also assist in their establishment of literacy in English. [More…]
I am not being uncharitable in this, but I ask: How much of that money went to the Aboriginal children and to the schools for Aborigines? [More…]
Let us stop trying to throw money across the chamber at one another to prove that somebody has done something for either the Aboriginal children or the migrant children. [More…]
I much appreciated the secondary school correspondence scheme which had been undertaken by some of the Aboriginal children as a result of the co-operation between the South Australian Government and the Northern Territory authorities. [More…]
But at least this report has started off a serious feeling of concern about the teaching of migrant children in primary schools. [More…]
The first real studies conducted into the standards of 10-year-old and 14-year-old Australian children- 10 years as being near the end of their primary education and 14 years as being near the beginning of their secondary education- were the Australian studies in school performance. [More…]
The Plowden report found that in 1965 the reading age of 1 1 -year-old children in England had advanced by 17 months over that period of time. [More…]
However, the reading age of 1 1- year-old children did not advance in the next 10 years to 1975. [More…]
A study of the reading needs of children- for instance taking the minimum requirement of being able to read newspapersshows that their standards need to advance. [More…]
The studies of literacy and numeracy conducted by ACER included various items to test the reading standards of children. [More…]
When I went through high school only 7 per cent of Australian children completed a high school course. [More…]
But the fact remains that these children did not remain at school. [More…]
They were not just secondary school children of 14 or 15. [More…]
With regard to the widening of eligibility, the scheme was applied to single aged persons and also to class B widows, that is, widows who were 50 years of age or more without dependent children or widows who were 45 years of age who no longer had dependent children, and to single service pensioners who were permanently unemployable or who suffered from tuberculosis. [More…]
Some suburbs in Sydney are running out of high school children. [More…]
In the very inner city suburbs and in the mid-city suburbs those children are being replaced principally by migrant children. [More…]
One point in the article that I would like to challenge is that the honourable gentleman has not done his homework on the question of tax deductions and tax rebates with respect to children. [More…]
He claims that this Government in effect abolished tax deductions for dependent children. [More…]
Everyone I have spoken to appeared to understand that, with the exception of the honourable member for Prospect who is incapable of recognising that it was not the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden) who introduced the great social reform of getting rid of tax concessions of either kind for children and replacing them with this magnificent family allowance. [More…]
The allowance provides for the poor of this nation at last their proper due whereas in the past, and under the Hayden Budget, the rich got more for having children than the poor did. [More…]
The richer you were the more tax benefits you received for having children. [More…]
Similarly, if a claim is brought pursuant to the State Act in 1977 for weekly payments in respect of a period of incapacity in, say, 1 967, section 2 A of the Victorian Act provides that payments should be made at the present rate- that is, for a married worker with two or more dependent children, $ 107 a week. [More…]
The Commonwealth employee bringing a claim in 1977 in respect of a period of incapacity in 1967, if he were similarly married with 2 dependent children would receive $33.05 a week for that period. [More…]
In July next a person with a wife and 2 children and on the average national wage would be paying $9 a week or $468 a year less in tax than 12 months ago. [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…]
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…]
-Having listened to the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) and his reference to specific learning difficulties I am more than ever convinced that it is not only children who suffer from specific learning difficulties. [More…]
This was the case with the Four Corners program on Australians refusing to have children, which to me was both sad and disgusting, not because it dealt explicitly with vasectomy and abortion but because it exposed to public view a sordid side of our society that we usually conceal with glamour and euphemisms. [More…]
There was no word of the dignity of manhood, his priceless capacity to father children for our next generation- just a gelded horse. [More…]
I refer particularly to how unfortunate it is in the young people who enjoy a sex life but refuse to have children. [More…]
People who consciously refuse to have children will have to depend on the children of others, including the grandchild of the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson). [More…]
They will have to depend on the children of those generous hearted enough to take up the loving, necessary burdens and joys of children. [More…]
The honourable member was talking about the attitude of people towards having children. [More…]
He was decrying those who choose not to have children. [More…]
If a man and a woman choose to live together and to experience a normal sexual relationship that does not seem to me, as it seems to the honourable member for Swan, to have the connotation that an endless chain of children should be produced by that relationship. [More…]
I wish that the honourable member would come into my electorate where I could introduce him, as I know the honourable member for Grayndler could, to families where the wife refuses, because of instruction or for other reasons, to restrict the size of her family and brings into the world children for whom she cannot care. [More…]
After the past 3 years of division under a government that sought to act unconstitutionally and illegally, it is tremendously important that this nation should have a healing process so that we can again take pride in our nation and that school children and other people who stand and sing the national song are able to do so with pride. [More…]
It is to my regret that a suggestion that school children in high schools be allowed to participate in the poll has not been adopted. [More…]
A survey taken by the St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, an excellent local newspaper, produced the result that school children were keen to participate in the poll. [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…]
It also covered the children of those particular people. [More…]
Another case recently was the case in Victoria when the qualifications of Bunna Walsh to sit as a member of the Legislative Council were challenged on the basis of a conviction many years before in the children’s court. [More…]
However, there was such revulsion about a children’s court penalty being raised in this way that subsequent legislation has removed this as a cause of disqualification there. [More…]
Members of Parliament represent people and corporations who are looking after their own domestic affairs or those of their children or in the trade and commercial field. [More…]
Is there any provision forcing doctors to inform parents, in case of infection of children below a certain age; if so, what is the age. [More…]
The main proposals are: No cancellation of a widow’s pension if she remarried; restoration where appropriate of pensions previously cancelled for this reason; and extension of pension benefits in some cases to widows and children previously excluded because the marriage took place after retirement. [More…]
Class sizes have tended to increase and difficulties have been experienced in providing teachers for children with language difficulties and for other disadvantaged groups. [More…]
If we are spending millions of dollars to uplift the educational standards of Australian children there seems to be some contradiction between the ideals we are setting at the schools and the requirements we may have for people after they have left school. [More…]
In Australia only 35 of every 100 children who commence high school complete their matriculation. [More…]
When one compares this figure with Japan where 91 out of every 100 children complete high school, one can see that the greater emphasis on education which has taken place in Australia over the past 10 years will lift that figure enormously. [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…]
Look at the latch-key children in Australia. [More…]
Have a look at other countries in the world which use school buildings from 3 until 6 p.m. for further educational opportunities for children where they may enjoy themselves or get more relaxation. [More…]
It is the responsibility of the national Government to see that the talents of our children are utilised. [More…]
What expenditure does he envisage to help the 400 children at this school and the many others affected. [More…]
At the present rate of pension, a single pensioner, without dependent children, whose income (apart from pension) is between $113.25 a week and the disqualifying limit of $1 14.20 a week is entitled to a pension of $1 a fortnight. [More…]
Similarly a married pensioner couple, without dependent children, whose combined income (apart from pension) is between $189.60 a week and the disqualifying limit of $191.50 a week are entitled to receive a pension of $1 a fortnight each.. [More…]
With the abductions of Australian children overseas annually running at an exceedingly high rate, will the Minister advise the result of the undertaking of the Minister for Foreign Affairs to carry out an urgent investigation with a view to preventing these abductions and the anguish caused to Australian parents? [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…]
This provision of course does apply therefore to children of any nationality. [More…]
Many reasons are given including the influence of children, that the parents are hard to live with, etc. [More…]
This report was published in March 1 976, but the Government still has not committed any funds to ensure that migrants and their children are given the opportunity to gain proficiency not only in English but also in thenmother tongue. [More…]
If this opportunity is not given we will have a second-class standard for migrant children- children whom we have encouraged to come to this country- because they will not be able to achieve to their maximum. [More…]
He can go to all the functions he likes, he can pat children on the head and do all the sorts of things which make him attractive to the infant, but what does he do here? [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…]
The children are plentiful. [More…]
Are we to assume that things will be all right because the children will be able to make up the need? [More…]
This dreadful malaise of not being able to meet the needs of children is an indictment of the national Government. [More…]
But let us come to the fundamental first base: A good education for children- an opportunity to get technical advancement, advanced college education or university advancement is the best investment any government can make. [More…]
There has been this cry: ‘Why is it we cannot get funds to provide teachers to assist our children and our adults?’ [More…]
Let us have educational guidelines as to the best way to educate our children and promote their talents. [More…]
I am trying to find the right words to express the situation without downgrading the excellent residents of that sort of area- persons who are underprivileged because of lack of understanding through migrant origin, lack of opportunity, lack of economic means, single parent families, latch-key children, people fromousing commission areas and so on. [More…]
The comment from the school with regard to participation in these programs is that they had a tremendous effect in terms of children, staff and parents and that if any of the programs were stopped that would have a tremendous effect also. [More…]
It failed to recognise that those schools are not the repository of the ultraprivileged and it ignored the fact that many people of moderate means work hard and long hours- perhaps at second jobs- to exercise their right to choose to send their children to independent schools for one of the reasons I mentioned a moment ago. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policies meant in fact that only the relatively wealthy and privileged could afford to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
The Government also has initiated a new scheme to help disadvantaged country children. [More…]
These provisions have been introduced in accordance with the Government’s policy of encouraging the right of parents to choose between alternatives in schooling for their children and with the concept of a basic grant for all pupils, whether they attend government or non-government schools. [More…]
Those schools which are able to increase fees become progressively less available to members of the community as an option for the education of their children. [More…]
Many more farmers can no longer afford to send their children to boarding schools. [More…]
Often those schools are the only source of adequate education for country children. [More…]
Such families averaged 2.3 school age children. [More…]
They still maintained an average of 2.3 school age children. [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…]
This should enable parents to continue to support these schools by sending their children to them. [More…]
However, following economic recovery, the proposed tax reforms of this Government must include relief for those who are paying to send their children to independent schools. [More…]
I repeat that independent schools play a very important part in their role of educating our children. [More…]
The use of violence shows that AUS cannot be just written off as being run by a group of children who are in the process of growing up. [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…]
It would be fair to say, I think, that the parents who send their children to non-government schools of higher resource levels are more articulate than anybody else in the education area in the Commonwealth, with the notable exception of the parents of children in Canberra schools. [More…]
I remember that when I was waited upon by a deputation of parents from Canberra secondary schools in particular, who seemed to be half the staff of the Australian National University, with a vast battery of educational experts, I felt like a piece of chewed string after spending an hour or two discussing their very articulate demands for their children. [More…]
I am bound to say that as Minister for Education I never experienced any Treasury resistance to high expenditure on education in the Australian Capital Territory because that is where the children of the Treasury officials are educated. [More…]
It has to be recognised as one of the facts of life in education, and I say this to the honourable member for Kingston, that the more underprivileged a section of the community the less articulate they are about the needs of their children. [More…]
The grants applied to Aboriginal children of IS years of age and over to enable them to stay at school, and we extended the scheme to all Aboriginal children in secondary education. [More…]
Quite rightly, they did not want the lists of what were regarded as disadvantaged schools to be made public because they said that many of the children and many of the parents who sent their children to what are classified as disadvantaged schools were very proud of those schools and it would be a stigma for them to be publicly classified as disadvantaged. [More…]
Nevertheless, the children in those schools were disadvantaged and the fact that the Ministers could point to the pride that the parents had in the schools did indicate that there was not a demand for such a classification. [More…]
On the whole, the children attending those schools had very articulate parents. [More…]
They had a very clear and direct conception of where their children were going. [More…]
The testing of eyesight and hearing of school children is conducted in conjunction with school health programs in the States and Territories. [More…]
Children referred to the National Acoustic Laboratories are assessed and provided with hearing aids when necessary. [More…]
and (3) It is anticipated that activities in Australia will be directed towards the special needs of children in this country. [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…]
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…]
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…]
Has the Minister had complaints about bias and filth on programs like Broadband and Coming Out, a radio program on Saturday afternoons which apparently is prepared especially for children, and also some television programs? [More…]
The arrival of these quads of course takes the Hughson family from three children to seven, which qualifies them for substantial help from the family allowance scheme. [More…]
I believe that a significant rebate, if it could be offered within the framework of the tax Act, could be an incentive for married mothers to stay at home and look after their children. [More…]
This would prevent the social disease of latchkey children who have no parents to come home to because both parents are forced out into the community to earn sufficient to bring up the children as they wish. [More…]
In going out to work, such parents lose touch with their children and deprive them of an essential ingredient in their lives, that is, parental care and attention 24 hours a day. [More…]
I do not mind seeing married men stay at home to provide parental attention for their children, but again the incentive or rebate has to be great enough to enable them to do it. [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…]
Let us take the case of a man who is an average income earner and is supporting a wife and 2 children. [More…]
Family allowances for a man supporting a wife and 2 children are approximately $442 a year. [More…]
I believe quite strongly that public servants, where their families, include children under the age of 16 years, should be able to travel first-class when they have to travel many thousands of miles. [More…]
Mothers would find it very difficult to deal with their children, particularly small children with nappies to be changed if they have to queue up for toilets and the like. [More…]
First class travel for them is not a matter of rich food and free grog; it is a matter of necessity in caring for their children. [More…]
The third category of people whom I feel should have first class air travel comprises unaccompanied children under the age of 18 years. [More…]
I think it would be quite wrong if we expected children of public servants who are not accompanied by their parents to travel overseas in crowded accommodation in aircraft when they could be at risk or feeling very insecure. [More…]
In fact, if the honourable gentleman is fair and recollects what was said about handicapped children in the last Budget I think he will find- I speak heavily from recollection- that the increase in the handicapped children’s allowance was greater than that for almost any other single item in the Budget. [More…]
It is also a serious matter for the 30 000 children who should have been entitled to unemployment benefit. [More…]
Does the classification include Australian-born children of persons born outside Australia. [More…]
1 ) How many mothers in the Victorian municipalities of Broadmeadows, Coburg and Brunswick with children aged (a) 1 to 5 years, (b) 6 to 10 years, (c) 1 1 to 15 years and (d) 1 6 years and over are in receipt of family allowances. [More…]
) How many children are there in each of the age groups referred to in part ( 1 ). [More…]
The following table shows the numbers of families receiving family allowances, and the age groups of children in receipt of such allowances in certain postcode districts at 21 March 1977. [More…]
Tables which cross-classify ages of children by size of family and the sex of recipients of family allowances are not available. [More…]
Eligible persons are presently limited to the spouses, dependent children and parents of Australian residents. [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…]
The aim of doing so is to try to prevent certain conditions from arising, to pick up disabilities in children and their families early in the piece and to save money in the long run on health costs. [More…]
He might be a man with four or five children, perhaps only two. [More…]
Just look at one, namely, children in the courts, the problems of youngsters appearing before the courts and their inability to get adequate legal aid. [More…]
I refer to the basic right for legal aid to be available to the children of Australia. [More…]
I believe that the children of Australia have been the most legally oppressed minority in this country. [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…]
The majority of the remaining children are in the custody of prospective adoptive parents. [More…]
It is not possible to place four of the children, who have severe handicaps, with suitable foster parents and these are in State care. [More…]
All the children who have not been adopted are under the legal guardianship of the Minister for Social Security. [More…]
Under Section 6 of the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, the Minister for Social Security is the legal guardian in Australia of children who come within the provisions of the Act. [More…]
This applies to children only after they arrive in Australia and after they have been granted resident status. [More…]
In practice, the Minister delegates the function of guardianship to the Chief Welfare Officer of the competent State or Territorial authority, who in turn arranges for the custody of the children with foster parents with the view to adoption. [More…]
It would not be appropriate to provide the names and addresses of the people caring for children awaiting adoption, as these children are in a similar position to those who have already been adopted and release of such information is specifically excluded by State and Territorial adoption legislation. [More…]
Surveys in Australia indicate that approximately 350 children are born each year with cleft hp and /or palate. [More…]
Approximately 275 of these children would have a cleft palate. [More…]
Precise information concerning the cost incurred by parents of these children in obtaining correction of the condition is not available. [More…]
Most children with cleft palates require treatment by orthodontists. [More…]
Your children’s future is not important. [More…]
Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son; that her sister lost children in the 1973 war; that in this Jerusalem street, coolly sweet with night flowers and dark green under the lamps, many other families have lost children … [More…]
After the Committee had asked for and received information from knowledgeable people on the climatic conditions in the Northern Territory, it was felt that, in that area, it is not a luxury to have the facilities for children to be able to shower, especially after playing sport. [More…]
I commend the decision, which has been taken in conformity with the wishes of the people of Katherine that the Clyde Fenton school, which was originally envisaged to handle the situation, is to be built later to accommodate 400 children, instead of these 2 schools being combined with a school population of 800. [More…]
He talked about a number of children- he says that we are all children- who escaped and went out to see the world. [More…]
He says that the children chose the latter course. [More…]
I am not an expert on the mutation of genes but as I understand it, some genes, when exposed to radioactivity, can be passively mutated and then passed on to a generation or 2 generations, and 2 generations from now children could be born with the passively mutated gene manifesting itself. [More…]
Those children could be born with hideous congenital malformations. [More…]
Would children want to receive adequate education at the expense of damage to future generations? [More…]
Members of Parliament and society today have a big responsibility to protect the unborn children, otherwise we could bring about a race of zombies in the generations to come. [More…]
It should be within the knowledge of honourable members that, in the aftermath of the dropping of atom bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japanese women were giving birth to malformed children, as the statistics of the Japanese Government show. [More…]
The girls of Nagasaki and Hiroshima went to other parts of Japan in anticipation of marrying and when it was learned that they had come from Nakasaki and Hiroshima they had great difficulty in being accepted because the statistics in Japan were showing up the malformation of young children. [More…]
This shocking scandal resulted in the drug company having to pay back millions of dollars in compensation to the unfortunate children who were born with defects as a result of the drug. [More…]
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care of teaching of our children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction. [More…]
It is essential for our children, our future and our position in the world that we get on with solving the greatest problem, that is the safeguards which are required. [More…]
They are very intelligent, they are very quiet and placid and they can be used to pull carts and give enjoyment to the children of today. [More…]
Does the classification include Australian-born children of persons born outside Australia. [More…]
A war widow and her dependent children (if any) would also be entitled to receive treatment. [More…]
1 ) Was Robert E. Lee the lowest tenderer for all 1 7 runs for the transport of school children in the Darwin area in respect of tender TB 300 1/76. [More…]
14) Has the Transport Manager received complaints of (a) buses running late, (b) children being carried in unsafe buses, (c) Toyota 18 passenger Coasters being used and (d) buses being used for tourist work leaving school runs unserviced; if so, has the Manager taken action in respect of these complaints; if not, why not. [More…]
1 ) What taxation concessions, rebates or other forms of taxation relief are available to the following groups of people: (a) male divorcees, particularly with respect to relief for those paying maintenance for children for whom the former wife is entitled to family allowances, (b) male “single” supporting parents, (c) female “single” supporting parents and (d) persons who are maintaining or helping to maintain relatives in nursing homes. [More…]
For this purpose his rebatable expenditure would include, subject to any maximum statutory limit, medical, education or funeral expenses and life insurance premiums paid directly by him in respect of his children. [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…]
However, the net PA YE figures are not directly comparable in that the $l,755.3m was arrived at after allowing for a reduction in PA YE refunds of $242.7m an estimated gain of $428m resulting from the abolition of rebates for dependent children and students and the estimated $208rn yield from the health insurance levy. [More…]
How many women and children were given shelter at each of the centres in the last 12 months. [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…]
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…]
The Department has in fact repatriated some abducted children under those provisions. [More…]
Has he also seen reports of numerous border clashes with Thailand stating that numerous Thai villagers, including women and children, have been massacred? [More…]
Turning to recent incidents that have been verified by independent observers and covered by reputable news media, there is no question but that Kampuchea troops have killed villagers, including women and children, living in the border areas between Thailand and Kampuchea. [More…]
I remind the House that there are three million migrants in Australia and one million children of migrants. [More…]
Is it a fact that a married man supporting a wife and two children and earning $10,000 per annum throughout this financial year will complete the year with income in real terms- after tax and the Medibank levy and allowing for family allowances and tax rebates- which will be more than $ 1 8 a week less than his income at the commencement of the year? [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the interim reports of the Industries Assistance Commission on plywood and veneer (thick plywood); children’s knitted tracksuits. [More…]
1 wish to deal now with the position of children of parents who have fled from their own countries. [More…]
I believe that we must look very carefully at the reception into our schools of children who have come from those areas. [More…]
Large numbers of Lebanese children who cannot speak English have come into the schools. [More…]
The teachers have had to take special steps to look after those children and there has been a shortage of special teachers. [More…]
In addition, the quality of education for these children needs to be considered. [More…]
Children who cannot understand English and are suffering from cultural shock, having been brought from one environment to another, should be given special assistance. [More…]
There are many children amongst that group. [More…]
Many of those children have attended school. [More…]
In some schools there are considerable numbers of these children who have had to be accommodated and who have had to receive English language training. [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…]
We have had hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians and women and children killed by terrorist guerrillas in schools, hospitals, homes and shopping centres. [More…]
We will not allow the Syrians to return to the Golan Heights so that they can daily fire rockets at our farmers and school children in the Galilee below. [More…]
If we follow the situation through we find that even the children of these people have problems in gaining a proper use of the English language. [More…]
At a school in my electorate 593 children come from migrant parents. [More…]
Their children have been born there and many of their people have been buried there. [More…]
It is time that not only governments but all the people of Austrafia who have a sense of responsibility, who want to establish a solid and sound economic base, not just for this generation but for our children and our grandchildren, stood up to this militant minority and said: ‘We have had enough. [More…]
Australia say that the Government should bash the unions; but they have forgotten that we have in Australia a work force of 6 million people, most of whom belong to unions and most of whom have wives and children. [More…]
I extend my condolences to his surviving children and I join with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) in saying that I am sorry in a personal sense to know that he has gone. [More…]
I join the other speakers in extending my deepest sympathy to the children of this admirable Labor man. [More…]
When the effects of the changes to personal tax and the Government’s failure to index family allowances are combined, a family with three children on average weekly earnings will actually be worse off. [More…]
In the Hayden Budget, income was redistributed towards families by the introduction of tax rebates for children. [More…]
Children’s Programs A Drop in the Ocean [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…]
I might say also that my colleague and I are very conscious of the problem of malnutrition amongst Aboriginal children, particularly those in the inner city suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
Unfortunately, this has happened at a time when, due to the lack of programs and the lack of stimulus for employment opportunities, many more children will be staying longer at school or going on to tertiary institutions. [More…]
A further factor has been the redistribution in recurrent expenditure as between the nongovernment schools and the government schools at a time when some real progress was being made and problems caused by lack of social opportunity and the difficulties of migrant children in relation to languages were being corrected. [More…]
Family allowances took the place of rebates for children. [More…]
If the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) were here he would admit that it was pressure that I applied to him as chairman of the education committee which resulted in payments being made for isolated children. [More…]
People with young children lived in fear of disease, amoebic meningitis. [More…]
Does he further recall that on IS August 1977 I drew his attention to an article in a Western Australian newspaper relating to an international, highly sophisticated underground organisation, Fathers Organisation for Revolutionary Custody Entitlement which smuggles single parents and their children out of Australia, and which is operating in Western Australia. [More…]
There has been a 33 per cent increase in special assistance for handicapped people, increased assistance for Aboriginals and increased provision for aged persons accommodation and for children’s services. [More…]
The aim of teachers, parents and good governments such as the South Australian Labor Government is to see that children fulfil their respective educational ambitions. [More…]
They have expressed their very serious concern for the welfare of their children and their grandchildren and for the future of humanity. [More…]
Following the 1963 treaty on the testing of nuclear weapons, due in my view to the dangers of radioactive fallout of strontium 90, Linus Pauling, a leading American physicist, pointed out that some 7,000 to 10,000 American children had died as a result of leukaemia during the period that these tests were being carried out. [More…]
They are concerned for themselves and they are even more concerned for their children. [More…]
What is happening reminds me of the game ‘Drop the Hanky’ played by children. [More…]
I have six children. [More…]
I am concerned not so much for those six children but for their children and their children after them. [More…]
They will not be felt in my children’s time. [More…]
They will be felt in my children’s children’s time and in the time of their children thereafter. [More…]
If it was at all sincere and if it was thinking of the people of Australia, their children and their children after them it could not possibly come down with a policy such as it has enunciated. [More…]
They think of their children and their children’s children. [More…]
The opportunities for young children to survive, by putting their backsides on two stools at once, in the desperate economic climate they face are being severely limited by this Government’s education policy. [More…]
In the Budget last year the handicapped children’s allowance was increased by 50 per cent to $15 a week. [More…]
The handicapped children’s benefit, payable in respect of handicapped children in institutions, was increased by more than 40 per cent to $5 a day. [More…]
That is achieved by providing income support of up to $ 1 5 a week for parents or guardians of handicapped children. [More…]
This is an indication of the Government’s commitments along with programs about which the community knows-programs that have been delivered during the past year to encourage people to own their homes and to establish the security and the base for their children which will provide for the citizens of tomorrow an opportunity for wellbeing and an opportunity to look forward with confidence. [More…]
The increase is thoughout the whole orbit of social security- special social service pensions, repatriation benefits, handicapped people’s allowances, aged persons accommodation, children’s services and unemployment benefits. [More…]
They did not seem to have thoughts about why parents spend their money to send their children to schools such as Melbourne Grammar. [More…]
Of course, some of it is snobbery- old school tie, and so on- but most people are prepared to make sacrifices to send their children to such schools because they think they will get a better education. [More…]
If it is not school buildings or the size of classes, what is it that induces parents to spend their money to send their children to private schools? [More…]
I am sure that they do it because they want discipline among the school children and discipline and dedication from the teachers. [More…]
His proposed amendment to section 98 of the Income Tax Assessment Act will, I believe, make trusts inappropriate for small businessmen and self employed professionals where the beneficiaries are children under 16 years of age. [More…]
We must therefore tax all these forms of income in kind, whether they be free cars-the most blatant example-or other benefits such as scholarships for school children, free television, free telephones, free housing, overseas travel, reduced interest loans, and so on. [More…]
I would like to instance one other matter that came to my notice a few weeks ago as a result of the Government’s reform of the school dental health scheme, a scheme that was intended to provide dental care for all children up to 1 5 years of age. [More…]
I mention the case of a constituent, a young woman with two children. [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…]
Children ‘s Commission- 1 974 ( abolished in 1 976 ) [More…]
1, Attached Statements, page 39) that his Government would aim to provide a free dental service to all primary school children by 1982. [More…]
Did he estimate that 2300 dental therapists would be required to provide a dental service to all primary school children. [More…]
The estimated date for provision of free dental care to all eligible primary school children depends on progress made by the States in the development of the Scheme. [More…]
However on the basis of current development, primary school children in South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania will be covered by the Scheme by 1982, while in the other States these children will be covered in the period 1985-90. [More…]
However this figure is being kept under review in the light of experience and changes in the dental health of children. [More…]
How many dental therapists will be required to provide a free dental services to all primary school children. [More…]
Primary Industry) and trade representatives were advised that the health authorities had traced the cause of an outbreak of gastroenteritis among children in Australia to certain brands of infant milk powders. [More…]
I join with the rest of the House in paying my respects to his wife and two children. [More…]
As family allowances replace the previous tax deductions for children, in the interests of equity they should be indexed against inflation as other tax rebate items have been. [More…]
The family is crucial for nurturing children and providing a stable psychological environment for their development. [More…]
This is even more important if by reason of death or marital breakdown there is only one parent to care for children, whether it be the father or the mother. [More…]
She had six children. [More…]
She lost her husband in 1937; yet she carried on her life for another 40 years, helped by her children. [More…]
She used to go around helping the little people, mostly the families and the children in the area. [More…]
Laws and opportunities for children, for example, should be the same everywhere. [More…]
The honourable member for Swan all his life has had the advantage and benefit of publicly delivered services of one sort or another, whether it is walking on the road, sending his children to a publicly supported school, State or non-State, or sometimes being cared for and travelling to Canberra at public expense for what reason one cannot tell. [More…]
In November 1976 I dealt with an application for admission to Australia of the wife of Domenico Barbaro and their three children to visit Mr Barbara’s mother who, I understand, is still living in South Australia. [More…]
Either we face up to the reality of the situation now or we leave a terrible legacy to our children and grandchildren. [More…]
For handicapped children, it has made major improvements in the allowances paid to their parents or guardians. [More…]
Coupled with that 1 8,000 people were some 22,000 people- wives, children, et cetera. [More…]
Beef producers are concerned not only about their industry but also about their children and their opportunities. [More…]
They are not sacrificing everything to send their children to school knowing that when they complete their studies they will be in the dole queues. [More…]
They are people who worry about how much their wives and children are going to have. [More…]
Why do the State governments not get stuck into the education system and look after the pre-school children, as they were bound to do for many years previously? [More…]
However, it also abolished tax deductions for children. [More…]
I have five dependent children. [More…]
Other people with dependent children must be similarly affected. [More…]
One is in the field of education, where in the Isolated Children’s Allowance Scheme, certain allowances were increased in 1977. [More…]
The Isolated Children’s Allowance will cost the Government in total, $ 1 3.8m. [More…]
The handicapped children ‘s allowance criteria in respect of incapacity have been extended and relaxed. [More…]
For the average family of husband, wife and a couple of children this means an increase of income tax of $936 yearly since the Fraser Government promised to reduce taxation. [More…]
This is a significant handicap for many people who must send their children to pre-school There has been a cut in expenditure on hospitals in two ways. [More…]
I have numerous parents talking to me, wanting to know where they can find employment for their children, for the young people just leaving school. [More…]
Under the Fraser Government scheme a family with three children now receive $14.50 each week. [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…]
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…]
But is is doubtful whether many children will be able to attend this school because the rates in New South Wales have risen from approximately $1.50 a day to $5 a day. [More…]
Mothers cannot afford to pay that amount of money to send menchildren to kindergartens. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with women who send their children to the kindergarten at Erskineville, to the Golden Fleece kindergarten at Chippendale, to the James Cahill kindergarten and to the Pyrmont-Ultimo kindergarten. [More…]
As late as last Saturday I spoke to certain women, some with three or four children each. [More…]
We are reaching the stage in New South Wales where only the rich will be able to send their children to kindergarten and the battlers and the workers will not be able to afford to do so. [More…]
We do not have power to talk about custody of children if they are not children of the marriage; in other words, what are called exnuptial children. [More…]
Property questions can be discussed only if they are ancillary to the matrimonial cause and the question of parental rights cannot be extended to include children who are not children of the marriage of both parties. [More…]
We have the stupid situation at the present time that while one is able to go to the family law court to discuss problems between husband and wife, one has to go to another court to discuss problems which relate to property and to another court if the matter relates to the custody of the children who have been part of the family home. [More…]
It is important that the needs of these people are given top priority and that children in particular are given every consideration so that they can have the benefit of the help and assistance of their parents and so that the questions of custody and maintenance can be properly determined. [More…]
In cases in which there is a dispute involving custody, guardianship and access to the children of a marriage, or property exceeding $1,000 in value, the matter must be transferred to the Family Court, unless the parties agree to the matter being determined in the Court of Petty Sessions or in a court of lesser jurisdiction. [More…]
It is a fact that when it comes to these very difficult questions relating to maintenance, custody of children and property, there is the possibility of one party being advantaged as a result of orders being sought. [More…]
He made the point, quite validly- this has been brought out very clearly in the debate today by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith as well- that we do not remove from the family law area generally the conflict that can arise in marriage in relation to matters of property, maintenance and custody of children simply by removing the allegation of fault in the breakdown of marriage. [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…]
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…]
Public child minding facilities for the children of witnesses and others who come to the court are provided also. [More…]
Under the ordinary approach to custody, the mother keeps the children. [More…]
The husband is divorced and sometimescertainly in the case of the children- he has to pay maintenance. [More…]
In very simple terms, that means that people like myself, and indeed my children and the children of other Australians, will have to pay the interest bill on the loans which have been increased as a direct result of the irresponsible, subversive and economically sabotaging statements of the honourable member for Oxley. [More…]
I cannot understand why any Christian would take that attitude, because those people should know that some knowledge, some wisdom, which is withheld from the learned and the wise, is revealed to little children. [More…]
Anybody who is a father of young children ought to be concerned about the employment opportunities in the years ahead. [More…]
One simply cannot consider merely the disadvantages experienced by migrants or the children of migrant settlers. [More…]
I challenge the Minister to look responsibly at this matter to see just what are the prospects for the children of migrant settlers and to seek to determine, if that cost benefit analysis is not good enough, where and how we may find answers to the questions I pose. [More…]
We have a peculiar system of financing the needs of children in Australia. [More…]
That means that parents who have substantial funds can give substantial financial backing to schools which their children attend and those schools can get a subsidy by way of a grant. [More…]
The children of the two groups must compete at examinations and at every other level. [More…]
The children of parents in the lower socioeconomic group are really suffering a burden, as the Karmel report clearly showed. [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, $2m is to be given not to the schools but to the parents of the children in these schools. [More…]
An analysis in respect of New South Wales raises the old sectarian issue that we are anxious to get away from because our belief is that all children are entitled to get the best possible education. [More…]
Their children will bear the consequences. [More…]
Parents in turn have the responsibility and right of choosing for their children a school which meets their legitimate preferences. [More…]
The vouchers could be available at schools, to be signed like cheques when parents enrol their children. [More…]
However, the method we now use would be quite satisfactorygovernment payment to each school or system of a cheque whose amount is determined by the number of children in attendance. [More…]
The vouchers being uniform for all children taking the same course, and not tied to institutional needs, the process would be even simpler than it is at present. [More…]
Aid to children at non-government schools may have to be increased step by step over a number of years towards ultimate parity with what government school parents receive. [More…]
It is for actuaries to determine how far the anticipated additional cost of providing equal financial assistance for all children at school would be offset by the tax revenue collected from more affluent parents with children at either government or private schools, all being treated alike. [More…]
All voucher funding systems envisage parents paying the cost of their children’s schooling at the school of their choice. [More…]
The vital difference between voucher funding and current Australian practice lies in formal recognition at law of the fact that basic aid moneys are due to children or families and not to institutions. [More…]
Many parents who are now made to feel that they have no say at all in their children’s schooling would be encouraged to take a really active interest in it. [More…]
It may even be, in the long view, that the greatest value of voucher funding lies in the sense of personal responsibility which it restores to parents, teachers and children. [More…]
Now he has the magic formula- the vouchers- which will solve all the problems of education, except perhaps teaching the children who go to the schools. [More…]
One has only to look at the cost of them and one has only to try to get one ‘s children enrolled. [More…]
On occasions I have made telephone calls for people and have visited schools in order to enable children to be enrolled and I have been told that this is not possible. [More…]
The parents of children attending these schools are not wealthy people. [More…]
The father is on an average award wage with a wife and a few children. [More…]
The Bill is aimed at promoting the Government’s objective of ensuring the best possible educational standards for all Australian children, whether they attend government or nongovernment schools. [More…]
It does not seem to worry members of Her Majesty’s Opposition, members of the Labor Party that one out of every five children, of all the boys and girls of Australia, is today being educated at non-government schools. [More…]
One out of five Australian children is being educated in that system. [More…]
Now the Government has the audacity to say that it will give a paltry 20 per cent to children who might need 80 per cent. [More…]
When the children reach fourth form and can go no further at that school most of them do not qualify for funds made available to isolated children. [More…]
Spend $2, 371m on education but not a cent for libraries that ensure that the educational process does not end when our children complete their formal education. [More…]
At that meeting the representative of the Victorian health authorities announced that an outbreak of gastroenteritis among children in Australia had been traced to milk powder containing Salmonella produced at Nestle ‘s Tongala factory. [More…]
I stress that it will help families because we need to help those people with young children. [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 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 effect of this will be to drive out of these institutions children who are in the category that the Government has singled out as being most deserving or, in many cases, to close the institutions or to leave them empty. [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…]
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…]
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…]
I come from a State where pre-school education is free and where there is provision for pre-school education for in excess of 80 per cent of the children in the four to five year age group. [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…]
The danger of drugging children with drugs such as this is that they are quietened down during the day time, their normal time of activity which is part of the growing up process. [More…]
It is also fairly common for drugs like Valium, Phenergan and Benadryl to be prescribed for children themselves. [More…]
Many of the drugs frequently prescribed for children can cause problems. [More…]
Parents may be tempted to give higher doses of tranquilisers to quieten down their naughty children who are upsetting them. [More…]
I referred earlier to the drug Phenergan which is freely available under prescription as a drug for children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
There is a strong case for legislators to consider the point of view that children of known addicts should be seen to be legally at risk in some form or another. [More…]
The creation of this new aspect of the Community Youth Support Scheme for Aboriginal children will allow these young people to be kept busy during the day and to be given an opportunity to take part in job observation, to receive counselling on their own presentation when they apply for a job and, generally speaking, to involve themselves in community projects. [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…]
I have in my electorate the President and the Secretary of the Amputee Children’s Society. [More…]
Worse still is the fact that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) apparently has indicated to one of these parents in recent times that the handicapped children’s allowance is to be subject to a means test. [More…]
To my knowledge, there has been no indication in the Budget that the handicapped children’s allowance is to be subject to means test. [More…]
Instead, regular meetings are now held at ministerial level and between senior officers of relevant State and Commonwealth departments to discuss all aspects of the Children’s Service Program including Pre-School Services. [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…]
As I am sure the honourable gentleman is aware, my Department has no direct responsibility for the fostering of Aboriginal children. [More…]
Fostering and the care of children is exclusively the jurisdiction of the various State agencies. [More…]
However, I can inform the honourable gentleman that my Department has been working for some time in attempts to get a national policy towards the fostering of Aboriginal children. [More…]
We are endeavouring to promote the idea that Aboriginal children should not be taken away from their natural parents unnecessarily and that in general circumstances Aboriginal children should be fostered with Aboriginal parents, accepting, however, that in appropriate circumstances white parents may provide a suitable home for Aboriginal children. [More…]
At recent meetings that I have had with State Ministers responsible in this area, those Ministers have agreed that their officers will co-operate with mine in seeking to formulate a national approach to the fostering of Aboriginal children. [More…]
I sponsored a national seminar on the fostering of children and on juvenile delinquency among Aboriginal children which was held in Sydney several months ago. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government recognises the disadvantages suffered by isolated children in respect of education, and has done much in that area, will the Government also act to assist those very deserving people who have to travel long distances to receive medical care? [More…]
According to the latest household expenditure survey- and again if the Minister’s department is not obtaining this information, I will do the work for him- the average household spends 10.7 per cent of income on housing if it has no children and 11.3 per cent if it has. [More…]
In this year’s Victorian Budget, it was announced that as from 1 January 1978, duty would be abolished on property passing to the children of the deceased. [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…]
I recall to mind an event that the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) saw, as I did, on the occasion of the presentation of some awards to Greek children in my electorate only recently. [More…]
After the members present had taken the opportunity to present trophies to young children whose ages ranged from five or six years through to 13 or 14 years, a Labor candidate, a young man who stood against me at the last election, was invited by the State Labor member to come forward. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that, as the honourable member for St George illustrated this morning, this honourable member was prepared to go along and politically to abuse the invitation extended to him to come along and enjoy a little fellowship with them when they had the opportunity of making presentations to their children of awards for their sporting prowess. [More…]
Does he want to say to the Australian people who want to bring their relatives to Australia: ‘No, we are not prepared to have your prospective spouse or children or parents join you in this country; we are against family reunions’? [More…]
He talked about a Labor candidate in local government elections attending a children’s event and injecting politics into it. [More…]
They continue to regard migrants to this country as being children. [More…]
It is precisely because honourable members opposite regard migrants as children that they will be rejected by them at the next election. [More…]
It is true enough that other sections of the Australian community are affected- young school leavers, including migrant children; women, including migrant women. [More…]
I have indicated that school children or women probably are the first to be retrenched. [More…]
Some of the results will be a smaller increase in the labour force, possibly labour shortages in the 1980s and 1990s, smaller numbers of school age children and a progressive aging of the population. [More…]
This program saw the arrival in Australia of more than 3.3 million new settlers who, together with their children born in Australia, have been responsible for approximately one-half of Australia’s post-war population growth from 7.4 million to the present 14 million. [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…]
In the Australian Capital Territory, it is based upon 90 per cent of average weekly earnings, plus an allowance for dependent children. [More…]
I think that is something that is welcomed by many parents throughout Australia whose children are being educated in a part of the country away from where they live. [More…]
The schools attended by the vast majority of Australian children are to be shoved back on to the States, whose revenue resources are unequal as between the States and unfair and regressive within each State. [More…]
Should this be permitted to happen- should the present Prime Minister ever achieve his real intentions- the gap in standards between the handful of top, private schools and the other schools, government and non-government, attended by 95 per cent of Australian children will continue to widen. [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…]
Some children have the cost of their entire education met from the taxpayers’ dollar. [More…]
The Commission clearly established that children in Australia now have nothing like an equal opportunity. [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…]
Traditional barriers between these sectors have been substantially reduced and individuals and groups within them have been encouraged to work together in the common interests of educating all Australian school children to the best possible standards. [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…]
We, as Australians, have a responsibility when we collect taxes all over the country to guarantee those children the same resource allocation. [More…]
The first one was to ensure that special purpose programs, such as those for handicapped children, migrants, disadvantaged schools and country schools, many of which are extremely disadvantaged, were maintained. [More…]
No one talked about isolated children, hundreds of miles from schools. [More…]
Are they not disturbed about the availability of employment opportunities for their children and grandchildren? [More…]
The Government directed the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal to give special attention to children’s programs in the terms of reference for the recent inquiry into selfregulation. [More…]
In this report, the strongest recommendation for firmer requirements is in the area of children’s television programming. [More…]
Consequently, they did not propose, at this stage, the establishment of a body which would require substantial government subsidy, such as a Children ‘s Television Foundation. [More…]
I believe it was completely uncalled for that the honourable member for Corio should suggest that in some way the Prime Minister, when he was Minister for Education, did less than justice to the school children of Australia and to the parents of those children. [More…]
What I am being driven into doing and being driven into accepting is to my eventual detriment and to the detriment of my country and my children’. [More…]
That this House, viewing with grave concern the recent report of the correspondent of Paris Match, Denis Reichle, that at least 70,000 East Timorese have been killed by Indonesian occupying forces, and his further report that 30,000 Indonesian troops are continuing actions which involve further deaths of great numbers of men, women and children; and bearing in mind that the United Nations does not acknowledge Indonesian possession of East Timor and that the question is not an internal one for Indonesia, requests the Government: [More…]
A strike means a real sacrifice not only for the person concerned but also for his wife and children. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) indicated- and this is realised by many people- the Government’s action has been exposed as a cheap political gimmick which puts at risk the future of thousands of men, women and children not only in the Latrobe Valley but also throughout Victoria because of the spin-off effects that the dispute is having in other industries. [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…]
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…]
Where there are children, additional benefit of $7.50 a week is payable for each child. [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…]
The point I make is that from looking at the commission reports we still see large gaps as to what is needed by way of aid to children. [More…]
There is going to be inbuilt hostility in parents and children about whether the level of funding should have been maintained. [More…]
All this adds to the fact that we have nothing but confrontation, division and disappointment with this sort of attitude towards the needs of children. [More…]
The Government is only putting a further burden on the children and the parents. [More…]
I do not believe that this is what we want for our children but neither do we want to see grand buildings at colleges of advanced education or universities when young children are suffering. [More…]
This is all the more important for children from economically disadvantaged areas. [More…]
So these children are even more disadvantaged when there are poor library facilities. [More…]
The programs for this sort of facility for migrants are left to State governments which show no initiatives and no ability to supply this multicultural diversity by providing adequate staff and facilities for these children. [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…]
It is a complete fallacy to suggest that the children of wealthy parents attend private schools. [More…]
Many children of poor parents attend even level 2 schools. [More…]
But many children of poor parents attend level 2 schools. [More…]
Some parents believe that their children ought to have a religious education. [More…]
A fireman has two children attending a level 2 school. [More…]
He certainly accepts voluntarily sending his children to that school because he believes that they will be better educated. [More…]
The parents of some children live in isolated areas and frankly do not have the option but to send their children to schools which involve the paying of fees, even if the fees paid are as a result of a charge made by a government hostel. [More…]
There are parents whose children for some reason or other do not meet the middle stream. [More…]
There is a disproportionate number of children with learning difficulties in independent schools because those schools are prepared to cope with the difficulties of those children. [More…]
The parents in all those groups send their children to independent schools not because they want to pay those fees but because they believe they should pay those fees for the sake of their children. [More…]
I submit that a person who is taxed to provide education, amongst other things, is entitled to the same consideration from those taxes, irrespective of where he sends his children to school. [More…]
It may be reasonable to discriminate between parents on the basis of wealth; it is not reasonable to discriminate between parents because of the choice they make in relation to the education of their children. [More…]
Although I respect the opinions of the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) who preceded me in the debate, I am surprised at his claim that in the main children of poor parents rather than of rich parents attend private schools. [More…]
Since then, with my colleague the Minister for Health, discussions have proceeded to review the proposal by the Aboriginal Medical Service at Redfern for a nutritional program amongst the Aboriginal children of that district. [More…]
I am aware of the incidence of glue sniffing amongst children and amongst some Aboriginal families- Aboriginal children in particular. [More…]
The Government will be continuing programs for disadvantaged schools in country areas and for special education, including provisions for children in institutions, at the same base level as in 1977. [More…]
As recommended by the Commission, the base program for migrant and multi-cultural education, whilst the same in total has been adjusted between the States and systems to bring the payments more in line with the actual distribution of migrant children. [More…]
I refer next to the Isolated Children’s Parents Association and the tremendous work and great sacrifice the people who comprise that organisation have made. [More…]
There is a need for greater assistance to parents who have to send their children away to school. [More…]
The inner areas of Melbourne and Sydney- it is the ones in Melbourne and in my own area particularly which I know best- are places where there are gravely disadvantaged schools in which school buildings are inadequate, at which the children come from disadvantaged homes and the general social system or the availability of social amenities is inadequate. [More…]
I visited the Brunswick school on Sunday and I was incautious enough to admire some of the things the children were turning out. [More…]
Yet the education system is failing to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of school children each year who graduate without basic literacy or numeracy skills. [More…]
An Australian Council for Educational Research survey of 10-year old and 14-year old students found that there is a considerable problem in Australian schools with significant numbers of children failing to reach adequate levels of numeracy and literacy. [More…]
These children are functionally illiterate or innumerate. [More…]
Further educational disadvantage is suffered by many other children, such as country students, Aborigines, migrants and girls. [More…]
It was hoped that with the increased expenditure on education under the program that we had initiated children in these deprived schools- I am referring to the bulk of the state schools and a large proportion of the Catholic parochial schools in the private school sector might attain by 1980 the level of children in the rich schools. [More…]
This means that there is no money being allocated for rethinking and re-examining the basis of education in order to make education both more relevant and more accessible to the children in our community. [More…]
The reality is, of course, that the majority of children going through our schools and the majority of schools know nothing of modern education techniques. [More…]
By comparision, in Japan, of every 100 children who start a full high school course, more than 80 finish. [More…]
Approximately 3,200 people, principally comprising pensioners, students and children, made up the population there. [More…]
In fact, if one listens to the youthful voices that are heard on the air on citizen band radio, there may be some real need to rename it children’s band radio. [More…]
It would seem to me that the vast majority of those who are using that particular medium at the moment are children. [More…]
A lot of them do behave like children but there are, in fact, many young children on the air. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) said that a lot of the people who are on the air with citizen band radio sound like children. [More…]
Perhaps we should be looking at a situation where it does become children’s band radio, where we take away the old crystal sets and the two tin cans tied together on a piece of wire and give them these new electronic devices which, of course, are reasonably cheap to purchase and reasonably cheap to operate. [More…]
Perhaps the present system and the present bands being used will have to be thrown away altogether to be used by the children and the ratbag element in our community. [More…]
It is a thing which parents give to their children and they have the time of their lives with it. [More…]
Under the Act as it is framed a court can grant a decree very quickly to dissolve a marriage, but as has now become clear courts become bogged down often without very good reason and it can be a considerable time before a court is able to dispose of matters relating to property, maintenance and custody of children. [More…]
The action of the wife to gain access to some of the property from his estate for her and the maintenance of the children would abate and the cause of action that the wife might have had otherwise would be lost. [More…]
That redress resides only with the children of the marriage or the wife. [More…]
The matrimonial nome, for instance, could be lost to a wife and her children because there would be no way by which a court could give redress. [More…]
When we appreciate that there could be a delay of up to two years between the granting of a decree for dissolution of a marriage and the dealing with ancillary matters, we see how much the odds are in favour of a number of cases arising where divorcees will lose rights they would otherwise have had to the matrimonial home and property to enable them to maintain themselves and the children of the marriage. [More…]
If a veteran has a wife (and/or children) an additional amount is payable to him, equal to the 100 per cent General [More…]
In the 1976 Budget, the Government introduced the system of family allowances to replace child endowment and tax rebates for dependent children. [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…]
E resent arrangements the married couple are both liable for the levy if they insure differently and have no children. [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…]
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…]
There could be arguments about what circumstantial matters one takes into accountwhether people are married or single, whether they have children and so on. [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…]
The base program for migrant and multicultural education is the same in total as for 1977, but has been adjusted between States and systems to bring the payments more into line with the actual distribution of migrant children. [More…]
For the average family consisting of a husband, a wife and two children, this means an increase in income tax of $936 yearly since the Fraser Government promised to reduce taxation. [More…]
The justification for this change was that a bachelor earning, say, $ 1 70 a week has a much greater capacity to bear the tax burden than does a man supporting a wife and children on the same amount. [More…]
To illustrate just exactly what happens as far as the Government is concerned and as far as the disadvantage for families with children is concerned, I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a table which I have prepared. [More…]
A person with a dependent spouse and, say, three dependent school children, who has a taxable income of $5,943 a year, will now be paying just under $150 tax a year, or about $3 a week on a weekly taxable income of $115 or $120 a week. [More…]
There was a tax exemption on incomes up to $5,943 for a person with a dependent spouse and three dependent school children. [More…]
I suggest that we should reinstate the allowance for children at a figure which would compensate for the change in price levels which have affected the real values of family allowances. [More…]
The effect of this amendment will be that there will be restored, in addition to the family allowance, an income tax rebate in respect of children. [More…]
It was quite right that in the early days New South Wales should support the other States as a parent sup- ports his children. [More…]
They were thrown out of work, with utter disregard for their wives and famines and their children’s education. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to reports stating that there are waiting periods of 12 months for pensioners, and 3 to 4 months for children, before they can have their hearing tested at the Commonwealth Acoustics Laboratory in Penh. [More…]
Children are tested within 3 to 4 weeks of application. [More…]
Children are given priority because early treatment is essential to successfully overcoming their handicap and children’s appointments are necessarily longer than adults’. [More…]
In all capital cities, children wait from 2 to 4 weeks. [More…]
That this House congratulates the Government for recognising the very real problems which many single parent families face in bringing up children and commends it for its humanitarian decision to grant single fathers full social service benefit equivalent to that now being paid to supporting mothers, and further commends the honourable member for Franklin, Mr Bruce Goodluck, and the other members of this House who supported him in his forthright support for the grant of full social service benefits to lone fathers. [More…]
I venture to say that the government initiated experiments during the time of the Labor Government, especially those in the field of children’s television, have proved to be nothing more than a complete and total disaster. [More…]
I instance groups who are concerned about the inadequacy of children’s television now. [More…]
They have no financial interests but a very deep interest in what our rubbish television is doing to their children. [More…]
In proposed section 16, after paragraph (d) of sub-section ( 1 ) insert the following paragraph: ‘(da) to determine what standards should be observed in regard to programs which are likely to be viewed by children, having regard to the fact that radio and television sets are usually located in family rooms, where it is difficult for parents to maintain continuous supervision;’ [More…]
When the set is in the room the children can turn it on. [More…]
So I do ask that the interest of children be kept in mind when these standards are being prescribed. [More…]
For example, we would not want heroin to be brought into our homes but the kinds of social drugs which are being conveyed over the television are equally deadly to the children. [More…]
Perhaps this is linked to drug use by children. [More…]
On the question of standards, particularly as they apply to children’s programs, of course it is a matter of some significance. [More…]
The people cannot trust them to provide jobs for children who leave school. [More…]
Inasmuch as many lone fathers at the present time may be working because they have no alternative, this benefit will make it possible for them to give up work, in some cases at least, and to look after their children. [More…]
The children will obviously benefit. [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges), when this matter was debated before, arguing that parents ought to be able to look after their children; that they ought to take the responsibility for looking after their school leaver children for the six weeks over Christmas and [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…]
In the case of pensioners the dependant benefit stops when school finishes; yet those children do not become eligible for anything else. [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…]
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…]
I am not going to advocate a means test based on parental income which takes into account unemployment and sickness benefits for children. [More…]
The increase in the other categories, which included additional benefits for children, mothers allowances and supplementary assistance, was 25.7 per cent. [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…]
The new benefit will be payable to all fathers bringing up children on their own and will come into effect on the date the Bill received the royal assent. [More…]
Fathers who have already been supporting their children for six months or more will become eligible immediately the Bill becomes law. [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…]
From my own observations, one of the most disadvantaged groups in the community are the fathers, the men who have lost their wives, the supporter or other parent of their children. [More…]
What does he do with his children while they are waiting for him to come home from work? [More…]
It was found that a third of the lone fathers in the United Kingdom were leaving their children to their own devices at weekends and after school, leaving them to wait for their fathers to return home. [More…]
A lone father also has emotional problems with which to deal, particularly if he has teenage children. [More…]
bringing in this very important legislation which will assist many lone fathers in Australia and in particular their children, which is the most important thing. [More…]
Also their children will benefit and that is the important thing. [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…]
Invariably, tasks and responsibilities are given to children which are far too much for them. [More…]
Hopefully the people of this country, particularly those who have children leaving school this year, will remember when they are voting on 10 December that because of the niggardly behaviour of this Government their children will not be able to receive unemployment benefit for six weeks after their examinations are completed. [More…]
In some instances parents have complained that this was not good so far as the attitude of the children was concerned. [More…]
So I do not think there will be the objection that the honourable member for Prospect says there will be, because I have found that many parents were concerned that their children became eligible for unemployment benefit when they felt that the children should not be tempted in this way. [More…]
This is a major discrimination against those families in the country who find it difficult to keep their children when they leave school and cannot find a job. [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 pension benefit for their children once they leave school and they cannot receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
So honourable members can see the Labor Party’s remarkable interest in education and the needs of children. [More…]
In that report Karmel was able to identify the great needs of children and the priorities that were necessary to give children an equal opportunity, and that is what education is all about in this country- to give every youngster an equal opportunity. [More…]
In fact, Karmel was able to say that of those 150 children a mere 14 per centthe brightest children- would survive to complete their secondary education because of their low socio-economic standard. [More…]
Among tertiary students of all kinds, the children of manual workers are under-represented and those of higher status families over-represented. [More…]
To the extent that higher education is financed from taxes it has thus a somewhat regressive effect, poorer people contributing to the cost of education of a group in which the children of richer parents predominate and from which recipients can expect to draw higher than average incomes. [More…]
The United States, for example, spends ten times more on the education of the ten per cent of its children on the top of the socio-economic scale than on the 10 per cent on the bottom. [More…]
It must interest you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to know that it is also a problem in country areas from a geographical point of view, the lack of community facilities and the general lack of facilities in certain country areas in which the needs of children were evident. [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…]
If they represent about a quarter of the school population, as they do, we would find that in the non-government and government schools area there are some Vi million children in this category. [More…]
We are not talking about helping parents, we are talking about trying to help all children. [More…]
Are we going to drop the percentage to these children by 13 per cent? [More…]
By virtue of this arithmetical cut-off of 20 per cent it will deliberately deny children with the greatest need. [More…]
Everybody forgot section 96 and all those other provisions which would enable funds to be given to children in need, particularly as the Federal Government collects the taxes. [More…]
Those of us who represent lower socioeconomic groups know full well that children have to put up with substandard conditions in schools now, including overcrowding. [More…]
How can these children be expected to compete? [More…]
Take children of the poor. [More…]
The Karmel report drew attention to the children of the lower socio-economic groups. [More…]
The Labor Government accepted full financial responsibility for Australian universities, provided living allowances for all senior secondary and tertiary students on the basis of need and made special assistance available in the form of allowances for those children who lived in isolated country areas. [More…]
I have a high school in my area at which I am delighted to know there are now 12 Aboriginal children completing their secondary course this year. [More…]
We want them again to support Labor on the basis of its record in education because it is only through a Labor philosophy that the needs of children will be properly identified. [More…]
Those schools have a large number of migrant children. [More…]
The parents of these children are unable to support them in the same way at school and in many cases the parents are unable to apply themselves to the question of being part of the corporate body of the school life as they can in other areas. [More…]
I consider, and I believe my colleagues from this side of the chamber consider, that the rights of the children transcend any consideration of State rights or anything of that order. [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…]
It is ensuring that the best possible education standards for all Australian children apply, whether they attend government or non-government schools. [More…]
This year the Liberal-National Party Government took the following additional initiatives: Extension of the disadvantaged schools concept to country areas, a $3.5m joint government/nongovernment schools scheme; and a $lm joint funding program for additional education assistance to children in residential institutions. [More…]
However it is about schools that I wish to speak because those who have a tertiary education are the recipients of a great expenditure derived from the taxpayer by comparison with children in primary and secondary schools. [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…]
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…]
I suppose a very large number of the Aboriginal children who went to such schools were pagans; they were not yet converted to the Catholic or Protestant Church. [More…]
But nobody was suggesting that because those children were pagans they should not go to that school. [More…]
I sometimes wonder, therefore, just applying that same philosophy into the metropolitan area, if some Protestant children do come to a Catholic school, what the school is about. [More…]
It does not seem to me to be any more objectionable from a theological point of view than that children who are totally pagan come to such a school in the Northem Territory and presumably would then be on the way towards conversion. [More…]
The Labor Government also commissioned the University of Queensland to look at the value of the secondary grants that were being made to Aboriginal children and in what ways such grants could be perfected and improved for aboriginal families. [More…]
It should also be appreciated that the Commonwealth has assisted with a cash flow to those settlers with children with the alteration of family allowances. [More…]
I understand, for example, we have ailed to apply a national standard for children’s clothing, particularly flammable clothing which could result in youngsters being burnt to death because of certain material used in the manufacture of their garments. [More…]
Perhaps we should start in the schools where the teachers and children are so involved and so interested in the future. [More…]
Are we teaching the children in our schools how to use the equipment they take with them when they go into the wildlife areas? [More…]
How many rivers have I found full of spinners because people or children did not know how to use their tackle? [More…]
To my wife and my children, I say thank you. [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…]
In addition to the proposal in part (3), what legislative changes does the Attorney-General propose to make to the Family Law Act to prevent children being taken out of jurisdiction. [More…]
The Attorney-General agrees that there should be no delay in implementing any action that has been recommended to prevent the removal of children from Australia against the wishes of a parent entitled to custody or access. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General give consideration to instructing the Commonwealth and/or State Police to locate actively children abducted by a spouse during the course of hearings associated with family break-down or in defiance of custody orders granted by a Court [More…]
Is it a fact that administrative arrangements at present are such that the Commonwealth Police will not actively move to trace children even when custody orders are violated by a spouse unless an order is made for the arrest of the offending parent. [More…]
The Minister has advised that the Commonwealth Police will endeavour to locate children named in warrants issued under section 64 of the Family Law Act. [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken under Article 22 of the Agreement between Australia and Turkey, which entered into force on 5 October 1967, to give the children of Turkish citizens the opportunity of tuition in the Turkish language. [More…]
The Australian Government, in co-operation with the Turkish Government and the State governments of Victoria and New South Wales, entered into an arrangement in 1974 for five Turkish teachers employed by the Turkish Government to come to Australia to teach the Turkish language and culture to Turkish children in some schools in those States. [More…]
Turkish children also are able to learn Turkish in ethnic schools established by the ethnic community. [More…]
Under Article 1 1 of the Agreement to facilitate the integration of children of Yugoslav workers into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of learning their mother tongue. [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken under Article 11 of the Migration and Settlement Agreement between Australia and Malta, which entered into force on 1 July 1970, to promote facilities and establish classes to assist Maltese migants including their families to acquire knowledge of the English language and to facilitate the integration of the children of Maltese migrants into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of learning the Maltese language. [More…]
Special funds are provided through the Schools Commission to education authorities in the States for migrant and multi-cultural education including English language classes for migrant children from non-English speaking backgrounds. [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken (a) under Article 2 1 of the Migration and Settlement Agreement between Australia and Italy, which entered into force on 8 July 1971, to promote facilities and establish classes to assist Italian workers and their families to acquire knowledge of the English language and to facilitate the integration of the children of Italian workers into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of tuition in the Italian language and (b) under Article 2 of the Agreement of Cultural Co-operation between Australia and Italy, which entered into force on 28 May 197S, to facilitate the integration of Italian children into the Australian community while maintaining their cultural ties with their country of origin. [More…]
Special funds also are provided through the Schools Commission to education authorities in the States for migrant and multi-cultural education including English language classes for migrant children from non-English speaking backgrounds. [More…]
Italian children may also be taught in ethnic schools and a survey conducted by the Committee produced a response from 101 ethnic schools (37 in New South Wales, 56 in Victoria and eight in Western Australia). [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…]
Three research reports which have some bearing on the issues you have raised have been funded under the auspices of the Children’s Services Program. [More…]
Three studies of language and communications in pre-school children at home and in day care centres. [More…]
There is nothing in the findings of these studies which would indicate that children in regular attendance in day care or related services suffer long term psychological and emotional damage. [More…]
This article stated: ‘Children are not inevitably damaged by receiving day care outside the home or by having mothers who go out to work, as was mistakenly argued by some previous WHO expert groups. [More…]
It has been demonstrated that good quality day care can have positive psycho-social benefit, especially for children from seriously disadvantaged or disordered homes’. [More…]
The findings of various research studies conducted both here and overseas indicate that there is a need for further research into the effects of environment on the psycho-social development of young children. [More…]
If so, will pre-schools in the inner city area of Sydney face fee rises from $5 to about $17 a week from 12 September 1977 onwards which will force most inner city children away from the pre-schools, because their parents just cannot afford to pay the fees. [More…]
Will the likely result of these fee rises be either the replacement of inner city children by children of wealthier parents or the closure of many of the pre-schools. [More…]
The conditions attached to the block grants are that funding can be differentially provided between centres to ensure access to services for children from low income families and children in special need and that the States are required to distribute the funds even-handedly between Community and State sponsored pre-schools. [More…]
Children involved in Custody Proceedings: Withdrawal of Passports (Question No. [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…]
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…]
Consultative mechanisms have been established in both Territories and are to be established in each State, for both community groups and officials to advise on the entire range of activities under the Children’s Services Program. [More…]
I can inform the honourable gentleman that a private company owned by a family trust, the beneficiaries of which are my wife and three children, and in respect of which I have no shares or beneficial interests and am not a director or trustee, made an investment in residential land when the Liberal and National Country parties were in Opposition. [More…]
What is the additional amount which has been collected in PA YE income tax instalments since the introduction of the new family allowances scheme and the discontinuance of the tax deduction for dependent children. [More…]
1 ) and (2) Available statistics do not reveal the numbers of employees who claimed rebates for dependent children and students in reduction of their tax instalment deductions. [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…]
C. (i) Children’s Services Program funds projects in the four Electoral Divisions. [More…]
Expenditure on the Children’s Services Program in 1976-77 was as Mows: [More…]
Prior, A. Daley, T. Meyes, T. Down, P. Pettit, P. Trail, J. Haywood, J. Cooper, N. Van Englen, Boutten- part-time remedial teachers assisting slow learner Aboriginal children to compete on an equal basis with children who are able to cope with studies. [More…]
I know his children and many of his relatives and I appreciate the opportunity to express my regret at his death and to support the motion before the House. [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…]
We have to look after those naughty children. [More…]
Migrants do not want to be treated as children. [More…]
It disadvantages large families compared with small families or married couples with no children or single people. [More…]
There has been one tremendous benefit for young people in agriculture and that is the Government’s undertaking to abolish Federal estate duty and gift duties, both between spouses and between parents and children and, in due course, altogether. [More…]
I have within my electorate significant institutions and homes that deal with the problems of handicapped and subnormal children. [More…]
In my electorate there is the school Karonga at West Epping, a very worthwhile school built by parents to tend to the needs of sub-normal children. [More…]
The Government will introduce measures to ensure that parents of handicapped children pay no more for their education than parents of other children, and to provide further assistance for the education of children in isolated areas. [More…]
However, if the brothers and sisters, parents and older children of constituents in my area were to come to Australia they would certainly buy houses, refrigerators and motor cars and they would work very hard. [More…]
However, it should be stressed that according to the 1971 census only 17.6 per cent of Australia’s population was engaged in farming, mining, manufacturing or construction- that is, in the direct production or processing of goods- while children, students, retired people and women outside the work force totally 58.74 per cent. [More…]
Quinary Sector (Quasi-domestic): This is sometimes described as a residual category but it can be redefined to include the provision of quasi domestic services- that is, services which are provided within the home or are analagous to domestic services, for example, provision of food and shelter, care of children and the aged, cleaning and other home duties, voluntary work for charities. [More…]
I was recently at a factory that manufactures a very well known brand of singlets for men, women and children. [More…]
Women should stay at home and have children instead of going out to work, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Michael MacKellar, said yesterday. [More…]
I think how many children couples have is very much their own decision and I don’t want to be seen as an advocate of a breeding farm or anything like that. [More…]
I think what we’ve got to do is get a change of attitude around the place which suggests it’s not such a bad thing to have a couple of kids, that it’s not such a terribly demeaning thing for a mother to stay at home with her children rather than feeling that she must go to work. [More…]
If we can get what I would regard as a more balanced approach to public attitudes towards having and raising children this would have an effect on fertility. [More…]
I don’t want to be seen as saying the State expects you to have more children. [More…]
They could not care less about what it actually means to people- what it means to be a middle aged worker without work for the first time in his life; what it means to be a woman ready and eager to return to the work force but with nowhere to go; what it means to be young and well educated and to have door after door slammed in one’s face; what it means to be parents who see their children gradually lose their self-esteem and self-confidence in the face of this continual demoralising rejection; and what it means to these kids who, when they attempt to find other ways in which to fill their time, are hounded by police, scolded by courts and admonished by governments. [More…]
These people say that it relates to the children. [More…]
During my personal involvement in a campaign concerning a lone fathers’ benefit, I was alerted- possibly I was completely aware of it before- to the disadvantages that are suffered by many children of lone parents. [More…]
Of course these break-ups have a great bearing on the lives and future lives of the children of Australia. [More…]
The children are extremely vulnerable in today’s society. [More…]
Although in many cases it is not the fault of parents, children are left alone for long periods. [More…]
This, of course, has a deep psychological effect on the children. [More…]
We all know that children need a great deal of personal attention and care. [More…]
Sometimes I think a strong link exists between the problems of the children that I have mentioned and the problems of unemployment. [More…]
As a matter of fact I believe that statistics indicate that employment difficulties emerge for children who have had very disturbed backgrounds. [More…]
We have talked about various schemes, but I believe that we could make a start by looking at the problems of the children I have mentioned. [More…]
Family and friends often are not able to provide much assistance and the problem must become a community responsibility in order to minimise the changes forced upon the children. [More…]
In describing what he called the quinary sector of the economy, he said that this category provides services which are provided within the home or are analogous to domestic services, for example, the provision of food and shelter, the care of children and the aged, cleaning and other home duties, and voluntary work for charities. [More…]
In our society it is a bit hard to say to a man who is trying to keep a wife and three children on $160 or $ 1 70 a week that he should not have the full flow on of indexation and should make economic sacrifices when at the same time the Government is engaged in a sordid appointment for the former Governor-General involving sums and terms beyond the comprehension of the average wage and salary earner. [More…]
There seem to be innumerable cases of young girls deliberately getting themselves into the situation of bearing children for no other reason than to make themselves financially secure and independent for as long as they choose. [More…]
The main focus of the report of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships sees the principal purpose of the family as providing for the care and upbringing of the children. [More…]
However, the family has been stripped and is still being stripped of many of its functions- its responsibility for the education of young children; its responsibility to provide the socialising experience for young children; its role in the past as a productive unit; its functions and responsibility to be the unit that conveys social values to young children; and its responsibility to provide to its members some measure of economic security. [More…]
We have been moving inexorably towards a new way of rearing children without giving a second thought to its consequences or the aspirations of Australian families. [More…]
Allowances for dependent children have not been raised to a level sufficient to take account of those changed wages policies. [More…]
He pointed out that it was difficult to see why unemployment benefit should include a supplementary allowance for dependent children when no such benefit is available to the wage earner. [More…]
In his view it is more appropriate for allowances for dependent children to be made through another system of income support which would take no account of whether a claimant is employed. [More…]
The increasing number of twoincome families makes it imperative that we decide whether women with family responsibilities should be able, if they so wish, to remain within the home to bring up their children. [More…]
These policies must ensure that the standard of living of a family with children and a single income does not compare unfavourably with that of twoincome families and of single men and women. [More…]
The Government now makes provision for dependent children through family allowances. [More…]
Pensioners and those people in receipt of unemployment benefit receive supplementary payments if they have dependent children. [More…]
Other families with dependent children receive no such payments. [More…]
As a result of economic necessity rather than choice, many mothers of young children are forced to work. [More…]
As the children become older, personal choice plays a greater part in the decision. [More…]
If the survival of many families depends on two incomes because one income is insufficient, as concluded by Dr Myers, how can society expect families with young children to survive on one income? [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…]
In 1976 the tax rebates for dependent children were superseded by increased child endowment payments which were renamed ‘family allowances’. [More…]
They are the families which include children under six years of age. [More…]
We tax the individual and give limited recognition to family responsibilities through tax rebates for dependent spouses and family allowance payments for dependent children. [More…]
This applies to a family where the mother is providing support for her family and children at home. [More…]
The tax liability on families, especially those with young children, should be independent of the proportions in which the income is received by the family. [More…]
Firstly it could be done by allowing families with young dependent children to split their incomes on a notional partnership basis. [More…]
Alternatively, the same result could be achieved by increasing the spouse’s rebate in respect of those families who are supporting young children from $550 a year to $ 1 ,040 a year and at the same time making an adjustment in the rate at which that benefit is withdrawn by having it withdrawn at a rate equivalent to the standard rate of tax- 32c in the dollar- as the nontaxpaying spouse ‘s income rises. [More…]
The standard of living of men, women and children in Australia and in any developed society in the world will not be maintained, let alone developed, unless the management of water resources is conducted in accordance with regional and national policies on conservation and use. [More…]
Many of them have families and many have young children. [More…]
It is quite unreasonable to expect mothers with young children to drive- often they have to take the bus- to the local town in order to make use of a service such as that. [More…]
Until a few years ago every summer the parents of children in the areas around Port Augusta, Port Pirie and Whyalla were concerned about the effects of amoebic meningitis. [More…]
Honourable members opposite and honourable members on this side of the chamber know as well as I do that the fact that mum is not home is a basic cause of upset children who become misfits and juvenile delinquents in later years. [More…]
They point out to me that an enormous amount of Commonwealth and State money seems to be spent on an education system which is not achieving any better results than those that they can remember when they were growing up and which seems to put into the heads of the children ideas that education is something to round off a human being properly instead of teaching him how to take his place in the working world. [More…]
It is a most unfortunate and terrible situation that a wife can walk out on her husband, leave him with two or three children, go off with somebody else and then a very short time afterwards divorce proceedings can be instituted and carried through, resulting in the compulsory selling up of the family home and the division of the proceeds. [More…]
They know that some parents have, for their own convenience, slaughtered their own children and in some cases the brothers and sisters of the children 1 am talking about, it cannot go on. [More…]
Special teachers who can speak different languages and who can help migrant children are urgently needed. [More…]
They will be able to gain a first-hand knowledge of the languages spoken by our migrant school children. [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…]
I have seen children- young men and young ladies- who have completed a course of education to obtain the higher school certificates. [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…]
I spoke about the fact that each day many thousands of children in that country starve to death because they have no milk to drink. [More…]
The reason they are unemployed is not that we have produced too many school teachers but that we have not produced enough children. [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…]
The school teacher’s children are not able to watch televison out there. [More…]
That is only natural because they want their children to get a good education. [More…]
I feel that mC children *11 suffer 11 AL, difficult enough to keep good teachers in these country areas. [More…]
There is no doubt that educational facilities will be denied to the children who live there. [More…]
Another matter I wish to raise concerns the citizens of Ivanhoe approaching me and asking me to use my influence to ensure that a married school teacher was sent there rather than a single man because they wanted a teacher with children in order to improve the standard of the school. [More…]
I ask the responsible Minister to give this matter urgent consideration and to see that some kind of concession or some consideration is given to those school teachers, because I can assure him that it is difficult enough to provide education for the children in those remote country areas. [More…]
I wish to bring to the notice of the House tonight the matter of the provision of a handicapped children’s allowance for a little girl who resides in my electorate. [More…]
She has been denied the handicapped children’s allowance. [More…]
She cleared off to Sydney, and Priscilla ‘s parents heard nothing further until the end of January when they were informed that the application for a handicapped children’s allowance had been rejected by the Department. [More…]
They pay $50 a week rent, and the expenses incurred in taking Priscilla to the Children’s Hospital at Camperdown are eating up any funds that they have. [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…]
I am asking that an immediate decision be made and that a handicapped children’s allowance be made to Priscilla ‘s parents. [More…]
Generally, school children and other people should be able to come here in a free and unfettered way. [More…]
I refer to the family allowance scheme, the supporting parents’ benefit and the new policies of” expanding the domiciliary care benefit and helping those families which have a handicapped member, which are designed to relieve the additional burdens on the parents of handicapped children so that their financial costs will not be greater than those of parents who have normal children. [More…]
One way the Government could indicate to the people of Canberra that it feels that the city has a long term future, will continue to grow and will be a good place for those people who have chosen to live here and to bring up their children and to give them employment opportunities, would be for it to make a quick decision on the new and permanent parliament house. [More…]
The doubling of the education budgets in 1973 and 1974 and the subsequent distribution of the funds made available under those budgets on a real needs basis under the Karmel report saw an amazing revolution in the ordinary state schools- the parochial schools in Parramatta where the bulk of the children go. [More…]
These range from age, invalid and repatriation pensions to handicapped children’s allowances and payments to unmarried mothers. [More…]
Thirty-three thousand children “have been born to the Polish families that have come to Australia. [More…]
A lot of the elderly people now have no young children of Polish extract with whom to discuss their problems. [More…]
Many skilled tradesmen earning that $178 a week have dependent wives and children and pay $25 a week in tax, $9.60 for Medibank private and $1.34 for Medibank Extras B. [More…]
His Government introduced the widow’s pension, allowances for the wives and children of pensioners, the funeral benefit and a social worker casework service. [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…]
To a man with, say a wife and two children, that means $ 12 1 a week. [More…]
In the middle of the year we will see the introduction of a completely overhauled CommonwealthState Housing Agreement and a capacity for the HLIC to widen the eligibility for subsidised home loans and to distribute available funds more efficiently so that people who are living in housing commission or housing trust premises will have a capacity to purchase under reasonable conditions and at 100 per cent valuation, if necessary, those homes which they have spent their lives improving and in which they have raised their children. [More…]
Over a number of years I built up a fairly successful export market for Australian manufactured goods garments, children’s wear, men’s wear and textiles. [More…]
It is interesting to note the about-face by the media which, during the election campaign, headlined the Prime Minister’s claims that a man on $200 a week with a wife and two children would gain $6 a week and which, a few weeks ago when the tax cuts came into effect, provided printed tables showing that the gains would be $3 a week. [More…]
She is now living on her own, but she has reared five children who are now grown up. [More…]
She has worked hard to raise those children. [More…]
No African, even if he has been lawfully residing in a town by virtue of a permit issued to him, is entitled as of right to have his wife and children residing with him. [More…]
The Bill corrects an anomaly in regard to the benefit entitlements of children of those contributors who died in service before 1 July 1976. [More…]
For example, children of deceased contributors aged 21 to 25 undergoing full time education will now be entitled to benefits in the same circumstances as the children of pensioners who died prior to 1 July 1976. [More…]
The Bill ensures that the total benefits paid in respect of a spouse or spouses and children of a contributor or pensioner who died before 1 July 1976 shall not exceed the pension that would have been payable to the member. [More…]
There are 1 15,000 children of recipients of those benefits involved. [More…]
The 309,000 children who are dependants of pensioners are being robbed of$46,448,000. [More…]
When this program was first introduced in 1965 2,600 school children went through the education system. [More…]
In 1977 there were 68,000 children in Victorian primary schools with 1 8,000 children on the waiting list. [More…]
I now turn to the Yooralla pre-employment training program for physically handicapped and normal children which is unique in Australia. [More…]
If income can be split several ways, particularly amongst children who have little or no income, the tax effect is obvious. [More…]
The main beneficiary of Labor voting will very often be non-voters- migrants, Aborigines, the sick, the poor and the ignorant- and not necessarily the voter and his or her children. [More…]
It is a ‘now ‘ oriented party which has a hope of some future economic opportunities for children. [More…]
One redeeming feature for the people who reside in the area that I have lost from my electorate is the fact that they will now be represented by a great gladiator, a real fighter for the men and women and children of the west, in the person of the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett). [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…]
My own children in the area have taken jobs at anything that will give them employment. [More…]
The police acted mainly against local residents, women and children, whose only interest was to save their neighbourhood from the ravages of traffic. [More…]
I cannot for the life of me understand what objective they had in mind in murdering innocent men, women and children. [More…]
If anything, I believe it will strengthen their resolve and the result will be, regrettably, massive retaliation which in turn will result in possibly hundreds, though hopefully not, of innocent Palestinian men, women and children being killed. [More…]
Bombs are exploded in plazas and school children are killed as they were in places like Kiryat Shimona and Maalot. [More…]
Hopefully there will be retaliation against military targets, against the guerrillas themselves but not against the children. [More…]
Those honourable members who are familiar with the Middle East situation will know that it has been the practice of Palestinians to have their guerrilla hideouts in villages so that when the Israelis retaliate they hit villages with the result that women and children are killed. [More…]
I grieve for the small Aboriginal children with their beautiful, wide, innocent, brown eyes, knowing that they are growing up in an environment such as that. [More…]
They have to leave their homes, their wives and their children in a situation which is mildly explosive. [More…]
The first abolition of estate duty, which is on property passing to a widow, widower, children or parents of a deceased person, will apply to the estates of persons who died on or after 2 1 November last. [More…]
Gifts made on or after 21 November last to a spouse, to children or to parents also will be exempt from gift duty. [More…]
For example, if we could secure abundant cheap fuel for 20 years now but only at the cost of depriving children and grandchildren of any reasonable access to fuel, would we do it? [More…]
I can only describe these terrorists as a murdering band of thugs who take as their victims civilian men, women and children. [More…]
In April 1974 three PLO terrorists seized a school in the town of Maolot in northern Israel near the Lebanese border and murdered 22 children and six adults, including a soldier. [More…]
Sincere as these people may be, I ask them seriously: What would Australia have done if at regular intervals bands of terrorists landed on Australian shores, assassinated our men, women and children, and then retired to the sanctuary of a friendly neighbouring country? [More…]
For, in a sense, the cold-blooded killing of innocent Israeli civilians, women and children by Al Fatah desperadoes was aimed against both Israel and Egypt. [More…]
It certainly creates problems in their family life if they do not have understanding wives and children. [More…]
Will he restore the rate of subsidy that prevailed under the Whitlam Government for school dental services in areas where Aboriginals are the majority of the school children. [More…]
Eligible Aboriginal children together with other school children are currently receiving free dental care including dental health education under the Australian School Dental Scheme. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is, however, establishing a Trust Fund for the education and general benefit of the children of the Council workers killed in the explosion as an indication of the Government’s concern for their families. [More…]
They deal with rectifying the many anomalies that have shown up, particularly in regard to de facto relationships and orphan children. [More…]
The Bill corrects an anomaly in regard to the benefit entitlements of children of those contributors who died in service before 1 July 1976. [More…]
children of deceased contributors aged 21 to 25 undergoing fulltime education will now be entitled to benefits in the same circumstances as the children of pensioners who died prior to 1 July 1976. [More…]
They are in a very weak position in relation to the suppliers of health services, and there is also an understandable need on the part of parents and children or relatives and friends to provide for the person who is sick the best possible attention without immediate regard to the cost. [More…]
Under the present financing arrangements for health costs, patients often do not give any more real attention to the expenditure of, say, $9 on the provision of professional services for themselves or their children than they would give to spending $9 on going to a McDonald’s restaurant with the family for an evening meal rather than having it at home. [More…]
He is a man who supports an organisation which believes that the bombing and murder of civilian men, women and children is an acceptable means of settling international disputes and solving many of the long-standing problems in the Middle East, such as the settlement of Palestinian refugees. [More…]
It was prompted by the brutal and senseless murder of Israeli men, women and children. [More…]
The health of the children, particularly those in the main communities, is a much greater problem. [More…]
How many of the 283 children who were evacuated without their parents from Vietnam to Australia by the RAAF in April 1975 have now been adopted (Hansard, 1 June 1977, page 2383). [More…]
The honourable member will be aware that on the day following his asking the question to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security, responsibility for the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act was transferred to me under the Administrative Arrangements Order published in the Commonwealth Government Gazette of the 23rd February 1978. [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…]
To relieve demand for services of professional staff, South Australia has initiated training programs for paramedical aides and Western Australia nas introduced social trainers to assist parents of retarded children to cope with and to train children in elementary social activities. [More…]
I do not intend to have any more than the five children I have already. [More…]
Isolated Children’s Allowance [More…]
Another change to be made by the Bill will benefit taxpayers who have dependent children for whom payments are made under the isolated children’s education assistance scheme. [More…]
However, they continued to constitute separate net income of the children for purposes of calculating entitlement to the zone allowance and other rebates. [More…]
That can have the effect of reducing the rebates available to the parents of the children and the Bill provides that the allowances are not to be taken into account as from 1 July 1977. [More…]
When did the mass media last provide programs which could stimulate children or young people between the ages of 12 and 18 other than treating them as part of an exploitation market on behalf of advertisers? [More…]
But the legislation should not apply in western New South Wales because at present it is hard to obtain experienced teachers who are needed for the education of children in these areas. [More…]
I am sure that the Schools Commission would wholeheartedly agree that without acceptable teacher accommodation and some assistance in respect of rent education for the western division children will suffer. [More…]
Aboriginal Children in the Northern Territory: Hearing Defects (Question No. [More…]
Most of the deafness of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory is due to chronic otitis media which is associated with adverse environmental factors and is widely prevalent in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
This centre has enabled the Northern Territory Division of my Department to begin a broad-based screening program for all school children. [More…]
It is recognised that such a program may miss many Aboriginal children because of poor school attendance in some areas, but this deficiency is to receive increased attention as the service is developed. [More…]
Although statistics on this matter are not at present distinguishable by race, there are a small number of Aboriginal children with known, significant, permanent hearing defects who have not been fitted with hearing aids for various cultural and psychological adjustment reasons. [More…]
An additional inducement to the wearing of hearing aids by severely handicapped children will be the production of a more acceptable device (now in the process of design at the National Acoustic Laboratories, Sydney)- that is one that is less obtrusive, more easily fitted, more robust, and therefore more suitable for Aboriginals living in these remote communities. [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…]
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…]
That money goes to the wife of the family to look after the children. [More…]
I am concerned that this statement could be used by an unsympathetic Minister- for example, the previous Minister for Post and Telecommunications, who is now Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson)- to reduce any pressure on the commercial stations in the first category to diversify programs or to provide any stimulating programs for ethnic groups, women, children and young people. [More…]
I have extended my deepest sympathy to Lady Carmody and to her five children. [More…]
The Lynch children certainly paid tax on the income they derived from the profits of the land deal mentioned above. [More…]
Her two children were injured. [More…]
Older people in the community still talk of returning to the scene of those atrocities and of still hearing the cries of women and children coming out of the land. [More…]
I make no apology for my remarks, except perhaps to the children at present in the public galleries, for this is the Parliament of the country and I think I have the right, indeed the obligation, to tell the people of Australia what is going on. [More…]
But such things as Aboriginal bilingual education, the programs and support for Aboriginal children at schools and the isolated children’s programs, which covered the non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal communities, are Labor initiatives that have been taken forward. [More…]
It grieves us to realise that waterside workers can load a boat destined for Vietnam to help the people of that country but do refuse to load boats with cargoes, the sale of which will safeguard and ensure the living of Australian men, women and children. [More…]
The situation has reached the stage now where only the children of wealthy parents can afford to stay in these halls, can pay the cost of the full board that is supplied. [More…]
As I said at the beginning of my speech, it is very difficult not to be provocative with the children who sit opposite in this place. [More…]
It would be a brave man indeed who would not recognise that in the essential interests of the young people of today and of their children and their grandchildren, it would be a vital and absolute necessity that the capacity of the Australian nation be developed to the maximum degree. [More…]
For their own sakes and for the sakes of their children and indeed for posterity they must demand, as I do, the recall of the New South Wales Parliament from its S-month recess to pass the necessary legislation that clearly only it can pass. [More…]
In another Parliament of which I was a member for 15 years, not once in the political cut and thrust of debate was a man’s family- his children or his wife- ever brought into a debate. [More…]
Will he negotiate with the Minister for Health to have admitted a minimum quota of Aboriginals to training as school dental therapists at no cost to the States and to meet all costs of school dental therapy to schools where most children are Aboriginals. [More…]
The Australian School Dental Scheme which is being developed co-operatively between the Commonwealth and State Governments aims to offer free dental care to all school children- including Aboriginal Australians- up to their fifteenth birthday. [More…]
Coverage of the Scheme is progressively expanding and eligible Aboriginal children are currently receiving the same benefits as other school children. ‘ [More…]
I regard it as appropriate that this Scheme should continue to include Aboriginal children. [More…]
Once the parents applied for and obtained exemption, their children were also exempt. [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…]
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…]
The greatest problem in respect of the deposit gap exists for young marrieds when they have children. [More…]
I ask the Government to consider what it might do in respect of the deposit gap for young marrieds who have the care of children, at the same time as it looks at a new and bold immigration policy that might be implemented with a sense of justice. [More…]
I want to see my children grow up in a world where there is growth and improvement in the quality of life. [More…]
We are not talking about a group of children under five years of age asking their kindergarten director where is the play dough. [More…]
But now every taxpaying family with children is much worse off than it was under Labor. [More…]
A family with two children would have received a tax rebate, which is no longer available, of over $9.60 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…]
If the family allowance is not increased and the tax rebates are allowed to apply to areas other than those available to children every tax paying family with children in Australia will suffer a net loss. [More…]
Victoria has abolished it where the estate passes to the children of the deceased, Queensland has abolished probate altogether, Victoria and New South Wales have promised to abolish it altogether, so quite clearly the States are deserting the field rapidly and the problems involved in the operation of the dual system are therefore being solved. [More…]
He nominates a trustee to hold the resulting income and capital growth in trust for certain beneficiaries- usually his wife, children, grandchildren and so on. [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…]
Since 1957 the Society has cared for the children of migrating single parents (widows, widowers and others) until the parent has become established in the community to the point of being able to become reunited. [More…]
During this time parents can visit and maintain contact with their children. [More…]
(a) 1974-75 Parents 32, Children 98; (b) 1975-76 Parents 62, Children 151; (c) 1976-77 Parents 79, Children 157. [More…]
The children reside at the farm where Fairbridge Society staff care for them. [More…]
School-age children attend school during the week. [More…]
Older children also assist in day to day activities on the farm [More…]
Who claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on Israel last month, murdering women and children? [More…]
12: Clothing Children’s Knitted Tracksuits, Playsuits, Rompersuits and Like Garments: TariffQuotas [More…]
The Government will abolish forthwith estate and gift duties on possessions passing between spouses and between parents and their children . [More…]
In Victoria it has been the case since October 1976 and in that State from 1 January this year this exemption has been extended to include that part of the estate which passes to children of the deceased. [More…]
In the general family situation, that deprivation once caused by the loss of a breadwinner and heightened by the imposition of death duties on assets left for the support of children is now gone forever- at least while the Australian Labor Party Opposition remains where it is. [More…]
Inheritance is nothing more than the passing down from parents to children of the rewards of their own hard work and endeavours in the desire to provide for them as best they can. [More…]
So, take the situation of a person whose income is such that his children have to leave the farm and earn income somewhere else. [More…]
When that person dies he cannot pass that estate on to his children free of duty because they are not dependent on that estate. [More…]
We want a situation in Australia where people can work, where they can build up an asset and live in the knowledge that that asset can be passed on to their children. [More…]
Another area which has already been mentioned in today’s debate and which is obviously of great concern to us all is the area of children’s television programs. [More…]
A large section of the Tribunal’s report this year is dedicated to children’s television. [More…]
In the last year or two we have gone no further along the road to coming up with some policy on which direction we should be taking with children’s television programs. [More…]
On my travels overseas from time to time I have looked at the situation of children’s television programs. [More…]
I have said in this House before- I do not think it is a bad sort of principle- that rather than doing telephone surveys and surveys such as those undertaken by the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal perhaps it is about time that we as a nation- the Government, the industry and the general public- put our teeth to the bullet and decided just what we were to do, whether we are to be fair dinkum about children’s television programs. [More…]
I have already put up a concept, which I think has some merit, to establish a children’s television foundation of some type that could be financed by the Government and the television industry. [More…]
I do not think that children’s television is an area of difficulty that will be solved overnight. [More…]
We have seen formulas on children’s programs introduced over the years with points allocated for certain aspects. [More…]
There is not much sense in pouring money into children’s television programs that children just will not watch. [More…]
The idea of a children’s television foundation funded in this way and supported by the Government in purely experimental television could have some merit. [More…]
The industry must be prepared to put its full effort and production technique, knowledge and facilities into operation to come up with some ideas, suggestions and pilot programs on just what the children’s area should be. [More…]
It would be interesting to see the results of that and to see whether we can get an acceptance of children ‘s quality programs that are made in Australia. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Broadcasting Commission has a lot to answer for in the area of children’s programs. [More…]
One sees children running around the streets talking about Zees’ and the rest of it. [More…]
Obviously the children are picking up a great deal of value from Sesame Street but it is not really aimed at an Australian audience. [More…]
Perhaps this is one area where such a foundation could start off to see whether we could get something along this line that may be acceptable to the audience of young children and to the stations themselves. [More…]
If we are going to pour many thousands of dollars into producing episodes of children’s television programs obviously all the stationscommercial and the ABC- would want to see some result from their effort. [More…]
I refer to advertising in children’s television programs. [More…]
The general consensus on the quota aspect seems to be that there should not be any advertising between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. or 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. when the majority of the children’s television programs are screened. [More…]
This may be well and good, but it is interesting to go through the McNair audience survey and look at the number of children who are watching television- indeed there are great numbers who watch between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.- and to see that the highest percentage of children watching television are watching the box between 7.30 and 8.30 at night. [More…]
If we were to rule out completely the idea of advertising in the children’s viewing times we would defeat our purpose when we know that there is a bigger audience of young people watching in this adult or semi-adult time than are watching in their own earlier time. [More…]
If the commercial stations are expected to pour a great deal of money into the area of the afternoon children’s programs, perhaps they might have some right to look at drawing some revenue from it, provided the type of advertising that is being screened in those times is acceptable for young people- if there can be drawn up a definition of that- and is not of the style of some of the ads that are seen currently. [More…]
Indeed, in the Tribunal report once again special mention is made of the nature of advertising and station promotions that are being used by some commercial television stations during those children’s hours- 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and at weekends. [More…]
I think there is some merit in looking at the aspect of a children’s television foundation. [More…]
Station management says: ‘Why put on programs for children? [More…]
Also it would help to provide quality services in neglected areas such as children’s and educational programs, because managements would not all the time have to be looking over their shoulders at advertising revenue and saying: ‘We dare not put on quality programs because the advertisers would punish us.’ [More…]
Children are the key to family viewing. [More…]
If the children can be secured for a particular program -for example, Blankety Blanks on Channel 0 rather than the ABC news- this may set a family’s viewing pattern all night unless the parents are very strong willed. [More…]
Children’s television has been equated with the children’s market rather than with the emotional and intellectual stimulation or enlargement of children. [More…]
It is not uncommon to have as many as three-quarters of the number of children attending the schools who have come from non-English speaking countries. [More…]
In trying to solve the problem we do not want to lose sight of the desirable effect of retaining the multi-lingual facility for such children. [More…]
Children completing secondary school cannot do simple sums. [More…]
I have absolute confidence in the Government’s ability to work with the Australian Schools Commission and to provide a level of education which is relevant for the children of this country for the years ahead. [More…]
We are grateful always for the careful attention the Minister for Education pays to almost every question we put to him and every letter we write to him and we thank him for his continuing interest in education in our electorates, which he has demonstrated by the number of times that he has been to visit our electorates personally to talk to those in charge of education, to children in the schools and to those in the teaching profession. [More…]
Most children in the States are starting earlier and also remaining longer at school. [More…]
As I recall the figures were something like this: There had been, say, 100,000 children born in the years 1943, 1944 and 1945. [More…]
A couple of hundred thousand children were born. [More…]
Of course educational demands do not come simply from population growth and changes; they come from a big increase in the aspirations of people for their children and the aspirations of the children for themselves, and an increasing number of adults who have aspirations for themselves too. [More…]
During the Whitlam days we of course did obtain large scale grants, particularly capital grants for child care and children’s services. [More…]
Within the area of that municipality we now have the ovals- and keep in mind that I represent an electorate which has more young children in it than any other electorate in the whole of Australia. [More…]
I know personally of cases of hardship in which parents cannot afford to help their children. [More…]
They are unemployed, have other children or are sick and themselves need help. [More…]
Six hundred children applied for ten vacancies as apprentices. [More…]
They have built a home, they have their children settled in schools, they have made friends and generally become part of a settled community. [More…]
A party of 70 French school children - [More…]
He loved laughter; he loved pleasure; and he loved children. [More…]
At his suggestion they were the first books I gave to my children when I thought they were able to understand. [More…]
She would make certain he remembered young children and the women of this country whenever major decisions were being made. [More…]
He has achieved success who: Has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, Who has gained the respect of intelligent men, the trust of women, and the love of little children, Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, Who has left the world better than he found it, Who has never lacked appreciation for earth’s beauty nor failed to express it, Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had, Whose life was an inspiration, his memory a benediction. [More…]
If so, will the Attorney-General raise the legal problems involved with the State Attorneys-General with a view to amending legislation relating to the status of children as recommended by the author. [More…]
The Standing Committee also has under consideration, as a separate exercise, a review of existing State legislation on the status of children to see whether a uniform approach is possible. [More…]
What assistance is available, except to pensioners and children, for the provision of (a) amplified telephone installation and rental charges thereon and (b) hearing aid equipment for radio or television. [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…]
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…]
Ned Kelly had the decency to wear a mask, and Mrs Kelly would not have allowed her children to play with these people. [More…]
On 3 1 March 1 978 a cheque for $30m on an account with the Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd in Victoria was channelled to Norfolk Island through two trust companies, one of which was called Cascade Charitable Trust, whose beneficiaries are the New South Wales State Cancer Council and the Royal New South Wales Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. [More…]
If the spouse allowance were abolished for those families that do not care for children or other dependants, $200m to $250m could be saved. [More…]
-May I say at the outset that the Government condemns unreservedly the senseless and brutal killings of innocent men, women and children recently in Zaire. [More…]
Imagine the tremendous ramifications that that sort of prospect could mean to the people of the outback and to those children doing correspondence lessons at the moment. [More…]
I refer firstly to Mr Brian Jeanes who did a study at Monash University of the physical performances of primary school children. [More…]
He indicated that the report would assist physical educationists to devise specific programs to remedy problems in particular children. [More…]
Despite that report or because of it Mr Jeanes has stated that he had little or no objective data on a broad scale on physical profiles of children and claimed that that needed to be systematically collected throughout Australia. [More…]
He quite emphatically points out that, after having completed in 1969-70 a study entitled ‘Youth Fitness Survey’, there was a grave necessity to upgrade that report particularly in relation to a survey of obesity in school aged children and in the community. [More…]
He referred to other matters like the posture of children and stated that 1949 was the last year in which a survey had been done and that obviously there was a grave need to update that statistical data. [More…]
He also said that the last survey in 1 970 showed that 75 per cent of post primary government schools did not have a gymnasium or covered activity area and that 75 per cent of our children at that level in government schools did not have a planned continuous program of physical education. [More…]
Of these an estimated 59.3 per cent (or 724,500) had dependent children present. [More…]
Although no surveys have been undertaken on the dental health of children after they have ceased to be under the care of the ASDS, the National Dental Survey which is now being planned would provide this information. [More…]
Surveys which are currently being finalised deal with the dental health of children who were examined in the State and Territorial School Dental Services in 1977. [More…]
1 ) What proportion of the income of a married person receiving average weekly earnings with a spouse and two children is total tax and social security payments. [More…]
What proportion of the income of a married person earning two and a half dmes average earnings with a spouse and two children is total tax and social security payments. [More…]
1 ) The income tax payable by a taxpayer with a dependent spouse and two children and having a taxable income in 1977-78 equal to 52 times the December quarter 1977 average weekly earnings (seasonally adjusted) would be equal to approximately 16.5 per cent of that taxable income. [More…]
The tax payable, reduced by family allowances in respect of the 2 children, would be equal to approximately 12.4 per cent of the taxpayer’s taxable income. [More…]
The corresponding percentages for a taxpayer with a dependent spouse and 2 children and having a taxable income equivalent to Vh times average weekly earnings are 34.2 percent and 32.5 percent. [More…]
Many migrants who are naturalised Australians, or in some cases their children who are natural born Australians, may be regarded by their country of birth, or their parents birth, still to be citizens of those countries. [More…]
This means that approximately threequarters of a million people, counting wives and children, now are waiting for proper housing in this country. [More…]
In New South Wales the present position is that eligibility is dependent on the applicant having earnings of not more than 85 per cent of the national average wage, together with allowances for children. [More…]
I ask permission for a short table, showing the extent of allowances for children in New South Wales, to be printed in Hansard. [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…]
Then, six or eight years later, just at about the time when their children are going to school, they find that the interest rate to be charged on the loan is one per cent below the bond rate. [More…]
Migrants and their children now make up about one-third of the total population of Australia. [More…]
Housing and employment difficulties have to be solved and children’s education arranged. [More…]
This group includes large numbers of those who are isolated at home- especially women- elderly migrants- whose numbers are expected to increase dramatically in the course of the next decade- those from smaller ethnic groups- whose own support services are limited -migrant women at work and the children of migrants. [More…]
Because migrants* knowledge of the English language was found to be a critical factor in enabling successful settlement in Australia, special attention has been given to the teaching of English both to children and to adults. [More…]
For children, there is compelling evidence that there are many who need special instruction in English but who do not receive it. [More…]
The Review also found room for significant improvements in teaching methods and materials and in the distribution of funds for teaching English to children. [More…]
In accordance with their recommendation, the Government will be providing extra funding of $ 10m over the next three years, to be distributed so as to reflect the needs of children in different areas who do not speak adequate English. [More…]
We will also be seeking the co-operation of the States in setting up arrangements for better planning and assessment of English teaching to migrant children. [More…]
In addition, for these women and for their young children, the Government will encourage establishment of more child-care facilities at places of work. [More…]
I do not think that will happen to my children and grandchildren. [More…]
That was principally due to the fact that the Government had abolished the tax deduction for children following the increase in family allowances. [More…]
It is true that some of the Vietnamese children show high positive reactions to skin tests and this could result later in a breakdown of the disease. [More…]
As can be imagined, this period of being guarded and treated like criminals was extremely embarrassing to the family and to the children who were severely taunted at school. [More…]
The Bill also provides for the non-cessation of annuities when a widow or widower of a member or a retired member remarries after the Bill receives the royal assent and for the payment of benefits to dependent children where a member or a retired member has died or dies unmarried. [More…]
If a member of parliament, who has contributed to a superannuation fund dies, it is normal, reasonable and in accordance with precedent that the same benefits that would have been available to him should be available to his dependent widow and children. [More…]
In addition, the zone rebate for people who live in isolated areas and have dependent children will be increased because allowances for the children that are taken into account in calculating the rebate are to be indexed from the previous levels of $251 and $189 to $270 and $203. [More…]
spouses and dependent children, parents and fiance(e)s of Australian residents and refugees. [More…]
The thrust of this legislation is to screw down production levels, although not by a great deal in the first year, so that the returns on reduced production within a market that is prepared to pay fair prices for that reduced production will be adequate to keep farmers and their wives and children at a reasonable level of income. [More…]
We have unemployed parents with young families sometimes consisting of a number of children who would not have anything like that income and yet they are not entitled to take advantage of some of the benefits of our health legislation. [More…]
In addition to persons who are actually receiving social security benefits, other people who are poor and who are sick, intermittently ill, sometimes with chronically ill children, are in receipt of very low incomes. [More…]
Has any housing, medical or other co-operative in Townsville power to provide hostels for short-stay itinerants, people with alcohol problems, children needing foster care or the aged; if so, what stage have their proposals reached and what Government support is available. [More…]
I understand that the State Government has mobile dental clinics regularly visiting outlying centres to treat school children. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that such common items as Penicillin capsules and tablets for children, Butazolidin, Mogadon, Fergon and many others will now cost well over $3? [More…]
All children, whether bom in our out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
I believe it should be possible for people from the country who are looking after children or close relations who are ill to get some out of pocket expenses. [More…]
I might say, because this is a cognate debate, that for the chronically ill, the poor in our community, the family man and his wife and children, the migrants and the Aboriginals that the changes being made by the Government to the system that has operated for the last 18 months or two years represents a retrograde step and will save only approximately 1.5 per cent of total medical costs. [More…]
I remember what happened one Saturday when one of my first three children had influenza. [More…]
By then my three children were sick and he asked for fees for treating the three of them. [More…]
One of the important ones is, for example, penicillin for children, in tablet and capsule form. [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…]
If the public has to pay cash on the spot to receive medical treatment, mothers with children, pensioners, low income earners and the chronically ill will be unable to see their doctors as their costs will be too high. [More…]
They get a shock at the end of the year when, even though the wife, say, has been covered by a private fund, the husband receives an assessment at the family rate when they have no children. [More…]
The difficulty would arise in the case of children because it would be possible for people to pay only a single levy under those conditions. [More…]
Amazingly, these people taught children to believe that their elders were of no consequence. [More…]
The report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, Learning Difficulties iti Children and Adults, has been closely examined by my Department and in other agencies in my portfolio. [More…]
The Schools Commission has set up a Special Education Advisory Group and during 1978 intends to conduct a national survey which should show up students with special needs and possibly throw light on the question of when children with special needs should be educated in regular classes. [More…]
The Commission hopes the survey will enable it to make recommendations concerning provision for children with learning difficulties. [More…]
The latest information on learning difficulties will be made available to the inquiry and it is my view that a wide ranging teacher education inquiry is necessary to produce effective changes that will be generally adopted and lead to the improvement of learning opportunities of children throughout Australia. [More…]
What Federal assistance is available to provide a school bus service for farm children on Palm Island and what criteria are applied to determine whether this assistance is justified. [More…]
The Department’s records do not show whether maternity leave taken by other officers was in respect of the first or subsequent children. [More…]
A Bill for an Ordinance to provide for the compulsory wearing of seat belts (where available) by children between 8 and 13 years of age is in final stages of preparation. [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…]
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…]
However, in relation, to the specific matter raised, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Attorney-General announced on 2 March 1978 that Cabinet, as a part of this review, had established an Interdepartmental Committee to investigate and recommend to Cabinet legislative and administrative changes necessary to prevent or reduce the incidence of such removal of children. [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…]
Thousands of ex-servicemen and women, the disabled, the handicapped, and later the crippled children, knew and recognised her concern for them. [More…]
This represents an average of $3,892 for each settler, including children, arriving that year. [More…]
It is not realised generally that the figures of Australian males, females and children are different from the figures of people in other countries. [More…]
1 have read the article in the University of Adelaide students magazine On DU attributed to Mrs Barbara Biggins of the South Australian Council for Children’s Films and Television. [More…]
Her views on children’s television advertising were taken into account by the Tribunal in framing its subsequent report and recommendations. [More…]
Guidelines for advertising directed to children already exist. [More…]
Children should not be directly urged to put pressure on parents to purchase the product advertised. [More…]
Personalities or characters from children’s programs should not be used to endorse or recommend products within or adjacent to children’s programs. [More…]
Children in advertisements should be wellmannered, well-behaved, and show respect for parents. [More…]
With the objective of avoiding excessive repetition in the telecasting of advertisements directed to children, a station should exercise discretion in the placement of identical advertisements within any regularly scheduled program directed to children. [More…]
children ignoring traffic regulations or conversing with strangers. [More…]
Advertising of products not intended for use by children, except for gift-giving, should not be directed to children. [More…]
Frightening dramatisations or effects should not be included in advertisements directed to children. [More…]
Programs for family viewing and for children could be promoted at any time other than times set aside specifically for children’s viewing when special guidelines set down by a Children’s Program Committee would operate. [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…]
On its cover appears the title ‘For Your Children’s Sake- The Asian Invasion Must Stop’. [More…]
One only has to speak to the staff of the Mitcham high school and the Nunawading South primary school to learn how well the Indo-Chinese refugees have been accepted by the staff and by the other children in the schools. [More…]
The children are far more interested in that. [More…]
He and his wife and two children struggled along on his resources with a little help from Mayfair’s piggery at Menangle and some help from the New South Wales veterinary school at Narellan. [More…]
He has designed a special method of cutting the super porker into such things as spare ribs- I understand that spare ribs are loved not only by children but also by their mums and dads- steaks and cutlets. [More…]
-My attention has been directed to that criticism, and I should point out to the House that when taking that decision in Budget Cabinet, the Government did have in mind circumstances where, as the result of trusts and other income-splitting devices, children received separate income while their parents continued to receive the family allowance. [More…]
The Government is concerned to ensure that the decision does not have any unintended consequences, particularly in cases where children receive small amounts of income as a result of part-time jobs. [More…]
Today the Treasurer (Mr Howard) had to admit that one of the vilest features of the Budget, an incomes test on children, is to be reviewed. [More…]
What on earth gave substance to the belief that those people who sit on the back benches, spineless as they may be, ought to support a measure that would send public servants, acting as policemen, around this country to see how much money children were earning, so that if they were earning over $6 a week the mother could be fined by way of a reduction in her family allowance? [More…]
It knows that the back down by the Treasurer today in relation to the income test for children is the start; it will snowball. [More…]
Few people seem to be aware that, on a constant basis, servicemen are required to move with their families from place to place throughout Australia, often on a two-yearly basis, thereby disrupting home life, family life and the schooling of the children and thereby causing the onflowing effects which appertain in relation to the wellbeing of the children, their development and growth and their capacity to cope with the educational system. [More…]
Thousands of unemployed are to be denied indexation for themselves; thousands more are denied it in the allowance for their children. [More…]
The central issue is ignored, while the Budget proposes an administratively impossible scheme which filches children’s pocketmoney earnings. [More…]
The Asprey Committee on tax reform recommended that all investment income of minor children be taxed at the rate of the parent. [More…]
Who would have thought that an Australian Prime Minister would resort to raiding the piggy banks of children? [More…]
The situation in State schools was improving, but now funds are being diverted to assist the wealthier private schools to encourage initiative and to encourage children to show respect for privilege. [More…]
I would, however, reiterate the statement of the Treasurer (Mr Howard) this afternoon that, in respect of the family allowance, it was never the intention of the Government that the part-time earnings of the newspaper boy- children generally showing a bit of ‘get up and go’ and earning something for themselves in part-time work- should be disadvantaged. [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…]
Isolated children’s grants have been fully maintained. [More…]
Forty per cent of all admissions to the Princess Alexandra Hospital at Camperdown are children from the outer Western Suburbs. [More…]
As you can imagine, Mr Deputy Speaker, this causes great problems because in an emergency parents with sick children have to travel many miles in heavy traffic to seek the proper medical treatment. [More…]
Also, because hospitalisation of young children necessarily involves parents staying with the children, it has required a great deal of travelling backwards and forwards from hospitals. [More…]
The highest concentration of children is in the outer Western Suburbs. [More…]
I understand that from time to time people actually come to civil marriage celebrants and ask for their children to be christened. [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…]
The daddy of all latter-day Scrooges is the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), and the children are those members of the Liberal and National Country parties- most of them but not all of them- who support the wasteful and unnecessary stagnation policies which hit and hurt so severely thousands upon thousands of average Australians. [More…]
Despite inflation, the additional benefit for children has remained unaltered since 1975. [More…]
As we all know, the new provisions relating to the means test on children were to date from 1 January 1979. [More…]
For the six month period the Government hoped to save about $90m by reducing the family allowance payable to parents of children with a separate income above $312 per annum. [More…]
Since the Budget announcement various Ministers have announced that this means test would apply only to parents of those children who are involved in trust splitting. [More…]
To the extent that the $90m saving was based upon 4.3 million children receiving separate incomes greater than $3 12 per annum and generously estimating that there might be only about 500,000 children involved in trust splitting, the actual savings might be closer to $10m than to the $90m which has been forecast. [More…]
I would like before leaving this subject of family allowances to draw attention to the fact that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) and other Government spokesmen have said that they did not want this means testing of children’s income to affect people whom they did not have in mind when they drew it up. [More…]
He has been very concerned about the fact that children are moved overseas to get them out of Australian jurisdiction. [More…]
I understand that an interdepartmental committee was established some months ago to investigate this matter but I think that this matter should be included in the terms of reference with a view to providing some mechanism to prevent children being removed from Australian jurisdiction. [More…]
I am anxious that we concentrate on how we can best solve the problems of the family with less legalism and at the minimum of cost and how we can support the parties in coming to an agreement in advance on the property distribution, the maintenance problems and the welfare of the children. [More…]
The nature of the family situation when you are dealing with custody of children becomes an important matter. [More…]
I do not know how you can remove the pain and suffering that people experience when a marriage breaks down and when children are to be left, at least by one of the parents. [More…]
It contains some pages covering questions on dissolution and nullity; custody and maintenance of children; third parties and custody; interstate enforcements of custody proceedings; overseas enforcements; the magistrates’ jurisdiction in custody matters; affidavits by children regulations; questions of maintenance and property; powers over property on breakdown of marriage; recission orders; section 79A of the Family Law Act 1975; magistrates’ approval of agreements under section 87 of the Family Law Act; and the vexed question of whether courts and their procedures ought to be open or closed. [More…]
It goes on to refer to the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare. [More…]
It also refers to the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
They have no children. [More…]
Too many people seem to be hell bent on providing every possible avenue, indeed almost every encouragement, towards the breaking up of family life, with its consequent often tragic disadvantages to the children of the marriage. [More…]
Many people, including myself, believe that the preservation of family life is a very important factor in maintaining a stable society- a society which will give the maximum number of children the advantages that only a normal family life can provide. [More…]
I believe it behoves this Parliament and this society to do all within their power to see that children throughout the nation are given every opportunity to make the success of life that we would all wish them to make. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage. [More…]
I do not think anyone would deny the fact that some serious investigations will be made, especially into the areas of maintenance of children. [More…]
Then there was the proposition to tax family allowances concerning many children who are worse off than many others. [More…]
It seems that not only is the Government financially pressuring the family, but that it is also going out of its way to encourage mothers to leave their children and enter the paid workforce. [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…]
Children have to go to school without having breakfast and much inconvenience is caused in hospitals and old people ‘s homes. [More…]
The Government now says that the infamous attempt to tax children’s pocket money by attacking the family allowances of their mothers will be reviewed- no doubt as a result of the massive clamour throughout the land. [More…]
Seven or eight of his children have property holdings. [More…]
We have already seen, on Tuesday of this week, how the Government has fallen at the first hurdle- the incomes test on children has already gone. [More…]
The specified categories are children under the age of 1 8 years; crew members; accredited diplomats; persons who arrive in Australia but are deemed under the Migration Act 1958 not to have entered Australia, that is, persons who remain at the airport and persons who do not disembark from a ship; persons covered by the Status of Forces Agreements with the United States and Papua New Guinea; and persons being deported or extradited from Australia. [More…]
When pursuing this course they might think of the hardship they are causing to their families and children as a result of this particular problem. [More…]
Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme [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…]
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…]
Only if manufacturing industry continues to update its equipment from the best sources which are available both here and abroad will it have a capacity to continue to improve its performance and to employ those persons who are genuinely seeking work at the present time, quite apart from a recognition of the need by industry to take account of the increasing number of new jobs which will be required as a consequence of children leaving school during the years ahead. [More…]
We also had the children services program, but today virtually no money is available for the program. [More…]
Expenditure on key programs for the aged, the handicapped and children, have recorded many significant increases. [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…]
When parents die, they often leave their assets in trust for their children until they reach adult age. [More…]
Parents or grandparents sometimes put funds in trust to meet the expenses of their children ‘s or grandchildren’s education. [More…]
A married couple who have been unable to have children of their own may invest money in trust to help meet the cost of the upkeep of their nephews, nieces or godchildren. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition needs to tell us what he would do with trusts- whether the family trusts or trusts for children of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) would be caught in the penalty taxes that he would want to put on trusts. [More…]
They include the family man who has been sacked or retrenched, the man who is the sole breadwinner of the family, and the man or the woman of the house who has to pay rent, who has to clothe the children and themselves as well. [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…]
School for Visually Handicapped Children [More…]
Such programmes are conducted in Queensland free of charge at Narbethong, School for Visually Handicapped Children, Churchill and Salisbury Streets, Buranda, 4102 and the Queensland Training and Placement Centre for the Blind, Gowrie Street, Annerley. [More…]
Has the Attorney-General’s attention been drawn to the article in the Sunday Mail of 2 April 1978 concerning the conflict between the Family Law Court and the Queensland Government over the passing of jurisdiction of illegitimate children from the State to the Family LawCourt and, in particular, the statement that the Queensland Government seems certain to go ahead with a takeover of the Family Law Court system. [More…]
Which States have agreed to give jurisdiction over illegitimate children to the Family Law Court. [More…]
Were there any discussions at the 1976 Hobart Constitutional Convention concerning the power of the Family LawCourt to assume responsibility for matters relating to illegitimate children. [More…]
If this matter was discussed at the Constitutional Convention, is the Family Law Court assuming responsibility for illegitimate children as discussed by the Convention. [More…]
Illegitimacy- including family inheritance as it affects children who are legitimised by Commonwealth legislation (so as to achieve uniformity in law as between legitimate and illegitimate children). [More…]
Whether Federal law can invest the Court with jurisdiction over ex-nuptial children in the States depends on whether the Commonwealth acquires the necessary legislative power by Constitutional amendment or reference of power, as to which see my answer in (3) above. [More…]
The Department’s records do not show whether the maternity leave taken was in respect of first or subsequent children. [More…]
For example, at present the following programs are among those being evaluated: the Family Day Care Scheme of the Children ‘s Services Program the role of the Aged Persons Hostels in the Aged Persons Welfare Program the pilot Welfare Rights Program the pilot Citizens Information Centre Program. [More…]
I don’t have a family trust company but I do have a family of eight children. [More…]
I think it is a perfectly legitimate means for looking after the interests of his children. [More…]
He might not have one family trust but he might have separate family trusts for each of his eight children. [More…]
If his children have a trustee as opposed to a family trust company, that makes no difference in law and in the benefits available under the various Acts relating to trustees. [More…]
Again if he is saying that he has a trustee for each of his children, I do not see anything wrong with that. [More…]
It is the fact that this honourable gentleman has indicated that he did not have a family trust or trusts or family trustees for his children when in fact he did. [More…]
I don’t have a family trust company but I do have a family of eight children. [More…]
My children have a specific personal trustee, not a family trust company. [More…]
Some of my children are minors and they have a trustee for their assets. [More…]
In fact, because some of my children were not beneficially entitled, they paid tax at the rate of 50c in the dollar, which is well above average. [More…]
I am fully in accordance with the principles of my party and do not seek tax evasion and avoidance by splitting income which has been earned by adults and giving it to children in order to avoid or evade tax. [More…]
My children have never done that. [More…]
One of his Ministers got involved in family trust companies in order to make a quick gain and to distribute it amongst his children. [More…]
However, the main thing I want to do is plead with the Minister for Construction to advise the Government that there will be a real danger for certain adults, such as elderly people, and for children. [More…]
It has been used by children in the area over a long period. [More…]
It has always struck me as being an anomaly in our society that people who have children who are handicapped, physically or mentally, have had to spend a disproportionate amount of their time raising funds through voluntary organisations and have had to spend a disproportionate amount of their income just to provide the basic necessities for those handicapped children. [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 Handicapped Persons Assistance Act assists eligible organisations to establish sheltered workshops, activity, therapy and training centres and residential accommodation for handicapped children and adults. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made accusations against the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) which finally he had to retract because the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, whilst he has trusts for his children, does not have family trust companies for income splitting or tax avoidance purposes. [More…]
The decision to tax family allowances for students receiving scholarships will hit families struggling to educate their children. [More…]
The cuts in the school dental scheme will leave a mark on children of the lower income families for the rest of their lives. [More…]
There will be no escape for the family even when the children become school leavers because the Treasurer (Mr Howard) has predicted that there will be a rise in the level of unemployment during the year, despite the fact that 16.5 per cent of the young people aged between 15 and 19 years are unemployed already. [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…]
I have yet to meet anybody who would suggest that this country should run further into debt, that we should mortgage the future of our children or give up the progress that we have achieved already in reducing both inflation and interest rates. [More…]
The allowance for the children of pensioners has not been increased since 1975. [More…]
This is an extremely short-sighted policy which has raised a lot of opposition from the trade unions in the area, from the local council, from the chambers of commerce and, of course from the parents of those children who are coming onto the labour market this year. [More…]
In the present context one could refer to the problems of homelessness and the need to upgrade existing subsidies in that area, families with severely handicapped children, and so forth. [More…]
One has to look only at people such as farmers, pensioners, home buyers, children in government schools and low income earners to find that they are the ones who are disproportionately continuing to bear the burden of the economic policies of this Government. [More…]
I know that all honourable members on this side of the House will join me in expressing their condolence to his wife, Edith, and to his children. [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…]
We have been refused the right to see our husband and children for at least two consecutive weeks, presumably the period they are in solitary confinement. [More…]
In Singapore political detainees are allowed to be visited only by their immediate family (parents, wife/husband, children, brothers and sisters), and for half an hour each week. [More…]
In that area the number of birth defects in children is greatly increased, the percentage of mental retardation in children born in the area is greatly increased, and pregnant women are miscarrying at a rate 50 per cent higher than normal. [More…]
The Morgan Gallup Poll carried out an Australiawide survey of 1,397 school children aged from 14 years to 17 years in the months between October 1977 and March 1978. [More…]
I will illustrate as my colleagues who have spoken in this debate have already done, how the burdens fall on pensioners and families, particularly families with young children who are the recipients of the family allowance which was substituted a couple of years ago for tax rebates based on the number of children in a family. [More…]
The Government has also gone cold on its proposal to tax family allowances according to children’s earnings. [More…]
We promised to provide extra help this year for isolated children to enable them to receive an education. [More…]
There is $ 14.6m in this Budget to help 20,000 children in isolated areas. [More…]
We should make absolutely certain that the children who are also housed at the centres are not placed in a position in which they will be influenced by some minority groups. [More…]
The elderly want to be part of the family and part of the happenings associated with bringing up children. [More…]
We sometimes have to put up with the problem of the aged interfering in the way in which we raise our children. [More…]
Of the other eight million, some three million to four million are children not of working age. [More…]
It is a community in which people can raise immense sums from door knocks for the Red Cross, children’s hospitals or even the Winston Churchill appeal which was held a few years back. [More…]
I do not think I am as critical of the children as was my friend, the honourable member for Franklin. [More…]
When I travel around Australia I gain the impression that the normal man in the street recognises that the Budget is hurting the hip pocket nerve but on balance he feels that it is probably necessary and that in the longer term he and his children will be better off under the responsible government which has been brought to this country after a very necessary change of government in 1975. [More…]
Tonight I wish to raise a matter concerning the education of migrant adults and children in Brisbane. [More…]
Migrant education includes the education of adults as well as the preparation of their children for primary and high schools. [More…]
The facilities are so poor at the moment that the children have to be dispersed around the schools in the Brisbane area, thereby creating an intolerable burden in regard to co-ordination. [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…]
The families will not be broken up because the children will not have to go away to undertake their senior examinations. [More…]
Last Thursday I asked the Prime Minister whether he did not now believe that there should be full disclosure of financial interests of members of parliament and their spouses and dependent children. [More…]
Just to confuse the situation, he said that without disclosure of the interests of spouses and children a register would be deficient. [More…]
The obligation is to disclose all the assets of the spouse and children, and that is the obligation of the member; but he does not have to disclose information he does not know. [More…]
It is time we declared our interests to the public and demonstrated our honesty; by that I mean all our assets and liabilities and those of our dependent children and spouses. [More…]
If a member has the benefit of an income he should clearly indicate whether he has control over it or whether he has given it to his children. [More…]
It is deplorable that thousands of Australian school children are still not taught- in my opinion- even the basics of how the federal system in Australia operates. [More…]
It is a great shame that very few children in Australia are given the opportunity to come to Canberra to witness the parliamentary proceedings. [More…]
Children in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria are able to get here by buses at a comparatively low cost but children from Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania find the cost prohibitive. [More…]
Last year and the year before I put a submission to the Government that there should be some system to subsidise the cost of travel to enable parties of school children to come to Canberra to see the Parliament in action. [More…]
There was a time when one seldom saw a father deserted by his wife and having to take care of his children. [More…]
A deserted husband in my electorate has had to leave work to look after his five children. [More…]
A deserted wife who is left with five children can obtain what is known as a widow’s pension. [More…]
The chap to whom I have referred has five children under his care and control. [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…]
The United States of America imposes a $US3 departure tax; Hong Kong imposes a $A3 tax for adults and a $A1 tax for children; Israel a $5.70 tax; Singapore a $4 tax; Malaysia a $2 tax; and the New Hebrides imposes a $2 tax. [More…]
To me it seems somewhat naive that we have people striving for extra money to pay the educational expenses of their children when they would be only too prepared to have three or four hours work on a Saturday or Sunday morning at the standard rate of pay. [More…]
The other day I dealt at length with a particular avoidance scheme, that is, the family trust There can, of course, be genuine family trusts set up for the purpose of protecting the interests of a family as a result of a death in the family, whereby the assets of the parent who died are willed to the children or the grandchildren. [More…]
That means that a man with a wife and two children receives $121 a week. [More…]
It is approximately $850 each for four of my children. [More…]
The point that I want to make to the honourable member is this: There is a big difference between me in that case and someone, such as an adult like the honourable member, getting hold of an option and selling it as a land speculator for a very substantial profit and putting that profit among his wife and children on the basis of a trust company, because that is virtually minimising tax. [More…]
I just make the point that my children have owned the particular piece of real estate for some six or seven years. [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…]
I find unattractive the fact that the children of parents who receive family allowances will now be able to earn only $20 a week before their families are income tested for the family allowance and I would have preferred to see an extra increase in direct taxes rather than this kind of fiddling tax being added on. [More…]
The direct effect of immigration for two decades (that is, excluding the inflows from Australian born children of migrants) was to contribute at least 40 per cent of the annual increase in the Australian labour force: Indeed in the 1950s the contribution would have been in excess of 50 per cent per year. [More…]
As museums have unique advantages as a means of education, and as a large proportion of school children rarely visit them, or visit them without adequate preparation or proper briefing, museums should be used more as a source of formal education and by universities. [More…]
Is it not a fact that an income earner with income from sources other than wages and salaries of $33,000 a year- for instance, a wealthy land holder from the Western districts of Victoria- supporting a wife and two children, one under 16 years and one over 16 years, can set up a family trust exclusively for tax avoidance measures and the tax savings through those avoidance measures would be $4,950 a year? [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…]
Refuges provide essential services for women and children in crisis; they are an alternative to a home situation that has become intolerable. [More…]
They affect parents and, more particularly, single parents or working mothers who have either to miss work or leave their children at home when teachers go on strike. [More…]
I must express disappointment tonight that the Teachers Federation could not have waited another week or so so that this industrial problem, this problem about the future of our children’s education, could be settled in a responsible way. [More…]
The Lebanese community in Australia consists of diverse groups of persons but almost overwhelmingly they are concerned to lead a new life in Australia, to bring up their children in this country and to contribute to Australia. [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…]
The reason it is important is that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition told the House on two occasions that the asset in relation to the trust for his children was a real estate property that his children had either helped to build or that they had owned for six or seven years. [More…]
Is that the same asset which he said in the House, was the piece of residential real estate which was the trust property of his children? [More…]
I say to the honourable member for St George: If he wants to have a look at the assets of my four children who are concerned he can come to my home at 10 o’clock on Friday. [More…]
He can meet the four children and have a look at their bank books and income tax returns. [More…]
It is significant that this is the national Parliament, and the Prime Minister and the honourable member for St George are so worried about my four infant children that they are determined to flush out what their incomes are. [More…]
Are they so worried about their own integrity that they are also worried about my four infant children? [More…]
He would love to destroy my children. [More…]
But I think it is a pretty weak effort that because I did so my children are to be the subject of discussion in every adjournment debate and every Question Time. [More…]
He can have a look at my children’s bank books and he can see what money they have. [More…]
I refer him to his reply to a recent question to him concerning family trusts, in which he referred to the need to safeguard the interests of one’s children and family. [More…]
There is no doubt, if we are prepared to face what had been occurring plainly in Australia, that the tax laws of this country- the weight of taxation, the punitive nature of death, estate and gift duties- had caused people in small businesses of many kinds, whether in country towns, in the cities, or on farms, in an effort to hold those businesses together and to leave something to their children, to enter into a degree of complication in their affairs which was providing the only possible avenue of survival, especially in a low income situation which has been typical of many small businesses, whether on farms or otherwise. [More…]
The ordinary man in the street, the ordinary married man with children who has had to face the problems of inflation under the Labor Government and who now is at least seeing over the hill, thanks to the Federal grants policies, has to pay a higher rate of indirect taxation than people in any other State. [More…]
Nor will it affect rebates for wives and children awaiting migration to Australia. [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…]
Additional payments- that is, additional pension for children, guardian’s allowance and supplementary (rent) assistance- are income tested. [More…]
Rationalisation of payments for children [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…]
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…]
Maternity allowance is payable under the provisions of the Social Services Act to mothers, irrespective of means, to help meet the expenses associated with the birth of children. [More…]
Payment of benefits in respect of children living abroad [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…]
This Bill provides for amendments to the Repatriation Act and associated Acts to give effect to the Government’s decisions covering: Nominations of persons to Repatriation determining authorities by organisations representing dependants of deceased veterans and exservicewomen; the provision for pulmonary tuberculosis to be dealt with in the same way as other disabilities; automatic adjustment of the main repatriation pensions in accordance with movements in the Consumer Price Index only once a year; the provision of an upper age limit of 25 years for student children undertaking fulltime education, in respect of whom Service pensioners receive additional allowances to their basic Service pensions; the provision for incometestfree pensions to be frozen at their present cash level and additions to income-test-free pensions to become subject to the normal income test as applied to pensioners under 70 years of age; and the removal of references to the sustenance allowance. [More…]
Provision has been made for the imposition of an upper age limit for the payment of additional pension in respect of student children who are in the care, custody and control of service pensioners. [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…]
Finally, the Bill amends the definition of ‘dependant’ in relation to a pensioner to impose an upper age limit of 25 years on student dependent children of pensioners. [More…]
The Bill also amends the definition of ‘dependant’, in relation to an eligible pensioner, to impose an upper age limit of 25 years on student dependent children of pensioners. [More…]
I can understand the Government’s original proposition which aimed to exclude from receipt of the family allowance those families in respect of whom a trust had been set up to reduce taxation and therefore benefit the children. [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…]
I acknowledge that the Labor Government introduced the isolated children’s assistance scheme for those children who did not have reasonable physical ability to attend a school. [More…]
The second problem for country children is the limited facilities and opportunities available to them in their subject range and curricula activities. [More…]
I think there was a feeling of revulsion right around Australia that income earning children were to be the prey of the Fraser Government. [More…]
Then we find that expenditure in respect of children ‘s services is to be cut by $6m from $7 1 m to $65m. [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…]
Some psychologists and psychiatrists suggest that our programs are doing more harm than good; that they should be abandoned because they only glamorise abuse, and give children, in effect, a menu of drug information. [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…]
Our future depends on the quality of our children. [More…]
If one looks at the statistics one will see that the great majority of them happen to be families in which there are two parents with dependent children. [More…]
We may well have to look into that question to ensure that work opportunities are adequately and equitably shared among Australian families- to ensure that each family has a fair opportunity to develop for itself and for its children the opportunities that we would all like them to have. [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…]
This appears in paragraph 5.25- is the precarious financial position of the one adult household with dependent children. [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…]
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…]
It is hard to accept that the original intention was simply to prevent tax avoidance by some people by the use of family trusts into which children’s unearned income is paid. [More…]
It raises questions about the future quality of Perth’s water supply and the link between a high salt intake and high blood pressure in school children. [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…]
I am sure that I speak for all honourable members in this House -I hope so anyway- when I say that it is agreed that a decent family life and legal protection from salacious exploitation are the very least we owe our Australian children. [More…]
Everywhere the lady has spoken she has been attacked by gangs of homosexuals and lesbian thugs who have shouted insults and thrown things at her and have set out to curtail her freedom to speak on the need to protect our children and their families. [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…]
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…]
I refer to low income earners such as pensioners, Aboriginals or even children; such are the lengths to which the Government is prepared to go to redistribute the burden away from those more able to bear it towards those least able to bear it. [More…]
There is also no equity in discriminating among Australian taxpayers solely on the basis that their dependent parents or children are not living in Australia. [More…]
Some of them are married; others are living together and may well have commitments with respect to children. [More…]
Having said that, I must ask whether the whole exercise has been honest in its thrust or necessary, in the light of the dislocation of schools, children, teachers and parents it has caused. [More…]
How alarming it is to see this attitude in those charged with the responsibility of teaching our children and instilling in them the characteristics of truthfulness, objectivity and clear thinking. [More…]
The dependent children of pensioners are exploited for the third budget in a row- the third consecutive Fraser Budget. [More…]
Presumably in the view of Prime Minister Fraser their nutritional and other needs decline by the equivalent of the rate of inflation each year or, more obviously, those children starve a little more and are a little worse clothed each year because of this malign neglect. [More…]
The Fraser Government saves money at the expense of poor children to pump up the profits of oil exploration companies. [More…]
This Bill neglects the needs of dependent children of pensioners for the third Budget in a row. [More…]
In November 1975 we increased the allowance for dependent children of pensioners to $7.50 a week. [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 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…]
It is families who suffer because the dependent children of pensioners are receiving no increase in their dependant allowances. [More…]
I pointed out in the House a little while ago in the course of this session that it is possible for a man who is supporting a wife and two children and who earns $33,000 a year from sources other than wages and salaries effectively to avoid $4,950 of his tax liability by exploiting one of his tax avoidance devices- a family trust. [More…]
But he preaches austerity to pensioners, the unemployed and their dependent children and to students from poor homes while concurrently searching for ways to improve his own comfort. [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…]
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…]
An attack is being made on migrants’ children living abroad and it is very difficult to judge the significance of this. [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…]
Similarly, there is other legislation dealing with the non-payment of benefits for certain children overseas. [More…]
I do not know what children are involved in that case but I fear that it is an attack on certain members of the migrant community. [More…]
In the first case, the unemployed household with two dependent children will by November 1979 have fallen $20 below the poverty line. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) referred to the fact that the allowance for dependent children of pensioners is not indexed and remains at $7.50 a week. [More…]
There are 1,756,000 pensioners in Australia and 4,305,000 children are covered by the various family allowance and assistance schemes. [More…]
Students in the last two years of secondary school can still get the family and student allowances and I hope that those people who are facing traumas because of incorrect information on the subject sent out by Opposition members from time to time can take heart from the fact that families can still receive the student allowance in respect of secondary school children as well as the family allowance. [More…]
Some of our (adult) children joined us for part of this time while they were on holidays. [More…]
One other factor that should be mentioned is that in an area where there are going to be an additional 960 to 1,000 migrants there will obviously be a lot more children and those children are going to have to go to local schools. [More…]
Having listened to the remarks of the honourable member, I say that it is no wonder that the pensioners, the mothers of children who earn income and the unemployed in New South Wales registered a vote against the Federal Government at last Saturday’s State election. [More…]
These families which do not qualify under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, for example, will still receive the family allowance in respect of their children. [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…]
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…]
They said that what they were really out to attack was the operation of family trusts and funds in the hands of children. [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…]
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…]
It denies all the economic pressures that come on to the families as a result of the children not being able to find employment. [More…]
Some of them are far from being children. [More…]
Under the benefits provided a couple with two children will be $19.30 below the poverty Une. [More…]
It is the same Government that refuses to act against the tax dodgers, the people who use trusts and would use their own children to. [More…]
That man had a wife and two children who had not received the benefit because they were living on several acres- unfilled acreage- so that his case had to be investigated. [More…]
Dr M. Gracey, Head, Gastroenterological Research Unit, Princess Margaret Children’s Medical Research Foundation, Subiaco, Western Australia. [More…]
Road safety standards are being very seriously eroded, and it will not be very long before there is a major accident involving school children or a bus or whatever it might be which can be attributed directly to the bad state of our national roads and highways. [More…]
He had four children, I understand. [More…]
One of those children is now a major in the Australian Army, another is a teacher, another works, in the Australian Taxation office and the other is a doctor. [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…]
In 1976 and most of 1977 1 suppose one could say that things went along without crisis in spite of the influx of children from South America. [More…]
Some 70 children in this group were then enrolled at Maribyrnong High School, but unfortunately due to the lack of English teachers the children had to wait three months to start school. [More…]
At this stage we had the terrible situation of some militant teachers bringing pressure to bear and, to the detriment of a large number of children, refusing to allow the secondary students to be enrolled, forcing them to stay at home. [More…]
Despite laws regarding compulsory education and threats from social welfare agencies that children who could not be fitted into schools were truants, it was some time before 25 forlorn kids at Enterprise were permitted to go to Springvale South High School, and then the school council had to pay $550 for one term ‘s bus fares. [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…]
In a primary school quite near to where I live in Campbell there are 42 children in a kindergarten class, 35 in another class and 36 in another. [More…]
The type of education that children in Canberra are getting is suffering because there are not enough teachers. [More…]
This situation calls for a radical re-think of how we educate our children. [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…]
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…]
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…]
According to the recent report of the Ethnic Affairs Commission of New South Wales, in 1975 children with a native language other than English or an Aboriginal language constituted 18.3 per cent of all primary school children and 1 1.2 per cent of all secondary school children in New South Wales. [More…]
The result is that the majority of migrant children from non-English speaking backgrounds receive little or no assistance. [More…]
In 1977 there was roughly one migrant English teacher for every 335 children of non-English speaking backgrounds. [More…]
For example, in Western Australia there was one migrant teacher for every 1,360 children of non-English speaking background. [More…]
It stated that the distribution among the States of funds under the program is not proportionate to the distribution of children of non-English speaking backgrounds. [More…]
In terms of the needs- it would be difficult just on a bland statement such as that one to prove this point- there is no doubt that given the needs of the majority of school children, who after all do attend the State school system- I think nearly 70 per cent of the school population goes to State schools- that sort of disproportionate allocation of funding is unreasonable. [More…]
That is where most of the private sector children attend- the parochial Catholic schools. [More…]
Children are being asked to play out a murder, and in one case to curse one another in a simulated witch’s coven. [More…]
Even the children know that some of this nonsense is absolutely incongruous and unnecessary. [More…]
To ensure that wealthy families did not receive unneeded public subsidies for their children’s schooling, tax schedules should be adjusted. [More…]
It would have been truly democratic Australian justice, and I think the general injustice for those who feel they have to educate their children privately has gone on for far too long. [More…]
So in total the education of 65.4 per cent of children had not proceeded beyond the equivalent of year 3 in secondary schooling. [More…]
The surprising figure is the number of children who had not gone beyond primary school. [More…]
As against that, one often wonders whether the funds that are allocated for education are being spent too much on teachers and not enough on children. [More…]
I know that it is not really popular nowadays even to talk along those lines but I often wonder whether teachers themselves realise that after all education is provided for children and not of necessity only for teachers. [More…]
Whether children are getting their fair share of the funds that are allocated for education is a matter for discussion, I think, and it is a matter to which we as members of parliament should give a great deal of thought. [More…]
Education is for children. [More…]
There is also a tendency for people in my age group- I left school at 14 and educated myself later in my own time- who were reared during the Depression years when the opportunity for a complete education was not available, to go overboard where their children are concerned. [More…]
It has become a matter somewhat of snob value, not so much to children as to parents, to be able to say that ‘my little Johnnie’ or ‘my little Mary’ is going to university even though little Johnnie or little Mary will probably never finish university because they were pushed there by their mothers or fathers. [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…]
I want to speak about the two extremes of education, those children, who are disadvantaged for one reason or another and the advantaged students who are at tertiary institutions. [More…]
First, I would like to deal with the problems of education faced by children in the isolated areas. [More…]
I note that the appropriation for isolated children is $ 14.6m. [More…]
There are about 20,000 children who will be assisted by this scheme. [More…]
The Federal Government provides a basic boarding allowance of $500 a year, not meanstested, to parents with children in primary or secondary schools without reasonable access to a government school. [More…]
Additional means-tested allowances are available and there are further allowances for children in cases of particular hardship. [More…]
The children in isolated areas have very special problems. [More…]
In my electorate 190 primary school children, aged from 6 to 12years, are enrolled in the School of the Air which operates from Cairns. [More…]
It also provides a service to children on fishing boats and in light houses. [More…]
A great many of these children are denied qualified and experienced teachers. [More…]
There is a very real possibility that the educational experiences available to children in remote areas fit them less and less for a role in an urban society. [More…]
The obvious way to do that is to make sure that it is easier for these children to go to boarding schools, or schools in the cities. [More…]
Many of their parents cannot afford it, and are making great sacrifices to give their children an education. [More…]
I refer now to another special problem, the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]
I agree that it is very necessary that Aboriginal children should receive special benefits as they suffer great disadvantages. [More…]
I can speak with some authority as I have living in my electorate more than 20,000 Aboriginal and islander children and I am very much aware of the large gap which exists between various sections of the community. [More…]
Aboriginal children who go to secondary school have all their fees paid; they have their fares paid, both to go to school and to come home for holidays,* they receive pocket money, clothing, a book allowance and so on. [More…]
Recently I spoke to a policeman stationed at an isolated Aboriginal community who could not afford to send his children to boarding school. [More…]
His children should receive the privileges that are received by the Aboriginal children in that community. [More…]
It is only fair that if an Aboriginal family can afford to send its children to boarding school it should receive no more aid than the equivalent non-Aboriginal family living in the same area. [More…]
This meant that children from disadvantaged families found it very difficult to go to a university. [More…]
It is time to decide whether we should spend these vast sums of money upon giving free university education to children. [More…]
I have spoken very briefly of the two extremes: Isolated and Aboriginal children on the one hand and the very privileged university students on the other. [More…]
Historically and linguistically it is an extremely important language- it is a Semitic language, as honourable members would know- but very rarely taught although there are thousands of children in Lalor ‘s schools whose family tongue is Maltese. [More…]
Loads of surveys of school children and adults have been carried out. [More…]
Grandparents normally are involved in the nurturing of children while parents are freed for work. [More…]
For example, this financial year the United Nations Development Program will receive $6,820,000; the United Nations Children’s Fund, $1,800,000; the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, $420,000; and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, $640,000. [More…]
Another surprise was that almost 49,000 children between the ages of one and five had not been given protection from polio (health authorities advise that babies should have received three doses of polio vaccine by the age of 12 months). [More…]
However, a health department expert said the number of children not immunised, 3.8 per cent, was not large enough to cause concern. [More…]
The legal profession, and indeed all professions, are drawn from the better-off sections of the community, reinforced by the especially able children of the poor. [More…]
What is wrong with wanting children to respect their parents, to have proper education and to wish standards to be high? [More…]
Does the Tribunal’s refusal to make public the costs of certain children’s television programs prejudice the public’s ability to assess whether the channel concerned is doing all it could and should in the case of children’s television? [More…]
Are any figures available for the incidence of visual disorders not associated with diseases of the eye in Australian school children. [More…]
Presumably the question concerns refractive visual errors in children necessitating the wearing of spectacles. [More…]
People have to worry about their future, the future of their home, their children and their maintenance. [More…]
The questions would be: Who is to have custody of the children? [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…]
A number of my constituents have written to me expressing their concern regarding the number of television shows, and more particularly the station promotion in relation to them, which by any standards would be considered to be not suitable for children but which are shown, if not during official children’s viewing time, certainly during the earlier part of the evening when many older children are viewing. [More…]
I am informed by the Tribunal that there is no strict definition of ‘children’ by age classification. [More…]
Many children are watching television at that time. [More…]
The honourable member for Perth raised also a question about whether what are called ‘X’ rated or, to put in another way, censored ‘R’ films should be shown on television at night when children might be watching it. [More…]
The Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal has indicated to me that he will be happy for the Tribunal to have another look at that matter and to take into account the sorts of views which were expressed by the honourable member for Perth and which have been expressed by many other people in the community who feel that there is a need for television stations to be aware of the fact that television shows are being seen by children, sometimes with and sometimes without parental supervision, and that whilst one might wish in an ideal world that parents could be left entirely free to decide on their own children’s viewing habits, in the real world there is a social responsibility on government and, therefore, on broadcasters to take decisions about when, for instance and in particular, violent material can be shown on television when children might be viewing it. [More…]
First, income tax is deducted; secondly, superannuation contributions are deducted; thirdly, one half of any board paid by the applicant is deducted; fourthly, and this is unlimited, rent or mortgage payments for the dwelling house in which the applicant resides are deducted; fifthly, municipal rates and water rates for the dwelling house in which the applicant resides are deducted; sixthly, maintenance payments to spouse and children of applicants are deducted; and, seventhly, payments under hire purchase agreements and credit sales contracts for household goods and furniture used by the applicant in his own home are deducted. [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…]
The effect of this policy- obviously it flows from the Budget cuts in respect of education- is simply to discriminate selectively against children of migrant or ethnic backgrounds. [More…]
It seems to me that if one looks at the history of many of these children one will find that they began their schooling in our system with considerable handicaps. [More…]
In very few of these schools- I challenge the Minister for Education to name one such school- in any of the inner suburban areas of Melbourne the provision of English migrant teachers meets the very real demands for educational service of children of migrant and ethnic background who are trying to be educated. [More…]
This, I think, unfairly discriminates against children of ethnic origin who have substantial educational handicaps. [More…]
It reduces the level of educational teaching to children of one social grouping, namely, children of ethnic and migrant backgrounds. [More…]
I have no doubt that other honourable members representing electorates in the inner heart of Melbourne will receive the same sort of complaints not merely from teachers, many of whom are talking strike action, but also from the leaders of ethnic communities who no longer are prepared to allow their children to be treated as second-rate citizens. [More…]
If one compares the various income alternatives of a man working on average award rates, a woman working on average award rates, and a couple with one income and the benefits of rebates accruing to their family of say, two, three or four children, there is no doubt that the family group is disadvantaged in relation to others. [More…]
Governments should ensure that for families at the margin where there are dependent children, a genuine choice ought to be available as to whether one or both parents work. [More…]
This is better than a system of increasing the spouse rebate for those who have the care of children because it creates an element of horizontal equity which does not exist under the present system where some income earners are able to split their incomes and others, with similar family responsibilities, cannot split their incomes. [More…]
This system would have the effect of not acting as a disincentive for those married women with children who choose to enter the work force. [More…]
But it does recognise the role of the mother who stays at home to care for children. [More…]
It recognises that the raising of children is work of great social and national significance. [More…]
But governments can and should do all in their power to overcome those financial circumstances which might cause undue stress to be placed on families and which prevent mothers having a free choice as to whether or not they can stay at home and care for their children. [More…]
Department of Children’s Services. [More…]
Primmer Lodge, a self-supporting longerterm care community for children aged 14-17, has recently received State Government funding to operate 6 short-term crisis accommodation beds. [More…]
Background /Staff- The lodge was unofficially opened to children in 1 973, by two Catholic priests living in the building. [More…]
Department of Children’s Services (State) [More…]
State Department of Children ‘s Services [More…]
He believes there are ‘too many binds and hassles with having to accept kids from Children ‘s Services ‘. [More…]
several months at least) resident children. [More…]
Primmer Lodge is remarkable in that it has a good working relationship with Children’s Services. [More…]
Not only are those residents (the majority) referred by Children’s Services receiving regular payments (‘MLI payments’) under the existing subsidy scheme, but the Lodge received a $4,000 grant in advance for operating the 6 crisis beds. [More…]
Major referring bodies (to BYS) are the Juvenile Aid Bureau (associated with Queensland Police Department), social workers of the Department of Social Security, and Children’s Services. [More…]
BYS gets a grant of $6,000 per annum from Department of Children’s Services, plus a lesser amount from 5 inner-city churches. [More…]
Children’s Services- [More…]
The State Department of Children ‘s Services (DCS) operates a number of children’s ‘residential care facilities’ in Brisbane (long term) and corrective institutions, and administers MLI payments to other institutions accommodating state wards. [More…]
The Department is aware of the need for crisis accommodation, as it is the first point of contact for homeless children picked up by police (often in city parks). [More…]
These children then come under the care and protection’ of the state. [More…]
In a recent study of 62 such children, 24 were placed in crisis accommodation of some description, 18 were placed in hostels (eg. [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…]
WCA operate a 6 room family house for threatened, battered and raped women with children in Brisbane (SHELTA). [More…]
Relationships of concerned bodies with the State Department of Children’s Services require rationalisation in the following areas. [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…]
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…]
It would be fair to say that when children were born into the families of honourable members in this House those honourable members were able to take recreation leave or leave without pay from their employment and had the opportunity to assist in the home. [More…]
How many children do people have? [More…]
I am quite serious in saying that if men were having the children this would not be occurring. [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…]
In regard to the criticism that only- I emphasise the word ‘only’- 50 per cent of women return to work after maternity leave, the fact is that a return rate of 50 per cent is much higher than might be expected from the normal work force participation pattern of women responsible for children. [More…]
Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that only 30 per cent of Australian women who are responsible for children aged 0 to five years in fact work. [More…]
The aim of such leave is not to force back into the work force those women who want, and can afford, to stay at home to care for young children. [More…]
In other words, it seeks to ensure that women who interrupt their careers to have children will not be unduly disadvantaged. [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…]
The greatest relative increase in this respect has occurred among women with children of pre-school age. [More…]
Quite clearly, too, the prevailing opinion among young families themselves is that both parents must be able to combine gainful employment with the care of their children. [More…]
the important point is that the issue of joint family responsibility in raising children should be encouraged. [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…]
It seeks funds for a new kind of schooling for the children of the fringe camps of Alice Springs. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the special supplement of The Medical Journal of Australia of 9 August 1975 recommending policies for minimising institutional stay and maximising public, professional and parental concern to meet the unique psychological needs of young children, and declaring as essential on-going evaluation of these policies at all levels. [More…]
In this context, the National Health and Medical Research Council has endorsed the policy statements recommended in the document Health Care Policy Relating to Children and their Families’ to which the honourable member has referred. [More…]
The Commonwealth ‘s general support for the aims and philosophies expounded in the article is further demonstrated by the Government’s continued funding, under the Community Health Program, of the national secretariat of the Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital which prepared the document and has, with the aid of the Commonwealth’s financial assistance, vigorously promoted these principles and philosophies. [More…]
The matter of health is as important to the old as taxation is to the workers and education is to the children. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to various schemes operating around the world for protection and care of children through the utilisation of childless families, the aged, and other untapped community resources. [More…]
If so, will the Department of Social Security investigate a program known as the ‘Block Parent Program’, operating in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, which allows interested adults, usually aged persons, when approved by authorities, to act in loco parentis on certain occasions, whereby children who are lost, endangered, frightened or ill are able to gain refuge in the home of an approved block parent. [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…]
Another consequence if this motion were accepted would be a situation in which the honourable member for Robertson would say, when he comes across a mother of three or four children in a street: ‘We would like to have given you a little more money in family allowance payment for your children but- and I know that you will understand- we have taken that because I want that money to pay for my political campaign and my party’s campaign. [More…]
What happens is that income is diverted to people who are in much lower tax bracketswives and children- and is therefore taxed at lower rates than if it remained in the hands of the professional person. [More…]
There is no doubt, if we are prepared to face what had been occurring plainly in Australia, that the tax laws of this country- the weight of taxation, the punitive nature of death, estate and gift duties- had caused people in small businesses of many kinds, whether in country towns, in the cities, or on farms, in an effort to hold those businesses together and to leave something to their children - [More…]
Recently I was requested to make approaches to the Minister for Trade and Commerce (Mr Lynch) on behalf of a company which imported from Malaysia some 40 per cent of its total Australian sales of children’s apparel. [More…]
Children lining the track are singing ‘Indonesia raya’- the national anthem- as we walked back to the helicopter. [More…]
I realise, of course, there are people with chronic poor health, or families with a number of small children requiring constant medical attention, where some insurance is needed. [More…]
I think the honourable member is probably referring particularly to a very serious problem of middle ear infection amongst Aboriginal children. [More…]
Quite frankly, I have been considering the possibility of dealing with the middle ear infection amongst Aboriginal children in the way that we dealt with the trachoma problem afflicting Aboriginal people in the remote areas of Australia. [More…]
The research project will focus on the high prevalence of middle ear infection amongst the Aboriginal children, particularly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I was at Bathurst Island earlier in the year and I was surprised to learn that practically all the children on that Island and Melville Island were in fact afflicted by middle ear infection by the time that they were 15 months of age. [More…]
Further inquiries have revealed that this is a very common problem amongst Aboriginal children. [More…]
They are letting the children know that the old fashioned egg flip still is a wonderful help in recharging energy, especially in children who participate in sport. [More…]
I understand that they will be directing their efforts mainly at children, who eat more eggs than any other group. [More…]
These limits would be higher in the case of families with children. [More…]
Over the same period the number of children and students receiving family allowances has increased from 3,835,000 to 4,305,000. [More…]
What measures have been taken to remedy the educational handicaps of (a) migrant and (b) Aboriginal children as analysed in the final report of Australian Studies in School Performance- The Mastery of Literacy and Numeracy produced under the auspices of the Australian Council for Educational Research in April 1977 pursuant to the suggestion made to it in February 1975 by Mr Race Mathews, M.P., then Chairman of the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties. [More…]
The report Australian Studies in School Performance- The Mastery of Literacy and Numeracy was the first attempt at establishing a level of performance in basic literacy and numeracy for Australian children. [More…]
Education systems have been aware of the needs of migrants and Aboriginal children for a long time and as far as the States are concerned, the responsibility for the education of all children within them is vested with State Education Departments; it is thus their primary responsibility to consider and react to the findings of the report. [More…]
There are, however, measures which have been and are being taken to assist migrant and Aboriginal children which relate to the findings of the report: [More…]
The States are taking steps to identify children with learning difficulties and to monitor standards within their own States. [More…]
School children who come to this place often comment that they cannot understand the way members of the Labor Party continually disrupt the proceedings of the House, the way they go on with false and spurious interjections, the way they continually refuse to abide by the forms of the House. [More…]
When you hear little children ask their fathers, ‘Why does the white man treat us so awful? [More…]
If this Government has its way and the Bill is passed by the Parliament, we- or at least our children or grandchildren- could witness repeat performances of the Rum Jungle episode. [More…]
3 ) How many children are catered for by these facilities. [More…]
How many children (a) come from single parent families and (b) are from 2 parent families where both husband and wife work. [More…]
The figure includes facilities which are soon to become operational as well as operational ones and also includes full day care services, services for handicapped children, other special need groups and families at risk, but excludes preschools and the large number of holiday projects. [More…]
and (4) There are no accurate figures to indicate the number of children catered for by these facilities or the number falling into the categories requested. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the Melbourne Herald of Friday, 17 November, concerning a school for Vietnamese children in Altona? [More…]
The Government tried to steal money from the pockets of children. [More…]
It sought to put a means test on the children’s allowance. [More…]
It tried to take money from them as children. [More…]
We do not want to see any headlines as we saw in the Melbourne Sun about the ‘Deadly Experiment’, with young school children playing around with experiments and ending up dead. [More…]
The people who live in the very remote areas of Australia are suffering extreme disabilities, certainly not so much in my electorate but in electorates in Western Australia and north Queensland where they have no television, virtually no radio, very few roads, very poor health services and they are endeavouring to teach their children by correspondence. [More…]
That is why we have much to learn from the succeess in crime control in countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, where from the earliest schooldays, children are taught to abhor violence. [More…]
I know the Islanders are to be represented by the three group chairmen and they will represent a people whom I believe are relieved that at long last their future and that of their children and grandchildren is secure. [More…]
In many cases, they contain details of great sadness, of young children who have become sick following years of common membership by their families in a fund. [More…]
In addition, for control purposes the survey covered a group of Aboriginal males with no occupational exposure to asbestos and women and children over the age of 12 years living at Baryulgil. [More…]
That is hardly reflecting the real needs of the children in those schools. [More…]
In essence, the approach of assimilation tried to treat all children as alike, as if there were no difference among them. [More…]
So, therefore, we had to provide additional help to those children who needed it. [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…]
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…]
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…]
The Australian children were getting no support in their own language and they were not being taught an additional language. [More…]
It will only be when all the children in all of the schools in Australia receive the same teaching about our multicultural society and when all of them are given access to a second language that we will be able to say that discrimination has been abolished and everyone is being given the same opportunities. [More…]
Recently when the Government was floating the proposition that tertiary fees should be restored for students at tertiary institutions- thank goodness that that has now been retracted- it was said that freedom from paying fees at tertiary institutions had not appreciably assisted children from lower income families to gain tertiary education. [More…]
The School Council, together with the parents of children attending this school, are deeply concerned with the lack of education facilities within the Lalor area. [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 investigations found that country children, particularly primary school students, were less likely than city children to be receiving the help that they required. [More…]
We already have a situation in country areas where the job opportunities for the children are limited. [More…]
Many of these grants include equalisation factors- for example, for vastness of the State, distance to be traversed by roads and the number of school children. [More…]
They were based on formulae that had certain elements that would favour some States- for example, the number of children attending school, distance factors, wage and salary movements, et cetera. [More…]
I do not have details of the total number of persons, including children, who are members of this group, but I am seeking the information and will inform the honourable member when I have it. [More…]
How many persons, both adults and children, were covered by the Medibank levy in (a) 1976-77 and (b) 1977-78. [More…]
Is the teacher appointed to teach fringe camp children in Alice Springs, N.T. [More…]
At Maningrida, for example, the large number of languages spoken precludes a formal program in any one of them, but it is possible for some of the older children to be introduced to literacy in their own language. [More…]
However, a teacher at Traeger Park Primary School does take one class for fringe camp children. [More…]
In response to the report of the Select Committees on Specific Learning Difficulties, which itself was unable to determine the precise number of illiterate adults and children in Australia, the Australian Council for Educational Research was funded by the Government through the Education Research and Development Committee to conduct a national study of literacy and numeracy among 10 and 14 year-olds. [More…]
For statistical purposes, persons in the occupationally eligible category include spouses and children as well as the principal applicant. [More…]
and mother against daughter as though parents and their children have responsibility for creating jobs in the community. [More…]
I had considered the integration of the two schools, that is, the West Island school attended by the children of the Australian administration staff and the Home Island school where the Cocos children go. [More…]
The migrant children in my area find it hard to overcome some of the language barriers and they cannot compete with other school leavers for the jobs that are available. [More…]
These children, just as much as other children, need to be trained and educated to cope with the technological changes occurring. [More…]
For example, an unemployed couple with two children will be at least $20 below the poverty line by the end of this year. [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…]
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…]
Children’s Services Development Officers (Catalysts) were approved for funding as a pilot program in 1975-76 only. [More…]
Their major function was to extend community knowledge and utilisation of the resources available and to assist the community make submissions for funding to the Interim Committee for the Children ‘s Commission. [More…]
Children’s Services Development Officers assist in the development and co-ordination of services for children and their families. [More…]
The Australian Statistician advises that in 1977 the infant death rate (deaths of children under one year of age per 1,000 live births) was 13.98 for males and 10.86 for females, and in 1976 life expectancy at age 1 was 69.36 years for males and 76.2 1 years for females. [More…]
2 in Case K44 78 Australian Tax Cases 419, it is a fact that, as a result of the decision, where a woman has been divorced and has remarried and is receiving maintenance in respect of the children of the former marriage her new husband may have his entitlement to a tax rebate for his dependent wife reduced or eliminated because maintenance payments for the children are regarded as income of the woman. [More…]
As a result of the decision, will a woman receiving maintenance in respect of children be liable to taxation on these receipts. [More…]
Payments received in respect of the maintenance of the children of a former marriage would not be taken into account for this purpose. [More…]
Making political footballs out of the two million men, women and children directly or indirectly dependent upon social security payments is less than cheap. [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…]
They would not have any idea how hard it is to pay children’s school fees and to dress them correctly. [More…]
I am informed that approval was given for the migration of the mother and father of the two girls, but naturally they are unwilling to do this and leave their two children in Lebanon. [More…]
On 31 October 1978 I had a phone call from an officer of the Parliamentary Liaison Office of the Department of Ethnic Affairs Branch of the Department in Sydney saying he was unaware at that stage that I had written to the Minister but that on the facts available to him and without a work guarantee he would not be recommending admission of the two children to Australia and he would be reporting this to the central office in view of my representations to the Minister. [More…]
I have been assured by Mr Josef Malla who is one of my constituents, that he has already given guarantees saying that the children will be no charge on the Commonwealth if they are allowed to come here with their aged parents. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the studies of Calabrese and Tuthill at the University of Massachussetts, USA, which link elevated blood pressure in high school children with an elevated intake of sodium in drinking water. [More…]
Today the average family- a man, wife and two children- on average weekly earnings is $9 a week worse off, before tax, than in 1975. [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…]
In the education area- I realise that this is often a State problem- we have not seriously sought to tackle the problems of a different form and structure of education for children living in remote areas. [More…]
He spoke at length about the anomalies that arise in all of the allowances and means of assistance, whether they be isolated children’s assistance, the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance or other forms of assistance available to a great multitude of people in various areas and for various reasons. [More…]
In the south, apart from the enormous loss of human lives there were one and a half million war casualties, more than 800,000 children left as orphans, half a million invalids, 500,000 prostitutes- whom the United States forces helped to create- and 3 million people illiterate. [More…]
What is known of the risk being posed to school children by the use of asbestos in schools. [More…]
My children do not believe in Hans Andersen’s fairy tales any more and they certainly will not believe that, nor will the taxi drivers of Australia, the business managers or anyone else in this community because the simple fact is that the Minister for Finance was involved in a protracted negotiation with the Prime Minister throughout Thursday of last week, a negotiation that spread over several hours. [More…]
The philosophy of dependants’ allowances had its origins in the First War situation when the families of serving personnel received allotments to ensure that the wives and children left at home received financial support. [More…]
The highest relativity of the dependant’s allowance to the 100 per cent General Rate Pension was SO per cent for wives and 25 per cent for children. [More…]
Many of them and their wives and children are forced to take outside jobs in order to keep their farms. [More…]
I did not say that wives or children should be exempt. [More…]
I was also pointing out the difficulties in relation to children of politicians and other matters. [More…]
Are children not allowed some life of their own? [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…]
Is it right for your children and mine to read offensive words? [More…]
Allowances for dependent spouses and children of unemployment beneficiaries are taxable. [More…]
Income splitting devices enable a high income earner to have his children or wife assessed on part of that income at much lower rates of taxation in accordance with the progressive tax system. [More…]
One way is simply by income splitting, by diverting one’s income through trusts towards children. [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…]
The beneficiaries are usually the shareholders of the former company or the owner and his wife and children. [More…]
For high income people there is still a very great advantage to be obtained in channelling income to their children rather than earning it directly themselves and having to pay the maximum marginal rate of tax on it. [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…]
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…]
When I speak of genuine trusts, I basically refer to those trusts that are formed following the death of a parent where minor children are involved or perhaps the death of a relation where a trust is formed to provide accommodation and living expenses for other relations. [More…]
I believe that one of the main causes of income splitting and tax evasion is the fact that in the separation of income between husband and wife or between parents and children the ceiling of $3,893 is enjoyed not by just one person in the family but by many members of the family. [More…]
It should be the focus of the aspirations of all those people who want to make a better life for those whom we bring up- our children. [More…]
An example that has been given to me is that of a family- a husband, wife and two children- travelling to England in the shoulder or high peak season. [More…]
A young chap, a report of an interview with whom appeared in the National Times on Sunday, said that people on the north shore of Sydney do not want their children to register for employment. [More…]
They do not want their children to receive unemployment benefits- not because of a rationale that the young people are not entitled to them but because they live in fear of the stigma that would be associated with the family if a young person was out of work and receiving unemployment benefits. [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…]
I feel that we shall have more success through the education system, with the present generation of young children just starting school, than we will in changing the life style of older generations who, for the most part, gave up regular physical exercise once they left school. [More…]
That act makes mandatory: the setting up and equipping of new sports facilities as well as the modernisation and maintenance of existing ones the provision of sport equipment and sports wear for athletes the initial training and further training of sports teachers and doctors the guarantee of all-out medical care for children and youth engaging in activities by the sport-medical service of the GDR the gathering and application of scientific findings to the teaching programs, training programs and compilation of efficiency criteria and norms for children’s and youth sport. [More…]
Their children are not ‘forced’. [More…]
An interesting finding in this section is that young married couples between 14 and 34 years of age without children- I will leave it to the honourable member for Robertson to interpret this; he is much more skilled than I am- had a higher reading at 80 per cent than similar age married people with children at 76 per cent. [More…]
It would have been expected that children would have brought many of the badges, stickers, posters, balloons and so on into the home and that the figure for families with children would have been higher. [More…]
This is because the physical education teacher is not so useful in making up the margins in mathematics, science and so on when we are concerned with training children. [More…]
Children are bowling balls in parks and so on, but it serves as a tremendous example if there are throughout the nation players and athletes of high class. [More…]
I reaffirm my point that no matter how much we encourage our children to participate in sport while at school, especially team sport, if they do not maintain a level of participation the physical value of their early involvement counts for nothing. [More…]
This area has more children in it than any other area throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
I suggest to the reporter named Harry Robinson who wrote the article rubbishing the western area that he have a heart for the children there because he does not realise the damage he is doing with this sort of rubbishing article to all those kids who are being brought up in the area. [More…]
The facts are that the municipality of Blacktown has more young children than any other area in Australia. [More…]
-Yes, I do believe that in the longer term health costs will be reduced so long as we are able to encourage our children to participate in better lifestyles and to participate more in sport and sporting activities. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that in a Press release issued jointly by the Attorney-General (Senator Durack) and me on 2 March 1978 we announced that the Government was to establish an inter-departmental committee to investigate and to recommend to Cabinet legislative or administrative changes 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…]
Other matters are the restoration of twiceyearly indexation, which was dealt with in the same piece of legislation, and an increase in dependants’ allowances, which have remained unchanged since 1954 for children and 1964 for wives. [More…]
In addition, a major factor sustaining the proportion of gross domestic product represented by income tax and also sustaining the proportion of gross domestic product represented by outlays, more than would otherwise have been the case, has been the removal of concessional allowances for children and their replacement by the new family allowance arrangements which transfer expenditures- [More…]
The most dramatic event in Sydney in relation to ozone levels occurred at Sylvania High School on 19 March 1976, when school children were exercising. [More…]
Of those children 13 were taken to hospital with pains in the chest and lungs upon breathing deeply and quickly. [More…]
After all, we fund the killing of our unborn children. [More…]
1 ) I am informed that my Department received a copy of a research proposal entitled ( Causes of Otitis Media in Aboriginal Children of the Northern Territory from the Secretary of the Medical Research in Aborigines Sub-committee of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH and MRC) on 28 October 1976. [More…]
It abolished these duties on assets passing between spouses, between parents and children and between grandparents and grandchildren. [More…]
For example, in 1 976 the High Court decided in the case of Russell v. Russell that this Parliament, the national Parliament, does not have power to deal with all the matters involved with the custody of children and matrimonial property. [More…]
This provision will be amended so that a conference can be ordered with counsellors or the court can order a report on the welfare of children to the marriage. [More…]
The court can make these orders whenever the welfare of the children to the marriage is affected. [More…]
The amendments are to be commended but the problem lies in whether sufficient facilities are available in the counselling area as well as whether there are enough counsellors and ancillary staff for the intended beneficiaries- namely, the children of the marriage- to gain what obviously are the intended advantages of the amendments. [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
There are some people, of course, who correctly point out that when it comes to custody of the children a case has to be presented in relation to who has been responsible for the breakdown of the marriage. [More…]
When people say that it is their right to marry and that they do not want the State interfering, I counter that argument with the view that if there are children and if a partner- the breadwinner- disappears, then there will be a call upon the Australian taxpayer to support those children. [More…]
Regrettably only one home in that street had a normal family situation; the other 13 homes were occupied by single parents with children. [More…]
All the children knew in terms of the male sex were ‘uncles’, in some cases ‘uncles’ who came and went in great numbers. [More…]
It was his view that it was important for the balanced attitude of these children that influence was exerted on them not only by female teachers but also by male teachers. [More…]
The point that I wanted to emphasise in the amendment was that families in which breakdowns occur and divorce follows fall into two categories- those which have no children and those which have children. [More…]
In those cases where there are children, 12 months separation provides a presumption to the court of the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage. [More…]
No one seems to take account of the fact that the children may have an interest in whether or not the court should proceed to accept the irretrievability of the breakdown. [More…]
My amendment sought to place the onus on the court to be satisfied of the irretrievability of the breakdown where dependent children were involved. [More…]
I contend that there needed to be some party, some advocate or some concerned person with responsibility for the interests of the children. [More…]
In so many cases before the family law courts, because the parties to the marriage- the husband and the wife- are concerned about their own emotional conflicts, their property disputes and their personal interests in custody or access to children, not enough emphasis is placed upon the interests of the children in having a proper relationship with both their parents. [More…]
Therefore I hope that the Committee, in its examination, will deeply study the interests of children. [More…]
The future of the children is then resolved in the best way possible in the difficult circumstances. [More…]
I urge the Government- I will not have time to pursue the point this evening- to develop a full and comprehensive family policy which concentrates on preventing families from breaking down rather than having to cure the circumstances that have brought about a breakdown and then to provide for the outcome of that breakdown through a heavy burden on the rest of the community by way of economic and other support to children of broken homes. [More…]
Does the Government want to take from the invalid pensioners the right to communicate with their families, with their children. [More…]
The next action that this Government is likely to take is to have ASIO tap the telephones of the pensioners to see what they are talking about with their children. [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…]
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…]
The effect is not suffered only by the woman; it is suffered by the family- the children and the other parent- and society generally. [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…]
I read the same book as he did and nowhere in the book that I read and he read did it say that we have the right to make people so poor that they cannot afford children and then tell them that they have to have one. [More…]
The fact remains that in this country at the moment those who are waiting to adopt children, those who want children, are being told that they will have to wait for a great length of time. [More…]
It seems to me that in a country which has made such wonderful technological advances, in which we have progress and development, it is rather strange that we cannot find a solution to the problem confronting people in this situation and at the same time provide an opportunity for the children they do not want to have love and care and a normal family life. [More…]
There are many examples of people suffering disabilities following abortion, including the inability to have children when they are wanted later on. [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…]
By the way, many of those being treated could be the fathers of the children about whom we are talking. [More…]
That would certainly guarantee a lot more children being brought into the world. [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…]
Mr Forell also points out the ways in which the taxpayer will pay more to support unwanted children than is paid for abortions and that, if cost saving is really the purpose of this motion, there are other items in the medical benefits schedule which should be scrutinised ahead of the relatively low expenditure on abortions. [More…]
Oppose Lusher motion encourages backyard abortion and unwanted children. [More…]
I am worried like any other parent is worried about 60,000 unborn children being aborted. [More…]
We have 8 children and sometimes I wonder how we found the money to be married. [More…]
After we were married we had 8 beautiful children and we are grandparents. [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…]
Although most schools have some kind of arranged sporting and physical education activities there is a need to stimulate the interest of children in sport and physical education. [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…]
In that foray into another country some 12,000 cattle were rustled, a sugar factory was gutted, peasant homes were wrecked, children were speared to death on poles and women were raped. [More…]
Concessional deductions for dependent children were abolished, educational deductions are minimal, and family allowances are annually eroded in value because of the Government’s failure to index same. [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…]
During the same period, abortions have prevented the live births of 150,000 to 200,000 children. [More…]
We should be doing something for mothers and for children. [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…]
Those thousands of parents could provide magnificent Australian homes for magnificent Australian children who will never be born. [More…]
There is no doubt that an excessive number of abortions has the effect of depriving those young couples of children. [More…]
An estimated 60,000 innocent and defenceless unborn children are terminated each year. [More…]
They are children that Australia cannot afford to lose. [More…]
To cut off the funds for this sick trade in human life must be the first step towards affording protection for our unborn children. [More…]
These mothers have told me exactly how they feel now that they have children of their own after they did not accept the advice to have their children aborted. [More…]
I am just one person who had the opportunity to survive and I am here in this House trying to defend that right for the 60,000 children who are aborted each year. [More…]
It is a sick nation at the moment when one in four children is being aborted. [More…]
Poverty will not be overcome by eliminating the poor or the children of the poor. [More…]
There are many families in Australia that could adopt young children and give them the family love that they so richly deserve and need. [More…]
They do not want children; they would rather have a dog and a cat because it is easier to look after them. [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…]
Let us take the case of a woman who has, say, three young children, who becomes pregnant again and is then deserted by her husband. [More…]
The worry from this additional pregnancy is such that the mother’s mental stability and physical health is so seriously affected that soon her three young children will not have any parent to care for them. [More…]
Is this not one of the best means of ensuring that women do not have abortions and that they keep their children? [More…]
But when the Whitlam Government provided the supporting mothers benefit for single women, conservatives in this community- the wowsers- went around saying that we were encouraging women to have children out of wedlock. [More…]
To the contrary, we were helping young women to keep their children. [More…]
Courts are not likely to be locking women up because they have aborted their children. [More…]
Abortion threatens the nation through the destruction of its children. [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…]
My amendment concludes with a reference to deformed children. [More…]
Lalor has an unusually high average number of children per family- nearly double the national average. [More…]
I hope that we will give emphasis to family support and to helping those women and those young people who are under threat, by ensuring that the conditions are favourable for them to rear their children, and to have the children who have been commenced. [More…]
A survey shows that Catholic women with three or four children make up a high percentage of women who seek abortion because of their moral beliefs abour contraception. [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…]
If the honourable member for Hume and his supporters find difficulty in spending $3m or $6m on funding for abortions they must be prepared to ask the citizens of this country to approve higher taxation and new legislation which will involve the spending of many millions of dollars in supporting not only unwed mothers but often their unwanted and unloved children and one-parent families. [More…]
Principally they are organised and run by the Catholic Church and are directed specifically at encouraging women to have their children and not to seek abortions. [More…]
I support the concept of loved and loving children within that unit. [More…]
The central issue is not primarily what we do to those little children, but what we do to ourselves by indefinitely letting little ones be killed. [More…]
People who argue against taking the life of a convicted murderer are found the same day arguing in favour of killing innocent children in their mother’s womb. [More…]
Doctors whose whole purpose heretofore was to maintain life, now use their skills to destroy our children. [More…]
We have six children. [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…]
I can also give examples of parents in my electorate who have mentally handicapped children. [More…]
One family has three mentally handicapped children. [More…]
Would any members of this House suggest that these children should have been aborted? [More…]
It advocates the births of unwanted children but does nothing to enhance the quality of life for all children. [More…]
At present, family allowances are not available to mothers whose children are receiving TEAS payments. [More…]
The same gentleman, were he alive many years ago, centuries before his time, would bewail legislation that was passed by progressive people to stop children going into the mines. [More…]
Review of Passports: Interdepartmental Committee on Removal of Children (Question No. [More…]
He has acted as a volunteer house father for the Elizabeth Family Home which cares for disturbed children and is organised by the State Department of Community Welfare. [More…]
Modern education as I understand it and as I see it with my children tends to be more sensitive by inculcating in children the wonders of the world in which they live and trying to establish in their minds a sense of responsibility about it and a love for people who have a differing sense of values, a different ethnic sense and a different culture. [More…]
I use my children as an example. [More…]
They were written by my children as part of a class discussion. [More…]
I suppose they were representative of letters which other children in their classes had written to Pierre Trudeau as part of a school project complaining about the slaughter of the harp seals which has attracted a certain amount of interest in the last couple of weeks. [More…]
I found those letters very poignant inasmuch as children have a greater sincerity and sensitivity in relation to these problems than perhaps their adult parents have. [More…]
The objective of the program is to promote responsible parenthood, to assist couples who wish to regulate the spacing of their children, to achieve wanted births and to avoid unwanted births. [More…]
Coming more nearly to the question that the honourable gentleman asked, as a result of our tax reforms, indexation, the reform of the rate scales and our introduction of family allowances, the taxpayer, on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children, is $15 a week better off under this Government than under Mr Hayden’s tax scale. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s reforms, indexation and reform of the rate scales and its introduction of family allowances, the taxpayer on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children is $15 a week better off under this Government than under Mr Hayden ‘s tax scales. [More…]
So the family pays, the children pay and the pensioners pay. [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…]
We heard him again argue today, as he has argued before, that under the Labor Party taxes would be $15 a week higher for a person on an average income with a wife and two children than would be the case under the present tax system. [More…]
There were plenty of those people with five children who immediately received $25.50 a week. [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…]
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…]
A major interest which I have in this legislation is in relation to the problem of children being abducted and removed from Australia by one parent without the consent of the other. [More…]
I also mention the very dedicated work of Adelaide journalist, Dick Wordley, on behalf of a number of people who had found themselves in the tragic situation of having had their children abducted by the other parent. [More…]
Dick Wordley has spent much of his own time and money in assisting these people to locate and retrieve their children from overseas. [More…]
This case began back in February 1 975 when the husband and father of the two children disappeared from the marital home and this effectively began the couple’s separation. [More…]
The mother and wife finally traced her husband and the children to New Zealand. [More…]
At that stage she borrowed a substantial amount of money to conduct a search for the children in New Zealand which involved travel expenses, legal fees and fees for private investigators. [More…]
Finally, after several months searching, she found her children in New Zealand. [More…]
Following that, she instituted custody proceedings in New Zealand; meanwhile, her husband took off with the children and returned to Australia. [More…]
He left a postal address for his wife and, by contacting him at that address, she arranged to meet him and the children in Melbourne. [More…]
The day after the first meeting in Melbourne she returned ostensibly to take the children out for the day in Melbourne but instead returned with them by plane to Adelaide. [More…]
However, following that custody case, the mother agreed to allow her former husband access to the children for one particular weekend. [More…]
Following that weekend, the children were not returned to her. [More…]
A warrant was issued by the Family Court in Adelaide for the return of the children. [More…]
The warrant did not instruct the Commonwealth Police to undertake an extensive search for the children but only allowed them to return the children once their mother had found them. [More…]
Finally, the Commonwealth police were instructed to take all possible initiatives to find the children. [More…]
At this time it was discovered that the children had left with their father- he having abducted them- on an international flight. [More…]
Following my representations with regard to this case, I am glad to say that the Federal Government has recently agreed to make an ex gratia payment in the form of legal aid to the mother to assist in the return of the children to her as legal custodian. [More…]
However, before that can occur the children have to be located and brought before a court. [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…]
The present procedure, which continues under the legislation, provides an opportunity for the other party to take legal action to prevent the applicant from leaving Australia, and thus possibly evading maintenance obligations, settlement of property matters, or of course the abduction of children. [More…]
If and when that is discontinued, I hope it does not have a detrimental effect on the capacity of the legislation to hinder people who would seek to abduct children and to remove them 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…]
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…]
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…]
I fear that there is a possibility that this proposed new section, which allows an officer of the Department to issue a passport without consent in writing, or in certain circumstances without a court order, may be exploited by those intending to remove abducted children from Australia. [More…]
I commend the officials in both Canberra and the Philippines for actions they have taken recently concerning a family of children who were striving desperately to join their parents in Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston (Mr Chapman) made a number of references to an area which has been canvassed with me by the honourable member for Hawker on other occasions, that is, the question of the inclusion of children on the passports of their parents. [More…]
The proposal is that the inclusion of children on their parents’ passports should be covered by regulation. [More…]
It is proposed that new regulations will make the inclusion of children subject to the same conditions as those in the Bill which restrict the issue of passports to children. [More…]
I have mentioned the endorsement of passports to include children. [More…]
Two days later , there were reports that 100,000 people might have to be evacuated, and the State Government had issued a ‘voluntary evacuation’ of children and pregnant women. [More…]
Coming from someone like you who has spent so much time talking about children being killed due to unwanted pregnancies, you are nothing but a damned hypocrite to come in here and start supporting nuclear energy. [More…]
Ask the families and children of Victoria who were denied milk during the recent strike. [More…]
Whilst members of the Opposition might like to claim that the Government is guilty of bastardly in its activities, I can assure them that the mothers in my electorate who rang me over the weekend to complain about not being able to get milk for their children had a few ideas of their own about who is guilty of the bastardry in this episode. [More…]
The Government will not tolerate- the community will not tolerate- the situation in which as a first step in the bargaining process trade unions inconvenience and harm the public- in this case including hospital patients, families and small children. [More…]
How low the honourable member brought his argument when he talked about a lack of milk for children. [More…]
The National Times, in an article of 19 August 1978, pointed out that, on an income of $40,000 a year a man with a wife and three children would pay tax amounting to $16,000.80 if his business were owned by him. [More…]
In many respects it is probably more heart-rending than the decisions that the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has to make about families who have settled here, have had children born here, and then, having exceeded their right of residency, are deported. [More…]
What does one do with the children once they have reached, say, fourth form or tenth year? [More…]
We put up appeals amongst ourselves to see if isolated children’s funds and things such as that should be available. [More…]
It relates to that time when in 1800 Young, the second but last of the original Pitcairners, died and Adams was left as leader of a community of himself, 10 women and 20 children, the products of the preceding years of cohabitation on both Tahiti and Pitcairn Island. [More…]
I turn now to another report which has been tabled in the Parliament, namely, the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children. [More…]
The report refers to the fart that an estimated 20 per cent or more of children are viewing television in excess of 30 hours a week and sometimes as much as 80 hours a week. [More…]
His passing takes from his wife and six children a loved and respected husband and father. [More…]
We join in the expressions of sympathy to Mrs Stewart and Frank’s six children. [More…]
I join with other members of the House in expressing my sympathy to his wife Maureen and the children. [More…]
If a husband ‘s or a father’s life can act as a light and as an example to his wife and to his children then Frank’s will shine for many years. [More…]
It includes not only Maureen, the six children, each of the six brothers and sisters who are alive today but also Frank’s lovely old mother, aged 84, still battling on and commonly known amongst the Stewart clan as Mama. [More…]
One sees a wonderful respect displayed from the members of the Stewart family and the grandchildren not only to their own mothers but also to the mother of the Stewart clan. [More…]
At times I spoke to him about some of the situations in which one found oneself, particularly in terms of the effect on family life of the commitment that is required of a Federal parliamentarian and the sacrifices that are made by one’s wife, children and friends. [More…]
Assessment of Incapacity and War Pensions, (i) Part 1 1, Allowances related to war pensions and transport benefits, (j ) Part 12, Service Pension, (k) Part 13, Protective Administration of Pensions and Allowances, (I) Part 14, Basis for Entitlement to Treatment, (m) Part 15, Repatriation Treatment Services, (n) Part 16, Rehabilitation, Re-establishment and Re-employment, (o) Part 17, Allowances related to Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation, (p) Part 18, Education of Children of Certain Members, (q) Part 19, General Benefits, (r) Part 20, Administrative Discretions; and (s) Part 2 1, Public Understanding. [More…]
I answer that interjection because there is a constant problem in the pensioner and handicapped children’s areas. [More…]
Part-time work is seen as an ideal opportunity for many married women whose commitment to home and children makes it difficult for them to work full-time. [More…]
Women are highly likely to be such discouraged workers, particularly those with children. [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…]
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…]
More importantly, in many instances mothers and fathers write to the people responsible for the administration of the schemes stating that their children have extra confidence and have been able to relate better with other members of their family and with society, by virtue of the fact that they have been able to establish inter-personal relationships through the confidence which has been given to them by people indicating that they are concerned about them and interested in them. [More…]
Social security payments for children living overseas are no longer paid. [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…]
When we transfer that across to an explicit payment we have to be careful to ensure that the public identify and realise that families caring for children are being recognised as having needs over and above those households who have no dependent children. [More…]
It has become quite clear that it is very difficult to compare the position of one country with another in terms of percentages of public expenditure as against the gross domestic product when one country pays social welfare benefits not only to the needy in the sense that they are poor, but to the needy in the sense that they have dependent children whatever their level of income. [More…]
Yet they are in need too when we compare their situation with a single man, a single woman or a married couple with no dependent children. [More…]
The question that we must face is whether we will subject a family with dependent children to the same tax burden to which we subject a family with no dependent children or a single taxpayer. [More…]
Is it not better to expose the whole social welfare program so far as children are concerned by paying cash benefits. [More…]
I was interested to read that in Britain where they were in the process of introducing explicit cash payments for children in place of a tax rebate concession system, they were doing it over a period of years in contrast to what we did here in this country where we did it in one year. [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…]
He said that some people, however, not only object to the introduction of social dividends- one could say that he is talking about universal payments, and the family allowance is a universal payment for children- but consider that there should be no such payments at all at higher levels of income for such children. [More…]
It is as though horizontal equity is a luxury for the poor; that the government should regard a poor man’s dependent wife and children as its responsibility, but a rich man’s as his indulgence. [More…]
Children and adolescents are one such group. [More…]
It is remarkable that one can go to a bookshop and buy a book that will allow children, if they have had a basically sound education to make these drugs. [More…]
It seems to me that we really widen the generation gap in this extraordinary hypocritical situation where the parents aged 40 or 50 are saying to the children aged 15 or 20: ‘My drugs of addiction are all right’- [More…]
The Budget in 1973-74 provided a children’s services program within which was preschool funding. [More…]
Since that program started, payments from the Commonwealth for children’s services have amounted to $2 16m Australia-wide and $87m in New South Wales, of which some $55m has been made available for preschools over that period. [More…]
Those are areas which indicate the greatest need, often affecting single parents “and people who are forced to work- for example, low income families in which the mothers of young children are required to work because of economic circumstances. [More…]
Is it that the problem in Victoria is six times as great as it is in New South Wales or does Victoria have six times as many pre-school children? [More…]
A measly $4.9m has been provided by the New South Wales Government for children’s services. [More…]
The complaints came first from parents who said their children had been brainwashed, a charge echoed by former members of some cults. [More…]
There were reports that the Children of God had started practicing prostitution and that Synanon had changed from a group treating drug addiction into a cult that ordered mass divorces and vasectomies, abortions and beatings, and that it threatened those who tried to challenge it or to report on its activities. [More…]
A former cult member told the authorities that the group advocated a strict died of raw fruits and vegetables and that the children were not given meat or dairy products. [More…]
Such action can cause incredible hardship, in this particular case to a widow with three small children. [More…]
For example, separated wives with children may qualify for a Class A widows pension or a supporting parents benefit six months after the event giving rise to eligibility i.e. [More…]
I think it is an indication of Sir Charles Adermann ‘s devotion that for 40 years, despite the very heavy demands on his time as a result of his public life, he conducted a Sunday morning radio broadcast for children- the only Sunday school many children in remote areas ever had. [More…]
For instance, 17 per cent of the public is satisfied with the quality of children’s television but 43 per cent are not satisfied. [More…]
More than 50 per cent would prefer no advertisements to be screened during children’s television programs. [More…]
I would not necessarily feel greatly chastened by such a suggestion because these matters take time and the Broadcasting Tribunal must give proper time to and must, in its considerations, involve the broadcasters, interested members of the public and interested community groups in the process of decision-making about great matters, such as Australian content, children’s programs and advertising standards. [More…]
There is no way in which any government in this country can say that it is careless of the needs of children and of the impact of television on our children. [More…]
There is no way that we can wash our hands and say that it is simply up to the parents to guide their children and to ensure that the television set is switched on and off as appropriate to the children’s needs. [More…]
It is that recognition which led the Government to accept the recommendation of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal that a children’s television committee should be established in order to oversee the matter of children’s programs and, in particular, the provision of programs specially for children in what is to be set aside as a children ‘s hour. [More…]
The Australian Children’s Television Committee was established many months ago and, I understand from all parties, has been working effectively and in the interests of the production by commercial television of appropriate programs which are produced with the interests of children at heartprograms, therefore, which can be relied upon by parents. [More…]
The Children’s Television Committee was established quickly under the chairmanship of Dr Patricia Edgar, who had been a member of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board during the term of office of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I understand that that Committee is working well and that it will be making definite recommendations on a range of important matters relating to children’s programs in the very near future. [More…]
Money is being set aside for research and special people are being placed in charge of children’s program development. [More…]
There is a great deal of interest and experimentation in how to satisfy the needs of children. [More…]
Then there were some promises about children’s television after, there is no denying, three years of non-achievement in the field of children’s television. [More…]
Outwardly we have this smooth, bland, vacuous visage; fine words on maintaining the integrity of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; fine words on public accountability; fine words on the need for quality in children’s television; fine words on community access through public broadcasting. [More…]
I will just quote an article by a writer in the Melbourne Age, one who simply tuned in to television and listened to typical programs available at any hour on children ‘s television. [More…]
This is what he said about children’s television: [More…]
Forty-four per cent of the forests have been destroyed; in many of those still standing there are no longer birds and animals; and there are lorry drivers who will not respond to the hooting of a horn because they are deaf from the incessant sound of bombs; and there are some 30,000 children in Hanoi and Haiphong who are permanently deaf as a result of the American bombing at Christmas 1 972. [More…]
‘We were mostly the old, women and children. [More…]
There are the permanently dislocated and the insane and there are the thousands of American and Australianfathered children. [More…]
Under the School Dental Scheme, free dental care, including prevention, dental health education and treatment, is available to school children to the completion of primary education. [More…]
In Tasmania, the Commonwealth also provides financial support for the dental care of secondary school children under15 years of age, but only at the current level of activity. [More…]
Will the effect of these promises be to reduce the tax paid by the average income earner with a spouse and two children by about $6.50 a week? [More…]
But when one looks at the facts, at what was said in the various election campaigns and the things that have been preserved, one sees that broken promises do not come too freely these days and that this present Government has a resolve to keep that very important promise that it made, namely, to put Australia in an economic position in which ordinary Australians can go about their normal work, make a profit, invest and have enough left over to spend on their children. [More…]
What is going to happen to all the people in Australia who know that saving and investing is the only thing that will help them and their children in the future? [More…]
Television: Effects on Children (Question No. [More…]
1 ) In view of the findings of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the possible adverse neurophysiological effects of television on children, what funds has the Government allocated or does it intend to allocate, to further research in this area. [More…]
1 ) The Government is presently considering the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts titled Children and Television. [More…]
Recommendations on Children’s Television (Question No. [More…]
1 ) Which of the recommendations relating to (a) advertising and (b) education programs made by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in its report on the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children has the Government (i) accepted or (ii) rejected. [More…]
1 ) The Government is presently considering the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts titled Children and Television. [More…]
Can the Treasurer assure the House that, in reaching Budget and taxation decisions, the impact of such decisions on families, especially single income families with dependent children, will be taken into account? [More…]
Does the Government believe that the cost of supporting a dependent spouse and dependent children should be taken into account in determining a family’s capacity to pay tax? [More…]
Some of the best programs, artists and those who have been most competent to present programs, particularly children’s programs, have been squeezed out. [More…]
Like other artists in this country, Australians in the television industry have been forced overseas to gain recognition and be a part of the overseas production of children ‘s programs that are sold at exorbitant rates in this country. [More…]
I hope and trust that those involved- such as Michael Howson and others who have contributed for many years; as well as scriptwriters who have had long experience in children’s programs- will take advantage of this inquiry and participate for the purpose of doing something that has been lacking in the inquiries that have been undertaken to date. [More…]
The evidence that was put before that Committee ought to be taken into account by the proposed new inquiry when it is dealing with the educational content of programs, in particular children’s programs. [More…]
Instead of children watching programs that have for their end result violence and other elements from which we believe our children should be directed, a whole new horizon would be before them. [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…]
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…]
Estimates range from 100,000 to 250,000 men, women and children dying while seeking refuge. [More…]
Hundreds of thousands of people- including women and children- are dying and drowning at sea. [More…]
That disregards the fact that the States are the primary custodians of our children ‘s education throughout the nation. [More…]
Because so many of my constituents have children and want an Australia that is strong, safe and has a stable economy they will listen to arguments that say that the deficit ought to come down in the interests of Australia’s future. [More…]
Programs for children, mothers, home makers - [More…]
Because the abolition of the tax surcharge is not to take place, because full indexation is not to be implemented, the average income earner supporting a spouse and children is to be $6.50 a week worse off than he should have been. [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…]
If there is a delay before treatment is sought we will certainly have a significantly greater number of children with bronchiectasis, et cetera. [More…]
People rang the number and were told that under this Government’s scheme, a man with a wife and two children would save $6 or $7 a week. [More…]
That is an advertisement in a West German newspaper for people to come to Australia to take the jobs that a decent government would be training Australian children to do. [More…]
He said that he would maintain the children’s services program. [More…]
It will be our children rather than our neighbours’ children who will lose most by our policy. [More…]
It was a matter of making a call and saying: ‘I am a married man with four children. [More…]
Unless, as a nation, Australia invests in the development of the appropriate skilled work force to support and sustain economic growth, we will fail ourselves and we will fail our children. [More…]
He promised not to interfere with the children’s services programs but that program has been emasculated. [More…]
Student allowances were provided to enable isolated children to be compensated for their disadvantage and to have a freer approach to education. [More…]
Secondary allowances were introduced to help able children whose families did not have adequate financial resources. [More…]
Recently I visited Adelaide and saw what is called the Ten Schools Program in an area with a wide range of migrant children. [More…]
Instead of the children being taught in the traditional manner, at the very earliest stage in their learning they are being taught in a multilingual way, by the use of both the mother tongue of their parents and English. [More…]
There are 30 children in the primary school which is located there. [More…]
In the case of married postgraduate students with dependent children who are just above the poverty line, the tax places them below that line. [More…]
By way of contrast to the findings of the eminent people to whom I have referred, the President of the Australian Teachers Federation, Mr Van Davy, who is no doubt a friend of the honourable member for Batman, said at the Federation’s annual conference in Hobart earlier this month that up to one in eight adults in Australia is functionally illiterate and that 320,000 school children at present need extra help in literacy and numeracy. [More…]
As to the second: abandonment by parents of responsibility for the ‘socialisation ‘ of their children. [More…]
He suggests that there should be a new Australian basic certificate to test the basic skills of school children in four areas: Basic arithmetical and computational skills; elementary natural science; English expression and comprehension; and clear thinking. [More…]
This would mean providing each family with a ticket representing the real cost of providing that family’s children with a standard approved education, a ticket which the family could then spend at the school of its choice, paying additional funds if it wished for any non-standard features a particular school might provide. [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…]
A number of government schools are to be dezoned so that parents can freely send their children to the government school of their choice. [More…]
When I think in terms of my own electorate, and indeed, of the school which my own children attend and when I see the needs that have existed and still exist in those schools across a very wide variety of indicators, I believe that educational funding certainly does need to be sustained at something like the levels at which it has been sustained over the past few years. [More…]
I think that if one makes comparisons between sectors of education then one sees that there is an enormous way to go for the average government school if it is to reach the kind of standards that the ruling class of this country regard as adequate for its children. [More…]
When one talks about reading programs and literacy programs and tries to blame the effectiveness of the teacher or the educational system in transmitting knowledge to the children under their care and says that somehow because particular children do not reach certain arbitrarily denned standards, then that is a reflection on the teachers, one is ignoring the whole importance and the basis of social structure and its interaction with educational processes. [More…]
It is not an argument against the disadvantaged school program which I believe achieved a great deal in terms of designing programs and providing resourcesresources are necessary- towards helping particular children facing particular sorts of difficulties. [More…]
If one is going to talk about accuracy in terms of numeracy and literacy then one ought to applaud those teachers who have been able, under the most difficult circumstances and with virtually no support whatsoever until Labor came to power, to introduce hundreds of thousands of children from foreign backgrounds into this community with the absolute minimum of social disruption. [More…]
Very often those children are now numbered in our universities and colleges of advanced education as the very brightest and best students. [More…]
When one is attacking teachers and the profession and talking about waste in education, one ought to take account of the fact that hundreds of thousands of children have, in a sense, progressed effectively through that system and have achieved skills. [More…]
Very often they have been prepared to involve the parents in assisting them to develop programs which are sensitive to the needs of particular children. [More…]
If we are not careful, it will be designed to ensure that the working class kids of this nation do not get any opportunity to have an education beyond the area of technical and further education, universities will become centres of privilege, and the kids from the private schools will get the opportunity to have the kind of education which is denied to the ordinary rank and file children of this country. [More…]
One of the achievements of the Commission was to give real definition to the needs policy- to make the needs of the schools and the children in them the principal basis for education policy and education funding. [More…]
One was the isolated children’s scheme. [More…]
Early in Australia’s history enormous efforts were made to ensure that every person received some sort of education even if there were only 10 or 12 children in a school. [More…]
At that time there were many families with children who lived a long way from school. [More…]
He told me that there was a certain amount of resentment developing because the Aboriginal children received advantages that did not extend to the local white children. [More…]
He said to me: ‘I don’t mind the Aboriginal kids getting their chance to go off to the major schools at Hughenden or Charters Towers; in fact I am pleased about it, but I only wish I could have it for my children’. [More…]
I remember the discussions concerning disadvantaged children and finally the decision by the Labor Government to introduce the isolated children’s scheme. [More…]
The children of the wealthy’. [More…]
Plenty of children of the nonwealthy go to university, but our objective is to make sure that the children of people who are not wealthy are able to go to university’. [More…]
I hope that during the recess some honourable members will take the opportunity to visit some of the schools in the Aboriginal communities which are scattered throughout Australia, especially the larger ones which teach from 300 children up to 600 children. [More…]
However, these teachers are in a community where they are trying to train children in total literacy but the community itself is not literate. [More…]
Even the well educated children of 15 or 16 who are in the senior part of the secondary school are still inadequately skilled in reading habits and techniques. [More…]
It was part of the Labor Government’s program to see that the children at Aurukun or the children in the heart of Brisbane would receive the same advantages from living in this continent as, say, the children in Canberra. [More…]
How many teachers should one have for the disadvantaged children of Australia? [More…]
We are not facing up to the difficulties which are experienced by underprivileged children. [More…]
I am particularly pleased to see the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) sitting in the chamber seeing that he has left a clutch of children at home. [More…]
Because of the peculiar nature of our profession, Maureen Stewart has been surrogate father to six children for the 26 years that Frank Stewart was a member of this House. [More…]
Maureen Stewart was at home looking after the children. [More…]
It is a beautiful thing to be able to go home on a Friday night at the end of the parliamentary week to find a haven of peace and security which a wife has managed to maintain in our absence, while fathering children in a surrogate fashion and maintaining commitments within the electorate. [More…]
My remarks are more related to dental health and particularly to the dental care and health of the young people in our community, the school children. [More…]
As I am fortunate enought at this great age of mine still to have my own teeth, I know the value of dental care and wholly endorse the school dental scheme which was introduced to bring this sort of benefit to children at the schools, a most appropriate point of delivery for such a service. [More…]
I will certainly be putting to him very strongly that facilities be developed in Gisborne, Macedon, Mount Macedon, Romsey, Lancefield, Woodend, Bacchus Marsh and all these other places where at present school children are denied facilities that are available for those who live near the metropolitan part of Melbourne. [More…]
I cannot for the life of me see why children who go to school in a rural area some 40 miles from the centre of the city of Melbourne should be denied basic facilities such as dental hygiene, care and attention simply because they live, as in my electorate, in a remote part. [More…]
These children must be allowed to receive the care and attention that ought to be the birthright of every Australian. [More…]
If the Government has decided to save money and if it thinks that the money ought to go to those in greatest need, surely the average family with a number of children or with a chronic illness in the family has a greater need. [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 family with a number of sick children with, let us say, asthma, other chronic chest conditions or chronic urinary tract infections, diabetes or any other chronic condition, will not get any subsidy from this Government in future for medical insurance. [More…]
There will be no benefit whatever from this Government for chronically ill adults or chronically ill children. [More…]
The second group will be single income families with a number of dependent children who have the recurring problem of visits by those children to doctors. [More…]
The amount would vary depending on the status of the person- whether he or she was single, married, with or without dependent children, et cetera. [More…]
As a result of the actions of the Minister and the Government, how many people, including children, from low income families will be denied early medical attention for a significant illness? [More…]
Has this highly successful health care facility given equality of treatment to thousands of country residents, both children and adults? [More…]
It is all right for a few people who want to get round in a loin cloth or to live up a tree to live without nuclear power, but the great bulk of the people look to the future so that their children can have a standard of living comparable to ours. [More…]
I particularly applaud the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia, which sent me a telegram stating: [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…]
Income splitting can occur without a gift tax by facilitating the handing of income assets to children and to a spouse and so paying tax on the asset at much lower rates than if the income from the asset had all gone to the principal income earner. [More…]
If he gives the flats to the trust and splits the income between a wife and two minor children equally, the wife and each of the two children will get an income of $6,668. [More…]
The children will pay tax of $2,233 each. [More…]
That is not the end of the story because if he, under this Government’s generous provisionswhich honourable members opposite are happy to endorse- decides: ‘Well, to hell with using a trust; that is a complicated legal device which is a bit expensive to set up: I will give the assets to my wife and children’, he can get the income tax reduced even further. [More…]
If he does that, the tax on the income from those assets paid by the wife and the two children will be $930 each, which gives a total tax paid of $2,789. [More…]
He can spend it on his children’s education, their clothes and their entertainment, et cetera. [More…]
That great reduction in tax by giving the assets to the children would not have been possible while the gift tax applied, without incurring a very substantial gift tax. [More…]
That would be a fairly substantial dissuader and something which would cause someone to think again before he decided to give assets to his children. [More…]
In addition, of course, the Commonwealth has, in recent times, been providing some capital expenditure so that independent schools can have an opportunity to establish themselves in new and growing areas so that they might continue to provide educational opportunities for the children of those parents who would prefer their children to go to independent schools of one kind or another. [More…]
In the last Victorian Government election policy speech, for example, a commitment was made to move from 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the costs of education in government schools to be paid on account of children in independent schools. [More…]
They discriminate positively against children in independent schools. [More…]
Governments have a responsibility to all children within their general boundaries. [More…]
They ought to match that by making sure that some taxpayers’ dollars not only go to government schools but also are paid on account of children in independent schools. [More…]
Adoption of Children Ordinance, 1965 ss. [More…]
Adoption of Children Regulations, ss. [More…]
If the regulations were recently changed, is it a fact that (here are 2 categories, namely (a) severely handicapped and (b) substantially handicapped children; if so, what is the criteria for deciding between the 2 categories. [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…]
Is there any additional concession made for country children, who generally have greater distances to travel to attend a tertiary institution and who therefore of necessity have to obtain board, similar to the assistance given for isolated primary and secondary schoolchildren. [More…]
In particular, we will restore half-yearly indexation of pensions and benefits; extend the income limits for pensioner fringe benefits; extend eligibility for pensioner health benefit cards to supporting parent beneficiaries; provide grants to voluntary agencies providing emergency relief; significantly increase expenditure on services for families and children; and increase the rates of workers compensation for Commonwealth employees. [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…]
I would not like to be one of them and I would not like one of my children to be one of them. [More…]
This covered children’s television, Australian content, advertising and topics of relevance to the SelfRegulation Inquiry in progress at the time. [More…]
1 977- 78-‘Television and Children ‘ [More…]
A survey of 400 children and their parents in four major capital cities. [More…]
The survey concerned parental knowledge and control of children’s viewing habits. [More…]
Under that scheme, substantial benefits were available to a contributor on his invalidity retirement or to his widow and children on his death whilst a contributor. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article in the Brisbane Courier Ma/7 of IS May 1979, entitled ‘Black hearing ills high’, which claims that up to 40 per cent of Aboriginal children living in rural Queensland have hearing problems. [More…]
‘A Chronicle of the Aboriginal Health Programme 1972-1977’, prepared by the Queensland Department of Health claims that there has been a general decrease in the incidence of problems associated with ear discharges at the fourteen Aboriginal communities surveyed in Queensland, but does not provide any figures for all Aboriginal children in rural Queensland. [More…]
Yes- the Australian Government was represented by a senior officer of the Attorney-General’s Department at the meeting in March 1979- the only one held to date- of the Hague Conference on Private International Law- Special Commission on the problems of the removal of children from one country to another by one parent without the other’s consent. [More…]
1 ) The School Dental Scheme generally covers primary school children only, at this time. [More…]
) The arrangement that exists for School Dental Scheme coverage of some secondary school children in Tasmania is due to the fact that Tasmania was treating a substantial number of secondary school children at the time of commencement of the Scheme. [More…]
Health Services, Health Commission of NSW (1978- ); Regional Director of Health (Western Metropolitan Health Region), Health Commission of NSW (1977-78); Director, Children’s Medical Research Foundation, Sydney ( 1966-77). [More…]
-I ask the Prime Minister: Is it a fact that since his Government came to power in December 1975 the wage of the average worker with dependent spouse and two children has increased by $50 a week, but to buy the same amount of goods and services as before now costs $50.8 1 more a week? [More…]
Does the 48 per cent increase in the consumer price index from 1975-76 to 1979-80 mean that the value of family allowances for a family with two children has declined by $3.70 over the last five years? [More…]
I am simply recognising that the parents of our own students pay in part, through the taxes they pay, for the education of their children, whereas the parents of overseas students are relieved of that burden. [More…]
I concede the point that what I am about to say is possibly covered in other facets of the Budget proposals but I want to make the point, because I think it is significant, that this funding will not be sufficient to ensure that the children of migrants, whether born overseas or here, who wish to retain some association with the culture of their parents and to retain facility in the language of their parents will be able to do so. [More…]
The Government needs to spend much more money in the education system to ensure that there is bilingual or multi-cultural education or education to guarantee that all children have a facility in more than one language. [More…]
This would apply also to English-speaking children. [More…]
The mobile dental units provide the opportunity for children’s teeth to be examined at a stage when it is possible to do the kind of work which will prevent deterioration and subsequently much more costly dental expenditure. [More…]
Does this mean that a family with a dependent spouse and two children will be $4.92 a week worse off in real terms after tax as a result of this year’s Budget as against the position last financial year? [More…]
Educational absorption is lowest in industrial suburbs, country towns and among girls and the children of migrant families, where education is geared to expectation of failure. [More…]
Within the lifetime of children born today, almost twothirds of the world’s population will be living in cities. [More…]
We attach particular importance to ensuring that children shall be protected from practices which may foster racism or racial prejudice. [More…]
Children have the right to be brought up and educated in a spirit of tolerance and understanding so as to be able to contribute fully to the building of future societies based on justice and friendship. [More…]
We attach particular importance to ensuring that children shall be protected from practices which may foster racism or racial prejudicce. [More…]
Children have the right to be brought up and educated in a spirit of tolerance and understanding so as to be able to contribute fully to the building of future societies based on justice and friendship. [More…]
We do not give to Aboriginal children or white children equal access to the riches of Aboriginal culture but for European children or possibly children from other continents who come to this country there is special provision for the teaching of their own culture and language. [More…]
The Government’s short sighted commercialism and its failure to grasp the initiative is a bargain with our children’s lives. [More…]
On this basis it would take at least four years for a family with two children and one income earner on average weekly earnings to save the deposit to buy a $35,000 home. [More…]
It raised well over $lm for the Children’s Leukemia and Cancer Foundation. [More…]
I refer the Treasurer to the statement of 26 July this year in which he announced changes to the taxing of trust income of dependent children. [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…]
We need to look forward to ( 1 ) a national superannuation scheme, (2) maximum eligibility for retirements benefits after a 35-year working life time, (3) more equitable educational absorption so that working class children have the same access to tertiary education and professional employment as do middle class children, (4) more flexible attitudes to work, leisure and time use and, (5) recognition of paid domestic work as a major area of job creation. [More…]
Frankly, I do not mind paying taxes if I get for them the kind of society in which I want to live; if there is a good hospital to go to when I am ill, if the fire brigade turns up when my house catches fire, if my children and grandchildren have good schools and universities to attend when they grow up, if the country is properly defended and properly represented, and all the rest of it. [More…]
We despair about young people who cannot get work and we despair if our own children are faced with great difficulties. [More…]
It adds to the disadvantage which country children already suffer in primary and secondary education, compared with city children, and it makes a mockery of the claim of equal opportunity in education. [More…]
These include low income earners with chronic illnesses and single income families with a number of dependent children. [More…]
It will result in a substantial reduction not just in wages but also in the living standards of families, of men and women and of their children. [More…]
One must allow for tax, rent, hire purchase for furniture and for paying off a car which is absolutely essential for a young man with a wife and a couple of children; the running costs of the car in pursuit of, or in the engagement of, employment. [More…]
Families dependent on those sources for their livelihood have suffered an enormous reduction in living standards if they have dependent children. [More…]
The benefit for an unemployed married couple with 4 children is nearly $30 a week below the poverty line. [More…]
A family of a student with a dependent spouse and two children is worse off to the extent of $2 1 a week now than he was in 1975-76. [More…]
The loss to a family with five children has been $7.50. [More…]
Its two paragraphs say nothing about the equity of the proposal before us, nothing about the burden to the ill who require numerous prescriptions, nothing at all about the problems of disadvantaged patients, and nothing at all about the fact that this measure will again strike particularly at the single income family with a large number of dependent children. [More…]
Secondly, as I have pointed out, this system of making the user pay strikes particularly at families, for children constitute a high proportion of cost in this field. [More…]
It cerainly will increase the burden particularly on single income families with a large number of dependent children. [More…]
Of course, we recognise that the Government has introduced this change because it is totally insensitive to what that kind of change means to a lower income family, a family with perhaps a number of children, a family in which there is. [More…]
However, children are begging and stealing in the streets and wives are starving themselves to death because wage levels are so attractive to the foreign investors that you love so much. [More…]
A married person with a dependent spouse and two children, earning $10,000, suffered a decline. [More…]
What is the recommended maximum lead level for children in Australia. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the study ‘Lead Burden of Sydney School Children’ which recommends that legislation be introduced to encourage the progressive elimination of lead from petrol in the near future. [More…]
In more vulnerable groups such as children, levels of SO micrograms per 100 mls of blood have been shown to produce signs and symptoms of lead poisoning in children. [More…]
and (4) I am aware of the study ‘Lead Burden of Sydney School Children ‘ which was, in fact, part funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council. [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…]
If the two staff sitting at the table and the SergeantatArms sitting at the back of the chamber were off for more than six months because of injury I am sure they would appreciate receiving $90 a week each, $23.50 a week for their wives and $ 1 1 .25 for each of their children! [More…]
Nine months after leaving school, 42,000 of our work-age children are still looking for their first job. [More…]
Children at school now say that if one does not honour one’s promises one does a Fraser on them. [More…]
A man with a wife and two children is about $1,300 a year worse off, if he is lucky enough to have a job. [More…]
It also includes children who go back to’ school because they can’t find a job, married women who give up looking for work, and men who are retired early but who would like to continue working. [More…]
A school in a disadvantaged area of my electorate quite recently had its dental and health services for the children withdrawn, ostensibly because governments were not prepared to provide funds. [More…]
A great number of medical disorders now have been found among those children because so-called big government has chosen to withdraw funds that would have provided medical treatment for those children. [More…]
The New South Wales Government could well have undertaken this job since it has a responsibility for children in its own State. [More…]
These meetings will cover topics where difficulties have been identified, such as the position of children under the Act, custody, maintenance, property and the organisation of the Family Court. [More…]
It is worth noting that after 1 December a taxpayer on average earnings, and having a wife and two children, will be $20 a week better off as a result of our reforms and as a result of family allowances than he would have been under Labor. [More…]
Many of the questions I have asked in this House and many of the speeches I have made have demonstrated my deep concern for the well-being of Australia’s families and of the children in their care. [More…]
Members will therefore not be surprised that I am using this opportunity tonight to call upon the Government to relieve the desperate plight of many hundreds of thousands of families with dependent children, especially those with only a single income. [More…]
The problem of family income support for children should not be confused with the relief of absolute poverty. [More…]
Although there has been an undeniable increase in living standards for every Australian, a disproportionate part of that increase has accrued to households without children. [More…]
The relative position of families with children, especially those with only one income, compared with other households, is worse today than it has been for a long time. [More…]
The aim of these policies should be to ensure that the standard of living of a family with children compares favourably, or at least not intolerably badly with a family with no dependent children or with that of a single income man or woman. [More…]
Notwithstanding this clear statement, governments, both Liberal and Labor, have gone on pretending to themselves and to the public that a breadwinner’s wage is adequate, firstly, to keep a family with children above some ill-defined poverty line and, secondly, to enable it to cope with the increasingly expensive task of giving children a fair start in life. [More…]
The present tax system is one of the chief causes of relative poverty and even hardship experienced by the majority of families with children. [More…]
It regards most expenditure of a dependent spouse and dependent children as a way in which taxpayers choose to enjoy their after-tax income and not as a measure of the increased needs of the family or its reduced taxable capacity. [More…]
Life insurance premiums and superannuation- Life, sickness and accident insurance premiums and payments to a friendly society (excluding medical or hospital benefits fund payments) or to a superannuation, sustentation, widows’ or orphans’ fund are subject to rebate (maximum $1,200) if made for the benefit of yourself, your wife or husband or your children, with the exception of: [More…]
Their work is here, their families are here and their children are at school here. [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…]
The competition was judged on criteria related to the skill the children showed in making their sand sculptures. [More…]
10) This was an international competition organised to enable children of many countries to meet during IYC. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Post and Telecommunications aware that the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal has recently introduced minimum requirements for commercial television stations in the area of programming for children? [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that at certain times throughout the year major sporting events of national interest have traditionally been telecast at the time which the Tribunal has designated to be set aside specifically for children’s programs? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House as to what discretion the Tribunal will allow commercial television stations in presenting the sporting programs rather than the children’s programs as required by the recent Tribunal decision? [More…]
However, recognising that major sporting events are of wide national interest and, of course, also of interest to children- one believes obviously not harmful to children- the Tribunal has made it clear to stations that such events can be televised in full. [More…]
However, the Tribunal does expect stations over a period of 12 months to meet the requirement of 156 hours of specially produced children’s programs. [More…]
Is he aware that since the end of 1975 real disposable income for a single income family on average weekly earnings with a dependent spouse and two children has fallen by 5.5 per cent? [More…]
A taxpayer on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children will be $20 a week better off because of our tax reforms and family allowances than he would have been under Labor. [More…]
When we look at expenditure on education for migrant children, and presumably refugee children, we find first of all that compared with the overall allocation provided by the Labor Government in its last Budget there has been a very significant reduction. [More…]
Departments are combined it is clear that the present allocation is not keeping pace with the value we put on education for migrant children and refugees when we were in government. [More…]
Under the Department of Education there is an allocation for emergency classroom accommodation for refugee children, which is an increase of $89,000. [More…]
So in sum total, despite the increase in the number of refugee children we are getting, and presumably can expect to get, given the Government’s agreement to take more refugees- I am quarrelling about that; I am acknowledging it though- it seems a very odd decision to cut down on the number of classrooms available for this purpose. [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…]
Bearing in mind that proportionate to immigrants’ representations in the community, there are many more immigrants or children of immigrants who are unemployed and untrained than there are other members of the community, ordinary Australians, in a sense this cut will hit immigrants and their families more than the rest of the Australian community. [More…]
I think it is a very cynical exercise because when immigrants come to Australia we hear a lot about the need to bring in skilled workers and we encourage them to come, but of course we forget that usually they have families also- wives and children. [More…]
On top of that, their children come in to the school system at various ages and because they do not understand English they inevitably fall back. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that we expect the children of immigrants, who do not understand English, to sit in classrooms where lessons are conducted in English and to get on- not be demoralised, appear dumb or become discipline problems. [More…]
In this regard the eligibility for the pensioner health cards has been extended to include supporting parents and their children. [More…]
Yet the position is that with only one in every 50 Aboriginal children, representing 2 per cent, going beyond grade 9, as compared with nearly one in four white children, representing 24 per cent, going beyond grade 9, there are cuts in this most needy area of education, the education of Aborigines. [More…]
Anaemia afflicts more than half the children in these communities because of hookworm. [More…]
He must constantly be reminding his servants- the bureaucrats and the politicians- of these principles so that we can be sure that our children and our children’s children also have their individual freedom. [More…]
As the days and months go by we will all be repeating these vital messages so that our children and grandchildren can never say in the future: Why weren’t we told? [More…]
Now the Treasurer has decided that the use of minor children in family trusts for income splitting purposes is a tax avoidance measure and that it will be outlawed. [More…]
Dr Donovan points out that 33 per cent of women in Australia are risking the lives and development of their children by smoking during pregnancy. [More…]
Along with family allowances came the abolition of tax deductible allowances for dependent children. [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…]
Accordingly, the Government has decided to increase these limits to $40 a week for a single pensioner and $68 a week for a married pensioner, recognising that these amounts should be higher when there are children. [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…]
I am very unhappy that my children are going to be saddled with debts that governments of this era have been incurring. [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…]
The Government clearly does not give a damn about forcing half a million children into deeper poverty. [More…]
But for the support of my parents and my wife and children I doubt whether I would have achieved this office. [More…]
As a parent with three young children, I worry what their future will be if the present Government should run this country for much longer. [More…]
My electorate in particular has been hurt by this cut because Grayndler, as I have said, as an inner city electorate, has for many years suffered the harsh reality of a Federal Liberal-Country Party government which has said that the children of the poor exist just as industrial cannon fodder. [More…]
We have seen the educational opportunities for the children of my generation and my own children who have gone to schools in my electorate slowly but surely sink into the mire. [More…]
We saw the educational opportunities for children in the inner city areas changed. [More…]
There was hope once again for the children of working people. [More…]
The disadvantaged children who attend schools in the inner city areas have lost out again. [More…]
In some of the schools in excess of 50 per cent of the children in their first year at school are unable to speak English. [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…]
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…]
It is estimated that some 56,000 supporting parents with 96,000 children will qualify for pensioner health benefit cards. [More…]
This will be of special importance to those with young children, particularly children suffering from chronic illnesses. [More…]
The handicapped children’s allowance was introduced in 1974 and has been increased in real terms under the Fraser Government. [More…]
In 1977 eligibility was extended to substantially handicapped children where the family income was low and to handicapped students in the 16 years to 24 years age group. [More…]
In addition, the benefit paid to organisations conducting approved residential accommodation for handicapped children has been incresed. [More…]
Recently I attended a meeting of parents of the children who attend that centre. [More…]
They are fearful of what will happen to their handicapped children when they, the parents, become aged and pass on. [More…]
And their children may be getting on in years too. [More…]
It is all very well for the parents to look after their children but as the parents get older they fear that there may not be a place for their children where they will be looked after with the same degree of care that their families have given them. [More…]
Many of those seeking assistance are one income families with four, five or six dependent children. [More…]
If a married couple has five dependent children and the bread winner is unemployed, the family is expected to live on a weekly income $15.34 below the poverty line. [More…]
Of course, there are about 100,000 families with children on housing commission lists throughout Australia. [More…]
In only four instances in the family groupings with one, two, three, four or five children and so on do families living on the pension or unemployment benefit receive a weekly income above the poverty line, that is, a married couple without children on the pension and a married couple with six or seven children on the pension, If the same married couple with six or seven children is on the unemployment benefit however, they are living more than $6 a week below the poverty line. [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…]
Most income earners, most full-time, adult, male wage earners in the work force are getting $ 1 80 a week or less which means that simply by supporting a wife and two children they have to try to make ends meet. [More…]
If a union official negligently kills someone there is no liability on him to pay damages to the widow or children of the worker. [More…]
I assume that such a person would have a couple of children and a dependent spouse. [More…]
Let me remind the individuals opposite that in the last century the common law upheld the right of factory owners to contract with children to work for 16 hours or more a day for starvation wages. [More…]
In a country such as Afghanistan where we do not have an Australian embassy I think it is the duty of the Foreign Minister to get in touch with a friendly embassy and make certain that Australian nationals, their wives and children are withdrawn. [More…]
There were many small children amongst them- very young children. [More…]
and one man said: ‘Yes I know but if I don’t go back to work my wife and children will have nothing to eat’. [More…]
Farmers had to pay 65 per cent to 70 per cent of their income in rent to landlords in Cuba and could not afford to send their children for medical attention. [More…]
Before the revolution hook-worms were found to be slithering from the mouths and noses of little children. [More…]
The International Red Cross and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund have been negotiating with Kampuchean authorities over the past weeks on the methods and conditions for a large scale relief operation. [More…]
Back in the old days of the 1 890s trade unions had to be formed to get some rights for the workers and back in the Industrial Revolution in the early 1 820s something had to be done to get children out of the mines. [More…]
Miss Lucas acted as escort for a team of Australian children who travelled to Mexico between 24 April 1 979 and 4 May 1979;of Answer to Question No. [More…]
It is an incredible situation in which the ALP spokesman has omitted from his list parents and children of Australian residents and referred only to female fiancees. [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…]
In the field of social security, children’s allowances have been completely forgotten by the Government, as have tertiary allowances. [More…]
At present family allowances are the same as they were when they replaced concessional taxation rebates for children back in 1976-77. [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…]
(a) (i) $SI.4S a week, (ii) $103.70 a week (including additional benefit for spouse and children) [More…]
The total of unemployment benefits and family allowances for a married couple with two dependent children is approximately $ 1 12.20 a week. [More…]
(a) The rate of unemployment benefit payable to a married adult with a dependent spouse and two dependent children represents 44.8 per cent of seasonally adjusted AWE for the June quarter 1 979. [More…]
The rate of family allowances for two dependent children represents approximately 3.7 per cent of the same figure. [More…]
The total of unemployment benefits and family allowance for a married couple with two dependent children represents approximately 48.5 per cent of preliminary seasonally adjusted AWE for the June quarter 1979. [More…]
The honourable member may, nevertheless, find useful the following table showing for various countries unemployment benefits in 1975 as a percentage of wages lost by a worker who had a wife and two children and received the 1 974 average weekly wage in manufacturing. [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…]
However, the Government is hopeful that the following legislative and administrative actions which are being or will be taken, which arise out of the committee’s recommendations and which have been approved by the Government will both reduce the occurrence of the problem, and assist in the recovery of children that have been successfully removed from Australia: [More…]
Revision of sections 62 and 63 of the Migration Act 1958, which provide for offences in respect of the removal and carriage from Australia of children in respect of whom custody or access orders have been made or are being sought, to give them broader application, and relocation of the provisions to the Family Law Act 1975 where their existence should become more generally known; [More…]
Improving procedures for the entry of details of some children on warning lists; [More…]
Officers of theDepartment of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and Business and Consumer Affairs stepping up at departure points identification checks of children who are accompanied by only one parent; [More…]
Tightening parental consent requirements for the issue of passports to children leaving Australia; [More…]
Requesting foreign diplomatic missions in Australia to decline passport facilities in respect of children who they are informed or who they have reasonable cause to believe are the subject of Australian court orders for delivery up of passports; [More…]
Authorisation of the Attorney-General to grant financial assistance in deserving cases to assist parents to institute legal proceedings overseas for recovery of their children removed from Australia by the other parent; [More…]
The dependant’s pension for wives was last increased in 1 964 and for children in 1 952. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Housing and Construction aware of the fact that if a single income family with one adult on average earnings and a dependent spouse and two children was able to save even 25 per cent of disposable income it could accumulate only $2,500 in 1978-79? [More…]
A high birth rate and the increasing costs of raising children, a growing emphasis on consumer luxury items and the need to make the future secure instilled into the Australian work force the need to work harder to increase productivity, to earn more money and generally to concentrate on the material side of life. [More…]
Yet Australia’s population growth is slowing down rapidly and fewer and fewer children will come into our schools. [More…]
They are the result of a declining commitment by State governments to meet their constitutional responsibilities to provide secondary education for the children in their States. [More…]
I would hope that the remarks of the honourable member for Swan (Mr Martyr) would ensure a favourable hearing for the matter I have to raise tonight and which I think is an unfortunate matter because it deals with those people who have not taken that method of terminating pregnancies and have had children whom this Government is determined to discriminate against. [More…]
For a number of years, there has been discrimination in most laws of the States and the Commonwealth of Australia against children born out of wedlock. [More…]
Tonight I wish to raise three particular matters- two dealing with children- which I hope the Government will look at. [More…]
That is one instance that I wish to raise in respect of children. [More…]
This dismal performance in primary and secondary education is also reflected in pre-schools where Mr Wran has admitted that children’s services in New South Wales are ‘unacceptably below standards in other States’ and where provisions for disadvantaged children are ‘woefully inadequate’. [More…]
As a result, there are far more children at pre-schools in Victoria than in New South Wales. [More…]
In fact, there are almost as many Queensland school children at pre-schools as there are in New South Wales because of the relatively good deal the Queensland Government provides compared with the appalling New South Wales record. [More…]
The reality is that Federal recurrent spending on schools will increase per head in real terms next year as a result of the Government’s decision to keep the total the same as last year, despite the fact that fewer children will be enrolled in primary schools. [More…]
We are going to have a group of unemployed people who are the children of unemployed people. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs seen claims that in his address to last week’s National Youth Conference he indicated that the Government was considering removing unemployment benefits from some young people and requiring parents to support and maintain their children? [More…]
Many families find it a burden to keep their children at school for as long as they do now. [More…]
Yet, this Government is intending to increase that burden, to extend the burden by insisting that parents continue to support their children long after the time when the children would normally be expected to leave school, not through any fault of the children themselves but because of this Government’s failure to find work, jobs, for those people. [More…]
As a result, a family with three children has lost $4.70 a week. [More…]
The young children and the wife, having made a home in my electorate, awaited his return on 5 November. [More…]
After serving four years in Townsville gaol, having been married to an Australian citizen and having had three Australian children, Mr Grunau was sent by this Government and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) a deportation order signed by the Minister on 19 September and delivered on 29 September. [More…]
If there is one thing that makes my blood boil, it is discovering a person who is married to an Australian citizen and who has Austraiian children being treated in this manner. [More…]
I am very glad to say that counsel’s advice has been taken and Mr Grunau will appeal against that deportation order on behalf of his Australian wife and his three Australian children. [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…]
The New South Wales Government has preferred placating the Teachers Federation by acceding to its demands for more teachers and more pay, to providing a better balanced approach which would have been of far greater benefit to children in the State school system. [More…]
So teachers have won their campaigns for more benefits for themselves at the expense of facilities for children. [More…]
I also directed- this is of particular significance-that Mrs Grunau and the children be offered passages to West Germany at Commonwealth expense in the event that Mrs Grunau elected to accompany her husband with their Australian-born children. [More…]
His wife and children returned to Victoria from Queensland in 1974 while he remained in Cooktown where he was employed as a miner. [More…]
In view of the findings of this study on the adverse effects of lead in petrol on the health of school children what action will be taken or has he taken to encourage the reduction of lead levels in petrol. [More…]
This body recommended to the Commonwealth, State and Territory Ministers that Australia should participate, and that two escorts should accompany the children. [More…]
Miss Lucas and an officer on the staff of the Australian Embassy in Mexico supervised the Australian children while in Mexico. [More…]
Few children survived and pregnant women gave birth along the roadside. [More…]
We have not yet seen a clearly enunciated international call launched by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund or the International Committee of the Red Cross but we anticipate that this will take place within the next few days. [More…]
He was the representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund. [More…]
Terrible conditions- children in bed in filthy rags dying with starvation- no drugs- no food, 550 beds with 600 patients. [More…]
Alternatively, the wives will be asking why they are on strike and not bringing home any money for the children or for running expenses. [More…]
The children ranged between 12 and 18 years of age. [More…]
On the admission of the Government of Kampuchea there is the imminent death by starvation of at least two million men, women and children. [More…]
A number of years ago people living in the northern areas of the State struck a lot of trouble with their children becoming ill. [More…]
In the hot summer months quite a number of children contracted amoebic meningitis and there were quite a number of deaths. [More…]
that Mrs Grunau and the children be offered passages to West Germany at Commonwealth expense in the event that Mrs Grunau elected to accompany her husband with their Australian-born children. [More…]
There are three children of the marriage, namely: [More…]
All these children were born in this country and are Australian citizens. [More…]
It is in this area that my children attend school and that my own relatives all live. [More…]
I do not speak German nor do any of my children and I have no relatives in that country. [More…]
It should be at that level of government where people participate most immediately in the process of improving the environment in which they live and in exercising some control over the decisions that affect where their families reside, where their children go to school and the grass roots of their environment. [More…]
This club has 14 teams of young children, both boys and girls, playing soccer. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the current family allowance scheme brought increased assistance to some 300,000 families with 800,000 children who, simply because of their low incomes did not benefit fully, or at all, from the previous system of tax rebates. [More…]
These amounts are higher in the case of recipients of sheltered employment allowance and where there are children. [More…]
This will be of special assistance to those with young children, particularly children suffering from chronic illnesses. [More…]
As I have already indicated, wife’s pension will be extended to women who are in benevolent homes and to women with no children or who are under 50 years of age where their age or invalid pensioner husbands are in benevolent homes. [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…]
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…]
The Bill provides that the rate of unemployment or sickness benefit for a married person shall be at the unmarried rate plus additional benefit for children, if the spouse is not or would not be qualified for unemployment benefit by reason of taking industrial action. [More…]
Any additional payment for children will be made to the wife while they are in her care, custody and control. [More…]
I have a letter from the President of the Isolated Children’s Parents Association, in which he complains that the grant, which was equal to 60 per cent of hostel charges in 1965, has been whittled away to only 30 per cent of the hostel charges. [More…]
Did this advice also recommend that the Authority seek copyright from Mr Bliss; if so, has the Authority done so during August 1979 when meeting Mr Bliss in Canberra, so that handicapped children may resume the authorised use of his symbols which are in many cases their only available medium of significant communication. [More…]
Briefly, I indicated at that time that many migrants who are naturalised Australians, or in some cases their children who are natural born Australians, may be regarded by their countries of birth, or of their parents’ birth, still to be citizens of those countries. [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…]
It was corrected in the case of social security pensions where such children who were born subsequent to a woman being widowed were excluded. [More…]
I submit that the Minister should reconsider his decision to reduce the Canterbury scheme funding by 10 per cent and that in view of the very good job that is being done for migrant children in the community in Canterbury in my electorate of Grayndler he should give the scheme personnel some special consideration to ensure that they can keep up the job they have been doing over the last three years and do not have to dismiss staff. [More…]
A total of 99,000 persons were included in personal nominations in 1 973-74, when people in category B 1 -that is close non-dependent relatives, non-dependent parents, and nondependent children, brothers and sisters, including in-law relationships- were eligible. [More…]
But to get back to the people in the extremely isolated and remote areas of Australia about whom the Opposition appears not to be very concerned those are the people who have extremely difficult circumstances in regard to health and education services, and the availability of those services for their children. [More…]
They not only bear that burden in isolation but also many of them have to try to educate their children through correspondence or with the limited services that are provided. [More…]
Perhaps even children living in the inner city suburbs will be able to tune into a channel simply by turning on their television sets and watch an educational program that is being transmitted right throughout Australia. [More…]
the updating of supplementary allowances and allowances for pensioners’ children to compensate for inflation; and [More…]
-Another benefit that is not indexed is the allowance for pensioners, children which at present is $7.50 and which, had it been indexed, would be $12. [More…]
the updating of supplementary allowances and allowances for pensioners’ children to compensate for inflation, and [More…]
The high cost of increasing payments to 4.3 million children per year has an inhibiting effect on any desire by the present government to increase payments. [More…]
A married man with two children would have received, including family allowance, some 50.5 per cent of average weekly earnings while unemployed compared with 48.4 per cent at the end of the term of the Labor Government. [More…]
These figures include funds for sheltered employment allowance and facilities, handicapped children’s benefit and allowances, rehabilitation services and sums provided for handicapped persons facilities. [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…]
Again, not since the Whitlam Government has the pensioner children’s allowance been increased. [More…]
It does not worry the Opposition that old people die in homes because of lack of warmth, that children cannot have their food warmed. [More…]
Allowances for dependent spouses and the children of unemployment beneficiaries are taxable. [More…]
If, for example, a husband and wife are in the same union and the wife voted against strike action and was not involved in it, the family still cannot receive any benefit, even if the breadwinners are supporting children. [More…]
They may be having problems with their wives and children or they may be having problems in relation to the distance they live from their work, which was an example given by the honourable member for Werriwa. [More…]
That man will find that he is being penalised and his family and children are being penalised for a decision that he had absolutely nothing to do with. [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…]
Is he aware also that, according to Palm Island hospital, in the past six weeks 90 Aboriginal children have been admitted to that hospital with gastro-enteritis, 20 of them being so seriously ill that they were transported to Townsville Hospital? [More…]
It is for that reason that we as a government believe that we must tackle this area constructively and positively, starting with the children in schools, prior to the end of compulsory schooling, and extending beyond that period into technical and further education and into a range of vocational training as well as work experience programs. [More…]
Subsequently, it will worry the children of those people as they wonder what lies ahead in the 1980s. [More…]
The unions are not able to guarantee that the jobs available in industry today will be there in the future for the children who come out of the educational institutions. [More…]
It is the kids who perhaps were not able to stay at school long enough; it is the kids who went to schools that were not best served in terms of facilities or in terms of staff/student ratios; it is the children of the unskilled and semi-skilled who are unemployed. [More…]
There are a number of recognised medical specialists practising in Melbourne who are qualified to treat children with spina bifida. [More…]
While I am fully sympathetic to the difficulties experienced by children suffering from spina bifida, I do not regard the problem you have raised as a matter for IPTAAS. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Transport aware that a group called the Ansett Seekers has arranged on 10 November to take 92 children from the St Vincent de Paul home in Black Rock, which is in my electorate, on their first flight over Port Phillip Bay? [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…]
It is not surprising that he does because he knows quite well that there are about 300,000 families and upwards of 800,000 children who got virtually no benefit out of the old rebate system. [More…]
It is affecting our capacity to defend ourselves and to defend the future of our children. [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…]
It is true that the Royal Air Force aircraft which are being used at present for ferrying supplies from Bangkok to Phnom Penh are CI 30 aircraft, but they are on loan to the United Nations Children’s Fund and the International Committee of the Red Cross and they carry international agency markings. [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…]
-I wish to raise the question of children’s services in this debate, as they were outlined in the appropriations for the Department of Social Security. [More…]
In particular, I would like to talk about the provision of pre-school facilities and children’s services in New South Wales. [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…]
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…]
The number of children enrolled in those pre-schools increased by approximately 80 per cent, from 121,000 to 218,000 children. [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…]
1 put to the Parliament that the present Government has a moral obligation to assist the children in New South Wales. [More…]
The State Government, in its Budget for this year, provided a considerable amount of money for the provision of pre-schools and children’s services in New South Wales. [More…]
The system of providing block grants on the basis of the number of children at present in a pre-school, which militates against the funds provided for New South Wales, should be reconsidered. [More…]
The block grant itself is allocated on the basis of the number of children who were attending pre-schools in each State. [More…]
A quantum was fixed by the Cabinet and information was sought from the State on the numbers of children attending in the year prior to school entry and the quantum was apportioned on a percentage basis. [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…]
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…]
The result is, of course, that if one happens to live in Camberwell or Malvern or in any of the suburbs of the east of Melbourne it is taken for granted that there is a very high chance, a very high probability, that one or more of one ‘s children will complete their secondary education and will go on to tertiary education. [More…]
The research also demonstrated that whilst there is a degree of latent pride and awareness in Australia, there is also a degree of concern about where we are going in the future, and the son of Australia we are preparing for our children. [More…]
Are any Australian organisations or programs carrying out research into bone marrow diseases in children? [More…]
In what way has recruitment to the Australian Public Service been changed from conditions prevailing since the adoption of the Public Service Act, so justifying the claim by the Minister in his speech at the launching of the pilot multi-lingual information program for the Australian Public Service Board that the program ‘will open up new opportunities for many gifted migrant children’? [More…]
Have the examinations for admission to the Public Service been modified in any way, bearing in mind that these examinations have been an effective barrier against immigrants and their children from non-Commonwealth countries entering the Public Service, in addition to the legal discrimination against them? [More…]
The special program has been designed to make this information available particularly to migrant parents who do not speak English as their mother tongue so that they will be aware of the conditions obtaining within the Australian Public Service and, most particularly, will be able to advise their children about the opportunities that exist within the Australian Public Service. [More…]
There are 1,500 people- many of them children- living in sub-standard housing. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine the environmental impact of that sort of situation on the women and children in the Yarrabah community- with guard dogs, police in uniform, gaol-like conditions and visiting magistrates? [More…]
Only half of the children who are supposed to go to high school actually attend school. [More…]
All the children and the parents were there. [More…]
The art work of the children was quite remarkable. [More…]
No reasonable, decent, ordinary Australian citizen who shares that widespread concern about illicit narcotics traffic in this country can feel any comfort or security in the face of these disclosures, which heap upon each other fresh allegations of alleged incompetence or corruption in an organisation which was supposed to reassure us that we were being protected and that our children would be safe from the depredations of the worst form of criminal offence imaginable. [More…]
The cluster of skills and opportunities that accompanies officers able to make policy decisions will be increasingly lost to children leaving schools and wanting to obtain jobs in the outlying 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…]
Allegedly some devout believers run the risk of having their children taken away from them. [More…]
She said she has two young children. [More…]
This meant not only social welfare but also the welfare of groups of people as ethnic communities, the relationships with children growing away from the heritage of their parents, the children’s relationships to their parents and the survival of those groups as entities. [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…]
A ‘family’ means husband, wife, children and full time student children. [More…]
Firstly there are the income splitters and there are a large number of husbands, wives and children included in the 64 per cent of taxpayers receiving below $9,500. [More…]
Does the Treasurer believe it is fair and equitable that a taxpayer with a dependent spouse and two children, who was earning $140 a week in 1975-76 and whose income increases in line with the rise of average weekly earnings of 45 per cent to 1979-80, should have his tax increased by 80 per cent while the tax for a similar taxpayer earning $500 a week in 1975-76 should have increased over the same period by only 33 per cent? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that family allowance rates have been frozen since 1976 while prices have risen by 48 per cent; that a family with four children is now $7 a week worse off than before the family allowance was introduced; that the maternity allowance has been abolished; that family allowance has been discontinued for students receiving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance; that the TEAS allowance would have to be increased by something like $10 a week to provide the same spending power as it did in 1975; and that an extra $ 1 7 a week would be required to restore a family on average weekly earnings to the living standard it enjoyed at the end of 1975? [More…]
I am not certain at this stage whether economic inducements will persuade people to have more children. [More…]
These groups range widely, including such disparate groups as migrants, children, local councillors, small businessmen, the physically handicapped and the institutionalised, and residents of growth centres in metropolitan areas. [More…]
-by leave- On 26 July last I announced on behalf of the Government, measures in relation to the taxation of income of trusts and dependent children. [More…]
Before I do that, let me recall that I announced in July that, subject to important exceptions, income of dependent children is to be taxable at the middle rate of personal income tax, that is 47.07 per cent this year, and that most accumulating income of trust estates is to be taxed at the maximum rate of personal income tax, that is 61.07 per cent for 1979-80. [More…]
1 ) Children in full time employment will not be affected by the new system at all; [More…]
handicapped children who are permanently incapacitated for work will be outside the scope of the new system; [More…]
so will double orphans, and handicapped children incapable of taking on full time employment, if they are not supported by relatives; [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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
People have been concerned about the possibility of situations arising in which persons who are committed to arrangements that have been made in the past find that the tax resulting from the new system for taxing income of dependent children is higher than what the tax would have been if the arrangements had never been entered into. [More…]
It is already clear that some will attempt to discredit the Government’s changed tax arrangements on family trusts by emotional references to their effect upon the earnings of children. [More…]
They will take away the tax advantage previously enjoyed by predominantly high income earners who could split their income and thus reduce their tax liability through the use of trusts or other arrangements involving their children. [More…]
Even on the basis of the measures announced by the Treasurer on 26 July, with much heavier rates of tax applying to areas of income splitting, the person earning $100,000 and splitting his income with a wife and three children could reduce his tax by $12,975, even after the 26 July measures, had they been enforced. [More…]
Indeed, $5,020 is not a bad amount for a child to have invested, and we are talking about children’s investments. [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…]
Here we are talking about children having $13,000. [More…]
If student children are exempted in this way, quite obviously parents can utilise a full time student child for income- splitting purposes. [More…]
Parents will be able to split income with full time students, not by going through a trust system, as they would have before the abolition of gift duty, but simply by transferring capital assets, income-earning assets, to their children and therefore splitting their income and avoiding a lot of tax. [More…]
In our view, the only real answer to income splitting is to implement the Asprey Taxation Review Committee suggestion and that is, to tax all unearned income of children at the rate determined by notionally adding such income of children to parents’ income. [More…]
Later in the article, she observes that careers guidance available is directed mainly towards children in their final years of schooling, particularly those going on to tertiary studies. [More…]
The problem is a very significant one for most children. [More…]
In this whole process the rights of the community, the rights of parents, the rights of family and the places of students and children when they grow up all have to be considered. [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…]
Every member of this House knows that is the minority of funds which goes to support children in education. [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…]
I note with interest that the Bill does not affect the provisions that currently apply to dependents, which means that a widow with dependent children can get some entitlement to what is called a proportion of a member’s salary. [More…]
He thought the terms ‘social’ and ‘social problem’ might mean that, with children such as this in foster care, the hospital’s social work department and the Community Welfare Department could become involved. [More…]
In any case, his experience was that handicapped children in foster care often caused problems and fostering could break down. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the World Wildlife Fund is included in the list of charities to which donations are tax deductible, while donations to World Vision, Unicef, Save the Children, Austcare, Foster Parents Plans of Australia and other charities which give foreign aid have no similar tax relief. [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…]
Although the application form provided for the inclusion of children, whether or not they would be accompanying the applicant, details of Marvin - [More…]
Mrs Aussieker also stated quite definitely that she had no children. [More…]
He had found that that approach often helped other bereaved parents of Down’s syndrome and handicapped children. [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…]
Of course, she receives a war widows pension, and so her dependants- who were the children of the veteran- received, and perhaps some still do receive allowances. [More…]
If she does not remarry and if there are children born who are not the children of the veteran, ought the Repatriation Act extend to the situation to take care of those dependants under the repatration allowance? [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…]
By what percentage has this deterioration reduced the real income of a household head with a spouse and 3 children, receiving the minimum wage, since the allowances were introduced. [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 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…]
We must remember that that deficit situation has created many traumatic side effects in our economy, not just interest rates, but also a long term debt with which my children might be saddled unless we can have a long term continuation of sensible government. [More…]
The Opposition would introduce provisions requiring the disclosure of all shareholdings, directorships, interests in land, gifts, liabilities, and incomes of members of Parliament and their spouses and dependent children. [More…]
Progress towards this objective is seen as involving development of improved techniques for identifying children at school who are likely to be at risk in transition from education to work, improved vocational education and counselling services and provision of alternative courses for at risk* students. [More…]
Parents need to encourage and support their children and to be interested and involved in the vital work of the schools and the decisions made by authorities affecting their children. [More…]
She pointed out that of the early school leavers-most of the children are early school leavers- 64 per cent do not get beyond third year high school. [More…]
In most cases this is probably why the children leave school early as they feel that they have to get out and help their families. [More…]
In fact, once the scheme is going, is it the Government’s intention to use this as a device to force the children once again back onto their parents so that the parents will have to shoulder most of the financial responsibility for keeping the children at school and in training. [More…]
The Bill that I now bring before the House, together with an associated tax rates Bill, gives legislative form to previously announced changes in the basis of taxing income of trusts and of dependent children. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that I announced broad proposals on the taxation of income of trusts and dependent children at some length on 26 July last. [More…]
Broadly speaking, the new system applicable to income of dependent children will apply to the taxable income, whether derived directly or through trusts, of children under the age of 18 years at the end of the year of income. [More…]
Thus the new system will not in any way affect children who are married at the end of the year of income or are in full time employment then. [More…]
There are also to be exclusions for double orphans and handicapped children. [More…]
These exclusions will, quite properly, keep the income of a large number of children entirely outside the new system. [More…]
Guardianship of immigrant Children. [More…]
All Social Security programs, including payments under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act and special benefits for people under maintenance guarantees and for refugees, cover migrants insofar as migrants are members of the Australian community. [More…]
1 ) Do Northern Territory authorities make children State wards before making fostering payments to relatives or others. [More…]
For women who now find themselves or their children suffering from the effects of Stilboestrol, is it the Government, the doctor or the drug manufacturer who takes responsibility for their predicament. [More…]
The question as to who should take responsibility for the predicament of the children suffering from the effects of Stilboestrol is a vexed one. [More…]
Additional payments are made for dependent children and supplementary (rent) assistance may be paid to those paying rent or for board and lodging. [More…]
Where there are children these limits are increased by $6 for each child. [More…]
would income of children be included? [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…]
Children’s Commission (x) [More…]
The Children’s Commission was abolished in 1976. [More…]
3938 (Hansard, 7 June 1979, page 3159), how many children in (a) primary and (b) secondary school age groups were resident in private mobile dwellings or caravans in each State or Territory at the time of the 1976 Census. [More…]
How many years’ disposable income was required by a single income family, with a dependent spouse and 2 children, receiving average annual earnings to purchase (a) a medium priced block of land, ( b ) a newly erected 2 or 3 bedroom house or flat and (c) a medium priced established 2 or 3 bedroom house or flat in each capital city during each of the years from 1 970-7 1 to 1 978-79 and for the period1 July 1979 to 1 8 October 1979. [More…]
Why is the World Wildlife Fund included in the list of charities to which donations are tax deductible, while donations to UNICEF, Save the Children, and Austcare, which give aid to human beings, receive no similar tax relief. [More…]
What steps have been taken, as recommended by the Senate Select Committee on Medical and Hospital Costs in its reports of 25th September 1969 and 2nd June 1970, to co-operate with the Slates (a) in developing schemes for the provision of dental care to pre-school and school children and (b) in extending schemes for the fluoridation of water supplies. [More…]
I believe that this is most important for the future sale of our products to this market because not only is Japan potentially a great market but, by having these products included in the school lunch programme, this means that the taste, the appetite and the liking for these products will be increased as the school children grow and become consumers in their own right. [More…]
The Australian Broadcasting Control Board regards the safeguarding of the interests of children in the viewing audience as one of its most important functions. [More…]
The special provisions in its television program standards relating to programming during family and children’s viewing time between 4 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. daily are strictly enforced and all stations are familiar with their responsibilities under the Standards in programming at these times. [More…]
For obvious reasons the special provisions for family and children’s viewing time do not prevent the presentation of news and other types of actuality programming of an informative nature during these periods: ‘A Current Affair’ is basically a live interview program, and as such is in this category. [More…]
I regret that the actions of some South Vietnamese soldiers and officials should have compromised the RAAF in its objectives and in the obligations which it is undertaking to international relief organisations such as the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and obligations which it has to the Government of Malaysia whose air base at Butterworth it uses. [More…]
I think this fact has to be borne in mind: Clause 14 is far stronger in its attempt to bring about the parties having resort to conciliation proceedings where children are involved than the existing provision in section 43 of the Matrimonial Causes Act. [More…]
If one looks at the language of section 43 of the existing law one finds that proceedings are not to be brought within 3 years without the leave of the court, but the same burden is not placed on the court to be satisfied that the children are well cared for as is found in clause 14 of this Bill. [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…]
Is it a fact that certain treatment for bladder stimulation for children with spina bifida is available at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, but not in Melbourne. [More…]
If so, why are children requiring this treatment and living within 200 km of Melbourne not eligible for assistance to travel to Sydney under the National Health Act, whilst all other families are. [More…]